And so, morning came. The sun rose brightly from the east, the sunlight it produced made it's way through the leaves of the tree I was sleeping on. Slowly and annoyingly waking my sleepy body up.
「Good morning, Alvis...」
I didn't really get much of a reply except a 『Hm』from Alvis, she must still be sleepy. Wait, does she even get tired? And so I jumped down the tree. It was 4 meters up now that I took a good look at the height I was sleeping in.
Rumble...
I sighed.
I'm hungry. I haven't eaten for a whole day yesterday so ofcourse I am. But I got just the right idea for me to get food right now.
「Alvis, use the navigating system of"Auto-Pilot".」
She agreed with an 『Understood.』and a tiny disc shaped radar appeared in my sight. It was exactly at the upper left side of my sight like a game. It looks like my position is fixed at the circle's mid. Three seconds later after Alvis finished scanning the area, atleast dozens of red dots appeared in the radar in all directions a little away from me. Ofcourse, it startled me. It feels as thought I'm being targeted.
「Uh, Alvis... What are these dots? Is it the monsters?」
『Answer, yes. There are atleast 7 orcs, 2 kobolds, 9 horned rabbits and three slimes around you. Each of which are either level 12 to 18.』
What should we do? Will they attack us? Can we fight back with my pathetic level?
『Answer, no. They are not stupid enough to attack a stronger monster.』
That's a relief, I thought it was finally time to fight in this world- H-Hey, did she just call me a monster there? Might just be my imagination since I'm hungry. Hopefully.
「That aside, let's go get ourselves some food, Alvis!.」
The real reason why I asked Alvis to activate the radar was not to find and eat monsters. But to find edible fruits instead. I may be able to capture monsters like rabbits but how can I cook it's meat without fire? I'm not a savage either to eat raw meat.
『Master, I've found the nearest tree that produces edible fruits. I will input the coordinates to the radar immediately.』
Finally! Good refreshing food! Seeing the green dot that just appeared in the radar, I quickly faced the direction where it says it's located and sprinted to get there. I left the herbs I picked up in a thicket next to the tree I slept in. I feel like I'm falling slower than normal everytime I jump up a fallen tree log or a patch of herbs but it may just be my imagination.
And there I saw it. A gigantic tree three times the size of the trees around it and just four times as thick. From it's branch there were fruits similar to blueberries. But the most noticeable part of it's appearance was it's blue colored leaves.
「What's this?」
I've decided to appraise anything new I see just last night before I slept. So now that I saw this weird tree, I've gotta know it's information no matter what. It may be a monster in disguise that was able to fool Alvis' navigator function.
Name: Grave Tree Of Georgia Battenhead
Weight: 23,469 Kilograms
Edible: No
Value: Upper B Rank
Price: 0 Sigil
Location: Centerio Continent, Rafflecia Forest
Further Information:
A tree that had grown from the corpse of a level 102 human namely "Georgia Battenhead". The fruits produced by a grave tree contains a small amount of power the owner once had before death and has an additional effect to sate hunger. Although the tree gives power to the ones that consumed the fruits, it remains a taboo to eat the fruit made by a dead person.
What's with this tree's status? It's awfully shady! So if I eat the fruits I'll gain a part of the dead person's power? But It's as it says though. Eating the fruit from someone's corpse feels disrespectful for the dead.
『Master, aren't you going to eat?』
I shook my head and turned my back on the tree.
「No, we're leaving. Alvis, find another source of food and don't lead me to any of those Grave Trees ever again from now on.」
『Understood.』
Finally, I was able to have my meal. For today's breakfast, I ate raw and edible mushrooms that I told Alvis to locate.
『Master, the"Skill Creation"skill has finished recharging and can now create another skill.』
Perfect! At this pace, I could create one skill each day. For now I should create a utility based skill. And when I mentioned utility, what I'm thinking is a pretty convenient skill.
「Alvis, please make a storage type skill this time.」
『Understood.』
She disappeared again.
Well that was to be expected. While she was gone I started sauntering back to our temporary base where I placed the herbs while picking up some new ones on the way.
She returned 8 minutes later after I had just arrived to where I slept last night.
『Skill Acquisition Complete.』
She's back! That means I got the skill now. It better be a good one and not a lousy type of storage skill with very limited space!
After arriving at the place and placing the herbs I found during the hike on the ground. I hurriedly went to the thicket I hid the recently acquired herbs in and placed them next to the new herbs that I brought. After that, I also picked up a couple of pebbles. Now the preparations are ready.
「Alvis, show me the skill.」
And with her usual answer of『Understood.』, she began. I listened to her like a good student standing beside the pile of medicinal herbs.
『Master has acquired the skill,"Dimensional Storage". As the name implies, it's a 5 Star Skill that can store items in another dimension. The recharge time for the next use of"Skill Creation"is approximately 25 Hours.』
「And it's space is as large as the universe, right?」
My question was confirmed with Alvis's reply of 『Mhn.』naturally, I already knew because I got the details of the skill the moment I heard Alvis say it's name. Speaking of which, the recharge time of"Skill Creation"became 25 hours this time, meaning my next use would be tomorrow and 1 hour.
「So now. Our first test subjects will be these pebbles.」
I held the pebbles up with my right hand at chest's height. Now to use the skill. Ready when you are, Alvis.
『"Dimensional Storage"has been successfully activated. 90 out of 10,000 mana points has been used.』
Alright!
The pebbles vanished after being sucked in by a space-dark circle that appeared from below them. They're gone. So now to test out on getting items out of the storage. Wait... How do we do that exactly? I didn't get the information for that. And so, since I'm dumb and has no reason to waste time... I asked Alvis. The blackhole-ish thing appeared again and it's probably her doing too.
『Master, please put your hand inside the "Dimensional Storage"and allow me to handle the rest. I will not have trouble with getting what you want since our minds are linked to each other.』
「Hai! I'll leave it to you then, Alvis.」
I slowly and cautiously placed my hand inside the black hole-like skill just as Alvis told me to. Hmm, the temperature inside is balanced. I was prepared to lose a hand or feel some coldness if ever this skill suddenly disappears and cuts off my limb in half but it seems I won't need to worry about that. So for now, I thought of bringing out the Magic Grass that can replenish mana points.
For a moment, I felt a smooth sensation brush at my hand so I instantly grabbed it and pulled it out of the"Dimensional Storage". What came out was the Magic Grass!
「I got it! Well done, Alvis!」
I was really happy. Not because the skill can be used safely but because I didn't lose my hand while using it.
Yata~ Alvis sure is handy. I'm so happy I would give her a warm hug right now if only she was human!
『H-Hm...』
C-Crap! Did she hear that?! She did mention our minds were linked to each other! I'm such a dummy! W-Well, let's ignore that for now...
Do skills have emotions in the first place? Isn't this selfcest?! W-Well... Let's leave that be for now.
「Alvis, please put this back to the"Dimensional Storage"and let's go proceed to the west.」
『Understood.』
2 Days has passed since my acquisition of the"Dimensional Storage"skill and right now I'm walking in the middle of the night to get to our destination faster. After the cooldown of the"Skill Creation"skill, I made a new skill named"Process"and it's recharge time of the"Skill Creation"skill didn't take as much time as the other skills since it only gave me 10 hours.
「Alvis,"Process".」
『Understood.』
After getting my hands on the new skill, I thought of testing it on a fallen tree log that I found on the way. It was a good opportunity to put my new skill into action.
Bluish light poured on the wood and engulfed it whole. A second after it had done so, it suddenly disappeared into thin air, leaving dozens of cleanly cut long sticks on where the log stood.
『"Process"skill was activated successfully. 40 out of 10,000 mana points has been used.』
「Oh! It worked!」
I picked up one of the long sticks. Each one was about 2 meters long and 5 centimeters thick. It wasn't wet like how it should be when wood is freshly cut so I didn't need a kiln to dry it.
Why did I choose to make these sticks? That's because sticks have many purposes. They can be utilized to form platforms, throwing, making traps and especially spearsmanship. And if I somehow create a skill that can increase it's durability, it would be even better. But having no use for them at the moment, I told Alvis to store them inside the storage skill. Not long after that, she informed me of something good.
『The recharge time of"Skill Creation"has ended. Master can now create a new skill.』
I don't really care about war potential right now. For now, I will focus on utility and avoid being hurt as much as possible.
「Okay, Alvis. Next make a-」
『Master, a monster is closeby. About 59 meters to your 12 o' clock. You're walking right to it.』
A monster? Why is it so close to me? Monsters below Mid-Tier B Ranks are supposed to be keeping their distance of 500 meters to me, right? If that's the case, then it's something stronger. Although what Alvis said to me next came against that rational way of thinking.
『Answer, the organism is a monster in the Lower C Rank and even more than that, it's HP is below 30 out of 670 health points and steadily decreasing by 1 each 30 seconds due to bleeding. M-Master? Where are you going?-』
「Heading to save it ofcourse!」
Before she even finished, I've already started running to it's direction with the radar leading me. If theres a dying creature I should save it unless it's an evil one, but since I'm not sure, I'll check it out first. Because that's what a hero should do!
「There it is!」
I found it. It really was a monster. To be precise it was a gray colored wolf twice the size of those that lived in my previous world. I've never seen a dog with that size in my whole life until now. It didn't seem like it would hurt me. Because currently it's lying on it's side motionlessly except it's desperate gasping of breath but just in case, I hid behind a tree at a safe distance. From what I can see, theres an arrow impaled right above the left side of it's belly.
「Alvis, use appraisal on it.」
『Understood.』
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Name: None
Class: None
Level: 24
Age: 2
Race: Gray Wolf
Height: 380cm
HP: 29/700
MP: 26/30
STR: 160
AGI: 178
INT: 200
DEF: 102
Unique Skills:
"Stealth E"
Skills:
"Whirlwind Dash"
"Speed Up"
"Intimidation"
"Sneak"
It's HP just decreased by 1. It's going to die in a few minutes if I leave it be.
To calm myself down for what I'm about to do, I took a few long rounds of breathing and checked again.
Name: None
Class: None
Level: 24
Age: 2
Race: Gray Wolf
Height: 380cm
HP: 3/700
MP: 26/30
STR: 160
AGI: 178
INT: 200
DEF: 102
Unique Skills:
"Stealth E"
Skills:
"Whirlwind Dash"
"Speed Up"
"Intimidation"
"Sneak"
What the fuck?! It's down by 26 points already!
『Master, it took you 13 minutes to get the courage of approaching the monster.』
It's not my fault it's scary! And come on, it's about to die!
Without wasting any more precious time, I sprinted to the gray wolf's stupidly large body and pointed my palms at it's wound. It was already at 1HP like what the fuck. It looks like it noticed me because it gave me a glare but knowing it's own state, it knew best not to move.
「Use"High Heal"now!」
『The skill"High Heal"has been successfully executed.』
The Gray Wolf's body was suddenly wrapped in a beautiful green coat of light. And so the healing, started.
It's HP suddenly went up at a rapid rate. Only when it had reached it's maximum HP capacity did the coat of light disappear with the wolf's life fully restored.
「So that's how it worked.」
『Question, did master use this monster as a guinea pig to use healing on in his first try?』
Ofcourse not! It was a whim! An emergency! Sigh. Now what are we going to do with this guy.
My eyes fell upon the arrow that had dropped off the wolf's wound.
「An arrow?」
What could have possibly attacked it? Ofcourse, it's a human! Or probably something related to that like an elf.
Slowly and yet adamantly, the monster got up on it's feet and gave me that intimidating glare once again.
Rustle...
「Oh! Is it finally time to meet other humans?」
From the looks of it, this wolf was attacked by a human. So theres no doubt whoever is coming are it's hunters. I looked from where the sounds were coming which were from behind me.
『Answer, negative. They are not humans.』
Oh! So that leaves the elves!
『Answer, it's not them either.』
Growls...
Eh? What are those growling for? Do elves normally growl in this world like wolves?
『Answer, negative. Master, they are wolves.』
Huh? Wolves!? How did wolves sneak behind me and why didn't you tell me?!
As I was busy complaining, atleast 8 wolves came out of the bushes that were behind me. Which ofcourse gave me the feeling I'll be eaten alive.
『Answer, I wanted to see master fight.』
「Wait, what?!」
How can I fight these giant wolves?! I'm a coward! I can't even hurt a little kid! How do you expect me to hurt these gigantic scary predators! Let's run for it!
『Question, activate instant-kill mode?』
「Huh? Please don't ever use that!」
The wolf behind me that I saved earlier gave a terrifyingly eerie howl. In an instant, all the other wolves that were inducing me with killing intent fell back a meter away in a whimper. I quickly turned my head and looked behind my back to stare at the giant gray wolf. Come to think of it, it's much larger than the wolves in front of me.
「Erm...」
I'm lost for words. Does this monster actually know what gratitude is? Well if it does and called them off, this means I won't have to fight his own brethren.
The big wolf (which I'll call it), nudged it's head to it's right and they started to retreat. The big wolf came along and gave me another sideways glare before it disappeared. That was terrifying, I almost pissed my pants. Well, not like I have any in the first place.
『Master, we're almost in our destination.』
What?
It seems, we've almost arrived to the village. From where I'm standing, I can see it so clearly it's as thought I'm going to a school trip again with my class. I didn't even realize we've already gotten out of the forest. And it's great that we didn't get to fight any monsters.