As they both ventured into the ruins of the place they used to live in, Nadia got used to her body, or more specifically, the way she could maneuver her body. Coupled by the new stats she had just acquired, it was getting hard controlling how much force she uses while kicking a slime to Nyx's direction. Well she's having trouble not causing the boy anymore injuries.
"To think there's supposed to be a store here." Nadia muttered as she poked the rubble of the fallen building with the sheath of her sword.
"There must be survivors. The place has been looted." Nyx looked around.
The faint clanging of metals was suddenly heard after Nyx had muttered his statement. Both of them instinctively hid behind a good pile of rubble, an instinct that kicked in to ensure less injuries from whatever unknown danger that's lurking ahead.
After roaming around for an hour or so, they instantly knew that those sounds were not coming from the slimes.
"Monsters?"
"No." Nadia pursed her lips as her eyes focused on the moving figures up ahead. "Humans." She muttered as if it was worse than the monsters roaming around.
Nyx's eyes had glittered in anticipation when he heard what the frowning girl said. "We'll go!" He stood up excited to meet the people. Just as he stood up, Nadia yanked him back down.
"Are you trying to get yourself killed?!" She harshly whispered to the guy next to her. "Next time you do something reckless make sure I'm not within your vicinity alright?" She rolled her eyes and dropped his arm. She moved away to a safe distance before standing up and moving in the direction of the fighting.
Nyx found himself silently smiling uneasily, before following Nadia's steps.
Nadia entered stealth mode, and soon, Nyx lost track of her.
⟨⟨«Stealth» Lv: 1 → Lv: 2⟩⟩
Nadia ignored the notification, and looked at the area where the sounds of fighting were heard. Five people were seen, two grown men, a teenage boy and girl, and a pregnant lady. One of the men was holding a dagger, while the other was raising his hands and looked like he was chanting.
As the man threw the dagger to the incoming slime and killed it. The man who was chanting had directed his hands to the pregnant lady. Nadia has just noticed that the lady had a deep gash on her arm. The girl was holding the lady up as the gash was being slowly healed by the man that was chanting.
The boy around her age was fighting alongside the man with the dagger. Soon, due to the sound they made, more slimes had gathered around them. To the lady's horror, she saw a slime that was as large as a car heading their way. The lady promptly went limp as she fainted.
The man that was healing her panicked, but he didn't dare stop healing her.
Seeing that they were about to meet their demise. Nadia appeared beside Nyx who was also watching the scene.
"Do you know them?" Like a ghost Nadia stepped beside Nyx, the guy was somewhat used to it so he didn't flinch.
"The guy, and the other girl. They are our schoolmates." He watched as the people were fending off the horde of slimes. "Should we help them?" After a few moments Nyx asked Nadia.
Instead of answering, Nadia had already made up her mind, her thoughts were far from helping them, and leaned more towards looking forward to getting benefits from the fellow group of survivors.
Nadia clapped her hands together, and when she separated them, 5 fire arrows bloomed in the space between her hands. Her hands made a pushing motion and the arrows—that are noticeably stronger— had pierced the slimes with one shot.
⟨⟨«Fire arrows» Lv: 3 → Lv: 4⟩⟩
The people startled, feebly raised their weapons in defence to the stranger that stepped out of nowhere.
Nadia raised her hands to her sides and new fire arrows were made around her. She walked unhurriedly to the group of people, behind her Nyx was already slashing a bunch of slimes.
⟨⟨You have leveled up! Lv:3→ Lv:4
Please choose the following:
•400 coins
• Ice arrows
• lightning sword aura⟩⟩
Nadia unconcerned, stopped in the middle of the slimes with fire arrows circling around her. Her orbs twinkled as she saw the last option. She of course chose the lighting sword aura.
⟨⟨ Congratulations! You have earned the skill «lighting sword aura» Lv: 0⟩⟩
⟨⟨Intense lightning energy would gather around the blade of the sword once the skill is activated.⟩⟩
Seeing Nadia reaching out for her sword, Nyx could somewhat guess that she had earned a new skill. It was apparent that the few hours that they had been together, Nadia never once reached for her sword unless it was necessary. Seeing how she had an eerie smile on her face, he could only guess that it is a new skill.
If it's not a new skill, then he reckons that she gave the situation enough value to act on it. Nyx doubts that this was likely the case though.
The moment the blade of her sword was out she had activated the skill. Yellow streaks of light wrapped around the blade, it was cackling way too much and emitted far too much smoke for people not to recognise it anything but lightning.
⟨⟨«sword mastery» Lv: 0 → Lv: 1⟩⟩
The skill sword mastery she had earned when she and Nyx were practicing the swords leaped to the next level instantly.
The people watched in silence as Nadia dashed around killing slimes. The sword on her hand became a streak of light, and the arrows around her became a halo of protection.
The slimes that were crowded around them, were wiped out with just a single stroke of Nadia's sword. Nyx who only managed to kill 18 slimes before all the slimes was killed by Nadia, stood at the sides awkwardly.
Nadia finally halted the moment all the slimes in the area were wiped out. Nyx stuck close to her after picking up some of the cores that Nadia had missed. Nadia gave them to Nyx when he tried to give it to her. Shrugging, he absorbed it. He was also eyeing these cores, and seeing that Nadia didn't mind he considered him his.
Nadia's blade sizzled, before she put it back to its sheath. The arrows around her disappeared, and near her, she and Nyx shared a glance before they soon approached the bewildered group of people.
"Nyxhal?!" The girl stepped out from the group, her eyes were locked at Nyx's direction. Her tone rose, and she was obviously jubilant upon seeing Nyx. The girl that stepped out from the group suddenly walked towards Nyx, her eyes glossy and a smile hung on her lips.
"Bianca!" The man beside the lady shouted panicking. But the girl continued to walk towards Nyx. Her face was full of relief and excitement.
In her curiosity, Nadia spared a glance towards Nyx. The guy had a complicated expression on his face, and with a step he was beside Nadia all of a sudden. Feeling that there is something wrong with the atmosphere between the two of them, Nadia didn't stop Nyx from getting too close.
"I wouldn't take another step if I were you." Nadia opened her mouth and spoke to the girl. She pointed her sheath at an imaginary line in front of her.
The smile on Bianca's face slowly fell, as she shifted her gaze towards Nadia who was beside Nyx. She stopped abruptly, as if she had just finally realized the situation she was in. "Who are you?" Bianca's stare probed Nadia's expression. Her eyes kept on flickering between Nyx and Nadia. As if she was trying to determine what kind of relationship the two had.
"Someone not special." Something is Nadia's eyes creeped Bianca the fuck out, and she couldn't help but take a step back.
⟨⟨Bianca Ali Fixhborne Lv: 2 [MAX LV: 20]⟩⟩
Seeing Bianca's reaction made Nadia rather interested. The girl with the sword wonders if Bianca realized that she had just used a skill on her. Appraisal to be exact.
"Then— let Nyxhal go!" Bianca suddenly demanded. Nadia couldn't help but raise her eyebrows at Nyx, taken aback at Bianca's aggressive reaction. Suddenly a hand pulled Bianca back before Nadia could open her mouth.
"Bianca stop being reckless!" The boy who was fighting with the man earlier suddenly grabbed Bianca by her elbow. "You stupid girl!" The guy held Bianca back harshly. Bianca's shoulder length blond hair, was almost grabbed by the guy before he ultimately decided to drag her by her elbow.
The interesting development made Nadia's brows rise even higher if that was even possible.