I walked back out to Raya and kina, the scaled bear in tow, he was still distrustful, at least that's what his face told me, but it seemed fine for now.
I don't know why I felt like I needed him to come with me but now that I had I realized just how much of a pain this would be, he doesn't feed off of an easily produced bodily fluid like the other two, I don't even know what to do anymore I'm winging this shit.
*is there a way to gift him a human form?*
[I can create a quest for him to earn one]
*you can do that?!*
[I'm THE first system, I can do alot]
*don't make it too hard, just make it something doable for his level*
"yo syn, you good?"(Raya) interrupted.
"what oh yeah, I was checking out something ahead with my senses."(syn) I lied.
"what was it?"(kina) asked curiously.
"it was an anthill I thought was something else."(syn) I made up on the spot.
the scaled bear looked at me before looking at something in the air, it'd be nice if I could talk to him, well as long as he passes whatever quest my thing gave him it should work out.
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a monotone female voice that wasn't the one I'd been accustomed to over the past month ish had given me a quest, and for a body, should I do it, it's simple in nature but to do it I'd need to stay with this group, something I wasn't set on yet, I haven't even seen any of them do much, what should I do here?
my gut was saying that the quest was harmless and it only had benefits, well except for staying with people I don't trust, other than that it had all upsides.
[new quest: protect the weak vampire Raya until she leaves, reward upon completion: ability human form, base mana to activate, none consumed to remain in]
there weren't any failure or instant levels and from what I'd heard this Raya and the group were only here for another nine days, it sounded doable, maybe I'd get a chance to learn more about this mysterious gray haired dude who was from earth like me, what he's been up to since coming to this world.
and it seems like this Raya was curious about him top as she was asking him questions, Raya was the white haired girl.
"so Syn, who was that skeleton we found earlier?"(Raya)
his face was one of loss and rage as he took deep breaths and ignored the question, he definitely knew the person.
"sorry! jeez! at least tell me why you massacred an entire species!"(Raya) half yelled at him.
massacred an entire species, what the fuck?!
[the evole progenitor wiped out the horned monkeys 6 thousand 5 hundred years ago]
wiped out as in no longer any alive!?!
this dude just became much more dangerous, I was questioning if the quest was even worth it.
"they were horrid creatures that raped anything that moved, they had a girl chained in the center, she was..."used" over and over by everyone in the camp, every monkey old and young, male and female, their leader had done it before."(syn) said, monotone.
maybe he wasn't terrible after all, I probably would've wiped em out too if you gave me an incentive.
but I was distracted as they talked more, the black haired girl kina was getting oddly close to me, no one seemed to pay any mind to it but it was getting weird.
"he's not something to study kina."(syn) said without turning around.
did he have eyes on the back of his head?
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kina looked disappointed, like a little girl being denied candy, what am I going to do here?
on one side I'm dealing with an annoying friend I sometimes fuck and on the other dealing with someone's sister, someone who I used to know and now that same someone is probably actively hunting me.
but I didn't have the time to dwell on that right now.
it took some time but I had finally found what I'd been looking for since day 1, a large gathering if things to kill so I can level up, this was gonna be fun, for me at least.
I told the others to stay here along the treeline, where a large gathering of creatures were seen, I told the bear to protect Raya, probably giving away who gave him the quest in the process but it didn't matter, I told kina to stay with both of them as she was stronger than both of them and I took off towards a hopeful new level.
I jumped high into the air, shedding my human form and slamming my tentacles down on my landing, cracks in the ground below spider webbed out from me as dust rose into the air, I nimbly moved through the weaker creatures and slashing their throats open as I moved, they bled put quickly amd collapsed as I kept moving to other targets.
I'd decided to move along the outside, effectively herding most of the creatures into a central area as I picked off the weaker ones, I kept repeating this circle and kill for at least a few hours, the sun already beginning to set as the "herd" was thinned to the point of non existence, and after a few more minutes the only thing left was a colossal sleeping metal covered hog the size of a whale.
I woke it with a blast from my energy ability, the metal plate turning a vibrant orange before the creature shot awake with a roar of pain, setting it sights on me and getting up to charge, as it did I stood my ground, ducking below its tusks as I grabbed its legs and pulled, toppling the giant creature onto its side, it struggling to stand again.
taking my opportunity I used my limb blades, blood bombs, and energy ability to damage it ad much as I could, my BP was dropping by the second but it was fine, i had a feeling that this would give me the needed push to level up.
but it wasn't done yet as it shrugged off my attacks and stood once more, shaking off the dust that wasn't stuck in its blood and open wounds in between the metal or in the cracks of the metal.
this thing wasn't done yet.