[Defense skill, increased.]
[Short sword skill, increase...]
[Fire skill, increase...]
[Death resistance skill...]
More of those same words Blake could hear making his head start to hurt a little, but once he seemed to get to the end, the last of the notifications was the one that really made the difference at that moment.
[Level Up.]
And as he had already experienced it in the past, a kind of energy seemed to fill his body, both practically empty bars had been filled again indicating to Blake that at least he was no longer a breath away from returning to that strange place.
Even though that had happened and his body lost the greatest sense of heaviness and pain, that was not the same when it came to his mental health, the same tiredness was still there and desperately begged him to rest at least for several days, but it seemed that it was not yet the time for that.
The energy he had regained was enough that he no longer needed the silver-eyed boy's help to get to his feet, and he realized that the moment Blake moved a little away from him. He didn't see anything strange about that, but that wasn't the case for the hooded individual who kept watching them from a safe distance.
"How is it possible that you can stand on your own? I just took care of healing your wounds, you should be completely unconscious right now, not even talking about walking on your own."
"I really don't have a convincing answer right now or the energy to come up with a good excuse, can we just ignore it for now?" And with a bit of hesitation, that person had no choice but to comply with Blake's request.
"Anyway, your name was Blake, right? I told you I'd remember it." The silver-eyed boy's voice was heard again, drawing Blake's attention.
"Yeah, and you..." Blake still didn't know his name, so he didn't know how to refer to him.
"Zaid, a proud member of the silver-eyed clan." The boy who now went by the name of Zaid gave a simple smile as he held out his hand to Blake in greeting.
"Nice to meet you, I'm Blake, ehh... A simple farmer, I suppose." That made Zaid amuse himself.
"If you're a farmer then I'm a fisherman, say that to someone who hasn't seen the entire battle you just had, hahaha!" And as more laughter poured out of Zaid, Blake was slowly recovering from all the adventure and his close encounters with death that he had just had. "Oh yes, he is…"
"Introductions are not necessary, more importantly, we better get back with all the things the raccoon stole from us before bad things happen to us." The hooded person's voice stopped Zaid and reminded him of what they came to do.
"I forgot! What are you doing with your feet glued to the ground?! It's time to run!" Zaid was aware of what he was saying and realized that they couldn't waste any more time.
"Sigh... That's why I'm reminding you... As for you..." And directing those words specifically at Blake, the cloaked person waved his hand towards a pile of things that would be the treasure of any common thief. "We already took the things that belonged to us, I guess the rest is from the town near here, you should take care of it."
And without letting Blake answer, the mysterious person was surrounded by a halo of familiar light so that a second later there was nothing more to be seen of his figure.
"Hey! I could see you in action and I realized that you were holding back in our previous confrontation, don't think that the result will remain the same, next time I want a good battle! But that will be another time, now... I need to save my skin!!" As fast as Zaid said those words, the figure of him disappeared, but unlike the cloaked person, he took several things in his arms from the huge pile of them and then left a trail of dust indicating that he was moving away with incredible speed.
'Looks like the next time I see him he'll be quite lively... But let's do something important right now.' And concentrating as he closed his eyes, Blake made a mental image of a small sheet of paper with the word raccoon written on it next to some others. 'Raccoon... Revenge Accomplished.'
And having his little moment of satisfaction that no one else really cared about, Blake snapped back to reality as he realized he had a few more things to attend to.
"Well, let's see what exactly this is." What he was referring to was the peculiar item that he had ended up in his inventory once he sent back to the forest of beginnings the peculiar raccoon that tormented him several times.
{Raccoon Leaf. Level 1.
A special magic leaf that raccoons need to use magic. Very useful to transform.
Buff effect: ATK +8, DEF +7, INT -6
Selling Price: 2500G.}
"So this thing is to blame for so many problems, without this it probably would I have only taken a few attacks to finish everything... It's strange that a few moments ago I almost died and now it acted as if nothing had really happened... I guess I have trauma or something." Putting his strange ideas aside, Blake put that leaf back in his inventory and then approached the mountain made of the belongings of the people of the town and waved his hand over them so that everything will end up in his inventory.
Seeing that everything around him seemed to return to normal, removing the traces of destruction that were comparable to the advance of a tornado, and that his mind was slowly returning to normal. Blake put everything aside at that precise moment as something suddenly hit him.
It was the same sensation that he had felt the first time he had arrived at the entrance of the forest, but this time it was several times greater and the sensation of being called by him was totally impossible to ignore.