[ skill: {rend} has been obtained ]
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skill: rend (level: 1), (active)
"sure, im unarmed"
description: attempt to touch the bare skin of a creature, on a successful touch random cuts will appear on the body.
effects: make random cuts appear on the body of the target with a chance to cause bleed.
!: has to make contact with the skin/flesh of the target
!: ineffective on creatures without flesh
!: current chance to cause bleeding for each cut: 1%
!: costs: 1 mana per cut (10 cuts = 10 mana points)
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*sniff* *sniff*
hil started to tear up at the sight of his reward. he felt like luck was finally beside him, too bad he didnt know he got the most common skill of that wheel, or is it a good thing to not know as long as you are happy?
after finishing to cry from the overflowing emotions hil stood up and tried to check his skill.
"wait, will it work on me?"
hil touched his left arm with his right hand.
"skill: rend"
[ skill: {rend} has been activated ]
[ -1 mana ]
a small cut appeared on hil's left wrist, the cut wasnt deep and it didnt bleed too much. the cut stopped bleeding after a few seconds and it didnt hurt at all. the cut was so small that if hil didnt know its there he would have never found it.
"well now it looks less cool"
"wait, what if..."
[ ! user doesnt have enough mana ! ]
"oh, how much do i have then?"
as soon as hil thought about his current mana pool a blue screen appeared in front of him.
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user: hil | lvl: 5 | race: d̵͉̜̃̈ḛ̷̫̬̍͋̀͆m̶̨̮͇͈̔̂on
health points: 100/100
strength: 11
agility: 11
stamina: 6
mind: 7
mana: 13 / 14
sanity: 100/100
rage: 0/100
souls: 0
ability: edge, the tamer, creature of the night, master of contracts.
skills: call, flow, overflow, tame, awakening, lesser contract, roar, smithing, give me a break, rend.
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"hmmm"
hil thought about something for a few mintues, he thought about testing how good is the new skill so he wanted to see it in full power. hil laid his right hand on his left arm near the place where the cut from the skill appeared. even though the cut didnt bleed it did left a small pink mark. hil laid his right hand there and said aloud.
"skill: rend"
[ skill: {rend} has been activated ]
[ -13 mana ]
[ ! secret function of the skill {rend} has been unlocked ! ]
within a second, 14 small cuts appeared all over hil's left arm, blood streams flowed all over his arm and the blood dripped to the floor. with a cry of pain hil finished this experiment.
"argh", hil was wheezing and breathing loudly, he went to the bed in the room and cut a large piece from the sheet. he warped it around his arm and rested while waiting for the cuts to close.
"well what was that secret thing"
a blue screen appeared in front of hil containing the information he wanted.
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skill: rend (level: 1), (active)
"sure, im unarmed"
description: attempt to touch the bare skin of a creature, on a successful touch random cuts will appear on the body.
effects: make random cuts appear on the body of the target with a chance to cause bleed.
bonus effect: each time a cut is appearing the target theres a 5% chance for another cut to appear.
skill exclusive trait: hunger
each mana spent on this skill strengthens it by 2% and increases the chance for bleeding
!: has to make contact with the skin/flesh of the target
!: ineffective on creatures without flesh
!: current chance to cause bleeding for each cut: 1%
!: costs: 1 mana per cut (10 cuts = 10 mana points)
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"oh, but thats... uh..."
"thats just not good enough to be called a secret" hil said with a sad expression, or rather a disappointed one.
hil went to the bed in the room and rested for some time. after checking his arm every few minutes and complaining about "unclear introductions" he got up from the bed and exited the room.
"well i just got one person left here"
hil walked to mendelis' room and knocked on the door.
"come in please" a voice of an old man could be heard from the room.
hil opened the door and in front of him was an old man reading a bloodied letter while sitting near a table. the old man had tears on his face and some fell on the table and the letter, the man was crying. there was a wooden staff with a green gem embedded to its edge near the man's chair.
"do you need anything, young man?" the old man could barely hold himself together, his voice was shaking and he couldnt hold his tears.
*pow*
hil rushed to the man and within a moment he punched his lower jaw with the intention of separating it from his head.
the old man fell from his chair and landed on the ground while bleeding from his mouth, the punch wasnt strong enough for his jaw to fall but it was broken.
the old man quickly took his staff and tapped with it on his broken jaw. a light shone and a few cracks were heard, after a few seconds his jaw was completely fine. the old man then pointed his staff at hil and mumbled something. the gem of the staff shone and a red bolt of an unknown energy was heading towards hil.
hil quickly ducked and evaded the spell. he looked at the bolt which exploded upon hitting the wall. the explosion caused flames to erupt but it didnt spread.
the old man pointed the staff at hil again, this time it shone with a green light and vines started to quickly grow below hil.
hil dashed to the table and jumped on it while throwing some of his coins at the old man.
"argh! whos throwing coins? are you rich, bastard?! those arent even yours!" the man lost focus and the vines suddenly vanished.
"well, feel free to loot my body after im dead as well"
"little punk" the old man, enraged, started to mumble something under his breath.
another light shone from the gem, the light was white and cool. a ray of icy air was shot at hil. the ray froze everything within its path and made the room colder.
hil tried to jump aside and roll away from the freezing ray but he wasnt quick enough and the ray froze his left leg.
the man let out a happy battle cry while hil was limping across the room. the man didnt notice where hil was heading since he thought the battle was already over, what he didnt think about was the option of hil not caring how much he would get hurt during a fight.
hil was limping with his frozen leg to a torch on the wall. he took the torch and tried to heat his left leg without setting it ablaze, that however, failed. hil's leg wasnt frozen but now it was on fire.
hil quickly ran at the old man, ignoring the pain.
the old man noticed him only after hil was already midair. hil jumped with his right leg and tried to swirl in the air.
"FLAMING SPINNING KICK" hil shouted at the man before landing a "flaming" kick on his head.
the fire was extinguished while hil was spinning midair so the kick wasnt flaming and the man wasnt set ablaze either. that however, didnt matter as the man was already on the floor. what can one do about his old age?
hil was limping once again to the old man. the man has fainted while hil was about to as well.
hil didnt waste and tried to find a weapon. he broke a leg from the table and wanted to make it sharper. but hil saw a letter on the table, the curiosity got the better of him and he read the letter:
'dear grandfather,
ive already arrived to the academy! everyone are super nice here! the teachers are smart and teach us well, the students are friendly and arent causing any troubles, its the best academy around here!
i really wanted to visit you during the break but we wont have any this year, there are too many tests after the break so i cant have a break at all. ill come see you next time! stay well!
-pringasda'
the letter was old and yellow, it didnt look like the old man got it recently. the contents didnt look important or exciting enough for someone to read it over and over.
'well, i dont know, i would rather sharpen this leg piece' hil thought to himself while thinking if its a good idea to ask the man about the letter.
after a few minutes the table leg hil broke looked like a weird spear; instead of sharpening the thinner edge hil sharpened the broken, thicker side so now the leg was both a spear and a club.
hil walked to the old man who was still unconscious. the spear-club was in his right hand while his left hand was already prepared to slap the old man till he wakes up. he slapped the old man and tried to wake him up, after a few minutes of failure hil tried to stop him from breathing but:
"well i mean, it is a good idea but im already very dirty and smell pretty bad i dont want someones snot on me"
hil walked to the table which was still standing thanks to the chair that replaced its broken leg. he tore the letter to two halves and then walked to the old man. hil pushed each half to a nostril and waited.
'i think i couldve just shut his tunnels by using my thumbs as a cork and just putting it out of his nostrils. meh, now i dont have to wait in an awkward position until he wakes up'
after a long hour the old man still didnt wake up. hil walked to him and noticed hes not even breathing.
"oh right, it only works if you are sleeping, my bad i guess"
and after shrugging it off like that hil heard a small *beep* in his head.
[ quest completed! ]
[ rewards: +5 stat points ]
"yay points. now what do i do with them? is it the only way to upgrade my stats? wait, what if..."
after getting his reward hil somehow thought about how to upgrade his skills without the reward. he quickly fell to the floor and started to do push-ups and after some time...
[ due to your dedication and hard work your strength has improved! +1 strength ]
"nice. does it work with other stats?"
hil exited the room and went to the long corridor and ran to the end of it, then he ran to the start. that cycle continued for almost an hour.
[ due to your dedication and hard work your agility has improved! +1 agility ]
"nicer"
after that hil spent a few hours rising his stats. at the end, his stats were:
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user: hil | lvl: 5 | race: h̶̡̙͕͈̔̽͠͝uman
health points: 100/100
strength: 22
agility: 22
stamina: 11
mind: 7
mana: 14 / 14
sanity: 100/100
rage: 0/100
souls: 0
ability: edge, the tamer, creature of the night, master of contracts.
skills: call, flow, overflow, tame, awakening, lesser contract, roar, smithing, give me a break, rend.
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"well, time to look for the guard. he should be alive right?"
hil searched the rooms and tried to find the guard's cell. after some time he recalled that when they woke up first they basically were inside these walls so he gave up on the guard since even if he found him, the dirt and rubble were as hard as stone so it was impossible to move them by hand.
he tried to search for an exit. he also couldnt find an exit.
"what? all the people here were moles or something?"
hil tried to search for the wall that separates him from the outside world. he tried to knock on some walls that looked suspicious, as if they were supposed to lead somewhere and after an hour of searching.
"oh this one feels pretty soft. im sure thats a door"
hil went back to the old man's room and retrieved his table leg. he went back to the soft wall and started to dig through it. but what was on the other side wasnt a land full of grass but instead he saw the guard. sleeping and snoring.
"oh" hil was extremely surprised, not the good kind of surprised though.
"wake up lazy bum"
hil started to slap the guard but the guard didnt even stop snoring.
"forget it. i lost the horse im not going to pay for a guard as well"
hil dragged the guard on the floor by his leg. the guard was inside a sleeping bag so even that didnt bother him.
he started to search for a soft wall again. he found one on the other side of the corridor. hil dug again and finally.
"ARGH SUNLIGHT"
the sudden light from outside caused hil to fall prone on the floor while rubbing his eyes in pain. so much time underground made him get used to the dark.
"ITS HIM GUYS! GET HIM!"
suddenly 3 women jumped on hil. 2 caught him from the behind and 1 snatched the guard from his side.
"that sick bastard. he even has a hostage" one woman said.
"soulless criminal" another one replied.
"rotten man" the other one said.
"well, 3 souls 1 brain eh? hahaha" the joke hil made earned him a nice hard slap.
"gah"
"hmph, this little criminal is also rude" the woman who slapped him said.
"do you know how much time we searched for you? you stole so much from the town and expected to get away? rola! search the cave!" the woman who slapped hil started to give out orders.
"will do" the one who took the guard replied.
the woman who went to search in the cave came back and further misunderstood the situation.
"MISS! ITS HORRIBLE!" she came out screaming. "THERES NOTHING BUT BODIES THERE!"
"WHAT?! you are a murderer as well?" the leader replied.
"miss lets just take him to the jail already" the other woman said.
"what?" hil was confused.
"yes, lets" the leader said.
"what?"