"What...!!" Amil's mother panicked and started shaking his shoulder again.
"Why didn't you tell us?" His father said in anger.
"What's the issue, I was just going to get stronger..." Amil said with a frown.
"You... did you get the inspect skill before you went?." His father asked in a very serious voice to which he only became more confused.
Seeing the confused face of their child, they became very enraged.
"That bastard Ekrem, he sent our child to death's door!" Amil's father said while gritting his teeth.
His mother just came near him looking blankly and tapping his shoulder.
[ Inspect skill detected, acquire it?]
His eyes widened in shock, he accepted it and looked at his mother with wide eyes.
"Sorry Amil, I should have told you about it sooner, the inspect skill helps us look at information about others to see whether they are stronger than us or not, and it is the only skill in the world found that can be given to others without being killed," His mother said while pointing her finger at the boar.
"Try using the skill on the boar, you will know our worry then."
He went to the boar and spoke to inspect it internally.
Wild Boar
Level 3
HP- 0/55
Deceased
"Level 3!!" Amil shouted out of shock.
"Yes, and that's why we wanted to know how you killed it…."
"Well, the boar was fast but couldn't move directions fast. So, I got away from him and struck his neck with all my strength." Amil said while doing hand actions for describing more clearly.
"Yeah, the weakness of the boar is on its neck, and Sigh…you luckily stuck at it right...?" His mother asked with eyes glittering.
Amil just nodded obediently, he looked at his father who had a proud look on his face.
"Your sister will come back later, let's make this boar into something good to eat."
"What about the snake?"
"Yeah…you sell that to the merchant. Don't take less than 5 gold coins from him." She said and started skinning the boar.
"Amil…. come here," His father said and entered his room. Amil went in and saw his father looking for something in a chest. He took out a shiny iron sword from the chest which Amil looked at with excitement.
"This is the old sword that I used when I was your age. Now it's time for you to use it."
Amil took the sword in his hand, it felt a little heavy, but the sharpness was not to joke at.
"Thanks, father, I will not disappoint." He gave a deep bow.
After Emil arrived, the whole family had a great feast. After a good sleep. Amil went to the merchant with the snake corpse.
"How much for this?" Amil asked showing him the snake corpse.
"Hm…the damage's not that much, I can give you 3 gold coins for it." He said while looking at the corpse from all places as if trying to find some fault.
"No….5 gold coins, I have sold it before you know" Amil lied through his teeth with furrowed brows.
"Sigh…. ok, 5 gold coins" He took the coins from a box and gave it to him.
But the corpse of the snake just disappeared. Amil dumbfounded, saw the ring of the merchant glow.
The merchant seeing this chuckled.
"This is a space ring; it has a storage of 100 meter inside it. Do you wish to buy it?"
"How much is it?"
"1000 gold coins"
Amil listened and just wanted to die somewhere, the cost was too atrocious. He just left with the coins and listened to the merchant laughing at his back.
He went to the training dummy to practice his new sword. It was about 3 kgs and took a lot to swing around neatly.
After a day, he was doing much better with the sword. He ate at home, bid them farewell, and went for his small journey again.
After walking for a while, he reached the forest and went to his routine again, killing and leveling up.
He saw a snake this time who was just roaming, it was his first time fighting it without any dirty tactics.
He used the inspect skill and had a sigh of relief.
Wild Poison Snake
Level 1
HP- 40/40
He waited for the snake to come into a clearing when the snake stopped in a place where no tree was nearby. Amil just ran and pounced at him.
The snake saw him approaching and hissed while starting to stand up tall reaching a height of 4 feet. It was doing something in his mouth and Amil had an idea, he guarded himself with the fine iron sword. The snake instantly spat some black liquid on him, he protected himself with the sword but alas some of it just spilled on his hand.
[ You have been poisoned,-0.2 HP every second]
Amil sighed after seeing the amount of damage. He sprinted and just thrusted the sword horizontally in front…. piercing its body. The snake tried to attack with his fangs but Amil being more fast retracted his sword and stepped back. He did not give any time and just swinged horizontally at its head decapitating it in an instant.
[ EXP +10, +1 stamina]
He sat near the snake re-imagining the fight and what he could have done more better. The poison didn't even take 3 HP till now.
After a minute, he started moving back towards the tribe to get healed.
[ You have gained poison resistance (level 1)]
He quickly opened his status plate and saw the damage reduced to 0.1 per second.
'No, I will not go back, might as well get some skill's level while I am at it
He moved backwards and kept searching for more snakes. The main thing he realized that he couldn't see anymore boars near him. He just strolled in the outer forest, found another snake. Without any problem, killed it. The poison resistance was not increasing, and his HP was down to 25, so he decided to just go back with the 2 corpses.
Not wanting to let the family members worry, he went to the merchant for a solution.
"Got 2 more snakes here, 10 gold coins?"
"Yeah, whatever."
"By the way, do you have something to remove poison?"
"Yeah, how much's the damage?"
"0.1"
"That's awfully low, you must have waited before coming and got a resistance, right?" He asked and got a nod from Amil.
"You are good fighter, kid. I will give you discount for the poison remover potion, 2 gold coins instead of 3."
Amil's eyes glittered at the discount and made the deal. After getting the potion, he first inspected it out of curiosity.
Poison remover potion
Good quality
Can restore poisons within 10 seconds if got from a level 1 creature.
He drank it in one gulp, it had been a little uncomfortable to eat and drink with a long mouth, but he got accustomed.
In 10 seconds, the poison status was gone. He thanked the merchant and just went for leveling again.
On that day he killed another 4 snakes and took them to the merchant getting the 20 well deserved gold coins. He bought some snacks for the home with his money which made everyone happy.
Next day…. After killing 2 more snakes, he leveled up.
[ Level up]
[+20 HP, +2 strength, +2 intelligence, +2 stamina, +2 dexterity, +2 Mana]
The level up made him all refreshed and he could feel the strength inside him double not just in numbers but reality too, he sprinted a little and thought he was light as feather.
"I should visit home to tell everyone" He readied himself to spring at the highest speed. But, stopped having the wildest grin on his face"
He turned around and started running slowly, after a while he found a snake. He just strolled towards it, the snake became wary and just spat black poison at him. Amil just took the poison with open arms.
[ You have been poisoned, -1 HP per second]
The work of the snake was over, so he raised his sword to kill him, the snake cowered at the spot and put his head directly on the ground with his body up as if kneeling. Amil couldn't understand and went for the kill, but the notification surprised him.
[ The Wild Snake wants to make a master-servant contract with you, Accept or decline?]
He looked at the notification and then at the snake.
"You want to be my slave?" amil asked, the snake couldn't understand and just looked at him with his small black eyes.
Amil pondered for a while and with a sigh made his decision.