'Yesterday I earned 30 copper pieces leaving me with 32 copper pieces in my treasury after spending 10 copper on a sleeping poison' I thought to myself as I began butchering the body, chopping up the meat and collecting the innards as well as cleaning all the bits and pieces 'I need to put more points into my strength my next level up' finally I drain the body of blood into buckets
[You have gained Human Flesh parts]
[You have gained Human Skeleton]
[You have gained Bucket of Human Blood]
I put those in my inventory and went to the bathroom to clean myself off before the sun rose. I had spent an all nighter but I assumed it would be fine to do it just once and get some extra sleep tomorrow. I go back to the visitor's room and begin cleaning out his stuff and storing it in my inventory. It was nothing too noteworthy, just a backpack and some miscellaneous camping gear as well as 4 silver and 30 copper pieces bringing my treasury up to 4 silver and 62 copper pieces.
The day goes as normal and I earn 15 more copper pieces bringing me to 4 silver and 77 copper pieces. Enough about money though it's time to complete my next quest. 'System, how do I make a blank bone totem?' I asked the system and as always, the system provided with the added bonus that it was given to me for free too since a blank bone totem did absolutely nothing. I sat on the front porch of the inn and took out a carving knife I got from that visitor's pack and began carving. The human bone looked like a large animal bone so it was ok to have it out like this since the villagers have never seen human bones before.
I completed my carving and soon enough I had what looked like a 'T' made of bone but more rounded.
[Completed: Create a blank Bone Totem. You have learned the skill: Bone Totem Creation]
[You have learned Bone Totem: Shield]
[You have learned Bone Totem: Parasitic Aura]
[You have learned Bone Totem: Raise Dead]
I look at my brand new totems. Shield makes me invincible to the first attack I take after creating the totem but breaks right after. Parasitic Aura activates after I'm below 50% health and allows me to take 10% of my opponents health as long as they are within 10 feet of me. Raise Dead turns all corpses within 30 feet of me into ghouls for 10 minutes after I break it.
I begin carving into the blank totem and create a shield totem and hang it around my belt after infusing it with mana. Bone totems were like stored one use spells which could be very useful.
The sun has fully set and I'm about to close up before a very large man in a cloak walks into the building, he pulls down his hood and looks around before coming over to the counter. The man has dark skin and black hair with a pair of cat ears on his head, he was a beast man and by the looks of it a very big one with his large muscular build visible even under his cloak.
"Room" he says simply "How much."
"3 coppers for a room, 5 if you want dinner and breakfast to go with that" I say, the man looks surprised before reaching into his cloak and taking out 5 copper coins and placing them on the counter "good choice" I smile and go to the back to cook him dinner. I dont risk putting poison in it because a guy like that can probably resist it.
I take the dinner to him personally and set it infront of him "would you like some wine with that or water?" I ask, it was part of the meal.
"Water" the man says and I put down a cup and pour some water into it
"Enjoy. Oh, and here's your room key" I put the key next to his food and begin heading upstairs
"Wait." the man says as I'm halfway up the stairs.
"What is it sir?" I say as I turn around
"That totem, where did you get it?" he asked
"I made it myself" I say
The man nods "You may go now"
I found that interaction confusing but went to bed anyway after meditating for an hour to complete my daily quest.
Soon it turned to midnight and I was sleeping, not noticing the large shadow creeping into my room and preparing to strike.
A loud 'CLANG' is heard as a blade hits my shield and breaks my totem causing me to quickly wake up and roll out of bed and take my staff out of my inventory. I use Candlelight to light up the room and it is revealed to be the beast man who attacked me in my sleep.
"Hold on now, we can settle this diplomatically" I say as we both are stuck in a standoff "Why did you attack me in my sleep?" I ask while telling the system 'Analyze'
[Lv. 30 Stoneheart (Beastman) HP: 500/500 MP: 30/30]
"That totem, it is, now was, made of dark magic" The beastman states "Where did you learn to make it?"
I sigh "I learned it from my grandfather, I didn't know it was black magic" I lied 'Shit, this isn't good, my totem is broken since I took that hit' I thought 'I need to get out of this situation'
The beastman eyes me suspiciously for a few minutes before coming to a conclusion "..you are too young" he says as he stands up and puts his sword away "and that staff was also created of black magic" he says "give it to me, I shall destroy it"
Without any choice I nod and hand over my staff which he snaps in half "Was the staff also your grandfathers?"
I give a nod
"I am sorry but it is likely your grandfather was a dark magician" he says "throw out everything that was once his and forget any magic he taught you"
I shake my head "that was the only item he passed down to me" I tell him "He didn't have much" I pretend to be sad
The beast man sighs and kneels down to my level before putting a hand on my shoulder "I know it's hard to come to terms with but your grandfather was a dark magician, an evil person who was obsessed with power."
I began to cry fake tears "I know, but he was such a good person"
"Even evil can pretend to be good" the beastman states "now stop crying and push forward, how about this?" he picks me up which shocked me out of my crying "I shall bring you back to my tribe and we shall teach you new magic from the shaman"
I wipe my tears and shake my head "No.. no I like it here" I say "thank you for the offer though sir"
The beastman nods "verywell, you would have been a good addition but it is your choice to make" he says before putting my down on my bed gently "I shall leave in the morning, if you change your mind by then just let me know"
"Thank you…" I tell him
"Of course, now get some sleep" he says "you will not have to worry about any more attacks in the night" he says as he leaves the room
I turned over as he shut the door 'holy shit that was scary' I thought to myself 'I can't believe I had to act like a kid again, that was so embarrassing… Now I need a new staff, But I'll worry about that in the morning' and with that thought I go back to sleep.
I spend the morning looking for a new staff and eventually buy one that's better than my old one for 2 silver.
[Necrotic Staff
Grade: C
Condition: Perfect
Enhances Necromancy spells by 50%]
I quickly put the staff into my inventory before anybody sees it and soon head downstairs and open the inn, people come pouring in as usual and after eating the beastman left after making sure I didn't want to come with him.
In the weeks that follow nothing interesting happens other than me poisoning a visitor and disposing of his corpse which levels up my [Butcher Corpse] skill to level 2 as well as giving me the Poison rune.