I retrieved my daggers and spear from the dead bodies and came back to the wagon Linda is at. I know that she's okay I was keeping an eye on her and I tried to stay as close as possible.
I came back to the scared girl curled in ball. Before getting blasted away by lightning I said from a save distance "hey it's me"
I sat next to her and hugged her tightly. "It's going to all right don't worry. You know me right? I never lie"
"So do trust me that im going to keep you safe?" I said while looking at her
She took my hand, squeezed tightly and nodded.
I brought one of the horses that carried our wagon to carry Linda back home.
I knocked her out and tied her up to the horse.
Then I gave the horse a slap and after a while even i myself could not see her.
I looked to the distance and in my head called for 'Guidance' to show me my status.
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STATUS RANK: 1
-most information is hidden from the user
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USER LEVEL: 4
EXP: 60/400
After a certain level is reached a new feature may unlock
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NAME: Arden Kamura
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STATS:
VARIABLE STATS:
Constitution: low-high
Agility: low-high
Stamina: mid-low
Perception: mid
Reflexes: mid-low
OTHER STATS ARE UNLOCKED AFTER SPECIFIC CONDITIONS ARE MET
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PERMANENT STATS:
-can be raised under special conditions
Sight: high
Hearing: mid-low
Smell: low-high
Body adaptability: mid-high
OTHER STATS ARE UNLOCKED AFTER SPECIFIC CONDITIONS ARE MET
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PASSIVE SKILLS:
[eyes ???]
- can see/react really well if the user concentrates enough
[adept hands]
-naturally better with hands than others, it's like your hands act before you even think about it
ACTIVE SKILLS:
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UNIQUE TRAITS:
1 Unlock?
2 Unlock?
3 Unlock?
After unlocking a trait, stats/titles may
change/evolve
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TITLES:
[Kamura]
- Kamura, an almost forgotten clan of hunters, their true might is triggered under certain conditions
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Just one more level and I can unlock one of my traits!
With my hearing I can tell that in maximum of three minutes at least twenty horse raiders will be here.
If I'm going to die, I'll take at least one more guy with me.
Honestly, I can't say that I'm ready to die.
I really don't want to. I just got a hold of power. I don't want it to end this way.
I went out of the wagon, walked in to the
middle of nothing. The one guy that I was going to take with me. I think I see him, he looks like someone important.
When I was busy picking the best spot to hit. It was weird it was as if he could feel me challenging him.
I focused on him… squeezed my spear as hard as I could.
I ran right his way
The distance was 80 meters
90
80
70
I saw the archers from the opposing size aiming on me.
Now!
I focused on him… squeezed my spear as hard as I could.
I took a really deep breath
Now or never!
"Go!!"
I mustered every strength left in me, every single muscle moving in perfect motion…
"FU!" I exhaled while releasing my best throw
The spear was nearing the incoming enemy at an alarming rate
30 meters
20 meters
10 meters
When the spear was about to hit it's mark, the man with the speed even my eyes could barely see caught my spear with one hand.
After some time, he was standing right in front of me. He came closer with my spear in his hand, lifted it up and effortlessly and shattered it in his hand.
He than tried to uppercut me with the same hand that shattered my spear. Because of the skill [adapt hands] I somehow redirected it with my left hand to the side making an opening for an uppercut of my own. Before my hand collided with his chin, I felt a sudden pain in the left side of my head. I blacked out not knowing how.
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I woke up in place without any light, yet I could see to some degree.
My second thought was if Linda made it to the town. "Haaaa" i exhaled…I need to worry about things that I can actually change!!
After my eyes got more use to the dark I could deduct that I was trapped in a cave or something.
I was trapped in a small place without light or an evident exit
"Bum bum bum"
Did I hear knocking when I don't even have a door here?
Then after five hours I finally saw light again My eyes surprisingly didn't hurt from the sudden light.
The light didn't even last a minute.
I looked where the source of light came from and I saw a bowl of food, that barely fitted through a cranny at the bottom of a wall.
I tried to eat it, but failed miserably. It tasted so bad, that I could barely swallow it. I threw up right afterwards.
If my body won't adapt to the food… I'll starve to death!
After a while picked the bowl again and and tried to eat just tiny little portion of it. It was hard to not throw up. I repeated this process every two hours. After the fourth repetition I was already able to swallow a small portion without any problems, well besides the horrible taste and smell!
Afterwards I placed the bowl to the cranny. So the people responsible for feeding me could refill it.
I was pretty exhausted. And my head was still hurting from the hit to the head. So I went to sleep. As I didn't have anything else to do to begin with, I fell asleep right away in the right corner, further away from the cranny.
Waking up the first thing I noticed was the same bowl filled with the terrible substance.
But my eyes shined like stars after looking at the other bowl next to it. I couldn't believe my eyes it was filled with water!
I hurried to the bowls and drank 1/3 of the bowl, then saved the rest for later.
This same process repeated it self for a whole month, then two, three….
An year has passed already
I was already losing my sanity. I was lying in my corner, when I suddenly felt a sense of danger near me. My whole body reacted as if feeling an intent to kill me.
I bounced of the wall, then rolled with the momentum as far as possible.
I stood up. My unique eyes had already gotten used to the dark and I saw a some kind of weird snake baring his fangs at me.
I looked above the snake and saw a small hole. I have noticed most of these holes a long time ago but I didn't know that something might actually fit trough them.
I looked at the warned reptile, that stared at me from a two meters long distance.
Because I didn't have a single weapon on me I needed to depend on my adept hands.
The snake wasn't big, but his scales looked really tough. He got closer and closer, and then finally tried to bite me. I caught him by the the head, forcibly shutting his mouth.
I squeezed as hard as I could, yet my strength wasn't enough kill it. I tried to pierce my nails trough his eyes. It was pretty hard, but it died
after five minutes of resisting.
I took a look a the corpse. The scales would be ideal for a light armor. It was at least as hard as a metal while being light as a feather.
I could not eat it without anything sharp to get through the scales. I could probably use it like short rope for choking. I placed it under my belt. I wanted to look have look at how much exp it gave me, or any other changes.
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USER LEVEL: 4
EXP 100/400
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CONGRATULATIONS!
-User has met a special conditions for unlocking a new stat
'Perception: mid-high' has evolved into special stat 'Sense: low'
- throughout the year of only eating a certain 'suspicious' soup that helped to open one's mind, and his natural talent for ??? the user had met the necessary requirements for unlocking this stat.
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It was obvious why I was taken here. This place was made to train young men into soldiers.
The only thing that I didn't understand was why would they only give me meals throughout the whole month. Now I finally get it, the condition for one to get trained in here was for one to be able to use this so called 'sense'
And if they didn't….then they would die!