When rogue girl, or what she was actually called, Juna. You could also call her what Urial decided to name her 'Alpha', classic nummerization system of people, use the greek alphabet!
We'll be calling her that, because that's how you'll be seeing her in all the 1st person sections except her own, which I'm not sure will appear...
Anyway, Alpha woke up, with a stinging pain on her legs. When she looked, they were more put together than before, as if all the fragments of bone had been 'Adhered' together.
Though the two limbs were still bloody, they were just... Less traumatizing.
She finally opened her mind to the sounds around her, after finally coming to fact that she would probably never walk again, and deducing that she had probably been abondoned in the woods by that psycotic monster.
She heard flowing water, then she realized she had moved, and that there were monster corpses with signs of a single slash killing them + an opening where the heart should be.
"O' lotto gods, favor this poor soul!" The crazed manic said zealously as he tore a monster heart in half. Somehow getting another skill crystal, she had no clue which skill, she hadn't memorized every single skill crystal pattern like Urial.
He crushed it instantly, without hesitation, while still seemingly not that happy about it, as if he needn't worry about slots.
Urial looked at the now awake Alpha, and unlike before, he seemed approachable, and completely normal "Ah, you're finally awake. I've been waiting on you to wake up to make something."
He quickly sat down and took a few very common herbs, ones that Alpha could remember gathering en masse when she was starting out as an adventurer.
He crushed it on the ground with a rock, somehow turning it into dust, then proficiently doing this a few times.
He then used the water stream to be able to the grain-like herb mix into a ball, and finally tapped it with a bit of mana, somehow.
And then it just, it changed "A classic 'Commoner's bone fracture repair', I remember when this came out, it took the community by storm." Urial commented on it as if he had seen it hundreds of times.
He then, while Alpha had her mouth open from amazement at what he had done with mana, he threw it into her mouth, then rushed close to make sure she didn't spit it out.
Which was a completely reasonable fear, as Alpha tasted an array of things, all discordenant, all semi-disgusting. Causing her to fall into a state of confusion and disgust as her instincts tried to cough out the 'Medicine' that tasted worse than anything she had ever tasted, even rotten meat.
Then, the broken, but put together, legs started to sear with extreme pain. Not enough to stop someone from enduring it for functioning legs, but Alpha didn't know the use of this weird ball of herbs "MPHMHH!"
Though her mouth was covered, and her jaw forced shut, she still made sounds of extreme pain.
At least she didn't get knocked out again, for Urial would've felt great annoyance at the fact he would have to waste even more time carrying her about.
After she returned to her senses, and was about to make a note to never trust the manic skill lord again, she realized she had attempted to stand up with her new repaired legs.
Though there were still a lot of blood, and it was messed up, it was healed in the most crucial part for a broken leg, the bones. The nerves... had also been healed.
Right now, the only thing stopping her from being perfectly healthy was something a health potion or two could fix, so she quickly tried to take out her small glass bottle of lesser health potion, finding that it had dissapeared.
She quickly looked at Urial, who was currently fiddling with the bottle containing a purple fluid.
Did she need to convince him to give him the bottle too?
No, she didn't, this was just a little power play "You need this right?" Urial asked as he tossed the bottle to her "Catch!"
Alpha carefully catched the bottle, and then chugging the bottle. Not noticing that her opinion had already about him changed a bit since she saw him healing her legs and casually giving her the health potion he had stolen.
'Wait, did he even purposefully steal it to withold it from me... Or did he just take it out of a whim?'
Her opinion had gone from a 'Monster than should be feared and not messed with', to 'A man with obvious psycological issues that should not be messed with, and it's also a good idea to fear him to a healthy degree.'
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I felt a cold, but pleasant wind pass over my as I saw Alpha harvesting lottery tickets for me, I did the same but better while watching her.
She obviously had a good amount of experience, but not to the level of a professional, and not even close to the mastery that I had.
I opened another lottery ticket, and, voila;
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Boiling blood;
-Increase stats by 5% for 2 minutes
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It wasn't too good, but it was better than nothing.
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Name; Urial
Class; Skill Lord, lvl 1
Max hp; 1
Max mp; 200
Class skill(s);
Skill crystal(s);
Skill tree core(s); none
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I was honestly enjoying
If you don't know what 'Unclaimed' or 'semi-claimed' means, think of it as nature's land or some place with humans, like a village or something with primitive farms as such, that's considered 'Semi-claimed' land. I honestly don't feel like going into the specifics, because it's all deduction on my part!
That
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Predator's blitz;
A predator must not lose the prey within their sights.
-When used gives a total increase of speed by 50% for 3 seconds.
-When used while the 'Prey' is fleeing or trying to disengage, give an additional 40% speed boost for persuit.
*Warning; This skill does not have supported usage of the additional speed gained. Use at your own risk.
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Though you may be put off by that warning, that warning is for losers and noobs. For them this skill might cause from problems, from; Discomfort to serious nausia and pain, maybe even getting a heart attack.
I had almost fallen low due to that last one, but after I passed the trails, I stood taller than ever before.
...Then I realized it was only lvl 1, and that it would get it's revenge at lvl 2.
*Sigh* There's always something greater out there.
At least it's compatriots are not hard to get your hands on passively due to the fact that every carnivorous monster can drop this skill, so I should be able to get
After finally opening and storing the results of all the lottery tickets, it was time to do the final siege
"Alpha, this should be the last time today." I said to the girl who nodded nervously, obviously, I had added a few very obvious dissapointed comments, just to keep her on edge for my 'Bone harvesting operation'.
Like I'd actually need her trash bones, I need something with a special bloodline to make anything viable. Maybe doc could use them for a homonculus or chimera, but I don't do such things... Often.
Getting something like the '
The next hunt would be a singular D-rank 'Ignis cobra' A large constrictor snake with flame attributed physical damage.
I, of course, would do this solo.
The place where this hunt would take place was somewhere close to a lake, whose name I knew nothing of, and will never care to learn.
Alpha was allowed to watch the proceedings, as I walked up to the snake enjoying it's meal.
I again, slowly drew my blade for asthetic effect.
Instead of waiting for it to do anything, I dashed close enough for my newest skill combo to actually take effect.
[Skill;
[Skill;
[Skill;
[Skill;
I was confident that I could kill it, with all my skills.
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I skipped the warning and just attacked.
The snake finally noticed my charge of glory after I increased in speed suddenly when I got close enough for it to notice me.
I quickly tried to just use is 60cm diameter tail to get rid of me, but of course, my
['Ignis cobra' uses
[Skill;
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[Overriden by
Now, just to use the skills already activated.
With great speed, my sword passed through the tail in striking efficiency, after which it suddenly flowed like a young river, and cut past another part of the ignis cobra's body.
But instead of running, the ignis cobra stood it's ground, as much as it could without legs.
['Ignis cobra' uses
After it set it's body on flames, only slight flames, though burning brightly. It tried to get itself around me, to constrict me, killing me by asphyxiation and the murderous heat sustained by it's body.
Instead of running, I ran in and used the two still active buff skills and activated
But the moment the blade got close to the coating of blazing flames, the heat started to transfer to my hands, and I quickly leapt back in caution to potential damage. While also avoiding a bite at my skull in the process of tactically retreating with a
How would I do this? I could try that skill creation thing again...
Yea... Why not, it worked once, it should work another time too.
Let's use
[Skill;
Mix the two skills together,
[Ski- Skill;
This was going even better than last time, then suddenly.
[User; 'Urial' is detected to be doing an ERROR similar to 'ERROR %@*^)@', calculating...]
[User 'Urial's actions are deemed NON-PROBLEMATIC, NO FURTHER ACTIONS REQUIRED.]
At least his little game of creating new skills wasn't going to be hindered, it was quite entertaining to create new skills actually.
Back to what he was doing...
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[New protocol created.]
[Skill;
Suddenly, my speed increased by leaps and bounds for a few moments as my blade went straight for the ignis cobra's neck.
Before I could even properly recognize what was going on and the blaze on it's body could transfer enough heat to me by my blade, I instantly activated
The moment I realized I was closer to the ignis snake than I'd like, I immeadiately took a good few steps back, activating
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Level up!
Gained class skill;
Max mp 200 -> 400
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Wait that worked? Was it really that easy to make new skills?
[Please name new skill.]
'Uhh,
[Skill name accepted.]
Ugh, this was really stressful, I should be more careful in the monsters I hunt from now on, make sure there's nothing that could risk that point of damage before I get a death negation.
But I don't have the time to be picky, there's a calamity coming, and I need to be lvl 10 to actually be able to do anything worthwhile.
I quickly opened it up and took the lottery ticked in the form of a heart, and opened it up, finding no skill crystals or skill tree cores.
Just a goddamn D-rank magic stone.
"Alpha! Where's the city?" There weren't any monsters left to hunt in the area, that were with skill crystals that were worth the time spent.
So....
Time to become an adventurer.
-Written in the 3rd of febuary, 2023.