CHAPTER 2
First kill
The bone fiends looked impressive standing next to each other like that. Henry walked to them and took a closer look.
"I've got the feeling that they are stronger than me. Is they a way to check if their strength?"
[Do you wish to see the stats of the fiends?]
"Oh, so they have their own stats. Show me their stats"
[Bone fiend STATS]
Level : 1
HP : 100/100
EXP : 0/50
Strength : 20
Speed : 20
Agility : 20
Stamina : infinite
Skill:
· Bone projectiles
· Swordsmanship
"What?"
Henry looked at the three bone fiends, he was surprised that they were all stronger than him, and they were level one.
Henry thought of the future when they would be stronger, a smile crept unto his face. When his excitement died down, he decided it was time to leave where he was, he would have to face the Scarlax roaming around, but he was sure with his new crew it would be possible.
Henry was about to move, when a system notification came.
[Daily task and Missions function are now available. Do you wish to view them? [Y/N]].
"Daily task and missions? Well they sound interesting. Yes, show it to me"
[Daily Task]
· Cover 1km
The system did not say what would happen when he finished his daily task, but he was going to do it any way.
[Missions]
· Main mission : Reach level 10
Duration : 1 year
Reward : 1000 EXP, New skill, 500 SP
Penalty : 50% permanent reduction of stats
Danger level {D}
· Mission : Kill Five scarlax
Duration : 24 hours
Reward : New skill, 40 SP
Penalty : Loss of one unlocked Skill
Danger level {C}
"Now we are talking"
Henry was eager to complete the missions and collect the rewards. but that being said he also took a look at their penalties; each one was painful to think about.
"Well I better get started if I want to succeed. Mission two looks more dangerous, but I'm sure I can pull it of with the help of this guys." He turned and looked at the standing bone fiends.
"Ok. It's time to move out, I am wasting mana by just standing." Now you might think that Henry kind of accepted his current circumstance rather quickly, but even if it was a coward to the bones that went through what Henry went through…, hmm, you get the point.
When Henry left the pile of corpses, the first thing he saw was a Scarlax ant, probably the one that killed him, or so he assumed.
Henry didn't waste any time and gave the order for his fiends to attack. The Scarlax noticed the danger and turned to face the incoming threat.
The Bone fiends took a triangular formation as they moved, the first fiend jumped up as soon as it was at near proximity with the scarlax, and struck down with a high speed. The scarlax ant saw the attack and dodged to the left as fast as it could, but after it managed to dodge the attack, the fiend moving at the left had also reached it. The fiend struck out with a diagonal slash, the scarlax kicked back with full force, yet the sword managed to have contact with its head splitting the exoskeleton a little.
The scarlax had managed to dodge a fatal injury, it looked at the three fiends which had spread out to encircle it and block its escape routes. The scarlax suddenly released an ear-piercing screech.
"Kyaaaaaaaaaaaack"
"Fuck, what's that? A sonic attack? No, it was calling for back up, they have a hive mind, so they work better together" After Henry got this realization he immediately gave the fiends a command to try and end the ant as fast as possible.
The three fiends pointed their swords at the ant, the swords broke up into bullet shaped sizes bones. The ant sensed danger form the action of the fiends, so it began trying to find a way out, but before it could, all the bullet size bones shot at the ant. The scarlax ant had metallic limbs and abdomen, its head was the only organic part. The bullets penetrated the exoskeleton of his head, but the rest were stuck half way through in the abdomen.
"So, that's what the projectile attack looks like!."
Henry was surprised and happy by the projectile attack that the bone fiends had.
The scarlax was disorientated, it was bleeding form its head, the purple blood dripped down to the ground from all the holes in its head. One of the bone fiends walked up to the side of the scarlax and swung its bone sword downwards, chopping of the head of the scarlax.
[you have killed a low rank one Scarlax ant. 20 Exp gained, 10 SP gained]
[One of your bone fiends has gained 5 Exp]
[First kill. 50 Exp gained]
Notifications came as soon as the scarlax died. Henry was happy for the exp he gained, he was closer to leveling up, but something surprised Henry, and that was his bone fiend that had gained exp. He decided to look at the stats of the bone fiend that killed the scarlax.
[Bone fiend(1) STATS]
Level : 1
HP : 100/100
EXP : 4/50
Strength : 20
Speed : 20
Agility : 20
Stamina : infinite
Skill:
· Bone projectiles
· Swordsmanship
"So that means my bone fiends might be able to level up"
Henry did not dwell on the thought for long, he had to be fast since the scarlax had called for backup. He went to the corpse of the scarlax. Henry tried to use life steal on the beheaded body of the scarlax, but it did not work.
"Maybe it only works on human corpses, or"
Henry looked at the organic head that had been beheaded, he touched the head of the scarlax an activated life steal.
[Life steal has been activated]
"It worked"
"So, the body has to be organic for it to work"
[you have received 10 mana points, and 1 stats points]
The amount of mana he got could not compare to what he was spending, but at least he could refill it a little. His mind shifted to the free stat point, but he decided not to use it yet.
He walked to the body of the scarlax, and inspected the body one more time before turning to leave, when he noticed a shine through one of the holes on the shriveled-up head of the scarlax. He took a bone sword from the bone fiends, and opened up the head. There was a thumb sized crystal, he took out the crystal from the head.
[you have found a low rank one scarlax core, do you wish to absorb it or store it in Inventory]
"I have an inventory? Wait, what is that exactly?"
[Inventory is a separate space where you can store things]
"that sounds great. That means I don't have to carry stuff outside. But let's go with absorbing of the crystal."
[you have absorbed a low rank one scarlax crystal. Mana capacity increased by 2]
"only two? "
Henry thought it would give something special, instead it increased his mana capacity by just two. The core had melted and passed through his hands.
Henry decided to try something.
"System store the body of the scarlax in my inventory"
The space around the body of the scarlax distorted, swallowing the body, leaving only the head.
Henry got up and turned to hand the bone sword back to the bone fiend, but he saw another sword in the fiend's hand.
"Huh? How?"
He suddenly remembered that the sword fiend had used their swords as projectiles, but they were now all holding swords.
"I guess they can't be unarmed"
Henry decided to keep the bone sword, he needed a weapon any way.
Henry was about to move, when he heard sounds coming closer.
"Shit! I forgot that it called for backup"
Henry immediately began running, while the fiends formed a triangular formation around him. Along the way they came across another Scarlax ant. The ant was dealt with quickly.
[you have killed a low rank one Scarlax ant. 20 Exp gained, 10 SP gained]
[One of your bone fiends has gained 5 Exp]
Henry used life steal on the ant, but he did not get a free stat point which made him a little sad, he put the rest of the body in his inventory.
He continued on with bone fiends, he was not sure were he was going, but he was moving in the direction the truck convoy came from. He was sure he would see a town if he kept moving in that direction, he also wanted to complete his second mission on his way there.