[+10 pts]
[current points: 372]
[you have gained a rune of vitality]x5
[+40 pts]
[current points: 412]
[Memoria (rank 1 (5%)]
System messages flashed by my eyes in a flurry of activity. Idly I noted that the Kobolds were fussing over me, their feet carrying them around me.
I ignored them and their chittering in favor of sitting on the ground. My back ti the wall I read through the messages.
The first thing that I noticed is that I had gained points just for the killing of the creatures.
It was a significant find, by the list of objectives it had made it seem that the only way for one to gain points was to achieve those objectives.
However, contrary to this narrative that it had created all one needed to do was kill. It was a simple deduction one that anyone with the right information could come to but it was that I hadn't noticed.
My vision was more focused on exploiting the system given missions rather than discovering the hidden side of things.
Though I didn't dwell on that failure for too long, instead noting the next thing of interest. The runes of vitality.
I had earlier, when I had first seen the message, checked my pockets and found none. The most likely cause…
I looked out to the Kobolds who still stood rooted in their spots, concerned for me. My eyes narrowed as a conclusion was formed.
"Did you crush an object… about this big?" I asked them to enthusiastic chits.
I would take that as a yes, another mystery solved and another answer that was unasked, answered.
Apparently my subordinated in the form of the kobolds could crush the runes for me and enhance me. It was the only answer other than that they used my hands and had me crush them.
"Did you?"
I asked them, explaining what I had hypothesized.
Enthusiastic nods were my answer. As they walked all around me.
I just sighed at that, it seemed that my first theory was wrong. I had surely thought that I was right but apparently I was wrong.
It was fine though, I never got things right the first time anyways.
My stomach lightly growled however I ignored it, there I just didn't feel like eating m.
Even when I was offered some sort of mystery meal by the Kobolds I just refused. My appetite at the moment was just nonexistent.
It wasn't because I was wrong, no, I could at the very least admit that but what it was…
That was more complicated. It was why I was sitting here. I needed time to think about what had happened in my dream.
The almost loving and enthralled gaze that the figure had shone upon me.
The mind numbing pain that even now I could feel, overwhelming the other pains that I felt.
Even the equipment that I had seen. I wanted so much just to go back there enough that I was considering knocking myself out again just to see if I could go back there.
It was a morbid curiosity, one born of a lifetime of forgetting what had happened there.
For the first time in my life I had remembered more than superfluous details.
More than just ideals but actual memories.
It was so tempting but a random ding had broke me out of those thoughts.
[+40 pts]
I looked up and saw that the kobolds had started picking flowers and giving them to each other. They had already done it twice judging by the amount of points.
I watched as one of the braver ones walked up to me and handed me a flower. By the way that they were munching on them they seemed edible. It was why I took it and put it in my mouth.
I munched on it and my stomach was slightly satisfied.
[current pts:453]
The sight of my points ticking up helped my mood kick up from where it had stood.
I stood up and trapped the spear of the Kobold that had fallen in my protection.
A hard look on my face as I thrust it forward.
'Not right…' it just didn't feel right. The shaft of the spear, the way that it thrust through the air.
None of it felt as it should have. It was all wrong.
I was way more comfortable with the sword but I forced myself to take another thrust forward. This one wasn't as clumsy as the one before it.
Again and again, I trained. With each thrust of the spear it felt more comfortable in my hands.
I must have looked ridiculous, mindlessly stabbing the air, a focused look on my face as I slightly adjusted my grip and then stabbed again.
It was only when the telltale sign of hunger appeared in my stomach again that I felt the ache in my muscles.
The pain that I associated with working out was there but it was lessened. As if the pain was nothing compared to what I had experienced in my dream.
It was headache inducing, the way that the dream felt so much like reality yet so far away.
I just shook the thoughts from my mind though. I had other things to focus on. The kobolds for one, we're idle.
With no tasks asked if them they stood still and slightly munched in food while watching me.
I hadn't noticed their stares earlier, so focused on my training. However now that I was done I could feel the incessant stares of the Kobolds.
"You" I pointed to the Kobold that had accompanied me earlier and had him come closer.
Protectively he held his spear in his hands. As if it wa stage most precious thing to him.
"Spar with me."
It was not asked, it was an order. Even if he refused I would have forced it. I had found so many inadequacies in my self that I couldn't help but need to practice.
If the monsters of the tutorial were this hard. I couldn't imagine the difficulty of the actual tower.