The morning sun rising over the horizon was bringing light over the city and pushing the night's darkness back to where it came from. the city people all started getting up for the day and the streets started to fill up with different vehicles and on the side walks the people started to walk through so as to get to their preferred destinations, the students going to school, the workers going to work and the talented individuals preparing for their dungeon diving or monster hunting
in a room, the sun shone through the window illuminating the ordinary looking room. The brightness of the sun shone on the person laying on the bed stirring him up from his deep sleep. Getting up he started walking towards the bathroom, bending down he washed his face with some clean water from the sink to clear the dizziness he had after waking up. he raised his head up and looked at himself in the mirror
"Who the f*ck is this" he yelled. the figure in the mirror was of a young man with silver hair, slightly dilated red eyes, sword like eyebrows on his diamond shaped face
"oh right, my looks changed after my talent awakening. almost forgot about that"
he said then he had his bath. coming out of the bathroom, he heard a knock on the door then he wore his trousers then opened the door. standing there was a young lady maybe in her teens, she had blonde hair locked in braids with sky blue eyes an oval face with a curvy figure, in her hands was a tray with food covered up. she the ideal woman for anyone but unfortunately Armaros is not anyone.
he collected it from her, said a quick thank you and closed the door. meanwhile she was still standing there stunned
'who's this man, oh my god he's so good looking. is this love at first sight?. but he's a bit rude though, closing the door on a woman's face' she pouted cutely then ran off towards the kitchen
After collecting the food he sat on the ground with the food placed in front of him, opening it he was greeted with the smell and image of some bread, scrambled eggs, a cup of tea and some basic cutleries. he took a big whiff of that early breakfast then he started eating
"oh my goodness, when did I ever eat something as good as this. I need to thank them for the nice breakfast" he concluded the he continued stuffing food down his throat after that he took a big gulp of the tea
"oh mama Mia, just the perfect combination of milk and sugar. I think I'll get married sooner rather than later to the chef in their kitchen" he said then he finished the rest of the tea in a couple of seconds.
putting all the plates back into the tray, he wore his worn out shirt then started walking towards the lobby "I need to get a new set of clothes, maybe after coming back from the monster hunt. oh I even forgot to absorb the cores of yesterday. I've been forgetting things and talking to myself lately"
reaching the lobby, he placed the tray on the table then said "please do thank the fine lady that made this dish, I really enjoyed it." the woman behind the table who was in a daze just nodded, coincidentally she was the one who cooked the food, took it for every customer and yes she was the one who also took Armaros's food too. after dropping the tray and telling her to extend his greetings to the chef he immediately made his way out of town.
After he left the hotel, she immediately came back to her senses
'holy shit! he's too good looking and nice too... wait a minute, is he not the one that slammed the door on my face. although he's handsome enough to make me drool, he's still rude, no I don't drool I won't drool over a stranger. but I just said he's nice. no no no, I just need to forget about that handsome man. what's wrong with me, let's just think about other things, yes other things'
While she was going through an internal battle with herself, the cause of her battle was testing how strong his skills have gotten in front of him stood twenty one crimson wolves, he immediately cast his skill
[thunderstorm]
rumble~ rumble~
crackle~ crackle~
the sky darkened and started rumbling and crackling like crackers
Boom Boom Boom
thunder started to fall from the sky attacking the petrified wolves one by one until they were wiped out leaving Armaros alone with their cores buried in their burnt and electrified corpses
"hmm, it's at least three times stronger than before. I'm really satisfied with it" he said while walking towards the charred remains then he bent down "let's see if this will work out,if it doesn't this'll be a big loss" he muttered then he cast his spell [absorb]
[host has absorbed crimson wolf]
[all host stats has increased by eleven]
[host has gotten active skill fire ball]
[host has absorbed crimson wolf]
[all host stats has increased by seven]
[host has gotten passive skill fire manipulation]
"wait a minute, why did I not get the water manipulation skill from the alligators but got the fire manipulation skill from the wolves"
[spiked armored alligators do not possess the water manipulation skill]
"then how are they able to shoot water balls from their mouth"
[spiked armored alligators store water in their mouths and with the use of mana shape it into the form of balls and load it up with mana making stronger than regular water cannons that they shoot from their mouths. you can say it's their created skill]
"oh, okay I think I understand you, but that would be wasting of mana. now top on the to do list, get all manipulations for all affinities I have"
he said and continued to absorb all the wolves until the alpha wolf corpse was left, he bent down next to it and did the same thing
[host has absorbed crimson wolf]
[all host stats has increased by twenty two]
[host has gotten active skill alpha's call]
"now all that's left are the cores, maybe I should try absorbing it with gluttony and if it doesn't work I'll just do it the normal way" he thought out loud, then he grabbed one of the cores of the wolves and decided to try it out. with a core in hand he called out the skill name
[absorb] and before his eyes black fog came out of his palm and covered the core up in it's entirety. it continued to suck out the energy for a few minutes till it turned to dust
[host has absorbed crimson wolf core]
[all host stats has increased by eleven]
"sweet, it works. now I don't have to spend hours absorbing a core" he said happily and he continued to pick up cores to absorb, after the wolf cores were finished he used the ones in his spatial pocket and now his stats look like this
[stats
str: 209 spd: 200
vit: 214 mana: 227
skills
active:
call of thunder
thunderstorm
fire ball
water cannon
Alpha's call: call upon wolves to fight by your side during battle
passive:
lightning manipulation
fire manipulation
water maneuverability: able to move very well in water]
"good, but I don't think I like the alpha's call skill, it's good but it's not my style." he said
'I really need to get some new clothes and a weapon. let me kill some monsters then the money gotten from selling it should be enough' he thought
he continued to hunt till seven in the evening. he killed nine alligators, seventeen wolves, thirteen snakes and twenty seven horned rabbits and they were all stored in his spatial pocket including their cores. he intends to sell the monster bodies to the butchers and their cores to the trade hall.
the trade hall is a huge building that buys and sells anything sellable including monster corpse but the reason why he does not want to sell them the carcasses is because they pay according to the damage done on the body of the monster. the more damage it has the lesser the pay but butchers buy it anyhow it is as long as they can recognize which monster body it is.
he got to the town's gate some minutes to eight all bloodied again and everyone had their eyes on him but he didn't pay it any attention and just went to sell the monster bodies and their cores to their respective stores and made his way to the hotel
he got into the hotel and ordered some food to his room and went to his room ignoring the people looking at him. he washed his worn out clothes and had his bath.
coming out of the bathroom in the hotel's towel, he heard a knock on the door and went to open it. There was a petite brown skinned girl with long red hair and eyes with a tray in hand, he collected it from her and said thank you before closing the door. The petite girl didn't mind that a door was closed on her face and just skipped away.
After eating, he immediately went to bed.
Meanwhile, back in town. rumors about a bloody man that always returns every night after punishing sinners, started to spread everywhere. They called him the BLOODY REAPER