"Inferno Rupture!"
Roman snapped his fingers at the cannibal, an arrow of black and red fire shot towards the cannibal. Roman's eyes widened at the next moment.
The cannibal had dodged at the last collision, but half of it's body had disappeared, the cannibal released a loud wail from it's lips as it staggered towards Roman who had fallen on his butt.
"Heh!" Roman's eyes grew cold as his whole demeanor changed, the mithril dagger appeared in his hand and he gripped it. Lifting himself from the floor, he stared with a wide sneer at the cannibal. Roman seem to have turned to a whole new person.
"The price of power, is a lot of bodies!" Roman muttered.
Seeing its prey standing, the cannibal growled, the parts of its body that had been blown out were regrowing. The cannibal lunged at Roman who breathe out a stream of air, when the claws were inches away from his face, he faded and appeared behind the cannibal.
[Skill obtained: Phase(Unknown Grade) LV 3]
Ignoring the notification, he pushed the cannibal down to the floor, raising the dagger, he stabbed down into the back of the cannibal's head.
He raised the dagger and stabbed down again, then he continued, the cannibal struggled as it tried to throw off the prey on its body. Roman's gaze were frigid and his red pupils were a shade darker, he kept stabbing.
When the cannibal stopped shrieking and struggling, Roman stopped stabbing and stood up. His face had patches of blood on it, so also his hair.
He stared down at the cannibal, before he looked at his hand holding the dagger. The cannibal's head had been pierced beyond recognition, it was a mess.
"I'm alone, to survive here in this new world, I'll have to kill" Roman muttered.
[Damned Cannibal slain]
[Level Up ]
[Additional 5 points added to all attributes]
[A grade skill, Regeneration can be obtained, does host wish to obtain it?]
"Hmm, a skill?" Roman thought back to how the cannibal's body was regrowing back. "... Yes, obtain"
[A grade skill, Regeneration added to Skill panel]
[Skills]
Inferno Burst LV 1
Regeneration
Roman noticed that Regeneration had no level, he inquired from the system why it was.
[It is an undying skill, skills dealing with life has no level, but most skills can be upgraded]
"Undying skill..."
Roman decided to check his other unclaimed skill book, summoning the skill books, a black book suddenly appeared in the air and Roman grabbed unto it.
[B Grade skill of the dark element, does host wish to obtain it, note, skill given is random]
"Yes"
[B Grade skill, Shadow Lock obtained]
[Shadow Lock: as long as there's a shadow, you can lock your enemy in a position for 10 minutes, can work on single and multiple opponents, skill duration depends on level of enemy]
Seeing the skill's description, Roman smiled with glee as he thought of how he would fight his future enemies.
"If I had this, I wouldn't be so miserable against that cannibal" He sighed before he looked at the setting sun. "...first, let me find where I would sleep tonight, I'll test out my skills tomorrow"
Roman located a cave in the distance and ran towards it, when he got to the vicinity, it was littered with several bones, belonging to both humans and beasts alike.
"Did I end up in a dangerous place?" Roman said as he suddenly thought of where he was. " System, where am I?"
[Host is currently in the northwestern area of the Wild Ruin, a B Grade Forbidden land]
"Damn, I need to find a way to get out of here!"
Roman bowed to the bones and walked into the cave, it seem someone had stayed in here before as there were stone chairs and tables. In one of the chairs, a cloaked skeleton sat cross-legged.
Despite it sitting there dead to the bones, Rojab could still feel how strong the man was, as just being bones gave off a strong sense of oppression.
"Sorry for intruding in your abode, I'm just here to pass the night " Roman bowed to the skeleton, as he turned to take a spot, he noticed the small pouch on the man's waist.
"I'm sorry, but I can't let good things rot away here, you're dead, so just pass on your pouch to me, thank you!" Roman said solemnly as he took the pouch from the side of the skeleton.
[Dimensional Pouch, does host wish to bind it?]
"Of course, this is like those space rings in the light novels" Roman affirmed.
[Host should drop some blood on the pouch]
Roman sliced his finger and placed it on the pouch, removing his finger, he noticed the wound stitching back together.
[Binding complete, Host can check pouch contents]
"I'll do that tomorrow, but for now, let me lie down and sleep" Roman said as he kept the pouch in his inventory before he lay down and closed his eyes, not long after, he drifted into sleep.
Hailey stood by the window as she stared at the stars shining in the night sky. Everything still felt surreal as just this morning, she had been preparing for school, her thoughts wandered to her parents wondering how they are doing.
"Purr..." A small black and white striped tiger cub snuggled to her legs, looking down, Hailey smiled as she picked the cub into her arms.
"You miss home too, Even?" Hailey asked it only to receive a snuggle and a satisfied low growl.
Even was a gift given to her from Ophelia, she had wanted to refuse at first but when she saw the cute little cub looking at her with it's beautiful eyes, she gave in.
Hailey turned around and got into the king sized bed, getting into a comfortable position with Even still in her hands, she fell asleep.
*******
A charred corpse crashed to the ground, followed by several other charred corpses. The only standing figure was a young man with black white hair and red eyes who was gasping as he stood.
[Consecutive level up, Host Leveled up to LV 5]
[Consecutive allocation of 5 additional points to attributes based on number of level up]
[No skill obtained]
[B Grade skill, Inferno Rupture LV 2 obtained]
[B Grade skill, Shadow Lock LV 2 obtained]
[C Grade skill, Dark tendrils LV 2 obtained]
With the level up, Roman's fatigue disappeared and his health bar went back to 100%.
He looked around the charred corpses and shook his head, the cannibals weren't a match for him anymore.
After waking up, he had went through the dimensional pouch, and had found a skill stone inside, luckily he was able to get the skill, Dark tendrils, a C Grade skill which allows the user to control and manipulate dark whip-like tentacles against their opponents.
Aside from the skill stone, there was some just of water, clothes, a map of the ruin, there was food, but due to time, they had rotted, so he threw them out, there was also a lot of gold and Aux coins, which was the currency of this world.
Roman cleaned himself up, when he had seen his reflection in the water, he almost freaked out. He was surprised by how totally different he looked.
Wearing a black tunic, black trouser and boots and a red cloak, he set out to gain experience points and level up.
"Time to get out of this land" Roman ran at full speed towards the supposed exit according to the map he had found in the dimensional pouch.
Almost to the exit, Roman stopped as he heaed sounds of battle, "why would people choose to fight close to a forbidden land?" He thought as he moved towards where the battle was being fought.
"Young lady, hand over the everspring flower, and I will give you a swift death!" A huge man carrying an axe said as he glared at a injured young woman who stood in a battle pose.
The huge man was not alone, he was with four other men, but compared to the man, they were on the small side. Around them were corpses of five other men, who seem to have died from having their throats clawed out.
Roman appeared on a tree, his appearance alerted the seven people as they turned to look at him.
"..."