Walking around the forest I looked around and just saw trees. To me, this really just seemed like a regular forest. There wasn't anything special that set it apart from the rest well other than the insanely tall trees.
Currently, I was wearing my Onix armor and had the [Omni-Bow]. I also had a pair of daggers strapped to my waist. Surprisingly the armour itself was easy to put on and light as well. It was like I wasn't wearing anything at all.
Opening the item box I then brought out a few pink pills. These pills were made from the liquid I used after I realized that it was going to be a viable option. While I would need a few sips, pills would just allow me to bite them down.
Now it did take me a while but I was able to get it done thanks to some videos. But as a consequence, my alchemy skill leveled up to level 2.
Putting one in my mouth I then swallowed one of them.
—----------[Ethan Vein]—----------
Occupation: Warlock of Lust
Title: [Otherworlder], [Successor Of The Sage]
Level: 1
Magic: 139
Strength: 105
Defense: 105
Agility: 105
Intelligence: 105
Vitality: 112
BP: 0
Skills: [Appraisal], [Cloak of Desire], [Item Box], [Swordsman Ship]{lvl1}, [Spearman Ship]{lvl 1}, [Archery]{lvl 1}, [Axemanship]{lvl 1} , [Scythemanship]{lv 1}.....
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My body felt extremely light so I then decided to start running. Thanks to my increased stats I was easily able to explore the area around my house and I then stopped as I found what I was looking for.
Hiding behind some bushes I looked at the group of around 20 to 25 rabbits. They were bigger than the rabbits of earth but what made them stand out were the small horns on their head. I then used [Appraisal].
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Name: Wolpertinger
Rank: Arcane
Level: 95
Magic: 100
Strength: 89
Defense: 78
Agility: 124
Intelligence: 90
Vitality: 68
Skills: [Sense], [Magic Kick], [Magic Bolt]
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All of them were ruffly the same with their agility stat being extremely higher than mine but they all had the same 2 skills those being [Sense] and [Magic Bolt]. The skills that were interchanged with [Magic Kick] seemed to be [Pierce] and [Poison Fang]. However, there was one monster that had more than 3 skills.
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Name: Alpha Wolpertinger
Rank: Arcane
Level: 125
Magic: 115
Strength: 98
Defense: 89
Agility: 189
Intelligence: 120
Vitality: 71
Skills: [Sense], [Magic Kick], [Magic Bolt], [Poison Fang], [Pierce], [Alpha Call]
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It was much bigger than the other Wolpertingers and had a different pattern of fur. So that only meant one thing.
Pulling the bowstring back a pure white luminescent arrow formed on the string. However, just as I let go of the string the Alpha Wolpertinger lifted its head looking in my direction. Just as the arrow was about to pierce the Alpha Wolpertinger another Wolpertinger got in the way causing the arrow to stick it to the ground.
[You've Levelled Up!]
[You've Levelled Up!]
[You've Levelled Up!]
[You've Levelled Up!]
—----------[Ethan Vein]—----------
Occupation: Warlock of Lust
Title: [Otherworlder], [Successor Of The Sage]
Level: 35
Magic: 149
Strength: 115
Defense: 115
Agility: 135
Intelligence: 115
Vitality: 122
BP: 350
Skills: [Appraisal], [Cloak of Desire], [Item Box], [Swordsman Ship]{lvl1}, [Spearman Ship]{lvl 1}, [Archery]{lvl 2}, [Axemanship]{lvl 1} , [Scythemanship]{lv 1}.....
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Before I could check my stats a loud scream pierced the air which caused me to curse. I immediately knew what had happened.
[Alpha Call].
All of the other wolpertingers looked at me and not just that red glowing eyes appeared from the forest all turned gazing at me.
"Haha, shit,"
Sweat poured down my back. Pulling back the string again I let go causing the arrows to fly in the air and stabbed the other wolpertingers but that barely even decreased the numbers I leaped back a considerable distance while launching a flurry of arrows.
But as I landed on the floor purple bolts of lightning charged toward me. Flicking my wrist a black shield appeared on my left hand.
Blocking the magic spells, however, I then saw a wolpertinger appear in front of me. It then launched a kick towards me.
"Gah!"
'The hell?'
Didn't these things have like 78 attack? Didn't my defense outranked in its attack?
Slowly getting up I watched as the wolpertingers ran toward me. Quickly stored the bow and then I unsheathed the daggers. Swinging the daggers around I ignored the level-up notifications and focused on the daggers.
After a bit, I could feel that my body was getting tired.
[You've Levelled Up!]
[You've Levelled Up!]
[You've Levelled Up!]
[You've Levelled Up!]
'Damn it even with these stats I can't even keep this up for long'
Quickly sheathing my daggers I brought out a sword. I then activated the ability of my sword. With one swing a giant slash appeared killing the wolpertingers. After a bit, I kneeled on the floor tired.
All of them were now dead.
But before I could open my status a powerful kick landed on my chin.
"Argh!"
I was launched back and hit a tree. It wasn't just that though my jaw was broken causing tons of pain to fill my face. Blood came from my mouth and the pills in my mouth were on the floor. That being said thanks to the [Omni-Blade] the wound had healed.
Looking to the side I saw the Alpha Wolpertinger.
Swinging my sword the many slashes headed toward the Alpha Wolpertinger, however, it quickly dodged the slashes and appeared in front of me before it landed a devastating kick on my solar plexus.
Rolling on the floor I tried to get up.
"You're gonna die, shithead!"
Running toward the Alpha Wolpertinger I swung my blade however, thanks to my lack of stamina my swings were easily dodged. The Alpha Wolpertinger then launched a few kicks toward me but I used my shield to block them.
However, I then swallowed the other pill.
Feeling my body regain its stamina I quickly swung my sword decapitating it.
Before I could do anything pain shot up my entire body causing me to collapse on the floor before my vision turned black.
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*Crunch*
*Crunch*
*Crunch*
The sounds of bones crunching and flesh tearing filled the air as corpses of both humans and monsters filled the cave. Suddenly in the darkness of the cave appeared 2 piercing red eyes. Walking out of the cave the creature sniffed the air before drool came out of its mouth.
With a loud roar, it walked into the forest.
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Hearing a loud yell I immediately opened my eyes and looked around. I didn't see anyone around other than the corpse of the many wolpertingers that I had killed. Standing up I noticed that my muscles felt sore but another thing I noticed was that my field of vision seemed to be…taller?
Looking down at my once fat belly I noticed that it was gone. I couldn't help but be confused but excited at the same time.
'Did I just grow muscles'
I then quickly checked my status.
—----------[Ethan Vein]—----------
Occupation: Warlock of Lust
Title: [Otherworlder], [Successor Of The Sage]
Level: 56
Magic: 67
Strength: 85
Defense: 90
Agility: 87
Intelligence: 79
Vitality: 56
BP: 560
Skills: [Appraisal], [Cloak of Desire], [Item Box], [Swordsman Ship]{lvl3}, [Spearman Ship]{lvl 1}, [Archery]{lvl 2}, [Axemanship]{lvl 1} , [Scythemanship]{lv 1}.....
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"Guess the pill's effects wore off, but I guess I can increase my stats now with the battle points,"
Thinking of what to do I then decided to put 100 points in Strength, Defense, Agility, Intelligence, and Vitality while putting the rest of the points in magic.
—----------[Ethan Vein]—----------
Occupation: Warlock of Lust
Title: [Otherworlder], [Successor Of The Sage]
Level: 56
Magic: 127
Strength: 185
Defense: 190
Agility: 187
Intelligence: 179
Vitality: 156
BP: 0
Skills: [Appraisal], [Cloak of Desire], [Item Box], [Swordsman Ship]{lvl3}, [Spearman Ship]{lvl 1}, [Archery]{lvl 2}, [Axemanship]{lvl 1} , [Scythemanship]{lv 1}.....
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Satisfied with that I then frowned noticing my level "isn't that a bit too low?"
I felt like my level should've been at least 80 or maybe even 100 but 56? That was too low no?
"Guess those are the side effects of that class,"
Looking around at the corpses I started to place the corpses inside my item box for later use. But as I was collecting them I noticed something strange and that being a stone with a purple rune on it.
—--[Rune Stone]-----
Name: Sense
Rank: C
Description: Allows the person to gain the [Sense] skill
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'Hm'
Crushing the stone in my hand I felt a good feeling envelope me before a notification appeared in front of me.
[You've Acquired The Skill [Sense]!]
Grinning I quickly activated it and was able to get a read on my surroundings. From what I could tell the skills only had a limit of 8 meters but I was sure that was going to increase with its level rising.
I then found another stone next to the Alpha Wolpertinger.
—--[Rune Stone]-----
Name: Magic Bolt
Rank: C
Description: Allows the person to gain the [Magic Bolt] skill
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Unlike sense, I used appraisal of the skill itself to cause more information to appear.
[Create a bolt made of pure mana]
Crushing the stone in my hand the same feeling had enveloped me before another notification appeared in front of me.
[You've Acquired The Skill [Magic Bolt]!]
Grinning I then started to collect more of the corpse before I sensed and heard loud footsteps behind me.
A black shield appeared on my left hand and I quickly turned around.
*Clang*
Looking at the green humanoid-looking creature I instantly thought I knew what this was but I was proven wrong.
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Name: Elite Goblin
Rank: Rare
Level: 70
Magic: 25
Strength: 90
Defense: 95
Agility: 110
Intelligence: 25
Vitality: 40
Skills: [Stab], [Bite], [Call]
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"Well let's get started then"
Drawing my sword I then quickly charged toward the goblin. My speed probably caught it off guard causing me to easily dispatch it.
"Uh…"
'Thought that would be harder'
Considering I felt extremely light I decided to explore the forest a bit more and leave the other corpses there so they could attract more monsters. Looking around I could really only make out some trees and no monsters.
However, after walking for a bit I then saw a cave.
"Wonder if there are any strong monsters in there,"
Entering the cave I made sure that I had my sense skill activated which is now level 3. After a bit of walking and finding nothing I thought about turning back but then I stumbled upon something I didn't think I would find.
I entered what seemed to be a room that had tables filled with what looked like chemistry equipment. Looking at the paper on the note I realized it was a letter from my grandpa.
"Guess he was making potions here,"
Noticing a chest I then opened it to reveal some ores and an old medal. Looking at it I assumed it was some sort of identification.
"Could come in handy," Putting everything in the item box I decided to leave the cave. After leaving I decided to go back to the spot where I killed the goblin but found nothing. Considering I still had some stamina left I decided to explore a little more before I headed home. After finding nothing for a while I made it to the edge of the forest where I was able to find a road. Deciding to follow it out of curiosity I made sure that the map I had still worked.
I realized that this led to the capital city of the Verdantis Empire.
After following the road I found that there was a pretty long line with a few guards checking people's IDs.
"Hm,"
I decided to check this place out tomorrow as I wanted to check out my chem equipment. Quickly running back home which did take a while I arrived back at the cabin where I took off my armour.
That's when I noticed my six-pack.
"Holy shit I'm ripped," I muttered but this then led to another issue.
My clothes didn't fit my body.
After thinking for a bit I decided to look around the area to see if I could find any clothes. Thankfully I found a dress shirt and some black pants which after I appraised learned that they could adjust to my size.
After putting them on I entered back into my previous world and went back inside my house.
But just as I was about to sit down I heard the doorbell ring. Frowning I then got up and headed toward the door. Using my [Sense] skill I was able to find out it was just one person on the otherside so I quickly opened the door to reveal a gorgeous woman.
She smiled but when she saw me she became confused "Hello, who are you?"