It has been two days since Verte's apology and I can tell she's more relaxed now. Her room actually got clean, with my help, and she's been nicer. She sometimes slips back to old Verte but I know you can't change habits in one day. She's sparred with me when I asked and by the time she has to change out with Rogue, my hand to hand combat finally hit lv20.
Hand to hand combat lv20: +50 DMG in unarmed combat.
She also went up on the love/lust meter.
Verte love:35 lust:40
Rogue has avoided me since she's been here by mostly going out with her friends or to clubs. She would come home sloshed and I smelled something on her that smelled like weed. It's legal to have weed here in remnant compared to my last life, so I'm not really bothered.
I'm preparing my new weapons and some new armor I've took from the family armory, shin guards and arm guards that have features to hold shotgun shells as well as a belt that connects to my breastplate that holds extra assault rifle magazines. After everything prepared and my new weapons equipped with magnetic clips, along with crocera mors and Bile bite.
Instant traveling to vale I head straight towards Forever fall. Upon entering the forest I receive a message from Eve.
Eve: you've entered a raid zone. Raid zones unlike natural dungeons, have nearly endless amounts of enemies.
I dismiss the message as I continue into forever fall going further than the signs of human and faunus activity.
Eve: back up Data found
Skill: outdoorsman lv:25 : you know your signs of wildlife and your survival knowledge can aid you in a pinch.
Going further in the forever fall becomes much rougher like Appalachian mountain terrain rough with hollers, holes, ridges and numerous streams and creeks. Walking through the forest I keep the dp-12 at the ready on my side fully loaded and pumped. Now it's a bad idea to think of other things than Grimm. I lived in the Appalachian area of Tennessee and was part Cherokee in my last life so old legends, myth, folklore and cryptids. A bunch of twigs snapped off to my left and I get in position to fire. The twigs shake around and more start snapping around me, ambush.
Several red eyes pop up and I quickly use observe.
Ursa minor lv1
Ursa minor lv1
Ursa minor lv1
Ursa minor lv1
Ursa minor lv1
Ursa minor lv5
Well that's concerning, Ursa minor are huge bear Grimm the size of a brown bear. Thick plates protect its arms and back but its belly and throat are not protected. They're surrounded me growling slightly until the largest the lv5 stops and looks around. The Grimm looks back at me then attacks charging at me. I raise the DP 12 and fire both barrels blowing armor chips off the head and igniting the head with the incendiary perk before pumping and firing into the second and third Ursa minors hitting them in the shoulders and setting them on fire. I twirl around at the other two as the first Ursa runs right past me and unload two more shells into the other two hitting their throats and blowing holes into them. The big Ursa raises up and I pump and fire two more shots hitting it's chest. As the big one falls the second and third take swipes at me throwing me away from them as my aura and armor takes some damage.
DP: 450/625
AP: 3750/4000
Pumping the shotgun I unload on both of them killing them as they charged.
Ursa minor lv1 x4 defeated: + 200 XP, Ursa minor skull fragment x4
Ursa minor lv5 defeated: +250 XP, Ursa minor skull fragment x5
Jaune Arc lv14 XP:11,495/15000
Sighing as the Grimm start dissolving I reload the dp-12 and switch it out with the HK416. As I do some more rustling comes out of the brush and a larger Ursa comes out.
Ursa major lv10
It roars at me but I pull off three 3-round bursts into its face. The bullets throw sparks off its skull as the thing charges. I put the assault rifle up in my inventory and cross my arms as I'm swiped away to the side flying through the air and hitting a tree.
DP: 0/600
AP: 2250/4000
I'm dazed as my body is suddenly jerked to the side and the Ursa bites through my shoulder and starts shaking me. My body is just a ragdoll in its grip as I'm repeatedly beaten against the ground as its jaws squeeze through my shoulder.
" Ahh fuck you booboo," I scream as I pull out a knife I hid in my armor and start jabbing the best I can into the Grimm's mouth that's clamped on me. It jerks it's head throwing me into a tree as it roars when my knife found purchase in its eye.
HP: 750/2000
AP: 0/4000
I pull out the DP-12 and I start firing into the Ursa major, sixteen rounds of incendiary perked shells hit the Ursa major blowing holes into its armor and body. The head takes at least four shots before it goes down.
Ursa major lv10 defeated: 1000 XP, + Ursa major hide tasset armor.
I start casting healing hands on my shoulder until I get back up to full HP.
Jaune Arc lv14 XP: 12,495/15,000
HP: 2,000/2,000
MP: 2750/3000
Healing hands lv7: 7 HP/ 1 MP
Ursa major hide tasset armor: +150 DP, +25 STR.
Sighing I leave the forest, enough being bear food for one day, and appeared back home. Walking down stairs after changing, I see Rogue curled up on the couch holding a 3 liter 40% alcohol/volume bottle of whiskey that's already empty. " That was full whenever I left," I say as she groans in her drunken sleep.
Picking her up I carry her up the stairs to her room and lay her in her bed. Leaving the room I catch a small glimpse of a photo on her wall shelf. A picture of me as her when I was a baby holding me. I sigh, shutting the door and leaving to fix myself some food.
Sorry for the wait 😔