Chapter 29 – Inspecting the new body
*Enchanted smell* – Enchant the smelling ability of the user, with this skill the user will be able to smell enemies from a distance, find edible plants and discover poison depends on the level of the skill. The skill mostly found in monsters, and jobs as adventure and thief.
“With this skill, the boar would be able to find other monsters as well, and not only roots and food.” Looking at the boar’s status I found out that not only that all monsters really had skills I found out that the boar had lots of basic skills, some of them were for detection some for hiding other for chasing and running away while what I had most interested in were the skills for attack and the utility skills.
“It would take me some time to learn them if I even can…” Even if the skills were useful I couldn’t guarantee that I can learn them with my main body. “Well let’s continue.” I continued inspecting the other skills one by one. “Oh this one, well even if it’s grayed out I still can inspect it and maybe even find some uses to it in the future.”
*Dirty healing* – While the user body submerged in a filthy substance the user health regeneration will raise. If the substance is rich with natural additives or any other waste products, the effect of this skill will increase.
“Hmm, a skill where I can increase my health regeneration just be swimming a little in dirt. Wait, natural additives or any other waste products? Does it mean shit? I pretty sure that this means to swim in poop… Pretty useful for survival but a pathetic skill indeed.” Looking at this skill gave me an idea of weakness, as an image of a weak hammerless pig rolling in a small pool of poop popped in my head.
*Ram* – Simple attack with the head, when the user uses this skill increase the damage of the head attack while decreasing any negative effects or damage that have been done by the attack.
“Ramming with your head into the the enemy looks pretty useless for me as well, but now that I think about it the pig got pretty fast on its legs from hitting the tree and with my body I shouldn’t get the stun effect at all, maybe I should try to get this skill just in case.” With the thought of having more skills than having less would be a lot better than nothing.
*Consume* – Monster skill of the general monster’s family. Every food that the user consumes will grant him experience points, the stronger the food is the stronger the effect, as in meat from a strong monster, strong adventure or even rare plants shall grant more experience points. One of the major reasons why monsters combat abilities grow much faster than any others races and why monsters are seen as one of the biggest threat by those opposing races.
“This is really interesting, yes this can explain everything! How the weak monsters that can’t kill anyone level up, or why all the other monsters are so aggressive for food, it’s all because of this skill. A skill that let you get experience from eating, what kind of a cheat skill is that? Wouldn’t it be better just to give experience points for breathing? That explains most of my unanswered questions about monsters, but of course there an exception, the stupid devil cat…” The monsters would eat anything just to get stronger, that explained most of their behaviors of the monsters that I mean in the wild, the munched bushes and trees and why the wolf was chasing after me yesterday almost for no apparent reason, as any other monsters did. “Well anyway, I should continue.”
*Digging* – Increase the speed with the user able to dig through soil and other materials.
“I am confused, digging skill why I didn’t get it? And instead of it got the Dig skill that uses mana? Well, I guess it’s because after I got the Dig skill I only used it to dig around… I will check if I will able to get this skill in the future, but with the Dig skill is there any need for it?” I asked myself because the skills pretty much do the same thing, but I already have something that obviously better so should I get the weaker one as well? And of course the answered is yes: “Yes the more the better, who knows maybe my mana pool will be almost empty and I will need to dig myself into a hole, wait didn’t that already happened once?…” I pondered for a second and then continued with my inspection.
*Thick Skin* – Increase the overall defense of the user’s skin and makes it much tougher, at higher levels there a chance that the skin of the user would even be able to block arrows.
“A defense skill, completely useless for me for obvious reasons, but for a monster to be able to block arrows can be really amazing, good that the level of the skill is low or the broken spears wouldn’t have pierced boar at all.”
*”Inspect” leveled up to Lv5*
“Looks like it really does takes a lot longer to level up a skill after the fourth level.”
Even after finishing inspecting all of the skills of the boar I continued to play around with my new body and completely forgot that I needed to finish repairing the trap. Time passed and with it the sun already started to get lower and lower, it became so late that I already needed to return back to the tunnel.
“Well, I guess it’s time.” I entered the disposal room, I didn’t know what would happen to the body when I will leave it, “Will the boar immediately die or just lay there till I will come back tomorrow?” I really didn’t know the answer to those questions, but I would discover it soon enough.
I started to unroot myself from the boar’s body, the roots that were near his spine brain and legs were slowly pulled out through the wounds on its stomach and without much of a problem I got out. As I got out I inspected the pig’s body to see if it was still alive.
-Wild Boar Lv4-
Health: 6/21
Mana: 3/4
Stamina: 5/14
Status: Weak bleeding
“…Looks like the body still alive but not for long, its bleeding and it should bleed out completely overnight. I guess it will be a waste if I just leave it here and not steal its life force.” I came closer to it and used my life steal skill few times. I could feel the hot energy going through my roots but after a short period of time it stopped and just like that my new body died, but just before it died I heard the mighty voice again.
*”Lifesteal” leveled up to Lv2*
“Second miracle? It really takes a lot of time to level up this skill as well, well I should start to return back to the tunnel.” After I said that I moved my view on myself and I found out that I was drenched in blood. “Well, I need a bath, na surely tomorrow some other prey will jump into the trap and I will drench in its blood anyway.” A crooked smile appeared on my face again as I slowly wanted to return to the tunnel, but then I remembered that I didn’t bury the body.
“Well, I guess I should bury it or it will attract unwanted monsters over here, right it’s perfect timing to try to get the normal digging skill.” I went to a free spot in the room and started to dig the ground with my hands, it was very very hard. It took me at least fifteen minutes to dig a hole big enough for the body, it would have taken me less than a minute if I only used my Dig skill. But it was not for nothing because I did acquire what I desired.
*Skill learned “Digging”*
“Well isn’t that great.” I huffed and puffed with an annoying face as I buried the boar and started to slowly stumble to my safe house. I got into my tunnel without any problems, in it I started to hit the wall till I depleted most of my stamina. After I evolved my stamina increased and today I didn’t use any of my stamina because I barely moved with my main body, so I could train on my boxing a lot more than usual.
I trained till night but sadly it wasn’t that pleasant as I was expecting because of the annoying devil cat that again was roaring and scratching the walls of the entrance in anger. “What the hell is wrong with you!” I screamed at the stupid cat, I couldn’t understand why was he so obsessed with killing me, can’t it go and eat some other stupid bush.
I wanted to throw a spear on the panther, but my instincts told me better not try something with this beast, last time it almost got me and even if I wanted I didn’t have any spears in the storage room. So the training night was cut short because of the annoying panther and I went to sleep but just before that, I checked my status to see how much experience and health I got from the boar.
-Visavil bush Lv3-
Experience: 37/60
Rarity: Uncommon
Health: 9/12
Mana: 21/40
Stamina: 4/9
“Not bad another one of those and I should level up, interesting if I would be able to get another evolution in level five or will I need to wait to level ten?” I pondered a little about the future of my evolutions a little bit, “Hmm there even a small chance that I will be able to evolve into, some kind of humanoid in the future… Well, that’s already not excatly needed, but for now I should get some rest because tomorrow it’s a big day, interesting what kind of prey I would be able to catch.” I deactivated my magic perception skill with a smile and went to sleep.
I woke up in the morning and found out that the panther already left, because of that I happily continued to dig up more of the tunnel, it was a lot easier than before. After using most of my mana I found myself in a small problem, I ran out of place to store the debris from a tunnel. The trench was already filled with small rocks so the only choice I have left is to throw them outside, but sadly the tunnel was too thin and I wouldn’t be able to do that at all.
So from this day onward I chose to stop with my digging, not that I had a choice in this matter, so I went to sleep and woke up little early than usual, today I wanted to break one of my old rules and get out of the tunnel before noon. Don’t get me wrong I am not reckless or careless this time around, but for some reason there never been any strong monsters outside in the morning, as if they have a rule not to be outside when the sun is shining, so that meant that the panther follows that rule as well and because of that I chose to break that stupid rule and “venture” to the trap.
On my way everything was alright and normal, but as I got to the trap I found something suspicious, the door to the disposal room was open and some of the spears that I made were scattered around. “Did someone robbed me?” After looking inside the disposal room and not finding anything I looked around for awhile and found out few footprints. “Was it the goodness and that annoying bastard again? No, the footprints are too big and look like they are much bigger than those two.”
*Skill learned “Tracking”*
As I learned the new skill I could immediately understand a lot more from the footprints than before. ”Two men, one shorter than the other and lighter as well another one should be quite high and heavy. Looks like they found my trap but after looking around didn’t find anything interesting, even checked few of my spears but I guess they were little disappointed in them.” The quality of my spears was far from good.
Currently I didn’t know what to do, the idea to follow them popped into my head so I said while thinking: “Should I try to go after them or stay here and hide, they could be dangerous people but there a small chance that I can get something interesting from them. And there even a small chance that I can be lucky and even get a human body to overtake.” Not long after that, my lovely smile appeared again on my face as I slowly started to stumble to the direction of the forest.
Fun fact: If you are lonely you can always hug your own legs, it will give you the feeling as if you hugging another person.
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