BXBX NOVEL Chapter 56: [Hunting!]
Running through the forest, I found a giant two headed monster with a huge club in his hand. Looking at the single horn on each of his faces and that mud brown skin color, I think it must be the ogre from legends. And according to the [Map!] he is slightly stronger than me.
Dashing on the left, then on the right, I then ran up the trees before reaching in range. Then creating an illusion of myself standing in front of him, I made him target that \'Adrian\' illusion.
\'Let\'s see if it works.\'
He first narrowed his eyes at \'Adrian\' before making an angry expression. And then moving towards it once step a time.
-Thud! Thud! Thud!
Reaching \'Adrian\' with those heavy steps, I saw it raising that club high up in the air.
\'All right.\'
Looking at my chance, I started jumping towards the tree closer to the ogre, before positioning my next jump so that my trajectory would pass right above his head.
-BOOOM!!
Meanwhile that ogre hit the ground as \'Adrian\' illusion dodged his attack, before jumping on his hand and started running towards his face before pointing his guns at that ogre. Panicking, that ogre tried to cover his face with his other hand.
That ogre even created a shield covering his hand, while the illusion vanished right before reaching his face, making him confused for a second.
As for me, I had already jumped and positioned myself right above his head. With my gun point blank, I then changed the form to [Burst Mode!] and then…
-BOOOM!!!!
Hit in between his two heads, right at his spine area before I landed on a tree branch on the other side.
To my surprise, that attack was changed into electricity, shocking his entire body, as he began burning right there, before I found his body beginning to shake vigorously. And after a few seconds of getting zapped, it fell down on the ground, lifeless as I heard a ting sound of a message appeared in front of me.
[Electric Effect Added: Ignore the Defense of the Target!]
[Critical Hit! Attack +200%!]
[You have killed the C-Grade Monster: Horned Twin-Headed Ogre!]
[+20,000 Points!]
[+5,000 GM Points!]
\'A C-Grade, huh? Well, that wasn\'t that hard,\' I thought as it took a bit of planning to secure a clear win.
I already knew it but this Illusion skill is going to be perfect for misdirection in battles. With this, I might even finish the enemy before I even need to participate in the battle. Totally worth it!
[GM Points: 364,910!]
With the increased number of D-Grade monsters about 5 kilometers away from the city, I was able to kill 50-60 monsters within the first hour. And about 100 of them in the second. Each of them gave about 500 to 1000 GM points, so it was a good source for the time being.
"Now. Should I create another skill? Something that would be the foundation for the rest of my skills?" I thought as I pondered about something that would work in all situations.
A physical skill would be limited to physical aspects, while a mana won\'t help my physical aspect. A mind based skill? I don\'t know… hmmm how about this then…
[Accelerated Learning!
Grade: S
Effects:
-Allows the user to think 100 times faster without any drawback!
-Allows the user to comprehend things 1,000% faster!
-Allows the user to have a complete focus, increasing the comprehension to at least 10 times faster. The user will learn anything 100 times faster!
-Allows the user to recall anything with 100% proficiency!]
[Would you like to create the skill for 700 Million GM Points?]
"Now, let\'s see the B-Grade Version of the skill," I thought as I simply changed the Grade from S to B.
[Accelerated Learning!
Grade: B
Effects:
-Allows the user to think 10 times faster! A headache will be induced based on the amount of time the user uses this skill!
-Allows the user to comprehend things 100% faster!
-Increases the Focus of the user by 100%!
-Increases the Learning proficiency by 50%!]
[Would you like to create the skill for 2 Million GM Points?]
\'Stil too much, huh?\' I thought before making a few more changes for the time being.
[Accelerated Thinking!
Grade: C
Effects:
-Allows the user to think 10 times faster! A headache will be induced based on the amount of time the user uses this skill! The headache will be reduced by 5% for each Wisdom Point the user has!]
[Would you like to create the skill for 200,000 GM Points?]
The cost was reduced but so was the effect. Though, I guess it was fine given that I still had roughly 3 more hours to hunt. I should use this time to collect enough GM points before I could start preparing the weapons that I promised my friends.
\'It\'s going to be a long night, I suppose?\' I thought as I planned to come back here again during the night and hunt all night to get as much GM Points as I could. I wanted to take at least one of my created skills to A-Grade before I entered the next tutorial.
…
[Avida\'s POV!]
"REBAS!!!" I shouted as I finally found the guy I was looking for. Rebas saw me with a calm smile as he waved back before moving towards me one step at time.
Rebas was a 27 years old man with dark red hair. He was a pervert who loved to fight and was a maniac for anything fighting related. He had a slightly tanned skin, and usually wore tight clothes that showed his tight gripped muscles, because of which girls usually tried to fawn over him all the time.
I ran towards him and
-BOOOM!!!
Hit his face, which he blocked like usual. Bastard.
"Just where the heck were you? Why didn\'t you come find us all this time?" I was irritated. If not for Adrian, we might have just kept on weeping on his death, while he would have been freely roaming for god knows how long.
"Well," he laughed in a low chuckle before speaking," I actually found a tournament nearby and was enthralled by it. I participated in it and was busy for the past 2 days fighting those-
-BOOOM!!!
"You son of a bitc-"
"I won 20 Million Points from there."
"My best buddy! Do you know how much I was worried about you?" I smiled as I changed my expression within a fraction of a second. Well, if he earned that much then I don\'t mind if he disappeared for 2 days. Heck he can disappear for a week if he can make that 100 million.
"Haha. You never change, huh? How are the others? Are they all right?" Rebas asked with a cheeky smile, though beneath that friendly expression, I saw a glare hidden asking if we were okay.
Rebas was that kind of guy. Even if he died, he wouldn\'t give a dime as long as the fight was entertaining. But if his teammates or people he cared about… if something happens to them. Then all hell will break loose…
"We are okay. We survived and then met Adrian in the safe zone-" as I was about to tell him everything that happened, his eyes widened as he interrupted
"Adrian! Where is he? It\'s been forever since I met him. Is that kid okay? Wait! What am I even asking… How is he doing now?" He was excited as he held me by my shoulders while he kept asking dozens of questions at once.
"L.. Leave MY FUCKING SHOULDER!!" I shouted as I tried punching him
-BOOM!
But he blocked it again. Bastard.
Though since he left my shoulder, I messaged them a bit.
"Fucking monster bastard. Control your strength. It hurts, damn it!" I glared at him. Can\'t he treat me like a woman or something? Wait! I will hate that even more.
I then glared at him again as he laughed out loud before apologizing,
"Sorry. Sorry. I got too excited. So how is our little mastermind? I bet he is taking control of anything and everything around him again."
I looked at him before sighing,
"Yeah. As irritating as it may be, he seemed to have everything within his control again."
"Isn\'t that the best? With him, more than half of our problems are solved. Man. I wish to meet him again… he is the best when I need to find someone to fight to my heart\'s content," Rebas spoke with his smile widening.
Weirdo.
"All right. We are going to meet again in about 5 hours from now on. And since I found you, I will be going to the [Training Camp!] to train now. Wanna join in?" I asked him as his eyes glittered before he asked,
"Will there be more people to fight?"
"Probably, I answered," before he smiled and answered," let\'s go then."
…
[Alice\'s POV!]
\'I know I need to control my powers and stuff, but the question is how to? There should be some way to make my powers more refined, right?\' I thought as I sat in the park outside the [Training Camp!]. Even though I understand that the time I have here is limited, I must first figure out what exactly I need to do to improve myself.
"Are you Miss Alice?"
A voice called me out from behind. Looking back, there were two girls, white as snow, wearing a royal blue coloured dress over plain white one piece. They had some form of patterns on their hands and on the clothes from which a certain energy could be felt. And from the atmosphere they were carrying around themselves they didn\'t seem like you average NPCs.
"I am," I answered with a bit of cautious, to which both the girls sighed in relief before speaking,
"Miss Alice. We are here to bring you to our Highness, the Queen of the Winter Elves, on behalf of the message by our Goddess, the Ice Empress."