Day 5

It was really annoying being in a position where when injured I couldn’t shout otherwise I would just be inviting more monsters that would simply come and rip my head off.

I looked at my blood as it trailed down from my wing onto the black crooked surface of the horned rabbit before me. This one was different from the one from before. It had both horns on opposite sides of its forehead like some kind of deer.

I wanted to find a way to get out my current situation, when my other friend, another horned rabbit decided to stab my remaining wing. I closed my beak shut and grunted in immense pain.

How the hell had these bunnies entered the nest without getting poisoned?

I looked at their status again and they actually were poisoned. They were just ignoring the pain. After I saw another status effect. [Mind Control].

<<Mind Control: The user is being controlled by another being>>

「So it’s not their fault? Tch, it doesn’t matter! They need to die! 」

I forced myself to go through the horns, cutting my own wings and leading to a lot of blood loss and health points. I used [Poison Generation] to create poison in my beak. It barely stung my tongue like it did the day before. I spat out the poison into the horned bunny’s eye. 

The one to my left was blinded for a moment and started to scream in pain, jumping about.

AAAAAAARRRRGGHHHH! …TEAR!

In it’s rampage, it ended up pulling so hard that it tore of my wing.

「AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH! 」

I ended up screaming. My first mistake for the day. I knew I shouldn’t have done that, but the pain was just too much for me to keep quiet about it.

[You have lost 5 health points]

[You have been inflicted with [Sever bleeding]]

[You will lose 7 health per second]

[You have lost 7 health]

Several annoying screens appeared before me.

I looked down and saw my blood just leaving my body. Tears rolled down my eyes, but I wasn’t ready to just die because of this pain. I looked at the other horned rabbit then used peck on its horn.

TING!

My beak just bounced off.

[You have lost 7 health]

I covered my beak with [White Viper Scales] then used [Peck] again.

TING! TCH!

「A chip formed! One more time! 」

I attacked again.

CRACK! THUD!

[You have lost 7 health]

I fell down, rolling around in pain. My feathers were becoming a bloody mess.

[You have lost 7 health]

「Shut up! You stupid system!」

I forced myself off the ground then looked at the rabbit. I kicked at the ground and ran at it. I used [Sprint], [White Viper Scales] and [Peck] to stab it head on for my Tori original [Spearhead].

CRACK!!!

I shattered its skull instantly, but didn’t stop my assault. I wasn’t done with its partner so I turned around and flew at it, but by the time I got there, it was already dead.

[You killed 1 horned rabbit]

[You killed 1 horned rabbit]

[You have received 30 exp]

[You have received 30 exp]

Those weren’t enough for a level up. What would I do? I only had exactly 7 health points left. Then I got an idea.

I created [White Wiper Scales] to seal off the injured place, keeping the blood in. I didn’t know if it would work and I didn’t have enough time to ask the agent.

Now that I think about it, how I got here was quite dumb. I woke up this morning to see two horned rabbits sleeping in the cave with me. I thought they were harmless so I tried making friends with them, giving the horned rabbits a pat on the head.

Horned rabbits don’t like head pats.

Also, that skill I got. [Pain Resistance] was so damned useless. I felt every single bit of pain. That was super annoying and I didn’t like it.

STATUS                                               

[Name: Hinotori

[Species: Golden Chick Level 9/15           

[Status: [Tired], [Hungry]

[Age: 5 days                         

[Rank: F

[Race Rank: Tier 1

[Titles: |Newborn in a New World|, |Rare Species|, |Survivor|

[Blessings: |Blessings of the Ancient Goddess ****|, |Blessings of|

[Level: 9      Exp: 240/450 

[Health: 7/70      Stamina: 20/80        Strength: 20      Speed: 76    Defense: 30      Dexterity: 30    Intelligence: 10        Luck: 40

[Skills: [Evolver], [Analyst], [God's voice] [Adorable Wink], [Imprint], [Baby Chick Cry], [Peck], [Black Wayne Caw], [Auto Mapping], [Poison Generation], [White Viper Scales], [Sprint], [Pain Resistance]

 

「Huh… I need to find a way to deal with my health and get it back to full. 」

<<Answer. You might want to eat some Rensoue herbs>>

「Renosue herbs? 」

<<Renosue herbs: A rare herb that can immediately restore the health of any person by half and cure a lot of inflictions>>

「Huh… nice! Let’s go searching for some! You know where they grow?」

<<Affirmative. They are mostly found in the West of Larm>>

「Nice! Let’s go! 」

I set out on my journey to find some renosue herbs.

***

It didn’t take long for me to see some monsters running quickly, almost a blur in my sight. They had green skin and were probably some few inches taller than me. They had short pointy ears and blank yellow eyes. They had some animal fur wrapped around their waists and sharp yellow fangs.

‘Ou! An encounter with the completely generic fantasy monster! Goblins!’

There were four of them.

 

STATUS

[Name: -

[Species: Goblin 7/20           

[Status: [Hungry], [Fear]

[Age: 40 days                         

[Gender: Male

[Rank: E-

[Race Rank: Tier 1

[Titles: |Of World|

[Blessings: -

[Level: 7     

[Health: 30/70      Stamina: 20/200        Strength: 50      Speed: 200    Defense: 45       Intelligence: 10        Magic: 00       Luck: 50

[Skills: [Night Vision], [Libido], [Claw Attack]

 

‘Ah… goblins are pitifully weak.’

I saw a deer, with white hide, and no horns. Its eyes were a crimson red, and its hooves, onyx black. I used [Analyst] on it.

 

STATUS

[Name: []

[Species: Flame Deer 30/50           

[Status: [Full]

[Age: 1 year                         

[Rank: D

[Race Rank: Tier 1

[Titles: |Survivor|, |Of World|

[Blessings: -

[Level: 40   

[Health: 1800/1900      Stamina: 1200/1400        Strength: 400      Speed: 700    Defense: 270       Intelligence: 10        Luck: 240

[Skills: [Prey Instinct], [Acrobatics], [Fire Shot] [Explosive Sprint], [Mirage], [Throttle], [Fire Force], [Aura Sense], [Stomp], [Herd], [Heat Vision], [Mid - Fire Affinity], [Heat Resistance], [Cold Resistance]

 

 

‘Eh… this could give even Shiro a run for her money.’

One of the goblins jumped the deer, but it kicked it away. Another jumped at its leg and firmly attached itself to it by wrapping its arms around it. It then bit the deer’s leg. Angry, the deer stomped its hind legs into the ground in an attempt to throw it off. The goblin didn’t fly off. The other goblins jumped at it, claws ready to kill it.

Flame deer was not ready to lose. Its hooves started to turn red and it let out a breath of smoke. It stomped the ground once and suddenly a pillar of bright orange flames emerged, blasting all the goblins away.

When the flames calmed down it revealed a majestic creature with flames alit on its horns and a veil of beautiful flames just over its back. The goblin that bit its leg fell to the ground, dead and burnt to a crisp.

I looked at its stats again.                                          

STATUS

[Name: []

[Species: Flame Deer 30/50           

[Status: [Full]

[Age: 1 year                         

[Rank: D

[Race Rank: Tier 1

[Titles: |Of World|, |Survivor|, |Stray|

[Blessings: -

[Level: 40     

[Health: 1800/1900      Stamina: 1200/1400        Strength: 400(+200)      Speed: 700(+350)    Defense: 270(+135)       Magic: 50         Intelligence: 10        Luck: 240 

[Skills: [Prey Instinct], [Acrobatics], [Fire Shot] [Explosive Sprint], [Mirage], [Throttle], [Fire Force], [Aura Sense], [Stomp], [Herd], [Heat Vision], [Mid - Fire Affinity], [Heat Resistance], [Cold Resistance]

 

‘Sa sa! Did its physical stats just increase by half? What the hell did it do?”

<<Activation of the skill [Fire Force]>>

‘Fire Force? Ah… I see it. Explain the skill please.’

<< [Fire Force]: A skill which allows the user to summon a massive amount of fire power to fuel their bodies and increase their physical prowess by half>>

‘I see. So that’s what it’s using here, huh? Isn’t that a bit too much for just a few goblins?’

Just as I thought that, I heard something from the distance, then I noticed something weird. I looked to the distance and saw a ball of water shoot at the deer at high speeds, like a bullet.

The flaming deer easily dodged it and the water ball hit a tree. The tree broke in half and the water ball kept on going, breaking more trees behind it and leaving me stunned by the amount of chaos it had caused.

‘Oi! What the hell was that?!’

I heard another weird scream and saw the source. It was a person clothed fully in rags. A black tattered dress with a dirty sash wrapped around the waste. The person wore a cloak over this, which flailed behind them, as their hands were stretched forward with a staff in hand. This staff had a certain jewel at one of its end.

The person was mumbling something, then the weirdest thing happened. A circle about the size of a cannonball with weird markings in it appeared before the person.

‘Oi, th-that looks like a magic circle… T-There’s no way, right?’

<<Answer. That is a magic circle>>

‘Eek! Why do I keep forgetting that this is a magical fantasy world?!’ 

The power from the magic circle was creating a tiny gust of wind that blew the person’s hood off. I was disappointed because the person had green skin, meaning they weren’t human. The person had shaggy black hair and deep dark eyes.

A shot of water was released from the magic circle at a high speed again, going so fast I couldn’t keep up with it. The deer easily dodged again, this time breaking the ground it once stood, blasting me away. I fell back and the water ball was coming for my head.

I closed my eyes in fear, but luckily for me, it went above my head by some inches, easily splitting the tree behind me in half. The shockwave sent me flying again. I went rolling for some time, before I managed to stop my body and come to a conclusion about the fight. I was really not in the mood to die that day.

‘Alright! This is where I use my special skill! The Tori run and hide special! Later folks!’

I immediately took flight, running away. Get it? Took flight because I was a bird now.

After running for some time, I reached a point where I thought was safe enough.

‘That was insane! What the hell was with that magic? Magic? I can learn magic, right?’

Just as I was thinking to myself I looked up and saw something. It was a rabbit. I prepared to shoot a fire ball at it, but then I noticed that it didn’t have any horns. Curious, I decided to check it out.

 

STATUS

[Name: []

[Species: Fanged Bunny 5/15           

[Status: [Full]

[Age: 20 days                         

[Rank: E-

[Race Rank: Tier 1

[Titles: |Of World|, |Survivor|, |

[Blessings: -

[Level: 5     

[Health: 70/70      Stamina: 75/90        Strength: 10      Speed: 90    Defense: 15       Intelligence: 10        Luck: 240

[Skills: [Prey Instinct], [Acrobatics], [Sprint], [Blood Sucking], [Libido], [Heat Vision]

 

‘A fanged bunny? What hell? Now I feel like this world’s creator just felt like making stuff up.’

The bunny had never done anything to me, but I couldn’t simply let it go off. For all I knew it would just walk into my nest while I was sleeping then bitten me and sucked out all my blood.

「 [Poison Generation]! [Poison Shot]! 」

I spat out a fire ball which hit it right in the face. I found something odd though. The bunny didn’t move or act how I’d expect something that had its face filled with a spit of acidic poison would react. It just stared at me, slowly burning away. I could see its health points decreasing slowly. I thought there was something wrong with it, but there was nothing [Analyst] was showing me.

‘Agent?’

<<Error! Solution not found>>

Even the agent couldn’t explain the weird phenomenon. It didn’t take long for it to die and for me to be awarded points for the kill.

[You have received 30 exp]

That was all. Not enough for a level up. I waited for the bunny to quit burning then decided to go over to eat it. It was too bad that I didn’t have any way to control the poison. Like I’d make them quit as soon as the creature was dead, rather than just crudely destroying them.

I took a peck out of it. That was when I realized that burnt horned rabbit tastes like fanged horned rabbit… burnt. Still, I couldn’t just let the meal go to waste, so I ate it. I needed to hurry before some creature got drawn in by the scent. Thanks to the earlier unlocked [Heat Resistance], this was much easier to eat.

[Due to the unique skill [Evolver] you have acquired the skill [Acrobatics]]

[Due to the unique skill [Evolver] you have acquired the skill [Blood Sucking]]

‘Humph… what can these skills do?’

<< [Acrobatics]: Enhances your flexibility. Your speed is boosted drastically as well>>

I was unimpressed.

‘Next.’

<< [Blood Sucking]: Allows you to suck the blood of others>>

‘Not descriptive enough… I guess that’s all I get then. Tch. Now back to the nest!’

I got up and started running back towards my nest.

***

I was lost.

I had no idea where I was going. I just kept on walking then I smelt smoke. Carefully, I followed the scent and got to where the smoke was coming from. All round I only saw broken in half trees and torn up earth. The place looked strangely familiar though.

I kept on walking till I saw a black lump on the ground.

<Name: []

<Species: Goblin

<Status: Dead

<A much hated species that lives in caves with a large number of its members, the goblins are one of the weakest creatures in existence. They carry zero value and are more preferably dead>

‘Wow… no one likes goblins, huh. What skills can I get from eating this?’

I immediately found myself asking about something weird. The nasty lump of black flesh wasn’t the only source though. I looked around and saw four more in the exact same condition. Then, underneath a burnt tree was the hob-goblin from before.

There was a lot of blood flowing from its mouth. Some parts of its cloak had been singed and what I presumed to be its magic staff had been broken in half.

‘D-Did the flame deer do this?’

STATUS

[Name: Oda

[Species: Hob goblin Mage 23/60           

[Status: [Tired], [Hungry], [Burnt], [Bleeding]

[Age: 2 years                         

[Gender: Female

[Rank: D+

[Race Rank: Tier 2

[Titles: |Of World|, |Survivor|, |Cursed Vessel|, |Named Beast|

[Blessings: [Demi-god of water’s blessings]

[Level: 43     

[Health: 30/1050      Stamina: 20/600        Strength: 250      Speed: 432    Defense: 120       Intelligence: 90                        Magic: 50       Luck: 50

[Skills: [Night Vision], [Libido], [Cooking], [Novice Short sword Mastery], [Novice Staff Mastery], [Mana Perception], [Aura Sense], [Mid – Water Affinity], [Basic Water Magic], [Water Magic: Water Shot], [Water Magic: Water Shield], [Water Magic: Water Spear], [Water Magic: Water’s Blessing], [Water Magic: Aqua]

 

‘Is that title for real? |Cursed Vessel|. She didn’t eat a finger of some crazy powerful demon, right?’

I was disappointed by the lack of skills and turned my attention back to the burnt goblin. I pecked it and slowly swallowed. I won’t describe the taste.

I was surprised that the flame deer did all of this. Wasn’t it all a bit too extreme?

‘Huh… the goblins really are useless. Only this? That’s pitiful.’

“… M… mal.”

I heard a voice say. Surprised, I looked around for a bit, but saw nothing.

‘Yo agent, are you in some certain puberty stage?’

<<Negative>>

‘Eh? Then who was the source of the voice?’

<<Answer. The hob goblin Oda>>

I could feel a deadly presence over me. The hob goblin Oda had her staff raised as she was bringing it down in one powerful swing, in an attempt to kill me. [Acrobatics] kicked in and I flipped out of the way, making a perfect landing.

‘Whoo! Go [Acrobatics]!’

Oda collapsed on the ground behind me. This was my chance to learn magic. I was going to kill her, but then I heard more voices. [Prey Instinct] told me that if I stayed I would be in trouble. I cursed, but I needed to leave Oda’s body alone, while I ran away.

It was a very lucky creature. I wanted to learn magic so bad.

‘Still! Where the hell am I going?!’

<<Suggestion. Use the skill [Auto Mapping]? >>

‘[Auto Mapping], huh? Sure.’

A screen appeared in front of me. This was a sort of digital map that showed my surroundings. There was an arrow pointing in some direction and I was confused.

‘What’s that?’

<<The checkpoint>>

‘Checkpoint?’

<<Affirmative. The location you subconsciously registered as a return point>>

‘Oh… is that so? Alright then! Let’s go!’