Chapter 4 / the hunt
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"Hmmmmmm."
<《 Interface(I) 》>
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Level: 0 Class: None?
Effect: <( |꘎| )>
Condition: normal*Tired
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□ HP: 12/12
□ EP: #/#
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{ ● abilities:
○ [locked]
○ [locked]
*
● Skills:
○ [locked]
○ [locked]
*
● Talents:
○ [Deluxe Class]
○ [Compilation]
○ [Perfect Aptitude]
○ [Perfect Affinity]
○ [Growth](***%)<undetermined>
○ [Focus]
○ [Awareness]
○ [locked]
○ [locked]
*
● Traits:
○ <[Eternal]>
○ [Player]
○ [Nihility]
○ [Singularity]
○ [locked]
○ [locked]
○ [locked]
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● Attributes:
◇ strength: 3
◇ vitality: 3
◇ endurance: 2.5
◇ stamina: 2==>2.5
◇ dexterity: 3==>3.5
◇ agility: 2==>2.5
◇ charm: 6.5
◇ intelligence: 7
◆ AP: 5
[A average state is 5]
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(Inventory)
[8 dark oak sapling]
[9 stick]
[36=>30° dark oak log]
[1=>25° dark oak plank]
[wooden Knife(Default)]○36/40
[wooden Pickaxe(Default)]○60/60
[wooden Axe(Default)]○60/60
[16=>11°° Glowing brown mushroom]
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(Mastery)
○ Axe 47
○ Knife/dagger 32
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{Hunger 60.2=>85.5%°°}
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'This time, my agility and dexterity went up, is it because I used a knife?'
'So the weapon and the activity I do effect my attributes, huh...'
'Sub-Quest (II)'
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[Sub-Quest(II): Find food!(difficulty^ medium)
■Detail: can't leave your stomach empty.
●Mission(1): Get 10 adible item.
○Progress: 10/10 (Complete!)
●Mission(2): hunt one animal.
○Progress: 0/1
●Mission(3): satisfy your hunger with whatever food you found.
○Progress: (25/50%)(1/2 Complete)
¤Reward: 2 AP]
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"Hunting..."
Checking his vicinity, thinking about the weird silence for a while but afterwards...
*rustle*
'Hm?'
*rustle**rustle*
Getting near the sound while crouching, trying to be as careful as possible, he finally see 'it'.
'A rabbit.'
Behind a bush, a little white rabbit with black eyes is resting while munching on some fallen leaves.
"Hooo...let's do this..."
Whispering to himself and marching toward the rabbit, trying to be as sneaky as possible so it doesn't get allert but suddenly the rabbit stopped moving.
'Shit!'
With a wide and fast dash, he tried to catch the rabbit with his hands but it suddenly disappeared.
"What...?"
'I didn't even see it moving...'
'...where did it go?'
Taking a moment to collect himself and seeing nothing around, he starts searching again.
After a while...
'Here.'
A similar situation but different scenario, with the rabbit eating a 'bark' behind the tree.
'I have to be cautious because of it senses and speed, I can't even react to any movement of it so let's think of a plan.'
"Oh!"
*After some crafting...
'I hope this works...'
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{Item: wooden spear(Default)
°Rank: F-
○quality: poor
○Durability: 60/60(100%)
●Damage: 3.5~4.5
•slow for thrusting}
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Holding a 2~meter normal looking Spear with a sharp wooden tip, he begins moving.
"Pew...here we go again..."
Return to the previous spot, now the rabbit is resting under a shade but you can see its ears twitching, which means that even when sleeping its guard is never down.
'3'
After starting the countdown, he slowly gets closer and put more tension on his muscles to trow the Spear.
'2'
And finally...
'1!'
*Swishhhhhhh
*Thud*
"..."
*Pow*
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● Mastery:
○ Spear(New!) 0==>2!
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"...not even fucking close..."
With a indifferent expression, he look at his Spear and the spot where the rabbit 'was' which is 2~ meters apart.
'...again.'
And Cain first hunt officially begun...
...
"Huff*...Huff*...Huff*..."
'This is taking forever...'
Looking at the rabbit, who doesn't seem tired at all and is still as fast as before, he decided.
'This is the last one... I hope.'
Looking at his mastery with the Spear;
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○ Spear 22
...
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'I think this is enough...'
Looking in his direction, the rabbit stopped and looked at Cain as if he isn't a big deal.
After staring at each other, he made a move.
"Hup!"
{Your Talent:[Focus] is activated!}
[Fuel: stamina]
Suddenly, everything in his vision slowed down significantly, his perception increased, noticing much more detail like the rabbit tilting to his right, its tensing muscles and the movement of the ears.
'Wow...'
Coming to his senses and controlling it, Cain throws the Spear with all he got to the spot where he predicted the rabbit is going to scape from.
*swishhh.....tup!*
{Congratulations for killing your first mob(any)!}
< [4 AP acquired] >
◆ AP: 9
<{+1 experience point(XP)}>
◆ XP: 1
<《warning! Stamina too low!》 >
'...'
"...Phew..."
'Finally.'
After confirming the kill, he collapsed on the ground and looked at his status.
"So that was [Focus]? Huu...''
<《 Interface(I) 》>
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Level: 0 Class: None
◆ XP: 1^*
Effect: <( |꘎| )>
Condition: Tired*hungry
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□ HP: 12/12
□ EP: #/#
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{ ● abilities:
○ [locked]
○ [locked]
*
● Skills:
○ [locked]
○ [locked]
*
● Talents:
○ [Deluxe Class]
○ [Compilation]
○ [Perfect Aptitude]
○ [Perfect Affinity]
○ [Growth](***%)<undetermined>
○ [Focus]^
○ [Awareness]
○ [locked]
○ [locked]
*
● Traits:
○ <[Eternal]>
○ [Player]
○ [Nihility]
○ [Singularity]
○ [locked]
○ [locked]
○ [locked]
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● Attributes:
◇ strength: 3==>3.5
◇ vitality: 3
◇ endurance: 2.5==>3
◇ stamina: 2.5==>3
◇ dexterity: 3.5==>4
◇ agility: 2.5
◇ charm: 6.5
◇ intelligence: 7
◆ AP: 9
[An average state is 5]
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(Inventory)
[8 dark oak sapling]
[9 stick]
[30 dark oak log]
[25 dark oak plank]
[wooden Knife(Default)]○36/40
[wooden Pickaxe(Default)]○60/60
[wooden Axe(Default)]○60/60
[wooden spear(Default)]○46/60
[11 Glowing brown mushroom]
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(Mastery)
○ Axe 47
○ Knife/dagger 32
○ Spear 22==>25
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{Hunger 35.2%}
(stamina low!)
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'...I don't know if my growth is okay but whatever...'
Looking at the dead rabbit sideways from where he was, Cain knew that he can't eat the rabbit raw even if he wants to, so he passed on that idea.
"The mushrooms will do."
Afte munching on some mushrooms, he gets up.
''Hmm."
'Let's check the rabbit.'
{Dismantle?}
'Yes.'
{<1>Automatic}{<2>manual}
'...let's check first.'
"Is there a difference in the process?"
{Yes, with <auto> getting all the loot in this case the (rabbit) is 10~25% , with <manual> you can get all the drops but you've to do everything on your own.}
'Well, it doesn't make me feel any different now.'
<1>
Afterwards, the rabbit disappeared with a poof.
'Inventory'
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...
[11=>5° Glowing brown mushroom]
[+1 raw rabbit]
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'Only the meat... okay, fine.'
"And the quest..."
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[Sub-Quest(II): Find food!(difficulty^ medium)
■Detail: can't leave your stomach empty.
●Mission(1): Get 10 adible item.
○Progress: 10/10 (Complete!)
●Mission(2): hunt one animal.
○Progress: 1/1 (Complete!)
●Mission(3): satisfy your hunger with whatever food you found.
○Progress: (50%/50%)(Complete!)
¤Reward: 2 AP]
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◆ AP: 9==>11
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{Hunger 65.8%°}
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'Now the last one...'
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[Sub-Quest(III): cave!(difficulty^ hard)
■Detail: don't forget your pickaxe.
●Mission(1): mine 10 ore.
○Progress: 0/10
●Mission(2): craft 8 torch.
○Progress: 0/8
●Mission(3): upgrade your equipments.
○Check: □
●Mission(4): craft a furnace.
○Progress: 0/1
¤Reward: 3 AP]
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"...I need to be more prepared."
Looking at the sky, between the crowded leaves, he figured that he has some more time as the sun is slowly leaving the center.
'Let's find a safe spot...'
*After some searching...
"This looks pretty good..."
Standing beside a cliff while looking around, hearing the sound of water hitting a medium size pond from the mountain ledge and forming a river, he felt satisfied.
'It's a good location to build a base for now, Albeit not a lot of cover from the environment, I can just dig some pits or place some walls against the stone from the cliff if that makes any difference.'
Shrugging, he goes to inspect the pond.
'Well, water is essential for survival but wild beasts also need water so it's not that safe when they come, anyway...'
"Let's mine."
Getting to his orginal location, Cain takes his Pickaxe out of the inventory and decides to start from the stone wall underneath the cliff.
Raising his wooden Pickaxe and striking it with no technique whatsoever, some small cracks appeared on the one by one meter stone area in front of him.
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● Mastery:
○ Pickaxe(New!) 0==>1!
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'So this one works the same, nice.'
After making a 2m tall entrance, he noticed a problem.
'I need to find some sort of light source soon because unlike the game, it's too damn dark even after mining 1block(meter) forward.'
"Oh, let's hope this works or it's going to be a waste..."
Taking a Glowing brown mushroom out of his inventory, he smeared it's head beside the dark area, as the spot begins to visibly glow a neon light.
'So the 'substance' can come off the mushroom as it may seem and the color is a lot brighter than the Glowing mushroom itself but I don't think the effect is permanent.'
"Hmm."
'Let's figure this out.'
*°*
"Peew, now I need to furnish it."
Looking around the small room(3m tall/5×6m wide and length) which doesn't seem to be collapsing (?) that was lighten up by the mushroom, he begins to place the crafting table at the corner and decided to craft two chests and a door for the entrance.
{Due to the low <intelligence> attribute, customization is not available.}
<selection: auto>
Soon, three default dark oak door and two dark tone chests appeared on his inventory.
'Ho? So for more option I need to increase my 'intelligence' but how much? Does it upgrade the items too?'
After placing a door at the passage and a bouble chest beside the crafting table that has alot of space(54 slots), he puts all the unnecessary items into the chest as they disappear in to the darkness, which is also kind of magical and prepared to mine a tunnel so he can search for some ores, especially coal ores for making torches and stop wasting the mushrooms.
'Although now I have a lot of Cobblestone(92), I want to complete the quest all together so let's get to...'
Looking at the shattered Pickaxe, he decided to make a new one and start mining...
*some hours later...
"*Huff* I'm *Huff* going to *huff* passout at this rate *huff* and I need more food *huff*."
Leaning against the stone wall, Cain looks at the hallway he made as the torches burns brightly.
'The torches are permanent, pretty cool...'
{Warning! Your Hunger is less than 30%, if left unchecked, stamina recovery will get slower and less than 10%~ can cause <starvation>!}
"...Let's eat all the leftover mushrooms first, then head out to get more food."
After eating the the mushrooms, beside the two others that were used, he walked over to the crafting table to finish the Sub-Quest as he already crafted some torches from the coal he mined.
'Hmm, the torches are done, so the furnace and upgrade is left? Does that mean I have to craft the stone version of the equipments? Let's check it...'
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[8 Cobblestones]
《 +1 furnace 》
[3 Cobblestones][2 stick]
《 +1 stone Pickaxe(Default) 》
[3 Cobblestones][2 stick]
《 +1 stone Axe(Default) 》
[2 Cobblestones][1 stick]
《 +1 stone Sword(Default) 》
[1 Cobblestone][2 stick]
《 +1 stone Shovel(Default) 》
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After crafting all of that, Cain takes the stone Sword out of his inventory and inspect the normal 80cm(31 in) long Looking 'stone' blade in his hand.
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{Item: Stone Sword(Default)
°Rank: F
○quality: poor
○Durability: 132/132
●Damage: 5~6.5
•heavy and low speed
•slow for swinging}
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'Atleast it's better than the wooden ones.'
"And the Sub-Quest..."
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[Sub-Quest(III): cave!(difficulty^ hard)
■Detail: don't forget your pickaxe.
●Mission(1): mine 10 ore.
○Progress: 10/10(Complete!)
●Mission(2): craft 8 torch.
○Progress: 8/8(Complete!)
●Mission(3): upgrade your equipments.
○Check: ■(done!)
●Mission(4): craft a furnace.
○Progress: 1/1(Complete!)
¤Reward: 3 AP]
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{Congratulations for finishing your first Sub-Quest!}
< [5 AP acquired] >
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◆ AP: 11==>19
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'Well personally, I don't think it was that 'hard'... anyway, interface!'
{Saving . . . }
[Ding!]
{A minor update is under way!}
< Proceed? >
"...sigh*"
'Yes.'
{Revamping system...}
[Done!]
<《 ꗺ 《 STATUS 》 ꗺ 》>
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Name: Cain Blake
Gender: Male
Race: human Age: 16
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Level: 0
◆ XP: 2^*==>8
Class: None
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Title(s):《 Unparalleled Gamer [꘎×2]》(+)
Effect: <( |꘎| )>
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Condition: Tired*hungry
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HP: 12^==>16/16
□ EP: #/#
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● Skills:
○ [locked]
○ [locked]
￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣
● abilities:
○ [locked]
○ [locked]
￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣
● Talents:
○ [Deluxe Class]
○ [Compilation]
○ [Perfect Aptitude]
○ [Perfect Affinity]
○ [Growth](***%)<undetermined>
○ [Focus]^
○ [Awareness]
○ [locked]
○ [locked]
￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣
● Traits:
○ <[Eternal]>
○ [Player]
○ [Nihility]
○ [Singularity]
○ [locked]
○ [locked]
○ [locked]
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( Attributes )
◇ strength: 3.5==>4
◇ vitality: 3==>4^
◇ endurance: 3==>3.5
◇ stamina: 3==>3.5
◇ dexterity: 4
◇ agility: 2.5==>3
◇ charm: 6.5
◇ intelligence: 7
◆ AP: 19
[An average state is 5]
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(Mastery)
○ Axe 47
○ Knife 32
○ Pickaxe 112
○ Spear 25
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(Proficiency)
○ None
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(Inventory)
[30 dark oak log]
[25 dark oak plank]
[2 stick]
[ 82 Cobblestones]
[wooden Knife(Default)]○36/40
[wooden Pickaxe(Default)]○12/60
[wooden Axe(Default)]○60/60
[wooden spear(Default)]○46/60
[1 Glowing brown mushroom]#
[+1 stone Shovel(Default)]
[+1 stone Sword(Default)]
[+1 stone Axe(Default)]
[ +1 stone Pickaxe(Default)]
[+1 furnace]
[6 coal]
[1 raw rabbit]
[6 torch]
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(Crafting)
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(Armor)
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(Map)
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{Hunger 42.6%}
(stamina low!)
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|< Shop >|
Points: [135]
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'So everything got rearrange...'
"Hm?"
'Titles.'
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< Detecting 2 titles [꘎×#] [#==>2] [꘎==> N/A] >
{Auto equipped title: [Unparalleled Gamer]}
{Perk: [load] is active for manual access!}
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'I see, so now I can activate my perks through Titles but the Passive ones are always On, neat.'
'Shop.'
<( level too low! )>
"Sight, what did I expect?"
After checking everything out, Cain gets out of the 'cave' to do more research on his surrounding and found more food but he noticed the slowly setting sun.
'Looks like it's going to get dark, better hurry up.'
"Let's drink some water along the way.''
Picking some mushrooms along the way with more precision and speed, he moves toward the pond.
'Almost There...'
*splash*splash*
''?"
'That doesn't sound right.'
Soon, the pond gets visible and as soon as Cain sees 'it' his face turns grim.
"Well, fuck."
'A wolf.'
