Chapter 4: Skills, Magic Stones, and
Um.
The goblin corpses are a nuisance.
Having fallen in front of the pedestal, they are now constantly in sight.
I went out of the ruins while dragging the corpses using telekinesis.
It left traces of their blood on the ground, but its better than their dead bodies.
Then dug a hole to bury the dead.
I hope that the hole digging skill i just got works.
Un.
I can dig it.
It can be dug noisily with a “zakuzaku” by the thin sword blade. (Note: zakuzaku = crunching sound)
It seems like I’m even using a shovel.
However does the digging skill contribute to it, or is it simply thanks to telekinesis, could not be determined.
Probably, i want to think that there was so effect.
Well, it is good to have been able to collect skills while waiting for a suitable person to co.
Maybe that’s what i should aim to do while waiting. Beco stronger as a magic sword.
And with that decided, i started to search imdiately.
Using telekinesis, i jump around the ruins.
When my magic power decreases, i land and take a rest.
Because the surroundings are a plain, even if i go far away, I’m a little relieved to not lose sight of the pedestal.
The one found first was a little mouse with six legs.
『Promptly,
I appraised it.』
Na: Six-legged rat : animal Lv1
Hp:2
Mp: 0 Strength: 1 Endurance: 1 agility: 10 Int: 2 Magic: 0 Dexterity: 3. Skills
None
Weak.
Too Weak.
There isn’t even any skills too.
However, i am all right with just being able to absorb its magic stone.
The current magic stone level is 4/100
After gathering 96 more i expect that my rank will go up.
Please die for my growth.
I nose-dived at the mouse.
My attack easily hits the unsuspecting mouse.
The mouse split in two.
However, my body does not shine.
『Oh, why is that?』
Once again, the blade pierced the dead mouse.
But i still do not shine.
Was i not able to take in the magic stone by the present attack?
I opened up the body of the mouse carefully to investigate a cause.
It’s quite a grotesque site, but i was saved thanks to being a sword.
It is gross, but i don’t need to vomit.
I think whether I feel slightly sorry.
As a result of the investigation, i could not find traces of a magic stone within the mouse’s body.
Then, i noticed.
When i confird the status of this mouse, it was transcribed as an animal.
Isn’t it that only demon’s have a magic stone inside if them?
Even on earth, animals don’t have such a thing inside themselves.
To inspect this theory, i have beco the rats worst nightmare and attacked all that i could find.
The result, After killing three more, i could not find a magic stone.
Next i aim at Demon beasts.
Well, One was found already.
It’s a large centipede approximately 50 centiters long which has been eating the bodies of dead rats which i had killed.
Na: Giant Centipede : Demon bug: Demon Beast : Lv4
Hp : 18 MP : 7 Strength : 6 Endurance : 10 Agility : 14 Intelligence : 1 Magic : 6 Dexterity : 2
Skills
Vibration sensing : Lv1 , Climbing : Lv1 , Poison fang.
The family is a demon beast.
At first i pierced the head.
However, it struggles, it rampages.
A yellow liquid seeps out of its mouth, “BitanBitan” while thrashing around.
To put and end to it, i cut up the body this ti.
Still the divided large centipede moves back and forth showing the vitality peculiar to an insect.
But soon its wriggling stopped. A?, Its disgusting.
However, he was defeated.
My sword blade glittered when i cut through the area around the centipedes heart which had stopped moving.
As expected, the demon beast seed to have a magic stone.
Skills gained by the way, was the vibration sensing :Lv1 Climbing: Lv1 and poison fang.
But i don’t have fangs…
When i set it and used it, my MP decreased by 5, and a liquid delicately seeped out from my blade.
This is probably poison.
Oh, If it can be used, that’s fine!
Next i tried to set climbing and set vibration sensing, but wasn’t able to do it.
(Beyond the upper limit of the set skill)
I seem not to be able to employ all the skills that i got sohow or other.
Status item, Self-evolution (rank 1 magic stone 5/100 mory 10) With what is said, mory 10 seems like the number of skills which can be equipped.
To be sure
Digging : Lv1, Dismantling: Lv1, Warning: Lv1 Swordplay : Lv1 Club technique: Lv1 Leader: Lv1 Art of survival : Lv1 Climbing :Lv 1 Poison resistance : Lv1 Poison fang.
Are the 10 skills which are set.
When i tried removing Club technique and set vibration sensing, i was able to do it.
Well, i don’t really need 「club technique」, so let’s go as is until i get a new skill.
Leader, art of survival, poisonous resistance, and climbing obviously don’t to seem to be necessary for .
I want to get a transformation skill
With that said it is ti to resu the search.
The next discovery was 2 shadows that were walking ahead.
By the silhouette it seems like a bowlegged chimpanzee walking on two legs, Green Skin, it is those ugly fellows.
『A Goblin.
Furthermore, it’s holding sothing in its hand』
Race: Goblin : Evil demon: Demon Beast: Lv2
HP: 14 MP: 2 Strength : 6 Endurance: 9 Agility: 10 Int: 5 Magic: 3 Dexterity: 6
Skills
Club Technique: Lv1 Digging: Lv1
Race: Goblin : Evil demon: Demon beast Lv3
HP:16 MP:3 Strength :7 Endurance :10 Agility :10 Int :5 Magic :2 Dexterity : 7
Skills
Throwing technique : Lv1 Hunting : Lv1
Race: Poison fang rat : Demon: Demon Beast Lv1
Current status: Dead
HP:0 MP: 3 Strength : 4 Endurance : 7 Agility : 14 Int :1 Magic : 4 Dexterity : 4
Skills
Warning: Lv1
Without status i would not be able to tell that the goblin on the right is slightly a higher level than the other, it’s a good skill.
Well, they are weaker than the other 3 i killed earlier.
It seems i’ll manage sohow.
Moreover their prey the poison rat was being held up.
That will be mine!
Using the shadow of a bush so as to not be noticed i approached.
The distance is about 2 ters.
First, its the higher leveled one.
『HYUUHHHAA! Hand over the magic stone!』
Un, I’m not really that bloodthirsty, i just wanted to try saying that!
DOS
With a dull sound, i pierced the goblin from behind.
There was no resistance at all.
I pull out of the goblin body imdiately while noticing that the sword blade glitters.
And attacked the other stunned goblin.
With this, 2.
I was able to get throwing technique and hunting skills without a problem.
And the new demon.
But i looked puzzled at a strange point.
It doesn’t have a neck.
No matter what i think it’s strange.
『Poison fang rat? Though, Is there only Warning for a skill?』
Even if i think how, its strange that it doesn’t have a poison fang in its skills.
It doesn’t match the na.
For now, i tried turning up the rats lips with telekinesis.
Long Canine teeth.
And yellow liquid cos out from the points of its teeth.
is it venom?
Fumu.
Why is it? There is a skill such as Poison fang in a centipede, and not the rat that has poison fangs.
Even if i worry, there are to few hints.
If i hunt more demon beasts i will slowly gather information.
The skills seed to have reacted imdiately.
Thanks to vibration sensing and hunting that is.
I could sense so existence while moving subtly across the grass.
It does not seem to be so big.
I sneak around to the other side of a bush slowly.
Race: Scavengers (Birds) : Demon Bird: Demon Beast Lv5
HP:13 MP:5 Strength : 9 Endurance :11 Agility :15 Int :6 Magic :3 Dexterity : 7
Skills
Poison resistance : Lv1 , Digestion reinforcent.
A bird?
The sensing ability seems wonderful!
Here we’ll carefully.
I skimd the ground while flying to not make any sounds, careful to avoid grass, and attacked.
I cut its neck and the scavenger is soon lying on the ground.
『Phew… Because it would be troubleso if it flew away,
I’m glad i was able to defeat it first.
』 I stab into the Scavenger and absorb its magic stone.
I learned digestion reinforcent.
However, I don’t need digestion reinforcent.
After all i have no digestive organs.
In the first place this skill could be rembered.
I admire the lack of constancy of self-evolution.
Well, is the next victim here?
A guy possessing the skills that i don’t have is good if possible.
In that way i caught a strange shadow when looking for prey.
Sothing like a kite, floating at low altitude.
The movent speed isn’t fast, but the movent is strange and irregular.
It looks like a flying green jellyfish.
Race: Air floater: Devil Plant: Demon Beast Lv5
HP: 14 MP:10 Strength : 6 Endurance : 11 Agility :4 Int :2 Magic :11 Dexterity : 5
Skills
Magic absorption : Lv1 Hawk eyes , Floatation.
I try getting closer, but it doesn’t react.
Only, ten ters ahead of , it still just floats.
Should i attack it? I decided to try to slash at it first!
I target is its core and the location with a design that looks like eyes, on its mushroom/jellyfish like body.
Whatever there is, i seem able to react, so i approach slowly.
And it was as soon as i approached about 2 ters away.
The air floater showed a movent more alert and agile than i could imagine.
『Ueee, I’ve got a bad feeling!』
About 10 tentacles have stretched towards .
The red tentacles moves strangly reminding of an angleworm or a snake.
Very creepy.
But, because i stopped for an instant to take in that horrible site, the tentacles wrapped around .
『Ugh, Is my MP being absorbed?』
Via the tentacle, I understood that my MP was being siphoned off.
In addition to feeling terrible, it’s dangerous.
I feverishly attempted to escape.
Fortunately, the strength of the tentacle was no bid deal, and it was possible to move just a little to cut myself out of its grasp.
『Hii?
That was close!』
When i checked my status, about 10 of my MP had been sucked away.
If i would have stayed being held, i wonder how it would have turned out.
That guy is dangerous.
I’m committed to kill it.
I decided to sneak over top of the air floater, when in place i charged with maximum velocity.
After all, as for the power and strength of the tentacles, they aren’t that great.
I cut the tentacles that have co after once again, skip and pierce its body.
With the feeling of having penetrated so hard object cos a shining sword blade.
The evidence that the magic stone which is a vital spot was destroyed.
With a “thud” the air floater deprived of the power fell to the ground.
Because it was floating by the power of a skill, that body which died lost buoyancy.
And a skill of Flotation and magic absorption is added to .
They both seem like useful skills.
In particular, i tried floating and it was very compatible with telekinesis.
At any rate, even if nothing is done, it’s a decent skill.
Of course it takes MP to use , but it takes far less than to float using only a telekinetic force.
When it’s combined with telekinesis, I can fly 5 tis longer.
If magic absorption is also combined, i could fly even longer.
In that way i noticed a certain thing when i inspected floating.
『Though an air floater had a skill like flotation if i rember right, there were no such skills of flight in the scavenger.
Though it is a demon beast of the bird type.』
It’s the sa as the poison fang rat.
The skills that should be there are not.
Is there a common point?
Poison fang and the flight skills to is there a reason?
Well, as for flight i don’t know if i can obtain it since i don’t have any wings.
Un? Wait a mont, If it’s wingless, can’t a flight skill be used? After all is flight not a skill?
For example there are no skills such as walking or breathing in a goblin.
And it’s the sa as it’s natural for a bird to fly.
That’s the proper function in which not magic, but a body has a skill.
The magic and the skills aren’t related there.
So when i think so, as for the fang of the poison fang rat, couldn’t it have simply been a chanism of the body using sothing like a poison gland that gives venom to the fangs?
It’s the sa as the poisonous snakes which were also on earth.
On the contrary, the Poison Fang the giant centipede used was poison which was created by magic, it’s probably a fantasy-like special ability.
『Because swordplay is an acquired one which was trained and obtained, can it also be absorbed as a skill? 』
There are still many things i do not understand about my body.
More inspections seem to be necessary.
The hawk eye skill was also considerably good.
It’s a skill which gives the ability to see things in a bird’s eye view. (T/N The author calls the skill Falcon/Hawk eye but it seems it is actually ant less literally such as being birds eye, so its really just a 3rd person POV skill.)
Fortunately, the whole environnt could be seen now.
It’s the feeling as if the cara is now affixed to a fan that can finally move freely, instead of before where it was as if i was looking through a cara fixed to a handle.
Well, it isn’t possible to separate very far from the body.
【Alright! Ti to hunt even more various kinds!】
By the way, the status of the present sword is
Na: Unknown
Race: Intelligence weapon
Attack power : 132 Magic Power 200/200 Durability 100/100
Skills
Appraisal Lv6, Self- recovery, self- evolution, (Rank 1, Magic stone level 9/100, mory: 10) self modification, telekinesis, telepathy, small rise in owner status, small rise in owner recovery, skills sharing, magic
Set skills
Digging Lv1, Warning Lv1, Sword play Lv1, Hunting Lv1, Vibration sensing Lv1 , Throwing art Lv1, Magic absorption Lv1, Birds eye view, Poison fang, Floating.
mory skill
Dismantling Lv1, Club Technique Lv1 , Leader lv1, art of Survival Lv1, poison resistance Lv1, Kobold Killer, Digestion reinforcent.
Modification point.
(These are the changes the author made. ) I added “the eyes of the hawk” (Birds eye view as i called it) skill to the air floater and added the following parts to the sentence.
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