Chapitre 13: Chapter 13 - Beasts
Chapter 13 - Beast
Adrian held his farming sickle tightly and prepared to attack the Sharp Teeth White Rabbit. His feet glowed in blue lights as he enhanced his speed by 10 points.
'Now!' Adrian used the tree branch as a solid surface and pushed himself towards the rabbit who was busy eating the roasted meat. Adrian moved at a high speed and prepared the farming sickle to hit the rabbit.
The farming sickle glowed in blue too as Adrian wanted to use Sickle Cut on the Sharp Teeth White Rabbit. He was inching closer to the rabbit at high speed and the rabbit felt something coming as its two pointy ears perked up.
The rabbit looked above.
"!!!" The rabbit was shocked as Adrian was right above it. It wanted to evade but was too late. Adrian swung his sickle and used Sickle Cut at the rabbit.
The skill hit the face of the rabbit.
[Sharp Teeth White Rabbit's Health -15]
The rabbit fell on its back from the force of the attack. Adrian also fell flat on the ground because he never moved that fast from a high place and thus, he did not land that well. However, Adrian positioned himself to attack faster than the rabbit.
Adrian knew that once the rabbit used Dash, he would be in big trouble. He would need to use a lot of energy to increase his speed so that he could chase after the rabbit.
Thus, Adrian immediately used Sickle Cut and attacked the rabbit's legs. The rabbit wanted to evade but it was too late again. The skill hit once again.
[Sharp Teeth White Rabbit's Health -15. Player Adrian managed to injure one of its legs, Dexterity -5]
'Something like this can happen too?' Adrian was surprised when he heard the notification but he could not let his focus focused on that as his opponent was still in front of him.
The rabbit was angry and let the roasted meat go. At the same time, the rabbit flashed its white sharp teeth and tried to bit Adrian who was on the ground too in front of it.
Adrian immediately got up and instead of creating a distance between them, he used Sickle Cut on the rabbit once more.
The Sickle Cut arrived in front of the rabbit and the rabbit opened its mouth and bit on the farming sickle trying to stop the attack.
*TING*
The sickle and the sharp teeth hit each other but the rabbit managed to bit on the farming sickle preventing the skill from hitting it. Adrian tried to pull the sickle out of the rabbit's mouth but the rabbit held on to it tightly.
"ROAR!!!" The rabbit roared and bit on the sickle as much as it can.
*CRACK*
The farming sickle started to crack, shocking Adrian. "How strong is this guy's jaw?" Adrian was shocked and his brain started to think of what he should do. At the same time, the rabbit's teeth glowed in blue light. It was a skill.
'If my sickle break, I will not have any other weapon left I can use.' Adrian tried to pull his sickle once again but to no avail. The rabbit would not let go of the sickle.
'If my sickle break, the rabbit will use Dash and end me here! I need to think of a way fast!' Adrian started to panic but then, the cracking sound became more and more and in a second, *KACHAK!* the farming sickle broke.
"!!!" Adrian was stunned but he immediately came up with an idea. He still had more than ninety Energy points left. In a rush, Adrian poured all of his Energy points on his fist to raised his Strength by many points. He wanted to end the Sharp Teeth White Rabbit in a single punch.
"I cannot let you use Dash!!!" Adrian shouted as he swung his fist towards the rabbit. The rabbit felt the power emitted by the fist and it knew it could not stand the attack.
The rabbit tried to use Dash and evade but Adrian was too close. Adrian's fist hit the rabbit's stomach and the rabbit was pushed away by that strong force and flew to a nearby tree and hit it.
[Critical Hit! Sharp Teeth White Rabbit's Health -190]
[Defeated Sharp Teeth White Rabbit. Authority Level, Grade C. Double rewards. 20 Experience points, 20 Bronze coins]
[Player Adrian's depleted all of his Energy reserve. All stats will be halved for one hour in real-time and Energy will not restore automatically until an hour has passed]
Adrian felt his body turned heavy and tired once he got the notification. "One hour real-time? That means one day in the game," Adrian mumbled. He never thought that at 0 Energy, his stats would be halved.
"Does that mean I need to always leave 1 point of Energy?" Adrian wondered.
[Yes. Also, since you will not have any Energy left, when you do some work, your Health points will deplete instead] Future spoke.
"…" Adrian was silent. He did not know that this would happen. It was never like this in any other fantasy game. "The notification said my Energy will not restore automatically but I can restore it by other methods, right?" Adrian asked.
[Yes]
Adrian looked at the place where the Sharp Teeth White Rabbit fell and it was not there anymore and instead a sharp tooth was left there.
"Ugh!" Adrian tried to get up but he felt his body was heavy. This was the effect of his stats being halved. "Will my body become heavy like this even after I raised a lot of my stats?" Adrian wondered.
Since this was the effect of his stats being halved, it was possible that in the future, when his stats were all above ten even after being halved, he would not feel like this.
[No. You will feel heavy like this too. Make sure to reserve some Energy if you don't want to get a penalty like this again. This is a lesson to everyone to rest when they are supposed to and not forcing their body until they fall sick] Future spoke.
[Hardworking is fine but forcing yourself too much will bring more harm than good]
"…" Adrian was silent again. He did not know that there was a lesson in this. It was a game after all and Adrian only played it because he needed the money. He never thought that deep of what the game was trying to portray.
Adrian was aware that the World Government made the game mechanic like increasing the stats in real-life was to help the Player to study or work in a certain area to nurture them. However, he never thought there were other things the game was trying to portray.
[You don't need to think too much. I just put a small thing here and there. If I make the game too real, you guys will not have fun playing this game. This is a game after all and other than the obvious thing I put to teach everyone, everything else is similar to other games] Future spoke.
Adrian nodded. He took out an apple from his storage and ate it. He needed a few points of Energy or his Health points would decrease. That would be bad if it happened.
After he ate about five apples, Adrian stopped and picked up the sharp teeth dropped by the Sharp Teeth White Rabbit.
Name – Sharp Tooth
Level – 1
Effect 1 – STR+1
Effect 2 – Material for crafting
"I can make a knife with this tooth if I attach it to the sickle handle?" Adrian thought. He lost his only weapon and decided to make a new one with whatever he had.
"I am not too far from the settlement. If I stay away from any enemy, I will be fine," Adrian spoke. With nothing else to do, Adrian climbed a tree. Staying on the ground with halved of his stats was suicide.
As he relaxed on the tree, he checked his Energy and he only had three left. "I need to continue eating…" Adrian felt tired eating fruits. He ate three more apples and he could not continue.
Then, Adrian tried to stick the tooth on the sickle's handle he had. The blade was shattered by the rabbit and only the woody handle was left there.
Adrian carefully fitted the tooth on the handle and it ended up with a weird-looking weapon. Since the handle was quite long and big for a knife, it looked like a short spear but because the tooth was quite small, it did not look like a spear. More like an oversized pen.
"… Can I really use this?" Adrian wondered and he sighed. "I need to stay away from any creatures in this forest. I don't think this… 'weapon' can help me," Adrian looked at his poorly made weapon.
Name: Tooth in a wooden handle
Level: 1
Effect 1 – STR+1
Effect 2 – Durability 2
"…" Adrian was speechless when he appraised his new 'weapon'. He stored it in his storage and would take it out if he needed it.
"That's right! The Sharp Teeth White Rabbit's data must have been added to my Encyclopedia since I defeat it. I wonder if there will be any new data?" Adrian happily activated his encyclopedia to check on the rabbit's data.
"???" However, Adrian was confused as there was no new data added to his encyclopedia. Other than the white rabbit, no other data was added to the encyclopedia.
[Your Encyclopedia is for Plants and Animals. Sharp Teeth White Rabbit is not an animal. It is a beast and in Progress, the beast is not an animal] Future explained.
"So, even if defeat a slime or any other monsters, their data will not be added to the encyclopedia?" Adrian asked dejectedly.
[You are right]
"… Then, are all Grade D creatures consider as Beast?" Adrian asked.
[Yes. I will spoil you here that all Grade E creatures are normal animals. Grade D is for beasts and Grade C and above are monsters]
"Okay…" Adrian fell silent. He thought that he would be able to view the Sharp Teeth White Rabbit's data but it looked like it would be impossible. Not only for that rabbit but also for all other Grade D and above creatures.
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SweetRambutan
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I actually don't know what title is suitable for this chapter because the fight ends quite fast and the penalty explanation did not take long too. So, I just took the last part of what Adrian and Future spoke off and added it as the title :P
Note: This story is fiction and it is not real.
Cadeaux
-- Cadeau
reçu État de l’alimentation hebdomadaire
-- Classement
Power Stone 
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