บท 33: A War I Am Unwilling To Lose
[Appraisal level is too low to appraise titles]
"Then tell me before I start appraising everything you stupid mother-" with a blinding rage, I began to stomp on the ground, or to be exact, the top of the skull that I stood on.
I didn't really understand why I was angry, but the moment I found a reason to become angry, I didn't hesitate to take it and unleash my frustrations.
It took me around 10 minutes to calm down before taking me another 5 minutes to stand up again.
My anger had dissipated like a puff of smoke, yet I could still feel the frustrations within me get more energetic and even more powerful as time went on.
"I'll need something to release my frustrations on..." I sighed with worry.
Every day I was becoming more and more different from who I was back on MY earth. And the thing that worried me most about these changes was the fact that none of them were actually good for me.
"I'll need to make weapons first though, and the easiest way of obtaining a started weapon would be killing a beast and taking a bone to sharpen it into a weapon." I analyzed with my hand to my chin while my eyes narrowed towards the distance.
I had realized that after my death a lot had changed about me, yet one of the main differences had been my intelligence as well as my physical strength.
I could now see far more than the human eye should, while my physical strength had reached points that no known human had reached before me.
Of course, something like a gun could probably kill me, yet even then my dread would always counter fast projectiles since it always told me what direction the danger was coming from, while my intelligence now would allow me to easily dodge an attack that would have scratched my cheek or even injured me.
*sigh*
With another sigh, I quickly jumped down the skull, turned around, grabbed onto the ledge of the eye hole, and swung inside to minimize the impact on my legs when I hit the ground.
After sliding a few meters, I finally walked back to the entrance and left the skull while looking down the 'mountain' in hopes to find the creature I was looking for nearby.
I knew that I couldn't try using one of the Titan's bones since they were too big and too tough, so I digressed and simply chose the easier option of finding another animal and using its bones as weapons instead.
"Pretty nice of the system to still let me have my old clothes though." I chuckled while looking down at the gaping bloody hole in the chest area of the shirt.
These clothes were the same ones that I had died with, the only thing I didn't have right now were the shoes that I for some reason could not locate or even recall wearing when I had been rebirthed.
"Maybe I lose one pair of clothing every time I die?" I chuckled once again, yet this time my face quickly went back to being serious and cold as I thought of my next moves.
"I should check my stats first... Stats!" I exclaimed, causing a screen to appear and hover a meter in front of me while blinking with the word "Stats" on it.
After a few blinks, I watched as the screen expanded and held several numbers, each one indicating a feature about me.
[Stats-
HP:23
Strength: 23
Agility: 23
Intelligence: 25
Vitality: 23
Mana: 4
Defence: 0 ]
'That's weird... I don't remember my stats being this high... And why is strength so low compared to the others, while intelligence is higher? When the hell did I gain stat points for mana?' I asked, seemingly perplexed by this sudden change in my stats.
The only reason I could think of was the red energy that was beginning to form within me, or maybe even my evolver trait... Yet even then a lot of this didn't make much sense but I was not going to question any further on something that was clearly helping.
"Aren't I still kind of weak though?" I asked myself out loud.
"I can barely fight the beasts with my bare hands and I still have to rely on weapons or other things in the forest that would make it easier to kill something as scaly as the lizard I met earlier. Many of my kills had been due to my luck or the stupidity of the other party." I analyzed before letting out a sigh once again.
"I need to stop feeling sorry for myself. This isn't a world for the weak, or at least it doesn't seem to be. I can grieve, cry and scream later, but for now I only have one objective and it is to survive." My eyes had become fierce and once again lit with life.
I was no longer going to accept death. No... I was going to fight for my life. I'm going to fight for what I want and I am going to fight and grow to never have to feel the same pain of losing someone ever again. I will fight to make sure that I won't need to feel the pain of death again!
With that thought bouncing and reverberating throughout my entire mind, I solidified my morale and hardened my determination as I left the skull that I had situated myself within for the last few hours.
'If I remember correctly, there is a shop feature... Open shop?' I thought, and as if the system could hear me, a screen opened before me.
[Shop]
[Points]
[Items]
[Skills]
[Techniques]
My eyes glittered with excitement but a moment later, they turned gloomy while an almost angered expression showed on my face.
'What is this expensive crap!'
From what I could see, the system expected me to gain these 'immortality' points, and even though they were much less expensive than an immortality token, the conversion being around 10000 immortality points for one token, everything in the shop was way too expensive, to the point I was almost certain that the system wanted to do nothing but reap me of all my immortality tokens by forcing me to convert them to points.
'100 points for a single stat point? And even then, I can only buy 10 a life! 5000 for an intermediate martial art!? This is robbery in broad daylight!'
Seeing this, I could do nothing but sigh in frustration before changing my focus onto something else.
[Ezra ------]
[HP:103/103]
[Mana:20/20]
"hmm?" I was slightly confused by the sudden status notification but I did not think much of it.
I climbed down the mountain and ran walked in the forest, my eyes still darting around with worry evident within them.
I was still scared of feeling pain. Everything that I subconsciously touched sent a shiver down my bones while at the same time, pain felt amplified in my current state.
After what I had felt while dying, I would have thought that pain would only numb over time but I was wrong. It was the complete opposite.
Yet even with that disadvantage more than evident, I still chose to move forward.
No longer was I going to cower.
No longer was I going to hide.
This was no longer a fight... This was a war that I wasn't willing to lose.
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