After I had recovered my stamina I decided to put the status point I had gained in Vitality, making all my stats reach the 10 mark apart for Constitution, but considering how much I will have to run in the coming future, it will be easy to raise it.
My mana will take a while to regen, but for now, I will try to stay as far as I can from fights.
Before going out I look around the house searching for any type of supply or weapon.
From my research, I was able to find some snack bars, a backpack, 2 bottles of water, a sharp kitchen knife, and a gun... and then they ask why Americans are always related to guns.
I pack the backpack with the battle and the snack bars, leaving one behind so that I could eat it, the gun instead stays on my belt, the gun is berretta m9 and with it, I also found 3 pockets of bullets, which also went inside my backpack. do I know how to use it? No, Will I ever use it? Most likely not considering the zombie's ability to move with sounds, can it be used to scare humans? Hell yes.
Now that I got everything from the house, I put the backpack on my back and hold the bat with both hands, aiming to reach the upper floor, wanting to find a house to rest.
I activate both stealth and Smell removal and slowly move on the next floor.
And I luckily did that, in the upper floor, three growls could be heard.
Blocking the doors on the floor, three zombies can be seen scratching against them, but they seem way weaker than the one I fought before, way smaller, and with fewer muscles.
I go back down and I take from the open house a random object, I go back up the stairs and I throw the object on the other side of the corridor, making all the three zombies turn towards that direction.
I deactivate stealth and I dash towards the nearest zombie.
I try to turn in my direction, but the only thing he "saw" is my bat denting its head, the moment the zombie hits the ground I receive a notification waring me of the zombie death and adding 10XP to my XP bar, the same strategy won't work for the other 2 toughs.
One of the two zombies lunges towards me, but they are way slower than the first one, so I easily predict its trajectory, and I evade the lunge, but the last one appears right in front of me, so I am obliged to use the bat to block the zombie from bitting me.
Even though the bat is made of iron I can see dents forming in it due to the bite.
Seeing the other zombie slowly rasing from the ground, I drag the zombie biting the bat against the wall, and then I use the kitchen knife to pierce its head.
I leave the knife inside the head but I am able to free the bat, the last zombie lunges again towards me, a smile forms on my face.
*Crack
*Splat
' Homerun bitch.' I thought seeing the head of the zombie explode in thousands of pieces.
'I take a deep breath, which was closer than I wished.' I thought while removing the knife from the second zombie.
While doing so I notice something strange behind the body of the zombie.
I move away from the body, and I see what can only be described as a white cube.
I move my hand towards the cube, only for it to disappear the moment it came in contact with my finger.
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You have opened a Tier 1 reward Box
You have gained: Short sword.
Short sword added in the inventory
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I open my inventory, and I can see in one of the slots the image of a sword.
I click on it, and a sword long 20 inches appears on my left hand since the right one is occupied by the bat.
Just like the bat, the status of the sword appears in front of my face.
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Iron Short Sword
Attack:5-7 physical damage
Durability: 200/200
Special effect:
Bleeding: If you hit certain parts of a living being, there is a chance of giving them the staus effect, Bleeding.
Bleeding: -1% every 5sec.
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Seeing the status of the weapon a smile forms on my face, I put back the bat inside my inventory, by simply willing for it to happen, and I leave behind the knife and the sword.
' It's time to loot.'
I begin to loot all the bodies, trying to see if any of them has the keys to one of the houses.
Only one had a pair of keys, I try the keys on all the doors, and on the last of the three doors, the key finally turned.
I activate both stealth and smell removal and only then do I open the door, I look around for any type of danger, but seeing nothing I only deactivate the skills.
I turn back towards the door and I close it with the keys.
I go towards the nearest sofa or couch and I sit on it, wanting to relax for some minutes.
I take out the snack bar and I wolf it down.
' Now that I think about I still have to check the quest tab, and since I can relax, for now, I will look at it.'
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*QUESTS*
Current Quests:
Kill 10 monsters: 4/10
Reward: 2 status points
Completed quests:
Kill your first monster
Reward: 1 status point
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'Nothing more than I expected.'
After resting for 10 minutes, I begin to look for anything useful, and I hit jackpot, 4 bottles of water, 12 snacks, and some fresh food already cooked, considering how cold it is the one that was supposed to eat got turned and didn't eat it.
I wolf down the food, filling my stomach, then I drink from one of the bottles, but before doing so I check if the water system works, it doesn't, so instead of drinking the whole bottle I take small sips.
During my rest, I suddenly hear shouts from outside, I rush towards the door, to look at what is happening.
A group of 3 people, 2 men, and a woman are running away from a group of what could be described as tiger-sized dogs, I don't intervene and instead look at what is going to happen.
Just as one of the dogs was going to bite the leg of the woman, one of the men's bodies slams the tiger, but from how his body got covered in red energy that body slam wasn't normal.
Another dog lunges towards the man, only to receive a fireball right in its face, it came from the other man.
The last dog seeing its two companions on the ground tries to run away, but before it could move the first man gets covered again in a red aura, and appears right in front of the dog, smashing his bat on the head of the dog.
The last two dogs get back up, but one dies due to the man hitting t's head with the bat, and the other one dies due to a fireball.
The group begins to talk to each other, seemingly happy to have survived.
But they didn't notice it, I did.
*BOOOOM
An enormous fur-covered foot covers the whole street instantly killing the group, the foot barely grazed the window from where I was watching, my body freezes for one second, scared by the power of such a being, but the next second I activated stealth and smell removal and I crouch below the window.
For five minutes nothing happened, but from how the room was still dark the being didn't move.
Suddenly right in front of the window, a yellow eye could be seen watching inside the room, searching for survivors.
I cover my mouth and nose with my hands and I hold my breath, trying to make less sound possible.
After 1 minute the being moves away, and the sound of the ground cracking tells me that the being is moving away.
I wait until my mana runs out and only then do I let my skills deactivate.
My whole body feels tired, both from the stress of near-death and the effect of mana running out.
I get back up and I head towards the bedroom of the house, inside there is only a bed and luckily no photos.
I lay down on the bed, wanting to relax until my mana fills back to the max, and it will take 100 minutes, or 1 hour and 40 minutes.
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My eyes open slowly, I lazily get up from the bed, and just to be sure.
'Status.'
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*STATUS*
Name: Geralt Magicae Age: 23 years
Sex: Male Height: 1,79 meters
Level: 1 40/100 XP
Class: Arcanist
Health: 100/100 Health Regen: 1/min
Mana: 100/100 Mana regen: 1/min
Stats:
Strength: 10
Agility: 10
Constitution: 9
Vitality: 10
Intelligence: 11
Magic: 10
Perks: Calm mind: Can stay calm in dangerous situations, lowering the possibility of making bad choices)
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' So it was all real, I almost died, I killed being that previously were humans, and I saw a giant nearly stepping on me... I need to get stronger however possible.'
After getting my resolution back, I check my skills, and apart from stealth reaching level 4, and blunt weapon mastery reaching level 3 nothing else changed.
'On the second encounter with zombies I had to use my weapon to protect myself, I need to create some type of armor that can stop the bite of a zombie.'
I then look around the house for journals and some scotch, and I use them to create some armor for my arms, with enough layers to block the bite of a zombie.
I check back on my backpack, check the durability of my weapons, and then I use the keys of the house to open the door to get out.
And as a wake-up surprise, a zombie was right in front of the door of my house.
I instantly turn towards me, it grabs my shoulder and moves towards my neck to bite it.
But before it could its head got pierced by my short sword, which I had taken out in case something like this would have happened.
I free the sword from its head while I receive the notification of its death, giving 10 more XP.
I move the body out of the house, close the door and begin to head towards the upper floors, sure that there would be more zombies.
And sure enough, after 3 floors, I had reached the top floor, and I had killed 5 zombies, on the last kill, something new happened.
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You received 10 XP
You leveled up!
+1 in Magic and Intelligence
+1 status point
You have completed a quest
Reward: 2 status points
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' So I receive a status point every level up, and a +1 in magic and intelligence, most likely due to my class, I should check if now that I completed the quest, a new quest will appear.'
But before doing so, I put 1 point in Constitution, 1 in Strength, and the last one in Agility
'Quest'
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*QUESTS*
Current quests:
Kill 100 monsters
Reward:5 status points
Completed quests:
Kill a monster
Kill 10 monsters
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'The whole building is clean now, I should head to another building and search for other easy enemies that I can kill.'
My next destination... outside.