Honestly, the entire thing made sense, why else would their Queen be fighting out here with me if she still had some bodyguards to spare? Shouldn't the Queen be protected from getting killed? She is literally their lifeline, and so without my worries-
I moved forward, getting closer to Queen, I mean how else am I supposed to beat the shit out of it without getting closer?
I chuckle a little, a manic smile on my face, joyful that I probably didn't have to worry about more Centipedes coming out of the hole, she wouldn't be out here scrapping with me if she still had bodyguards, between getting revenge for crippling me of ever having the chance to fly and survival, in this moment, rage was all I knew.
(-10 HP) {Envenom × 13}
I grit my teeth at the pain, but the rage fueled me into ignoring it, why am I this angry? I get it, not being able to fly anymore definitely destroys my future prospects in hunting, but I've never been this angry at something even in my previous life in one sitting.
As I was getting closer with each step, she striked.
*Shaa!!*
I evade a little, her head directly on my side, I looked at her in its eyes before hitting her with an uppercut [Claw] under her jaw, my mind was focused on only one goal at the moment, I wanted to torture it. I'm petty like that.
*Pow*
*Pow*
With every strike, I roared in pure rage, in ways that were unbecoming of Alan Jones, the Human, yet natural to a Dragon.
*Pow*
*Pow*
"Take this! [Claw]!!"
*Pow*
*Pow*
[Miss!]
[DMG Accumulation Reset!]
"Oh no, how could this be? I missed" I grin
"Can't have you dying on me so easily"
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The Centipede Queen laid itself down on the ground, the small twitching of its body did indicate that it was still alive, the head was almost crushed, its body filled with cracks trailing everywhere on its body like a lightning strike, its own blood oozing out from each crack on its carapace.
"DIE" and with one final strike-
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[You have slain a Patchwork Centipede Queen!]
[+1002 XP]
[You have leveled up multiple times!]
Lv. 6 → Lv. 16
Total Gains:
+11 Levels +11 to All Attributes +22 AP +2 Shot Limit
Shot Limit: (7.75/10) → (8.75/11) → (9.75/12)
Current Level: Lv. 16 (0/110 XP)
[Quest
Rewards:
+1 {Tier I} skill ticket +1 {Tier II} skill ticket
[Hidden Quest: Kill the Queen without using any sub-skills from the
Rewards:
+20 AP+1 {Tier III} Skill Ticket]
[First Time completing a
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"Hauuhh…..haaa…..haaa.." panting from exhaustion, I couldn't care less about the system notifications, because more weight suddenly lifts away from me.
The worry of being killed when just arriving in this world had left me, it finally made me breathe.
I walked towards its busted open head, its blood dripping and forming a pool onto the ground. I wanted to take a bite at its body to replenish my stomach, but I hesitated.
*Sniff*
"It doesn't smell good" I frowned, wondering—
"What's so different between her and her bodyguards?" I asked aloud, the smell was not the same as the first Centipede I killed.
[It's most likely that the plasma blast you used to kill bodyguards had "cooked" them to your liking.]
"Ha?" My jaw gapes
[Yes, since the previous kill that you had eaten had your essence in some sense, it is what was probably making it likeable to you, but that's just a theory of mine]
I nodded in understanding, but still weirded out, it's like spitting on your food that was on the plate and somehow that made the food tastier.
'But then again the only reason we even taste things is because of our saliva and the scent of the food, still-'
"Using a plasma blast would just throw all the meat everywhere like the 1st one I don't see h-" I stopped my sentence
'Wait, didn't Toothless have that fire breath thingy to lay down his "bed" when Hiccup gave him fish?'' my mind recalls the scene vividly
'Yeah, let's try that'. I recall the feeling of throwing a plasma blast and even though I only used it twice in total, I could control it. It was like an instinctual, unconscious feeling, you wouldn't be thinking of how to do "breathing" unless you were made aware of it right? Sort of like that.
[Didn't you say you didn't want the meat to fly everywhere? What are you doing?] The system asked my actions of preparing a Plasma Blast
Immediately the energy gathered in my mouth, it formed into a ball of sorts, but I didn't release it yet, instead I slowly let it out just a little bit, to follow like a stream, like a flamethrower, and finally-
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[I see, so this was your goal, congratulations host]
A constant flow of hot energy bursted out of my mouth, engulfing the entire body of the Centi-Queen, and after a few seconds, I stopped using it.
I opened my status screen, and there it was—
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>{Plasma Stream Variant}
[Description: Fires a continuous stream of plasma.
Activation Cost: 0.25 shot/sec
Activation Delay: 1 second
Damage : 169 DMG/sec
Special Effect
Increases the shelf life of items when this specific skill is used on certain consumables]
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"Oh damn, I don't have to worry about them spoiling for a while huh?"
[It would seem that that's the case]
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[You have successfully learned a new skill for the 1st time! You have been rewarded: 5 Tier (I) Skill Tickets]
[Do you wish to use your skill tickets?]
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