Chapter 132: Level 100
I am the most normal here. Yup, totally. Fight me if you disagree. Lily, my last hope, the only person who seemed somewhat normal, showed me the middle finger, wrecked my thoughts and stepped on that last hope, kicking it away.
My last hope is dead, and I'm the only normal here.
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Anyway, it's kind of fun watching Tess struggle as we try to hunt down one of the sparrows, and the said sparrow continues to dodge all of her attacks, no matter how quick they are.
Could I try to replicate the traps and maybe create a few more to hunt the sparrow? Yup, I could try that, and that's exactly what I did, but I gave up after a few minutes. Left without any result, and my head hurting just from looking at the intricate structures etched into the small metal disk.
I tried to remember as much as I could and I'll continue to observe it a bit more as it might be useful for the future, but there is no way in hell I'll be able to replicate it anytime soon.
So here we are, two hunters stalking our prey and getting our psyches hurt more and more with every failed attempt to hunt them.
So I do what a normal person would do. A javelin hovers over my shoulder, as long as me, and filled with tricolored mana, threatening to explode any second if I lose control over it. It's slim, it's sharp and beautiful. And best of all, it's dangerous.
Sparrow Obliterator 3000.
"Do you want to hunt it or evaporate it?" Tess says snarkily, but I can tell that it's her annoyance after an unsuccessful hunt talking.
At this point, it's way too late to hold back Tess! The sparrow looked deep into my eyes, examined them, and chuckled in my face. Bambi, sparrows, goddamn were-something monsters on each floor. They all exist just to piss me off. So just for this once, I'll vent a bit!
I breathe out and [Focus], and the javelin over my shoulder starts rotating, similar to the way a bullet would after leaving a gun barrel. I spin it faster and faster until it's just a blurred mess of tricolored mana, and I hear ringing in my ears from how hard I'm trying.
Then my heart beats, and I wait.
Two heartbeats.
I wait.
Three heartbeats.
Need more.
Seven heartbeats.
A bit more.
Ten heartbeats.
Good!
I push against the javelin with all the force I can muster and even use a surge to give it even more before it leaves my range.
"Anything fun you guys are talking about?" She fixes her hair a bit while her gaze shifts between me and Tess.
"I'm explaining to Tess how assholish the system is, and she doesn't believe me."
"Nat thinks the system works the way he would design it."
Huh? Did I just get dissed? But there might be some truth to it. I would totally do some things the system does right now and have fun observing people in the tutorial.
To that, Lily laughs, "You're right! I can totally imagine Nat doing some things in a similar way the system does."
Oi, you should be helping me.
"You know," the petite girl moves closer to the blonde and whispers loud enough for me to hear while looking at me, "Nat is like a cat, and the system also sometimes feels like a cat."
"What?" Tess blurts out, and the confusion on her face is quite funny to watch.
"Lily, what animal is Tess?" I decide to tease her a bit more, and Lily pauses, giving it serious thought.
"Tess is a chameleon," Lily says without any hesitation, as if it's a sure thing.
"Because of her eyes?
As a reward for my innocent joke, a small flash of lightning fires at me, and I cancel it out with disruptive mana I shoot in its way, further annoying Tess.
A few minutes later, we find the first mice. It's as big as a smaller dog, with a short tail and a well-rounded body, and it moves slowly, wobbling on its short legs, its fur black.
An easy hunt, you would say?
Nope.
The moment we look at it or send mana towards it, the animal disappears into the shadow, and its presence is gone.
A bit later, we find another one, and the same thing repeats.
And then again.
Even when I try to quickly light up the surroundings with my flames, there is still a shadow under the mice. Not even [Disruption] reaches it quickly enough. I barely start forming the skill, and the mice are gone.
That's when we decide to rely on side quests a bit more and the traps of the natives, and move deeper inside the city, hoping to find another source of food.
But first, this.
[Lvl 99 > Lvl 100]
Congratulations! You have successfully completed your side quest - Side Quest: Reach Level 100. You have acquired - Reward: Body Upgrade Token.
Level 100 at last.
