(Kai pov)
I stepped through the portal the feeling i felt it could be compared diving into a body of water.
As I stepped forward a window appeared in front of my face. It told me that I entered the swampland of the world serpent before I could check if it meant that world serpent. The portal started to solidify itself behind me until it fully closed.
"Oh you got to be fucking kidding me!" I groan out in annoyance.
I then looked around. This place lives up to his name.The only thing I can see for miles on end is trees and swamp.
"Ava analysis." I mentally ask Ava.
"Master, it seems that the dungeon key got upgraded to an B rank dungeon because you were pouring your mana into it subconsciously ." Ava's voice rang out in my head.
"So this is my fault then." I say in annoyance.
"Way to point out the obvious master, do you need me to point out that you have to kill the boss or find a teleportation stone to leave?" I ignored her obvious sarcasm because I felt something.
I looked around curiously "It feels different from the penalty zone, something is calling to me again."
"I can scan the area for you master."
"No need, I'm going to train my mana sensing." I mentally replied.
"Are you sure that's a wise decision master?" She would ask me in concern.
"Yeah I'm sure." I said dismissively as I looked into the forest. All I could see was an infinite pool of shadows that was attracting me towards it.
I closed my eyes and started to walk deeper into the forest sensing for any magic signatures but the only thing I noticed was a foul stench.
Before I could dwell on that for too long I felt a magic signature lunging at me from behind me. I duck under whatever just lunged at me as I cracked one of my eyes open.
"A wolf type magical beast" It was a large black wolf with snakes protruding out of its head as it glared at me with glowing green eyes.
A glance above his head to see its name similar to the sandworms in the desert of screams its name was red.
[Titanmaw Maho] it's aura was like a wild dog off its leash as it started to growl at me I closed my eyes and sensed it lunging at me I sidestep avoiding getting a direct bite to the neck. I back flipped out of the way of a claw strike before balancing on one hand.
"My body feels different, is it because of those daily quests?" As the wolf rushed me I spun on my hand sending magic to my leg as I kicked the wolf in the face sending it through several trees.
"I feel even lighter than before, Is this because of my experiments on my body or is it because of the system?" I thought to myself scanning my body with magic but that was when I felt the titanmaw stand up and started to approach me growling at me. I got bored of waiting on it and took the offensive speed, blitzing it and kicking it into the air. I followed its magic signature as I teleported above it, spiking it down to the ground.
"Ava did you scan it" I asked her mentally finally opening my eyes.
"I did master it's has a hard exoskeleton that allows it to absorb physical attacks. I would advise you to use a sword." She replied.
"So it's weak too swords." I murmured to myself as I looked up to see the titanmaw approaching me glaring at me.
I gave it an unimpressed look rolling my eyes in exasperation.
"Inventory!"
As soon as I called out for it, a graphical representation of a storage unit with dozens of slots appeared in the air. I put my hand inside it and pulled the sword I picked up from the armory.
[Item: Kagehashi armory long sword]
Attack +10
I ignored the notification as the titanmaw jumped towards me. I disappeared, cutting the titanmaw into little bits.
[Ding!]
[You have slain a titanmaw maho]
[You have lvl up 33 ➜35]
I shake my head in disappointment.
"I could have just made a sword out of magic. I'm starting to rely on the system too much" I said to myself in annoyance.
Then I came to a realization "The system is catered to me to make it easier for me to get stronger it's subconsciously making me more reliant on it" I say to myself as I walked deeper into the swamp thinking back on the past 4 days.
I absentmindedly glanced over to my left just to see a pack of 25 titanmaw's in the shadows glaring and growling at me.
"I'm really not in the mood right now." I said in annoyance.
As the wolf launched the snakes on the heads towards me forcing me to jump backwards and dodge.
The snakes bit the area I was just in making it sizzle and slowly dissolve.
"Ava analysis!" I hurriedly yelled at her.
"On it master, something I forgot to mention last time is the extremely poisonous maju snakes on their heads." She said apologetically as she got ready for the scolding she knew was coming.
"And you only now decided to tell me!" I mentally yell at her in irritation.
"I'm sorryyy it just slipped my mind." She started to fake cry.
"No, I'm sorry I've been treating you like a machine and not like a human. I let my feelings about the system cloud my judgement and I projected it on you. You are Ava, not the system." Once I said that she went quiet but I heard a noise.
[Ding!]
[passive skill leveled up]
[Ava lvl 3➜5]
"Roar!"
"Master dodge 3 meters to the left." Ava mentally voiced out.
I glide to the left avoiding ten poisonous snake bites.
"Damn these things are annoying." I cursed out in annoyance.
"Master, have you thought of using your skill
My eyes widened as I facepalmed. As I hear Ava laugh at me mentally.
Skill:
Heads started to fall to the floor as I turned around and looked at massive piles of bodies surrounded by a large pool of purple blood.
*Crack*
I look down to see that my sword has shattered.
"I put too much magic into the sword." I said in annoyance I was about to throw away my sword when something glinted in my eyes.
I looked down to see something shining within the dead Maho's mouth. So I bent down and opened the creature's maws. One of the Maho's fangs was emitting a beam of light. When I reached out, a message popped up before me.
[You found the 'Item: The Canine of the Titanmaw.' Would you like to take it?]
"Sure."
[Item: The Canine of the Titanmaw]
Rarity: None
Type: Miscellaneous
This item can be sold off for gold in the store or can be stored in your inventory.
I examined the canine as I clenched my fist around it and stood up.
Store. I mentally commanded.
As I waited for the store to pop up I scanned the area for more titanmaws I saw a few 5 kilometers away to the right and few to the left.
A bunch of gold letters floating in the air appeared before me like a holographic projection, just like when I open the mailbox.
There was a plethora of weapon options to choose from but the icons for each weapon option had lock on them.
I scrolled down to the item section to press on the canine of the Titanmaw.
And there were only two words there, too.
Buy|Sell
I selected buy.
[Inefficient funds you cannot access the 'Buy' function]
"Tsk."
I said in irritation of course I couldn't access the 'Buy' function.
I didn't think too much about it and shifted my gaze away to 'Sell.'
[Will you sell 'Item: The Canine of the Titanmaw?']
"Yup"
Ching
With the clinging sounds of coins, his Inventory appeared next. Right at the bottom of the display, in the column saying 'Gold', I could see the number 50 appearing there. That space had been empty yesterday.
"50 Gold, eh nothing special to me."
I couldn't really use it in real life, and I couldn't even use the store properly until I unlocked the weapon options so I had no idea how much 50 gold was worth.
Magical beasts from this B rank instant dungeon are weaker than those sandworms and those statues, they're not even good practice.
Even if there was a difference between the E and B rank dungeons I don't see it there giving me a little challenge but nothing too serious.
Still, I wanted to make sure I could collect the rest of the canine and see if I can collect anything else.
However before I could turn to go check the bodies I smelt a familiar foul stench as a feeling of bitterness washed over me.
"Growl!!!"
"Grr…."
"Growl!!"
"Grr!!!"
I turned around to see the Titanmaw's I sensed earlier grew a pair and decided to attack me.
"Ava, are there any more Titanmaw's in the area?"
"I have scanned the area for more. This is the last pack in the area."
A bright sadistic smile bloomed on my face.
"Bet."
I tightly grasped my sword and spoke up.
"I'm in a bad mood because of the last pack I faced. So im going to trying now."
"I'm going to massacre all of you!" I said as one of the Titanmaw's pounced on me. I smirked and whispered one word."
"Nirvana." a small black and blue orb shot out my other hand and hit the wolf in its stomach blowing a hole right through it, spilling
its purple blood on the ground."
"Is anyone else feeling froggy?" I said sarcastically.
The wolves backed away a little, shuddering a little.
It was at this point that I pounced on them without mercy.
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Ding!
[Item: The Poisonous Snake Head of the Maho]
Rarity: None
Type: Poisonous
I examined the snake head in my hand when a notification popped up in front of me.
Ding!
[You have acquired the 'Title: The Hunter.']
"A Title?"
[Title: The Hunter]
[A title given to a hunter skilled in hunting animal-type magical beasts. When hunting animal-type magical beasts, all of your stats will be increased by 50%.]
Name: Kai Kayaba/Kagehashi
Level: 33
Job: None
Title: The Hunter
Hp: 6,500
Mp: 3,000
Strength: 32
Stamina: 21
Agility: 30
Intelligence:21
Perception:32
Fatigue 4
Available points 0
(Natural skills)
Mana sensing
Mana vision
Mana Pressure
Archetype Nova
Nirvana
Master Martial artist
Weapons specialist
(Passive skills)
[Unknown] Max
[Ava] Lv.3
[Tenacity] Lv.1
[Active Skills]
[Blink] Lv.1
A boost to all my stats when I fight animal-type magical beasts….. Although it affects my abilities and raises them by 50%.
"Tsk" I smacked my lips in annoyance.
"Borrowed power," I spit out as I looked around to see all of the bodies laid out on the ground.
"40 canines,240 snake heads,a set of sandworm cloaks, and one return orb.
While killing the Maho, he learned that I could sometimes find old weapons from the dark knight that explored in here in their bellies. Of course none of them were useful.
The rusted daggers were dull and they were about to fall apart at any moment. The sandworm cloaks aren't useful here in the Swamp.
I sold all of the canines, all of the snake heads except one, and the set of sandworm cloaks when I finished my Gold went up to over a thousand.
Ding!
[Current Gold: 1,160]
"I can't really be happy since my family is rich and I can't even use it yet since the weapons are locked." I said to myself.
"Ava, are there any more monsters in the area?" I asked her mentally
"I can't sense any in the area Master so we're in the clear for now." She replied.
"Keep your scanners up for anything I'm going deeper into the swamp"
"Ok master." She replied.
I stood up and looked into the deeper half of the swamp.
"Let's get this over with." I said tiredly as I walked deeper into the forest.
Unknown to him a giant blue eye opened behind him as a reptilian like body disappeared into the foliage