Black Panther

Elo had been holding Ella for about one minute, when she suddenly opened her eyes again.

He was a bit confused, he had thought that it would take about one hour to wake up again after leveling.

"I hope you didn´t try anything funny while I was asleep?"

She was looking at him more curious then afraid.

"No, I didn´t and even if I had tried something, you would know. You were only asleep for a few seconds."

"Well, that´s good. Are you ready to start moving again?"

"Yes, let´s go."

But before they could even take one step, they suddenly heard a low growl.

Elo jumped aside just in time, to not get hit by the claws of the big black panther, that had appeared in front of him.

-"Why do these wild animals only show up when you really don´t need them? It must be some kind of curse.

We are only two and I can´t even fight. Ella will have to do everything on her own."-

"I´m sorry, but you will have to fight that thing on your own. I can only give you some backup."

He had to jump back once more to escape a savage bite attack.

Only when Ella's club hit the panther on the head, it seemed to realize that there were actually two humans.

It changed its attention from Elo to Ella, who was standing on its side, the club in both hands.

"Come at me you dumb cat!"

When the panther jumped at her, she rolled to the side, just to jump back up and hit the monster on the neck.

Her swing was hard enough to bring the panther to the ground. As it was about to stand up again, Ella´s whole body stated glowing in a faint red light.

Her club was swung onto the neck of the panther for a second time, but this time, it was so fast that Elo could only see a blur.

A loud crack could be heard and a big wound opened on the panther's neck. This time, it didn´t stand back up.

"Ding"

"Black Panther (normal) has been defeated.

The resources are being transferred to the leader of the team."

"You resaved:

-3 panther meat

-1 soul stone (rare)

From the inventory:

-1 soul stone (rare)

-3 goat meat"

"Wow, was that your skill One Hit Wonder?"

"Yes, it was, I had to stop the fight as soon as possible, otherwise at least one of us would have died.

But now, would you please give me the soul gem it dropped?"

"Yes, don´t worry. I´ll give it to you, but I also have something else. I wanted to show this to you since we defeated the gnome."

A small white gem and a big brown bone appeared in his hands. He gave both to Ella.

"This is a weapon the gnome dropped. Because I have no fighting power whatsoever, I don´t really need it. That´s why I thought you could probably use it."

"Thank you, but is this really a good weapon?

"Ding"

"Big gnome bone (rare):

One of the hardest bones in the entire forest.

Damage multiplier: 1,7

Damage +1

You currently have equipped:

Big stick:

A stick.

Damage +1

Do you want to change your equipment for +4 total damage (total damage: 11)?"

"Ding"

"Big gnome bone (rare) has been equipped."

"Wow, thank you! That is a great upgrade to my overall fighting power. But you could have given me this thing a lot sooner. If you had, I wouldn't have had to take the risk of using One Hit Wonder, or at least it would have been much safer to do so. If the panther hadn´t died, it would have killed us for sure."

"Yes, I know, I am sorry.

But you have to be careful with your new weapon, one hit could most likely kill a level 0 player and even I would be nearly dead.

"It depends, have you read all the stat descriptions?"

"No, I only read Charisma and Strength."

"Ok, so in short:

Strength will enhance your strength and you will be able to hit harder with weapons.

Endurance gives you something called armor. It reduces the damage of every hit you take by your Endurance and every point in endurance gives you an additional 5 health.

Speed increases your overall movement speed, which doesn't sound like much, but if you can´t get to your enemy, you can´t damage him.

Stealth reduces the chance to get noticed. It´s most likely meant for assassins and hunters.

If you have a high Charisma stat, your ability to get people on your side is increasing. I thought it was only meant for traders, but it seems like it´s also good for leaders. It was way easier for me to defeat the panther because of your skill.

Magic only gives you Mana. Your max. mana is increased by 5 and your mana regeneration is increased by 1 per hour for every stat point in magic.

And that´s it. So, if you have even one point in Endurance, I can´t kill you in one hit. But I still think that Strength is way better than Endurance, because it gets the multiplicator of your weapon.

I would be really interested in how strong a good weapon can be. If you had a weapon with a multipair of 3 and enough strength, you could probably one hit nearly everything.

That's why I will keep on leveling strength. What are you planning to do in the future?"

Elo was kind of perplex, he had never heard Ella speak so much at once.

He didn´t really want to tell her, but he felt like that was the least thing he could do after she saved his life.

"I will most likely get a few more points in Charisma and then I want to create a settlement for humans like us. We don't know if there are other humans in this world and even if there are, we know nothing about them.

Humans always survived together, that's why I want to create this settlement. And I will be the Leader of this new city.