Chapter 7

The content of the vial was green with shiny dots floating around as if someone had dropped glitters inside it, it was very viscous and smelled a little bit like mint. He resolved his mind one last time and took a big gulp, in a second the vial was empty and Sam grimaced.

Even though mint was an expensive and rare delicacy, Sam had never been a big fan of it and usually preferred normal food. This taste on top of being bad reminded him of fool memories and made his mood worse than it already was.

He remembered that last day when he saw his mother and sisters before he was exiled out of the family.

'Fucking Ates clan, just you wait until I make you fall.'

Sam whose eyes had been calm for the last few days started leaking an insane amount of killing intent, so much that Mechy had to remind him.

[You're leaking too much killing intent Sam, if there is a secondary grade beast around here it will feel it and make its way here.]

These words felt like a bucket of cold water poured onto him and brought him back into reality from his memories.

[You should check your status page.]

Sam understood that Mechy was trying to make him think about something else so that he could forget about the painful memories and he felt grateful, by now he already didn't think of Mechy as a A.I but as a genuine person, he had never heard of such a smart and human-like A.I to this day.

As he was told he opened his status page and wasn't even surprised by what he saw but found it funny, he wasn't sure if that old civilization had games or not but he doubted they looked so similar to human games and so he asked:

"Mechy, did you use games in my memory as an inspiration for this ?"

[Yes, I thought you'd find it easier to understand this way since you're familiar with this format.]

Sam looked once again at the holographic screen in front of him and started reading the game like status page.

< Status :

Name: Sam

Level: 1st grade evolver

Experience: 2%

Race: Human

ATK: 12 (+3)

DEF: 8

SPE: 9

INT: 16

Characteristic points left to distribute : 1.

Skills : None.

Equipment:

- Pure mythril dagger (ATK +3) >

His stats didn't look that impressive as a 1st grade evolver wasn't that much stronger than a normal human, he guessed that normal humans must have around 6 or 7 points everywhere.

"Mechy, how valuable is one characteristic point ?"

He asked Mechy as he was certain it knew more than him about this.

[At your level it is extremely valuable, one point can make you a lot stronger than you already are however the higher your level is the less obvious the difference will be.]

'Since one point is so important I should think about it well, right now except if I fight a beast with strong defense again my strength is sufficient, on the other hand my defense is so weak that even that sneak attack from the rat almost killed me. Some speed would be nice too and anymore intelligence wouldn't be very helpful against non sentient alien beasts.'

[That's a good analysis, I also think that increasing your defense is a good thing. Also if you increase your defense your stamina and regenerative ability will increase together.]

"What about my speed ?"

[Your speed at the moment is decent, you're faster than slow beasts, you're as fast as average beasts and even if you added one point to your speed you wouldn't be as fast as the few beasts that are faster than you.]

"Alright then let's invest that point in my defense."

[Roger!]

Suddenly Sam felt a weird thing happening in his body, it felt like a hot liquid was rushing through his veins at an extremely high speed while infusing his muscles, bones and even his skin.

Actually it was the liquid inside the vial that was taking action, after he invested the point in his defense the liquid grew hotter and started flowing at high speed while forging his body from the inside !

He felt his muscles twitching for a short minute and then everything was over, that feeling was so nice that he wished he had another one of these vials !

He also felt like his body had grown wider, this wasn't a normal thing so he was a little bit clumsy at first and decided to check it out, he walked to the nearby underground river and took off his top uniform.

"What the hell..."

Sam has always had an athletic body since he trained a lot however he didn't expect it to become ripped to such a degree ! His muscles looked like they were made of titanium, they hadn't gained much in size but it looked like all the excess in his body had disappeared, all that was left were perfectly aligned muscles !

[You didn't check your other gifts that came with the characteristic point potion.]

Finally he remembered, he had been so focused that he forgot to even check what they were, after using the potion there were two items left, one was a book and the other was a twin colored pill.

< Blazing Ape's : (Blazing legs) skill book.

This book contain the most famous skill of the Blazing ape, a grade one to grade four beast, this beast is famous for having ever burning legs that it uses to inflict lots of damages upon it's opponents.

By opening this book you'll learn this skill right away, even though your legs won't be burning for ever you'll be able to make them ablaze at your will.>

< Skill experience pill :

Give any skill 500 experience points.>

"This is impossib-"

Sam was about to say it was impossible and remembered all the impossible stuff that Mechy had made possible, the reason why he was so incredulous was that skills were extremely rare !

The method to obtain a beast skill was very simple and yet almost impossible, one had to absorb it's core and get unbelievably lucky, skills could also be exchanged or sold and so most of the time they ended up in the hands of the rich!

Skills could also be upgraded but from Sam's knowledge the only way to do so was through repetitive use, he had never heard about a pill that could make your skills better!

He first opened the book which disappeared in the air, at the same time small dots of light were infused in Sam's brain and seconds later he felt like he was able to use that skill !

Then he swallowed the pill, he didn't want to lose any time and wanted to try out this skill as soon as possible, he also had lost a lot of time while being unconscious and so was impatient to start hunting.

He opened his status page and a huge smile appeared on his face.

"Hey Mechy, let's hurry outside I want to start hunting and try this skill!"