Set was teleported to a hot spot to hunt Demon-class beasts. Although the Demon turd was chasing him, Set had simply followed the map and headed to the teleporter. After teleporting, what met his eyes was a dense green forest. 'Trees, trees everywhere...' was the first thought that came to his mind. After getting used to his surroundings, he began to walk around. Looking for beasts to kill. As he was walking the system sent a notification.
[Hell Flame: +100 exp gained]
[Hell Flame has advanced to Lv.2]
[Cursed Flame: +100 exp gained]
[Cursed flame has advanced to Lv.2]
[Battle exp: +100 exp gained]
[Congrations! Host's power level has advanced to Lv.2]
[Total HP increased by 10]
[Reward are: 5 status points and a Demon-Class dagger]
. . .
Then out of thin air, a dagger materialized into his hand. Set was shocked by the flood of notifications sent by the system. 'Wow, why did I Level up so fast?'
[Because your innate abilities were at the peak of level one, they only needed to be used ones to progress to level two]
'Sweet, it seems like Lady Luck is smiling upon me today.' Then he began to closely examine the dagger in his hands.
. . .
[Wolf Fang]
[Increase in strength: +5]
. . .
Looking at the stats of the dagger, Set felt like the luckiest person alive. And after giving it a good swing, he was ready to kill some monsters.
"By the way, why was I able to counter the Demon Turd's attack?"
Set wasn't crazy enough to think that he was able to counter that on his own mainly because he just awakened his celestial spirit like.... about a day ago, and that worthless piece of junk ranked 5th place at the battle of the shelter. Set knew the meaning behind winning 5th place in the battle of the shelter. And that was that he had immense power and battle prowess.
[There were three reasons. The first one being that the hell flame had been Lv.20 but because of the host's power level, the level of hell flame has been stupendously decreased to a flimsy level one. But still, the battle prowess of hell flame is at the peak of level one and coupled that with the crimson curse its power level had been increased to level four. The second reason was because of your cursed flame. Its power level might have been level one but still, it was at peak level one. And because of the mark left by your true celestial spirit, its effects of boosting powers still stood, causing your flames attack power to rise to level 7. And the third, and if I say so myself, the most crucial contributor was me the system. I was able to double the host's power level by two! By two! Increasing your combined original power level of 11 to twenty fuckin two. Which is surprisingly 1 level higher than the Demon Turd's.]
Set listening to this picked up on a few keywords. "So, you're telling me that I countered his attack by the skin of my teeth?"
[Correct]
"Is there any way to use the full force of the Hell Flames?" asked Set with a hopeful heart.
[There is, of course. If you can find an object, preferably a weapon powerful enough, you could just fuse the hell flames with the object]
"How strong does the weapon need to be?"
[Anything in and above World-class.]
Set had been optimistic, until the moment the system had said "World-class and above'", at that time all the hopefulness Set had built up, crumbled down like a tall building with a flimsy foundation. 'World-class and above, to hell with that, I would have passed level 20.' But he didn't linger on the subject for too long, he was a man who followed the mind, 'If I can't control it, then I don't stress it.'
"Ok, what did you mean by the mark?"
[Your true celestial spirit has left a mark on you, enabling all the usual functions of the summoned celestial spirit]
"And my last question is, YOU CAN DOUBLE THE ATTACH POWER OF MY ATTACKS AND DIDN'T TELL ME ABOUT IT!"
[Last I checked you didn't make any effort to ask me. And don't count on it again. That was a one-time-only trick.]
Set now felt like crying. He could not believe he had squandered a great trump card to humiliate Demon Turd. But thinking about it, it was worth it!
As Set walked through the forest, he heard a ruckus around the bushes to his left. As he turned to look, he saw a three-horned goat looking at him. Even though Horny Goats were herbivores the size of Bulls, if they ran into any humans they were known to attack immediately. Set realized instinctively that the beast in front of him was a Demon-class beast, not just because the pressure exerted by the beast was weak, but because the basic way to tell the beast class was by looking at their pupils.
Demon-class beasts had black pupils, while Saint-class beasts had white, World-class beasts had green, Sky-class beasts had gold, and Emperor-class beasts had red. The three-horned goat, or widely known as the Horny Goat, was undeniably a Demon beast for obvious reasons. It had a deep brown hide with three black horns standing firmly on its head. The Horny Goat, with its head facing the ground, rushed in hopes of reaching Set. But its action was quickly stopped by a fireball thrown in its direction. The Horny Goat tried to dodge the fireball, but it wasn't fast enough and the lower part of his body was scorched. Leaving behind a black, burnt hide.
The Horny Goat looked at the Set with bloodlust and terror. Realizing the difference in power, the Horny Goat began to run away in panic, trying to save its life.
"MUAHAHAHA. Do you think you can survive my might?! I'm not going to let you live, you Horny Old Goat!" Set was pursuing, following the Horny Goat from behind it's burnt bum. But no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't catch up to the Goat. But that wasn't the end of things! As time went on, Set began to feel as if something was wrong. "I need to finish this quickly..."
After that, he began to shoot fireballs towards the goat. But the DAMNED goat had gotten a lot smarter after the first few fireballs. He began to use the trees as shields against his attacks. After chasing the goat for a full hour, Set was now fuming with anger.
"YOU DAMNED BASTARD! DON'T YOU HAVE ANY SHAME MAKING ME RUN SUCH A LONG DISTANCE?!?! I'll KILL YOU!!!]
The worst part was that after the goat heard this, its face became smug, and it let out a "MUABABABAAAAAAA" which, of course, drove Set crazy. After a while of running, the goat entered a flat plane, but because Set was blinded by rage and the distance between Set and the Horny Goat, Set couldn't see far into the plane. But after entering the plane, he stopped abruptly. What he saw scared him. He saw hundreds, if not thousands, of Horny Goats, chewing on the grass below.
"Bastard was taking me to the herd! I can't believe I've been fooled by a goat! A DAMN GOAT!!!"
The goat immediately ran to the Hurd and BAAAAAAAAA'd. As soon as it caught the attention of the herd, it began to tell them what had happened to it.
"BAAAAAAA BAAAAAA BAAAAAA BAAAAA BAAAAA BUM!"
As soon as he stopped, a four-hour Horny Goat came out of the middle. That was the Alpha. Its stature was a bit bigger than the others, but what was truly distinct was its cloud white pupils, signifying that it was a Saint-class beast!
"BAAAAAAAAA!!!!" as it said that, they all turned around to look at Set with blood lust in their eyes. If eyes could kill, Set would have died a thousand times over. But that wasn't the end of it, the Alpha Horny Goat 'BAAAAA'd again, and this time its body size doubled. Then, with the final 'BAAAAAAAA,' it initiated the death order. Every single Horny Goat was now running towards Set at full speed.