Monstrous Stamina
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Quest Alert: Scatter to the Schools (1/???)
Description: Alerting all adjudicators, the world is in need of some people to guide the growth of this world. This is the first step to guiding and choosing the owner of the Holy Land of Mana. Scatter and join the world's many schools and find talents of all races. Continue until I will call you once more.
Objective 1: Locate a school (0/1)
Objective 2: Enrol at a school (0/1)
Objective 3: Find talents (0/5)
Reward 1: ???
Reward 2 : ??? Necklace
Reward 3: +2500exp, Skill ticket
Penalty: Removal of System
Time Remaining: 28:49:49:46
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Oh.
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I returned to camp drenched wet, I hadn't noticed. I was focused on the screens from my system.
Where do we find a school? Why a school? What's so special about school? It's boring, unhygienic, a terrible waste of time and unproductive. But now we have to go out of our way to find one? It's a terrible idea I tell you.
At camp we all were in a big semicircle. The one in the front was Haruka, he was now awake and surprisingly all clean from the blood. Miss Prim?
"Ok guys calm down, where do we go now? We haven't escaped the forest yet so we have no idea where we are, so any ideas?" Our group murmured amongst each other.
"We should go in that direction, it leads to the end of the forest." I had spoken up and everyone had turned to me. Some with annoyance and some with hatred. What did I do so wrong to make everyone hate me?
"Why should we believe you!? You've done nothing for us so far. Why should we believe you now that you contribute, we don't know if your helpful or reliable?" Fair point, but considering that I was unconscious most of time yesterday, I don't know if you have a right to say that.
"Why shouldn't you believe me?" I was wondering what I had done to upset such a large amount of people.
"You didn't help us when we were escaping that haunted castle!" I guess the boy that said this didn't see me become unconscious.
"I was passed out, I couldn't have helped you if I wanted to"
"When and why were you passed out?" I nearly facepalmed.
"After we got our systems, the reason I went unconscious was because my blood is too delicious to somebody" A certain teacher had shrunk behind the crowd while blushing.
"You also snuck out at night, why did you do that?" Huh? I didn't know that there was a person still awake.
"I couldn't get to sleep so I went out for a walk. I had stumbled across the exit of the forest while I went for that walk"
"Then why did you come back with another level? And meat as well"
"Whats so important about that? Fine, I had stumbled across a rabbit. I killed it and leveled up" Haruka looked sceptically at me, he was the only one that hunted rabbits for our food. He must've noticed that you can't get a level from one rabbit.
"Then why did you drag Haruka from the woods all covered with blood? What did you do to him!?" I could hear Haruka chuckle in the crowd but no one notice him. I sighed.
"Ask Haruka then, why ask me?"
"What if you did something to him and he couldn't remember!?"
"Are you listening to yourself? Think about what you said. What could I possibly do to him? Better yet, even if I did something to him, here he stands perfectly fine" The girl started stuttering and murmuring her words, but everyone just ignored the poor girl.
"Where do we go Quinn?"
"..." Haruka just awkwardly rubbed the back of his neck.
"Where did you point before?" After all that, when he doesn't back me up, he has the audacity to think we're fine with each other. Bruh.
I just lazily pointed at the direction of where I pointed before.
The group moved once more in the direction of where I had went before on my night walk. We crossed some rabbits on the way and decided that we would kill some and save some for later. Obviously Haruka killed them, he was hogging all the exp and it seems like no one cared.
Since no one was willing to hold the bloody rabbits it offered to carry them. I said yes and they gave them to me.
Honestly, I feel like everyone is too bothered with the fact that we were in a fantasy world and forgot we had systems.
I opened up my menu and chucked the meat at the window. The screen rippled like water and the meat sunk into it. It appeared again in a box next to the positions in my inventory.
Whilst they were distracted at the fighting Haruka, I grabbed some sticks and stones for future use.
With the forest behind us, we had entered into the grassy plains.
"Where now?" Everyone had the same question so we just went straight into the grassy plains. It was dumb, stupid and could've got us killed. Luckily we had found a road so we walked along the side of it. Following the road with my eyes, I felt like I had seen the road go in forever.
I was at the back yet I wasn't the one to sweat under the high sky. Most of us were lagging behind and tired, even though we had superior bodies than our previous ones. That didn't make us invincible.
So as the tallest of our group being about 205cm, I could overlook the smaller bodies of my previous classmates.
What I mean by previous was that they no longer cared about me. Or considered me apart of the group. I was acting kinda suspicious and my race was pathetic. So I guess...survival of the fittest.
Then I had remembered that I still have 5 unallocated APs. So I put them all in VIT or vitality making my total vitality 26. I currently needed some more stamina in a deserted place like this. I didn't know when would we get rest and I didn't know where we would arrive at a town or something of the like.
*DING*
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Unique Stat Evolution: VIT -> ESS
Description: This attribute represents your bodies essence. This values represents the amount of energy called essence in your body. Only the blood sorcerers in Orkin have this essence. Depending on the quantity of your essence and the quality, you can gain monstrous stamina, recovery rate and some natural bodily resistances to things like diseases and infections. Upgrading this stat further increases the quantity of essence in your body. With more essence, comes stronger stamina and faster natural recovery rate of our bodies.
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I smiled and nearly chuckled at the sudden unique stat evolution. No one was beside me or behind me to notice me silently laughing my ass off at myself.
Does this mean that only I can have this essence besides blood sorcerers? Nice one Quinn! You hit the jackpot with this race! Though it felt like only a small upgrade to my strength, it felt nice to be rewarded for doing practically nothing. You know?
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Adventuring into this grass desert, the group was tired and sweaty. Everyone as dying of the heat. Stranded trees could be seen along the horizon and they stopped there.
The tallest boy carried out meat and sticks, only for the boy elf to be praised with the idea of getting extra meat.
Only one person turned to the tallest boy. It was a pale girl that was the height of his shoulder. She turned to him and focused on him more clearly.
She saw not a sweat or clue of fatigue on the boy. She could only think.
'What monstrous stamina!'