Forest Carnia

I was ready. I had successfully acquired all the skills on my list. Used up all the skill points that I had, now I have to reach level five to gain another 10 skill points. Two days ago my father had done something similar to what we had discussed and they had captured 4-5 people with mimicry skill living with various monsters. So I guess the forest was as safe as it could be for now. Our forest had monsters up to level 30. The deeper you go more high leveled monsters appear. It was said that monsters never die, everytime you kill one it would be born in another part of the world where natural magical energy had gathered in huge quantities. Magicules were magic energy at human level frequency. You could not use natural magic energy directly, it was like electricity. You had to convert them to usable frequency first. Many had researched in this field, those who chose profession in this field were called Mediators. When Monsters die they give some random materials. Its all kinds of materials, some researched in this field too but nothing concrete has come up.

Some gave iron, high quality wood, various kinds of stones, most common were food a random fruit or raw cooking materials - it was the most common reason people even fought monsters, high leveled one gave scrolls with some details on it but it was mostly in English, weapons were a rare treat from monsters, all the blacksmiths had learned weapon designs from this dropped weapons. Dropped weapons were rare because some of them came with additional effects, boosts and stuff, armor parts, some even dropped clothes !!

This world was so much like a game that I even sometimes had doubts whether I was really in another world or some artificial video game !! I liked it though whatever it was. I loved it here. I was a bit sad when I suddenly miss my parents from earth. But I was 27 when I died. I was pretty much living alone for years. I was way - way more happier here then I could have ever been there. I wish I could see my parents again someday but anything except that was nothing to me compared to this. I had decided to live with pride in this magical world. My only worry was how I was gonna tell my parents here that I was not their Neff. I had to prepare myself for that moment but until then I am gonna enjoy this world.

Today my tutor is not coming. So I am gonna do it. I had to come before dinner which was at 8 pm. So I will go after lunch at 2 pm. Which gave me almost 6 hours of window to level in secret. As long as no one looks for me I don't think anyone will notice that I was gone. But just in case I had made wooden doll my size and shape – I was pretty good at crafts by now. Imagining all those complicated shapes had made me almost master at imagining stuff which was one of the reasons why I had amazing control over my magic spells. I made a little belt pouch and filled it with some food to eat. Water I could create on my own. I was all set so I went to the end of the palace and found an unused room. Just in case I locked it from inside, I created a wall over the door making all four sides closed. And started digging or more like erasing a little earth at a time with my skill.

I dug for 10 minutes then when I was satisfied with the distance I made stairs with earth manipulation and came outside. I was pretty deep in the forest. I could still see the palace though. I took a deep breath, then I created a big thin pole going higher than trees and on top I attached a little flag like cloth that I made. I had covered 20 meters deep with dirt blocks but still the tunnel was there. I started checking my surroundings and activated Third eye. No monster was nearby. I found the highest tree and started climbing it by creating dirt blocks as stepping stones. I could control all things that I create under a 10 meter radius, so it was pretty easy. I reached the top and made a little platform to comfortably stand on. And I looked upon a vast sea of trees and trees spread beneath me for hundreds of kilometers. I could not see anything in particular so I just randomly decided a direction and I walked in mid air through the tops of various trees. Dirt was just 100 kg per 0.5 magicules so in theory I could walk for months and it would still not use all my magicules that I had for one day. Auto recovery of magicules was pretty good too. It was 10 magicules per 30 minutes at level one now it was 12 per 30 minutes. I had seen skills for even fast recovery but I didn't need them. If worse comes to worse I could literally turn any non living thing into magicules. I had some 30 gold coins for emergencies just like that. One gold coin was equal to 50 magicules when erased so I had more than 1500 magicules as backup.

My Third eye detected two blue dots on screen. Red was the highest threat level, blue was secondary and green was lowest. I headed towards them in the air and in short while I saw two ogres eating some dead animal. Ogres were monsters with violent nature and musculine build. Usually carrying a kanabo or just a thick wooden stick. They could use skills like attack, block, charge, some even used sprint. I went near them and there was 4 written on all of their forehead. Levels of monsters were often written on hands or face, some few had it on chest and back too. 2 level suppression meant my attack damage would be reduced by 40%.

I went down enough to come into their line of sight and they screamed by looking at me. Wow ! So real ! so scary ! it's so cool ! I prepared five sharp iron blades floating beside me, then I fired two fireballs one little behind them which scared them another right on the animal they were eating. They charged towards me even though I was in mid air. I fired two blades one at each. One of them dodged right another left, but the place they dodged suddenly became a thin sharp edged and pointy stone blade coming out of earth. They were both pierced, one in the thigh another in the stomach. I fired my other two iron blades, direct headshot ending their agony. Well it was pretty easy. They dropped something. I went near to take a closer look. First was some kind of leather thing, I guess it was some kind of light armor ? Another was a scroll. Wow ! didn't they said scrolls were rare ? Beginner's luck I guess hehe. I opened the scroll and something like this was written on it,

[ Rank C Skill ]

[ Name : High space ]

[ Explanation : User can store anything he wants in this limited timeless space. (level 1 – 50 kg) ]

[ Condition : Lift 10,000 kg weight or 50 kg weight for 200 days. ]