Fire

While Calvin is running towards the exit of the village together with the flock of players with the same goal in mind. Killing monsters.

It didn't take long for him to reach the gate of the village. The village is surrounded by a three meter tall wall made of stone. There were guards standing in the gate, inspecting every people going in and out.

Calvin easily made his way outside and saw that the surroundings of the village is just a normal flat green lands. The place was filled with players who were fighting monsters of different kinds. Though the numbers of a glob looking monster were the highest as far as he could see.

'A slime huh.' Calvin thought as he inspected the green slime that spawned a few meters away from him.

[Green Slime, 1st grade]

Hp: 100/100

All monsters, or rather all creatures were graded by numbers. Their strength highly depends on their grade. The higher their grade, the more powerful they are. 1st grade is the lowest while 9 is the highest. As for how to go up in grades, Calvin remembered what Marko said about it.

'There are many ways in order to go up a grade. For monsters, it is usually by evolving. For humans like us, its decided by class and so on so forth. But like I said earlier, rid of the common sense in this world. Don't take things at face value and don't be afraid to experiment with things. Only by growing by yourself will you actually be of help in the future.'

His words greatly confused and at the same time intrigued all the players who heard it. If there is one thing all humans have, it would be curiosity so hearing that there is much more to explore made them excited about the mysteries Genesis has to offer.

Going back to the present, Calvin took out his weapon from his inventory that he got earlier.

The weapon he picked could be likened to a sickle from Earth. The blade is made of metal with a bit of curve and is longer than the blade of a dagger while the handle is wood shorter than his forearm and wrapped in leather.

[Sickle, One-hand, Lower 1st grade]

Attack: 5

All items are graded the same way they grade all the creatures. The only difference is they are further graded into three subgrades which is lower, middle, and upper.

As Calvin equipped it, he looked at his stats and saw that his character status didn't change.

'So the attack only shows on weapons but not in our status? That's kinda weird. Though I wonder how they calculate the damage dealt.'

While pondering on that, he unconsciously walked forward towards the slime, ready to attack it.

At that moment, he remembered that he has the skill Camouflage and forgot to use it. Unfortunately, the slime turned towards him before he could use it.

"Shit!" he cursed as the slime bounced towards him intending to slam its body into him.

By instinct, Calvin's arms moved by itself as it crossed before his chest to block the slime.

When the slime slammed into Calvin's arms, he felt as if someone punched him in his arms.

He winced in pain when he felt the pain deep in his bones and at the same time a damage number appeared on top of him.

-10

The slime bounced back while Calvin stumbled back a step. Without giving him a chance to move, the slime shot itself towards him again.

He grit his teeth as he kept his arms crossed in front of him.

-11

"Ugh!". Another damage appeared on top of him and the pain in his arms intensified. Seeing this, he thought. 'This won't do. I need to attack as well. If not, I'm going to die!'

Even though he was in a dangerous situation, Calvin couldn't help but smile feeling the pain coursing through his arms and the rush in his body.

The slime bounced back again and as it landed to the ground, Calvin stepped forward with his left foot and twist his body as he swung his right arm, the one that was holding the sickle, like a whip with the blade heading right to the slime.

At the same time, he used Lacerate by saying its name on his mind. He felt something moving from his body towards his arm and leaving it before his sickle glowed in a blue light.

The moment the tip of the blade sank into the slime's body, he pulled back forcefully as the blade of the sickle cut its way out, leaving behind a deep gash on the slime's body.

The slime trembled as a yellow damage appeared on top of its head.

-20

Calvin's eyes widened as he exclaimed, "Eh? Damn I'm lucky."

A yellow damage means a critical hit in Genesis. He was surprised that even with a small 5% chance of being a critical by using lacerate, he didn't really expect it to proc at his first attack.

Nevertheless, he quickly shook it off as his smile widened even more. Calvin laughed, "Haha! Now this is fun!"

Getting excited as he saw the damage he dealt, he rushed to the slime to continue the fight.

Calvin kept attacking the slime. He would slash, stab, or even smash the slime with his sickle. There were even times where he would also punch or kick if he can't use his sickle.

As the fight goes on, Calvin felt more and more excited as blood and adrenaline pumped in his veins. The pain didn't deter him in any way. Instead it only served to fuel the fire burning inside his heart as he gave his all in the fight.

'This is it! This is what a real fight feels like! HAHAHA this is so fun!' A flash of burning excitement appeared in his eyes as he continued to smile unknowingly.

They continued attacking at each other while Calvin tried to dodge some of the attacks or strike back with his sickle. He was able to dodge more of the attacks as they fight and even attack more times.

Of course, there times where his actions were a bit clumsy. Sometimes he would miss his attack or stumble when he got hit. He even got knocked down when the slime suddenly spat a glob of sticky goo right at his face.

Calvin felt burning pain from his face as he almost got killed by the slime while he was down as he cursed in pain.

Eventually he managed to stand up and take the goo of his face. When he remembered the pain he suffered, he got mad and afraid at the same time.

After that, his mind cooled down a bit from the excitement and he decided to be careful and watch the slime carefully while not letting up on his attacks.

He even tried using Camouflage. In the end, it was useless as the slime seemed to know where he is even though he used it.

The fight ended without even a whole minute passing by as Calvin dealt the killing blow using Lacerate.

"Fucking die!" Calvin shouted and swung his sickle triggering another critical hit which quickly reduced the slime's hp to 0.

The slime shook for a second before dissolving into a pile of goo. At the same time a notification appeared in front of Calvin's eyes.

[Green slime killed! Gained 5 exp points!]