TIMELESS VOYAGE: Influx of points

Chapter 09: Influx of points

After ending the grizzly bear, Kurt slowly approaches the black bear, the black bear doesn't seem to care as it licks it's paws and wounds. Kurt slowly but cautiously pushes his hands forward to pet the bear. The bear didn't react to him whatsoever, seeing the black bear not care about him, kurt gets more and more courageous as he places his hand on the black bears head and pets it. Seeing the black bear still pay no heed to him, he starts petting its soft fur, some more times and makes it familiarise with himself as moments later, the bear starts to enjoy his petting.

{It seems that the research about black bears being friendly towards human is true, I still should be careful against the other black bears in this forest, this one is letting me pet it, only because it thinks, I saved it. As for the other bears, I might be a threat to them, there were some reports of black bear attacking human but, in this forest it is more likely for them to attack me than the reports of the real world claims them to be. So, I have to be careful.}Thought kurt deeply as he pets the black bear.

As he prepares to head back to the cave, he tries to make the bear follow him with hand signals but, remains unsuccessful in his attempts as the bear doesn't understand a thing. Kurt tried something even crazier, he decided to push the bear to move it but to no avail as the bear is too heavy even for him and the bear looks at him with confusion before it continues to lick it's wound. Unable to do anything, he thinks of imitating the baby bears cooing sound and that is what he does. To his surprise it worked as the black bear gets startled and remembers the babies left in the cave, after succesfully gaining the bears attention, the black bear starts to follow him while he keeps a safe distance from it and leads it to the cave. Soon, one bear and one human reaches near the cave, where the bear was startled to see another grizzly bear's dead body and was panicked striken, for the first time kurt began to regret his decision as what happened moments later confirmed his foreboding.

It suddenly dashes towards the cave in worry and panic. Perhaps, more worried than it is kurt as he sees the dashing bear, kurt despite tired and worn out by all the fights runs behind the black bear, trying to catch upto it as he knows that smith is in the cave and is worried about his safety. Unable to catch up with the bear despite running at full speed, he tries exerting his body to the extreme as he feels a sudden burst of enegy oozing out of nowhere as he successfully catches up to the bear, With worry filled mind, kurt increases his speed more and more while in the process exerting himself more to get infront of the bear just to stop it.

The bear continues to run as it neared the area where smith is seen playing with the baby bears. Seeing smith play with it's baby, the black bear wad about to get enraged and attack while in the process of running, when out of nowhere kurt outruns it and slows down in front of it, just in the nick of time saving clueless smith. Seeing kurt infront of it slowing down, the bear slows down as well, moments later both the human and the bear comes to a stop, kurt turns around as he slowly tries to calm the bear down with his hand signals but to no avail. Smith who was petting the baby bear was startled and shocked to see kurt appearing infront of him and blocking a black bear.

Seeing kurts tired body and the black bear, the first thought that came to smith's mind is that, maybe kurt failed to help the bear and offend it in the process causing it to chase him all the way here so, he instantly shouts to kurt in worry:" Be careful Kurt, try to leave the cave, I will fight it."

Instead of hearing what smith is saying, kurt approaches the bear as he tries his best to calm it down. Seeing kurt approach the bear, smith watches in horror as he shouts again:" Don't approach it, it is dangerous, leave the cave, I will be fine."

Instead of heeding smiths word, kurt again approaches the bear and pets it to calm it down, the black bear grunted at smith some more times before it calmed down under kurts petting, moments later kurt brings the black bear to the baby bears after it calmed down completely. The baby bears starts cooing the moment their mother came up and stumbles towards their mother from smith's snuggle. The black bear still weary of smith, eyes smith with glares but, as it sees kurt approach smith and talk to him, it didn't proceed to attack, instead it licks it's babies and starts feeding the babies. The babies soon fell asleep after having their fill. While the black bear takes one last glance at smith besides kurt and fell asleep due to fatigue.

Smith felt his worldview turn upside down as he can't belive that kurt easily befriended the bear. The moment he heard kurt retell, what had happened a moment ago, as the bear approached aggressively towards him, to the time kurt stopped the bear just in time, felt like a dream to him. He can't believe that not only kurt could outrun the bear but, he also managed to calm it down so easily is the biggest blow he ever faced as a hunter and as a former wildlife safari guide. Working as a wildife guide, he saw many animals and even tamed black bear for research purposes but, that took him at least a week or two at the fastest while the slowest one took a year. After calming down from the shock as smith is about to ask something, kurt beat him to it as he asks in worry:" Are you alright? Did the baby bears harm you? Did the bleeding stop? Do you still feel pain?"

Hearing kurt's consecutive questions, smith forgets about everything and says in a low voice with a smile as he points at the bear:" You have too many questions. Can't you at least talk in a low voice? The bears are sleeping you know."

"Ah, I am sorry, it's just that I was too flustered. Are you alright? Did the baby bears harm you?" Says kurt in a low voice with worry as he sits on the ground due to fatigue.

"Yeah, I am fine, They didn't harm me, they played with me a lot, I think they were hungry that's why the moment their mother came, they instantly went to her to drink some milk." Says smith with a smile in a whisper and decides to avoid the topic of kurt out running the bear. {Let it be, everyone has their own secrets.} Thought smith.

"They seemed to be tired? So, do you still feel pain?" Whispers kurt with worry.

"Yes but, not that much compared to before, I am okay, if possible rest some more and then find melissa and albert." Whispers smith calmly.

"You know how human babies sleep more than adults, right? Same is the case for animals, these babies might have been up before we were even here, that's likely the case why they instantly went to their mother for milk and also the reason why fell asleep instantly after having milk." Continues smith in a whisper as he explains kurt.

"Okay, I will go now, let's bring melissa and albert back." Whispers kurt as he is about to get up but gets caught by smith midway through.

"Sit and rest some more, theres no hurry. You have to take care of your body first besides, the forest isn't a safe place. You aren't the only one who is in danger right?" Adds smith with warning as he holds kurt with his left hand and pulls him to sit.

Kurt sits down and relaxes himself for the first time, after going through all that near death experiences, he starts to think about all the things he had gone through and thought how lucky he was as, he survived from the snike bite to consecutively killing the bears successfully without a single injury. {I didn't think that branch could penetrate a bears skull after all, I had to be accurate in my aim to perfectly kill them, the fact that I and smith found those branches with with sharp ends seems weird in and of itself, they are shaped almost like spears, as if someone purposefully left behind.} Thought kurt deeply as he let's out tired breath one after another.

After thinking things through, he decides to go through his system setting as he decides to avoid character profile because, the character profile remains the same.

{Settings} thought kurt as instantly a window pops up infront of him, in order to avoid worrying smith, kurt closes his eyes and tries out whether he can continue to see the setting, to his surprise it actually worked. In his mind, kurt starts to see the 'settings' again as the stats are described as follows:

|Name: Jack Evans

Race: Human

Age: 18

Auxiliary points: 0 (can be used to upgrade stats.)

HP: 80/100 (comments: Slightly injured.)

Intelligence: 6

Speed: 8(+1)

Agility: 9(+1)

Focus: 10(max)

Luck: 6

Charisma: 8

Stamina: 10(+1)(max)

Strength: 9(+2)

Durability: 8

Dexterity: 8|

(Description: On the verge of discovering 'something special'.)

|Traits,

Total Traits:2

Available Traits: 3

Trait Talents: | 1.) Sense of fortune: Always detect treasures or the like within a hundred meter radius.

2.) Limitless time: Increases the time limit of mission worlds, allowing the user to live longer in the mission world.

Trait points: 0|

|Mission difficulty: Easy

Main Mission: Save two or more of your comrades.

Comrades saved:02

Side mission 1: Build a safe house.

Side mission 2: Explore to the heart of the island.|

{Hmm? The setting is displaying everything together this time?} Thought kurt weirdly.

{Player, welcome to 'all stats setting', ASSET for short, this setting is developed for better viewing experience of the players in-game data. The player has also unlocked focus stat. Since, player has successfully reached a max stat, player can now use 'special' items to upgrade stats.} A text appears in his mind.

As kurt understood what the text said, it suddenly disappeared. After understanding the 'ASSET' setting, focus and max stat, kurt sees his stats and is shocked by what he sees. First, his speed increases, then his agility, stamina and his strength gains another point successively.{What in the world? How did this happen? Stamina is understandable but, how did my speed, agility and strength increase? and focus? How did I unlock that? even though the system mentioned it. What is the criteria to unlock stats?} Thought kurt in complete shock.

Kurt starts to think hard as he finally remembers some details. When he aimed the branch at the first grizzly bear, he was so focused that he didn't care about anything else as something in him felt different. He now remembers clearly that his body coordination increased causing him to perfectly strike the bears head.{That might've unlocked the focus stat and almost maxed my agility.) Thought kurt deeply.

{As for strength, I think, I should replay those battles again in my mind again.} Thought kurt deeply.

[Smith in the front keeping the bear at bay, while kurt watches on as smith signals kurt to attack the bear, kurt slowly feels the emotion, as an adrenaline rush courses through his veins making him fall into an unique state as he only sees the target being the bears head. As smith signals him, kurt feels nervousness seep to his mind but the adrenaline rush makes him slowly by slowly forget everything as he holds on to the branch tightly making his muscle bulge adding onto the fear of his and his comrades death make him even more calmer and sharper as he jumps from the branch and lands precisely on the bears head without a sound and starts to insert the branch in the bears head by applying all his strength as he prepares to jump back in mid air. When the branch inserts slowly by slowly into bears head, huge amount of blood spurts out causing the branch to redden completely while kurt escapes just in time to miss the blood spurting out and a potential bears attack.]- The memory ends here as kurt comes out of his trance and focuses on the next one as he thinks of the moment, when he exerted himself to increase his speed when, a eudden a burst of energy seeped in him to elevate him to a higher speed.

{It seems that, I applied huge amount of strength unknowingly and if I could be in dangerous situations like that maybe, I would improve more. As for speed, it is clear to me now, when it improved. If I want to increase my durability, do I have to fight bears with bare hand or something? I think that may help.}Thought kurt deeply.

{What stupid thought process is this? Why should I risk my life like that? Stupid, stupid.} Thought kurt as he comes out of his thoughts and focuses on the screen.