Chapter 3: Human Village
After passing out, it seems like I have been asleep for a long time as the leaves on trees which used to be green, are now an autumn color. My kin has been leveling up also until they reached evolution, my amount of kin I had was 20 before I fell asleep. My kin has already evolved into a low-ranked fox spirit, when I create new kin they are still of the fox girl species. It seems like my kin also has to get levels to evolve further, they didn't spend much time asleep when they evolved only a couple days is what the average time was for my kin to wake up and hunt again.
As I got up and got a feel of my surroundings, I checked my status "Status." ,
「Status:
[Nameless | Species: Low-ranking Spiritual Fox Girl | Race: Original Ancestor | Gender: Female | LV.1]
Titles: 「Original Ancestor」「Spirit of the Forest」
Attributes: 5500 HP ^3000 | 10000 MP ^5000 | 3500 STR ^2250 | 8000 AGI ^7000 | 5000 DEF ^3000
Skills:
「sr∆ d=✓ LV.?」- Evolved version of r∆ s=✓. #annot be identi### sin## #kill is no# b##nded by the sy##em. ##.... ##
「Human Form LV.MAX」- Changes the user into a Humanoid form with the fox tails. Appearance depends on how much total mana the user has.
「Advanced Kin Creation LV.1」- Uses 5% of the user's mana to create a kin. The more total mana capacity there is, the more powerful the kin can become, 100 maximum kin. [MP COST: 5% of the skill owner's mana]
「Kin Dominate LV.MAX 」- Full control over kin and can do difficult commands. [MP COST: 0]
「Appraisal LV.MAX」- Can view the user's own stats but can only view all of the information about the object being appraised. [MP COST: 0]
「Appraisal Blocking LV.1」- Obtained by reaching maximum appraisal level. The user can block appraisals or show fake information if the user's stats are 10 times stronger than the individual appraising the user, it will completely block the appraisal, but if the user's stats are not stronger by 10 times it will display fake information. The closer or the stronger stats are, the more real information is revealed about the user.
「Ultimate Claws LV.1」- Evolved version of Sharpened Claws. The beast user's claws harden and sharpen 100 fold when the skill is activated [MP COST: 0]
「Earth Magic LV.5」- The user can now use Advanced Earth Magic spells. [MP COST: 25]
Passive skills:
「Night Vision LV.3」- The user can now see 300% better at night.
「Freeze Resistance LV.1」- Evolved version of Cold Resistance. Resistant to temperatures -100° Celsius and above.
「Clairvoyance LV.1」- Evolved version of Presence Sense. Warns the user if there is presence even if the presence has level 5 presence hiding or lower in a 2000 meter radius
「Stealth LV.MAX」- Evolved version of Presence Hiding. Hides the presence of the user completely while avoiding clairvoyance skill from detecting the user's presence unless seen directly, the user can choose to hide their presence or not willingly.
「Regeneration LV.1」- The user's HP will recover by 10% every hour.」
After evolving I have significantly upped my attributes and I acquired 6 evolved skills and 3 more unique skills, the appraisal is showing the weird named skill more information than before but it is corrupted.. Wait! It evolved!? Hold on.. so the skill got more letters but I still don't understand the meaning of it and how to use it.. But there is appraisal blocking which I obtained by maxing appraisal which will be useful to hide my true strength if I ever go to a human village.. Night vision might be a racial skill when I evolved into a low-ranked spirit fox, I obtained it. My earth magic is now advanced and I have more powerful spells because of it.. Stealth which will be useful to hide my presence even more and I probably won't have to worry about the monsters running away! Hmm.. Clairvoyance is the evolved version of Presence Sense which can even detect things with level 5 or below presence hiding, so hiding will be even easier too. My claws now are 100 fold harder and sharper and I can cut down big boulders with ease using my ultimate claws. The regeneration skill will be extremely useful if I ever get badly damaged since it heals 10% every hour which is insane! Finally, I can create more kins using 10% instead it is now 5% so I can create 20 of them in 1 go. That's about what changed and the next order of business will be getting to a human village to get clothes.. If I can get clothes I can use my human form more often. I wonder if undergarments or lingerie is made yet? I would feel embarrassed if I had to go commando.. But now I will first find the ogre again and try to defeat it.
As I tried sensing the ogre, I found it standby near the cave. I go to the ogre and provoke it while casting magic to support my physical attacks.
"[Quagmire]! [Earthquake]!" I use quagmire to slow down the ogre and use earthquake to make the ogre loose balance and it works.
"Hyaa!" "Hmph!" I launched 2 physical attacks with my claws and it badly hurt the ogre, it was screaming in agony but it eventually got back on its feet.
"Oh no you don't [Quagmire]!" I slow down the ogre and prepare my next attack "Hyaa!" "..Huwaa!" "Hshaa!" I kick it using like a horse launching it to the cave and I shortly follow the ogre and I maul it with my claws. The ogre is now dying and unconscious, I landed my final blow finishing off the ogre. And after finishing off the ogre I got an pop-up
「You have now defeated the Giant Of The Forest and have been given all of it's attributes and the pain nullification skill. [+1000 HP | +100 MP | +2000 STR | +50 AGI | +2500 DEF | +(NEW SKILL) Pain Nullification LV.5] You have now leveled up to level 4. 」
As I got stronger I once again checked my status, "Status."
「Status:
[Nameless | Species: Low-ranking Spiritual Fox Girl | Race: Original Ancestor | Gender: Female | LV.4]
Titles: 「Original Ancestor」「Spirit of the Forest」「Slaughterer of the Ogre Of The Forest」
Attributes: 6221/6500 HP ^1000 | 8995/10100 MP ^100 | 5500 STR ^2000 | 8050 AGI ^50 | 7500 DEF ^2500
Skills:
「sr∆ d=✓ LV.?」- Evolved version of r∆ s=✓. #annot be identi### sin## #kill is no# b##nded by the sy##em. ##.... ##
「Human Form LV.MAX」- Changes the user into a Humanoid form with the fox tails. Appearance depends on how much total mana the user has.
「Advanced Kin Creation LV.4」- Uses 5% of the user's mana to create a kin. The more total mana capacity there is, the more powerful the kin can become, 400 maximum kin. [MP COST: 5% of the skill owner's mana]
「Kin Dominate LV.MAX 」- Full control over kin and can do difficult commands. [MP COST: 0]
「Appraisal LV.MAX」- Can view the user's own stats but can only view all of the information about the object being appraised. [MP COST: 0]
「Appraisal Blocking LV.4」- Obtained by reaching maximum appraisal level. The user can block appraisals or show fake information if the user's stats are 7 times stronger than the individual appraising the user, it will completely block the appraisal, but if the user's stats are not stronger by 7 times it will display fake information. The closer or the stronger stats are, the more real information is revealed about the user.
「Ultimate Claws LV.4」- Evolved version of Sharpened Claws. The beast user's claws harden and sharpen 400 fold when the skill is activated [MP COST: 0]
「Earth Magic LV.8」- The user can now use Mastery Earth Magic spells. [MP COST: 50]
Passive skills:
「Night Vision LV.6」- The user can now see 600% better at night.
「Freeze Resistance LV.5」- Evolved version of Cold Resistance. Resistant to temperatures -500° Celsius and above.
「Clairvoyance LV.4」- Evolved version of Presence Sense. Warns the user if there is presence even if the presence has level 5 presence hiding or lower in a 8 mile radius
「Stealth LV.MAX」- Evolved version of Presence Hiding. Hides the presence of the user completely while avoiding clairvoyance skill from detecting the user's presence unless seen directly, the user can choose to hide their presence or not willingly.
「Regeneration LV.4」- The user's HP will recover by 40% every hour.
「Pain Nullification LV.8」- 80% of the pain the user takes will be nullified.」
I now gained the skill 「Pain Nullification」which can nullify most of the pain taken from getting damaged, the worst thing to happen is me loosing it when I take an immense amount of damage.. I have almost maxed Earth magic so I can use mastery level earth magic but the mana consumption is doubled now. As I finish defeating the ogre and feeding it to my kin which now I have 30 of them. 10 of my kin have already evolved into low-ranked spirit foxes, and the ones that evolved now have an average of 1000 for their attributes. I head outside the forest and try to find a village, my maximum speed I can go at is 161mph because I have 8050 agility. A few days of running I finally found a human village, it took me only a short time since I basically have infinite mana because I don't need to eat or drink but I scout it and find about 2000 presences inside the villages, it was an medieval town and it seems to be a trading city because of all the carriages going in and out of the town. I gained a skill 「Speed」and it boosts my speed by 10% at level 1, it definitely helped in finding the town since I was now going 177mph. I turn into an human form and try to go in an less populated area. I find some clothing hanging out to dry outside, I take the undergarments, sleeveless tshirt, leather pants, an black skirt, and an hood from the clothes and finally get into town. I try hiding my tails and it partially worked, The 3 tails on my back are now only 1 so it will be less obvious.
Yosh, as I go inside the town using a back alley I encounter a man who looks about his 30s with his 2 thug looking friend and the man said,
"Hey what's an cutie like you doing in my turf?"
"I'm lost." and I try to get past them
The man smirks and says "Why are you trying to get away? We were about to have some fun."
"No thank you" I try to avoid getting blocked and the man tries to grab my neck,
I avoid it and the man notices my tail and ears "Eh you avoided it? A beast man huh? Well that's great. I happen to like beast men.." The group tries to grab me but I avoid all of them.
"Hey stupid beast man! Your species are nothing more than slaves, stop dodging god damn it!" The man's face turns mad and the neck grabs get faster but I still avoid all of them and counter attack with a simple kick "Hyup!" I kick the man in his core and he goes flying to the back alley wall. After the man got kicked, the other 2 feared me and ran away "Run! This beast man bitch is crazy!" they screamed.
Beastmen must be a species like a fox girl, they have animal characteristics, but the beastmen must be a shunned species from what the person said, they are slaves and people buy them for their combat abilities or sexual pleasure..
Absolute scum.. I thought, but I still continued to enter the town and I got a few glares because of my tail and ears. Just as I thought beastmen are thought of as slaves and nothing more.
"Hey kid, i'll buy ya for 3 gold pieces, tell yer parents. You are cute so I don't mind spending that much" A random person says to me,
"Tsk!" I smack my lips and ignore him.
"Hey don't ignore me! That's a good offer! I'm offering 3 gold pieces here! Do you want to help out your parents?" The man says frantically screaming,
I respond with a calm voice, "I am a parent not a kid."
I was technically not lying since my kin are definitely my children. The man had no shame, it is probably a common occurrence since the other people didn't even bat an eye to the situation.
"Ah really? You're an slut kid!" The man grinning and saying with a confident tone.
Oh really? I'm still a virgin you know! Like you'd know better, man.
"I'm a virgin but I have children." I responded with a calm voice again,
It really was the truth! I have kids but I'm really, a virgin. I wanted to punch this guy in the face but I was probably going to cause a bigger scene than this already since people were looking at me and murmuring, probably spreading rumors.
"Eh? Prove it kid." The confused man said,
I smile wryly and command one of my kin to turn into a human form and get clothing then come to me, after waiting for the kin to respond with it finished I said "Come.",
A person with ears and a tail who looks to be about 5 years younger than me comes next to me. The people flabbergasted to just what happened are now starting to suspect me,
"Hey kid, is that really your child?"
"Mmn." said my kin while nodding.
Oh my gawwd so cute! I really want to give you a big hug kimi, but I can't maybe later but I want to see if this town has any type of adventurer's guild..
"Well I have to go somewhere else now, goodbye." While saying that and turning around, the man grabs my shoulder and says,
"Don't think you are getting away.." The man smirks,
"Oh yes, I think I will." Turning my face back at the man while he was startled I lightly punch his stupid face,
He falls to the ground with a bruised cheek and runs away screaming "Ahhh!"
I walk with my kin, kimi to find the adventurers guild and I ask someone for directions to it,
"Is there an adventurer's guild nearby?"
"Yeah kid, go to the place with a sign looking like 2 swords clashing together."
"Mmn, thanks" I say while bowing my head,
As I walk to the adventurer's guild I appraise someone who is wearing armor and looks like an adventurer "Status"
「Status:
[Izumi Satou | Species: Human | Race: Kin | Gender: Male]
Titles: 「Novice Swordsman」
Attributes: 200 HP | 10 MP | 250 STR | 80 AGI | 50 DEF
Equipment:
「Plated Armor」- +80 DEF | Mediocre Quality
「Steel Sword」- +100 ATK | Mediocre Quality
Skills:
「Sworsmanship LV.1」- Basic swordsmanship abilities and a 10% sharpness boost to swords weilded by the user.」
I was surprised at how weak humans were compared to the monsters inside the cave.. The cave must have been at a really high level, I can now also see equipment in the status bar too so that is really useful if I ever get into trouble,
I entered the adventurer's guild and inside is a bar with a deposit area. I asked an employee how to register to the guild,
"How can I register to the guild?"
"Oh you must be new here, follow me to the counter so we can help you get registered."
"Mmn"
As I follow the employee to the counter I get a few glares but I ignore it and as I walk to the counter the employee say,
"First we have to test your capabilities, can you come with me again to the training ground?"
"Mmn"
As we enter the training ground I was greeted by a tall muscular man, he was apparently the tester but his stats only reached 300 at the highest so I think this won't be a fair match for me rather it is for the buff guy.
"Hey kid you ready? Just so you know I won't be holding back at ya since you look weak. Oh yeah, you can also call me Ron."
Ron, just so you know I won't be holding back either, get ready to experience hell for the duration of the match. As Ron clenches his fist he starts counting down "..3..2...1 Start!"
As the round started, I dashed at full speed at Ron and kicked him, leading to him getting launched into the training grounds walls leaving a big crater, he fell unconscious immediately and the onlookers were speechless and the employee trying to say something,
"Umm.. th-the r-round goes to the challenger. The challenger will be given an A ranked adventurer's card because of the swift victory of the challenger knocking out Ron the Giant in 1 kick!"
I wasn't really expecting much from that round since it was rigged from the start, I had overwhelming power compared to him. The round gave me an A ranked card already so I was happy with the result and while Ron was healing another examiner was replacing him. Kimi tried to get her own card and the same result happened when kimi was tested,
It was rigged. Kimi almost killed the examiner and was given an A rank card like me, and now we both were A ranked adventurers from our first day, rumors had started circling around the town of a mother and child beating 2 examiners and getting an A rank on their first day. We shortly headed out of town to switch back to our fox forms and the clothing disappeared but it reappears whenever I use my human form again, I now finished getting all of the preparations to go to the capital of the country I was in, I had to follow a path 800+ miles long but it only took a few hours to reach our destination, the capital of Ixtal with the help of a map we bought using the money of a monster corpse. As me and kimi turned into a human form when we were near the city gates we got through identification using our A rank card which surprised the guards. As we entered the town there were about 100,000 presences.. There were a lot of people in the capital, there were beastmen slaves in the streets walking with their masters which was a common sight. As I entered a less populated street there was a presence leaking malice towards me so I raised my guard. The presence got closer and tried to kidnap me as I turned around and kicked the kidnapper he got startled screaming "Mmn!?" as I kicked him to the wall. This is probably because I looked like a beastmen and more kidnappers tried to capture me as soon as they saw their comrade getting kicked but I dealt with them quickly. When I got away I breathed a sigh of relief and kimi was hugging me scared.. The poor girl probably got frightened by all of those kidnappers, I thought about beastmen having the same rights as normal people and as not slaves and I thought it was possible to do it by forcing my way through authority and power using my kin and my strength.. So I formed the coalition called the Sleeping Fox foundation on a whim and started creating as many kins as I can outside the capital in the woods, I now had 385 kin with 20 of them already evolved into a low-ranked spirit fox and I ordered them to get as strong as possible by evolving. As more of them get more kills the more I level up and they evolve, it was like a hierarchy of sharing points by the time half of them had evolved 2 weeks have passed and I was level 10 and I got another pop-up message for evolution..
「Does Nameless want to evolve from Low-Ranked Spirit Fox Girl to High-Ranked Spirit Fox Girl? Options: YES // NO」
* To be continued in the next chapter.