Shelter (2) - Learning and Understanding

After waking up. Alaric stood up and stretched. 'I'll skip breakfast to preserve the food stash a little longer.' He looked around, seeing some light shining through the barricaded windows.

'It looks like its morning, can't really tell, it's a shame my phone got destroyed during that dragon's blast.' he thought with a dejected look. He looked around once more and plopped down on the chair.

'Now's probably the best time to look through my moves and try to learn more.' he looked through his status window. 'Show [Dagger Mastery]'s info' he thought looking at his skills.

[Dagger Mastery]

[Youre profiecency with dagger like blades. Can be leveled up through constant uses of a dagger like blade.]

'Huh, doesn't that awe inspiring, but I am curious as to what will happen when it reaches higher levels.' he thought scratching his chin. 'Alright, show me [Disperce]'s info'

[Disperce]

[Gather the energy which has pushing properties to any part of your body. It explodes when touching something or when being overcharged. This skill can be leveled up by constant usage.]

'Woah, Isn't that kind of broken? So I can even use it to get out of tricky situations. Interesting.' he thought, his eyes big. 'Leveling up this skill will probably make it more cost effiecent and more powerful.' He looked at the skills again.

'Wait, didn't it say I have the pushing and pulling power of gravity? How do use the pulling power?' he waited for an answer from the system, but nothing came. 'Well, looks like i'll have to figure that out. Starting right now.' he thought, looking at his right hand.

His arm bulged as he clenched every muscle in his arm. He gave up after trying for a minute or so, seeing no progress. He scratched his chin and thought of different ways to use the pulling part of his power, but none of them worked.

'Alright, come on Alaric, you can think of something, I know you can.' he thought to himself, strain apparent in his face. Suddenly his face lit up. 'What if I use disperce and feel how the energy moves and feels? Yeah! That could work!' he quickly focused and concentrated on his hand.

'Disperce.' White energy quickly formed in the palm of his hand. He watched the whole process, seeing the energy strands swaying, weaving, and intertwining with one another. He noticed that the energy looked like it was moving from the middle of his palm to the sides of his palm. 'Huh, strange.' He looked at the brilliant and elegant movements of the energy for 10 minutes and finally came to a conclusion.

'What if I invert the pushing energy!' He quickly went to work. White energy formed on his palm again, flowing gracefuly. 'Alright, let's do this.' He sat there for a whole hour trying to invert the energy, until it happened.

As he was trying to invert the energy he felt a strange pull. The white gentle energy pulsed and slowly disapeared. Omminous black energy rplaced the whiye energy and started to form around the edges of his palm, moving from there to the middle of his palm.

[You have made a breakthrough. You have learned the skill gather. +10 attribute points.]

Looking at his hand, Alaric necer felt more proud. 'And what's this? Wow, 10 more attribute points?' he looked at the message. He already had the ratio of waht he wanted to invest his attribute points in. 'Put 5 in wisdom, 3 in strength and 2 in agility.' He felt power coarsing through his vains as he said this, making him feel untouchable.

'Heh, in my dreams, don't get arrogant, that will get me killed.' he thought with a smirk. He looked at his hand and clenched it. 'Hmmm, I feel stronger, I can probably lift 50 - 70 kilos with one hand right now without any struggle whatsoever. I'll have to test myself someday.' he looked up. 'I wonder what my stats are looking like. Status window.' he looked down to screen that had appeared infront of him.

[Alaric James]

[Human]

[Health]: 100/100

[Energy]: 320/320

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[Strength]:12

[Dexterity]: 6

[Agility]: 11

[Defence]: 8

[Wisdom]: 12

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[Attribute points]: 0

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[Ability]:

Gravitational Forces Manipulation]

[Skills]:

Dagger mastery: Lvl 1

Disperce: Lvl 1

'Huh, my stats are looking good, but my Defence and Dexterity are a little low. Defence will probably improve my overall toughness and increase my total amount of health points. Dexterity will probably increase my reflexes and make me able to do intricate manuevers and the like.' he thought looking at his stats.

'Being a jack of all trades is probably not the best course of action in games, but this is real life, if I die, I die, so being good in every aspect is probably the best, though Wisdom will probably be my highest stat, because of the high cost of my moves.' he thought, thinking of his future plans.

'It's probably time to get a move on, this place is not very safe.' He looked around the house again, looking at the covered windows and then at the door. He picked up his bag and slung both straps over his shoulder. He made sure everything was in place and made his way to the door.

He stepped outside and saw that the sun was already high up in the sky. He looked around and his eyes immediatly widened. On ghe road infront of the house were a total of six zombies. 'Oh come on! I just got out of the house!' he sighed. Atleast they haven't seen him yet. 'Well, time to get to work. Maximum effort.' His eyes turned cold, an 'aura' of seriousness inside them.

He pulled out his knife, gripping it tightly. 'What will happen if I use disperce on my feet?' he thought, looking at his feet. He crouched in a running position, his right leg infront of his left one. He clutched his knife, white energy forming on the soles of his feet.

Boom! Swoosh!

Alaric blurred away from his spot, leaving cracks on the wooden porch he was standing on. He was fast, but he couldn't really see anything, everything was a blur. He still swung his blade though, as he had launced himself in the direction of two of the zombies.

Schling!

The head of one of the zombies was sent flying, his neck had been cut. Alaric slid to a halt beside the second zombie, trying to catch his bearings, but quickly forming white energy on his palms and slamming it against the zombie. It was sent flying and had crashed against one of the abandoned cars on the street.

Alaric ran after it, it had flown over fifty meters, but Alaric arrived infront of it in about 4 seconds, slamming his knee against the head of the zombie. Denting the part of the car where the zombie's head was.

Alaric looked around. 'Alright, 4 zombies left.' Two were running at him from the other side of the car he was standing infront of. 'Let's try this.' he thought, as he planted his palm on the car. White energy started forming infront of his palm again, but this time not stopping. It glew brighter and brighter until it exploded, making the street shudder. The explosion made a sizable dent on the car and pushed it towards the two zombies.

The car was heavy so it didn't get launched at amazing speeds, but it was still rellatively fast. Flying towards them with screaching tires. It crushed the two zombies making a hard 'squelch!' sound. 'Sucess!' Alaric was breathing heavely. 'That has taken alot of energy. I only have 50 left. A normal disperce takes 50 and I don't want to know what will happen if it reaches zero. He looked at the last two zombies. They were right beside eachother.

'Alright, time to get my knife dirty.' he gripped his knife tighter. He crouched into sprinting stance once more and ran. He closed in on zombie on the right. It swiped both its claws infront of it, but hit nothing but air. Alaric slid under the swipe and through his legs, cutting its ankles. It fell to the floor and that gave Alaric the time to focus on the next zombie, which's claw was already on its way to his face.

He stepped back, swinging his knife upwards, cutting its hand off. It groaned and swung his other hand from the side. Alaric moved the knife to block the attack.

Clang!

It was sucessful, but the impact had chipped and cracked the knife. 'It was just a kitchen knife after all.'

Alaric dropped it and grabbed the zombie's outstreched arm by the wrist, pulling it downwards. This made the zombie's whole body bend downwards. Alaric knee quickly found its way to the zombie's head, smashing it, taking it out.

Alaric quickly let go of the now dead corpse and spun around to the laying zombie. He lifted his foot and smashed it onto its head. Brain matter scattering all over the road.

[You have killed a minor zombie. +2 Attribute points.]

[You have killed a minor zombie. +2 Attribute points.]

[You have killed a minor zombie. +1 Attribute points.]

[You have killed a minor zombie. +1 Attribute points.]

[You have killed a minor zombie. +1 Attribute points.]

[You have killed a minor zombie. +1 Attribute points.]

'Looks like they have fallen in value.' he thought with a grim expression. 'They will probably fall to 0, that's when I'll have to look for something else.' He looked at his surroundings and then back to the corpses again. 'Huh, what's this?' he saw something shining from one of the cropses.

He picked it up and examined it. His eyes widened. 'Wow. What perfect timing.'

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