"After spending a hot minute gathering up anything of value such as the bodies and stuff I crafted with my inventory we had to ditch our first attempt at a house, not because it looked like a dick... partially because of that but because during the battle it got badly damaged.
Now wandering through the woods I went to see what my random item roll would be" system don't fail me now!
{You obtained appraisal skill scroll would you like to learn y/n}
[Lucky bastard!]
How's that lucky?
[Appraisal is a very good skill it basically allows you to know things about your enemy and environment giving you a long dick advantage]
Well dam... I'll get to using it then"I selected yes and saw the scroll disappear feeling the skill slot into place in my status".
{You learned appraisal lv 1}
{Appraisal lv 1: Grants the user the ability to analyze their surroundings increase the level to get better descriptions, cost none}
Let's see this baby work"I went to see if It would work in my inventory and Indeed it does better yet it was piss easy to use, I didn't even need to use my imagination".
{Endorohs tree: A tree that evolved in the end capable of reaching incredible heights}
A bit lackluster but that's to be expected given it's level, moving on to the others.
{Poraxomite spitter: A insectoid creature that shoots explosive organ bombs}
{Endorcrux: A walking tank capable of unleashing devastating attacks via ramming or trampling}
{Appraisal lv 2}
{Venerous head trap: A hostile plant monster that shoots sticky purple sap and can use roots to snare it's prey, beware of its regeneration}
It'll get better with time, say sys do you know where any source of water is? So I can use it to clean this gunk still on me"while the explosion may have freed my wings and mouth and other body parts it wasn't a shower quite opposite".
[You have a map why not use that?]
Well if you think of it like that because I CAN'T SEE UNEXPLORED AREAS! For a system that's supposed to help me you sure as shit can't remember the description of skills you gave me!
[Look I'm not perfect take it up with my manager but if you want to find water try looking for trail, hear rushing water or vegetation that looks extra healthy]
See that wasn't so hard"i looked around in my surroundings and saw the closest thing to a trail and took it, while at it I spammed the shit out of appraisal to get it leveled up while blocking the notifications and only letting the level up ones ring.
The journey was a surprising success a very big one at that too because I found a lake but I had one question?" Why the fuck is the water black! I swear everything in this damn dimension lacks a diverse palette!
[Suck it up buttercup this isn't earth]
Hmph fine but there better not be a tentacle monster in there waiting to shove it tentacle up my privates!" I got close to the lake and peared down at the water waiting for something to jump out and attempt to assault me but nothing happened, I smelled the air even tasted the water which had a slightly sweet taste yet still nothing happened".
Here goes nothing"I appraised it for a later look and slowly walked into the water making sure to stay by the shallow parts while axol waited at the shore for obvious reasons it was a little cool and soothing against my scales even giving me a tingly sensation, still nothing bad happened so I got to washing and I admit...it was annoying since the crap that was stuck to me during the battle latched on like a leech in a mans underwear and to make it worse I didn't have any soap so I had to use my claws but it wasn't all doom and gloom since the water seemed to help with getting the crap off, eventually after what felt like hours and axol keeping me entertained with his slingshot and botched chorus fruit launches I was all cleaned, the water barely looking stained.
I was about to leave the lake when I spotted something poking out of the surface before resubmerging taking that as my cue to leave I noped the fuck out of there paddling my ass to the land since flapping your wings in the water even with my current stats is not possible.
I was four inches away when something grabbed my leg and pulled me away from those damned four inches" I'll be back!
"I said to axol before going underwater and found out I had a oxygen meter what a surprise, I wonder if I could increase it?"
{Oxygen: 100/100}
"If my guess is right I'll lose 1 per second giving me 1 minute and 40 seconds hopefully enough now let's see my would be assaulty, I looked to see a long tentacle connected to a shadowy mass I couldn't see all that well due to the black water, the only reason I wasn't freaking out and pissing myself if I even can was because I saw a opportunity and sought to up my heart of ender fragment potential was this risky oh absolutely if it fails then I'm in for a very long drowning and underwater slap fest.
Thankfully I didn't have to wait that long with just a minute left the monster showed itself sporting a round body with tentacles that number in the double digits it opened it maw wanting to eat me but a quick thought through with my fauna control skill and it stopped mid open maw, not bothering to glaze myself with the anticlimactic victory I had it quickly take me to the surface before I ran out of breath".
Gah....that was a bit to easy I was expecting more struggle? Maybe some biting and drowning not for it to be this easy!?.
[Kinky didn't know you was that kind of person]
Oh hush let me guess you know something I don't that you didn't bother to tell me"I said while getting out of the water and onto land I used a appraisal on the monster then sent it back to where it belonged deciding to not be kill happy".
{Abyssal drowner: A aquatic inhabitant with a knack for dragging it prey underwater to drown and devourer with their 60 tentacles, these are weak minded creatures that are low on the food chain sporting a rank around beginner lv 3}
{Appraisal lv 4}
That's new, speaking of which what the fuck is a rank?
[Universal power system]
Really that's it?
[Hush I'm talking! Now you see the system is arranged like this.
Beginner 1-10: where the weakest living and non living creatures reside in but with time or other methods they can evolve or go up a tier, intelligent monsters capable of speech are quite rare in this rank and so are civilizations.
Intermediate 1-10: require 50 lv 1 beginners just to equal lv 1 intermediate, monsters capable of speech and higher intelligence are more common leading to civilizations being formed.
Advanced 1-10: require 50 lv 1 intermediates to equal lv 1 advanced, a creature starts to develop a energy core that allows for prolonged battles and usage of attacks that don't use STA.
Professional 1-10:require 50 lv 1 advanced to equal lv 1 professional, intelligence and the power of the energy core is greatly increased in monsters and other creatures.
Expert 1-10: require 50 lv 1 professional to equal lv 1 expert, creatures can manipulate their energy cores more efficiently than before allowing for the use of tactile kinesis.
Master 1-10: require 100 lv 1 expert to equal lv 1 master, creatures in this rank become incredibly resilient to damage and can continue to function despite severe bodily harm their manipulation of the energy core continues to get stronger after this granting them the ability to cause minor reality warping.
Legendary 1-10: require 100 lv 1 master to equal lv 1 legendary, legends never die any being that makes it to this point are almost impervious to harm and can revive twice their previous obtained powers get even stronger with them having warping reality to a point it creates holes that can be weaponized as long as their energy cores have enough power.
Mythical 1-10: require 10 lv 1 legendary to equal lv 1 mythical, impervious to anything below legendaries and possessing 3 lives mythical beings can shake up entire wars and require weapons of mass destruction just to harm them, they can cause a spatial distortion around them rendering many attacks null.
Dynamos 1-10: require 10 lv 1 mythical to equal lv 1 dynamos, incredibly rare points in life to reach anyone who becomes a dynamos is almost immortal as long as their energy core isn't destroyed and possess strength to end wars, they almost possess full reality manipulation and can create their domain or grow preexisting ones.
Legionyx 1-10: require another legionyx, immortality is achieved and only another legionyx can kill one via domain collision, two legionyx fighting are to be treated as world wars capable of engulfing multiple worlds and more if not stopped, reality, spatial, tactile and energy core manipulation are as easy as breathing.
Cataclysm: is less of a actual rank and more of a sub rank that applies to the rank a creature is on, these sub ranks don't increase anything but it do give the being the ability to become a catalyst for change via the activation of dimensional gates allowing for transportation and corruption of other places, they are kill on site.
Now now before you get wet and think these are absolute, they're not why yes the higher rank you are the harder you'll be to kill but there's one big old issue! The system is a bit outdated so these ranks might not hold up like they used too]
Well that just great so let me guess I can be gojo, but with the power of gun I can make a legendary a fucking memory! Also how do I tell what rank I am?
[For your first one no... just no you would need a very powerful one to do that assuming it even hit and for your second one you're a outlier in terms of the ranking system, this doesn't mean you exist outside or above it (your not that special) it just means you have bit of a crutch that gives you a edge over others and it's all thanks to me your system!]
=_= D is for doubt.
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"We track on forward moving through the forest after my lake escapade and learning about a ranking system with questionable up to date standards that could warrant a OSHA inspection, I decide to go through the things I appraised and found some interesting things".
{Healing vine: A glowing black and purple vine with regenerative properties, can be refined into a potion or pill}
{Endcrock: Incredibly durable rock that can be broken down and mixed with endstone to create a very durable material}
{Abyssal water: Corrupted water that's harmful to anything that isn't a natural inhabitant of the end dimension, it has many uses and makes wonderful coolant}
Still needs more levels but it seems like once I settle down I'll have a lot of useful things to harvest, assuming the forest lords don't cause me hell speaking of which where do those bastards reside?
[Find them yourself!]
Exactly ho....oh I know how I can use fauna and flora control and have the inhabitants tell me! Tho I don't know if it'll work my best bet is to level up the skills enough, oh what's this?"during my outer mental ramblings with sys me and axol came across a cave covered by trees, looking on my map the cave was north of the lake and the other shit I passed".
This will do"me and axol entered the dark cave and I got to work activating my flora control skill which was easy since all I needed to do was imagine the vegetation moving to cover the entrance up, the cave was more than big enough to house us and ksi forehead combined and was covered in endstone and some other rocky materials.
I emptied my inventory of everything but the corpses and things I'm going to craft with, putting my junk in a chest I made that was placed in a corner, I made another crafting bench and placed it down and crafted up a wood pickaxe for axol who understood what to do and got to work mining some of the walls" this is such a a cheat what can't I do with this crafting shit.
[Well just because you can craft stuff without normal step by step process doesn't mean others can and properties carried over can only go so far, eventually you'll be reliant on infrastructure and there going to be things you can't craft purely due to their complexity like cars or guns]
Buzz kill what next gonna say there's materials I'm gonna need more than a furnace to use"I said while making two endstone pickaxe for me and axol getting a new recipe, I took mine in the mouth and while it was weird to use I got use to it quickly.
I was busy doing excavation for the next 3 and a half hours when my pick hit something hard looking at it I saw a green ore? Well that's new and more colored than all the shit I've seen".
Let me guess it's a...
[A material you can use your furnace for tho it'll be of worse quality]
Fine by me I'll just hang onto it, just how do I get better quality"I appraised the material getting a lovely description".
{Greho: Greenish metal that after refinement can be used for building due to it high resistance to the elements, can be mixed with other metals to make alloys}
[You can get better quality materials by creating or using preexisting infrastructure now get back to work slave your works not done!]
That's racist you know!
[If it's racist then why can I not see it]
What are you talking about.....oh OH SHIT!