The following day morning came with a whisp of cool breath of air that calmly kissed my cheeks breaking me from the dark embrace of my dreams.
Deploying my quick change to swap out my clothes, and reequip my gear in a hurry I hurriedly made my way out of the tent, to check on how things turned out with the trio stand guard for us.
As I exited the tent the world went blank.
As I stood their staring out at the field before me, which yesterday and last night was a sweeping sea of green that swayed in the breeze.
Now instead there was only a single word for it, utter calamity.
The field was filled with monster corpses, the lush green grass was dyed a deep red as numerous pools of blood filled the area, and each breath of wind brought with it an even more unpleasant smell of death.
Looking around franticly I saw Kurama calmly sitting at his post within the cart, and my twin stone golems still in their original positions.
[Just what had happened in the night, there must be close to 200 bodies out there, at what point would they deem it necessary to have woken me?]
Walking up to Kurama, he noticed right away and gave the same simple salute the golems had before raise his right paw to me breast and patting it once.
"Busy night I see?"
'Nod'
"Don't you think you guys might've gone a bit over board?"
"pooee"
Shrugging its shoulders exaggeratedly.
"Well not that it matters, can you get Rocky, and Creed to gather all the bodies together for me? I need to take a walk myself to gather the item drops, oh but first I should analyze you three"
When they'd first been created all three were lvl 7 just like me but surely after having fought off so many their level must've increased.
Peering at their status it indeed showed their level had increased, however that was not what shocked me most, nowhere on their cards or profiles did it show an exp bar, instead when I went looking I found that my own level had likewise risen to the same as their own.
[So even though I was asleep I leeched all the exp from my summons, but if that's the case is it equally split between the four of us, or do they level when I do? Guess there's more experimentation yet to be done]
Name: Satou Ekiken
Race: Human
Class: Novice
Age: 21
Level: 12/30(12)
Health: F
Strength: G
Stamina: G
Agility: F
Mentality: F
Dexterity: F
Intelligence: F
Taking my leisurely stroll through the now blood soaked field snatching up all the dropped loot that I could find, meanwhile my three summons worked tirelessly to create a mountain of bodies which I approached after having made my rounds.
Collected:[[43 Night Wolf Corpses, 13 Orc Corpses, 68 Goblin Corpses, 23 Kobold Corpses, 7 Stone Lizard Corpses, 74 Golden Rams, 83,000 Dokc, 12 minor heal potions, 3 minor stamina potions, 43 Night Wolf Pelts, 21 Wolf Fangs, 20KG Orc meat, 13 Orc Testes, 19 Orc fangs, 37 Goblin fangs, 68 Goblin ears, 13 Orc ears, 43 common Night Wolf Cards, 13 common Orc Cards, 68 Common goblin cards, 23 common Kobold cards, 2 uncommon Stone Lizard cards, 42 common Golden Ram cards]]
[Well that's a ton of bodies, but until I can properly harvest all the materials from them I should hold off on just getting rid of them, at least until I can find a butcher, or learn to deal with it myself, but ugh that smell.]
Walking my way back to our camp with my escort tagging along, I glanced over my shoulder still seeking the spotted field of contrasting red, and green.
When I turned my head back I saw Raisa had just walked out of the tent and was now staring pretty wide-eyed, her mouth flapping open and closed.
"No need to worry everything is sorted"
"Are you really sure, it looks like a war took place here last night"
"Yeah no worries at all, Kurama and the Golems handled it perfectly"
At my say so Rocky, and Creed fist bumped, and Kurama took up a pose, raising a paw, to me it looked like he was going for the traditional V for victory pose, but since his paws are just that paws, it would be impossible, even so where did any of my summons learn anything like that?
"Huh!? Um well ok if you say so"
Following this, I called back Creed, and Rocky who faded into balls of light that then were absorbed by me once again, confirming their presence within the monster book.
Kurama meanwhile joined us for breakfast.
Having packed up everything the three of us climbed back onto the cart and started the final leg of the journey to Bobel, Kurama once again joined Raisa in the front seat and almost immediately after setting off had curled up and gone to sleep.
I meanwhile had resumed my position in the back of the cart pouring over my menu.
There are only two things left from the game that I have not done, Magic but I'm not sure how that would work since this world already has magic, would mine be different, or could I learn to perform both?
According to Raisa as I raised a question about magic she pointed out that anyone who has a rank listed in the mana section of a status appraisal is capable of learning magic but those with a low rank should only manage everyday life magic, or the weakest of attack spells, such as spark, or drizzle.
The other thing is professions, in the game it was a way for players to harvest goods, and create their own goods that were orders of magnitude better than anything you could find in non-player shops, but often paled in comparison to rare item drops from tough opponents.
In the game there were a total of 19 different professions, but players only ever focused on at most 5 of these since being a jack-of-all-trades would take an insane amount of time to become a master of them all.
So far I haven't seen the professions tab unlock in my menu, but since I haven't done anything yet that would constitute a rising of any of those skills short of collecting the items and drops themselves, which could fall under
To test this theory I pulled out my dagger and drew a long slice across my palm.
'Urrrk' blood proceeded to flow excessively from the fresh wound on my hand.
[uh ok yeah was meaning to make a cut but certainly think I went to deep on that one]
Quickly pulling out one of the shirts I had purchased back in the kingdom I tore the fabric to make a simple bandage and wrapped it tightly around the slice in my hand.
While doing this I watched my Health bar within the menu, I had lost 5 health from the initial cut, and another 1 every 10 seconds from bleeding, and this stopped as soon as the make-shift bandage was in place.
A quick flash of my menu, and a new tab appeared.
[Well that was pretty easy to unlock professions]
Navigating to the new menu tab I saw my only profession listed
Selecting the first aid window a new crafting menu appeared, only two options showed allowing me to convert simple cloth into basic bandage, or cloth bandage each held its own merit for healing health, but being a beginner level skill the heal rate is practically meaningless.
Basic bandages only heal 10 health, and cloth ones 25.
For now I selected to use up what remained of the shirt to create 3 simple bandages, removing my makeshift bandage I replaced it with the simple bandage, immediately, my health bar returned to full, and I removed the new bandage revealing a fully healed hand with no scar on my palm.
My profession level from the crafting of bandages and the application of first aid onto myself did not increase so i can only assume that the growth ceiling is much higher than simply healing a single wound but not wanting to endless harm and heal myself i set it aside for now.
[Well good thing it's exactly like the game, though the means of acquiring professions is different, in the game you just had to find a profession trainer and pay the fee to acquire the novice level proficiency, but here I guess I'll need to actually perform the basics myself until the system recognizes it as the profession, and then level my way up from there]