16 Chicken Hunting!
*Important Note: For More Info about the Novel Read at least the First Dream Info Chapter, which can be found in Auxiliary Chapters*
Stone trained for 5 minutes to finally be able to shape his [White Flames] into a ball, But it was worth it as he understood how to use and shape his Flames a bit from this 5 minutes of training.
He also tried experiments with the ball like making it too big and kill all enemies in one shot or too small and using it as a quick shot.
In the end, he decided to make the ball just as big as an adult's head so it doesn't consume much of his energy and only use the Gigantus Fire Ball as an ultimate skill.
He summoned Level 9 Hounds each time, and every time he burned them to nothingness sending them into the path of Respawnation.
After that, he started using other close combat weapons like Daggers, Rapier, Sword, Katana, Great Sword, and the likes to see what he was most suited to.
But, in the end, he decided to stick with a Blade as his main weapon and Daggers as his second.
Of course, depending on the situation he might use other weapons, but now that was his decision.
With his [Weapon and Martial Mastery] it was a bit easy to use every weapon without much effort, but of course, it was hard at the beginning as he only began after he was certain he was able to fight against the hounds.
Note that, He can't use long-range weapons as of now for two reasons:
First, Shadow still can't separate his body to create arrows and ammunition, nor does he have a Skill to make them, even if he had he still doesn't have that much mastery to shape them as so.
Second, He still didn't start cultivating so he doesn't have any Dream Energy, To create Energy Arrows or Ammunition, Even if he wanted to, he still didn't open his dantian so he can't store a good amount of energy yet.
He can store it in his body but it will be too... limited? Wait! doesn't he have a high-grade physique? Maybe he can store more energy than others.
We'll leave that for later, After all, he can't cultivate yet, The Earthling Dimension's Dream Energy reserve is close to 0 maybe that will be possible when he goes to the 'Dream World'.
Now, it was time to try the true Fantastic World.
He wanted to fight some Real Wild Beasts, the monsters in this room are just a kind of collected data, And they're just spawned so they don't really have any experience in surviving in the wild and they just follow their instinct.
After all, This world where Stone currently is, is nothing but a world created by Earthlings and the Dream Alliance's people, and they have no way nor is it possible to be able to make such a complicated system in a short time.
It doesn't have any monsters and it's only for exploring, trading, Training skills with the real world's Cultivation, vacations, and many more, but what's very good about it is safety.
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At first, Stone was planning to only stay for 30 minutes in the Training Room and leave until sometime later, but it was entertaining to train with many weapons, and most importantly it was very fun to kill the beasts!
After going out of the Training Center, Stone immediately teleported back to the other Part of the World, the true 'Fantastic World'.
Let's call this one, 'Paradise' and leave the full ownership of the name 'Fantastic World' to its rightful owner.
after going back to the village, Stone asked Goddess what to do if he wants to hunt some Beasts and where to find them.
{You can go to the Small Plains outside the Village, there you can find Level 1 to 5 beasts which will help you level up a bit, But before you go, I strongly recommend that you buy some kind of bag where you can put the body of the beasts or plants that you harvest so you get some quick cash!}
{Or you can Shapeshift Shadow into one!}
'Alright! I'll go with Shadow.'
'the small bag I got at the beginning is filled with bread and bottles of milk as well as coins so I can't use it right now, But, it might be useful later!'
After that Stone headed towards the gates of the village so he could leave and go hunt some beasts.
Unsurprisingly, many people were in the village, some buying stuff from the stalls, and some eating at the small restaurants, and some were looking at Stone.
Of course, he will attract attention with his looks.
The residents of this world are mostly wearing medieval clothes, while some were wearing armors they're probably adventurers.
The only thing strange about this world was the Avatar Creation, anything else, it was like any other world, maybe a bit too RPG like, but that's just the Goddess' settings of her world, anything else, it's similar to the outside World, death excluded.
After going out, Stone was welcomed by the Large Plains that occupied a good chunk of the Territory outside the Village.
He started searching for beasts, and finally after around 6 minutes of running and looking around, he located some a bit over 30 meters away.
"Shadow!" Stone called in a faint voice.
Suddenly, the space close to Stone started Spiraling ferociously and a Portal appeared right in the middle of it, it started growing and growing until it reached 2 meters in size.
Then a humanoid-like entity came out of it.
It was Shadow!
Welp, obviously!
After coming out of the Portal, Shadow kneeled and looked at Stone, waiting for orders.
As for the Portal once Shadow Fully came out of it, it spiraled again in the opposite direction until it vanished.
"Change into a blade!" Stone ordered, as he slowly made his way towards the monster while hiding in the 80 cm-long grass.
There were in total 5 Monsters, and they were... Some type of... Black Chickens?
Beasts sure are strange, they're also around 2 times bigger than your average chicken and they were even a bit bulky.
The place where they were located was empty of grass so it was good for hunting, and it helped a lot.
Probably they were the ones who cleaned it as if marking their territory by eating or cutting the grass out of the way.
When Stone was close enough to the beasts he just waited patiently for the right time to strike.
And then just as one chicken turned its back towards his direction he readied his blade and Dashed!
*Swishh* *Thud*
One head down.
and blood spurted out like a fountain.
It was a clean cut.
The other beasts were quickly alarmed and turned into angry Chickens, But before they could attack, Stone already slashed another chicken but it didn't die this time.
It seems like the first one was a critical hit.
He quickly retreated and blocked the attacks of the raging chickens.
One of the chickens jumped and was trying to drill his brain out, But he quickly dodged to the left and slashed it twice.
*Swish* *Slash*
The chicken got heavily injured and dropped to the ground heavily, Stone was about to deliver his finishing strike but he was interrupted by the other chickens.
They took him by surprise, although he blocked them, one of the 3 managed to strike his leg, which was actually bad, He lost his balance!
'Fuck! I gotta retreat!' Stone cursed as he forced his injured leg and Dashed again!
After 5 minutes of running, he finally got some breath.
"Those damn chickens are persistent! Fuck my injury just got worse!" Stone shouted angrily, then he took a big chunk of his clothes and wrapped them around his injury to stop the bleeding.
Really... His personality just doesn't make sense, being cold while alone or with strangers around, Warm with Friends and Family, and Angry when things go wrong, although he's calm all time round, his way of talking and cussing around just doesn't match his interior emotional fluctuation.
"I was too careless and overestimated myself! Even though I always remind myself to never be like those dumb MC from the mangas and novels!"
"Anyways, let's stop complaining and think of a way to heal my leg!"
"Before that! Goddess, Show me the info about [Dash]."
{Request Accepted!}
{[Dash], <Active>, <Mastery, 0.12%>, <Lvl 1, Exp: 18/1,000>:
(Skill Info:
This skill allows the user to experience a sudden increase in speed while dashing.)
(Skill Effect:
Agility +30% While Dashing.)
(Cooldown: 30 Seconds.)
(Skill Cost: -)
*Skill Cost will be displayed Later when Battle Prowess is fully analyzed, as well as HP, Stamina, and Dream Energy.*}
"I see! 30 seconds is the cooldown, It isn't that long, But, It's good to know!"
"Anyways, I have a question! it seems that to master a skill it needs a lot of time and training, So does it mean I'll need to fully Master all my skills before I will be able to break through the Skilled Soldier Stage?"
{Nope, For normal people(Trash to Ancient Grade Talents) they will need to master a skill to at least 10% before they can meet the requirements to breakthrough, From slightly better people(Legendary to Nightmarish Grade Talents) they will need to master 20%, and that's how it goes, well at least for the first 18 Stages it will be an increase of 10% for every 6 Major Grades, later on, it will be every 3 Stages 20% and it goes higher every time the difference between stages widens.
As for you... You'll need to 100% Master 3 skills before you're allowed to break through, that's what you get for having a High-Grade Talent, the Heavens are very fair!}
Stone was very surprised when he heard that he'll need to 100% Master 3 skills! Just so he can fulfill the requirements to breakthrough!
That was extremely hard after Training For 1-hour straight he didn't even raise his Skill mastery to 1%, not even a quarter.
"That's gonna be tuff! Anyways, I should have bought some potions when I was still in the village now I'm stuck here!"
{Hehe! Fear not, Dear Host! why do you think I'm here?
It's finally time for you to take a look at the Shop. Don't you think?}
"Oh! Haha, what luck! I totally forgot about that!"
"Time to take a look at the shop, Goddess show me what you got!"
{Request Accepted! Hehe!}
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Finally, I can sleep!
Lil Cliffhanger... Welp, hang in there!!
Anyway, this morning I got a pleasant surprise and I got occupied with it, The reason why I didn't make a chap earlier, But in the end, I found out I couldn't use it yet, so I need to wait.
I will tell you guys later when I actually get to use it, So don't worry! I just want to make it a surprise for everyone.
Don't forget to drop some Power Stones and reviews if you want, And like usual if you have any idea you want to suggest for this novel, I'm all ears!
And if you find any flaw or mistake, just comment on them!
and ye that's it, hope you enjoyed the chapter!
Oh, right!!!! You know that people in the Dream World get to set a Dream every year, Welp for Stone's Other Dreams I will leave it to you guys, Just put them here, and I will make sure to add them sooner or later on the story!
*First Come First Served!*
Yet again, Thank you For Reading!
