2 Poppin' Pills and Killing Monsters
"Ahhhh!!!" Moya's figure was dashing speedily in a bout of panic, as a Minotaur chased him endlessly. Moya was panting hard and his legs felt like they were about to give up, but he continued running. He had no choice he would die if he didn't run. "Huff~Huff~"
Moya's body, which was rather lacking in physical ability, was unable to run for much longer and would inevitably fall into the Minotaur's jaws.
Whoosh
Bang
The Minotaur swung it's massive blade downward toward Moya, to which he haphazardly dodged. A cloud of dust was kicked up from the blade. Although he had successfully managed to dodge it, he had ended up on the ground. He coughed a few times, due to the dust that was kicked up because of the blade.
Thud
When Moya had tried to stand up before he the Minotaur's could rush him, his body fell to the ground, completely exhausted.
"Dammit!" Moya screamed.
Shink
Thud
The noise of something getting cut stunned the downed Moya, as blood flew threw the air, and a Minotaur dropped, then disappeared with a "Poof~"
"Are you okay?" A gentle voice floated into Moya's ears, and when he turned his head, he saw a blonde hair, golden eyed, angel. It was Aiz Wallenstein. The sword princess. Kenki...
"Yes. I-I'm good." Moya said. "Thank you for saving me."
"No it was no problem." She said, emotionlessly.
"Moya you better not be trying to flirt with another girl!!!" A voice suddenly interrupted Moya from the start of his playboy antics. Soon a black haired girl, walked beside Moya and said, "I knew it! You goddamn playboy."
Yes, this was the sweet and gentle Lady Death, whose true name was Kuroda. She had her cheek puffed out and was glaring at Moya, who was scratching the back of his head. "That was not my intention at all, I was just thanking Aiz-San for saving me from a Minotaur's." Kuroda continued her glare at Moya for several more seconds, but ultimately just gave out a sigh, and turned to Aiz.
"Thank you for saving MY husband, he likes to jump into situations he can't handle." Kuroda over emphasized the 'my'. Her words only garnered a small nod from Aiz before she walked off.
After Aiz had gotten out of earshot, Moya grabbed Kuroda by the shoulder, and said, "That was a perfect chance to get more familiar with Aiz, why did you do that? I already told you that I want a harem, and you already said you are okay with it. What the hell?" Moya was pretty pissed, he and Kuroda had long since discussed the future of his harem, and had long since come to an agreement.
"I was trying to protect your relationship with her, if she meets you now, with how pathetic and weak you are, she would see you as nothing more than a little brother or something similar. You have to get stronger first and foremost." As Moya listened to Kuroda's words, he grit his teeth.
Moya knew he was weak, he knew that well, but he couldn't do anything about it yet, he had no means of improving.
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{Status}
Name: Moya
Age: Unknown
Race: Unknown
[Danmachi Status]
-Level:1
-Power: I74
-Endurance: I62 -> I73
-Dexterity: I85 -> I92
-Agility: I76 -> I85
-Magic: H137
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Moya sighed, "Why don't you just use the store to buy something to help you grow faster?" Kuroda saw Moya's dilemma, and decided to through out an idea.
"Because that's boring, I could do that, but then I wouldn't really be strong, and I don't want to be reliant on the system store." Moya didn't mind using the shop to get weapons, armors, and other random things that could help him out through out his adventures, but he refused to cheat like that, it would make things pointless, and boring, somethings he wanted to desperately avoid.
"I understand how you feel, but isn't that irrelevant right now? I mean you don't have to buy something to make you super strong, just strong enough to fend for yourself."
"Eh... I suppose that's true." Moya than opened up the system interface, and went to the shop function.
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Store*
-Body [A/N(1) Will be explained later in the series.]
-Weapons
-Potions
-Skills
-Pets
-Pills
-Misc.
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Moya promptly clicked on the [Pills] section and immediately found what he was looking for. He tapped purchase, although it had no cost, and observed the pill for a few seconds. It had a golden aura, and had a tantalizing scent Moya took one last look at the enticing pill before popping it in his mouth and feeling a warm energy rush throughout his body. "Mn~" Moya moaned slightly before the feeling started to fade and disappear.
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[Medium Status Boost Pill] - {Consumable} - Eat to gain a medium increase in all stats. Increase depends completely on Consumer's potential.
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"See that wasn't so hard. What was the increase?" Kuroda asked.
"Uh let's see, Status." Moya said.
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{Status}
Name: Moya
Age: Unknown
Race: Unknown
[Danmachi Status]
-Level:1
-Power: I74 -> G274
-Endurance: I73 -> H113
-Dexterity: I92 -> H163
-Agility: I85 -> H127
-Magic: H137 -> G283
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"It gave me a really good increase." Moya said energetically, he could feel the strength that in his body and could feel the energy flowing throughout his veins. "This feels amazing."
Moya, in the heat of the moment, dashed off randomly in search of a random monster to victimize. He soon found a meek, ugly looking, Kobalt and began to fight it with his fist.
Boom, Boom, Boom.
Although he wasn't overly powerful, he was certainly far more powerful than he had been moments ago, and this sudden increase in power made him feel as though he was on top of the world, even though he knew he'd probably be killed in one hit if he were to encounter another Minotaur.
Crack.
Soon Moya heard a resounding crack and could feel the brain matter on his hand. He had kill his first monster. As Moya was about to take a bite out of the Kobalt, so try and gain it's strength from his skill Gluttony, the corpse disappeared in thin air, leaving only dust behind.
"Uh... This might be a problem..." Moya was troubled, as he wouldn't be able to use his wish in this world if it was like that. His only option would be to capture monsters, and eat them alive, or turn to cannibalism.
Although Moya had no problem eating another human, he didn't think that, that would really be an option this early in the game, mostly because humans are weak, and early on he wouldn't be able to kill, or even hurt, any of the ones that he'd want to eat. Perhaps when he got more powerful, he'd be able to eat someone like Ottar, but that was far in the future.
The problem with catching monsters, was the fact that he was to weak still, and capturing monster's took considerable skill, skill that Moya didn't have.
"Let me see what the system has." Moya finally came to this conclusion, and opened up his system shop.
Going into Misc. and Skill Moya found several things a few things that he would be able to use to make the monsters willingly be eaten.
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[Monster Taming] - {Active} {Monster} - A skill that can make any monster, whose intelligence is lower than the user, tame and under your control, with absolute loyalty.
[Monster Lures] - {Consumable} {Monster} - A small item that will make attract monsters to a single area, effect and duration is determined by how many are used.
[Sleep Drought] - {Consumable} {Potion} - A mystic potion, able to put even the most energetic person to sleep, the duration and effect depend on size, mental fortitude, amount used, and resistances. If used to much on one target, it is possible the target could gain an immunity to it.
[Preserve] - {Active} {Death} - A mummy is a body that preserved due to bandages being used to stop any parasite, or fungus from decomposing the body. You will be able to prevent anything from deteriorating or disappearing with this skill. As the proficiency increase, so will the size and number of things you can preserve, as well overall usefulness of this ability.
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Moya decided to try a little of everything, so he got the two skills and integrated them, and got a pound of the Sleeping Drought and seven Monster Lures. Soon after Moya finished his purchases, he threw out the monster lures and prepared for a long battle.
Monsters swarmed in at all sides, and Moya quickly splashed all of them with the Drought as he opened several wounds on them so that it would get into their blood. Afterward, he killed the other monsters and cast Preserve before their bodies could disappear. With the last three monster's he cast Monster Tame and used his will to pressure them into submission. All three Kobalts easily succumbed. The other monster's all fell asleep as a new wave of monster's began forming, to which Moya just killed and used Preserve before they could disappear, as well as making some submit to his will. The ones who had submitted to his will started to battle alongside him as he tore through the remaining monsters and took the occasional bite out of a Preserved corpse, feeling it turn into a warm energy as it entered his chest.
Soon the Monster Lures time ran out and they stopped working, letting Moya catch his breath, and eat the many Preserved corpses. For some reason, Moya never seemed to get full as he continually stuffed the Kobalt, goblin, and occasional horned rabbit meat into his mouth, he quickly ate all of the meat and had no more, despite all the monster's he had killed, which easily numbers into the hundreds. The monsters he had tamed came next and he ate the monsters indiscriminately as they stood idly. Moya decided that he'd keep one of the Horned-rabbits alive.
He went once more to his shop and got something that would be useful.
A Naming ability.
It might not sound like much but the basis of the ability was that he'd be able to name anything and when he gave them the name it would gain the properties of that name, for example if he made a sword and named it Death blade, it would have the death property, or if he named it something from a myth, it would take the form of that myth. However, the most important part of the naming ability was imagination, if you were to name a Kobalt Fenrir, but you couldn't think of what Fenrir from the myth looked like or what it was able to do, then nothing would happen, it would just have a new name.
Research was key.
And so Moya named his new rabbit. He named it Skavder, and as soon as he confirmed that as the name, a bright light burst from Skavder and he seemed to evolve.
What came from the light was a deer horned, bird winged, rabbit that radiated a feeling of like that of a bird of prey. It was most certainly a dominant creature.
"Skavder, come to me." Moya said happily. He was satisfied with the result and he fully intended to abuse this in the future.
Crunch.
Moya took a large bite out of the unsuspecting rabbit. Moya spared no part of the rabbit and even accidentally ate the crystal, which he had never tried before. When he ate the magic crystal, he felt a surge of energy like none other before, and he felt like something within his body was cracking.
"Th-this feels amazing."
Craack!!!
Then Moya felt a splitting headache as though his skull was being cracked open, and let out an ear splitting scream "Kyyyyaaahhhhh!!!" He screamed like a little girl but the pain was simply unbearable, and he whole body felt as though it was about to explode. Blood ran down his eyes and he coughed up about a pint of blood every other second as well as threw up do to the shear pain. His ears also had blood pouring out of them.
Tat, tat, tat...
As the pain started to mellow down and his body began to feel normal again, Moya could hear shallow foot steps as his consciousness faded and he blacked out.
