Claws, Slimes and Mana

Kella was still on the way to the source of the sound. "Still haven't seen anything besides trees and grass."

Kella's mind wandered as she walked. 'Is that hologram thing just gone? I Want to see it again.'

'Well anything besides trees really...' Kella glanced around at the repetitive scenery.

'What is it voice activated or something, what was it called?' Kella felt like the name was on the tip of her tongue.

"Oh, it was Status." It reappeared in front of her as the words left her mouth, Pleasantly surprising her.

Kella titled her head looking at the screen in front of her. 'It came back because I said it? Nice.'

As Kella looked at the screen questions popped into her mind. 'it solid or is it like a mirage?'

Kella then started to prob the window. her finger went through the screen with a no resistance. "Nothing... Will tapping something on it do anything then?"

Kella then tapped VIT making a smaller screen in the window.

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Vitality is a way to show how hardy a creature is and their resistance to dying.

>Increases how durable and how fast you can heal naturally.

>Improves Chances Of Resisting Being Cursed Or Poisoned.

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Kella's thoughts raced as she stared at the description. 'Resistance to dying huh.'

Kella tapped some more Pieces of text but only worked with the stats and skills. "I'll look at the skills first."

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Specific race skill of the Cat Beastkin.

Cat Beastkin are gifted with instincts and senses beyond that of other races.

>Gives the ability to sense impending danger in the form of instincts.

>Improves reflexes beyond other races.

>Improves the 5 senses.

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A race Skill Given To Most Beastkin.

Beastkin were also given the stomach of a beast as well allowing them Ingest things that other races would die from.

>Makes Ingesting monster meat possible.

>Improved Stomach efficiency when consuming food or water.

>Resistance to poison Or even absorb weaker poison as nutrients through the stomach.

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Usually acquired by beings with sharp, brittle claws.

Claws are vital to many monsters so some developed a way to regrow grow them for when they break.

>Claws slowly but constantly grow back.

>Use mana to regrow claws at much faster rate.

>Claws get stronger as proficiency increases.

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"How strong are my claws?" Kella looked at descriptions while walking then stopped in front of a tree.

"Man these are really big." Now that Kella was less focused on walking properly she realized the trees were so big in diameter she couldn't even wrap her arms around it.

Kella looked at the end of her fingers which are more resembled claws then nails now. "I wonder how much it would hurt to break them and how long it takes to regrow?"

'I should find out now rather when I'm getting attacked.' Kella closed her eyes then raised her hand and swiped at the tree with locked fingers.

Kella braced for the pain but it never came. opening her eyes she saw 5 shallow but long gashs marking the tree. "That's the only thing here and my claw cut through it effortlessly... great."

Kella looked her hand that looked completely fine with interest in her eyes. "I can't test what happens when my na- claws break right now."

"Is it just that the tree are soft?" Kella mumbled as she used a claw to scratch the tree, she couldn't tell if the tree was soft or her claws were just that sharp.

*Slop... Slosh*

Kella's head snapped to the sound as she backed up and fell, not used to backing up while her heals were not touching the ground.

"Got a bit too distracted there." Kella got up as she heard steps that were followed by a sloshing.

"Where is it?" Kella looked around and realized that whatever was approaching her was hidden behind the trees in the way of the whatever she was going to.

"Who's there?" Kella called out to see if it was a person but got no response and the sloshing steps got closer.

Kella was about to about back up further when She saw the source of the noise. "A wolf. But whats wrong with it?"

What resembled a blue furred wolf that was as tall as her but it's unsteady steps betrayed it's illusion as it's paws and legs compressed it way to show there was no bones in it's legs. 'Is it made out of slime.'

'Is it aggressive?' Kella just stood there for 15 seconds looking at it and nothing it stopped moving after it made eye contact with her.

"I should just go around it." Kella started to go around keeping her eyes set on it as she did so.

It's legs compressed even more then uncompressed leading it to pounce at Kella with a open maw showing a glowing blue insides it and see through teeth. 'What is that?!'

Kella clumsily rolled out of the way in time for it swish passed her. "Ok, not friendly!"

*Splat* Kella watched in interest amd panic as what she thought was a boneless wolf splatted into the ground turning into a puddle only for it to slowly reform into its wolf shape. 'Is it actually made out of slime!?'

The wolf tried to pounce at Kella again but was slow in its wind up letting Kella get out of the way with little difficulty. 'I need to know how to get rid of these things'

'so how do I get rid of it.' She looked her claws. then saw the wolf start compressing it's legs again and got ready to Dodge again but had a different thought.

As it pounced again Kella side stepped it and slashed it with her claws.

When Kella's claws connected, the wolf's skin split open and gushed a blue neon slime like substance. 'What the...'

The slime that leaked out looked like it tried to go back into the body some successfully going back in and some failed, falling to the ground and stopped moving.

The wound closed soon after but the wolf was noticeably smaller.

"Good, that seemed to worked." Kella went on the offensive and started hacking at it with her claws before it could pounce again and soon, it turned into a puddle but didn't reform. Just then a window popped up.

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"Slime wolf huh, I don't think we're in Kansas anymore toto." Kella looked at the puddles on the ground.

"Well that wasn't too bad at least there was only one." *Slop* *Slop* Kella turned around to see 2 rabbits with the same traits as the wolf had letting her know they weren't actually rabbits.

"Just had to say it but on the bright side they are about half the size as the wolf." Kella looked around to check for more but didn't see any.

"I should probably take the initiative this time." Kella pounced at one of the slimes and slashed it 3 times with her claws and got the slime all over her hands but the slime dissipated into the grass before it knew what happened.

"They aren't Ah... Why do my hands hurt?" Kella looked down and saw that the slime on her hands and claws were bubbling and causing her skin and claws to melt.

'The slime is acidic?!' Kella flicked her hands rapidly to get the slime off.

Kella felt something heading towards her and jumped to the side and rolled. "What was that?"

*Splat* Kella looked back to where she was and saw that the rabbit was reforming there. "That was close. How did I... oh yeah that skill said something like that."

"Let's get rid of this thing first before thinking about it." Kella ran at the rabbit and slashed it.

Kella stared at the point she sliced. "That's bad."

Kella's claws weren't sharp enough to pierce the rabbit skin anymore because of the acid eating away at them. "Well...Do you think we can stop for a bit?"

The rabbit jumped at Kella but missed. *Splat* "Nope, ok.. Claw Growth?"

Kella hoped the skill would activate like a game but nothing happened. *Splat* 'I can use mana to grow it faster but how!?'

Kella dodged the slime rabbit pounces while trying to figure out how regrow her claws.

Luckily the slime rabbit was really repetitive in its attacks and easily dodgeable for Kella.

'It said I have mana.' Kella's mind raced as she tried to think of how use or at least find the mana. *Splat*

'Maybe I have move it with my imagination or something.' Kella tried to imagine a blue liquid moving to her claws from her head but she felt nothing.

'Shit, maybe I can use a conduit for the mana to travel?' Kella then tried to imagine her blood as Mana and felt something leave her heart. *Splat*

"This feels disgusting but this is most likely mana." Kella felt something similar to a small worm sqirm through her vains towards her left hand. *Splat*

The mana flowed into her claws but the change was barely noticeable. "More? Alright, should be easier now."

'Mana might just be stored in my heart.' Kella tried again and felt a soild stream of mana coming from her heart.

"Well it it doesn't feel that bad but why is this exhausting." Kella had to put her entire mind to properly move the mana.

*Splat* "What? Dammit!" Kella got too focused on moving mana that she forgot to dodge.

The slime rabbit hit her abdomen, losing shape and covering her shirt in the area. 'I need to hurry up before it get to my skin!'

Kella mind rushed the mana to her claws but it was slow. "Just a bit-haaaa more."

The slime melted ate through the lower part of her shirt and started to slowly eating her skin. 'Few more seconds.'

Kella Felt the mana finally reached the claw and they grew in 3 seconds in those seconds She was put through excruciating pain. '

Kella slashed the slime which spattered all over her making the burning spread all over. "I should have expected this."

Kella struggled to get the slime off because of its gelatinous nature and took so long that the acid part of the slim faded leaving her stomach to her waist drenched in inactive slime. "God it stings."

*Slop* Kella turned her head to see another wolf in the way of the sound again. "You know what wolfy?"

"I'm done with this, I'll be back. " Kella Ran as fast as her mind could handle.

Kella glanced back and saw she was much faster.

*Ding* Kella heard a ding and looked up to see a window.

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<2 Slime Rabbit LV 1 Killed>

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"I guess some windows are combine with each other. A Mythology? nevermind don't right now." Ignoring the pain for now she walked to a nearby tree, sat down and rested her injured leg on her other leg. 'Status?' She thought as her status appeared.

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<Kella>

<Race:Cat Beastkin>

<Age:19>

<Titles:None>

<Level:2>

<Health:30%>

<Mana:90%>

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>VIT:7

>STR:8

>AGI:12

>DEX:10

>INT:5

>LUK:25

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>Cat Beastkin Reflexes

>Beastkin Stomach

>Claw Growth

>Mana Manipulation

Unknown

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5 Stat Points. It looks like Stat Point can be used to increase my stats, It seems like I can't put points in luck though.' Kella then tapped luck.

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<Luck>

Everything with a soul has Luck and affects most aspects one's life.

It can be a bessing or a curse based on the Luck one has.

Luck is tied to one's very soul and cannot be easily changed.

>Affects Daily Situations Based On Luck

>Affects the chances of finding Artifacts in dungeons.

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"That's a long description for luck. But I hope 25 is a lot. whats a Artifact?" Kella sighed knowing no-one is going to answer her. Then tapped mana manipulation.

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A uncommon Skill Acquired by those somewhat talented in unassisted mana control.

learning to manipulate mana is the first step on a long journey to learning magic

Mana can be called the principle of all life And with it you can do next to everything you can imagine.

>allows mana to move through blood vains.

>Efficiency increases as the skills level increases

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"Can do next to everything you can imagine, huh." She said staring at the text. 'If that's true, then I might be able to do something about my leg.' She thought.

looking at the injury, then started to move her mana through her vains to her injured leg.

'I hope this works.' as the mana reached the injury nothing happened at first 'Should I use more mana or...'

As she was about she pump more mana in the wound, She watched in wonder as her calf's skin slowly spread over the muscles. It too 4 minutes in total to completely heal over.

'Nothing, no scar and it doesn't hurt at all.' She stood up and stomped her foot a few times. "I'm so gonna learn magic." She promised to herself.

*Ding* "huh?"

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She quickly opened her status and tapped her new skill.

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Acquired by attaching mana to blood that is near wounds.

Attaching Mana to blood Causes the blood to repair anything organic the blood touchs.

A easy but inefficient way of repairing the body.

>Can infuse blood with mana to heal anything organic.

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'Interesting, seems like it can heal other people as well with this skill.' Kella pondered for a moment then pulled up her status

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<Kella>

<Race:Cat Beastkin>

<Age:19>

<Class:None>

<Titles:None>

<Level:2>

<EXP:0/15>

<Health:180/180>

<Mana:20/80>

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>VIT:7 +

>STR:8 +

>AGI:12 +

>DEX:10 +

>INT:5 +

>LUK:25

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>Cat Beastkin Reflexes LV 1

>Beastkin Stomach LV 1

>Mana Manipulation LV 1

>Claw Growth LV 1

>Blood Healing Magic LV 1

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Unknown

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"it took 30 Mana to heal 30 Health. I'm going to need more mana, I do have 5 Stat Points to use." She tapped INT to make sure it did what she thought it did.

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Almost every creatures has some level of Intelligence.

Intelligence is important in terms of mana, the more INT one has, the more mana they can hold in their body's.

>1 INT = 5 Mana

>Improves memory to a certain extent.

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after making sure it did what she thought. 'I'm gonna more mana for my claws and healing' Kella then tapped put 4 points in INT increasing Mana by 20, putting her max Mana at 100

and put the last point in AGI to move faster.

"Now that im done with all that, What was I doing?... Right getting out of this forest.

I just hope my story isn't too rushed.

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