Uncertain Feelings

AN: Before you start reading lemme just say something first. Since I was still not clear about a few things that I want to do, I was changing a lot of things so please bear with me for now. Like the mastery, I'll just change it to letters, thanks for understanding.

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[Kapre: A creature with the darkness element. It loves to stay above trees and smoke while it waits for a girl that it likes to impregnate. Exuding a strong body odor that can cause hallucinations.

Gender: Male

Status: Satisfied

Skill: Intimidate(E), Roar(C), Super Strength (B), Smoke Control (B)]

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Looking at the result of the appraisal, Fred made a silly face. He can't tell just how strong that [Kapre] is based on the result that he got.

"Oh god, can't there be a detailed appraisal where I can see the attack, defense, endurance, et cetera, et cetera, value!?" grumbled Fred,

"I will remember to level up the mastery of appraisal when I come back home." He said.

As he was grumbling, the gigantic black monster or Kapre made a move.

It turned its head to his direction as if it felt that there was another creature in there.

Fred hurriedly hid again behind the stone, that made his heart drop. He's heartbeat stopped for a second when Kapre faced his direction.

He doesn't know if the Kapre saw him but he feels more nervous right now.

The hand holding the axe unconsciously tightens the grip on it. He looks at the axe on his hand and a scene of him repairing the camera with the points flash on his mind.

'Yes, that! How could I forget about the bronze points!' He said and looked at the points in the bronze section.

[Bronze: 41]

41 points are quite a lot!

Back in the dungeon, Fred remembers using just a mere 5 points to fix the scrapped camera, and it was not just fixed back then, it was also seemingly improved in performance by quite a lot.

He still hasn't had the time to focus on exploring what parts it improved.

Even with his power to create skills, fix things or mess with nature like time itself, he is still clueless of it. Of course, he has lots of questions regarding this power, but he just hasn't had the time to fully focus on it.

So he thought of just keeping using it and he will naturally get information on it.

Fred stares at the axe he is holding for only a second but those seconds feel like hours to him as his train of thought goes and thinks of many things.

He started moving after staring at the axe.

First, he thought of the axe upgrading with the use of all his remaining 41 bronze points.

The number on his consciousness started decreasing rapidly. From 41 it drops down to 0 in just 5 seconds.

And as that happens, the plain axe he is holding starts to shine with a bright light.

It shines on everything and the rock he is hiding on was not able to conceal it, because of that the Kapre that was already looking in his direction saw that light.

"Grrrrr!"

It makes some noise like a growling animal or something. It stands up slowly using it's knees to help it with its hands.

By the time it was standing already, the light that was coming behind the rock finally died down and silence is deafening in this kind of situation.

It was then.

A cold flash of light flash by and the sound of some kind of metal hitting the rock sounded behind the Kapre. Then the Kapre suddenly frowned, it was going to use its arm to feel it's neck that suddenly became itchy for a second.

But... he was not able to.

His vision started tilting sideways before it felt that the world was spinning.

As that happens, it saw a figure coming out behind the rock it was staring at earlier.

Only then it dawned to him what really happened. It wanted to roar and let out a harsh sound to intimidate the figure, but he was not able to do that anymore because...

...His head was decapitated. Its head fell down to the ground and caused quite a bit of an impact because of its size.

After the head, the body also soon followed after it and fell down the floor.

The figure that came out from behind the rock slowly walked forward. That figure is of course, our very own MC, Fred.

At the moment he looks pale and he seems tired. He is also breathing haggardly as if he was short of air in his lungs.

He looks at the corpse of the once energetic monster in front of him. It's head was cleanly sliced like a master swordsman had personally dealt the blow to it.

He breathed out a sigh of relief as he looked and confirmed that the monster is really already dead.

His body then slumps on the ground as the tense feeling is gone from his body.

He is actually not that physically that tired, but he still feels that his mind has been exhausted and has passed it's limits. He lies down on the cold hard ground as he looks at the rocky ceiling.

He thought back on how he was so tense behind the rock earlier because he knew that the light was something that cannot be hidden from the monster.

He was disappointed at first cause the plain axe that he was holding is still a "plain axe" after it consumed 41 bronze points from him but with the use of appraisal he saw that it really became something powerful.

It gained two skills which are both very useful, one, is the Sharpness (S) which makes the axe very very sharp that with just a touch can cause you to be sliced.

The other one is the skill, Throw (S), it lets the user be able to throw skillfully.

That explanation sounds very simple, but if you look at the mastery level which is already at "S" level, you can just imagine how powerful it is.

The combination of those two, Fred throws the axe targeting it's neck. At first he was not confident that it's enough to kill it and wanted to just rush to it and fight it in a melee.

But with the difference in physique between the two of them, he can see that it might be a hard one or worse he might get defeated instantly.

So with that, with all the power he can unleash, he throws the axe and it becomes super fast, adding much more force to it.

"I really feel lucky..." murmured Fred.

Fred's anxious heart finally calmed down.

As Fred stares at the rocky ceiling, he starts contemplating what happened to him today.

From the moment he woke up, he felt irritable, causing him to act impulsively a lot today.

"Just what the hell is happening to me? This… this isn't how I will normally act in situations like that, right?" He muttered, "I even beaten up the driver earlier..."

"Furthermore, I think this irritable feeling keeps getting more and more… everytime I use my Goldfinger…" when he said that, he paused, a thought flash pass his mind,

'Does the Goldfinger have a side effect?'

Just the thought is enough to scare Fred, so he immediately started shaking his head.

Then after a couple more seconds like that, he stopped, a puzzled expression appeared on his face.

"Eh? Why was I shaking my head like an idiot?" He mutters, then he remembers that he seems to be thinking before he started shaking his head.

He tried to remember what it was, but to his surprise, it seems like he can't remember a thing about what he was just thinking before then.

"Wait, what was I just thinking right now?"

He closed his eyes trying to think of it, but he came up with nothing in the end.

Finally, he just dismissed it as nothing important.

But what Fred didn't know is that this choice of him to dismiss this feeling will cause him a situation where death is just a few breaths away from him.