7 Valuable Fortune

<Congratulations, you have levelled up!>

<Adapting…>

Those were the last words he heard before everything went blank.

***

The young man, opened his eyes and found himself laying face down in a cold stone floor. Confused, he turned his head to look around when suddenly.

"Argh-"

He felt a throb on his left shoulder and in that moment, he sprung up, quickly searching around to see if there were any monsters around him.

He felt as if he'd nearly throw up his heart from the fear. But surprisingly enough, there was nothing. Nothing except for an awful stench and the corpses of two wolves.

He took in a deep breath as he placed his right hand on his forehead before letting it out. It wasn't burning up, surprisingly enough, there was no fever, only mild headache.

Confused, he then looked the bite mark on his shoulder and noticed that it had closed, on it's own. There was some dried blood but ht at was it.

He gave it a few pokes and confirmed it. It hurt it a little but it was in a much better state than before.

"I definitely heard a tear and a crunch… What happened to the wound-"

The moment he mentioned the term wound a screen popped up in front of him and a voice played over on his mind.

'Huh…?'

The voice played over what he could see in his mind, in the screen.

'What's going on…?'

<Warning: Insufficient Body Nutrients>

Another screen then appeared beside the main screen with the messages, showing even more messages.

<Reward: 200 Exp>

The voice then stopped, leaving behind a confused, and disorientated young man.

"Oh… I get it… I slammed the back of my head too hard when I hit the wall… NOT! What the fuck is this this!?"

***

The young man had spent a few minutes looking at the two screens, trying to come up with a reasonable conclusion to them.

He read these lines over and over again. It made sense how his body repaired itself, but that didn't make any sense at all.

"My body was able to repair itself on it's own…? It's not complete and I can't move it properly, but it's way better than getting infected from a monster that ate a parasite…"

'Speaking of parasites…'

The young man quickly looked around, checking to see if there were any more of those parasite monsters around, but he couldn't find anything. Either way, he kept his guard up in case.

The young man thought about it for a while longer before giving up.

"I'll worry about it when I get home. Now, I need to finish looting and get the hell out of here. Besides, it probably has something to do this" He muttered as he looked down through his shirt collar at the bright red crystal

He then grabbed the energy knife from the sheathe on his leg before making his way over to the corpse of the last wolf he had killed.

Long pitch black fur, big dark eyes, razor sharp canines which somehow didn't tear his arm off. As he looked at it, he couldn't stop thinking about how lucky he was to have escaped with his arm when it bit him.

'Was it the flash grenade that weakened it's bite by disorientating it?' He wondered

But it didn't really matter, what mattered was that not only did he escape with his life, but he escaped with everything and in perfect condition. Which is why he had to make use of this moment.

He grabbed the knife, activated it and smoothly cut a line in it's stomach. Following that, he placed he spread hate opening in it's stomach wide, before finding a glowing orb on the inside.

He then pushed his arm inside before pulling it out with the orb. A smile could be seen on his face when did so.

"A monster orb…" He muttered with excitement

Monster orbs were orbs acquired from monsters. They were manifested inside of monsters and were used as an energy resource due to how much energy could be found within them.

"The hunter guild will probably pay a good amount for this…"

Hunters would sell the orbs to the hunter guilds, in exchange for money and ranks. Other hunters would use the orbs as cores for specialized equipment. This includes Armour's, knives, swords and guns.

He placed the orb inside of the coin filled pouch, before walking over to the corpse of the other shadow wolf. He could see the gray cloudy sky hiding the sun through the building's entrance. It was day time, so now was his best opportunity to get out of there.

'It's a shame that I can't skin them and sell their pelt…' He thought to himself

Dragging the pelt would just get it stolen and bring too much attention. He also would probably not find it again if he returned.

'I'll just kill some more over time, using the money I'll get from this as a foundation.'

***

As he opened the stomach of the 2nd wolf, his eyes widened. There was a dark stone above the monster's orb.

'That stone…!'

He quickly pulled the orb and stone out before inspecting it. It had the appearance of a shard and had a strange dark amount of energy flowing out of it.

'It's a magic stone…!'

Magic stones. Stones filled with magical power. They could be found in caves, monsters, extractions points and had many, many uses. They were much more valuable and rarer than monster orbs.

"All this fortune, should I go to church Sundays?" He asked himself

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