Bronze Earthworm
He reached the summit of the mountain, after an hour of traveling. In the road, he didn't find any other creature, even though it was hunting ground, so with his small body, it only takes an hour.
When he reached the summit, for the first time, he saw a complete skeleton. Its bone was thin with greyish in color. It would have looked just like a human bone, if not for the extra pair of an arm. He didn't attack it, knowing he could not defeat it now. So he just sneakily bypassed it.
Traveling in the path, he saw the rope like creature squirming in the ground. It was bigger than him and was brown. When sunlight hit on its body, it produced bronze shine.
"Hurrah, finally I found my family. Is it my long last brother or sister? Let me ask him."
"I forgot I can't communicate with the monster, Mia what should I do?"
[It is a bronze earthworm, not a snake, you should be ready to fight or run for it, as it has already felt your movement, through the ground. It was supposed to have the same point in agility, like yours. So whatever happened you should be fine. It would take 2 min, for it to reach you. so make your decision.]
[If you find a snake in the future, then you should run even fast because, except some species of snake, all other snakes hate you to the bone.]
"So, even my own race is my enemy, then my only ally is from my same bloodline?"
[That will have been true if there is one. But you are the only one with this bloodline.]
He became confused.
"What about my mother who gave me birth?"
[You are not given birth but your body was formed by the power of destruction by the ancient god Shiva in ancient time.]
[After your death, your body will again reform in the form of an egg after the millennium, which takes 16 years to crack, that is how you came to be.]
[You have 15 sec to make the decision.]
"Huh! Oh! My god! You waste my 1 min 45 sec."
"In that time, I should have made a good plan to kill it. Thank god I still have 15 sec so it is not late."
Mia became curious.
[What is your plan?]
"It will take time to explain, so just watch."
[OK]
He lost the chance to summon poison ward because of not having enough time, but he could use poison shot.
Zynx then faces toward bronze earthworm. "You want to have an idea of such a cute snake like me, now you have to face tribulation for that. You pest!!"
Bronze earthworm could not understand it, but it could guess, it must be its prey taunting him.
After speaking that, Zynx opened his mouth, and used skill poison shot, spitting poison from his two fangs onto the bronze earthworm. The speed of poison shot was quite fast, so it hit on its body. After poison landed on the body, poison moved around the outer body of the earthworm, searching for a hole to get inside, as if poison was alive, and when it found the gaps, it got absorbed inside the earthworm body.
He stared, as he didn't expect his poison to work like that, but that was just for a second, as he didn't have time to enjoy, this shocking moment.
Finished staring, he started to run.
Mia also became shocked, not because of poison but because of Zynx. He said, he had planned but now, he was just running.
[Zynx, you said, you have the plan to kill it, then why are you running?]
He replied while running, " Can't you understand it, this is my plan. Using poison on it, then wait for it to die. Since it has the same agility as my, my poison will cause it to be slower and with time, poison will flow on its body killing it. In this way, I can gain experience with only losing my stamina. It is my masterpiece what did you think? Do you want to kneel down in front of me? I am okay with it."
Now Mia understands what was he thinking. So she just kept quiet, waiting for something to happen.
Zynx also just faced forward and keep running, as he can feel someone following him, through his aural sense. He looked back when 5 min time period was reached, to see the distance between them, and to see whether it was still following him. He found the distance between him and earthworm was not seemed to decrease much, 'It may need time to spread poison in the whole body, I just have to wait for it.'
After 15 min, he found it hard to run. He looked back and saw earthworm running toward him, faster than before.
"Mia, what is happening?", He asked in his mind.
[Your poison is not powerful enough, so along with time, it has removed most of the poison from its body, and its vitality is more than yours, so it is catching up to you. Seem likes your plan of wearing it has failed]
"Mia! Why didn't you tell me when I was telling you my plan?"
[Because you didn't ask]
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"I remembered, it was supposed to be my mistake at that time, so should not you correct me, there?"
[I remember you always asking to turn off the correction function, so I try doing it…]
If she really turned off the correction function, then he didn't mind this mistake, as he could still turn the tide of a fight, but next sentence ...
[…but you almost got injured. So, I will just discard the idea of turning it off as I can't withstand, you get hurt.]
'Then what about before.'
He could not even get angry with a system as all the habit, was learned from him, and if he rejected the system, it was just like rejecting himself, so he just kept quiet and focus on earthworm following behind him.
Since my poison was not powerful, I should just stack in it its body. He looked towards the earthworm, used poison shot on it, and the same thing happens as before.
Because he attacked the earthworm, the distance between them decreases, so he started to run. After creating some distance, he again repeated the process, as his body could produce an infinite amount of poison. 3rd time after attacking, he could see it slow down, by a huge margin. He also slowed down to catch a breath as he was running for more than half an hour.
After 5th time its speed was decreased by more than half, so he didn't need to run. He decided to fight with it.
He stopped running, jumped toward the earthworm, and bit at its scale penetrating it. Earthworm tried to get rid of him, by shaking his body, but fang of the snake was in a hook shape, so earthworm couldn't get rid of him. He then poured all the poison in his body, inside the earthworm through his fang. The huge amount of poison, made the earthworm feel as if a million of insect were crawling in its body and after some struggling, it finally died.
[You kill Bronze earthworm]
[You level up]
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Name: Zynx
Age: 16 years old
Temporary Gender: Male
Race: Snake
Bloodline: Vaitas
Ancient bloodline (White crystal): Level 1(2%)
Class: Egg hatchling
Rank: Mortal
Level: 2/5 (57%)
Attributes:
Strength – 1.5
Vitality - 1.5
Agility - 1.5
Intelligence -1.5
Charm - 5
Destruction point – 0
Passive skill: Aural sense, Fast Metabolism, Poison Sting, Health Regeneration, camouflage, Bronze scale, night vision, Humanoid language
Active Skill: Poison ward, bite, poison shot
Unique skill: Poisonous body, Pet of destruction
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"Finally level up!! Where is my skill point?"
[There is no skill point. Mia only provide you with skill but didn't let you increase it systematically]
"Then how can I level up my skill?"
[You should comprehend your skill to level up, but Mia won't show your skill level. If your comprehension of a particular skill is high then you can use your skill efficiently or change that skill into a new skill or even assimilate within you, then you can use that skill like moving your own hand without the need of much energy]
Along with the interaction with Mia, he understood that Mia could only provide information, and cannot make any change, it had to follow world rule. Neither it could give the quest to him nor increase his skill level directly, it could just show the way, becoming powerful depend on himself.
He noticed dim blue light in his peripheral vision. He glanced at the direction of death Bronze earthworm, blue light was released from its eye.
Zynx moved toward it, taking out its eyeball, which had stopped producing the light. He realized blue light was not from its eye but from something inside its head. He entered through its head and found parchment containing some kind of information.
[Congratulation for finding 'Bronze earthworm parchment']
[Do you want to consume?]
"What is this?"
[It is the information of Bronze earthworm, if you consume it you can get some information about it. Do you want to consume?]
"Yes!"
...…
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Bronze earthworm (10%)
Race: Earthworm
Name: ??
Attributes: ??
Skill:??
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[You need to collect 10 parchments to view its certain stats]
Now he understood it.