Bell evaded another barrage of tongues assaults to his not so fit body, dodging them right and left, some would think Bell would eventually bore from those guys shooting their tongue at him, and they would right!
Even after 3 hours of fighting, they never stopped attacking the teen, making him quite grumpy, "You only have one trick?!" he said while slaughtering some unfortunate frog, this pattern bored the hell out of him, the best evidence is that he barely got any LP after the launch break, making him somehow frustrated...
Killing another monster with using their momentum, Bell sighed and clean his dagger, and said to himself:"this frogs made me wants to puke, their saliva is disgusting.", jumping in the air, the flying tongue missed him,"Can't you stop spitting for a moment?!" his answer was another tongue to his face
"I should have known" he shook his head, and eliminate the rest of the frogs, soon after he sighs,"I should advance now." Bell let his guard down for a bit, he waited for a dozen seconds, and he felt it
*WHOOSH!* A sound of a slight wind, rushing to his location with a speed that his skill [sense] can't catch
Bell, who was none the wiser, felt the pressure of the personal attack, and smirked, "You have finally showed up!" bell said to the upcoming attacker, the war shadow
Standing on its two legs, with knife like claws and humanoid black figure, the war shadow unleashed his 'surprise' attack at the white haired teen, Bell with sharped battle instinct from his first dive, avoiding swiftly, and attacked the figure with his own dagger!
Unlike the frog, the war shadow has hands to block attacks, and that is what it did, the dagger and claws clashed, created some sparks, Bell used the chance to land a dropkick on the monster, pushed it and creates some distance between the pair.
*FOOH*
Bell released a breath he was holding, and grinned, "That what was I talked about!", the war shadow however didn't have the fighting spirit that bell had, as it silently rushed towards him, and began a hit-and-run fighting style, as bell's dagger isn't enough to the break the monster's hard claws.
"I need to create an opening." Bell said to himself, while parrying constantly, 'hey! Show me something useful!' Bell opened the skill suggestions, because he isn't in the right mood to think of creating a skill.
Bell hurriedly looked for a fitting skill, his gaze filled on something,'this might work!' Bell smiled and created the skill mentally.
He dodged another fatal attack, and kicked the war shadow away, Bell created some distance, and glared at the monster provokingly
And the monster, despite being the slight type, rushing to him as being provoked, Bell used the time to aim his knife at the monster head
he puts his all strength in his right hand, and accurately throw the dagger at the monster head,
*CLANG!*
Despite having a great momentum, the knife still couldn't break through the claw's defense and was reflected somewhere else, Bell with no weapon with him to defend himself, didn't panic, he left his fists to defend himself, his gauntlet should protect him for enough time.
The war shadow, thinking it won, increased his pace of attack a notch, making Bell take more injuries on his body, 'not yet...not yet…' Bell looked at the thrown knife at from his eye's corner, and feigned a taking a hit
the monster thought it was hit chance, and immediately struck his falling prey, Bell gave an eat-shitting grin despite his dangerous position and said:"gotcha!"
The war shadow didn't know what its prey talking about, but immediately felt it, literally. A dagger can be seen out of its head, the war shadow didn't know how and when it died, Bell took his dagger from the monster. And while he at it, he took the monster core
[1000+ LP killing a monster with crappy equipment.]
"This skill isn't bad." Bell smiled and looked at the skill he created
[mark and chase, rank E, cost : 400 LP
description: put a mark on two item, the lighter object will rush toward the heavier one after gaining momentum previously]
the throw that Bell did gave the knife enough thirst to return to mark on the war shadow heads, who Bell put using the kick he previously landed on the monster
"Hmm?" he looked at his knife and saw a noticeable crack on it, "this thing is pretty much dead" bell shook his head and looked the now dust left upon removing the core,"oho? A drop item? That's rare!"
Bell looked at his item dropped,"Hm, a finger blade? Not bad." Bell was about to store it, and going home, since his dagger is almost broken, and repairing again might break it for good, but he thought of something
'This Blade finger as about the size as my dagger...what if?' Bell thought, 'But it doesn't have a handle, so it would be pretty hard to use it...' Bell shook his head and almost discard the idea...until he remembered he has a cheat!
[ding! Skill under generating!
Shape-shifting :ranked D cost: 3000 LP,
Description: use mind to shape-shift a specific item, can't change item's original material, mind consumption depends on the material type and the structure complexity, an unstable structure will destroy the material.
Upgrade skill to use to decrease mind's consumption
create Y/N?]
Bell almost jump seeing this skill, 'this skill, the most expensive so far that I'll create!' he didn't hesitate as the skill is too good not to create
[ding! Skill has created, LP : 521], Bell held the finger knife, and around his hand a faint blue light covered the item, and under his astonished eyes, the knife began to change its shape, Bell focused to make it similar to his normal dagger, and felt his mind drain like crazy!
'A level 1 surface level item can drain this much! How about other item!' Bell didn't fail to realize that this specific skill would put most blacksmith out of business if he abused it. So he understands that its drawback would be draining mind like no other skill, Bell immediately took a mind potion he bought yesterday
feeling the bitter taste, Bell sighed in relief and soon enough the final product was created, a pure black dagger, absorbing in light falling on it, 'this is much better than the garbage they gave adventurers at the start' Bell thought and bell with his new dagger a bit.
"Heh, and I have a chance to try you it!" Bell chuckled and immediately raised his hand, defending himself from another surprise attack, "You sure love to give people surprise attacks." the war shadow who sneaked at him didn't say anything and a launch another attack, but Bell now has the upper hand,
after gaining stats from the previous war shadow and having a better weapon, made the war shadow loses momentum, and after creating an opening, Bell slashed his dagger, breaking the monster guard and land a solid hit, not losing his rhyme, Bell landed another hit, killing at the spot, sadly no item for Bell this time
Bell wasn't discouraged and gutted the magic core, after a while another few war shadows attacked him, accompanied by a several shooting frogs, Bell didn't find hard them to kill them, using holding tongue tacit and facing war shadow normally. And this time another knife from the war shadow was dropped
"lucky!" Bell picked the finger, and this time he put some of the AE points into his MAG not have his mind into danger level, and created another identical dagger from the finger, now Bell was dual daggers like a certain angry viking blonde boy from the Middle Ages.
'Hehe, I like this' Bell thought as he advance forward, locating a very angry looking ant rushing into him.
"Killer int? I'm in the 7th floor already? I guess my mind was occupied." Bell shook his head at his blunder, but smiling in excitement to fight another monster, the ant headbutt its frontal claws into the white-haired teen, the daggers and claws clashed created a spark,
Bell pushed himself in the air, kicking the ant main body, making it wince in pain
*AKKGH*
the ant screamed in agony, the kick had the force behind it, using the opportunity, Bell made a double slash separating the ant's head from its body, killing it on the spot, Bell then sighed in relief, "Good I killed it quickly, killer ant pheromones' ability isn't easy to deal with."
....
Bell continued to fight those 3 type of monsters with different waves, he didn't advance too much into the 7th floor as he ill-equipped for those annoying monsters, he almost slipped and trigger the pheromones risky ability, while he liked the thrill of fighting dozens of ants solo, his body isn't likely to feel the same...
And so after a few hours, he looked the time which created a skill for which didn't cost many LPs, and concluded that it's enough for today and left the dungeon in happy tone.