Chapter 10: Foul Chivalry

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Status:

- HP: 900/1000

- Sta: 30/30

- State: Cursed(all stats are 20% lower except health and stamina)

After getting enough sleep, Hivon packs up and cleans up the camp in a rush. If something is left behind, there will be some troubles.

He picks up some metal scraps along the way. He scouts that there is a group of monsters gathering nearby. He prepares two shrapnel bombs on his hand and the other is flash powder to ready for the noise.

First, luring them at a space nearby, clear vision and no obstacles for throwing.

**Ka pew**

They are lured by the sound of that flash powder pellet.

He is ready to set the shrapnel bombs on that place.

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**Ka pow**

The shards cut the monsters real deep and effectively against a group like this. But some are left unscratched, he needs to find a way to bleed them out. He waits until the others bleed out first. Then

**Ka pew**

The sound like this can daze a human when they are up close. The sound sensitive monsters would get even further damages. Hivon quickly uses his hook to slice their arteries and then retreats quickly.

He keeps doing this until

-- level 20--

+Job: scout

+Weapon affinity: hook

+Magic affinity: none

- HP: 75,000/90,000

- Sta: 50/80

- Str: 40

- Agi: 42

- End: 80

- Int: 50

- Evasion: 63

- Luck: 45

He wants to venture deeper into this forsaken forest. But the amount of supplies is not enough. He might need to salvage all the monster corpses then takes them back town for money

3 days later at the guild, Hivon returns with quite a big rucksack. He puts them on the counter.

"What is this?" The receptionist points at the rucksack

"Fungal loots" He replies as he signals for cleansing his hands

"Well we will evaluate this sack then the money will be transferred" She signals the white robe nearby

After cleansing, Hivon puts down a report

"The Swamp of Haunting dream has an unusual amount of human corpses. We will issue this to our higher executives. Any evidence?" She signs the paper

"In that bag, it includes heads of humanoid monsters."

"I see. Those things often reanimate the dead"

"I want to get a quest to subjugate yellow area monsters"

"But you might die"

"I am different now. I am stronger than before"

Hivon shows his status to her.

The receptionist nods

A level 20 should be able to handle an iron stag.

After 2 hours, Hivon receives 1 gold coin and 20 silver coins. The initial investment was 1 gold coin so it is 20% more than the initial.

The next hour, he ventures out to hunt a group of orcs.

The Forest of Primal is quite known for barbaric creatures and usually they are higher in terms of health points but very low protection.

He spots a group of orcs while hiding behind a bush.

Orcs are humanoid creatures with the head of a primal ape and the intelligence of cavemen. Civilized orcs are much scarier than normal orcs since they can use better weapons and sometimes low tier magics. Normal orcs use clubs and fists to hunt humans. What scary about them is their coordination to slay a prey despite their primitive looks and the intelligent of a caveman

First thing Hivon does is to use <Mark of prey> on the one that is left behind. Then once it is marked, Hivon quickly grabs that creature. He slices the orc at its throat. <Mark of prey> gives the user bonus damage against affected creature and bonus 50% if it is a humanoid but the downside is -30% against formless creatures like slimes and mud crawlers. Hivon obtained this skill after slaying a significant amount of humanoid monsters, the requirement is either to slay an amount of humans or humanoid monsters in a short amount of time

He makes noise to grab their attention then places a trap on their way.

**Ka pow**

It was a smoke bomb, then he drops a shrapnel bomb on one of those creatures right on its head.

**Ka pow**

They are bleeding and confused. He seizes the chance to use his hook to slice their throats, to throw some tacks on their feet or to garrote them with his garrote wire.

After a very exhausting battle, he takes a break to recover stamina

-- level 21--

+Job: scout

+Weapon affinity: hook

+Magic affinity: none

- HP: 120,000/130,000

- Sta: 20/85

- Str: 41

- Agi: 43

- End: 85

- Int: 51

- Evasion: 64

- Luck: 45

'This is not enough' Hivon takes the map out. He looks at it for a few minutes then decides to head to a reported settlement nearby. He rushes and lurks behind bushes. He sees a horrifying view. A settlement with 200 orcs and goblins armed to the teeth. The tents are made of leather, watch towers are made of wood and lastly, they have a shaman as leader.

Before running away, Hivon thinks of a way to wipe this thing off the ground before it enmasses. One way of doing it is either poisonous gas or fire. Hivon now only has 2 flash powder clumps, a hook, a rope, rations, tacks and a bag of oil. Initially, this bag oil was to be used as maintaining hooks during 2-3 days of expedition. It is now only having around 200 ml of oil. Hivon thinks of setting fire to a structure in the middle of that settlement to maximize the chaos.

At night, he uses the sling to hurl the bag of oil at where there is no guard. He then hurls flash powder

**Kaboom swooosh**

A flame is formed. A sea of fire and chaos has begun.

A screech of monsters, figures after figures try to extinguish the flame.

One by one left alone, he finishes their lives with garrote and slit throats.

Until the chaos is out of control to the point they scatter to groups. After all, Hivon slayed the shaman in the midst of chaos.

-- level 30--

+Job: scout

+Weapon affinity: hook

+Magic affinity: none

- HP: 4.3M/5M

- Sta: 20/100

- Str: 48

- Agi: 45

- End: 100

- Int: 59

- Evasion: 70

- Luck: 60