Ch3: Compassion

Jake decided to hunt for few more rabbit trapper, he walks towards the side and saw several rabbit trapper. For the next 15 hours, he killed almost 300 of this same kind monster. The fly trapper is a rank F monster under mortal realm, basically a weakling but Jake never thought that it is hard to kill.

Monster in this world is categorized by rank under which realm. They are divided by letters, as rank F as the lowest then E, D, C, B, A, S, M, and H as the highest. Realm categories are used by monsters, alchemic ingredients, and product, the citizen of this country and crafting materials and product and almost everything. Only the monster uses the word mortal without any pre-word attached to it, unlike the rest which is divided by low, mid, high and peak tier. For example low tier mortal realm. On the other hand, realm is divided into several levels such as Mortal which the lowest level, followed by Erudite, Spiritual Opening, Nascent Soul Formation, Elemental Gathering, Elemental Core Formation, Mortal soul Ascension, Heavenly Soul Opening and the highest is Divine Lord. After several updates of the WOE there are rumors that there are more than 9 realms but anyway, I will just pray that I will not be able to encounter such monsters early on. Based on the game history, Annael is a warrior class in the mid-tier mortal realm and Diane is an acolyte in low tier mortal realm. Basically, level 11-20 is mortal realm as 20 is considered the peak of the said realm, then an increment of 10 I guess for the succeeding levels.

Jake open is the status window and he has 1750 experience gained so he upgrade his level.

• You reached level 5!

• Unlocked Origin Soul

• Unlocked Perception Parameter

• Unlocked Stamina Meter

• Unlocked Mana Meter

A small window pops up, "Would like to unseal the Profession skills for 1000 experience points?" Jake chooses yes.

Name: Jake Xiao

Age: 13 years old

Sex: Male

Origin Soul: Gray Soul

Level: 5 Next exp: 0/320

Mana: 5/5

Stamina: 5/5

Experience Gained: 440

Parameters: Vitality – 14/14

Strength - 2.5

Dexterity – 2.5

Agility – 2.5

Intelligence -2.5

Will – 2.5

Charisma – 3.5 (+1)

Perception – 2.5

Resistance: Sealed

Profession: -Civilian -maxed

-Farmer 0/15

-Preacher 0/15

Profession Skills:

-Civilian:

Passive skill: permanent +1 increase of charisma (0/10)

Support Skill: First Aid- This skill will only activate when using a non-elemental product such as Bandages.It will stop the bleed temporarily and increase Vitality regeneration by 1 every 12 hours. (0/10)

Class: Sealed

Class Skills: Sealed

When Jake saw the Gray Soul, he was very disappointed because it is the lowest among all the origin soul. The origin soul usually unlocked a character potential when a character reaches level 5. Level 1 -5, all characters parameters will increase to at least 0.5 but once the origin soul is unlocked the parameter per level starting from level 6 onwards will now vary because it depends on what you've got or what they say innate skills. The purer the soul, the higher plus points which a character will receive per level. For example, Golden Soul will increase a character's parameters by +10 and increase its vitality by 30 per level. On the other hand Jake soul will increase 0.5 to all parameters and +1 to vitality per level. Jake sigh and realized that he is not blessed.

Even his soul is shit, Jake still happy because he has 250 rabbit trapper's incisors. It took him another 4 hours before he reach the gate of the town of Laso.

There are several carts queuing. A guard was shouting, "Please be reminded that we will confiscate you belonging if you don't have any gate issued 2 months ago!" He saw several merchants handed small pouched of coins to the guards and the guards turned a blind eye on them. Jake was just sitting on one of the big stones thinking what will he do so that he can go inside then he saw two children playing outside of the town near on left side of the town's wall. Jake smiled and remembered that there was a quest back then called Finding Dede, this quest was a loss white rat, the success of this quest will let the children show you the way towards the town. During Jake's playthrough, he did not really go with the quest because he can already bribe the guard. Unlike in the game, monsters drop coins while here? Nothing! Just a bunch of ingredients! Well, soon to be a useful one.

He walks towards the children and saw a little girl names Remi crying. The two boys Rommel and Koko stop when they saw me. I smile at them, "I will find your pet Dede in exchange, help me get inside the town?" The three children widened there eyes, Rommel seems skeptical but in the end, he agreed on it. Remi stopped crying and nodded.

According to the forum, pet Dede can be found just 40 steps from Remi but the moment the player enter the town these three children will disappear. Due to the recent chaos from the neighboring villages, the investigation was not open or most of the players believe that they were kidnapped. I count at least 40 steps and in front of me is a 4 meter tree, glance upwards and saw Dede. The children was very happy and Dede just ran jump unto my hands. I gave Dede to Remi. Remi smiled and pointed the 2 meters bush, "there is a hole in there, you can crawl. I think you can fit in it." The kids smile and stayed for a while and playing pat a cake. Jake went to the bush and saw a hole, Jake was about to crawl when his heartbeat is rising, he always thought about the disappearance of these children. In the forum, some gamers investigated it in their own, maybe because of conscience or just for the sake of thrill. Some gamers explained that the children's body was found in the river just west from this town. Their body was already bloated and maggots were already infested. Some of the gamers argued that maybe those are different children but the person who saw their body was convinced that it was Remi and her friends due to the blue ribbon. Jake stop and crawled back and saw the blue ribbon, tied on Remi's ponytail hair. It is similar to the picture shown in the forum.

Jake sign and hide in the bush waiting for someone. It was already night time when he saw a man, walking like a drunk. He seems to be coming from the southern portion of the town's wall. The man approached the children and grab Remi. Jake was about to dash forward but he saw another one. They smell like rotten flesh. Their sclerae are yellow and their skin seems dried prune and their stomach seems bloated. The first man knocked off Remi and drag her hair towards the southern part, the two boys were running near the hidden hole but it seems that they are scared enough to shout. Kara the taller lad step forward and dash towards the man but Rommel seemed to be frozen in fear. Kara's hands were grabbed by the man. Since the man is near the bush, Jake waited for it to turned a little sideways to exposed the later aspect of his neck. He lunges his spear, the tip of the spear reaches the other side of the neck. He uses and then slashes it horizontally towards the back which made the entire body fell and beheaded the man. To his surprised, there is no blood in it. Instead, there are several maggots and flies inside its body. When the head roll over, he then lunges again and pierces the head multiple times making it unrecognizable.

• You gained 2500 experienced points

When Jake saw this, he was shocked. The experience points seem to be extravagant but that is not the point. He needs to rescue the other one. "You guys need to stay here, don't go roaming around. Just stay behind the bush, "The two boys nodded.

Jake run towards the southern part of the wall and saw the man place Remi on the ground. There is 3 minor laceration on the child's body. Two on both hands ans one the stomach. The man's back was facing Jake, Jake was tip toeing towards the man and immediately lunges its spear and slashed the head's off. When the head stops rolling on the ground, he pierces it multiple times just to make sure its dead.

• You gained 2500 experienced points.

When Jake inspect the kid. The kid's upper thorax has deep laceration. He does not have any materials to stop it except his hands. Jake saw Remi's Ribbon and sigh. He uses the status windows and maximized the first aid.

Support Skill: First Aid: This skill will only activate when using nonelemental product such as

Bandages. I will stop bleeding temporarily any minor wounds and slowly stop bleeding any deep wounds. It will increase its Vitality regeneration by 1 every hour (maxed)

Jake immediately saw the result when he uses the blue ribbon made out of cloth. The bleed stops after a few seconds. Jake carry the child towards the secret passage and saw the children are still there. I asked Kara to use his shirt and let Remi lie on it. I placed the ribbon towards Kara's feet and the other end is on the shirt where Remi is lying. Jake was the last one who was crawled inside the hole.

Inside the town, Remi seems to be groggy and squeak a bit. "Who's there!?" the town guard shouted. "Shit!" I mumbled.