Human Scouts?

[Are you home Meanih? Meanih?...Hello?] Pilm called at the door hoping Meanih would hear her.

[Looks like she's still sleeping Pilm, what do we do now? Break in?]

[Are you an pervert?]

[heh?? Eh? What? Why am i a pervert now? If i need to be something then that would be a thief right? Not a pervert!] Troy asked confused.

[Why else would you want to break into the house of a girl, what if she is naked and getting dressed right now? What do you do then? Just close the door again? No No No, you can't do that!!

[And im with you right now, i doubt you would steal something right in front of me...]

[Alright i get it, sorry i won't have that idea again in the future...] Troy said apological.

[I hope so!!!] Pilm said while scolding him once again.

[What theater are you two doing there in front of my door?] At this time a voice called out from behind them.

[We are waiting for our friend to wake up so that we can go hunting.]

[Aha okey...and who is this person?]

[Her name is Meanih why do you ask?] Pilm and Troy still didn't look up but continued glaring at each other.

[Ah okay interesting...and what do you think who you are talking to right now?]

[Huh what do you mean? Just someone who passed by, why should i know you, Oh excuse me that sounded rather rude, it wasn't meant this way.] now Pilm looked aside to look at the person who she talked to to apologize to her.

[MEANIH?!?!? What are you doing here äh, huh? No wait, what? Eh...could it be Meanih, were you awake and also heard all of what we talked about?]

[huhu..that's right, it was quite funny to watch you two, quite funny i would say, you are lucky that there aren't many people awake at this time. I think it would be very embarassing for the two of you to be caught like this haha]

[Okay stop it already, let's just go out hunting already, we are one day behind because we made a break from the Hunting.]

[Yes Yes, i know, let's go then, we need to get stronger after all.]

When they started walking towards the village gate Pilm remembered something and asked Meanih.

[Ah right, are you usually awake this early?]

[hmm... I often wake up around seven am. or so, but sometimes i also wake up later. So yes i normally wake up 3 hours ago.]

[Really??Whoa, then you are much more structured than we are, i just wake up when i want, Often that is around 8 or 9 am.]

[Yeah me too, but i have a little structure, i have a time frame from 7 to 9 am in that i normally wake up.]

[Yeah whatever, today we can test out the new functions, i wonder how much we can get from the monsters we kill.]

[Yes, that aside, did you already talked in the chat channel? Or have you refrained from doing it so far?]

[Oh i didn't do it till now, i just observed silently.]

[I thought so, you really are just like a Assasin, really oberseving of the surroundings.]

[Of course haha if not i wouldn't be an assasin.]

[Right and you Troy?]

[I already wrote a message, but it was nothing more than what all the others wrote, that means my first message was 'Hello?' nothing more, after that i stopped it since i had no reason to continue.]

[So just like me huh? well i had nobody to write to so i also just wrote my first message and then quit it.]

[Should we apply for a group channel? It would be helpful sometimes i think]

[Let's do that, but what do we need to do for creating such a group?]

[Don't know. Can we ask the System?]

[Hey System, what do we need for creating a private channel group?]

{Nothing, you just need to fill out a form to establish a recognized group.}

[Oh so easy? i thought we need to pay something or the likes. Well that makes it much more easier.]

[System can you show me the form?]

In answer to Pilm's questioning the system showed a new panel.

~~~

{Group Establishing Form}

{Group Name: ---}

{Group Leader: ---}

{Group Members: ---}

{Group Number: #0001}

~~~

[Oh so i just need to fill that out ? okay that is easy.]

After about 1 min of writing down the Data the Panel now looked like this:

~~~

{Group Establishing Form}

{Group Name: The Awakened Seekers}

{Group Leader: ---

{Group Members: Pilm, Troy, Meanih.}

{Group Number: #0001}

~~~

[Alright the only thing we need to do now is decide who will become the Leader....]

[Meanih? Troy? Do you want to?]

[Oh no i absolutely don't want to become a Leader, i think i would problably need to manage things and im to lazy to do that, i much rather would receive orders from our future Leader, be it you our Troy.]

[I actually also don't want to be a Leader, that sounds like too much work other than Hunting to me so no thanks.]

[Really you two, you are complete Battle junkies.]

[Alright then, looks like i need to take the responsibility and become the Leader, I hope it is easy.]

[Thank you two for your trust of me.]

[No problem, just do it already, im excitet of how it will turn out]

[Yes Yes!!]

[...] Pilm just ignored these two and filled out the last gap.

Suddenly a sound was heard that asked for confirmation.

After Pilm agreed the panel vanished and after five seconds a new one appeared.

~~~

{Group Panel}

{Group Name: The Awakened Seekers}

{Group Leader: Pilm}

{Group Members: Troy, Meanih.}

{Group Channel: Activated.(to see, open your communications panel)}

{Group Number: #0001}

~~~

[Okay you two, open the Communications panel, it says that we have the channel now.]

[Really? Let me look] All three immediatly opened the Panel and looked at it.

In the middle a notice box that informed them about the group channel appeared and showed them how to use it. it actually wasn't very different compared to the normal chat channel. You just needed to click on the icon on the side to change the chat and that was it, just like how you would change from the Global channel to the privat race channel.

[It's much more easy than i anticipated it to be.]

[Yes. Well then, wan't to go now?]

[Yeah we spend too much time here already.]

[Yes.]

~~~ 6 hours later ~~~

[Pfewww...I'm exhausted, I can't take it anymore. I need a break from all the fighting.]

[Ah come on, you are the only one who still didn't level up again, you just need one more EXP, then your fatique will also be cleared.]

[Yes Pilm, you need to level up as well, what would others say if they find out that our leader is weaker than his subordinates?]

[I know what you two mean but im just to exhausted.]

[What about this, we will beat the next monster so hard that you just need one attack to kill it, this way you can also level up.]

[That's a good idea. let's do that, but in alternative could also kill the monster on our own. We already know that there is an Experience share function, if you change the amount we receive and make yours higher than you can just level up by us killing them. How about that?]

[Wow Meanih, you had a good idea!!]

[What does that now mean? Im not dumb you now? That's an Insult to me you know?]

[Yeah Yeah, Sorry Sorry hahaha. I was just surprised since you don't give out such good ideas often.]

[Yeah just continue to insult me no problem Troy.]

[Ah whatever, im sorry Meanih.]

[No i don't accept that, hmph!]

[Well whatever. Pilm. how about it do you do it?]

[I could do that but is that really okay for you?]

[Yeah sure. You can just change it back later right?]

[Yes of course, i wouldn't do it if i couldn't do that. that would just cut of your way of getting stronger.]

[True, well then, Meanih, let's go killing again, Pilm, can you hide on a tree or so so that we can Farm in ease and not have to protect you?]

[Sure, i can just go on this one here, it's quie hidden when i go up there.]

[Pilm in case someone comes. Don't try to hold your Breath, if you need to inhale again it will cause much more Noise. Try to breath in slow and steady. Oh, and don't panic. Try to be calm and compose and of course, don't move. it would cause too much noise if you would move since you don't know the exact technique.]

[Thank you Meanih for you tips. I will follow them.]

[Good, were off then.]

[Yes good luck, and if you can't handle a monster just run away, your, life is more important than a level up.]

[I know that. you don't need to remind me.]

~~~

They encountered the first monster after walking for about 10 minutes.

It was another Plagueclaw, but this one was of a higher level than the last one.

Yes Level, the monsters strengh were displayed as level instead of order.

[Hey do you think we can manage this lv 11 Plagueclaw Troy?]

[Level 11?...Hard to say, what are it's stats?]

[Here i'll show you.]

~~~

Race: Plagueclaw

Rank: Lv. 11

Attributes:

- Health: 150

- Mana: 45

- Strength: 20

- Agility: 70

- Intelligence: 10

- Perception: 25

~~~

[According to stats we should be able to easily beat it, but the stat's of Humans are still lower than that of Monsters when on the same level, and since we are only level 2 right now, a whole 9 Levels under that one, it stand's to reason that it is much stronger than us.] Troy thought out loud.

[Yes that's true, we could make a surprise attack like the first time with the Earth slime.]

[We could do that but it would be really risky. I think it would be better if we go around that one for now, we can come back later and kill it then if it is still here that is.]

[Yes, it would be much safer when we do it with Pilm and her Paralisis than alone.]

[Okay then let#s go this way, the Plagueclaw is looking in the other way so we can go around him this way.]

[Okay.]

Then they continued to walk around that way and eventually landed at a river.

[Hey, since when is here a river?]

[Don't know, maybe we just never saw this one, it's not like we now 100% of our surroundings.]

[I think you just mentioned something really important...how about we talk to Iris about this, it would be bad if something happens in our surroundings and we don't know about it.]

[Yes let's do that right after we go back...]

[Okay, wait a second, i will look if there is something around here, if so then we can Kill it.]

[Good, i'll wait here.]

~~~

"Here are so few Monsters, back from where we came were much more Monster."

"I don't think i will see any more Monster, i should go back to Troy."

~~~

[Im back Troy!]

[Oh hey Meanih, finally, i thought you would leave me alone already.]

[Whatsoever. I didn't find any Monster nearby, maybe we should go back and kill some more Slimes, at least we can find them.]

[Yes. It's more efficient now that you mention it, it's really dumb that i didn't think of that sooner. well then, let's go.]

~~~

[Finally!!! There are slimes, we've been walking for like 1 hour once again....]

[Even Pilm should have recovered by now. We took long enough to go around after all...]

[You say it Troy hahaha i bet she thinks we got lost and didn't find our way back here. Or that we encountered some Monster and died.]

[We should write to her in the group chat, we can tell her our current situation and after we Kill these slimes she should also recover as well as we, so all good.]

[Alright, enought talked just kill these slimes already and then write in the group.]

After Meanih said that she immediatly went forward and hid herself so that she could use her skill Assasination.

Troy came from the front as always and took out his Greatsword from behind him.

This time there were six Lv. 4 Slimes.

Because of the +50 Stat boost of the [Primary Greatsword Mastery] He could now confront three Slimes at the same time without struggling.

He slashed out and took the first Slime by surprise.

Right when he attacked, Meanih also took action and eliminated another Slime from behind with a stab from her daggers.

[Alright Troy draw the attention to yourself.]

[hahaha yes. of course as always.] Troy began to lough out and a grin appeared on his face when he started attackin them again and again.]

{+1 EXP}

[Finally the 3 one is dead. now the last one and we can go back. It's already starting to get dark, we should hurry up and find Pilm]

[Don't loose your focus, even if it is just one Slime, we are still weak so we can't afford it to let our attention slip away in a fight, your lucky i already killed him as he just wanted to jump at you]

[What's the fuss? I knew you would handle it so i didn't worry about it hahaha]

[Just stop laughing already. We need to find her, that's right, if it's night it get's much more dangerous than when it's day.]

~~~

Now it was already a bit darker, the sun is almost down and they finally arrived at the three were the other corpres of the monster were they killed before.

[Pilm, are you there?]

[Troy? Meanih? Is it you?]

[Yeah, come down. We should go back now.]

[Alright, im coming, wait a second, my neck and body hurts a bit because i didn't move myself the whole time.]

[After you went away some Humans went by and i was so paniced. I thought i would die if they saw me.]

[HUMANS?!?!?!]

[Were are they? The me Pilm, fast!!]

[They went into that direction.] Pilm pointed towards the south, not right into the direction of the Village but a bit aside of that.

[That's bad, what if they see the Village, that won't be good, we need to immediatly inform Iris and Ripley.]

[Let's go, we could write it to her, but i doubt she will read it, well whatever, Pilm, you saw them, write to Iris immediatly and tell her what you saw. come here i will carry you] Troy offered to Pilm who was holding her neck with a hand.

[Wh-wha-What?...No No No No No, you don't have to, i can walk by myself, i don't need you to carry me.!]

[Don't complain now, you need to write and you can't walk properly. I don't care about how embarrasing this might be right now, we have more important things to do than that, so pull yourself together!!]

[Alright then please.] Pilm now looked down and answered shily.

[Hahahaha you really are a good pair you know] Meanih added salt to the wounds and got fighted back by the two of them together.

[Ow ow ow, it was just a prank,...why did you hit me Troy?] Meanih looked up sadly with pouty eyes.

[Don't look at me like that, it's your own fault.] Troy turned around picked up Pilm and then walk away without looking back at Meanih.

[hehehe i think i teased them to much, well i should also get going, there are Humans near here after all, what if i walk into them alone, i would certainly die without a chance to survive.]

[Heyyy, wait for me.]

|

~~~ Iris ~~~

|

{Private Message Received}

"Open"

| Hello

| Iris, | My name is Pilm and i am with my group members Troy and Meanih. | We are adventurers and want to report something to you. that has utmost importance. Today i saw | Humans, problably scouts wandering throught the forest near our Village, i was hidden and they | didn't find me. I saw that they walked in such a way that they walked along a little bit away from | our village.

| Troy and Meanih also have something to report that may be a bit of a problem, that is they found | a river that isn't know to us yet, they suggested to map our surroundings out so that we know | what happens in out area and that we don't get ambushed sometimes in the future.

[What? Humans?] Iris wrinkled her brows.

[This is a problem. Humans think that they are the only true race so they discriminate other races and even make other races their slaves. If they find and attack us it would be bad]

[Yes we have Ripley and me but that won't be of much help if they send a whole army or other 9th order powerhouses.]

[I think i should contact our God and ask what he thinks about it.]

[Oh and when im already at it i should also talk with Ripley.]

~~~

{Ripley - Iris}

| Ripley come find me please i have a serious problem that i need you and our Gods help with.

|| What is it? Ah wait, you know what i'll just come, where are you right now?

| I am at the village hall right now.

|| Aight, i'll come right away.

~~~

[There you are, finally!! What took you so long Ripley? you needed a whole 5 minutes!!]

[I was stopped by someone who asked me something]

[So what is it?]

[We have a Human problem?]

[Oh no, i don't even want to hear the rest, let me guess, someone saw Humans that walked in our direction and reported it?]

[Yeah, pretty much...]

[I just hate them they always attack anything that they want and that has other characteristics than them.]

[That why i wanted to talk to you, i think we need to talk to this with our God right? I don't know what we should do know, we could kill them but we don't know if they are scouts from an army or something like that, i already told the Nebula Panther Tribe about it and let them search these Humans they are to tell me whatever they may attempt to do when they find them.]

[Okay that's a good thing you did there Iris, very good!]

[Ah just shut up.]

[Why are you insulting me? I just praised you, nothing more?]

[Whatever we need to talk to God!]

|

~~~ Shin ~~~

|

"Iris and Ripley? why are they both contacting me? Did something serious happen? I hope not"

"Iris? Ripley? Did something bad happen?"

"Yes Master, we encountered Humans."

"Humans?!?!?" Did they attack you?"

"No not yet, we are still searching for them but we got a report from the adventurers that they went in the direction of our Village, we thought about killing them but we don't know if they are scouts for an Army, what if they get suspicious when these scouts don't come back and send more this way, we can't defend agains the Humans currently. It is best not to confront and anger them"

"Hmm...did you try talking to them?"

"We still didn't find them my God."

"Oh right, i forgot about that, then maybe first try to talk to them, altought i know that they are really aggressive against other races we should still try to make some contact."

"Oh right, how is it with the other tribes? you said that some went on preaching to more distant Tribes and Clans."

"Things are going pretty well at the moment, we're doing well so far and don't have a bad impression on most of them. However, we encountered strong resistance from 2 parties. They seem to already believe in a god."

"Oh? finally we find a party that believes in another God, how exiting to think about it, okey and what next?"

"Nothing, Oh yes we have another problem, that is the mapping of cards, we've found out that we don't know our surroundings very well and sometimes find places that we didn't know of. So we wanted to ask if you a solution to that, we don't have any carthograph so we can't do that"

"Hmm...I could write a program to show the surrounding region and have it displayed in different categories so that there is a National Map, an advanced Map, an intermediate Map and a Primary Map, the higher the grade, the better the quality and usability of the map."

"Sounds good to me" Ripley now also spoke his first word

"It would help us very much right now, that is for sure."

"Okey, then i will set that on my next list of projects." Shin answered and let the system make a note for it.

"Is there something else?"

"No, not at the moment Master. We will excuse ourself now and not bother you again."

[Well then, my first encounter with the Humans, i really hope that they aren't what i heard them to be, if so then they really should die, at least the ones that think all races other than them are rubbish.]

[So the next task i should do is making a map. Alright normally i wouldn't do that but since this is an emergency i will just interrupt my current plan and do this one instead.]

[Alright then, how do i even start now, this is something i've never done before....maybe this way? or that way? hmm...] Shin soon began thinking and trying things one after another in an attempt to find out how making maps worked.]

After about 10 Hours of intesive working and using his abilities to the maximum he finally had the first piece of map finished. it was in a 500 meter radius around the village.

[I want sleep....im done...and this is just the Primary Map...i don't want to do it anymore, but it's really important so i should force myself to at least do the intermediate Map, they need at least that one to really fight against the humans If the worst comes to the worst.]

[Alright, back to work, after this i want to have vacation, really. Im working just as hard as before i died, that can't be right, if that goes on im just going to repeat my story again but this time i may not survive, now wait, did i even die?]

[Well i technically died since this isn't my previous body but i don't have any memorie of dying...hmmm..Nope im not going to think about that now i have more important things to do.]

|

~~~ The Awakened Seekers ~~~

|

[Whoa were really called to meet with Iris and Ripley, what an honor, i never thought that i would ever get to this point in life!] said Pilm unbelievably.

[Yeah me to, im really nervous, is it because you send the message?] Meanih said while looking nervously at the inside decoration of the village hall.

[Problably, why else would we be called here?]

[Are you Pilm, Troy and Meanih?] A voice asked them from the side.

[Ah yes we are!] the three of them immediatly stood up from the chairs they were sitting on before while waiting here.

[Please come with me, Miss Iris and Master Ripley are already waiting for you.]

[Thank you.]

~~~

'Knock~ .Knock~'

[Come in] A voice from the inside were heard.

[Hello Pilm, Meanih and Troy, welcome, please sit down, we want to talk to you about the Humans!]

[Oh, oh course, please ask anything you want to know.]

[God, Are you Pilm?] She pointed at the goblin.

[Yes i am, that one is Troy and this is Meanih.]

[Alright, then when did you find the Humans? Yesterday aroung 16 pm i would say, i only reported it at dusk because of how nervous i was, i was hidden in a tree because i was fearly fatique and my group members went to hunt and share their EXP with me so that i would get a level up and restore my status to perfect again.]

[Okay, actually we don't want to ask you really much, we wanted to give you a reward for your report, that is we will give you the 2nd best option of the thing our god creates currently. We don't have it right now but we will ask god to give it to you.]

[eh? ah..Tha...Thank you very much. We would be honored by it Miss Iris.]

[Hahaha don't be so tense around us, you did a good job in reporting it that is all. You can go back now.]

[Alright, Thank you Miss Iris and Master Ripley for your grace.]

[No No, don't thank us, thank God]

[Oh, Alright even so, thank you.]

[Alright, go now we need to do other things]

[Yes.]