NOVEL NEXT Chapter 7: Chapter 7
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'After listening for a while I decided to go back and wait till tomorrow as I would need to be able to fly to get down from the window without getting seen'
'I decided to go back to Lina's room as it was still night time and I didn't want to run into any trouble this late at night.
I decided to hop into the bed and sleep with Lina as I wouldn't want to sleep on the floor laying down underneath the blanket. She was quite warm, but it took me a while to fall asleep. In my head, all of the things that had happened today kept floating back and forth.
'It's not like people will see anything wrong about it in their eyes I'm her pet even tho I'm not'
As soon as I got into the bed Lina started hugging me, it was like I was teddybear she just wanted to hug and cuddle. After a while of being embraced by her, I fell asleep.
Morning came fast, I woke up feeling refreshed after sleeping for almost 9 hours. As usual Lina was already awake, but instead of sitting there doing nothing she went out to look for food. While waiting for her to return, I checked my stats. My current level was 13
- [current level: 14]
- [Experience Points: 0/100]
- [Health: 305/305]
- [Mana: 90/90]
Strength 45
Agility 47
Vitality 25
Intelligence 24
Magic power 24
Sense 24
Stamina 25
10 unassigned stat points
[Skills :]
- Flame Breath (Basic)
- Scorching Touch level 2 (Active Skill)
-Description: Channel fire energy into your claws or an object you are physically touching and strike an enemy.
Effect: Deals 12 fire damage and applies a burn status for 6 seconds. This skill can be used in melee attacks. Applies a small area-of-effect (AoE) burn, dealing 4 fire damage to enemies within 1 meter of the target.
Scorched Earth (Active Skill)
• Description: Set the ground ablaze, creating a hazardous terrain that damages and burns enemies who step on it.
• Effect: Deals 5 fire damage per second to enemies standing on the affected area for 8 seconds. Enemies entering the area also take 10 fire damage.
• Duration: Lasts for 8 seconds.
• Cooldown: 30 seconds.
• Usage: Excellent for controlling battlefield positioning and forcing enemies to avoid certain areas, making it a strategic skill for both offense and defense.
- Dash (Active)
- Sprint (Active)
- Enhanced Strength (Passive)
- Agility (Passive)
- Reflexes (Passive)
- Endurance (Passive)
- Stealth (Passive)
Stealth (Passive Skill)
-Allows the user to move silently and avoid detection by enemies. This skill enhances the user's ability to perform stealthy maneuvers during combat.
Level: 2
Effect:
• Noise Reduction: Reduces the sound made while moving, increasing the chance of avoiding detection by enemies.
Undetectable from magic or magic items
• Detection Chance: Grants a 50% chance to remain undetected when stationary.
• Duration: Passive; remains active as long as the user is moving quietly.
Cooldown: None (Passive Skill)
Usage:
• Ideal for ambushing enemies or avoiding confrontations.
• Useful in dungeons or areas with strong enemies, allowing for tactical retreats or sneak attacks.
- Jumping Ability (Passive)
[Titles]: Cannibalistic Dragon: increased damage dealt to dragons by 10%
Slayer of many: Increased Damage: When facing multiple opponents or an army, your damage increases by 5%,increasing to 20% against two or more opponents
'Nothing changed in my status window I really need to find a way to hunt as this place is only surrounded by humans and I don't think Lina or any Dragnof royal family would appreciate me killing their citizen's '
[Ding]
[Your Rewards Have Been Processed From The Quest: Kill Human Bandits]
[Reward 1 E-Rank dungeon]
[Ding Connecting this world to Earth]
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[Ding]
[ you are now able to travel into the dungeons of the world Earth, you will not be able to exit the dungeons]
'What Are These Dungeons?'
A blue translucent screen appeared before my eyes explaining what dungeons were
Dungeons are special locations that appear randomly throughout the world. They have been designed to provide players with challenging experiences through boss battles. Each Dungeon has its own unique set of monsters and traps. Players should use caution when exploring these areas.
Dungeons can vary greatly in size, ranging from small, simple cave systems to vast mazes. They often have multiple floors or levels, each representing different challenges, monsters, and environments.
Dungeons usually have a portal or entrance that must be used to enter, often requiring a party or yourself. Some dungeons are classified as normal or special dungeons.
The environment inside a dungeon can vary widely, featuring themes like dark forests, ancient ruins, eerie caverns, or hellish landscapes. Each environment is populated with specific types of monsters that fit within the theme of the dungeon.
Dungeons are filled with various monsters, ranging from low-level creatures to powerful creatures and bosses. Monsters can be categorized into different ranks, such as normal monsters, elite monsters, and boss monsters, with higher-ranked dungeons containing stronger foes.
Dungeons can include traps, puzzles, and environmental disasters, which may require careful navigation around them to survive. Traps can range from poison gas clouds to spikes rising out of the floor.
In some cases, dungeons contain treasure chests that reward adventurers with loot upon opening. Loot can consist of items, equipment, experience points, or gold coins.
Some dungeons even feature NPCs called quest givers. Quests give players goals they must accomplish while in a dungeon, giving purpose and direction to exploration.
[As these dungeons Aren't located in the world you live in you will have to use the key to go into the dungeon]
' I'll do it later as I don't want to cause a trouble for Lina, she might think i am trying to escape again.'
I thought about the idea of going into a dungeon but I decided against it, I didn't want to put myself in danger. If anything happened then there would be no one else to blame but me.
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Thud
Heavy book fell onto the bed next to me causing me to jump. The book was lying on top of my claws that was resting on the bed so I opened my eye and looked at it.
It was a thick hardback book, it had a leather cover and a ribbon tied to the corner of the front cover. It was quite large, measuring approximately 17 cm x 19cm.
The reason this happened was because of where I was laying I was currently laying on a bed but there was a second floor to Lina's room with a balcony and a library I didn't know why there was a entire library above me.
'Like who needs a library in there room is Lina a Otaku' she would definitely be classified as one if she was born in the 21st century.
There were several books laid out on the table and beside the chair, each one covered by a sheet of paper. There was only two chairs in the room and besides the door there was a window facing outside, through the glass I could see a garden and trees.
The sun was setting, the sky was darkening orange and pink colors, the wind blowing softly, rustling the leaves in the trees.
"You awake?" A voice came from behind me,
"Good."
I turned to face her, Lina stood over me with a smile. She wore a light blue dress today, with long sleeves and a short hemline, covering up most of her legs. Her hair was tied back away from her neck, exposing her smooth skin and delicate jaw line.
There is a banquet today, they don't allow pets so I'll have to leave you here don't cause any trouble okay?
Her hands gently brushed down my body before patting my head lightly, she smiled warmly as she walked past me towards the stairs leading downstairs.
She went to the kitchen which was connected to the dining hall below.
I sat up and stretched, yawning loudly. I felt like I haven't slept properly since I got here. My mind kept wandering around and I couldn't focus on what I'm doing, all I wanted was to sleep.
After I finished stretching I finally decided that I'll go into the dungeon as I need to get stronger faster and keep leveling up if I want to keep this lifestyle.
I'm not an idiot there is no way that dragons are a dying species, or anything of the sort if it's so common to find a dragon by walking in a forest. I can assume that they are everywhere and also the fact that everyone fears them.
I looked at my inventory my inventory only had 3 items dead lesser dragon meat, Wolf Meat, and a E-dungeon key.
I opened my inventory and pulled out the E-Rank Dungeon Key. This key looked different from the others I've seen, it's black and silver and has a strange design engraved on its surface. It looks like a symbol of some kind, but I can't tell what it is.
[Would You Like to Enter The Dungeon]
(Y/N)
Yes!
I was teleported into the middle of a huge underground cave, I didn't know where I am exactly, just that I'm somewhere deep inside a mountain.
I took off running heading deeper into the caverns, trying to find something familiar.
This place feels oddly familiar, why does everything feel so... nostalgic?
As I continued further into the caves, I noticed how quiet it became, until I found myself in complete darkness.
I could see nothing except for the faint glow coming from my eyes. my footsteps echoing throughout the tunnel. After a while I reached a fork in the road where two tunnels met each other. One led to the left and the right.
I decided to follow the path to the left because I heard voices from ahead. As I approached closer I saw three humans sitting together around a campfire,
talking among themselves. They seemed to be hunters judging by their equipment and clothes. There were one male and two females, all dressed differently from each other. I stopped in front of them, unsure of whether to greet or attack.
The female closest to me stood up quickly with her hand on her sword, ready to fight. She was wearing leather armor and a helmet covered most of her face. Her hair was tied back tightly behind her head. A shortsword hung on her belt along side a bow.
"Who goes there?!"
she yelled with her eyebrows twitching downward.
"You should already know we're Hunters."
The man next to her spoke up. He was also holding a sword, but he wore light armor and carried a large backpack instead of a shield.
[Ding]
[You Have Recived the quest: Kill The Hunters]
Quest Reward: 100 Experience Points
─ Quest Accepted! - Kill the Humans
Status: Active
Reward: 300exp + 20% XP Bonus for killing a Hunter
Warning: Killing a hunter will increase your chance of being hunted down yourself.
Note: Do not kill any other monsters.
Rewards:
─ [200exp for successfully completing the mission]
─ [400 exp for killing 3 or more Hunters]
—— [One random skill]
After I got the quest I decided not to care about who these people were as they were my prey in this quest.
I then started walking towards them stealthily hoping to catch them unaware.
When i finally arrived at the campsite I was surprised to see the number of them there
They looked like some kind of military unit,
But what caught my attention even more were the amount of weapons and supplies they had with them.
There were two women, a man, and a young boy who all held different kinds of swords and bows
And beside them sat another woman who was probably older than them.
She was carrying a long spear with a black blade and a golden tip. In addition to all those weapons, they also seemed to have plenty of foodstuffs such as dried meat and bread.
I could hear the crackling sounds coming from their campfire, which meant that there must be something cooking inside the pot sitting overtop
What a bunch of well-prepared soldiers...
' I would have used my flames to lure some of them out but as they have food and weapons that would be of help later on if I ever get a humanoid form i decided not to it's better to get the supply's then to have none'
"Hey! What are you doing here?! Get lost!" one of the men shouted angrily while pointing his sword toward me. It looks like they didn't notice me yet...
It's time to make myself known. I'm going to use my flame breath again! I let loose a stream of white scorching Flames straight ahead, aiming right between the men. My aim was perfect, and the attack struck its intended target without missing a single hair on the man's head.
Although I did hit my target it didn't really do much damage it left a scar of black charred flesh.
The man leapt at me with his sword raised high above him ready to bring it down onto my skull but before he could I leaped back away from the impact of the blade. The man stumbled forward landing heavily on the ground.
I landed behind the others and quickly took cover in a nearby bush.
"What are you?" One of the women asked cautiously approaching the fallen man and inspecting his wound.
He groaned loudly and tried to stand up but couldn't due to his injury so she helped him to
The woman started casting a healing spell with green cross shaped particals coming out of the man's body.
"Y-Yea I'm fine let's focus on the lizard monster now the man with the sword away from me said"
"Ok I will heal this guy after we kill the Lizard"
"Ok then lets go"
"Wait a minute! We need to discuss strategy first"
"No! I want to finish this fast so that we don't waste any more time!"
"But what about our injured comrade? He needs rest too!"
"We should prioritize killing the lizard before taking care of other things!"
"You're right! Let's move out!"
They all turned around and ran off towards the direction where the lizard had gone
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After following the trail for several minutes, they found me.
I was sitting there under the sun with my tail sticking up in the sky.
There wasn't anything else around me except barren rocks and a tunnel
'These human really followed me here. Maybe I over estimated them I thought I could get one or two to follow me but the whole group followed me leaving there valuables back where we came from'
As soon as they saw me the humans began shouting excitedly
"Hey… Look there's the lizard!"
[You Have Used skill Scorching Earth]
Without giving these humans much time I used Scorching earth to create a uninhabitable land. this land was charred turning black with smoke coming off it and white flames surrounding the exits. a ring of tall White Flames surrounded the area.
This would force them to stay inside the circle of flames unable to escape unless they use skills such as dash and enhanced strength which only lasted 3 seconds each.
"H-huh this lizard can you use magic?"
"Everyone prepare to fight we now have to kill this lizard to leave alive" the leader of the group the man that I was fight earlier he had a sword and shield
"Hey! What kind of lizard uses magic anyway?!"
"It looks like this lizard has some type of magical ability so we must defeat it at all costs!"
"Yeah! Kill this lizard! It might even be a demon beast or something!"
"What!? That lizard doesn't look demonic to m—"
[You Have Used The Skill Scorching Touch]
I wrapped my flames around my claws the scorching flames are burning hotter than ever I feel massive amounts of heat radiating off myself
The heat is unbearable but I ignore it because I know if I stop moving I will die. I ran forward as quickly as I possibly canleaping at the closest guy near me
"Gyaaaaaaaahhhhhhh!!"
He screamed as I landed on him slamming down with my entire body weight onto his chest
"Ughh! Ghaaahhhh!" This man yelled in pain as I lifted myself off him using the momentum from my landing.
Digging my Flaming claws into this man's right arm I twisted and pulled tearing flesh and bone apart causing blood to spill out everywhere
He fell to his knees screaming in agony while I kept pulling ripping more and more of his limb away until finally I tore his hand off sending the severed part flying across the cave floor
Whizz, an arrow flew in the direction of me. The arrow sliced through the air at speed, was almost as fast as a bullet. A sharp tip pierced my flesh, sinking deep into me. blood splattering from the wound.
The pain was freezing, searing, at a freezing degree. Every nerve was cold, this was the first time I ever felt this cold. It was spreading through my chest and it felt as if that arrowhead was still moving, twisting deeper into my flesh. My breath hitched. My breath quickening.
It was Leaving icicles coming off of me I looked back seeing another archer aiming at me. Whizz whiz whi--wha-whooosh! Another arrow came flying towards me, slicing past my head. It hit the wall behind me leaving a huge hole.
It passed by my head. Behind me, hitting a wall, leaving a huge hole in the wall with a spike of ice coming out of it, and making the surrounding area filled with snow and a little bit of ice. This was changing the surrounding area as my flames and ice were colliding together, making steam coming off of the ice.
I turned around again to see two other archers running after me. They were shooting arrows at me one by one.
They didn't seem very skilled at their job since most of the time the arrows missed me. But they still managed to get close enough for me to dodge them easily.
One of the archers got closer to me so I started sprinting. The arrow hit the wall next to where I was heading.
'I had enough I decided to stop holding back and worrying if they will escape I'll just make it so they they can't'. I dashedforward and unleashed my flames.
[You Have Used The Skill: Flame Breath]
I aimed at the archer that was about to shoot at me. I released my breath but before it could reach its intended target the arrow of ice shot up blocking my breath from reaching him. It left a big shape like icicle that blocked my Flames He blocked it effortlessly.
I wasn' t going to let this go easy. I concentrated all of my mana onto my body then cast Scorching Touch on myself. The heat and light radiating from my entire being burning everything in sight. Even my own shadow was burning hot. I was engulfed in Scorching White Flames.
I immediately darted toward the archer, unleashing my flames at once. My flames reached the archer right away. His clothes caught fire instantly, causing him to drop his bow. I continued chasing the archer until he stopped.
He was trying to put out the flames on himself. After a while, the flame subsided. The archer picked up his bow and pointed it at me. I readied my claws and Leapt toward him and prepared to attack. Before I could unleash my flames, the archer fired an arrow at me.
Woosh
A arrow was shot towards me by the woman archer these archers were skilled at keeping me in a tight situation never letting me attack what made this worst is that the male human from earlier join in with his sword slashing down towards me.
'I'll kill you!' 'You think you're strong?'I swung my tail and knocked aside the swordsman's blade. A black spear was thrown at me by the female archer. She was really good at throwing things.
I dodged to the side by side stepping to the left well grabbing her arm. With my claws digging into here skin Her face contorted in pain.
"Ouch! What are you doing? Let go already!" she shouted angrily.
[You Have Used The Skill:Scorching Touch]
MP 20/100
Cloaking this human in Flames Searing her skin turning it a black charred color. She screamed in agony as I continued attacking her relentlessly.Her screams grew louder and more intense, almost unbearable to listen to.
[You have Killed Hunter 1/4]
"Y-you what have you done!!!"
The man whose arm I tore of earlier said I leapt at him as this was the best chance to attack him without any resistance.
But before I could attack the man I heard something behind me so I turned around only to see a huge fireball coming at me.
This guy has some serious skills... But even though I was surprised by the sudden explosion I was able to dodge it easily because of how fast I am.
It felt like I just dodged a bullet but now that I look back I realize that I'm pretty sure I saw smoke rising from the spot where I was.
Damn he must've been using Fireball.
I thought about running away and then realized that there isn't much distance between us anyway so why not try fighting him head-on instead of running?
I didn't want to get hit again and end up in another one of those situations where I couldn't move anymore. So I charged forward ready to fight.
As soon as we came close enough I unleashed a barrage of flame attacks all aimed at him.
[You Have Used The Skill Scorching Touch]
MP 15/100
I used my Flames covering my claws I leapt towards him at a fast pace faster than before with my breath quirking and my heart beating as fast as it can.
[You Have Used The Skill Dash]
[Speed increases by 2x]
[MP 10/100]
I moved at speed hard to follow dashing at this man like a spring board leaping high into the sky landing right next to him with my claws outstretched ready to rip off his limbs
I'll finish this quickly if possible but I don't know what kind of moves he knows so I might need to use my other skills too. I roared as I unleashed a barrage of Flaming spheres at him.
He seemed to be trying to escape from them as they flew straight through his body. He constant was getting hit my fire balls as big as 10x the size as an adult human He looked exhausted already. But I was still going strong.
I had no idea how many times he took my Flaming projectiles but I kept hitting him over and over again. I was determined to kill him no matter how long it would take.
I launched myself at him as he tried to flee. As he was dodging my attacks he fell down to the ground as he tried to jump away from me. My fireballs were hitting him all over his body.
I noticed that the more he got hurt, the harder he tried to get up. His face was contorted with pain. I leapt at him digging my claws into his stomache he couldn't resist any more as I started ripping off his limbs one after the other. Blood spurted everywhere as my claws dug into his flesh.
"Guyaaah"
He screamed as his blood gushed out of his wounds. I could hear bones snapping as I tore apart his entire body piece by piece. I was covered in blood now. It felt great! I was really enjoying this...
"Ughhh!"
Then suddenly, I felt something grab onto my tail. I turned around to see who it was, but before I could even look properly, I felt a sharp pain
"I-I'll kill Y-you monster"
It was the healer from earlier she had a dagger in her hands shoving it into my tail while shouting
"Y-You're dead! Die!"
I didn't have time to think about anything else as I swung my head around wildly and grabbed hold of her arm. Then I slammed her against the wall, using my weight to force the dagger out of my tail and make sure she stayed there.
The healer was panicking as I approached her with my jaws wide open ready to bite off her head. She was shaking with fear as she desperately tried to pull the dagger out of my tail. She was afraid of dying.
I guess that's why she decided to stab me with that damn knife. I growled as I pulled her close to my mouth and bit down hard. She cried out as I pierced her throat with my fangs. I wanted to savor the taste of fresh blood.
"N-No! Not my neck!"
She frantically tried to move away from me, but it was too late. I was already biting down. Her blood poured out of her neck and dripped down my tongue. I opened my eyes wide to catch every drop
[Ding]
[You have completed the quest ]
[You Have killed 4/4 Hunters]
Can I get Some PowerStones💎?
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Authors note here so...
this is a long chapter by normal standards if you want to support me I would be great full if you give PowerStones. Thanks for reading Take Care