I was now trapped inside a net and i finally understood why its edges were flashing with lights, the net isn't just for trapping, it send a small doses of electric charge to numb its captive, i said weak because that was exactly what i felt , it felt almost as a sting on my skin, a harmless one at that .
But that was quite impressive with the current Constitution points that i have, it would be insanely difficult to do much damage if any to me .
But i believe the flashing red current of electricity to be quite dangerous to more weaker creatures, even some of the stronger creatures might suffer if they were to be trapped in this net .
Even though it appeared to be quite sturdy, i had no doubt that i would be able to disassemble it with a flick of my finger, but i currently had no intention of doing so .
I was already looking around for any kind of sign of an intelligent lifeform to communicate with and to ask about where was i .
So i decided to wait and see if the person who planted this trap here, will come to check what he caught .
In the meantime, i once again opened my status window once again in try of finding an explanation for the sudden disappearance of the Armord Hide skill, but till now i wasn't able to get any logical explanation other than it being destroyed when i crashed from the space .
Now that i remembered the crashing from all the way up to here, i couldn't help but glance towards the crate that i made when i landed, and the crack that i made through the sky when i landed , if my guess was correct, the impact of me falling got most likely absorbed by whatever that was and weird enough it was beginning to restore itself as well .
My status window was now like this :
Name : Sakurai Ryuu .
Age : 16 .
Level : 15 .
Job : undetermined !!
Attributes :
Strength : 18,280 .
Stamina : 23,040 .
Agility : 12,493
Mana : 1,410 . ( NEW )
Spirit : 20 . ( New )
Hidden attributes :
Constitution : 960 .
Will : 140 .
Luck : 25 .
Fate : 80 .
Spirituality : 20 . ( New )
Comprehension : 92 .
Skills :
( Troll Force ) ( PASSIVE SKILL ) .
( Novice Swordsmanship Lvl10 Max Level) ( PASSIVE SKILL ) .
( Physical Fortitude ) ( PASSIVE SKILL ) .
( Pain Resilience ) ( PASSIVE SKILL ) .
( Appraisal Lvl4 ) ( ACTIVE SKILL ) .
( Stealth Lvl1 ) ( ACTIVE SKILL ) .
( Unique Insight ) ( PASSIVE SKILL ) .
( Healing Magic ) ( ACTIVE SKILL ) .
( Dark Vision ) ( PASSIVE SKILL ) .
( Well-balanced ) ( PASSIVE SKILL ) .
( Battle Frenzy ) ( PASSIVE SKILL ) .
( Transmutation ) ( ACTIVE SKILL ) .
( Rock Slide ) ( ACTIVE SKILL ) .
( Cave Resilience ) ( ACTIVE SKILL ) .
( Camouflage ) ( ACTIVE SKILL ) .
( Curse ) ( ACTIVE SKILL ) .
( Obsidian Armor ) ( ACTIVE SKILL ) .
( Iron Will Regeneration ) ( PASSIVE SKILL ) .
( Volcanic Mana Essence ) (PASSIVE SKILL) .
( Mountain's Fortitude ) ( PASSIVE SKILL ) .
(Hunter's Instinct) (PASSIVE SKILL) .
( Blink Sword ) ( ACTIVE SKILL ) .
Special Skills :
( Aura Of The Strong ) ( ACTIVE SKILL ).
Unique Skill :
( Steal ) ( ACTIVE SKILL ) .
( Unstoppable Advance ) ( PASSIVE SKILL ) .
Counter : 3 .
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I guess with that much increase in my senses, it's to no surprise that i had an a precognitive intuition toward danger , i had a lot of chances to escape even though that rune sudden activation took me by surprise, i was still able to escape its confinement with quite ease, but why bother .
Hope whoever set this trap here to hurry and come to check on it, i'm going to get bored to death like this .
Since i will still be trapped here for some time, i should recheck everything that i recently discovered or more accurate to say confirmed .
First, i'm currently quite certain that the demon king Blazan have a direct connection to the external visitors that are determined to get their hands on the Shard, not giving the consequences of doing so any mind .
Second, I have no idea about the nature of that Shard, but i can tell after my little space expedition that something was going on with this planet and that Shard had someway or another a hand in it .
And if that Shard was related to the said level up system that all the people on the planet use, then it suddenly getting removed, might lead to some severe and irreversible damage .
And what made me so sure of the involvement of the Demon King Blazan in this kind of plot, if he weren't one of those guys who are seeking the Shard himself was actually pretty simple .
The same incident that happened previously with that Bloodlord happened once again with Gluttony , i wasn't able to gain any level up even after completely defeating it , so either he was in the same situation as the Bloodlord from before and he was merely a clone or incarnation for the real Gluttony .
Or he was able to stay alive somehow and, but the weird techniques he used left no doubt in me that he came from the Real World as that Bloodlord and with his connection with the Demon King , there wasn't much to doubt .
If he isn't the instigator then he must be an accomplice, either way if i were to make this world a better place,then his dangerous plans must cease to exist .
Now that i think more about it, the person who led me to end like this must have been an accomplice to both the crown prince and to the demon king, so i must have caught their attention at least enough for them to plot against me like this .
I felt my sore spot being picked at the reminder of what had happened , from now on every free points we gain,will be prioritized to spirit and spirituality , unless i become omnipotent or something .
Or i could just prioritize finding related skills and then just do my thing, that could possibly be quite cost-effective .
I suddenly opened my eyes the moment that i felt someone approaching from quite far and remembered that now i'm able to benefit of the detection effect of the Obsidian Armor skill of mine for more than 15 seconds .
The movement that i felt from the underground belonged to a group of 10 and from the vibration of the earth beneath them, i can tell that they were pulling a cart or a wheeled truck like something, behind them .
Whatever was in the truck they were pulling, it was something obviously heavy since the ecos of its vibrations was the loudest and apperantly the heaviest too .
Another weird thing related to the nearing guys was their own vibrations on the ground, they weren't anything like the vibration of the normal vibration of a human being , which meant exactly that .
Whoever set this trap here was either an intelligent monster or some other lifeform but it was intelligent not any lifeform able to create such a magical rune , maybe it was the work of a Dwarf .
Hope, i really hoped it to be the work of a Dwarf , since if it was actually the work of Dwarves then that can directly mean that i will be to return to Troland instantly, since Dwarves being here could very much mean one thing and that was either i was in Terra kingdom or someplace close to it.
A place that have a Teleportation Hall like the one back in Troland, one that i'm in need of using to traverse back to Troland in the shortest time possible .
Not that i was in a hurry or something but i have to give that crown prince the massage of me staying alive, after all Strength in this world in particular acted as a quite deterring force .
And if it was Terra then it will be quite possible to use their Teleportation Hall to return to Troland and to finally turning things to the better over there , especially the royal family and in particular that crown prince and his greedy father , i really hope that this is the kingdom of Terra .
I hope that it either Terra or a dangerous zone in the Wicked Forest , either of those i will be quite happy with .
I again decided to close my eyes and waited for them to come, thinking that i have finally beginning to see a way out of this barren land and could pretty much get a bit of details like where was i, or how did time work here exactly , most importantly how did the kingdom of Troland people's fare against the monster raid .
As they were getting more and more closer, my hope of them being Dwarves kept dwarfing more and more, since i can pretty much be certain that whoever were coming, they were neither dwarf nor even coming here with good intentions .
The ecos of their vibrations kept on telling me that whoever was coming my way weren't short by judging the impact that they kept making while walking here, yes they were walking, all of them.
All of them were pulling that truck or cart of sort as they began to march forward towards my current location and there was no sense of discomfort as they continued to pull .
I exhaled a long breath of air and already came to terms with the idea of that i might not be even near the Kingdom of Terra , but now i just hope that wherever this place was, i still have a bit of hope that it had a way for me to use to go back .
Anyplace other than Elohim or Diblosia will be quite fine why , first those two places have shut down their ties with the kingdom of Troland, so most of their ways of transportation to there must have been cut off as well , second Elohim is holding an enmity towards humans , so yeah worst case scenario would be the need to deal with angry elves and for no logical reason .
As for Diblosia it is under the influence of the Demon King, so that means that the kingdom on the surface was at war with the other 4 kingdoms, so the chance of it still having a working mean of transportation to the kingdom of Troland was less than the kingdom of elves Elohim .
Not to mention that if what i heard about this country was correct, then the only way to get out of any of the two kingdoms then it will probably be on foot .
Which will cost me quite much, since with my compass being destroyed, i will no way to know where am i going, so moving on foot is out of question, but flying to there on the other hand might be quite good solution, or maybe jumping high to be exact .
So if the place where i was, didn't have a means for transportation back to Troland, then i will have to look for some skill books that could help me out of this predicament .
I will probably have to look for a job first, since i'm penniless, wait a minute, my ID card and Adventurer's Guild membership card, i still hadn't even reported back to the Adventurer's Guild , since a lot of incident happened in succession which prevented me from doing so and it is now gone .
I found this train of thoughts to be quite amusing , a few smirks and chuckles escaped my mouth, but i soon stopped playing around as i felt that the guests that i have been waiting for were finally here .
The group of 10 people that were in front of me were clearly not human, but actually monsters even though i'm still closing my eyes, i was still able to clearly knew that from the bloody aura that they were intentionally or unintentionally releasing , but with Aura Of Strong on their try of assaulting me with their aura ended up in failure .
I was still shutting my eyes, as if i was affected by the electric shock coming from the net , but i now focused more on hearing than seeing as they begin to talk to each other in a rejoicing tone saying :
Voice 1 : We got quite the catch, a human being here in Devons that's a great surprise , what a quite good luck .
Voice 2 : Indeed , humans aren't this rare anymore around here, but one in such a good shape and form, will be bought for alot of shards, we might not need to work for a long long time .
Voice 3 : He looks quite sturdy with that armor of his , a good prey, a magnificent prey .
Voice 4 : But he do look like a noble from somewhere, so to better safe than sorry, i believe we need to check on his mark first, otherwise we might be begging for trouble and that won't look good for the business .
Voice 5 : I volunteer to do it .
The voices that i kept hearing were gruff, sharp and quite arrogant , if i wasn't wrong those guys were either slave's merchant or scavengers of sort, but they were indeed not a good people .
When their talking came to a sudden stop, i felt someone was coming towards the net and began to actually sniff it , is that how they identify the so-called Mark i couldn't help but wonder, what was even that and where exactly am i, Devons where is that .
He kept changing the angles where was he sniffing from, searching for the so-called Mark, but a few seconds later he stooped whatever he was doing and frowned .
His comrades seeing him like that, began to ask :
Voice 6 : So , why are you standing here frowning hurry up and spill the beans already, what exactly did you find out ? .
Voice 5 : That's exactly the reason why i was frowning, i wasn't able to find out his Mark no matter which angle i used .
Voice 7 : Could he be really someone noble , hurry up and unbound him .
Voice 8 : Lerinability to gauge his Mark, doesn't necessarily mean that he was a noble, he might be a freed slave, or he might have a thing on him that was making his Mark hard to detect .
Voice 9 : Yes, yes, exactly, we might have made it big, guys , allow me dissect him and i am quite certain that i will find every secret he have .
Voice 10 : Idiot, if we allowed you to dissect him, the probability of him being alive after you are done with him is quite null , we still need him alive, can't we just stop the trap rune and search him ourselves .
Voice 3 : Let's stop quarreling and finish what we came here for already , i heard that there was a curfew around this area, the guards said that something had fell down from the space and guards were still patrolling the area .
Voice 8 : You think that this guy maybe related to the thing that fallen down from the outer space , Ouch, Boss why did you hit me for ? .
Voice 1 : You are always boasting about being the brain of the legion , so why are you spouting nonsense now .
Voice 8 : But i don't boss, he is releasing some weird aura as we speak , he might have really have some..... Ouch,why ? .
Voice 1 : Stop uttering such nonsense already Liam, go fetch him out of the net .
Voice 8 : can't any of those guys do it
instead .
Voice 9 : I will do it .
Voice 1 : Do it Liam .
Voice 8: Fine fine, i will do it
I decided to play some tricks on those guys, so i was still acting as if i was still unconscious .
I was able to feel that the net that i was in got suddenly removed and i was being held in a much bigger hand than i supposedly expect by the guy who was called Liam, the brain of the gang in front of me .
His logical thinking gave me quite the surprise and presumedly a glimpse of his strength too, if i'm not wrong most of those guys around me are of S Rank , that many S Rank monsters working as a gang, where exactly was i .
After he turned off the trap and pulled the tent he began to try pull me out of my place but he wasn't able to do it since i was currently fixing my self by increasing my weight by increasing the strength on my legs , forcing him to use all his strength to try pulling me off .
His comrades saw him struggling so much to do such an effortless job, they began to laugh at him and some were beginning to make sarcastic remarks about his strength, but their boss looked at the current scene unfolding in front of him with wary .
Then he asked Liam if he needed any help with that which his underling responded to with a nod, so he ordered all the guys except for the crazy guy that wanted to dissect the human previously to go and help .
They tried all the possible ways to make me move even an inch but to no avail , they stopped trying after a few minutes with all of them looking quite tired and they were actually panting, a declaration of how hard were they trying .
Voice 8 : Boss, there's something very wrong here, that human is unmovable exactly like King Devos statue in the capital .
Voice 1 : I'm aware of that , there is no need to dwell much on this, since we can't move him, then we will completely finish him .
Voice 9 : But how was he able to fell in the trap in the first place , could he have died .
Voice 10 : died standing, yeah you are out of your mind .
Voice 1 : Whateverhe is, he will be no more, burn it all up guys , the loot we have is already enough .
Voice 4 : What a waste that robe of his looked quite decent .
Voice 6 : Were you going to use it as a handkerchief .
Justas those guys were about to comply to the orders that were given by their boss, the area from around them suddenly began to be engulfed in a weird black smoke .
The moment that the smoke screen appeared, i began to hear the hovering sounds in the air, but i was still not opening my eyes, as i was currently contemplating on the information that i had recently acquired, the King Devos he mentioned can only be the King of Diblosia .
Judging from the group of monsters here and the fact that Elohim is under a Queen not a King and most of the other Kingdom's kings other than Animagia were known to me, so that could only leave one last kingdom, the Dark one, Diblosia .
Stop where you are, this area is currently under a lockdown, cease your meaningless resistance immediately and you might be able to leave here unharmed, resist and you guys will be treated with full force .
The person who spoke voice came from the air which could only mean that he was either flying or riding something that was, the moment the commanding voice finished speaking, i felt that the bodies of the scavengers in front of me were actually beginning to shook .
Voice 8 : what should we do boss ? .
Voice 1 : of course we obligate, we have done nothing wrong, don't forget that we now have a someone to back us too , after they saw that we haven't done anything worth to be punished for they will leave us be .
All the guys showered him with compliments on his wisdom and they began to even sheer , but what came next blown all their heads away .
The guy who wanted to dissect the human collapsed suddenly to the ground, i felt his strong impact on the ground as he fell, i thought he was going to get up, but he was still laying down on the ground like a corpse .
Whaaaaa, Weller , get up .
A few seconds later, that was the time it took for his comrades to comprehend what exactly just happened , as they were about to swarm him and check on him, a few more shots of what i presumed to be the thing that took the giant comrade of theirs impacted the earth, i believed that whatever these shots were, they were aimed at their feet acting as a warning shots , accompanied by the same commanding voice from before, but this time his tone was filled with irritation as he said :
I'm already having a bad night as it is, so if you don't want to lie down like that idiot friend of yours, you lot better quieten down , NOW .