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The original was posted on /r/hfy by /u/MrIzuarel on 2024-09-07 14:11:51+00:00.
Chapter 16
Three days, that was the time I was kept in that room.
As the reasons why, well, the higher-ups of the military complained to the royal family about how Morrigan and the mages had stolen a dangerous monster and were keeping it in an unsecured place.
The mages countered it by claiming their holding cell was better equipped to keep such a special entity captive. Then they complained how the soldiers didn’t feed me during my stay, causing me to starve horribly. Thankfully, the mages stepped in and gave me a meal to save me.
The fact that they didn’t explain how I was feed showed the manipulative nature of such discussions.
At the same time, the meals I had created were properly analyzed. It turned out to be full of natural magic encased in holy magic to prevent it from rotting and direct all the natural magic to heal the person eating it.
The mages used this to bring the church on their side. They hoped that with such items, the church could grow in power, and with the mages as their provider, the mages would get a backer in these political power struggles. The secret agreement between the two was perfect as long as I created more meals.
But that wasn’t the only change in my life during those three days.
I don’t know who the genius was, but someone proposed to capture monsters and bring them to me. The idea behind that statement was such that the hunting speed would increase and the dangers decrease if they did it. There were a few back and forth, but the idea was accepted at the end.
For them, the risk was minimized, but for me, the opportunity to flee dropped to zero. If I was confined in a room, how would I be able to leave or summon my helper without being noticed?
But I had little to no choice in that matter.
I was bored out of my mind after three days, and I was seriously missing video games at that time, but at least spying on the young mages was a good distraction.
However, my small rest was only until the first monsters began to roll in. I don’t know how, but hundreds of cages and firmly tied up monsters were slowly brought to my room.
At first, I refused to fight and used the drawing of the magical ladle to get their attention. The young mages were a bit confused as these were other mages than those a few days prior, but once Morrigan saw the drawing, he gave me what I wanted.
With the Goblin Army Knife in my inventory, I started hunting earnestly.
The reason why I wanted it was easy to understand. I needed the tools to collect the other materials after the first round of looting. Not every monster had materials, but enough of them had.
Once I stood in front of my first victim, a deer, I did a careful observation of it.
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Blade deer level 7
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I was a bit surprised by the name and looked around to find the “blade” but didn’t immediately find it. It was only when I saw how the antlers were cut off that I realized where the blades were, or had once been.
I started punching, scratching, and stabbing the deer, but compared to the mouse, the deer was quite the formidable opponent. Only after getting annoyed by its unyielding vitality and grabbing the half broken horns did I found a way to kill it more efficiently. I slowly turned its head while firmly gripping the rest of its body with my legs and lower arms.
I slowly turned its neck until I could not anymore and put in more strength. The deer tried to defend itself, but it was tightly bound by a rope and could not escape my grip. It put up some resistance with the neck muscles, but in the end, I managed to break it.
The deer didn’t die immediately, but it had a debuff on it, which increased almost a hundred fold the damage taken in the neck area. Such a debuff didn’t exist in the game, but at the same time, grappling techniques also weren’t present for this type of character, and yet I used it against that monster.
The debuff had a timer on it, so I had to use that time to the best of my ability. And three precise punches on the back of the head later, the deer died.
Everyone was quite pleased by my prowess, but what happened after was a surprise for all of them.
I carefully looted the deer but noticed how one item of the list disappeared into nothingness. Still, I was happy I didn’t burst into flames on the spot because of my chains.
Once I confirmed the deer was “empty,” I came closer to it and put my left hand horizontal in front of my chest, and with my right, I formed a fist, which grinded on the other one. While it looked a bit silly, my system understood it perfectly.
In the next moment, the corpse of the deer popped like a soap bubble, releasing hundreds of small golden lights. It left only the rope behind.
I wasn’t very concerned with it as I looked at the new list of items in front of me.
This time, the items didn’t disappear, stolen by some unknown thief, but at the same time, this list would never have claws in it, so it was not really a reason to celebrate.
I looked at the list. Another piece of meat, obtained thanks to the job of hunter. A small piece of leather, a common item gained through the job of scavenger. Bonemeal, common but low droprate item from the job farmer.
I could not be happier because now I had obtained 2 experience points, one of them gained because of my earlier mutation, and an additional third point on my job as hunter.
I knew I could not hide it forever because Morrigan was expecting something from me. He had observed the despawning of monsters often enough to know that this was an exceptional occurrence. So I simply put the three items on the table next to him.
For the bone meal, a fine powder, I had to use a piece of fur dropped by the deer to actually keep the powder together and easily transportable. It wasn’t the best solution, but it was a solution.
The young mages were excited at the appearance of new items, but I immediately slapped their hands whenever they tried to touch the bonemeal.
While it wasn’t a precious powder in the game, here it could cause enormous problems.
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Bonemeal
Consumable
Use: Farmer, herbalist, reduce growing time of plants by 18%
Cooldown: 5 minutes
Value 0 copper.
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