Chapter 6: Chapter 6
(Just updated tattoo penalties, thank you theblackdragon23)
Waking up in the middle of the night, to some ringing in his ears, Corven looks at the notifications he's getting.
{+O.5 EXP}
{+1 EXP}
{+0.5 EXP}
{+0.5 EXP}
{+O.5 EXP}
{+1 EXP}
{+0.5 EXP}
{+0.5 EXP}
"Perfect*Yawns*, ill have to check the traps in the morning to replace them, but hopefully nothing gets the bodies." Says Corven as he falls back to sleep for the night.
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Waking up in the morning with a big stretch, Corven pops his neck and rubs his sore back.
He sees a few more notifications from last night.
"Lets see....All together i managed to get 10.5 EXP in one night, not a bad hall." Corven says tiredly,
"Status."
__________Status__________
Name: Corven Cain
EXP Points: 19.5
Health: 100/100
Mana: 100/100
STR: 11!
AGI: 10
CON: 11!
VIT: 10
INT: 10
WIS: 10
LUK: 10
Tabs- Inventory, Drawing Panel
"Well I suppose all that hard work did give me something." Says corven as he sees his stats.
Summoning his drawing panel, he debates on what to do next.
"..My EXP gains are small but stack up well, but if I want to gain anything big I need more...Thank God me and gramps were nerds *chuckles*" says Corven with a small laugh.
Thanks to having read many fanfictions in his life, Corven has many ideas of what he could do to gain power, the biggest starting point being this.
Using black colors to draw, he makes a black circle with spikes that protruded inwards and outwards in a pattern, with the 4 biggest spikes fading to red as it heads into the center of the circle. (picture here)
At first the point cost is only 0.0001 since its only labeled as a tattoo.
But with the ability comes an increase in price.
One by one Corven slowly write down:
EXP Steal- Sacrificing a carcus, user gains an extra 100% EXP gained from the kill.
With this one ability, the price alone sky rocketed to almost 1000 EXP.
Seeing this Corven frowns.
"Its expected to be expensive but damn.."
With a long sigh, he makes adjustments to lessen the price
EXP Steal- Sacrificing a carcus, user gains an extra 100% EXP bonus from the kill, can only be used 3 times a day, cannot use a carcus more than 1 month old.
No Pain No Gain- A debuff of -10% strength and agility will be applied for 1 hour(stackable) after each use.
Even Trade- If used, half of available Health and Mana is consumed.
Slowly the price managed to drop to 125.7 EXP, which is still steep, but achievable after a few days of grinding.
"I got a lot of work to do.." he says as he saves the drawing for later.
Putting on his harness with his tools, corven walks out of his cave and to get some water from the river and use the bathroom.
But after hes done, he searches around for his traps while walking to the pond, fixing some that went off but caught nothing, replacing meat and setting them back up, or taking the animal carcus'.
"So I caught 15 mice, and 3....Horned Rabbits?... okay that narrows the world im in down, so which fantasy world has horned rabbits....Oh Wait!, nearly all of them." says Corven with annoyed looked.
Closing his inventory, Corven reaches the pond, and sees recent tracks and markings from the Turtle-boars.
"They really have made this their territory, I need to get rid of them soon."
Sneaking up near the pond, avoiding any droppings, He takes out the dead Turtle-Boar from his inventory,
and using his knife, he starts carving it apart, doing his best not to damage the belt or cut into the bladder or stomach.
Carefully cutting, he stores every piece of meat he can get safely cut off,
The toughest part is the shell on its back, but he managed to get it off and stored, with it still attached to the pelt.
"I'll definitely need to sharpen this when I get done."
doing his best to finish quickly, he gets everything stored and separated.
Now Finished, he washes the blood of his hands in the pond water, and stores a flat stone to sharpen his knife with later.
*GROWLSSS*
Turning around, Corven sees a fairly skinny, gray and pale white, wolf slowly walking towards him.
Knowing how wolves usually hunt, Corven looks around while paying attention to the skinny wolf.
As he looks around.....he doesn't see anything, the only wolf that he can tell is here is the skinny one infront of him.
'Hes probably been casted out of the pack or something. Poor guy probably has no choice and is wanting to attack me for food. It is difficult surviving alone after all.'
Though he feels sorry for the wolf, he can't let his guard down, so he slowly draws his machete, facing it towards the wolf.
Before any warning is given, the wolf up over 9 feet high, shocking Corven for a moment, but the wolf aims at Corven, trying to take him down.
Seeing this, Corven swings his machete at the wolf before it can land on him, but before the swing can connect, the wolf spreads its front legs out, bringing out leathery bat like wings.
Using the wings, it glides out of the way, causing corven to miss the swing.
Watching the wolf land behind him and readying his stance again, Corven stares at the wolf in bewilderment.
"Of course the wolf flies."
Instead of giving it time to react, Corven rushes to make the first move, slashing his machete at the wolf, seeing this, the wolf jumps up to avoid it, though because of its weak figure at the moment, it isn't fast enough, and its back leg gets cut, cause it to collapse when it lands on the ground.
Seeing his attack land, Corven begins rushing once more to finish it off.
But before hes able to slay the wolf for once and for all, he looks at it for a moment.
The wolf is just laying there, shaking and bleeding heavily from his leg.
Seeing this upsets Corven, he knows he can't let it live now cause it'll just suffer, or even attack him once more, so he does the next best thing.
Taking out a fish from his inventory, he slowly walks over to the wolf, while holding his machete.
*GROWWWLS*
The wolf growls at him heavily while eyeballing him,
Ignoring this but staying cautious, Corven walks close enough, and lays the fish infront of the wolf.
Seeing the fish and Corven holding his machete, the wolf slowly eats the fish, enjoying its taste and texture as much as it can.
After its all been eaten, the wolf lays its head down to rest.
Seeing this Corven raises his machete up high with both his hands.
"...Goodbye."
*SPLAT*
{+50 EXP}
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With a clean machete, and a flying wolf carcus, Corven walks back to finish his trap.
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shoutout to God_of_void and his ff, custom made fiction God, its on hiatus but thats where I got the idea of the exp stealing tattoo.
and if anyone thinks the price is too low lemme know some penalties I could add that would work well enough to make the price lower.
__________Status__________
Name: Corven Cain
EXP Points: 69.5
Health: 100/100
Mana: 100/100
STR: 11
AGI: 10
CON: 11
VIT: 10
INT: 10
WIS: 10
LUK: 10
Tabs- Inventory, Drawing Panel
Weekly Power Status
-- Power
Ranking 
-- Power
stone