CHAPTER THIRTY

Was the world always so full of things that want us dead?

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Achievement: Rushing to Adventure

Just a boy of ten, and you’re already on your way

You could still be faster, but I’ll send some strength your way

There are still a lot of monsters much stronger than you

The challenges that lay upon the road ahead aren’t few

Leaf had never left the village without his mother

Avoiding straying for at the advice of his brother

Now, despite being the youngest brother of the five

He would be the first to out and try to survive

He couldn’t ask them for their help since Twig was not their friend

Even if they may have agreed to help in the end

Just like his mother, who had raised them by herself for years

He would take care of his own, through any pain and tears

“Do you think he made it far, after all, he’s quite slow

I wonder how far the System told that guy to go”

Sky thought for a moment as she quickly led the way

“I’m more concerned with where he spent his first night yesterday”

Achievement: Uncertain Quest

Your tenacity is really something to behold

System gossip even makes the gods up here feel cold

I won’t help you disobey direct orders from it

But chasing answers takes more gumption than they would admit

She noticed her attack stat go up and gave a wry smile

“I hope my weird new god can calm himself after a while

I know I went a little crazy when Twig was injured

But a slightly nicer class change would have been preferred…”

From what she’d heard about the system since the other day

It seemed unusual for it to chase someone away

Legends told of villains and empires who disappeared

But the System had never been something which children feared

“I think it’s a big misunderstanding or a trick

Twig’s god always made even his brightest days tragic

Maybe he was shown a status screen that wasn’t real

Or imagined it after that whole portal ordeal”

“It really was weird how the adults all just went crazy

The details of that System talk were all really hazy

My mother said to listen if a System message came

But didn’t seem to worried much about it all the same”

As they spoke they tried to think of where Twig might have gone

Sometimes straying from the mountain path they walked upon

They started to enjoy the feeling of the adventure

Thinking of what they might run into in the future

Leaf was confident that if he faced bugs like back then

He would be much faster and would not be stung again

Sky was confident as well, but worried for her class

And soon enough their first portal encounter came to pass

It opened up right near the trail, not too big or too small

It was just about as wide as the young Leaf was tall

They waited to see what came out as they were trained to do

Hoping it was not more bugs, or at least just a few

“Don’t go running into things this time, please use your head

Todd isn’t here now, so safety falls on us instead”

“You’re sure one to talk, try not to lose your cool again

I was scared you’d kill us along with those bugs back then!”

Out of the portal soon came but a single monster

Not a weak looking one, but not strong looking either

It was like a rabbit that had grown up big and mean

The boar-sized rabbit didn’t have the strongest stats they’d seen

~ Name: Unnamed ~

Title: Portal Monster

Class: Fang Rabbit [cursed] [lv2]

HP

[5]

MANA

[2]

ATK

[20]

INT

[1]

DEF

[6]

SPD

[47]

From a distance it may look like a rabbit, but big

But this creature does a lot more than just jump and dig

It could rip a part a careless traveller or two

And there is a high chance it can run faster than you

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