“It’s been a week since the system has taken over,” Luke says to the group of around 1,000 people who have joined his village. “We have constructed a village in this short time and started to connect with other groups just like ours. The scouting groups have met with 3 other groups. The first is called Haven, the second is Wolford, and the third is Norwich. Yesterday we voted on some names for our own town. The winner was Llyn.” Cries of frustration and shouts of joy could be heard for a second before Luke raised his hand to silence them. Luke lowers his hand before continuing his speech, “We’ve entered an alliance with both Haven and Wolford but Norwich insists they’ll be fine.” Somemore clamor. “Given we have already built ou town with great help from James and his kids,” Luke says with a nod at them, “I’ve agreed to build the roads connecting out great towns.” Silence for a couple of seconds before the crowd erupts into cheers. Luke looks at his people and sheds one tear before silencing them again. “One last thing before we start to work on the road. There has been something hunting the steel wolves around the settlements. Given the traces left it is believed that the creature is a wyvern or drake. Make sure to take care while in the forest while we build the new roads.” With that Luke went back to work managing the logistics of the new project.

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[Anything you can do(Unique) triggers, you gain Steel Fur(Rare) - Your hair takes on the property of steel graying it and giving it immense durability. Gain 1 resilience per skill level. ]

[Skill Scales of the Chimera Dragon(Legendary) consumes Steel Fur(Rare) to gain a property. Property gained 1 resilience Per skill level.]

[Anything you can do(Unique) levels up to level 8]

“YYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSS!” was heard across the entire forest as I sunk to my knees with tears rolling down my face. I had finally gotten another skill. It took over 300 wolves as the stronger I got the less percentage I gained. Around me were the dead bodies of what I can only assume were the strongest wolves around as they were 5 feet tall. They couldn’t even hurt me. I pulled up my status screen.

[Jace Perez, Level 11 54%

Blue Mage (Unique)

Health 480, Mana 290, Stamina 1620

Health Per hour 96, Mana Per hour 58, Stamina per minute 96

Strength 18(47)

Dexterity 24

Reaction 17(21.24)

Perception 26

Will 26

Intelligence 29

Resilience 18(162)

Constitution 19(48)

Regeneration 21(48)

Skills: Monstrous instinct(Rare) lvl 26, Anything you can do(Unique) lvl 8, Blue Mages Appetite(Epic), Will of the Hunt(Rare), Scales of the Chimera Dragon(Legendary) lvl 36

Monster Skills(active): Slime regeneration(Epic) lvl 27, Claw of the Departed Dragon(Uncommon) lvl 24, Giant’s Form(Ancient) lvl 29, Breath of the Wyvern(Epic) lvl 23

Monster Skills(deactive): Slime fluidity(Rare) lvl 6]

Looking over my stats I was almost twice as good as before and my resilience was crazy high. I did notice that the wolves stopped being able to hurt me about a day ago. Still shedding tears of joy I stand upright as a new wave of notifications pop up.

[Rejoce, Humanity has made it one week in this new world and even started to rebuild what was lost. For your prowess, you will be rewarded with the coming of the Village system and new and more powerful monsters that will spawn far from your village. Only the brave will seek this opportunity to gain more strength. Good luck!]

My eyes zoomed in on the “new and more powerful monster” I could finally get to test my newfound power on these monsters. I could hardly wait.

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Ryan was confident that his group was on the pinnacle of what humanity had to offer. His group had fought almost one hundred wolves during the first week and we're all level 12 or higher. They fought had their way up this mountain that was covered in monsters and therefore experience. They had encountered goblins, a 20-foot long snake, and a really big spider. For one week they had explored and mapped out this mountain under the orders of Luke. Ryan was 100% sure that they could handle anything. That was until they came across the fight he was watching now. Two monstrously tall beings slugging it out. One looked like a human but his arms and legs were covered in scales. The other was clearly a cyclops as it only had one eye.

The location was clearly not a clearing before the fight as broken and splintered logs lay all about, the ground was cracked, and craters were everywhere.

The cyclops were barely fighting back when Ryan had first found the fight. Now it was a bloody wreak barely standing up. The scaled one’s hand shot out and grabbed the skull of the cyclops and started to smash his elbow into the cyclops face for a second before it pushed him off. The scaled one only smiled before he charged back into the fight tackling the cyclops. The scaled one quickly establishes dominance in this wrestling match. Soon it had pinned down the cyclops before taking a deep breath. A bar of liquid fire pours out of the mouth of the scaled one. The beam of fire temporarily blinded Ryan but when his vision came to the cyclops head was gone and there was only scorched earth behind it for about 40 feet. The scaled one smiled showing his sharp triangular teeth grabbed the cyclops and started to eat it.

Ryan and his team ran in complete and total fear.

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[Defeated lvl 18 Cyclops Exp Gained 20%]

[Level up +1 to all stats and Full Replenish]

I don’t think I can explain how good cyclops tasted after mainly eating those metallic wolves for two weeks. The wolves just tasted like steel. Cyclops on the other hand tastes wonderful and I could hardly wait to hunt another.

[Roar(Common) 10%]

The cyclops wasn’t the only creature to give me a skill. I had started 2 other skills and I couldn’t wait to finish. I got a couple of percent in a web-making skill from a spider and something called mana body, it’s an ancient rarity skill but I got no clue what it does. I got it from this weird snake that was stronger than I was. Took me ten minutes to grab it by the tail and start whipping it around till it died.

By this point, I had eaten about half of the cyclops and felt like hunting again. I really wanted that mana body skill so snake hunting it was.

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Luke was working on future plan for his town when a man, Ryan if he recalled correctly, barged into the town hall panting and sweating weakly gasping “Need to see Luke.” Getting up Luke moves to the man and helps him down into a chair. After the man regains his breath he regals Luke of what happened. Of the scaled monster that could decimate a cyclops. Luke was stunned for a moment as there shouldn’t be a scaled monster like Ryan was describing. Is it a boss? Given its ability to one sidely kill a cyclops at least tier 1, maybe tier 2? This was really bad. His town could hardly handle a cyclops let alone a tier 2 boss. Luke looked Ryan in the eye and said, “Leave it to me.”

[Luke West, Level 14 34%

Hero of light (Legendary)

Health 820, Mana 420, Stamina 800

Health Per hour 78, Mana Per hour 84, Stamina per minute 78

Strength 40(80)

Dexterity 42(84)

Reaction 43

Perception 41

Will 42(84)

Intelligence 42(84)

Resilience 40(80)

Constitution 41(82)

Regeneration 39

Skills: Heroic Body(Legendary) - (Doubles the Strength, Dexterity, Resilience, and Constitution stats.), Light magic(Uncommon) lvl 34 - (Able to use light magic up to the Uncommon rank. Deals Int + Skill level damage.), Heroic Persuasion(Epic) - (while acting in a heroic way people are more likely to follow you.)

Bloodline: Enhanced mind - Doubles the Intelligence and Will Stats]