The demon looked into my eyes as it raised its right arm above my head and was about to finish me when suddenly the earth all around it shot out and entrapped its body. Then a huge wind wave came at its neck and decapitated it with ease. There now was a tall woman with pointy ears and golden hair in front of me. She had green eyes and a gentle smile, also her figure was something not to be ashamed of.

She was definitely an elf. The Elf was wearing full nature green robes some golden decorations on them and a red amulet that had a golden chain. The elf continued to for some reason use my tanto to make a deep cut on her arm and let a lot of her blood drip in my chest and abs that were covered in bruises and deep wounds. I watched all of this helplessly as I was unable to even speak anymore.

After the elf had finished pouring her blood on my wounds she ripped what was left of the robes on my torso exposing the rest of my abs and began wrapping my lower torso with some white bandage cloth.

“W..Why…..are you helping me.” I said with all the energy I could muster up.

“Shh you must rest now young one.” Said the Elf in a gentle loving voice and kissed my forehead as I finally passed out from the excruciating pain.

....

“Yo John how’s it going with that m249 of yours? have you already proposed?” Edd said while trying not to laugh"

“Aaa fuck you man, you know we're already on our honeymoon,” Said John while everyone burst into laughter.

“All right guys get your gear ready and Leon get your dick out of your hand we are soon in..” Dan's sentence was cut short by a huge explosion at the back end of the convoy and a marine yelling

“Rpg 11 o’clock”

“Fucking hell” said Luciano as we jumped out of our humwee and started returning fire wherever we saw muzzle flashes coming from.

Another huge explosion could be seen as the car in front drove into an IED.

“FUCK Jack was in that humwee!!” Edd yelled as a bullet passed through his shin.

After that everything became a blur, John was shooting furiously at the Isis fighters while the screams of civilians could be heard all around in the midst of the constant shooting and explosions.

Next, to me, I could see a kid whose legs had been blown off by a grenade as he was screaming and crying for his mom, after that I could see my comrades dying one by one, I was covered in the blood of my comrades and enemies. It felt like the Ground was shaking as I fell down from a sudden explosion behind me.

“LUCIANOO” I screamed as I woke up covered in sweat.

“Fuck this nightmare again..”

Trait Gained (Permanent)

Elves blood

Acquired when one has at least a liter of elf blood given to them.

When given it has to have been out of the elves free will in a ritual. Increases lifespan and the body's regeneration ability by 3 times.

(The elves blood cannot be removed under normal circumstances to nullify its effect and the body will start to produce elf blood cells)

Vitality 8

Title Survivor gained

Acquired by those who fought, lost and still somehow survived against a Demon.

+2 Wisdom +3 Endurance

“What the hell.” I said while still in pain from the wounds inflicted by the demon.

All I could remember was that some demon attacked me and after that, it was all blurry until that elf woman saved me. Who now was nowhere to be seen like the demon's body that seemed to have disappeared into thin air leaving only behind the damage it had caused.

I checked my stats

Race:Human Name:Leon Level 2 188/300xp Available universal statpoints 0 Available stat points 3 Strenght 23 (-8) Mana 1300/1300 Mana regen 0.15/sec Endurance 23 (-10) Stamina 650/650 (-200) Stamina regen 0.10/sec (-7/sec) Vitality 24 (-9) Titles: Drifter, Survivor. Agility 20 (-10) Traits: Elves blood Intelligence 22 Wisdom 33 Magical Attunement 6 Focus 25 (-9) Perception 19 (-6) Dexterity 20 (-8) Charisma 15 (-5) Skills: Identify, Herb identification lvl 6, Inspect lvl 1 Druid level 2 432/500xp Spells: Lightning strike, Earth surge, Light heal Space Magic lvl 1 0/8000xp Spells: Lower levitation, Lower teleportation, Inventory (passive) Abilities; Air twist

“When did I get an ability called Air twist???” I scratched my head thinking something must have happened while I was facing that demon.

Air twist

Ability

While in the air one can twist their body inhumanly while simultaneously being able to either dodge incoming blows or deal blows to an enemy.

I would have tried the ability if I had the energy to do so.

“hmm, let's check my wounds I thought as I unwrapped the bandage cloth from around my torso. The regen boost given be the elves bloodline had really helped as the wound weren’t so deep anymore but still bleeding.”

I guess it’s time to try that light heal ability. I chanted the spell on my mind holding both of my hands over my wounds as I had seen healers do in movies and games. After around 4 minutes of using the healing ability, all my wounds had almost closed and only a bit of blood was coming out of the wounds.

Mana 1000/1300

I tried to use the healing ability on my broken ribs and it started easing the pain. Soon enough I could again turn my torso, the bones had been restored while still feeling pain in the area where they were broken and quick movements with my torso did still hurt.

Mana 500/1300

Most stat debuffs removed.

Remaining debuffs -3 Strength -4 Endurance -3 Agility

“Wow as I thought fixing broken bones sure does take a lot of mana.”

I tied the cloth bandage the elf had given me back over my wounds, there was a bit more cloth bandage left when If had covered my lower torso so I decided to also cover my upper torso with the rest of the cloth.. I was now standing up as I put my tanto into my still intact belt.

Only the bottom half of my robes was still intact so I now didn’t have anything else covering my upper body than these cloth bandages that were tied around my whole upper body except my arms.

The bandages were bloodied up but it would have to do for now. The area around me was a total mess with fallen trees everywhere but the demons body and the goblins bodies had all disappeared. The elf woman probably took them. I kind of felt bitter because if she took the bodies then she had also taken the goblins bodies and their possible possessions. Though she did save my life so that’s the least I could give in return to her.

I used the unspent point to raise my intelligence to 25 I remember acquiring the Inspect skill and tried inspecting my tanto as I couldn’t see its stats when I got it. But still the result was the same as when I found it, I couldn’t identify it and it only showed that its grade was Artifact like when I found it.

I decided to Inspect my gear

Druidic robes

Grade-Uncommon

Info: robes worn by many druids, and the torso part of the robes seems to have been torn away leaving only the bottom part. Leather belt

Grade-Common

Info: A belt made out of leather

Identify leveled up to 2

Leather Gloves

Grade-Common

Info: Gloves made out of leather

I decided to also inspect the bandage cloth

Blood soaked magic bandage cloth

Grade-Rare

Info: Quality bandage cloth soaked by elven blood.

Elven blood gives the cloth a regeneration helping effect regen doubled while wearing the cloth on a body part with a wound or other damage.

Magic has caused the bandages to become tough and less easily damaged, protects against Magickal and physical damage.

Identify leveled up to 5

Identifying Rare gear has now become easier, also with a slight bonus to inspecting higher grade gear.

"Hmm, so as “my” blood had soaked the bandages the gained a regeneration buff." Also, it seemed to be magical, although I didn’t know how well the resistance given by the cloth protected me against physical and magical damage. I might have to find out that later on. Also the fact that my blood could affect clothes was good to know and might be useful later on. I then stood up and went to take one of the many broken

“I wonder how Roberts doing,” I thought out loud as I used my tanto to make a walking stick for myself just in case anything happened.

I then put the tanto in my inventory and grabbed the walking stick with my right hand and ate what I had left of the blueberries that I had gathered before. I was getting thirsty and hungry but it wasn’t something I couldn’t handle for the time being so I began walking through the forest as the colorful birds could be heard chirping again. The sun seemed to just start rising it seems that I had been sleeping for a day at least. After some walking, I came upon a goblin scout which I killed with my lightning strike instantly

100 xp gained

At the same time, I decided to check the amount of xp needed for lvl 3 druid and lvl 3 personal level

Personal Level 2

228/300 xp

Druid Level 2

492/500

“Dammit, I just need 8 more experience until I’m level 3 I thought. “

Thinking that if a demon or something strong attacked me again I would like to have some kind of spell to use for running away as I didn’t want to get my ass handed to me again. Around a minute passed and I decided to try out my levitation magic on the goblin scouts dagger.

Using my mind and chanting the levitation spell I pictured moving the sword upwards and just like that it did have start levitating. Okay now then let's try throwing the dagger at that tree with the levitation magic, but before that, I viewed my mana

The mana seemed to be going down 1/sec, while I quickly took a glance at the Lower levitation spells info I now knew that the amount of mana used depends on the weight of the levitated object/objects. I continued to throw the dagger at a nearby tree with the levitation magic with all my might and it flew lightning fast into the tree and embedded its blade to the tree trunk.

I then proceeded to try to use teleportation magic to teleport the dagger back to my hand. I focused on picturing the dagger appearing to my hand from the nearby tree's trunk and it surprisingly worked with such a simple thought.

Mana 1160/1300

The teleportation magic cost 50 mana while the levitation cost 20 in total. I was able to figure out the weight of the dagger and tanto by putting them in my inventory and looking at the weight change. My tanto weighs around 3 pounds which is twice the amount of the goblins dagger which weighs 1.5 pounds. So the mana cost for levitation the tanto should be 2mana/sec.

Now after my little experiment I looted the goblin's body thoroughly. I found a silver coin with some weird markings and I took the goblins headband and put it on my head so my hair wouldn’t get in front of my eyes, while still being visible from the top. The headband and dagger weren’t really that interesting looking so I ignored looking at their information after I had identified them. I then threw the coin and dagger into my inventory.

The rest of my negative stats had been already removed probably due to the elves blood that was now circulating in my body. So I decided to try the air twist. I didn’t succeed on my first try and fell to the ground on my back.

-Dammit..

I then focused even more on what I thought the twist would look like in my mind and I used Earth surge thinking I should get more height to the jump. As I was “flying” towards a tree in front of me I executed the air twist with my body avoiding the tree mid-air and doing a couple of spins as I landed on the ground 10 feet behind the tree on my feet.

Stamina 550/650

“Nice now then let’s try it while using the tanto.”

It took me 4 more times but I was able to in the end and cut down a thick tree with the air twist while imbuing lightning to my blade. I was very exhausted with only 150/650 stamina left.

"Hmm, I really need to find some meat and not just some berries," I said as I began walking in the now sunny forest.

It wasn’t long until I managed to find an animal trail, or at least I thought it was an animal trail. There were huge footprints on the grass, still fresh as the grass was flattened. The footprints were large maybe a bears if they even existed here. I began silently following the trail as I took out my goblin sword and dagger, planning to throw them at my prey with levitation magic.

After a while, I started hearing the sound of water flowing. The forest wasn’t as dense as it was earlier and there was a small clearing near a river in front of me, also there was a rocky hill with a very small cave. The sound of the river flowing and the chirping of exotic birds made it seem so mystical.

A beautiful melody of different birds singing seemed to be common here, but in the clearing, there was a large brown creature standing on four feet with a horn sticking out of its head.

Khodra

Level: 13

Info: Khodra’s are large creatures that eat both plants and animals, they mostly stick to plants because of their slow speed. The Khodras horn is a deadly weapon which is able to easily able to kill it’s predators. Strongest stat strength 19.

I repositioned myself for a better view at the creatures head. as I slowly began levitating my sword and dagger I was now around 40 feet away from the khodra behind the tree line. I waited to for the khodra to raise its head so only after that I sent my weapons flying through the air instantly piercing the khodra’s skull.

Xp gained 180

Personal level now 3

2 unused stat point available

I decided to use the points on my Intelligence

Druid level now 3

Now able to learn new spells from the druid classes spell list.

+2 to Intelligence

After I confirmed that the Khodra was dead by seeing the gained xp I went to check on its body. I tried moving its body to my inventory Currently, Inventory cannot hold bodies. I was quite disappointed seeing that notice, but the fact that it said “Currently” made me feel a bit better.

Luckily there was that small cave in a small rocky hill so I dragged its body to the cave because it was so heavy I couldn’t carry it. After I had dragged its body inside the cave. I went to gather some branches to make a fireplace and some big plant leaves I could sit and possibly sleep on.

I then began to dissect and disembowel its body with the goblin weapons after I had cleaned them in the river.After a long time, I was finally done with dissecting the huge body, and I was able to get its fur hide and meat for myself

I had dissected animal corpses back when I sometimes went hunting with my kungfu teacher back when I was younger so this was something that wasn’t really a difficult task for me, though it was time-consuming as the corpse was so big. I started a fire with the good old method of using rubbing some dry sticks together.

When I got the fire started I put some meat on my goblin sword and propped it nicely towards the flame while remembering to turn it sometimes so the meat would cook more evenly.

As I cooked the meat I decided to take a look at my new available druid skills by simply making a screen come forth showing me the class progress and current spells. After a while of looking at the limited new spell choices, I saw that there really weren’t that many offensive spells mostly support spells and healing spells currently available for me. There also was a section for other spells that weren’t class spells which had even less spells available currently.

"Hmm Create water seems like a good choice considering my current situation."

Create Water (cost 1 spell point)

Use mana to create clean water 1L/20 mana.

Wisdom requirement 30 Attunement requirement 2

"Okay I’l surely take that as I need it at the time being I thought as I rolled the meat on the blade." I went through all the other spells on my class spell tree but then I took a look at the other spell tree that was not my class tree. I viewed a spell called chain lightning I was quite happy that I had just barely met the requirements for it

Chain lightning (cost 2 spell point)

Unique spell (Only those who have the right affinity for storm magic/lightning spells can learn and use this spell )

A more powerful version of the lightning strike that is also able to chain hit multiple targets or if certain conditions are met the spell is also able to be launched from multiple different body parts.

Each Target costs 100 mana and the maximum of targets is 10. (Attunement needed for imbuing 8)

Requirements 20 Intelligence, 30 Wisdom, 20 focus, Attunement 6, Lightning strike spell and prior manipulation of lightning strike spell.

“Huh a Unique spell!.... nice!….”

New spells acquired Chain lightning, Create water

I cast create water above my mouth and drank at least a liter of water. After that, I continued to wait for the meat to cook. The Khodras meat tasted amazing. It was melting in my mouth quite nicely and the taste was beyond amazing it was as if there was a party going on in my taste buds. After I was done eating I was just about to place the rest of the food in my inventory when suddenly I heard a loud thump noise from outside the small cave.

I jumped up immediately and drew out my tanto and started slowly walking out the cave, as I came out on my left I saw a hawk-like bird that looked a bit confused as it seemed to have just hit the rocky side of the cave. It had a wound on its wing that didn’t look like it was caused by the crash against the side of the cave. Slightly fearfully the bird looked at me while tilting its head and covering its body with its wings.

Roc

Level:11

Info: ??

Attribute Wind

The stare down between me and the Roc went on for a solid minute. The rock had brown feathers and a sharp red beak, it was fairly large about the size of an adult bald eagle. Then after the staring, I continued to sheath my tanto and Quickly got a piece of the Khodra meat from the cave. When I came back the Roc was still there sitting but as soon as it saw the piece of meat in my hand its eyes lit up.

I slowly presented the meat at the Roc by stretching my hand outwards with the meat. The Roc started coming toward me but then quickly fell down and let out a small squeak. I decided to go near it slowly and grabbed the Roc into my hand and to make it more comfortable I fed it the piece of meat before moving back into the cave.

"Seems a bit weird that I can't view its info but I could view the Khodras info and the khodras level was 13" I mumbled to myself.

I laid the Roc down on the floor. It still had a slightly wary look in its eyes but that soon faded as I began healing its wing. There was also a wound on its leg which I also healed. After that, I have some more meat to the Roc before I placed the rest of the meat and bones from the khodra into my inventory.

After taking an in-depth look at the inventory’s info I got to know that things couldn’t rot in the inventory. The weight of my inventory increased by about 200 pounds. I decided to use the khodra pelt to make a small sleeping place for the Roc who now had a slightly bloated belly and eyes that looked very tired as it struggled to keep awake. I placed the bird on the khodra pelt and petted it as after some time its eyes finally closed.

“I wonder how Dan and John are doing,” I thought as I was finally able to somewhat relax as I had secured food, shelter, and water."

I don’t know what this new life has in store for me, It’s not like I hated my former life it was just rather dull. Robert and my friends were really the only things that kept me going. The thought of not getting to see and talk to Dan and John anymore brought tears to my eyes. They were the best friends I could ask for, they did have their flaws but I loved them for who they were.

Every time I needed help they were there to support me and the other way around I always helped them they were to me like brothers. I didn’t have a girlfriend or anything like that it was just me and Robert living our nice boring lives. Going out to hit the bar on rare occasions with Dan and John was fun as hell and right now I quite missed being with them, be it playing games online or just hanging out.

“I’l probably never meet such great people again…” I sighed while some tears were still coming out of my eyes.

"I wonder if the time flow in earth is different than here and they are already dead.. No, I can’t think like that, or at least not now. I can’t become an emotional wreck while I still haven’t made it out of this situation."

And so to try to calm my mind I decided to start meditating.