Why is this teacher mad?

I rolled on the ground, my belly in my very two hands.

“Are you crazy!?”

I must have received at least 100 damage with this one hit!

“Hey, sissi, you have to concentrate your attention on the place you have to protect, eat a slime and ask to another one if it can attack you slowly.”

No sooner said than done.

What is a slime attack next to one of the teacher punch…

Even if I took a few damage from the slime attack, it was painless, thanks to the protection given by the black skin.

“Nice, now, last competence: laceration! A big paw kick, all claws outside. It’s quite like the dark punch, but it tears apart! On some enemies who are strong against blunt attacks, a good tearing attack can only do good things!”

Blunt: a knocking attack, like a mace, a punch, a stone…

Curiously, laceration doesn’t require dark energy, which is quite the good news, as it will allow me to use it without having to recharge my battery every time I want to use it.

Fortunately, I don’t have to fight against the teacher for real, and that he accepts to get hit without retaliating...

“That’s it! Perfect! You master the 4 basic competences of the good little ghoul!

“You just have to meet Elongoic to validate the quest!”

“Great, thanks! By the way, do you know what one has to do to become a psukhôphage?”

No answer.

The big ghoul who was my teacher looks at me with a dark air…

“You’re not gonna choose the forbidden class?”

Forbidden class?

***

Jean came quietly learn a few spells thanks to the appropriate teacher while I go to the market.

There are many little black pills to be sold, some consumable dark energy reserves.

Most of them serve to regenerate only one unit, but as many undead beginners can’t stock more than one at once, it’s okay.

Many clothes are in a lamentable state, just like those Pruurg makes…

A few mushrooms of different kinds, all sprouting in the caves.

Next to the luminescent ones, we can find some small in white, and red one with turquoise dots.

A few algae, some big transparent fishes showing their bones or smaller ones with a bulb linked to the forehead by a kind of a rod.

A place with armours made in a very poor quality leather, broken shields, ripped boots, dented casks…

Rust swords, maces with handles full of splinters, bows with only the string that seems in a good state, tissue bands with threads going in all directions…

A change table with bronze or pieces coming from different places, as it can be seen from the different faces inscribed on them.

“Are you interested by my pieces?”

“Oh, I’m a coin maker, but I still don’t know very well how to do things…”

“Coins? Wonderful! It’s your slime, behind you?”

The only survivor from the visit to the ghoul…

“Yes, why?”

“You wouldn’t want to put the little dark bubble on one of my copper ring? 3 rings in exchange and a mushroom as a gift!”

High five!

Hop!

For the slime, the mushroom!

***

“Ah, both of you are there! Congratulations! You can change your class!

Main quest 3: Complete the tutorial/next step finished (Class)

In order to become a ghoul, you have learnt the basic competences.

State of quest: 4/4 competences

Difficulty: F

Reward: +50XP

Class: Ghoul: You are now a big zombie. CON +4 STR +2 HEA +2 DEF +1 HP +10

Gandock’s note: Congratulations! Nearly a psukhôphage.

Quest of the legendary meat bag (Way 4/4): Becoming a psukhôphage

To become a legend, you need a legendary class! Become a psukhôphage! To do it, eat 10 zombies while being a ghoul.

Difficulty: F

Reward: Psukhôphage class

“Elongoic, why does the competence master told me that the psukhôphage is a forbidden class?”

“Oh, for different reasons: first of all, it’s because nobody has to tell how to become one!”

“I suppose that now, I will have to eat zombies, isn’t it?

“Shhh! Not that loud! It’s the second reason: undead only eat living creatures, or some just dead, but not other undead. It’s… against nature…”

“Because undead, it’s not against nature, maybe?”

“Hey, you see what I mean! Eating one’s allies… you need to have a hell of a slab! Third reason, it’s that the undead soul is also consumed, so it goes out of the métempsukhôsis cycle… And that, for everybody but monster or soul raisers… it’s taboo.”

Taboo: that must not be talked about…

“So even here, there are taboos?”

In a sigh…

“Oh yes...”

***

“Well, toady was a good day! We did a great work!”

“Yes, I took advantage from being in the village to learn the necromancer spells, as well as plagued ones, and even black mage ones, you never no…”

“Why learning so many?”

“You know me! I have the collectionnite! Whatever I can collect, I take it! Also, competences can be very useful! You know how you are going to eat zombies?”

Not really…

If I attack other players, I make enemies…

If I attack NPC, I’m gonna be hated by everyone in the town…

And, there are not many zombies around here…

“I have a solution!”

“How?”

“Ah ah! You just have to produce them yourself!”

“Oh, and how do you make a zombie?”

“Very easy! You just need a corpse, a little plagued spell, and bim! A zombie!”

“Just like this?”

“Just like this!”

I wouldn’t have thought about it…

Astute, this Jean!

“Okay, and how do you find a corpse?”

“Whatever the animal is good, even a flying fox… though… but… I think it would be better to go back up to the surface. Or finding cave trolls. We will do it tomorrow.”

“Oh, yes, it’s beginning to be late!”

“What is the name of the village in which you meet Gandock?”

“Mmh… Offenburg, Souabe kingdom…”

“Okay, it’s great! Bye, see you tomorrow, Jules!”

“Yup, tomorrow Jean!”

Disconnection.

***

Aunty Priscy was really busy, so I came back home directly.

With everything that just happened, I’m happy to just sit in the bus.

I don’t even put music in my ears, too tired.

If I didn’t live in a place so lost, I would have taken the city loop, but right now, I have to take the bus.

I love the city loop!

The urban transport that supplanted the subway, but even more the tram in most of the cities in the second part of 21th century.

Individual capsules, in tubes, monitored by artificial intelligence, with 80km/h air inside.

Anyone who has enough money live next to a urban loop station, in suburbs far from many kilometres of the downtown.

Your position is semi-recumbent, it’s possible to have a good bag with you so it’s easy to go shopping…

Later, I want to no longer take the buses, I want that!

Who still uses cars today?

The haves much.

Nearly no one has its driver’s license.

My father is a taxi driver, he works only for clients who want to show that they are able to afford that.

One of the few who still knows how to drive.

Me, I’m not in a hurry to learn!

“It’s me!”

Our house is at about twenty stations from the Alt F4 head office, but as buses are extremely fast, and as there is close to no circulation, it’s okay.

And that’s it! Another good day of work!

After having dinner, I don’t last long.

Tomorrow, who knows what is awaiting me?

At least not me!