After a growl, the Forest Orc leader rushed towards me like a raging mad bull. It didn’t even scoff at its comrades’ corpses. Despite the huge hammer it was wielding, it’s speed was nowhere near the other Forest Orcs. Within a few breaths, the Forest Orc leader was already swinging its gigantic hammer towards me. Glancing at my stats, I …

When I stepped outside, Crit was already donning his twin blades and a chainmail. He was staring towards the forest and didn’t even acknowledge my presence when I came out. I followed his gaze, and the moonlight revealed a dozen or so dark green figures. I wasn’t sure if it was the night, but these had a darker hue of …

“Do I really have to do this?” I heard Crit mumbling to himself. He didn’t even bother to hide his annoyance from his face, which I found interesting given his usual lack of expression. I awkwardly stared at him, waiting for him to start our “training”. Just then, he threw a wooden sword towards me. After spinning twice, it perfectly …

“Take a deep breath,” Crit reminded me without any sense of urgency. I sucked in as much air as my lungs could hold, then Crit yanked the arrow out of my shoulder. If my memory served me right, lodged arrows shouldn’t be pulled. Rather, it should be pushed all the way through in order to minimize the possible damage. However, …

Crit was still holding a sword in each hand. By this time, however, the swords were already covered in green ichor. In fact, he was covered in green slimy liquid from neck down. Surprisingly, he still seemed unamused. It seemed like he didn’t even have a hard time fighting his share of the Goblin army. The corpses of Goblins were …

The small speck of orange started to drip unto the floor, then started to crawl.  S***! The unexpectedness of the events caught me off-guard. I sprung to my feet, while grabbing whatever my hands could hold. A tugged at the soft, fluffy cloth then fanned it at the crawling tongues of fire. However, the fire caught the hem instead.  My …

The familiar holographic blue system prompt hung in front of me. [Skill: SearchMastery: 38%] I spent the past few days exploring this new feature while helping Crit forage and hunt for food. By repetitively using Search, my mastery slowly increased. However, the progress drastically slowed down after reaching thirty percent. Not only that, increasing its mastery didn’t increase my level, …

Status. Name: Kaito Title: — Age: 16 Class:   — Level: 5 Race:   Human (Demon) MP: 40 Strength: 14 + 36 Intelligence: 18 + 30 Agility: 10 + 33 Wisdom: 8 + 40 I let out a deep breath. The past few days had been a blur. I wasn’t even sure what to think of anymore. Had I been dreaming? Was …

My eyes cracked open, but all I could see was orange… or was it brown? I tried to open it further, but to no avail.  What happened? I thought. I tried moving my body, but it wouldn’t respond. Instead, sharp pain shot from all over my body, making me remember what had happened inside the Demon Lord’s Chamber. Bria and …

“Ugh!” A grunt came from my side. “Are you awake?” I murmured with an obvious bit of fear.  The response I got was another grunt. I sucked my breath in and waited.  Maybe it was a false alarm, I thought. I didn’t want to embarass myself, especially not when Bria’s hawk-like sight was fixed on me waiting to do another …