I decided that it was time to go, but I also decided to make good use of my new css. I might hat outside… as soon as we leave the byrinth. G had gotten stronger and once I began to make the potions, she was able to use Beast’s Fury pretty muonstop, so fighting the lesser chimeras was easy for her.

  You received 10 experience points.

  You received 10 experience points.

  You received 10 experience points.

  I didn’t put the liquid in a bottle, but even though I utting it in a pot, I would receive that notification now and then. It looked like the Chemical Mastery worked whenever one hundred milliliters of the potion was made. I couldn’t use Identification on all the liquid, though.

  “Yikes, the leather sure bees nasty when it is done abs so much poison.”

  I didn’t know why, but the leather of the kobolds was quite permeable when it es to poison. When it couldn’t absorb anymore, the liquid that was the extract of the potion could no longer cross it, so it had to be exged for another piece. In any case, it looked like the potions were ing at the unon rank sihey could restore one huamina points f.

  “Tell me if you start to feel something off, drinking this a lot shouldn’t be that good.”

  "Chi-chi-chi!"

  Name: G

  Race: Gcierboror

  Health: 350/350 (0/3600)

  Regen: 0.1 per hour (0/100)

  Mana: 350/350 (0/3600)

  Regen: 0.1 per minute (0/100)

  Stamina: 350/350 (0/3600)

  Regen: 0.1 per minute (0/100)

  Strength: 22 (0/2300)

  Magic: 35 (0/3600)

  Dexterity: 15 (0/1600)

  Spirit: 24 (0/2200) 1.1

  Endurance: 27 (0/2600) (1.1)

  Movement Speed: 11.0

  Ice Affinity: 19 (0/2000)

  Traits: Iceborne Prowess, Frost Aura, Minor Vulnerability to Fire, Enhanced Cold Resistanbsp;

  Csses: Beast of the North, Elemental Predator, Frost Guardian, Icebound Stalker, Winter Revenant, Tundra Huntress

  Aptitudes: Arctic Camoufge, Cold-Weather Adaptation, Predator’s Focus, Frost Manipution, Apex Instincts, Pack Tactics, Frozen Resolve, Icycle Will

  Experience: 359

  “It looks like all the csses you get are reted to your species… or do you actually receive some options? Raise your paw if the answer is yes.”

  G didn’t do that and just stared at me. It looked like her version of the system was a lot more simple than miill, that was ve. I couldn’t say that G was stupid, but giving her a lot of options probably wasn’t a good idea.

  “Grrr…”

  “Don’t read my mind.”

  She robably just sensing my thoughts and assumed that thanks to my frown. In any case, after a while, I didn’t notiything weird with G, even after she drank a few liters of the potions. The only thing that I noticed was that she wasn’t pining about food even after a couple of hours.

  ‘I guess the potions are quite nutritious or something… even if they are made of poison.’

  The process of making those potions was easy, but it was still annoying to make it while walking. Some other potions were more plicated and needed more attention, so perhaps I should make a small boratory inside a wagon. G’s senses were good, so she would warn me beforehand if danger approaches.

  I also could set up traps around us, and that would make things even easier with magical traps and even are traps. I hadn’t been using the sed option that much, but just like Are Arrow, it could explode, freeze, or shock a target.

  Are Trap Lv 03: Pce a magical trap at a location that triggers an are explosion when an enemy approaches, dealing elemental damage based on yic power aerity. This explosion apply status effects such as burning, freezing, or stunning based on the chose. Cost: 100 Mana.

  ‘My mana regeion increased again, and now I afford to be a bit less cautious when it es to using it. With the meditation amulets, I even use some skills nonstop now and gain all the experienstead of half.’

  Things were looking up. The only problem was my arm… even wheurning to the sed se of the byrinth, I couldn’t still use half of my strength. Even if I could use one hundred pert of my strength without feeling any pain, I khat I had to be cautious for a while. Still, I couldn’t afford to do that…

  Perhaps I should make a bracelet f and add the Fury Amplification to it, that should make up for our ck of fighting power while I am injured. Another Bracelet for her to be able to use Agility Surge would do it as well… aside from that, my only option was to use Blood Siphon to use the extra energy to recover faster. Still, there was a ce that it wouldn’t work, sihe skill restored my stamina when my health was full.

  ‘I guess I also go to a byrinth where I make health potions… There is only one very ve byrinth in this territory that fits that criteria, though, and it is very down south. Too far away from where I am…’

  It was only to be expected that things wouldn’t be so easy for me… in any case, I decided to take my time leaving the byrinth to recover as much as possible. Thanks to that, the trip back took us two days.

  As roached the exit of the byrinth, I paused for a moment, taking a deep, steadying breath. Whatever was beyond the exit was unknown, and I o be ready for anything. G, oher hand, seemed unfazed. Her demeanor was calm, almost indifferent to the tension I felt. It was just her nature. An animal like her wasn’t easily rattled by uainty.

  Still, I wasn’t about to take any ces. I pulled out the camoufge potions, carefully applying oo myself and then to G. The liquid shimmered faintly as it seeped into her fur, blending her form into the surroundings. Once we were both fully prepared, I steeled my resolve and made the final preparations to step outside into whatever awaited us.

  I was expeg to see arrows and fireballs raining down on me and G was also ready to dash ahead with Shadow Step, so my surprise was hard to describe when I found not a single person outside… I couldn’t discard the possibility of them using camoufge cloaks or even potions as well, but the air was calm and the atmosphere retty soothing, so I couldn’t feel that anyone was waiting for me here.

  ‘Did they fet about me? Don’t they have a cirvoyant more or less searg for me?’

  Something wasn’t right… It was too ve for me. That being said, it was a golden ce that I couldn’t waste. It was time to finish the busihat I had in this nd and then move on.

  Those two probably could give me some answers, but I didn’t want to make es with those who very obviously wanted me very far away from their homes. I didn’t have many friends, but I wasn’t desperate to be accepted by every single person I came across.

  “Let’s go. It is time to finish our business here. Or my business, since you weren’t with me when this situation started.”

  “Squeak! Squeak!”

  While walking around, we kept our eyes wide open for any signs of battles, but there was nothing of the sort, so it didn’t seem like the dark elves did something… We found some traces heading northwest, toward the closest town, so it didn’t seem that the dark elves had been fouher and an army headed toward their byrinth.

  I realized this a long time ago, but I really needed an informatiowork, but my only options would be to deal with low-lives and those reted to them in the underworld. A lot of those guys would want a piee as well… was it worthy to get involved with them?

  ‘Even if most of them are scum, some of them should be somewhat det… getting involved with them will help me save time and not walk in the dark that much. The less I know about the surrounding things, the higher the e making a mistake at some point that will cost highly. I really o think about this.’

  A couple of hours ter, I finally found some answers about what had happehe closest town was surrounded by several armies of elves. It seemed that something big had happened. Something big enough to make the elders move their troops.

  ‘An insurre or something simir?’

  I couldn’t see that well from a distance… Even while using Hawk’s vision, I was too far away and the skill level wasn’t that high. I o make an amulet of this skill as well. While I was thinking about that, I noticed a familiar feeling and then I felt the smell of blood… in the moment, Ay appeared behind me… I already had my short swords in hands sihey would be better at cle, but soon I noticed that she wasn’t in dition to fight.

  “Are you still here?”

  Ay’s eyes were bloodshot, like she hadn’t slept in a while. She was breathing roughly and her chest expanded with effort. She had a bunch of arrows on her left arm and it was covered in blood as well… those were Elven arrows.

  “Sorry to bother you, but you lend some of those potions? The stamina ones?”

  “Stamina potions will only make you bleed faster and you already lost too much blood…”

  “I deal with this. This should be enough to pay for them.”

  Ay threw a magic bag to me, but that much effort had been the final straw for her. She fell forward like a puppet without strings. G acted fast enough to make sure that she wouldn’t fall on the ground.

  “Look at you, G. Trying to act like a heroihat doesn’t suit us. We are more like hunted outws, the two of us against the world, you know.”

  “Mew, mew, mew!”

  “You don’t agree? Probably because that guy didn’t ask you to leave his base, he asked me to leave instead… but you were part of the pack, you know. He would have asked you to leave as well, even if you weren’t with me… probably.”

  “Squeak! Squeak!”

  “Nah, it is useless to try to be better thahers in this aspect. It is the w of the jungle. If they don’t wele you, then you don’t wele them either.”

  “Awooo! Awooo!”

  “Et tu, Brute?”

  WritingMaeGun