The World of Masks

Looking slowly at the beast approaching, Jack fixes the Longsword he's holding, grabs the shortsword with his other hand and lowers. The beast's appearance showing a yellow fang, growling, was enough to perspire on its hind trunk. The beast looked like a big cat and animals. Between the short hairs that were covering the body, the pronounced fangs, and the blunt toes, the tough-looking nails popped out. Suddenly, he looked like a leopard, but he didn't think the animal in front of him was a leopard at all. I've never even heard of a leopard with blue fur. The blue fur of an incredibly smooth beast, even though it was silk, was showing off its distinctive sheen in front of Jack's eyes. However, Jack, the only spectator who looked great, could not afford to look and admire him.

Did you smell the blood? '

Jack glances at the pool of sticky blood that has been spilled by a Boar-like animal on his back. Perhaps he smelled blood and approached the area and found himself. And I felt like I was blinded by a foe after discovering myself in a game system that seemed to make players grab something similar. It seemed that the small animals and herbivores that had been seen so far were prone to relentless attacks when their enemies were just wary of themselves, but the predators in front of them did not seem to end with borders and countermoves alone.

After playing the game, Jack raises a lot of tension in the face of the first beast he meets. A brief struggle. In that situation, Jack starts counting small numbers in his mind.

One.

You take your right foot and put your weight lightly on the left foot in front of you.

'Two.'

Longsword and shortsword were brought forward and positioned like crossing knives.

Three!

At that moment, Jack leaps forward. The predator, grunting and looking for the timing to attack Jack, also leaps to him in response to Jack's movements. The distance between Jack and the beast is rapidly diminishing. The beast leaps up toward Jack without hesitation, thinking it's close enough.

Rrrrgh!

'No matter how different they sound, they sound the same.' He said, thinking a little crazy, he immediately switched the Longsword in his right hand to the inverse and stabbed the running predator.

Aaaaaaah!!

"Grrrgh!"

The screams of humans and beasts erupt into the forest simultaneously. The beast spills blood and falls from its head to the ground, unable to land properly due to the long laceration of its skin and muscle damage by Longsword's sharp blade. However, no more damage is seen from the grumpy predators, who have been limping since the densely named weeds absorbed the majority of the impact.

Jack, who was hit by the beast's foot, also stands up grunting. The original objective was to lure the predator into himself like a long sword, but it seemed to have failed. Fortunately, there was a long bloodline on the beast's side that was not completely missed, and red blood was pouring down as if it was showing off its own irritating color. Jack stabilizes by briefly rubbing his wrinkled right arm. However, the armrest made of hard leather was not enough to rub where it hurts. For a moment, Jack looks down at the braces surrounding the pain. Four claw marks are inscribed clearly. When Jack approached the beast's flank, the beast immediately slapped his right arm with his strong front leg. Luckily, I was protecting myself with my armor, so I could only imagine what would happen if I got hit without my armor. Even though I was hit on the armor for how strong it was, the shock was transmitted to my skin and bones. Without armor, pain wouldn't have been enough.

But with this, Jack was able to put a stop to it. The wound on the beast in front of you looks very serious. I saw even white muscles that were meaningful behind the blood flowing like waterfalls. Probably the pain is not a joke, and the movement will be very limited. Jack's injuries, by comparison, were to the extent of minor contusions. But the beast in front of you continues to stare at Jack ferociously. With a wound that size, it was obvious that the flinching foam was always preparing to jump again. Probably didn't care that I was a player

Jack plugs the longsword upside down on the side ground and holds the shortsword in his right hand. Then I walked to the beast as if for a walk.

Grrrrrrr.

Looking at Jack cautiously, the low growling predator once again lunges at him. However, whether it was the injury to the flank, its velocity was significantly slowed.

Screaming.

Kuaang!!

Jack dodges a slash of the beast, as if playing a prank, and lightly cuts one of the beast's feet with a short sword in his hand. It was a limitless rusty shortsword, but Jack's current power could injure it at a level that was forcibly ripped, not cut. After that, it was repetition. When the beast ran, Jack lightly dodged and aimed for the leg and the repetition continued until the beast's foot was completely crushed and he could no longer stand up.

Cock-a-doodle-doo!

The beast continues to struggle while falling from its four feet due to the continuous pain inflicted. Jack, who was enjoying his appearance, listens to Longsod, who has been plugged in. I wanted to use a blunt shortcode, but I didn't intend to venture there against dangerous predators. Jack swung his sword without hesitation as he approached the stumbling beast with a long sword in his hand.

Once, twice, three times.

It was similar to what I did to that Boar that I was hunting earlier. I keep putting knife marks on his body until his breath stops in pain. Blood from his body drenches the surrounding plants, and the blood spills into a vast pool. I wonder how much you cut. The beast stopped moving when the blue fur of the beast, which seemed to be attractive, became completely red.

"Phew!"

After finishing his work, Jack exhales deeply as if he were exhaling waste that was full of his body. Jack's face was filled with a bit of excitement and dissatisfaction at the same time.

'It's not as fun as killing humans.'

This was fun and rewarding as much as hunting, but it was nothing compared to the joys of hunting humans. Recalling the feeling of killing a human not long ago, Jack reappeared to his appetite after sucking in all the life of the two animals he had hunted.

"Leveling up? Or do you want to upgrade your skills? '

Unlike other games that have completely distinct points for leveling up and skills, this game has the same points for leveling up and skills. It was either a level or a skill, and I had to choose between them. It seemed like it would be very difficult to raise levels and skills together in this game.

With the Character Spear and Skill Window in front of his eyes, Jack pondered and immediately cleared the Character Window, which was open to the left.

'I think it's better to upgrade your skills, right? It's a stat. There's another way to get it up.'

The benefits of leveling up were only five points to invest in the current stat. But as a jack who had other ways of raising the stat, he didn't have to hang himself in a wicked level up. That's why Jack was able to invest all his life force into his skills.

Sixth Sense Lv 2 (Exp 6/20)

Lowest Defense Power Lv 3 (Exp 2/30)

All Attribute Resistance Lv 1 (Exp 0/10)

He was a Jack who invested a little more priority on defense just in case. I then invested points in the sixth sense that helped me find a hostile animal, and I postponed my next investment in resistance that I thought was too early to raise.

After clearing up the perimeter, Jack starts walking back into the woods. Then I got caught up in one thought.

'I have better vision.'

Although he had been boxing for a long time, he did not have enough vision to try the counter with Longsword for the jumping predator. But when he hunted, his eyes clearly caught the beast's movements. Even though it was not enough to feel slow motion, it was still enough to make judgments with your eyes. But what changed that? It won't be a skill for now. I didn't have any skills related to mobility, but I felt a little bit better before I learned them. Then there's only one option left. The stat was the cause.

"If the stent is causing the dex, '

the ints didn't raise, and the str was too hard to see.

'The name str or dex does not only increase strength or agility.'

But we don't know exactly what capabilities each stat raises right now. It lacked information and even if I tried to test it with my body, it was still only a slight difference, so I could not predict exactly. But the feeling seemed to have clearly elevated the reflexes, top speed, and stamina.

'No, I think I've improved my defense.'

Jack was barely injured when he was in a novice village hunting boars before he learned a skill that increased his defensive strength called "Least Defensive Power." However, the frequency of injuries was significantly reduced after the stat was raised. At that time, I thought the hunting would be easier because of the increase in stats. But even when I think about it now, there was definitely a time when I allowed similar attacks before I was injured. But at that time, I was not hurt so much that I did not get overwhelmed.

'Maybe you should check it out.'

Looking through his hands as if he was about to reveal the secret of the Stad, Jack slowly disappears into the forest.