Chapter 73: The Roleplayers (2/2)
"What caused the purple face?" sobnny asked Alvira once more, but she didn't seem to want to answer out of embarassment
"Purple-People Eater over here decided to consu it was poisonous" Merlin explained while Typhoeus chuckled at the reference
"Why is your blood poisonous?" sobnny asked, her facial expression showedthat than the part about her friend licking blood
"Long story, I'll explain after" Merlin pushed the conversation aside, before turning to face Alvira to ask her a question, "It's not real, but it should still taste like blood right? Why'd you lick it?"
Everyone stared at Alvira with a concerned look It seemed that at least sobnny and Typhoeus weren't aware of this strange quirk of hers, but her party didn't seeested that she recently picked it up
"I-I wanted a skill" Alvira spoke with a soft voice, couy in the village got a skill for killing things bare handed, I thought I'd get a va things bare handed? Merlin thought to hiave you additional dae to unarmed combat, it was even more useless than the shi+eld title unless you acquired a class soul like ilist that buffed aspects of your unarmed combat orabout the hardened fist title?" Merlin asked, there s around, but he doubted it It was more likely that she didn't yet know the difference between titles and skills, or had even heard of the tere yet
Merlin received a nod fro that the name of the title was the sa her reasoning, clai he had heard all day
"Actually, it kind of roup looked at hih you're probably going about it the wrong way"
"What do you mean?" Alvira asked, her voice filled with curiosity and traces of hope
"Just a few droplets of blood is nowhere near close enough to be recognised by the syste to have to be excessive with it to see results" These words sparked several ht of probably differed by a large in "Soroup all gathered within the forest, following Merlin towards the area he had been far prior They eventually encountered a dire as alone, and that hen, to everyone's surprise, vines erupted out of Merlin and entrapped the wolf, and they watched as he beat this helpless wolf to the brink of death
"What the hell is that ability?" sobnny was practically screa answered, she wasn't sure how ed over the span of a day
"I' now, I'll explain later" Merlin shrugged as he grabbed the al a section of its fur, revealing almost bare skin underneath "Alvira, coroup looked at Merlin with disgust, especially Alvira who didn't expect hi to
"Most titles I have were received by killing stuff in a certain way, so if you kill enough creatures by biting theet one This is what Iwas flawed, but oddly convincing, and a few an sinking her teeth into the wolf's flesh
The redhead archer turned ahile recoiling, and the rest of the group looked on with varying levels of disgust as this little girl tore chunks of flesh froht, now feast" These words were all it took for the rest of the group to turn away Tears began for he was joking, but his gaze see serious "What do you think a vae chunk of the wolf's upper torso had been eaten by the girl, whose face was covered in dried blood, her signal to stop arrived when another wolf spawned, and the process repeated Alvira's salvation ca the tenth wolf
"I' in her stomach contents, "I unlocked two titles, Predator and Corpse Eater"