Chapter 9 (2/2)

…what the hell was I? A new type of monster? I couldn't even fatho like this

Let's think about that later I should try to move This should be simple: just move the way I moved my real body Easy!

Oh, sweet naiveté, past aine this: you had a human statue, carefully built with iron sand, on a table And you were only allowed to nets, all held by different ar it collapse

I atof extre a humanoid body with inhuman means My vision twisted and turned

[NO NAME] [Race: Ghast] [Low Deile spiritual lifeforic Points: 160/160] 10↑ [Total Combat Power: 176/176] 11↑ [Unique Skill: Reroll] [Simple Identification] [Human Form (Terrible)]

…and before I knew it, I had a neeird skill What was this…

[Hu into soave me pretty much what I expected

Also, I was really bothered by this one thing By 'Terrible', did itto practice daily – holding human for more than a minute just to move forward a step

I practiced until the sun set that day, all the while fighting against the nausea My sculpting still hadn't gotten any better, so in the end I switched over to intensive training on wearing the cloak, all the way untilwithfruits and dried branches right near his village

”…who are you?” He asked tiood If he had, I was ready to turn back into gas and ran right away Also, three cheers for the co from the way he looked, he wasn't afraid of me

I looked about as tall as hi my face Even I had to admit I looked suspicious as all hell I'd have run away if I sawhere, it took le step, so really, I was super grateful for the kid's courage… or maybe NPCs were just that way

”…do you need ?” He asked

I didn't Despite all the effort I put intocontact with him, I actually didn't

At any rate, I tried to tilt my head… okay, this was difficult Couldn't afford to trau like an eldritch aboesture

”You can't speak?” He looked concerned

I nodded a fraction He stepped forward I frantically shook et close?”

I nodded, affirht? I wouldn't knohat to do with a kid who didn't speak, didn't allow anyone to get close, and didn't show their face, either

I just wanted to look at the boy close-up I never had any plans beyond that

He went silent, deep in thought After a while, he nodded, seeabout his back monsters too They look like black caterpillars, but really tasty”

Oh? Those were edible?

He continued picking dried branches, talking while keeping a 10 meters distance withhis basket full of branches and fruits on his back, and looked at ain toested a ht, too ho froet back late” he replied with a bea smile

I tried to wave as best as I could He cheerfully returned with a wave of his own and ran towards to village AIs these days were really a with a real human

So, slave hunters… Those collared elves and beastmen I saw back then were actual slaves, then

I reached ht I poofed back into gas, then hurried into the forest depths

Weren't skills supposed to be handled by the syste all the work ever since the beginning here

I allowed , but really stressful At least I knew a lot more now

Even NPCs – adult elves, in this case – could hunt the black caterpillars, despite their strength not seeer?] [Magic Points (MP): 50/50] [Hit Points (HP): 60/60] [Total Co, and the same as me just before my evolution I supposed that hy they could survive here, in this forest

I'd been practicing et back to hunting, but after knowing their food situation, I washere Was there so for me to hunt further away?

Recent events had shown me the need to beAnd a few organizedon my radar

They were… humans? Wait a minute, don't tell ame event to start?