7 Chapter 7: First Encounter (1/2)
The next morning, a strong hunger, thirst, and splitting headache assaulted the sleeping Wilhelm all at once. He groaned in pain and rubbed his forehead whilst propping himself up on a nearby tree.
His entire body ached and he already regretted choosing the undertaker class. Rather than the strength he expected to gain, his entire body felt incredibly weak. Like a man affected by an illness, he sought warmth and gently coughed into his hands.
Wilhelm slowly crept to the bonfire and rekindled the flame with much effort. He then fell on his bottom and waited until his headache passed. After waiting for around a quarter of an hour, the small flame warmed his body and he could finally breathe a sigh of relief.
He raised his upper body, threw another log into the fire and then stood up, albeit, shakily. After he stood up, he felt as though his head was lifted higher than normal, and his body was much skinnier. Shocked, Wilhelm observed his now snow-white skin that was vastly different from his normal tan.
”W-what the hell?” Wilhelm whispered to himself, shocked. He then started patting his body, as if he was looking for something. Unfortunately, he couldn't find anything and attempted to pinch himself.
The stinging pain conveyed to Wilhelm that he was not, in fact, in a dream. Confused, Wilhelm scratched his head and decided to go back to the lake. After all, there was currently nowhere else he could see his reflection.
After some deliberation, he momentarily held himself back from eating the golden-furred monkey he had procured yesterday and continued walking towards the lake. Whilst walking, Wilhelm decided to check his status and see if anything new appeared, or changed.
Immediately, a few alerts appeared in his line of sight, presumably things that had happened while he was asleep.
[Humanities first secret class user, Wilhelm Siegfried has been rewarded 1 allocatable stat point as compensation]
[Due to the special physique of the undertaker, your body has been changed appropriately]
[Agillity increased by 5]
[Strength decreased by 1]
[Night-eye skilled acquired; allows your eyes to be accustomed to the night and vaguely see through the dark]
Wilhelm was taken aback by the sheer amount of alerts and he couldn't help but feel jitty when he learned that he was humanities first secret class user. Unfortunately, he felt that although secret, his weird class was nothing to boast about.
He then directed his attention to the huge leap in agility and decrease in strength. He had no idea that he could gain stats from a class change, let alone lose some. He figured it had something to do with his physique changing.
However, Wilhelm didn't feel as though his speed increased at all, in fact, his body still felt weak and ill. As such, his walking speed was much slower and it took him quite a while to arrive at the sparkling, blue lake.
Upon arrival, Wilhelm didn't care much about the strangely quiet and abandoned lake. He rushed straight to the water and observed his new look. He appeared to be a very tall and lean man with a sharp and defined jawline, thin lips, blemishless pale skin, Pheonix eyes, and aquiline nose.
”The fu*k?” Wilhelm whispered and took a step back in shock. Although there were still some similar features, he looked completely different. His beard was still present, and his hair color wasn't completely gone, however, everything else was changed.
He looked like some kind of middle-aged model, alas, even he, himself, feared how he would look if he became young. Just the thought irked Wilhelm, as he used to be the one to curse all the flower boys in his early days.
Flabbergasted, Wilhelm rubbed his eyes and took a few more glances, however, no matter what he did, nothing changed and he could only accept his fate. His emotions were somewhat mixed as he walked back to his small camp.
As he walked, he could feel his body slowly recuperating and he finally decided to use his three allocatable stat points. Since he got a huge boost in agility, he decided to focus on the other attributes, especially strength and stamina.
Wilhelm was quite reluctant to keep his strength lower then it was when he first arrived at the holy land. Thus, he didn't hesitate to put 1 point into strength and the other two into stamina. This way he had more endurance to combine with his newly added speed.
[Strength increased by 1]
[Stamina increased by 2]
Now that his strength and stamina were level 11 and 10 respectively. He could feel his skin heat up and that same soothing feeling enveloped his entire body. Unfortunately, it didn't last nearly as long as it did the first time, and he quickly arrived at his camp.
He walked towards the monkey carcass, picked it up, and started skinning and disemboweling the dead animal. He removed the innards and head from the body and skinned the fur, which he would use as a blanket later.
He then skewered the monkey and rotated it above the bonfire until it looked somewhat burnt. Whilst looking at the cooked monkey, he inwardly lamented that he didn't possess any seasoning, or more specifically, salt.
Thankfully, hunger was truly the best spice, and Wilhelm ate the meat with relish. His stomach that hadn't received any food for the last day or so rejoiced and now he just needed to find somewhere to sate his thirst.
After his meal, Wilhelm rested his back on a tall tree and breathed a deep sigh whilst gazing at the cloudless sky. He still felt incredulous at the chain of events that he had been through in the last few days, but he felt more alive than ever before.
A smile slowly formed on his face as he stood up from the ground and dusted his buttocks off. Now that his class had changed, and his power had progressed by leaps and bound, he was itching for a fight.
It was around mid-day and the sun was floating high in the sky as if telling Wilhelm to go out and hunt. To which, he decided to comply, but first, he walked towards the now meat, fur, and bloodless corpse and picked it up.
He used a thick branch to dig a hole and bury the body. He then put a rock on the sorry excuse for a burial and waited for an alert of some sort.
[Due to the effects of your special class, you have gained 50 extra experience for burying a corpse]
[burial points: 1/100]
Satisfied with the results, Wilhelm walked out of his camp whilst whistling a tune. A wide smile was plastered on his face and he looked like a jokester. His clothes were in complete tatters and his shoes had an assortment of holes, however, Wilhelm didn't seem to mind.
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He cautiously roamed the forest, looking for beasts that he was capable of taking down, and he soon arrived at the edge of the forest which was about an hour away from his camp. He pushed aside the brush and poked his head out,
”Haha, it was nothing personal kid… but killing you was much easier than those damnable rabbits” A white, Caucasian male laughed sinisterly whilst wiping his bloody hands on the garments of a young man.
He was around 6ft and had slicked back blonde hair, deep blue eyes, long eyelashes, a clean-shaven chin, and overall looked quite handsome. His stature wasn't very large but it would appear he often visited the gym in his past life.
However, none of this mattered to Wilhelm as he inspected the lifeless body of a young teenager. His ethnicity and appearance were hardly recognizable from the huge amount of blood that covered his face and body. The only discernible factor was that he was male.
Wilhelms previous good mood and happy smile disappeared in a split second. This was the first time he had encountered living humans on the holy land, and of course, the circumstances were as such.
Without hesitation, he stood up from his crouching position and walked out of the heavy brush and entered into the grassy plain seemingly devoid of any life besides the man in front of him. The sound he generated immediately alerted the blonde man.