15 Chapter 15 (1/2)

And after a few hours of cussing and swearing, I managed to obtain the remaining 15 feathers. My body hurts due to the fatigue it caused for obtaining this worthless feathers. I really hate these monsters, they yield poor rewards, they also yield small experience which is truly not worth to earn. I rested for a while and since I have nothing to do, I decided to look at the leaderboards. Harmless Sparrow managed to reach the threshold of Level 8 at last while the others seems stuck on level 6.

I guess she is quite capable indeed. However, it is not enough for me to interact with her. I have no intention partying with anyone. They are just burden.

The mana regeneration technique proves really useful and I don't need to wait for a long time or in need to drink Mana restoration potion to restore a bit of my Mana. My Mana regenerates faster than it is drained which have risen to 100 MP per second. I can keep on spamming my skills without worrying about Mana shortage. This will be the best part to beat those Green Spiders.

I quickly sped through the lonely plains. The habitat of Green Spiders are in the Graio Swamps which is a few kilometers from the Scorching Lands. The game really have to work you out on this since it is a bit far and you have to make some frequent stops on the road to recover your stamina.

Usually in the online games, whenever a player runs or sprints, their is a bar of stamina slowly depleting and the character will walk instead of running after emptying the bar, allowing the stamina bar to increase again. In Alternate World, that system is scratched out and renewed. You need to rest to recover stamina or you can't recover a single sh*t despite walking. In my opinion, this system helps me in getting real endurance. The body seems to be affecting for real just like in the gym and your real body seems to adapt.

After running and resting for quite a lot of times, I managed to arrive at last to Graio Swamp.

”Player discovers a new location: Graio Swamp”

This place is not really a swamp. I can't say for sure but it is identical to rainforests for me. Its not even identical to the swamps where there are murky areas and creatures who live in there dwells. I did not waste my time thinking about it and move towards the center of the Graio Swamp. The center is their habitat and most of the creatures that live in the Graio Swamp do not even try to get close to the area. Green Spiders are all hostile to all creatures and anything that is in its aggro area even their own species are not safe. The game made it realistic that the monsters here has a predatory system like in the biology. Green Spiders slowly appeared on my sights as I entered the center of the Swamp.

Green Spider

Level 11

HP: 1000/1000

Attribute: Poison

This is the first creature that holds the poison attribute. These attribute are really horrifying. Poisons here is too hard to neutralize and they don't disappear like most games do. Once you are in that state, it will stay until you die which is very terrifying for players unless you got a treatment. Players who have thought that everything is the same like in other games and thought poison will heal eventually reached to the point of realization that the poison is considered to be something that cannot be healed by itself on this game unless you drink some potion or got healed by a cleric. I also got victimized by that thought too and I never expected it to be a huge toll, and if I didn't brought a poison potion in my arsenal that time, I might have lost a lot that time. Now, I won't repeat that mistake. That is why I spend most of my money buying poison potion. It is due to this point.

I pull out the Versatile Weapon and brandish it out to the enemies. I decided to use the Katana this time. Katanas might be inferior to Axes, Spear, Hammer and Short swords but they are quite lethal and cannot be underestimated. Katanas is a long melee weapon and despite it's weak damage, it was built to deal continuous damage debuff like bleeding and slash wounds which are very lethal especially if stacked. Katanas are also much better on shortswords in terms of DPS. Samurai classes are one of the highest DPS dealers in the game, third against Ninja and Assassins.

The reason I choose the Katana is due to the debuff, slash wounds. It is a new debuff in the game, which deals in dismembering parts of the enemies. The game consists brutality as players can experience their bodies from sliced or having a dismembered limb. Slash Wounds are much more lethal than bleeding as its damage is twice bigger than the bleeding debuff. Most of the time, Samurais are the most popular class that can inflict Slash Wounds. As I held the weapon, it seems to be weightless. Might be due to the reason of the Versatile Weapon weight stat which is labeled N/A in the system.

I look at the nearest of me and within the blink of an eye, I dashed forward by activating Silent Sprint. The Green Spider immediately spewed out a sticky web towards me.

”Basic Fireball!”

Flames flew out of my palm, hitting the incoming web to me, burning it to crisp. Looks like dual class wielding is quite good! I quickly slashed through the legs of the Green Spider and since my speed is quite fast, the reaction time of the Green Spider is too slow, dismembering the three legs on its left side, causing green blood to spurt out of the wound. The way it was shown was quite realistic. No censors to stop it or anything that will help it cover the gruesome Slash Wounds.

”Successful inflicting Slash Wounds to the target. Target will lose 100HP per second. Weapon Proficiency leveled up to Trainee.”

Its quite amazing. A single Slash Wound can cause 100 HP reduction per second, which is only 25 HP per second and will heal eventually after 5 seconds unlike Slash Wound which will last as long as the inflicted target has no ability to regenerate their limbs.

Since I dismembered three of its legs, the Green Spider is having a hard time moving and seeing me, it quickly spewed out a green liquid. It is quite fast but I evaded in advance, allowing me to escape it. That is the Corrosive Poison. It inflicts 100% poison and has a 30% chance of triggering Corrosion. Corrosion is too bothersome as they slowly dwindle the durability of the armor or weapon that got hit by it. That is why I didn't bother blocking it. Blacksmith repair fees are too expensive and Whetstones are also freaking expensive too, making the recovery of durability to the weapons and armors to take a downhill a lot.

The Green Spider did not hold before it died. Leaving me with a loot. Two Green Spider Fang and an equipment.

”Green Gloves”

Def: 21