Chapter 17: Monster meat
When Lucen saw that there was now a Level in the status window, he was thrilled. It was level one, but still, that didn’t matter.
He had worried that without a level, the rest of the Gun Mage skills would remain locked.
Since he was the only Gun Mage in this world, he’d been unsure how to progress. But now that he had a level, it meant unlocking new skills was only a matter of time.
Lucen looked down at his hands again, filled with cuts, calloused, and rough from swinging a sword even though he had no talent for it. A soft smile appeared on Lucen’s face. He felt that even if the Level-up system wasn’t unlocked, he would still be able to do something.
’I wonder if there are other things that could be unlocked that the status window is not showing. I guess I’ll need to try a bunch of things to see what triggers new unlocks.. For now, I just need to try and level up to see what happens.’
While he was thinking to himself, Lucen was already checking the Glacier Hares to see if they dropped anything like in the game. Unfortunately, there was nothing like that, so Lucen needed to get what he needed from the Glacier Hares by hand.
Lucen used his sword to cut off their horns. According to the alchemy books he’d been reading, the curved, ice-infused horns could be ground down and mixed with certain herbs to create a salve that prevented frostbite, a lifesaving concoction in places like this.
’I wonder if I can eat this thing?’
Lucen had never heard of anyone, either in-game or in this life, mentioning eating monsters, or if someone tried to eat one before, or what would happen. There were no stories, no legends, nor myths about eating monsters.
People in this world think of monsters as frightening and things to be killed. They are something malicious and dirty, so no one would even have the idea of eating a monster.
’There was an anime I watched before that showed the protagonist eating monsters to get stronger. Actually, now that I think about it, there were several stories of protagonists eating monsters to power up or gain new skills... I wonder if I do the same, would I get something out of it, or will I be poisoned?...’