Chapter 49
I threw myself to the floor to escape the large mouth of the snake, aka, Glavras
*CRASH!*
Is it normal for snakes to eat someone they meet for the first time!? From the looks of it, the charge must have hurt the snake as well. Part of his mouth is bleeding, and his HP went down another 10 points...10 points!?
Looking at his condition, I can see that the [Berserk] skill is activated. It’s kinda obvious, but the skill drastically increases your physical abilities in exchange for not using other skills and a reduction in defensive- and mental abilities. This guy’s got almost no other skills than [Berserk], and his INT is already zero...
Alright, this is too weird! First, why is most of his stats at 0!? That doesn’t make any sense! And if he’s been living for over 1.000 years, then he should have obtained at least one more title than those! And why’s [Identification Detection] amongst the few skill he has!? Ah, gotta stop Identifying him. With that high skill level, I’m essentially negating my stealth abilities here.
...So why’s he keeping on chasing me even when I’ve turned off the skill!? I thought it was supposed to only allow you to detect when and where someone used an [Identification]-type skill on you! Ah, can it be that with a high skill level, you’ll know where the rude fellow is for a short while? Then I can’t do anything but run!
I ran across the shore to escape the berserking dragon, but that turned out to be a bad move. Glavras followed after me as I ran, meaning he left the poisoned lake. Tch, and here I was betting on it weakening him even more...damn.
The poison has disappeared. Did the Dungeon do that, or was it the poison that was too weak? I hope it’s the latter. I’ve got two more bottles in the Storage after all.
And here I’m sure I can beat it if I could get some sneak attacks on it. Its HP is lowering due to the poison, and he’s not as strong in defense as the Queen either. Beating this guy will be easy the moment the stealth skills get usable again... unnaturally easy even.
As said before, this guy’s something that has lived for over a thousand years. And creatures can obtain EXP simply by living in aether-rich areas, even if it’s several, if not hundreds, times slower than hunting monsters or whatever. And I’m not gonna buy some excuses like "he had evolved just recently".
Then there are his skills. A "Pure Lake Dragon" should have some Water attribute skills, right? Not having that is stranger than having so few of them. And [Dungeon Create] is too strange.