Hardcore OP-ness

Chapter 29: Unrealistic Aspirations

MIchael snickered and told her "Well, you basically got insta-killed by a giant tentacle through the spine and heart. Anyway, of course it'll be fucking hard. What, you think this is the first time I ever tried to farm for legendaries, grinded levels, and... Actually, I've never tried to have sex with a dragon before, because they didn't really exist in the world I came from, but that's beside the point. By the way, you lost your necklace and bracelet..."

Immediately touching her jugular notch with both hands, she sighed and muttered "It's fine... just something my mother gave me. There were no enchantments placed on it, so it only had a bit of sentimental value."

He smirked and said "Ah, that sucks... If it makes you feel better, I was brought into this world completely naked. Well, anyway, it's about time I let the little worm-girl back out." Unlike when using his bag or prison, summoning or storing Companions didn't require him to be in physical contact with them.

With a wave of Michael's left hand, the leather-clad Thief suddenly appeared a few feet away from his body. She was standing then normally, and couldn't even tell that any time had passed, yet she still complained "Can we hurry the fuck up? I wanna make it to at least level-six before we stop for the day."

Thus, they continued 'hunting' where they left off. However, rather than going any farther south, they turned around and started traveling northeast.

Weaker enemies gave less experience, but it was far easier to kill the 'Bengal Tigers' that were only level-six for two experience-points per person, than the level-nine ones that only gave three. The best part, was that with Elina's increased Willpower and level advantage over them, she couldn't even be feared.

Their endurance and health was also much lower, so Michael could bash their skulls in far easier. In fact, on several occasions, Sarah would teleport onto the beast's back, and stab both knives directly into the base of its skull, or sever its spinal cord.

With her relatively slow mana-recovery, she could only use 'Shadow-Step' once per minute. However, it took them ten or twenty minutes to find their prey, so there was never a situation where she couldn't immediately stun or kill the enemy.

After Michael used telekinesis to fire a tiny pebble through the left eye-socket of the fifth tiger, he was enveloped in a bright-white light. Sarah yelled "Damn it! How the hell did you manage to get ahead of me?!"

[Player Information

Name: Michael

Titles: The Nudist, The Noob, The Immortal, The Lurker, The Survivor

Level: 6

Experience: 0/60

Age: Adult

Race: Human

Rank: F

Class: None

Specialization: None

Profession: Leatherworker Level 2]

[Stats

Health: 42.5/42.5

Mana: 20/20

Stamina: 20/20

Mana Regen per minute: 30

Health Regen per hour: 45

Strength: 6

Vitality: 4.5

Endurance: 4

Dexterity: 3

Agility: 4(+1)

Intelligence: 4

Wisdom: 3

Perception: 1

Charisma: 1

Willpower: 14

Luck: 14

Aura: 1.9

Attack Power: 30

Defense Rating: 2(+2)]

Michael snickered as he decided to just increase his Strength by two points, since he typically ended up just using brute force to fight anyway. Then he told the Goblin-girl, "Calm down, we only need to slaughter three more kitty-cats and you'll... Ah, what the fuck?! No way..."

After he stored the tiger-carcass, there was a small black object laying on the ground. Elina was the first to run over and pick it up, while using her 'Scan' ability, to read "Obsidian Ring: Grants the user two points of Perception and increases their training speed of the Darkness Affinity by ten-percent. Soulbound to Sarah Carelia, and can only be worn by her. Rare Quality, requires level-five."

She immediately handed it to the blind-girl, and said "It appears that the Goddess of Darkness really favors you." The Thief held it in her hands for a moment, before putting it on her right ring-finger.

Suddenly, a wave of darkness surrounded her body, and then her pure-white eyes turned pitch-black: as if they were giant pupils. Sarah shouted "Holy shit! I can actually see! Wait, what the fuck... I thought you were Human, so you were a Warbeast? Well, whatever, there isn't really much of a difference anyway. I pretty much hate all races equally."

Michael furrowed his brows and stared intently at Elina's chest, until she finally asked "Is there a problem with my breasts?" while smirking.

He sighed and said "Nah, your tits are fine, but I was trying to 'Scan' your robe... Since I can't get it to work, that must be a Rare piece, right? Hmmm, so can items just randomly drop off of magical-beasts? I kinda assumed that you were just wearing normal cloth, which you enchanted a bit."

She giggled and then explained "There are two kinds of items in this world: those that are created by mortals, and those that are bestowed upon us by the Goddesses. The differences between them are-"

Michael quickly interrupted "Yeah-yeah, I get the point already. Conventional and Soulbound, the former is made by humanoids and the latter comes from the syst-er Goddesses. Hmmm~, this is really convenient..."