Apho’s POV
“Just watch me, Apho” Pixi says while smirking.
She raises her left hand and points all her fingers, like she’s grabbing unto something, to the slimes. Her right hand is having a unique peace-gesture on her right eye. She’s suddenly saying something. It’s like she’s enchanting a magic spell. I focus my sense of hearing on her to hear what she’s saying.
“---Scan!!” she shouts. That’s the only part I heard on her incantation. I almost got disappointed about myself but then, I notice something on her right eye. It has a small magic circle in front of it, bigger than her eyes but it is still small in my perspective. Slowly, the magic spell from her right eye is channeling to her left hand.
From the begin with, I’m having doubt if it’s magic but now, I’m sure that it is MAGIC after all. It’s such an amazing sight to see magic with my own eyes since this is a virtual world. It hits very different compare to 2d and 3d animation.
About her magic, it’s certainly about scanning something since the last word she says is ‘Scan’. I look at the slimes and I’m noticing something again. Something is glowing inside of the slimes and base on my experience, it might be their ‘core’. It’s probably a weakness or special loot of the slimes but I will just let Pixi explains it to me.
She finishes her magic quickly then flies down towards me. She stares at me with sparkling eyes and smirking smile, as if she did something very amazing. Not gonna lie, it’s quite surprising since it’s my first time seeing magic virtually but I’ve played a lot of games.
“How’s that?! Hehe, I have more things I can teach you but for now, try figuring it out for yourself. Like I said, experience is better than explanation.” She says then flies to her usual spot on my shoulder.
“Okay” I casually say to her then prepare my sword. I run towards the slimes and focus on the glowing thing on their core. I slash one of the slimes and I just one hit kill it. Apparently, hitting those glowing spots increases my damage. It will be a great technique to pinpoint the glowing spots of every enemy. And top of that, Pixi has the magic spell to do it.
The other slimes notice me after I killed one of them. They simultaneously attack me and one of them hits me on the legs. Ouch!
Pain... pain?! Why do I feel pain on this game?! I suppose I can feel and control my whole body normally but to feel this sensation? Ahh what a pain in the ass, I guess technology hits its climax on this game. I wonder if I will feel pain too when I die.
After the slime hits me, there’s a screen pops out in from of me. There’s a green bar and blue bar on it. I just take a glimpse on it then focus again on attacking.
One slime on the left, on the right, and on front of me. I prepare my stance and wait for them to attack. They’re just bouncing there, menacingly. No just kidding, their cute faces are making them not so scary.
The first one to attack is on the left. I charge towards it and stab its core. It dies immediately then the other two starts jumping towards me. I turn around and slash its core in the meantime.
“Level increase. You’re now level 2” Another screen pops out with a catchy ringtone. It’s like zwooom or fwoosh. I don’t know I’m not that great on explaining sounds. But neat, I finally leveled up. I got distracted by it and I nearly forgot that I still have one slime to kill. It suddenly appears above me!
Out of instincts, I slash it but I didn’t hit its core, quite surprisingly one-hit kill it. It seems that my Power stat increases after leveling up. I pick up the slime balls and now I have 6 out of 20.
