"A-A spider?" Aldric whispered to himself.
The monster's color was pale, and it seemed to have gone thinner. It is in a weakened state, but for Aldric, who was only level 1, it doesn't change the fact that he is in danger.His instinct was to run, but it was as if his body was not his. It wouldn't listen.Is he gonna die here? By this monster? Because of the Queen? Because he was weak?Aldric heart raced, and his head was pounding now, too, beating hard on his temples, and he could feel the sweat running down his back."Shriek!"Noticing Aldric and angry that a man was able to enter its territory, the creature suddenly let out a guttural growl, its posture shifting into a predatory stance.Aldric's heart raced as he realized the danger he was in.He has to move, or else he will die.'Should I run? Where? But what if I run into a much more terrifying creature?'His thoughts were interrupted by the creature's sudden lunge."Ah!" Aldric narrowly evaded its attack and stumbled backwards in the process.The distance between him and the spider had increased significantly.Aldric gritted his teeth, turned around, and ran as fast as he could, but his body was so heavy and out of shape that he only managed to create a little distance between himself and the spider."Shriek!" The spider let out an ear-piercing shriek.It was mad, furious that its prey had managed to escape from right under its nose.'Am I gonna die? Am I really gonna die here?! N-No! I don’t want to die! Please, run faster! Faster!'The smell of death lingered in the air as Aldric desperately tried to navigate through the dark and uneven terrain.The cave seemed to stretch on endlessly, with no sign of an exit.Aldric suddenly heard the sound of rushing wind, and an instant later, something hard hit his left side.He was flung against the wall."Ah!" Aldric coughed violently as all the air was pushed out of his lungs before sliding down the wall to fall into a heap on the ground."U-Ugh…"Aldric's vision blurred over, but he could still make out the spider was chewing on something, and then he felt a hot feeling in his arm.Aldric looked over to his left side, which had become inexplicably lighter.Or, more specifically, to where his left arm should have been..."H-Huh?" His expression stiffened, and he tilted his head in bewilderment.'M-My arm… blood… my arm is gone!'The excruciating pain of having his arm ripped off finally hit, which brought him back to reality soon enough."Aaahh!!!" Aldric's scream of anguish echoed. His left arm had been cleanly cut off below his elbow. “It hurts! I-It hurts! It burns! I-I'm gonna die here!"But the spider didn't give Aldric any time for his agony as the spider already finished chewing anymore, and it wanted more. It finished his hand in an instant.It was now looking at him—its prey.Aldric wanted to escape, but every time he even moved, a wave of severe pain streaked through his body.Just then.[Proficiency has reached the required level. Acquired skill [Pain Resistance LV 1].‘I-I gained a skill... But it's useless. It's only lessening the pain... I'm gonna die! I'm gonna die! Why do I have to suffer so much...? What did I ever do to deserve this? No weapons. Terrible stats. Zero skills. If I try to run again, it will get me... and it will be my head next time... I don't have any stamina to run. My hand… I lost my hand without even knowing…how could I escape that monster?’Aldric closed his eyes and let his mind wander.His eyes were getting heavy, and his whole body was wracked with pain and exhaustion, and Aldric began recalling events from his past.‘Guess this is what they mean when they say your life flashes before your eyes.’His parents left him because they were poor. Aldric thought at that time that his parents would come back for him, but he grew older and older, and his family showed no signs of returning.Because of his age, he wasn't able to find a family that would adopt him like the other kids. At the age of 13, he escaped the orphanage and started to raise himself. He became independent and never relied on anyone.He has to pay for his bills and work harder than a kid his age. He wanted to enter a good college, so he tried his best to get a scholarship, but he was beaten up and bullied by his classmates because he was poor and fat.“Shut up, pig! Did I permit you to speak?!”“Haha! What the fuck is that? Level 1? Damn! Even in this world, you are useless, you fucking pig!”“Level 1? And he doesn't even have a class? What the fuck? Haha!”“What a useless pig!”“Fat ass, you should start crying now!”“Fucking dimwit! Even in this world, you are nothing but a burden.”“I hope you die in an unsightly and pitiful way, you pigshit.”Aldric suddenly remembered the woman who made him suffer and brought him into this place and his classmates who made fun of him and beat him for entertainment.Aldric opened his eyes, anger suddenly welling up inside him.It was at that moment that a seething anger had welled up in him, like an inferno burning in the depths of his soul.Without anything on him, he picked up a huge stone and threw it at the spider. Bang!“Shrieeeek!”The stone was able to hit one of the spider's eyes, making the spider momentarily disoriented.“As if I'll die here! No! I won't die here! I will not die a cowardly death here! That woman… that son of bitch queen! I will kill her first before I get killed! I will kill everyone!” Aldric yelled, his eyes sparkling ferociously as a wicked grin spread over his face. “Kill! Kill! Kill! Kill! Kill! Kill! Kill!”“Ahhh!” The pain was making him crazy. “I will kill you! I will kill you! I will kill all of you! Ahhh!”Driven with fury, Aldric launches himself at the spider.He climbed on the spider's head and used the stone to smash the spider's other eyes.With a powerful swing, Aldric brought the stone crashing down onto the spider's injured head, and aimed for its remaining eyes.The monster wasn't able to react immediately.“Die! Die!” He stabbed one eye after another. “Die, you fucking monster! Die!”The spider's violet blood splattered on Aldric's hands.The spider's blood however was poison too as it melted off Aldric's skin, but this didn't make Aldric stop as his bloody mouth curled into a smile.[Proficiency has reached the required level. Acquired skill [Poison Resistance LV 1].[Proficiency has reached the required level. Skill [Pain Resistance LV 1] has become [Pain Resistance LV 10].“Kill! I will kill all of you! Kill! Kill! Kill!”[Condition Satisfied… Due to great anger, the Unique Skill “Wrath” has been awakened. All stats have risen by +10,000.]Aldric didn't hear the voice because of his own voice. He didn't even notice that his body felt stronger than before, and his attack had managed to hurt the spider.“I will kill you!”“Shrieeeek!” the monster yelled with fury as it tried to shake Aldric off by frantically thrashing its massive body.Aldric tried to cling on, but with one hand being gone, he found himself losing grip and flying through the air before his body hit the wall again.But unlike before, he didn't feel any pain. Rather, he felt powerful.“Shriek!” Suddenly, the spider spat out its poison, but because its eyes were gone, it was only able to hit the wall.The wall that has the spider's poison sizzling before everything melts off.“Shrieeeek!” The spider frantically moved and desperately hit every corner.It seems that it has gotten desperate and more angry. It wants to kill its prey immediately.“Haha, how does it feel to have no eyes, you fucker?” Despite the intense pain, he taunted the blinded spider. "I will fucking kill you! How dare you... how dare eat my hand?! I will eat you too!"Aldric attempted to pick up a big stone with his only hand. Strangely, he was able to pick it up.Aldric didn't waste any second and seized his opportunity to climb the spider.Raising the stone, he hit the spider on its head, but because of its hard exterior the stone could only scratch its head but this didn't make Aldric stop.Again and again, he hit the spider many times. He felt the skin in his hand peeling from the stone's impact, but the pain didn't make Aldric stop. Rather, it only made him crazier.[Proficiency has reached the required level. Skill [Pain Resistance LV 10] has become [Pain Resistance LV 20].“Die! Die! Die!” Aldric yelled with every strike.Pain! It was all he felt as the spider's poison blood splashed on his face, his skin burning upon contact.Proficiency has reached the required level. Skill [Poison Resistance LV 1] has become [Poison Resistance LV 10].“Die! Die! Die!” Aldric's voice echoed in the cave. "Die, you mother fucker!"Finally, the stone penetrated the spider's hard exoskeleton, causing a satisfying crunch. However, the poison in the spider's blood was so strong that the only weapon of Aldric had melted off.The stone was gone, but this didn't make Aldric stop at all. The spider is almost dying, and he only has to land his final blows."You dared to eat my hand? I will eat you too!"Not in the right state of mind, Aldric uses his teeth as his new weapon.He didn't waste any second as he sunk his teeth into the spider's body.AS he tore through its exoskeleton, he felt the warm, viscous fluids that gushed forth.Bitter! It's so bitter, and it hurts! The burning sensation of the toxic fluids made Aldric's mouth feel like it was on fire. He was coughing up blood from all the poison that he has cosumed, yet Aldric didn't stop. He would have faint from the pain, but the wrath that Aldric's was feeling had overpower all his other feelings—even pain.Aldric gulped down the flesh and bit again. Again and again. Blood dripped from Aldric's mouth as he ripped into the spider's flesh, each bite filled with vengeful fury. [Proficiency has reached the required level. Skill [Poison Resistance LV 20] has become [Poison Resistance LV 30].Aldric's teeth sank deeper, breaking through the spider's internal organs. The taste of the creature's innards filled his mouth, a nauseating mix of bitterness and decay. [Proficiency has reached the required level. Skill [Poison Resistance LV 30] has become [Poison Resistance has re
“K-King?” Just when he thought that the announcement of the system was over…[... Error… Lack of subjects detected… Making a mission to continue with evolution…[Mission: A King is no King without his people, but a people without their king would be lost as well. Objective: Tame the Dreadwolves and put them on your command. ]Aldric's eyes widened as he kept rereading the words on the translucent screen and then cast his gaze on the Dreadwolves, who appeared to be of the lower rank compared to the wolves who attacked him.Gasping for breath, Aldric said, “They didn't do anything at all and just watched. Is it the hierarchy between the wolves? W-What am I supposed to do? I just killed their leader. There is no way they are gonna submit to me. But is this even possible? That bitch Queen told me that they are curses, monsters that wreaked havoc on this world and the system is telling me to tame these deformed monsters?!"Just then, the wolves started to move and walk towards him. Fear
"W-WHAT?!"Aldric couldn't help but feel a tinge of disappointment realizing that the Celestial Elixir couldn't restore his lost arms.He tried to find another potion but found nothing. “But I still need it for my wounds. ” Aldric looked at his sides where his supposed arms should have been as he sighed. "I'll go for the Celestial Elixir. Purchase 5," he declared.[Purchasing Celestial Elixir, would you like to confirm?]“Confirm.”[Transaction complete. Celestial Elixir acquired (5). Remaining coins: 2,999,999,500,000.]A radiant vial containing a golden liquid materialized.It was the Celestial Elixir, and it seemed to pulse with potent energy.Eager to experience its effects, Aldric wasted no time in consuming the elixir, using only his mouth to open the bottle.He only drank one, yet Aldric felt a surge of revitalizing energy coursing through his body.His wounds closed rapidly, and fatigue seemed to dissipate, but as he already expected, his arms didn't regenerate. “Maybe there i
Aldric screech cut off abruptly as he collapsed onto his back, and his body spasmed. He felt as if something were eating away at him from within. “Agh— Aghghhhhgh!”Aldric screamed in a way that made everyone wish they could plug their ears. “Shabe— Shave me! Please! It hurts so much! P-Please!” Aldric shouted repeatedly, but there was no one there to help him. He was alone.As time passed, the pain only grew worse. The pain entered his head like his brain and he felt like his head was being squashed and smashed by a metal repeatedly.Aldric felt like his head was gonna burst.“Aaaaaaaaah!!! Wh-What’s— Aaaaaaah!!!”It was unendurable agony. The pain was trying to eat him from the inside out. Aldric writhed on the ground, screaming in terror.“Ahh!” Aldric yelled in pain and agony, the veins in his throat pulsating with the intensity of his suffering.The relentless pain surged through his entire being, threatening to overwhelm his consciousness.His body convulsed involuntarily as i
ALDRIC has been walking for almost an hour now.Thankfully, his stamina has increased thanks to the level up he hot and the bunos he got from Wrath and Gluttony. He also brought the skill ‘Endurance,’ so it was impossible for him to get tired quickly."I'm still not used to my body. I felt so light, and I'm not gasping for air no matter what I do. When I was fat, even getting up make me feel like I ran a marathon."Aldric checked his stomach which has gotten hard with muscles once again to checked that he wasn't dreaming at all. "Even my junior has changed significantly. It grew big for some reason," Aldric commented. He checked it last night and he was shocked to see it. Aldric shooked his head and put all the dirty thoughts aside.“It's daylight, so I won't find Demonic Monster but just normal monsters, but that doesn't mean I should let my guard down. Although I have grown stronger, I still don't know how strong I have become. I'm still clueless of my other skills,” Aldric mumbled
THEY were green and small in size, and some of them were almost skin to bones and filled with wounds.‘I guess even monsters are affected by the curse,’ Aldric said in the back of his mind as he kept observing them without uttering a word.The gobliins' faces were dirty and devoid of intelligence. Their swords had rust on them, and their armor was thin and torn at the edges. Some of them were dressed in nothing but stained rags. Their suken eyes that showed signed of dehydration, as well as their weapons, were trained on Aldric, although a few of them were ready to flee at the least provocation. Aldric smelt blood on them. Blood of other goblins.[Appraisal Activated][Name: Unnamed Goblin][Level: 5][Stats: - HP: 35/35 - MP: 15/15 - STR: 8 - AGI: 5 - INT: 2][Skills: - Basic Swordsmanship - Scavenge][Info: A small and weak goblin, often treated as the lowest rank among their kind. Their survival skills are essential in harsh environments, and they rely on scavenging and ba
HAVING dealt with all of that, Aldric gave Goblins the scales that he got from killing Gila Monsters and made them pile into a neat stack. But because the Gila's Monster scale was strong and sharp, he warned them to be careful, but it didn't take long before one of the goblins accidentally cut themselves on the sharp edge of a scale.Thankfully, the female goblin was there to heal them. Aldric found out that from the female goblin that the reason for her skin color being different wasnt because she was a woman but because she was special from the others.Aldric could not understand any of it.[The Goblin (10) has pledged loyalty to King Aldric. Goblins are now under your command.][Your Kingdom grows stronger.][You have received $1,000,000,000,000][You can now name the Goblins.]Aldric was making a weapon when the translucent screen appeared before him again."Name?" Aldric nodded, having understood what the system meant. "That's good. Since I will be living with them, it will be i
"It is finished, our Lord," the goblin with spiky silver hair said as he approached Aldric. Aldric named him Snik. "We have done as you ordered. The scales have been perfectly arranged."Aldric nodded and stood up. He cast a fire magic on the scales and burned them until they melted, forming a molten substance. As the molten substance glowed with intense heat, Aldric skillfully manipulated it, shaping the material into a door that fits the cave's entrance."How powerful!""Our Lord is powerful!"The elder goblin Grom and the others yelled with awe.But Aldric wasn't finished. He put another layer of scales and attached them to the door. This time, he didn't melt it and just used the fire magic to melt the back of the scales so they would stick together. He then took the venom he got from the Gila Monster and poured it on the scales, and he conjured a small amount of his own poison-infused blood, adding it to the venom-coated scales. After all of that work, he used 'All Healing' to