Chapter 99 - Three Tails

Two days passed and... There's not a lot of episodes going on worthy of mentioning. However, three things require my attention.

The first is Kimi's improved condition and emotions. Now, the little girl no longer looked sad or depressed. She could even make a smile even though it's tiny.

Sleeping with me for one night seemed to be a powerful remedy for her.

Hmm… did I just say something that can cause misunderstandings? 

No, I think not. 

Anyway! Number two is about Ruciel, Salsa, and Vyorn. Three people- no! I mean Ruciel, she kept complaining to me or giving me questions, hour by hour.

"Why are we here? To be your pet?"

"Don't you have a job for us?"

"You didn't want to order us around?"

"No! You don't have to cook for us! It's should be is who cook for you!"

"This is wrong! We are slaves and not guests in your house! Do you understand the meaning of the word Slave!"

Yup! The girl was so noisy. It's only been two days, she's already asked tens of questions and keep yelling at me.

Did I wrong? The girl said yes and keep talking. In the end, she became calmer after I said, we'll hunt in two days.

The last things that require my attention are the Orb Skill, Collar of Concealment, and my second evolution.

I used the Orb Skill and yes, I got the Advance Skill, Steel Will.

As for the Collar of Concealment...

"Damn it! I can't take it off!"

Yup! As I once shouted, this Collar can't be removed from my neck at all! This was a Cursed Magic Item!

"I shouldn't believe the jerk's words just like that! I should have known that he never had any good intentions for me!"

Why am I wearing it?

To be honest, I wondered if the Collar of Concealment worked as spoken by the jerk. I also wanted to see the illusion of this Magic Item could create.

So... I wear it and right now, I regret it.

Arg... why don't I use Apprisal first!?

"Stupid! Stupid! Stupid!" I shouted my frustration while smacking my innocent pillow.

Cling! Cling!

Yes…  the cling sounds that made me more furious came from the little bell on the collar I was wearing. That's right, this collar — which adorned my neck — is so identical to the collar used to mark a cat as a pet.

Made of leather, colored black, and comes with a small round bell made of gold was Collar of Concealment.

"Haa... I'll accept it for now because this thing is working the way it should. In the future, I will take this Collar off. I promised."

Now, let's forget about this collar. There's something important I have to do now.

< The requirement to evolve has been fulfilled. Do you want to evolve into Three Tails Fox? >

< Yes > < No >

Yup! I'm going to evolve.

Different from before, this time I've already made preparations. Therefore I or my states in the middle of evolving will no longer make a commotion as it did before.

What kind of preparation do I do? Well... It's a simple preparation. I locked my bedroom door and told Kimi plus the others not to disturb me and wake me up when morning came.

I'll get out of the room when I want to.

So... With all the preparations I've done, I chose < Yes > a moment later my consciousness faded away.

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Crip! Crip!

The sound of birds woke me up.

"Ugh... heavy... My body is extremely heavy and stiff," I complained to no one.

Then, moving my heavy body, I took a bottle of Potion from the little table beside my bed and drank it.

Then, for a moment I was able to move normally, I checked my body. And as before, the only thing that changed about me was my tail.

Now I have three tails

And when I used the Collar of Concealment, my tail turned into one. However, a moment later I disabled the Collar's function. I don't have the MP to make that Magic Item continue to work.

The collar of Concealment takes 3 MP every hour to keep it working.

Okay, let's forget about the collar, let's take a look at my Statistics. I was curious, how much strength I got this time.

"[Stat Open]"

『General Information』

[ Name: Eclaite | Gender: Female ]

[ Race: Three Tails Fox Beastkin ]

[ Age: 19 | Level: 1/30 ]

『Jobs』

[ E-Rank Adventurer, Courtesan ]

『Basic Statistics』

| HP: 60/258 [207] 

| MP: 4/310

| SP: 4/199

[ STR: 149  | DEX: 51 ]

[ END: 113 | Luck: 9  ]

[ AGI: 132                    ]

『Skill』

[Heart of Monster] Updated

[Doppelganger] New

[Natural Mana Circulation] 

[Divine Beast Blood] [Nature Vitality]

[Steel Will] New

[Upgrade Hearing] [Upgrade Smelling] 

[Lesser Strength |Lvl 4] ∆

[Lesser Stamina |Lvl 3] ∆

[Medium Mana |Lvl 2] ∆

[Enchanted Body |Lvl 3] ∆

[SP Regeneration Up |Lvl 4] ∆

[Pain Resistance |Lvl 6] ∆

[Poison Resistance |Lvl 5] ∆

[Paralyze Resistance |Lvl 4] ∆

[Physical Attack Resistance |Lvl 3] ∆

[Heat Perception |Lvl 3] ∆

[Spear Mastery |Lvl 4] ∆

[Sword Mastery |Lvl 3] ∆

[Water Magic |Lvl 2] ∆

[Wind Magic |Lvl 2] ∆

[Appraisal |Lvl 2] ∆

[Courtesan |Lvl 7] ∆ 

[Cooking |Lvl 5] ∆ [Dance |Lvl 4] ∆

[Charm |Lvl 5] ∆ 

[Sharp Claws |Lvl 4] ∆

[Fire Breath |Lvl 2] ∆

[Mist of Nightmare Illusion |Lvl 2] ∆

∆ All Skills level up!

Yup! There is no doubt, I'm getting stronger.

Hmm... In the previous evolution, I got 2 points for Luck, 10 points for DEX, 15 points for STR, 20 points for END, AGI, HP, and SP, and lastly, 30 points for MP.

And now, I got 4 points for Luck, 20 points for DEX, 30 points for STR, 40 points for END, AGI, HP, and SP, and 60 points for MP.

For the Stat Points bonus from Skills that went up one Level, I got 5 points from Lesser Strength and Lesser Stamina, 20 points from Medium Mana, 10% HP addition now 25% from Enchanted Body, 2 points for DEX, AGI, and SP from Cooking, Dance, and Courtesan.

And yes, If someone peeking at that evolution Stat points bonuses, one could surmise it was intended to Mage Build. 

I know I have a body with Mage Build. And instead of using it, I literally fought monsters as if I had a Warrior Build.

This was a bad decision and… should I learn about magic more seriously?

Don't know and It can wait for a while.

Now! This evolution gove addition of a lot of Basic Statistics. Three digits in almost all my Basic Statistics... With it, I can say that right now, I'm stronger than a level fifty pure Warrior without the Stat Points bonus gained from training, Skill, or Doping.

I'm strong and I'm satisfied.

After Basic Statistics is the new skill I got. 

The first one is Steel Will.

[Steel Will] [Passive]

[+ Negate the effect of confusion.]

Hmm... Is this skill the next version of Confusion Resistance? If so, this means I can't get the Advance Skill, All Status Effects Resistance.

Grr... That jerk really an expert to make me angry. 

Anyway, I didn't get the chance to get All Status Effects Resistance and it's fine. Why? Because to obtain that Advanced Skill is complicated because I have to obtain a minimum of ten Status Effects Resistance Skills and then combine them into one.

So... this is enough about Resistance Skills. Now, I'm curious about the new Unique Skill I obtained, a Unique Skill that previously only contained question marks.

[Doppelganger] [MP -300]

[+ Completely transform into a living creature that has been eaten before. The transformation cannot be undone by anything except the Unique Skill owner wants it to be undone.

+ Get all Skills and half the total Basic Statistics of the mimicked living creature.

+ The Skills and Basic Statistics of the Unique Skill owner will be added to the transformation and will be hidden.

+ Immune to various types of Analyzing Skills below level seven. 

+ The duration of transformation is 24 hours. 

- Cooldown 7 days.]

This was another crazy Unique Skill comparable to the Heart of Monsters!

Completely transformed into the living creatures that were once eaten!

This Unique Skill doesn't explain how much meat of living creatures should I eat for me to turn into that living being. 

If just one bite of meat was enough to meet the needed requirements, wouldn't that be amazing!?

With this Unique Skill, I can truly become a monster. I could turn into Leaf Bear, Nightmare Illusion Peshroom, or that scary Slime.

And if I eat high-level monster meat... Doesn't that mean my hunt become much more easy?

That's an extremely good idea!

I should ask Ruciel if there was a restaurant in the city serving fresh, high-level monster meat.

I want dragon meat!

Turned into a dragon... "Hehehe... I can't wait to do it!"

But before all of that, I had to make sure that eating a little piece of meat could do the trick.

And all right, it's time for me to see the updated Heart of Monsters. 

This is the last one.

[ Heart of Monster ] [Passive]

[ + Earn statistics points after eating a whole body of monster or a certain amount (1,200 gr) of monster meat.

- After the tenth of monster meat, Basic Statistics points will not be obtained again

+ Obtain one of the monster skills (randomly) by eating their Magic Stones. Skill gained from a species of monster is one. After getting a skill, the next Magic Stone will be converted into Exp for the skill obtained earlier. 

- After the tenth Magic Stone, Exp for skill will not be obtained again.

+ Able to erase the skills gained from the Magic Stones of monsters. 

+ Monster Heartbeat. Turned on automatically when the unique skill owner is in critical condition. 

> If turned on, get; All basic statistics up × 200% and HP, MP, SP regeneration speed × 200%

> Duration, as long as the Unique Skill owner wants it.

-  Weakened Heartbeat. This Debuff will be obtained if the active Monster Heartbeat is turned off. 

> All the unique skill effects listed above will be nullified and all Basic Statistics will be reduced by half. 

> Duration; Triple of the use of Monster Heartbeat. ]

It's strange... If the Heart of Monsters only has all these effects, why would I become out of control after sniffing the scent of monster blood?

"Hmm... Is it because this Unique Skill isn't complete and still has a question mark like a Doppelganger?"

I don't know the answer to that question. But, I can't wait to find it out; Won't I get out of control again after I sniff the smell of monster blood?

"There's a lot of things I have to do. This change in my Basic Statistics and with these two, new Unique Skills, my plans changed again."

What am I supposed to do now?

Kryuukk...!

"Alright, it's been decided! I'll make breakfast! That's what I have to do now!"

I got out of bed to carry out my plan to make breakfast!