Chapter 4 - 004: Ignorant is a bliss, but what will happen if it was stupidity?

On the ground a pack of shadow wolf sniffing around trying to find a clue the killer of their kinsman but because Arthur moving around mostly using Hiraishin no Jutsu then it was very hard to find him. On top of the tree Arthur decide to place a mark on alone shadow wolf who is quite far enough from the other shadow wolf and like what he predicted even if the shadow wolf can feel there is something attached to its body but the shadow wolf can't find him and can't erase the seal, after the shadow wolf glancing around and failed to find what is the thing that bothers it the shadow wolf resume it sniffing project.

Arthur wait patiently and marked down every shadow wolf that quite far away from the pack and after he finished marking down every shadow wolf Arthur take out a knife from his belt.

It was a fully silver color knife with length of nearly thirty centimeters and width three centimeters, even if Shooting Star is a set of throwing knives with twelve pieces of knife, there are two knives with different length one is thirty centimeters and the other one is fifteen centimeters, as for the rest it was just ten centimeters.

Arthur increases the strength of his grip on the knife and tries to adjust his breathing, and he launches his attack.

Pssshhh!!!!

Arthur appears near a lone shadow wolf and slashes his knife at the shadow wolf throat using all of his strength but something that he miscalculated is happening. The knife he uses is not an ordinary knife he can find easily in the kitchen but a divine weapon, so it slashes the shadow wolf throat easily and make him stumble upon a still standing shadow wolf that loses its head and he is showered by its blood.

The smell of blood and the sound of Arthur who is falling to the ground attracts the attention of the other shadow wolf and one after another shadow wolf jumping to his side with mouth open wide.

Arthur wakes up from his surprise and he uses Hiraishin no Jutsu and moves from one tree to another tree to confuse the shadow wolf before he targeting every shadow wolf that is slightly away from the pack.

Stimulate by the blood and the headless corpses of it own kinsman the remaining five shadow wolf jump to different tree with the strongest smell of Arthur but unfortunately that's the wrong choice because after the first mistake he uses Arthur can gauge the strength he need to use and the more he uses Hiraishin no Jutsu the more he can use it freely and in two minutes the remaining five shadow wolf join their kinsman become headless wolf.

^Host successfully Killing fifteen shadow wolf^

^ +15 System point ^

Gasping for the air Arthur resting on top of a tree but he is surprised by the system voice

"What? Are you sure you're not making a wrong calculation?" He thought after this tiring battle he can buy some modifications but the system just throw him a bucket of cold water

^There is no error in calculation^

"Then why I just receive 15 system points?"

^For the previous fight that's the first shadow wolf that host killed and with the fact that's host first battle and with the unfamiliar ability it was understandable for the host to receive more point than usual^

^For this battle if host just have Hiraishin no Jutsu then the system will award you with 5 system point but because you possess a divine weapon then the fight is deemed as meaningless in system perspective so the minimum one system point is what you receive^

Arthur stuns by the system explanation before he looks at the knife in his hand and the headless shadow wolf that scattered on the ground.

"Mother teaches me to happy with what I have, so I mustn't argue with the system... that's what I want to say" Arthur let out a sigh before leaning his tired body to the tree that he sat upon "so I have 25 points and it was just half the price of that modification"

The reason why Arthur decides to buy the Golden Eagles Eyes modification is that if he can clearly see object thousand meters away from him than he can attach his seal on that object and kill it silently like ȧssassin before retreating to where he is watching the prey.

After he experiences how sharp is the knife he has Arthur feels very confident with his plan, but when he looks at the sky where the moon is starting to shine replacing the bright sun there is another problem that's bothering him.

"Where I can water source and food?"

...

It's been six months since Arthur come to this world but until now Arthur is failed to find any civilization, scratch that because Arthur is not just failed to find civilization but he is failed to meet with a human. What he encountered in these six months is various types of monster from his first buddy shadow wolf to the mountain troll that he beheads fifteen minutes ago.

At the first two months, Arthur travels to the west using his Hiraishin no Jutsu and just stop if he encountering monster before resuming his travel after killing the monster, it's not for protecting humanity from the dangerous monsters but because they're his source of system point, in other words, his cash machine.

But after long travel full of battle Arthur dumbfounded because after travel so much he is still inside a forest and what he thought as the boundary of the forest is just another forest hiding behind the horizon.

If not for countless trees that he destroyed as a mark for his trail he will think he is under illusion magic, but a path that he created is destroyed his ȧssumption.

So he backtracks and reaching his starting point less than two months and heading to the west before he gives up because there is no end to this damn forest.

"Am I need to waste another six months to travel between south and north?" Arthur's facial expression is quite ugly when he thinks about his previous six mont experience."I feel thankful to anyone who gives me a second chance to live, but what's the point if I just can killing a monster?"

If this is Re Zero world like he think then there is no way for something as big as this forest exists, even if the world of Re Zero still a lot of mystery and the world-building itself is kept as mystery it still unreasonable for this forest to exist there, because just thinking about how much the land that Arthur cross in his travel already makes it was impossible, he uses Hiraishin no Jutsu, not his leg.

"Am I in the land outside of the great waterfall?" This idea is not impossible because there was a hint in the story if the land behind the great waterfall is just known to the great dragon Volcanica

"Status" this time Arthur call the status menu not using his mind is not because he feels excited but because there is no one who can hear him

Host: Arthur Spencer

Age: 23

Modifications: Golden Eagle Eyes +5, Heavenly Body+5

System point: 5.361

Equipment: Lugunica Knight Suit, Shooting Star Set

Ability: Hiraishin no Jutsu

Arthur's Golden Eagle Eyes modification can make him see clearly an object five thousand meters away from him and for the Heavenly Body modification, it can make his body stronger in terms of attack and defense without changing his body structure. Maybe this technique is inspired by the protagonist of a Chinese novel where the protagonist has a body like a boyband but has a strength to destroy a mountain.

It's not like Arthur didn't want to improve his strength with other modifications but just these two modifications are consumed three thousand and one hundred system points. Because for each upgrade the amount of system point that he needs to pay is doubling, from the first fifty system point, next to a hundred system point next to two hundred system point, and so on so forth.

"System how much the price for elemental magic without using any form of energy?"

^Host is recommend to buy correspondents core of elemental magic modifications^

After giving out the answer notification containing the explanation of core modification pop up in front of Arthur

Hearth of Ice: after someone integrating this item than he or she can manipulate ice elements freely. (The higher the level of modification the stronger control over the ice element)

●50 system point

The brain of Lightning Lord: after someone integrating this item, than he or she can control the lightning element freely.

(The higher the level of modification the stronger control over the lightning magic)

●50 system point

"Than I will buy both of that modification, system directly upgrade them to level five!"

^Executing the command^

^Doing modifications for host brain and heart^

"What?!" Before Arthur can ask the meaning of the system's previous word an excruciating pain is ȧssault his head but there is also his heart that throbbing painfully

Ice element and lightning element around Arthur's body is going berserk because it was influenced by Arthur, a very strong blizzard spreading to every corner of the forest and countless lightning is descending from the sky, not just destroying the trees but it also killing the unlucky monster.

This is something that many magicians called unnatural mana storms. After what he feels as eternity the pain is gone slowly, the blizzard and lightning are also stopped destroying the forest before gone completely at the same time with the pain he feels.

^Host successfully achieve the target for killing a certain number of monster in this trial dimension^

^Sending Host to the true destination^

"What the hell...is that" Arthur is too weak to ask questions or even let out a rare curse before his vision blackout.