89 Nightmare II

With a flick of my hand, Everything on the ground glow and return back to the spatial ring. Everything except two. A butcher knife, and a pan. The thing about enforcing a strengthening on something, if its done on non living things, you have to continuously renew the strengthening each time its reached the limit. While on living being, such as yourself, as long as they, the host can regulate mana, it that skill will use the host body to continuously absorb mana to keep it up until there is no more mana left to activate the skill.

So why did I choose to strengthen the butcher knife and the pan? Don't worry, I did it on myself too, in case things get awry. But right now, I have nothing to help me fight the monster. I dont know any credible martial arts that could help me win this battle.

I jump high and used the strengthened knife to hack one of the spider leg, and it sliced like I was slicing a butter. The monster screech and used one of its leg to stab me again. Parring it with the pan, using my whole momentum to hit it like a professional baseball player.

Crack!

An ominous sound of something, I was afraid I had twisted my own backbone as I spun and landed on my feet perfectly. I look up and saw the other leg hung feebly on the monster body with just a strand of.. something black. Maybe it's vein? I dont know. Maybe I should help it to cut it clean?

The two big googly eyes suddenly turn red, and it split back into small tiny eyes. The scary part was, its eyes move to all over its body. When I said, all over the body, I mean from the butt to the legs.

What an ugly sight.

I heard a business tycoon back at earth said this before. When you're facing with problems, know that its your new opportunity. So, here I am thinking about it. From this f**ked up situation and problem I am facing, what opportunity I could gain?

If only that perverted Arya was here, I could asked him to freeze that monster into an ice sculpture.. then I blinked couple of times. Oh yeah.. I got it. I took out two bottles from my spatial ring. I call the wind elements to blow the powder inside one of the bottle to the monster.

'What's that? A poison? You know that doesn't work' huffed Uric. I grinned.

'Its not a poison. But almost like one' I replied curtly, getting into position. The monster ran through the dust of powder that was blown away by the wind before screeching like its on fire. The moment the spider open its mouth to screech, I threw another bottle inside its mouth. You can see three little strand of blue light following the bottle inside its mouth. It started to wiggle its body. Jumping up and down. It screech again, hitting its legs and head couple of times.

'Holy, damn! Would you look at that! It had gone mad!!!' From the tone of it, I can hear the excitement bubbling inside him.

Shakk. Shakk. Shakk. The thorns explode out from inside out, and slowly wrapping the spider into tight grip.

"How was the chillies? It's not a poison, so your anti- poison and paralysis wont work." Controlling the thorn, it sprouted another branch and strike right through the head. The monster lay still, unmoving.

Using the butcher knife, I hack the head to check if its indeed died or was just playing possum. It cracked open wide, showing me a goey mess and a rock, the size of your normal coconut fruit. It had a slight purplish dim glow that piqued my interest.

"Is that a spirit stone? That's huge!"

'Hmm... not exactly. more like.... gatcha stone' comment Uric, I dont know how god works but it sounded like he was perusing the whole thing. Like it was something new to him and he find it interesting. How can a god that govern this world doesn't know things that happen in his 'territory'? Is he not omnipotent?

I raised my eyebrow, puzzled by it. Plus...I know gatcha means more or less, random... but hearing that from him... its kind of weird.

"What do you mean by gatcha stone?"

"Oh, you dont know gatcha? Gatcha means-" damn, he is definitely pulling my legs off and trying my patience.

I gritted my teeth, "I know what gatcha means, damn it. I mean, why do you say its gatcha stone?"

I heard some chuckle that begged to be sock into seven layers of dungeon.

"That stone, doesn't have the complete command of producing spirit stone once it is refine. Instead, it have a mix of it. It was programmed to randomly give out spirit stones, skills, weapon, armor or nothing at all once it was refined. And one have to follow the condition of refining this stone : one have to refine it while they are inside this world or it will be useless once brought out as it is to the real world. Definitely genius if you ask me"

Sadly, I couldn't retaliate him with 'I didn't ask you' since I did asked.

Genius, indeed.

Nobody except gods could mass refine stones like this inside this world. One could only swallow their greed to take all of these gatcha stones and have to be content to get few. As long as the limit is still written as the law in this world, you have to strip your greed and learn to be content with what you have and can have. If it wasn't for the hideous and scary monsters here, I would definitely love this place. Good place to train one's inner self, and will power. Everything here is too Over powering and challenging. You can improve a lot here. Who knows? Maybe I'll become more powerful and calmer after I manage to get out from here?

"I wouldn't draw an early consclusion if I was you, Iiana. This place was name nightmare for a reason. As much as it can help you to train yourself, it can also drag you to the boderline of insanity. I wonder if you could perserve your human side before the other side of you, devours you completely." And just like that, he left me hanging with that question weighting my mind off. I can feel his presence dissipate and leaving me. And here, I am once again. All alone, thinking I should start crafting everything I could think of. Medicines, poisons, new skills and not to forget.. I hve a gatcha stone to refine.

So, first of all.. she need to find a place where she could hide peacefully at least for a couple of days to get all of these done. Preferably somewhere high, and sparse.. wide place to run around without stabbing myself from stumbling, high enough that I only need to be worried of flying monster.. my eyes peruse the view around me, while tapping my chin.

Sadly, you cant get what you always want right away. The prospect in around me said it all. I need to move further to get what I want. This time however, I learned to be more cautious on how to handle my appraisal mode. Since the highest grade monster could detect me as well when I detect them, I need to be extra vigilant as not to draw any attention from the monster.

That plan seems so beautiful at the corner of my mind.