Chapter 27 Claiming The Spoils

"Mommy~ I'm going out!" I called out from the door.

"Be careful, my little one~" Mother answered back from the kitchen.

I dashed out of the house and spread my wings, leaping up into the air with a single flap.

After that night, I had lost all my hesitation in recognising her as my mother, something she could tell almost immediately.

Needless to say, she gushed all over me and coddled me excessively after that. Not that I would complain about it anymore.

I half expected Mother to be overprotective of me after that near death experience, but aside from being much more affectionate with me whenever she got the chance, she did not stop me from going out on my own.

That fight gave me quite an awakening as I realised how weak I was compared to everyone else. I'm sure those who have chosen to transmigrate instead of reincarnating here have already used the time they had to grow even stronger.

And if that asshole isn't the only one among them who thinks it's fun to go around killing people to make themselves feel like the 'chosen one', then I really need to be much stronger than I currently am.

I doubt that guy is the strongest amongst them after all.

[Name: Aster Nilm

Title: None

Race: Meslatar

Stats:

62 Strength

62 Dexterity

85 Endurance

102 Magic

Skills:

Hunting (Tier 2), Cooking (Tier 1), Martial Skill-(Dagger Proficiency (Tier 2), Unarmed Proficiency (Tier 1), Bow Proficiency (Tier 1))

Magic Skills:

Mana Management (Tier 2), Umbramancy (Tier 2)]

My dexterity, endurance and magic stats got quite a boost because of that asshole it seems. It makes sense considering the difference in stats between us and how much I was pushing myself just to get away from him.

Still, this is not enough.

With the news that some of the gods aren't as welcoming as Drebann is, I have to prepare for even god level threats.

My benchmark has thus moved from the bear to that prick.

I'll need to train until I can get my ten percent summon to match the strength stat of that transmigrator killer guy. That means at least three thousand eight hundred in my own strength stat.

How strong would I be then? I have no idea, but I sure hope I can at least punch a god in the face if I need to, though I think even that would not be enough.

Not that I'm planning on doing it, but it doesn't hurt to be prepared, right?

Unfortunately, that's something easier said than done.

It's not like I can just keep doing push ups all day long just to increase my strength right? That's why I'll need to think of another way to increase my stats somehow…

Putting that aside, I've got something more important to do this morning.

Because Mother was so concerned with my well being and also because I was too weak to do anything, I didn't even get to loot that guy after he died! For sure he has some nice gear on him, right?!

That's why the moment I was done with breakfast, I immediately flew towards the location of where we had fought last night. It's hard to miss the place considering there's a rather conspicuous crater in the middle of a forest.

Descending there, I realised there's a bear standing over his body, sniffing it curiously.

"Oh no you don't! Scram!! That's my loot!" I shouted, getting the bear's attention.

It turned around and growled at me, obviously pissed that someone would distract it from satisfying its curiosity.

It reared up on its hind legs and roared but I had already taken advantage of that opening to dash forward and drop kicked it in the chest, sending it crashing into the wall of the crater.

Ha! This two year old is stronger than a bear now! You don't scare me!

The bear growled and picked itself up from the wall, looking even more pissed than before. Looks like it doesn't understand the difference in our strength and is picking on me simply because I'm smaller in size.

It charged towards me and I stood my ground, staying still until it got within range to swipe at me.

The massive giant paw flew towards me and any other normal two year old kid might have been blown away by that, but I'm not a normal two year old kid.

With one hand, I stopped the paw in its tracks, the force enough to throw up a cloud of dust at our feet.

The bear was understandably confused that something less than half its size had managed to block its attack, but I didn't give it time to fully comprehend what was going on before spinning around to toss the bear over my head in a judo throw.

Four of my summons appeared with swords in hand, leaping on top of the fallen bear to skewer it with their blades.

Using [Shadow Forge], I created a bardiche and hefted the pole with both hands.

The bear turned to me just as I lifted it up above my head before chopping it down, the blade cleaving its neck cleanly in two.

Didn't even break a sweat.

With the annoyance dealt with, I dismissed my summons and turned my attention back to the trashy asshole who tried to kill me last night.

The first thing I found was his bow which was quite high quality, no doubt something he needed to kill other transmigrators with.

[Tornado Bow - A bow enhanced with air magic to boost the speed of arrows fired from it. A wind is also created to guide the arrow towards the user's intended target.]

Not exactly a legendary artefact, but it's a magic weapon so that's something.

Putting it aside for now, I turned to the body that had its throat ripped out.

The unfortunate thing is that there's no menu pop up to let me pick and choose items to loot and I have to search through the corpse myself manually. Thus I simply went ahead to strip it naked so that I wouldn't miss anything, going so far as to dump the contents of his backpack on the ground too.

Too bad the bag was a normal bag and not a magic bag with unlimited storage.

Aside from the guitar inside his guitar case, he was also carrying an enchanted sword, an enchanted dagger, some provisions and tools, a pouch full of coins, a rather crude map and a magic ring.

[Storm Sword - Sword infused with the power of lightning. Channel mana into it and lightning will shoot forth from the tip of the blade.]

Pretty cool and flashy, I admit.

I tried it and the lightning managed to blast a sizable hole in the ground. Too bad it's still too big for me to use it properly but I guess I can just keep it at home until I grow up.

[Assassin's Dagger - A dagger enchanted with paralysis poison on its blade. Chanel mana into it and strike at your enemies to inflict them with paralysis. The effect varies according to the target's Endurance, multiple applications might be needed for stronger targets.]

Ah, now this I can use! I'll have to try it out on some targets later but this would definitely help me a lot!

In fact, if I had this dagger when facing this guy last night, I think I might have stood a chance against him.

Too bad my [Shadow Forge] only allows the creation of normal weapons and not enchanted weapons… Or at least.. I'm not able to do that.

I wonder if things might change if I learned how to enchant equipment?

Strapping the dagger on my other hip, I picked up the magic ring.

[Arcane Ring - Ring enchanted with mana. Increases wearer's mana regeneration.]

Oh, another good one! And it even shrinks itself to fit my finger too! Even better!

Unfortunately the leather armour he wore was not enchanted and I also find wearing a dead person's clothes a little distasteful.

Leaving only his armour on top of the corpse, I picked up the rest of the loot before moving a short distance away from it.

Taking out a Mana Crystal from my own bag, I concentrated for a moment, turning the mana inside it into fire before tossing the crystal at the body.

A second later, the Mana Crystal exploded into flames and started burning the corpse and the armour.

Leaving it there to burn I flew towards the location of where I first met him.

I was a little curious why he would even stop there in the first place since it didn't make sense that he would simply just wait there for someone to appear. There must be something there that would have made other people pass by him at least.

A short flight later, I was back at the clearing where I had met the bastard, only now I realised there was a cave nearby that I didn't notice the night before.

Was this what he was counting on drawing other people here?

Moving closer to it, a screen actually popped up without me bidding it to.

[Dragon Sanctuary Dungeon - Small]

I couldn't help but let a smile crawl onto my lips.