The Insider System-Chapter 17: Time to Kill

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Lake knew this plan still needed some work but he had at least a few days so it wasn't that important, also Kyle was old, and old people liked to do stuff their way so he would probably take care of all the preparations that would go into this plan. So Lake just needed to level up. Every problem just came back to the need to level up, after thinking this Lake really started to look for stuff to kill. A few minutes later Lake saw a huge moth trying its best to blend in with a tree. "Is that something I can kill?" Kyle looked at the moth Lake was pointing at and said "Yes but they're not edible so don't try to harvest any meat from it." This was a gross thing to say.

Who would eat a bug? "Do they have a monster core big enough to harvest?" The moth Lake was talking about was over a foot in length so he thought this might be the first money he'd ever make. "It should. With monsters that size it can be hard to tell but even if it does it will only be worth 1 or 2 gold." This was good enough for lake so he grabbed his spear and charged. Right before his spear pierced the moth it dropped off of the tree, landing on the ground Lake saw it arch its back like a scorpion, so he jumped back to put some distance between them. This ended up being a mistake, Lake saw as the moth fired some sort of green liquid towards him, it was aimed sort of high though it looked like the moth had shot towards his neck.

Ducking Lake saw the glob go over his head looking back to the moth Lake saw it had started to fly and would soon be out of his reach. Without thinking he dashed forward and jumped. his spear tore through the moths right wing and they both fell to the ground. Luckily Lake succeeded in landing on his feet so he used one of his feet to pin the moths shooter to the ground and stabbed his spear into its back.

As soon as the spear entered the moth started to squirm and flapped its good wing the fluttering didn't hurt but it was smacking him in the face a little so he took the spear out and stabbed down again, this time aiming a little higher. After this stab lake felt the struggling get weaker and knew it would probably die in a few seconds even if he backed off but why wait. He lifted the spear again and stabbed in between its antenna.[Level up] [New job unlocked Spearman]Lake felt the Exp but the bug hadn't stopped moving. Lake had seen bugs twitch after he stomped on them before so he understood it would continue to move for a while after it died. Taking his spear out of the body, Lake backed off of the corpse so he could check his stats.

Name: Lake Fuller

Race: Human Lv.1 ( 3/10 )

Job: Thief Lv.3 (12 / 40)

Special: The Insider Lv.0 ( 1/5 )

Stats

Health 10

Stamina 10

Mana 10

Strength 4

Endurance 5

Agility 7

Dexterity 4

Perception 4

Intelligence 4

Charisma 4

Free stat points: 6

With some quick math, Lake fingered out that this moth had been worth 24 Exp so 8 for everyone else. Even if this was the only kill today lake was still satisfied, but he still had hours before the cart would leave for town so he doubted this would be it.

He also couldn't decide what to put his free points in so he just left them, he hadn't really found his fighting style yet so he felt it would be a waste to spend them now. He also saw that the amount of Exp required to level up had doubled once again, if this continued like this he would have to steal everything in the world to hit level 100 in thief. Or maybe one World Item Lake didn't know what they were. But if they were important enough for Laka to mention they had to be something good.

He wondered if they had anything to do with the golden writing in the system, but he had no way of knowing. Looking up from his screen Lake saw the body of the moth had started to glow switching his job to Alchemist Lake reached out.[Level up] Lake smiled he had thought of this method of leveling jobs that don't have Exp bonuses for combat. Looking back at his status screen lake couldn't help but think this was the use of Intangible Loot.

Name: Lake Fuller

Race: Human Lv.1 ( 3/10 )

Job: Alchemist Lv.1 (3 / 10)

Special: The Insider Lv.0 ( 1/5 )

Stats

Health 10

Stamina 10 freew(e)bnovel

Mana 10

Strength 4

Endurance 5

Agility 7

Dexterity 6

Perception 5

Intelligence 7

Charisma 4

Free stat points: 6

It seemed he also got some new skills so he opened the skill page.

Distill (C) Lv.1

Allows for the greater control of the final attributes of crafted potions.

(Scales off of intelligence)

Poison Taster (U) Lv.1

All poisons have the opposite effect on you.

This was the first time Lake had gotten a common skill but it did seem good so he wasn't worried about it. Also Poison Taster seemed to have the added benefit of Making him immune to poison so that was awesome. It was too bad Alchemist only had 10 levels. Lake felt like he would hit the cap in no time with this method.

It was also nice to finally see what intelligence did, he had been wondering if it was actually making him smarter. Lake decided to leave the core, the smell coming from the body made him think it wasn't worth it, he would just ruin his clothes and Lake felt he had already spent too much time on this moth.

He looked to see if Kyle and Mary were still standing where they had been when he rushed the moth. Seeing them still waiting for him he decided to look at spearman's details later. Running back to them, Lake said, "I'm ready, sorry that took so long." With a wave Kyle said "The next place is where me and Mary spend most of our time while in the forest, so you'll have to keep yourself busy while we gather plants." Lake was fine with that, they had waited on him and he was sure he could find something to do.