Chapter 5: First enemy encroachment

Rad’s point of view:

It’s been another month of training and my strength has increased again along with my stamina, since I have been going outside to train my still weak body on the way I have made a few regulars who join me on my endeavors.

The first one is an older woman named Michel, she runs the local medical shop, don’t get it wrong I didn’t say alchemy, apothecary, none of that of what you’re thinking of. She heals people with various types of healing magic and medical techniques. I guess you could say she a bit ahead of her time with being a doctor. She reminds me a lot of the nurses I had back on earth.

She also has a daughter but she’s currently cooped up in her room studying so she can be the best doctor in the world, of course just like her mother.

Well that’s enough about her let’s get into the real things I’ve been doing while training.

Since there is only so much time a day I have to multitasked so I can learn and train new things, while running I have learned how to control my new eye feature.

I call it the “voided Inventar” it helps me store items and equipment in my eye minus the function of adding weight to my body based on the inventar’s weight.

Just think if the weight limit was still there I don’t know if I could have held up my head as much I’ll probably be eating dirt everyday while trying to run.

It took me this whole month to get the equip and also how to put it back in my inventory the whole process can be time down to about a bit less than a second, I know im not that good but at least its manageable.

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Today me an Dorian are going to the river where he found me at first to mine for some water stones he had an order to make a short range dagger.

Since it will be my first time crafting on something other than steel and other common ore’s he thought it was time for me to grow up and start on some weaker uncommon ores.

After walking for a few minutes Dorian stops me for a secon.

Dorian’s point of view

[Dorian] “ boy get close to me there is something watching us from a hundred meters out in front I don’t know if its hostile or not but as we are getting closer to our destination, whatever it is has been getting closer to us.”

“Kid right now we are going to progress toward the river at a slow pace so I can see if whatever’s watching us keeps advancing closer to our position.”

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Back to my Pov:

As we are walking we soon arrive at the river near where Dorian first found me since Dorian hasn’t spoken of the creature following us so I head towards the river, its been awhile since ive seen my face in the river so I wonder how I look.

I look pretty good to say so for myself I have a very distinct jaw line but you could barely see it since I haven’t grown my body that much. My hair has a few new different colors I have a few strands of blue, brown, red, and weird clear silver hair it’s so weird. Well I still look quite handsome or cute for a kid.

Also since I haven’t talked about the nerves growing in my limbs I can tell you I grew a half a foot. Since coming here right now you could say I just hit midget level.

Well since I didn’t come here to admire my features I get to work by putting my hands in the water a tiny jet of water covers the entirety of my arm and right before I push a bit of my mana in it, I need to make sure before I move out some the water that im doing it in the right place so we can excavate.

Dorian points to a point in the river that’s unusually clearer than the other parts of the river. Then I see it out the corner of my eye a rock under the water with a reflecting texture, the water is refracting light but this is doing it a step more.

Its reflecting the light the waters reflecting making it a bit clearer.

Dorian snaps me out of my stumper.

[Dorian]” boy the easiest way to find water stones, is to look for the clearest part of the body of water.

“Well since the water isn’t that high I slowly insert my toes in the water, it’s very warm contrary to what I thought it was going to be.”

I pull out my little baggie from Inventar to collect some samples for myself before getting the regular bag out.

After I filled mine with twenty or so stones I put it back in my Inventar under sample 1.

Then I filled up the project back which weighed about a ton afterwards I needed help from Dorian to lift it out of the river since my strength was not as strong.

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After ten minutes of walking I heard a low growl vibrating through the air.

I think whatever that was geared towards us. Im still kind of scared since dorian told me something has been slowly encroaching on our position but he doesn’t know what it is.

Then after a while of standing there, whatever it was must have got tired because it let loose a deafening roar in which it shook the part of the forest we were in.

I hurried and equipped my “Panther lily armor” and got ready for my first impromptu battle.

As it walked out of its hiding spot the image of what I though it was mild in comparison to what we usually would think a growl would be. I thought it was like a regular lion that was going to pop out.

No matter what I though it wasn’t going to prepare me for what im going to see. The tall figure of the monster before us is a wolf like creature its very slim when comparing the top portions of his limbs but as you start to look at its body in total up until its elbows and shins are humongous, giant monstrosities of what you would call arms and legs.

They look like all he this creature has been doing is pupping iron in its fist and feet.

Dorian utters something and he grows a few feet until his bulging body starts to condense a more streamline body, but somethings a bit different his skin is light pinkish grey.

As I admire this new technique Dorian just displayed the monster in front of us takes his transformation as a sign the hunt is on!!

I try to run a bit in the other directions but before I could even get behind one of the trees for cover I am sent flying towards another tree in the opposite direction.

Right before I impact with the tree I let out a lesser gale to guide the impact of my momentum towards the tree.

I slide down the tree till my butt touches the roots covering the ground. Right in front of me all I can see is two titan like beings slugging it out in the middle of the forest.

I can see the monster that attacked us first being pushed back little by little, then after being corner into a tree its left arm bulged for a second and it right arm slimmed a bit. Then a powerful blow launched dorian threw a few trees before he could brace for the impact.

[Dorians Point of view]

Ugh this little one packs quite the wallop for just a little adolescent “Wolf Kong” even though Im just playing around with it forced me back a bit, maybe I should up the tempo.

My leg glows a bit pink for a bit and Instantly teleport and punch it right dead center in it heart. Since I have to show my apprentice my strength I can’t let him think im weak. So after punching it dead center in its heart I activate on of my black smith techniques.

“Vibration fist” following right after that I can feel this monster dying as its beating hearts is shredded up.

Point of view change:

“Omg, master are you ok!”

For some reason I don’t think he noticed what I just said. After I see his legs turn a bit pink he instantaneously moves to the wolf Kong I he punches it in the heart and it just falls down dead I don’t know what he just did but it was so cool!

After checking that it died Dorian begans to insert the corpse in his inventory I wonder what he going to do with it after wards I really want to do a few experiments with that body of the beast.

Just like that I had my first run in with a creature way stronger than me and just like I thought I could do nothing to fight against it.

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After an hour of walking a bit slower than usual we arrive at the familiar black smith house but before we could rest I asked Dorian if he would let me use this Wolf Kong so that I can make an new suit.

He agrees after looking at my puppy dog eyes, I guess he couldn’t resist since he instantly gave in.

I take the body of my new experiment and after looking through the forge I find a few dark steel ingots with a bit of gold ones to I bring it over. I take out some water stones since it’s the only other ore in the forged and I don’t really want to use silver.

I lay it all around the Kong’s body and I say in an overly dramatic voice” material configuration.”

And the ingots and water stones float towards my body of course with the body of the Kong and it starts to merge a bit with my body not that much it feels like a tight but flexible suit of armor

On my arms are gold and black steel like gauntlets the size of three of my heads.

It feels kind of weird on my feet as well as my hands these gauntlets are very heavy I could feel my strength being slowly sapped.

I just noticed but I have a breast plate as well guarding my body that glows a faint clear blue is this where the water stone went?

After a few more minutes the glowing light disappeared and I felt my power draining faster until my legs buckled and my arms went a bit numb I couldn’t hold up the weight anymore so my body leaned forward and I landed on my forehead effectively knocking me out.

Then a ding resounded in my now unconscious head “would you like to name new suit?

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[suit two: Primate suit (1)][”king Kong Jr”]

• Suit amplifies strength at the cost of movement.

• Channel water mana to keep your equilibrium, it carefully maintains posture until you can get used to it.

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Author notes: hello everyone I've been very tired from doing finals every week, I hope you guys enjoy this chapter well of course it does it introduces a new suit for you guys to comment if you like or not since I don’t know if I made it clear one doesn't means it’s the last upgrade. Comment, rate like all you want I want to hear what you have to say about the chapter and the suit and its abilities.

also if you want to add an random animal i will be sure to make a feature monster or suit from it, but since he has two right now that's all that's needed for now