Skill Creation in the Fantasy World

The colorful forest looked unreal and mesmerizing with leaves of different colors falling about the surroundings.

Looking from above the trees, a lush head of silver could be seen running swiftly, but his steps were inaudible and untraceable as he didn't even leave behind any footsteps.

Felix had been speeding into the forest for about ten minutes now, but excluding small animals he didn't encounter any monster that could make him stop.

'There are no monsters here, maybe I should go deeper....'

He stopped for a second and continued running ahead albeit a bit slower than before as he didn't want to get tired before the fight even started.

Glancing around, he saw many things that could only be seen in a forest of a fantasy world, and unlike the last time when he was escaping from the slave trader, this time he was carefully taking in the strange scenes.

The barks of the trees were especially thick compared to the ones he was used to back in his world, and the plants and bushes around were long and wide spreading on the ground.

Unusual fruits hung on the branches that he had no idea of their uses, with occasional birds that were larger and more beautiful in their shapes.

His mind wandered in thoughts of the things that were in this world to which he had a great curiosity.

Suddenly, he stopped as he could make out a brown furry monster five meters away, sitting atop a pink tree making its whole existence contrast to its background.

'Finally, it looks like a monster.'

Speaking in his mind to not make any voice, he slowly hid behind a tree peeking at the monster to make out its features.

'System, tell me its rank.'

[The monster in front of you is a Fanged Ape, it is of rank 1.]

'Sweet.'

The monster in question was a bipedal creature of 130cm in height with brown fur. It looked like a lean and short gorilla but with four fangs coming out of its mouth and long sharp nails.

Felix stared at it and started thinking about what he had to do.

'Umm....Steve said that before engaging in combat, make sure to look around the area for other monsters....'

Giving it a thought, he activated his skill 'Earth Swimming' and slowly got absorbed into the ground.

Swimming inside the soil, he moved around the area and carefully surveyed the surroundings by poking only his eyes out from the surface.

It was fortunate that he had decided to do that as he found two more monsters of the same kind. Both of them were together about fifteen meters away from the first ape.

'Sigh...listening to that chatterbox was worth the effort.'

Sighing in relief at taking Steve's advice, he swam back to the first ape he encountered and deliberated on how to defeat it without alerting the others.

'With this skill, I can swim to the top of the tree. But how should I attack it? Should I slash it, or stab with my sword? Wait, first I've to look for its weakness.'

Poking his head out of the ground from behind the ape's back, he stared up and activated the skill 'Ratio Technique'.

Several line grids with ten divisions appeared on the body of the monster with a red division separating the line into a ratio of 7 to 3.

'Here we go...'

Staring at the weakness that was its neck, heart, and several others, Felix clutched his short sword and moved towards the thick and tall tree before slowly swimming upwards on it's bark in a vertical direction.

Making his way to the branch where the monster was sitting, he came out of the solid surface from its blind spot and attacked the unaware ape.

His short sword moved with deftness and stabbed the ape's neck on its side left, before coming out from the right side.

"Shwwiick!"

The flesh-tearing sound reverberated in the peaceful forest as the ape struggled to remove the sword from its neck making its eyes panic in pain.

Felix persisted and held the sword tightly with both his hands before swinging it out toward one side.

The short sword came out of the ape's neck with a strong force and sliced its neck in half, making it fall from the branch extinguishing the light in its eyes.

[You have killed a being higher than your own rank.]

[You have gained 10 skill points.]

Felix looked down at the corpse of the ape and smiled at his first hunt of the day.

"One down, more to go..."

He went back into the solid surface and swam down the tree, moving some meters away toward the other apes who didn't notice the death of one of their kind.

Eyeing the two apes, he decided to survey around again and make sure there were no other monsters that would disturb his hunt.

Initially, he had wanted to do a one-on-one fight with the lone ape but doing that had a lot of disadvantages.

First of all, they would be making a lot of noise which would alert the other monsters.

And after killing one there would be more appearing which would only make him tired.

Also, with his focus on only one enemy, he wouldn't be able to realize when other enemies had surrounded him.

Luckily, after cheking the area there weren't any other monsters in the surroundings, so he went back to the apes.

'Hmm? Where did they go?'

Both apes were not at the previous place anymore, so he became anxious and searched for them in the area before finding them at the place where had killed their friend.

The two monsters were shaking the body of their friend whose body had already become cold and lifeless.

Their eyes turned red as they finally realized it had died, and they started shrieking in a crazy manner making their voice reach the corners of the forest.

Felix looked in panic as both of them screamed in anger, and turned more anxious when he heard the sound of more apes shrieking from afar.

'Shit! Why the hell did this happen!'

He had miscalculated. Leaving the corpse near to them without suspecting they would notice it was his mistake. A mistake he was regretting.

But even if more apes appeared at the scene, he was not worried as his skill allowed him to be undetectable by swimming in the ground where their vision would not reach at all.

Still watching with his eyes peeking out from the surface, he could see a lot of those apes gathering at the scene while jumping from one tree to other.

If he had to count, then there were more than 30 apes of the same kind. Most of them were moving around the area looking for the culprit, while a few carried the dead corpse toward somewhere deep into the forest.

Sometime later, the apes gave up on locating the killer of their kind and retreated back into the forest in a frenzy.

Felix kept on staring at them and gave a grin that seemed to not hold a bit of mercy.

'Well, it's not like holding a grudge against you guys but I need more skill points for my survival, so...'

His red eyes gleamed terrifyingly at the thought of killing all of those apes and making his skill points hit more than 300.

Unlike the jumping apes, he swam in the solid surface of the ground and followed them to their habitat, determined to slaughter the whole tribe of fanged apes for the sake of his survival.

Even if what he did was cruel, he wouldn't stop right now, as the desire to get stronger inside him grew the more he fought, making him forget all the reasons as only resoluteness remained in his heart.