Skill Creation in the Fantasy World

The apes jumped and ran in the forest while screeching about and catching some small animals for food.

In the jungle, it was the law for the strong to prey on the weak. To consume the weaker beings for the sake of the stronger's survival.

That was what happened everywhere in the forest and in the world too.

Felix swam for about ten minutes before he stopped as the apes seemed to have finally reached their home.

Hidden below a cliff, a dark natural cave could be seen with many of the same monsters going in and out.

There were no sentries or guards anything as the place looked chaotic with many apes jumping about, sleeping on the trees, bringing more prey, playing and fighting in the space before the cave.

Watching all the apes that easily surpassed more than 70 in number, Felix frowned as he was in deep thought.

'That's more than I expected. If they exceed 70 with more apes in the cave, then I'm sure there'll be a monster of rank 2 too.'

From what he heard from Steve if a monster tribe had a lot of their kind gathered, then there would surely be at least one of them who would be a leader with a higher rank than the majority.

'System, can you tell me how much of these are of rank 1.'

Peeking from a distance, he looked at all the apes who were outside the cave.

[Affirmative. There are 55 apes of rank 1 and 18 apes of rank 0 before the host.]

He could see the normal apes of rank 1 like he had killed before including apes of smaller size which looked like baby apes.

'I should not approach the cave and only hunt the one who separates from the group.'

Staying inside the ground, he moved around the area trying to find if some of the apes were moving away from their homes.

After a few minutes, he saw a group of four apes jumping on the trees and leaping away to the east of the cave.

'A chance!'

Without wasting more time, he swam and followed them as they moved in the forest with quick agility and hunted small animals, reaching a place a bit far from their tribe.

The four of them did not stay together and were about a few meters away from each other finding fruits and prey.

Felix remained hidden for a while until he made sure that there were no other apes following behind.

After some time, he thought it was time to take action and thus moved forward toward a lone ape that was picking something from the ground.

Bringing his body out from the solid surface of the ground, he held his sword and sneaked from behind the ape before slashing at the red line of weakness that was revealed from his skill.

"Slash~'

A gush of blood spurted out from the ape's chest as it finally noticed the human behind him and jerked away feeling the pain of his bones getting broken.

Not giving the ape a chance to recover, Felix dashed ahead and cleaved his sword toward its head exerting every ounce of his power.

"Shrieek!!-"

The dumb ape screeched in anger at the enemy and tried to catch the sword with both of its hands in the hopes of blocking the attack.

Bringing the sword down, it cut through the ape's hands easily and proceeded to tear apart its head.

"Krikk~"

Feeling the sword entering its brain and continuing to move downward, the eyes on the separated parts of the ape's head glowed fiercely but slowly lost their light.

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

[You have gained 10 skill points.]

Felix couldn't focus on the message sent by the system as he quickly removed the sword from the dead corpse's head and dodged the incoming attack from the other apes.

It seemed that the other three apes were alerted when they heard the dead ape's last screech and hurried here, only to see it die gruesomely.

'Can I handle three at once?'

The three remaining apes surrounded Felix while screeching madly at him.

He could activate his skill and hide inside the ground if he wanted to, but he didn't do that as the reason he came to the forest was to get stronger and test his limits while gaining skill points was secondary.

"Shriieek!" x3

The apes pounced on him angrily together, swinging their long nails in an attempt to scratch him to death.

Felix swung his sword in a circle and stopped them before they could reach him.

His speed was fast as the sword slightly cut through their bodies giving them a small wound.

Pushing away the three of them, he eyed one of the apes and activated his skill before dashing straight toward it.

Stabbing his sword toward its heart, he kicked off the ground and jumped forward. The ape tried to dodge the attack but the sword still grazed sharply at its right shoulder.

Quickly side-stepping, he dodged the attack of another ape with pure instincts and ended the life of the wounded ape by stabbing the sword deep inside its eyes as it remained dumbfounded from the pain of its shoulders.

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

[You have gained 10 skill points.]

The remaining two apes again screeched savagely seeing their comrade die as their eyes turned red in anger.

Felix didn't mind their shout and ran between them as he dodged their attacks and slashed at their bodies.

The apes had become mad with anger and couldn't make out their attacks as he could easily move around them cutting at the red line of weakness.

Slowly, the attacks grew more and more with plenty of blood getting lost in the process.

Felix thought it was time to end the battle, so he kicked away one of the apes and pierced his sword into the chest of the other.

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

[You have gained 10 skill points.]

The last ape came running at him weakly with several wounds on its skin but Felix sliced his sword heavily across its neck, severing the head from the body.

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

[You have gained 10 skill points.]

The battle concluded within a mere six minutes, eliciting a sigh of pure joy that escaped his lips.

"I've grown a lot stronger now, dealing with four of them didn't even sweat me."

Even though both the apes and Steve were of rank one, the chatterbox was at the late stage of the first rank while these monsters were of only the early stage. So, the differences were huge.

Also, taking into account that these fanged apes were dumb monsters, they didn't have the same intelligence compared to humans and thus couldn't strategize their way of fighting and only attacked according to their instincts.

Happily smiling at his new 50 skill points including from the earlier lone ape, Felix gradually sank into the ground and decided to continue the slaughter.

He left the scene moving back toward the cave where the apes gathered, to look for some other groups that were separating from the crowd.

And thus failed to notice a different kind of monster appear as it gazed at the dead corpses of apes for a few seconds and joyfully ran in the other direction from Felix.

Two different beings moved in opposite directions with a plan of their own, unaware of the chaos that would result sooner or later.