Chapter 2: Facing a Newly Developed Fear.
Emi landed hard on the slime. She hurriedly stood up and started to think of how she was going to get this stuff off her. It felt disgusting and sticky, not to mention the smell.
Then it hit her. There was a spring she saw when she was flying earlier. So, without thinking twice, she started to sprint towards the area she had seen before. It was lucky that she had a great memory, and for some reason, it felt even clearer than before.
She soon reached the spring that she had seen before. Without a second thought, she hopped right in the spring and started scrubbing her body hard. It was cool. It didn't feel bad. The water was surprisingly clear and clean.
Emi scrubbed for about an hour, getting the slime off. She sweared in her heart that this wouldn't happen again, and this is why she wanted to try and land properly. After getting out of the stream, she remembered all the things that were still in front of her.
"Can't I close these?" as if to answer her question, they all closed.
She was a little taken aback by this, but then it was soon replaced by excitement. The reason being she had clothes, the cold really bothered her a lot.
"Wait, where do I get my clothes?" She said with obvious confusion.
And yet again, as if to answer her question, a voice sounded in her head.
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In the inventory.
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"Inventory?" As she said this, a screen flipped up. It showed a list. But it only listed one thing, clothes. When she thought she wanted to take them out, they appeared out of thin air and landed in her hands.
"This is convenient." she said, with her eyebrows slightly raised and a small smile.
She then started to get dressed. The clothes weren't too complicated, there was a simple set of white lingerie, a pair of skin tight black flexible pants, a pair of light weight black hunter boots, a long sleeved shirt, grey in color and comfortable to the touch, there was also room for her wings to stick out the back. Finally there was a pitch black cloak, it looked like it was made of a material that embodied the night, it could cover most of her body and face, including the horns, they weren't really big to begin with.
"Now to take care of this." She then pulled her wings in under her cloak. They hugged her back comfortably. Now that there were no more problems and everything was taken care of, there was one question on her mind, where am I. She realizes that she might be in an entire new world or something else entirely.
"Sigh, I should take this one step at a time." Now that she calmed herself down, there was a goal to figure out where she was and to learn more about her situation. She then thought of something.
'status' a screen popped right up in front of her.
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Status
Name: Emi Von Angelic
Race: Hybrid (Angel/Devil)
Age: 16
1st Mana core: not formed
2nd Mana core: not formed
level: 2
Mana: 100
Strength: 8
Intelligence: 20
Stamina: 11
Agility: 10
dexterity: 8
Vitality: 15
unassigned Points: 10
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"It worked!" Emi said in surprise.
This was just one of her theories. She did expect it to work. But it was still surprising.
"Wait . . . so, I'm an angel, but it also says I'm a devil." She said, a little confused. "Well, I'll figure it out later. What's a mana core, though?" she was a little lost, but then a screen popped up.
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Magic cores that align with possible race attributes
Mana cores: Demonic magic core, divine magic core, dark magic core, light magic core
1st's Requirements: level 50
2nd's Requirement: level 100
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"So, what do I do to reach level fifty?" Emi asked herself, then she realized something. She looked like she was about to cry. "Ugh, I don't want to get any were near those things!" But she knew she had to go face her newly developed fear for slimes.
"Fine, let's get this over with!" Emi then started to walk around, feeling a little grossed out, looking for slimes. She still did it, though. It was a good distraction.
After a while Emi thought she could fly above while looking for slimes, She got to practice flying and looked for slimes at the same time, but she told her self she would never allow herself to crash again.
With that thought Emi spread her wings high into the air and then crouched down and pushed up with her legs as she also push down with her wings and flew into the air, after reaching the peak of the jump she started to flap her wings to continue up, then when she made it just above the trees she stabilized herself and kept on flying straight, looking for slimes.
While Emi was flying, she was thinking how she was going to kill the slimes. She remembers that she heard and felt something hard break just before the last one was killed. She shivered as she recalled it. This meant that there was some kind of weak spot somewhere in the slime.
Just then Emi spotted some slimes, she then tried to land by nose diving down, but when she got close to the ground she pulled up and slowed down by using her wings like a parachute before she touch the ground. When she landed, she was behind a tree about 15 meters from 2 slimes.
The two slimes this time were blue and red. They smelled way better than the first one she met. While she was looking at them, she could see that there was some type of core in its middle.
"Is that its weak point?" Emi whispered to herself. She came up with an idea of how to kill slimes, even though it was a little reckless. she wanted to use her wings and fly above them for mobility and then fine something sturdy to hit the ball.
Emi looked around and found a long and thick stick. She made sure it was strong enough to not just break right away, like some other sticks she had already tried. After that, she was set.
Emi jumped into the air and started getting into position. she landed on one of the many tree branches around her. Then she watched, and the slimes didn't move much even though it had been almost 20 minutes.
It was time. She crouched on the branch, then leaned forward and fell. Using the tree's branch, she pushed off when her body was aimed slightly down straight toward the unsuspecting red slime. She used her wings to speed up and keep course. She then took the stick and swung at the core. With a cracking sound, the slime fell apart.
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you have killed a level 4 slime.
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you leveled up.
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Just before she hit the ground, she flapped her wings hard and shot up at a forward angle. She looked back at where she just was to see the other slime had shot something like a water cannon at her previous position. she fled into the trees, panting.
"That was scary." She looked to be drenched in cold sweat. She was leaning against the back of a tree on a branch, looking a little ruffled up.
"Maybe a different slime?" She really didn't want to get hit by high pressured water cannon and break a few bones.
Emi slapped her face cheeks and whisper screamed "No, I have to do it!" with a look of determination.
She then looked towards the blue slime. She then took her stick and pushed off from the branch. She then took flight, trying to get as close to it as fast as possible.
She moved incredibly fast.
Before the slime could react, the stick was already in its watery goo, hitting its core. And with that, the slime died, and Emi was crashing rolling on the ground from going too fast. Only to stop once she hit a tree.
"Ow, that hurt." As she was getting up, cursing that she crashed again. If it wasn't for her horns, she might of had a concussion.
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you killed a level 5 slime.
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you leveled up.
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"Sigh, this is tiring. But I have to keep going." Emi was a little tired and wanted to sleep, but she wanted to get to level ten before she rested.
So she flapped her wings and took off on the hunt for slimes. She went for a long time, killing slimes to level up. The strongest slime she ran into was a level 6.
After a sickening amount of time with the slimes. Emi finally leveled up to level 10.
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you killed a level 3 slime.
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you leveled up.
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'Finally, I'm done.' Without even thinking, Emi flew up to a big tree branch and sat down with the tree to her back. She got into a cradle position and rapped her wings around herself and fell into a soft heaven of feathers, and soon fell asleep.