13 Illusion Flame

'What?! Who's that?'

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Question processing...

Answer achieved:

~Unknown.~

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"Un...known?"

A robotic voice resounded in her head, it sounded choppy like a cheap assistant AI.

'What are you then? You can read my thoughts so you're something special right?'

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Processing...

Answer:

~Master refers to me as a 'System'~

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'waaa~'

"WAAA?!?!"

'What?! how?? Miss Mona did you do this? Is it lying?!'

Camellia slapped herself out of her daze and went back to sneaking around the dim alleyways, trying to distance herself from the smithy. Glancing towards the streets as she passed, she continued to see hordes of orc-elves running through the roads in the direction she came from.

<*sigh* I told you to wait for a reason~. Chances are that 'System' is the ability of your thread. You truly have weird taste.>

'Wait so that's my thread then? I thought it would have been more of a weapon?'

'oooh, so I got pretty lucky then huh?'

***Oooh, caring for her now?? Truly the heart of a mother~

'It's rare and exactly what I wanted... but...'

"Oi! Girl there! You should get away from here, there's a monster in the town not too far from here!"

A tall muscular elf-orc woman yelled to the silhouette like girl in the alleyway. Pulling her hand away from her mouth after yelling to the girl and waiting for her to start running she mumbled to herself once again.

"Jeez, what're those damn guards doing to let a U grade monster in the village anyways"

As she continued running through the alleys, her 'isekai god' instincts kicked in once again.

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BING BING!!

Yo~

Instructor Jaxx back once again!

Maaann~ Aren't they gloomy today huh? I mean what's with that? This book has a comedy tag you know?!

*ahem*

Now! To all of my beloved readers out there, do any of you know what your first action should be after fleeing in this unfortunate situation?

That's fine, take your time. Take your time...

TIMES UP!

The answer is simple!

YOU GET THE FUCK OUT OF THAT TOWN!!

But... Sadly that isn't an option for poor protag-chan here... for me? God this is weird...

Seeing as she cannot do so at the moment, her course of action should be;

1. Steal food and supplies during the chaos.

2. Change clothes/find a cloak of some kind to hide her prominent features.

3. Try to find a skill/ability that could help her in this situation.

4. Find a map of some sort.

5. Find a way to leave the city.

Simple right?

NOPE~ Not at all~

Of course it won't be that simple dumb readers, jeez~

How is she supposed to hold what she steals? Where will she put it all? A cloak that will fit her in a town full of giants?? DREAM ON!

Let alone hiding her features!! Her face is too pretty, she's too small compared to everyone else, her clothes are bizarre even if she was still on earth, her hair is fucking pink AND her ears look like scaly coils from some crappy mecha or sci-fi anime!

Her real options were actually closer to something like this;

1. Get killed for being the 'monster in the smithy'.

2. Get killed for stealing the flame and materials.

3. Get killed by the monsters in the forest after leaving the town.

4. Get killed for being a starving peasant on the side of the road.

5. Learn about your abilities and hope.

6. Miracle.

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Although her first options seemed impossible, she had no choice but to try her hand at stealing some food that could last her at least one day.

She upped her speed and continued off towards the direction with the least people, trying to find a seemingly vacant houses while trying to see if she had any abilities that could be of help to her.

'System! Or whatever your name is, show me my status!'

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Processing...

Assimilation milestone not yet reached.

Information still unknown.

Processing known information...

Answer:

Name: Camellia

Race:???

Current Condition: Tired, Anxious

Strength: 7(estimated)

?????

????

Speed: 8(estimated

????

Intelligence: 10(estimated)

Current Processing Speed: 4

Skills:

~Illusion flame.~

Passive Skills:

~ ~

<'Salamanders' body, ???'s blessing, High Fire, Water, Earth, Wind affinity.>

-????????????-

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'SEE! Even the system thinks you don't know what a salamander is!'

<HOH~?>

'Nothing sorry...'

Still though.. a lot is left unknown or left empty...

'That's not too useful...'

'Right... Still, this "illusion flame" seems pretty cool, it could be pretty useful maybe?

...

How do I use it?'

~To use 'Illusion flame' you must...

Processing...~

'This... might take a bit? I guess that's what that processing speed stat was for?'

While her new system loaded an answer, Camellia kept looking for a place where she could find some food until she finally reached what looked like a stable for animals.

After checking her surroundings to make sure there was no one around, she snuck into what she expected to be a normal barn, only to be forced to regret her life choices.

In front of her was a beast that looked nothing like an ordinary animal. It had the body shape and head of a chicken, but was the size of a farm pig. It had pinkish skin with a few feathers here and there with 2 legs, bug-eyes and a sharp beak.

***Those things ain't animals chief...

'Holy fuck that thing's ugly'

<That's a disgrace to all living creatures! Jeez~ That horned bastard really sucks at his job!>

'I'm guessing 'that horned bastard' is this universe's mother nature?'

~Established Insight stat.

Insight: 18(estimated)~

<Alright, that's it! This thing pisses me off so kill it!>

Bingo!

'I don't do things for free you know~ are you saying this is a mission~? seems quite a bit harder than the last one don'tcha think? I hope the reward represents my effort~'

Scary...

***I now understand why you roll over.

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New mission established;

'Kill that disgusting heathen!' (h rank quest)

Rewards:

Assimilation progress(minimal), food, pride.

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Holy shit that reward is trash... and h rank??? No way it goes that low...

'W... Wait... you can't just say that so casually... Wait... didn't I have meat for breakfast?'

"YES MAAM!"

"SQUEEE"

'Eww even the noise it makes is gross...'

Before she could properly come up with a plan on how to kill the 'Heathen chicken-pig' it had started to bull charge towards her, crazily pecking the air as it went.

'Why is it so fast?!'

She quickly jumps to the right, making it's attack barely graze her and instead plants it's beak into the wood of the door frame behind her.

'It... can pierce the crazy forest wood...'

As she started to stand up, the chicken-pig started to violently shake it's head, trying to free itself.

'not so fast!'

"Chun!"

She unsheathed the dagger Zeph had given her for the first time while chanting the 'Generous' name she had given it. She then quickly dashed towards the stuck beast and slashed at it's thick neck, leaving a decent gash.

She quickly jumped back afterwards to assess the situation as the chicken-pig had finally released it's head only to feel a stinging pain in her hands and elbows.

'That shit hurts! Why am I the one that's hurt when I cut it's neck?!'

'WHY?!!'

'NOT ONLY IS THAT NOT TRUE BUT I DON'T WANT NO MAN!'

As the chicken awoke from it's stunned state, it quickly started to charge towards the loli once again. This time she dodged much better than last time, but the chicken-pig also didn't let up and kept attacking repeatedly, giving her no time to counter.

'Fast~ Why is there only one damn animal in this barn anyways?! There's nothing here but I still feel like I'll run out of room soon... Should I tank a hit and pierce it's eye? I can regenerate right...'

<No>

'What did you lie about the regeneration or something?!'

'HELP ME OUT A BIT HERE!!'

Processing complete.

Method for using 'Illusion flame' Is as such:

Image a flame igniting in your hand, eating the air around it, then image the fire eating a 'force' from the air around it.

SO VAGUE!!

Whatever! I don't have time to worry about the specifics, let's just hope I can figure it out like the protags always do!

"HHMMMM!!!!!!"

As Camellia tried to ignite the 'illusion flame' she decided to stand still and close her eyes for a second or two to better image what the System had described to her.

"Squeee!!!"

"Ah!"

She quickly opened her eyes to dodge, but was a bit too late, causing the beak to cut her waist slightly. This time however, she didn't let this opportunity go as her Isekai instincts kicked in!

'Right!'

She quickly dashed to the side of the chicken-pig and instead of stabbing it as she previously had planned, she instead straddled it.

'Let's just hope it has a pig's spine and not a chicken's!'

***A chicken can turn its head 180, however a pig can't even look up at the sky due to its bone structure!

Just as she had hoped, the chicken-pig couldn't turn it's head around to- KIDDING!!!

Of course it could turn it's head around! It has a chicken's body shape and head, why wouldn't it be able to???

However, it's overall pecking speed and power had decreased from the awkward angle, making it possible for Camellia to counter attack!!

....

If she could hold on well enough...

For now she was simply holding onto the chicken-pig's back for dear life as it spun around aimlessly while pecking at it's own back(missing every time.)

'God dammit, I'm gonna be sick...'

Realizing she was nearing the ends of her rope, she decided to slash at its feet instead of trying to reach up for it's neck or trying to pierce the oddly thick skin.

"SQUEE!!"

With one good slash to the joint of it's leg, the chicken-pig let out a squeal and started to wobble around. Unable to notice what caused the pain, the chicken started pecking around the air in front and under it hoping to hit something.

'I almost got stabbed by a monster this stupid...'

Due to it's wobbly leg, the chicken-pig had stopped moving so much, letting Camellia sit up properly and stab her dagger into the back of its neck. With it slightly poking out the other end, the beast let out a gurgling sound as it dropped to the ground. Camellia then quickly got up and stabbed it through the head, making sure it didn't suffer for long.

'That's against my nindo.'

***SO COOL!! I've always wanted to use that line~~

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Mission complete!

Assimilation progress +0.01

Calculating assimilation...

Total assimilation progress:

0.24%

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Fucking useless...

<I'll give you your reward later, for now you should figure something else out, I won't let you eat this.>

"Right..."

You're useless too you damn sadist goblin goddess!

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