Skill Creation in the Fantasy World

A few kilometres away from the camp the boys had set up.

A lone wolf moved around the forest looking for any prey in the dark, its black fur blending into the night except for its yellow eyes that shone hungrily.

At this time, a pair of red eyes were staring at the wolf from above a tree.

'Isn't that a Dark Wolf? It reminds me of my first night in this world.....'

Felix recalled when he had followed a group of travellers to Edenmont City who had been ambushed by a wolf.

'Hmm, but only one wouldn't be worth it....'

He pondered for a while before he got an idea.

'I don't know if it'll work or not, but it wouldn't hurt to give it a try.'

Wielding his shortsword, Felix jumped out from the top of the tree and dived towards the dark wolf.

The wolf perked up its ears when it heard the rush of wind above it, but it was too late to react as a blade shined and stabbed into its head.

"Khuwchkk"

Blood spilt on the ground as Felix twisted his sword inside the wolf's head and brought an end to its misery, causing more blood to fall.

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

[You have gained 10 skill points.]

The wolf's corpse dropped to the floor, and Felix held its furry leg before dragging it in a different direction.

The blood of the wolf leaked on the ground like droplets of water, dyeing the forest red with an ironic smell as the boy, along with the corpse, walked around the forest.

After some time, Felix stopped walking and let go of the wolf's leg as a smile surfaced on his face when he noticed the many shiny yellow eyes staring at him from the dark.

'Blood always invites more blood, huh? Well, that works perfectly for me....'

When the wolves hiding in the dark saw the dead body of their own kind, their eyes reddened as they howled towards the moon and rushed forward.

'One, two, three, four.....hmm, it seems there's more coming....' there was a faint smile on his face.

He glanced around seeing the wolves rushing in all his directions and got ready to confront the ones moving towards him.

The moment some wolves got two meters near him, he snapped his fingers and used a skill.

'Earth Spikes.'

Spikes emerged from the ground and attacked the wolves as they pierced their belly from below.

Shocked at the sudden attack, the wolves couldn't do anything as they hung on the spikes, and their blood splattered around, taking the lives of four of them.

[You have killed a being higher than your own rank.]x4

[You have gained 10 skill points.]x4

The notifications buzzed in his ear as the boy's eyes took a darker shade of red.

'That sounds great....but there's more to come.'

He dashed off towards the wolves, who grew wary of their lone opponent but attacked nevertheless as their mind turned bloodthirsty.

Felix engaged in close combat with the wolves as it felt good to kill them using his sword, but he also didn't like wasting time, so he occasionally used his other skills too to kill them.

The silent and eery forest turned into a frenzy battlefield as blood stained the ground along with the various spikes and quicksand emerging around the place.

[You have killed a being higher than your own rank.]x12

[You have gained 10 skill points.]x12

A few minutes later, Felix stood in the middle of the seventeen wolf copses that he had ruthlessly killed.

'That was some nice warm-up. It got me 170 skill points as well...'

He muttered while flicking off the blood from his sword and staring deeper into the forest.

'I wonder if there's more wolves around here somewhere.'

As he thought of his next action, Felix remembered he had to go back to the camp, or else his teammates might start worrying.

'This much blood should be enough for now, I'll be back....', he glanced at the corpses with a pleasing smile and turned towards another direction before dashing away.

There were sword marks on the trees that he had carved while arriving this deep into the forest as he knew he would lose the way, so he followed them back and made his way to the camp.

Back at the camp, Eric and Roven were sitting on some rocks and roasting the fish on the bonfire while constantly glancing at the forest.

"Where did he go? Isn't he taking too long for just surveying the area...", muttered Eric in worry.

Roven picked up a stick with roasted fish and ate it as he replied.

"Don't worry about him, I'm sure he's just taking a stroll."

Eric stood up and frowned as he retorted.

"Why aren't you worried? He's just a newbie, and there's no way he can survive if he ventures deep into the forest at night."

Biting off a piece from the fish, Roven gave a forced smile as he thought.

'That's where you're wrong, Eric. Even though Felix is a newbie, he's much stronger than us....'

Suddenly, they heard a rustling noise from behind them.

When the two of them turned to look there with their guards up, they saw Felix walking out from the bushes with his eyes focused on the roasted fishes.

The boy walked over and grabbed a stick of fish before wolfing it down. He finished it and quickly took another one, all the while ignoring the other two boys.

Eric sat down lethargically with a sigh of relief. He was scared just now thinking that the bandits or some strong monsters would attack them, but fortunately, it was just Felix.

After experiencing a complete defeat against the bandits, Eric started doubting his powers, and every now and then, he would worry about the consequences of fighting against someone he couldn't defeat.

Although he was saved by his teammates, that happened after he was knocked out, in the moment when he was at his weakest.

The three boys ate their dinner in silence as everyone was busy with their own thoughts, Eric worrying about his incapability, Roven planning for tomorrow's journey, and Felix imagining his night adventure.

After finishing their dinner, the boys handled the other chores and went to rest after making their beds.

Roven and Eric would sleep in the tent, whereas Felix, along with the unconscious Steve, would sleep inside the closed carriage that was parked just beside the tent.

*****

In the middle of the night.....

Amid the dark and bountiful forest with tall dense trees, a few animal's lingering roars and buzzing of the insects could be heard.

A small camp with a tent, a carriage, and a few horses could be seen near an extinguished bonfire.

Suddenly, a pair of crystal ruby eyes opened up with a glint of anticipation inside the carriage.

There was no sleepiness or tiredness in the boy's eyes except for excitement with a hint of chaos deep within his pupils.

'It's time....'

Felix slowly got up after he had pretended to fall asleep in the carriage beside Steve and sneaked out of it in seconds.

He had already activated his Silent Steps skill, so he didn't alert anyone as he left the camp and tiptoed away while feeling a bit nervous doing something sneaky.

As soon as he got some distance away from the camp, he rushed away, following the same way he had gone earlier.

He quickly arrived at the place where he had massacred the wolves, but the scene there made him feel dumbfounded.

"They're all gone....", he muttered in astonishment.

Before him was a place drenched with blood, but the shocking thing was that there were no corpses to be found in his sight, except for some signs of them being dragged away.

Felix took a deep breath and made a round at the scene before finding evidence of different monsters leaving behind blood-stained footprints.

'It's not just one type of monster. Many different monsters seem to have looted the corpses.'

Staring at the many footprints moving in different directions, Felix analysed the shape and size of them to guess the monsters but then gave up doing that as it seemed pretty complicated.

'Guessing who the other monsters are is a stupid thing to do, instead of that I should just follow their footprints...', he mused and then made his way towards the path that had the largest number of footprints.

After some time, Felix lost the bloody footprints but still continued in that direction while leaving behind sword marks on the trees.

A few minutes later, he caught sight of a dozen strange and a new type of monster, walking ahead carrying some of the wolves' corpses.

He didn't know the name of the monster race in front of him, so he asked the system in his mind.

'System, what kind of monster is that?'

The system answered quickly.

[The monster race in front of the host is called Gnolls, and all of them are at Rank 1.]

Getting the system's reply, Felix raised the corners of his lips as he lightly muttered without care.

"Gnolls or whatever,...for me it's all the same when I'm hunting."

The boy had his eyes lit up ferociously he stared deep into the backs of the monsters, before proceeding to face them.