The Tales of Draconic Warlock

Chapter 14: My Adventure in the Wild (3)

When I reached Level 1, my MP increased by 10 points and INT by 1 point, though I can't see it in the panel yet. In the week before my adventure started, a few improvements were made. Due to my Devourer Physique, my attributes move upward without doing anything but eating food, not just any food but meat of beasts or something like that.

When I ate bread, I got nothing from my physique. No matter how much I ate, bread could only fill my stomach and nothing else.

I would be able to eat meat every day at home, so my status changed every day. To understand my growth, I maintained a diary, where I would update what I ate or did and what happened with my status screen.

"Status"

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Name: Magnus Frostwolf

Age: 14

Titles: Son of Viscount

Class: Draconic Warlock

Affinity: Shadow, Blood

Bloodline: Black Dragon (1% Purity)

Physique: Devourer Physique (EX)

Talent: Ritualistic Summoning (EX)

Rank: Tier-0

Level: 1

Health Points (HP): 1622

Strength (STR): 317

Endurance (END): 372

Dexterity (DEX): 65

Agility (AGI): 311

Magic Power (MP): 2710

Class Skills: Shadow Bolt

Skills: Evade Lvl. 2; Dodge Lvl. 4; Sprint Lvl.1; Alertness Lvl. 1;

Resistances: Physical Resistance Lvl. 4; Light Resistance Lvl. 3; Poison Resistance Lvl. 2;

Weapon Arts: Intermediate Staff Arts Lvl. 3

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Yeah, there aren't many changes in the past week or so. Probably because there is a limit to the benefits gained from eating low-level meat.

What my family eats comes from animal pens, where beasts are grown but they never improve their ranks or levels. If such a thing happens, it would be considered dangerous, as these animal pens are usually located inside or near human habitats.

So when the beast grows to a certain size, they are sent to get slaughtered. If the beasts grow, it will cause injuries or even deaths. It was not as if everyone would awaken and become strengthened to fight the monsters. If they fight a beast that has leveled up, chances are that the normal humans are going to die. This is the reason why, the animal farms don't let them evolve.

Oh, speaking of my status, while I stayed the night in the cave, I managed to get other skills that are available in the cores.

There are two skills, namely Sprint, and Alertness.

Alertness is used to find enemies that are in the vicinity. This is a passive skill, that would trigger an alert in your mind when there are enemies near you. The range depends on the skill level.

Sprint as the name suggests is a skill to sprint away from the enemy, which is an active skill. The distance you can cover depends on your level.

These two are the only remaining that the magic cores had, which consumed two cores from my secret stash of 178, leaving behind 176 cores. These cores come from low-level creatures, which are good at hiding and running away but when a high-level creature attacks them, there is no survival.

They are exclusively hunted for their cores because of their skills. There are dungeons where these little creatures are available in plenty. It is from where my family as well as other noble families get these cores. They are used by the children of the noble families because any one of the four skills is very useful to survive.

They give very minuscule EXP, so almost no one uses them to improve their levels. It would be a waste of good resources. They can be better utilized in making weapons and equipment, rather than that.

Now that I have four skills, that would make others bleed, I shall use them well. By the time I return home, I hope that these four skills have reached level 10 and I am at the peak of Tier-0.

I heard from others about this trial. There are some who died out here in the wild, but that was long ago when my family had very few resources. As time went by, almost everyone survived. This trip is not a guaranteed one as no one knows what will happen at the next minute.

The longest one stayed was nine months, a record no one was able to break in the past six hundred years. My Eritrea came close to breaking it but she didn't. She survived for eight months and six days, by that time she returned home.

The question before me was, how long should I stay here? Even if I stayed here for a total of nine months, I would still have three months before it was time for the academy.

It was a rule by the kingdom, that every awakened had to attend the academy. It doesn't matter if it is the top academy or the bottom one, they have to attend one after they reach the age of 15.

The academy is a place of learning, but that was purely for the commoners, not the noble children. After awakening, noble families would hire trainers to teach the children. For the noble children, the academy was a place where they came to socialize and form connections with their peers.

If they find a talented person, they can recruit them or at least form a friendly connection with them, so that they would be helpful to them in the future. This was important, especially for the heirs of the houses. They need many connections to rule their territories.

Without connections, nothing moves forward.

For me though, to speak the truth, I have no idea what I can gain from the academy. I am not an heir, but still, it would be good to make a few friends. Also, since I am not an heir, the time at the academy might give me some idea bout what to do in the future.

For now, let's level up and move further into the forest.