Chapter 7: Chapter 7: Spoils of War

I was awoken to the sounds of birds chirping and the bright sunrise. I emerge from my makeshift tent and look at my fire pit, dishearten that my campfire is nothing more then a few embers and ash.

“MAXIMUM EFFORT” I say as I stand up and stretch my body until I feel a throbbing in my head, it almost feels like I have a massive hangover. The headache is so massive it makes me throw up into a nearby bush.

STATS:
Name: Miles Egan
Class: Waste of Skin
Health: 5/10
MP: 0/10 (Severely Dehydrated, Mana Exhaustion)
Stamina: 15/15
Partially blinded

***Severely Dehydrated***
Okay I know I was joking earlier but you really need to drink something. You will experience physical pains until you are rehydrated as well as severe Mana depletion.

***Mana Exhaustion***
You let your MP get reduced to zero way to go dumbass. Your MP will regain slowly unless you drink a mana potion or you wait until your MP reaches max again.

“I can’t put it off any longer, I need to get something to drink before this headache gets any worse,” I say as I stand and wipe the vomit off my mouth. I walk around the campsite clutching my head to try and stop the headache but to no avail.

“I can’t take this much longer; I feel like my head is about to explode,” I say as I struggle to leave my campsite. My headache gets so intense it causes me to fall to the ground in pain, it almost feels like my headache is alive, and pissed off that I’ve tried to make sudden movements. I continue to crawl away desperately trying to find a stream of water, a river, anything with water that is until I see it as a puddle of nasty, muddy-looking water.

“Am I above drinking this nasty looking water,” I say as I look down at the river before my face goes face first into the puddle. I feel the cool water stream that tastes like liquid gold go down my throat all the way down to my stomach.

“I don’t know why this puddle water tasted so good, maybe it’s because I haven’t had anything to drink in a long time who knows,” I say as I lay on my back slowly feeling my headache dissipate.

STATS:
Name: Miles Egan
MP: 0/10 (Dehydrated, Mana Exhaustion)

***Dehydrated***
HOORAY!!! You are longer severely dehydrated you still need some more water though get moving. You will Continue to lose MP until thirst is quenched.

“Ughhh, I never want to feel like this again,” I say as I slowly stand up. I need to find a good water source as well as find something to hold some water so I can store it in my inventory. I don’t think I’ll be getting any MP until I do, just because dehydration slowing draining my MP and Mana exhaustion causing me to gain MP at a slower rate. I feel my face and it feels warm to the touch around my eye that’s swollen shut.

“That Ape really knocked the shit out of me, I wonder if I get another health potion it can help with this,” I say as I continue to rub my face. I should probably make my way toward the apes that I defeated and loot their bodies and maybe I’ll get lucky and find another health potion. I gather myself and slowly make the way to where I fought the apes. During my slow walk towards our battleground flashes of the fight flow through my head.

“I had no idea I was capable of doing something like that, I mean there was so much blood I should have been freaking out” I say as I continue to think about the fight.

“Also what was with that ape can all animals talk in this world, but he did say he was smart so I guess if a monster is smart enough they can speak,” I say as I shake my head.

“And what was he talking about him being told to not let outsiders live and he said something about gold. I say shaking my head even harder until my face starts to hurt due to my face being swollen.

“It’s still hard to wrap my head around that animals can talk,” I say as I hold my head. I walk until I notice one of my stone spears on the ground.

Stone Spear:
+4ATK, +3HIT, 19/30 Durability
Crude spear made out of wood and stone.

“Thank you, my trusty spear,” I say while storing the spear. I continue my walk until I come across one of the Red Eyed Torment apes.

“I thought it was hard fighting just one of you guys” I say as I lower my hand to its face.

Would you like to loot the [Red Eyed Torment Ape]
Yes/No

I click on the yes icon and as soon as I do the glowing red cracks appear from his open wounds. The glowing red cracks crawl throughout its entire body until its completely covered in glowing red cracks.

“I know what part comes next,” I say as I turn my body away from it to not subject myself to the sight of a monster dissolving into nothingness. I few minutes pass and the dissolving noises stop, I turn around to see the familiar smoke. Instead of walking away like I did the last time I fully embrace the black smoke as I raise my hand to let the smoke envelop me.

[Ape hide] x2 has been added to your inventory.
[Ape Bones] x2 has been added to your inventory.
[Ape Meat] x2  has been added to your inventory.
15 [Copper Coins] has been added to your inventory.
2 [Silver Coin] has been added to your inventory.
1 [Gold Coins] has been added to your inventory.
[Soul of Red Eyed Torment Ape] has been added to your inventory.
[Lessor health potion] has been added to your inventory.

Once the black smoke clears and I have closed all the system popups I immediately go into my inventory screen and pull out the Lessor Health Potion. I quickly remove the cork to the vial and drink the cherry smell filled liquid down my throat.

“Pure nastiness never tasted so good” I say as I wipe my mouth.

STATS:
Name: Miles Egan
Class: Waste of Skin
Health: 6/10 ***Recovery Status***
MP: 0/10 (Dehydrated, Mana Exhaustion)
Stamina: 15/15
Partially blinded(Recovering)

***Recovery status***
Due to the lessor potion – 25% Increase to HP recovery rate

 I feel my swollen eye as it gets warmer to the touch however, I notice the swelling is slowing going down and I can almost start to see out of it.

“Thank you, health potion,” I say as I kiss the empty vial and put the empty vial in my inventory.

“Alright that’s one ape down onto the next two” I say as I walk towards the next red eyed torment ape. I notice that one of my stone spears is still lodged in its face, I grab the spear and pull it out and shove it back into my inventory. With my spear back in my inventory I place my hand on the apes chest.

Would you like to loot the [Red Eyed Torment Ape]
Yes/No

I click on the yes icon yet again, and I turn away to not witness the dissolving process again. The familiar black smoke appears again and flows into my hand.

[Ape hide] x2 has been added to your inventory.
[Ape Bones] x2 has been added to your inventory.
[Ape Meat] x2  has been added to your inventory.
15 [Copper Coins] has been added to your inventory.
2 [Silver Coin] has been added to your inventory.
1 [Gold Coins] has been added to your inventory.
[Soul of Red Eyed Torment Ape] has been added to your inventory.
[Lessor health potion] has been added to your inventory.

I clear all the system popups and walk towards the last and special ape. I pull the three spears that are lodged in its chest and put them back in my inventory screen.

“Now its your turn big guy” I say as I touch the Black-Eyed Torment apes chest.

Would you like to loot the [Black Eyed Torment Ape]
Yes/No

“You were one tough customer” I say as I click the yes icon. The looting process begins as I close my eyes, I raise my hands to welcome the black smoke into my flesh.

MONSTER DATA [RED EYED TORMENT APE] has been added to system info:

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Black Eyed Torment Ape
HP: 25/25
MP: 5/5
Stamina: 25/25
ATK: 20
DEF: 15
INT: 1
RES: 3
HIT: 4
SPD: 13

SKILLS
Monster Strength, Monster Speed, Improved Tracking, Boon of Strength, Leadership, Ape knowledge

[Ape hide] x2 has been added to your inventory.
[Ape Bones] x2 has been added to your inventory.
[Ape Meat] x2  has been added to your inventory.
20 [Copper Coins] has been added to your inventory.
5 [Silver Coin] has been added to your inventory.
2 [Gold Coins] has been added to your inventory.
[Soul of Black Eyed Torment Ape] has been added to your inventory.
[Lessor health potion] x 2 has been added to your inventory.

“Leadership and Ape knowledge, I wonder what those two do,” I say as I shrug. Well now that I got all the looting out of the way I still have some quests to turn in.

Quest Complete:
Emergency quest: [Survive the ape confrontation]

Reward: New skill, and New Crafting Blueprint

Would you like to receive your quest rewards:
Yes/No

“Yes let me see what I got” I say as I click on the yes icon.

Distributing Rewards:
Reward 1: New Skill Acquired: (First Aid)
Reward 2: New Crafting Blueprint: (MP Firearm)

***First Aid***
MP Cost: 1
Heal the target for 3HP until you target someone else or are attacked.

“That would have been helpful during the fight” I say with a sigh “And what’s with this new blueprint is that like a magic gun or something I guess I won’t know until I craft it”

Weapons:
MP Flintlock Pistol (MP Firearm Blueprint):
0/5 Steel Ore
0/2 Magic Ore
4/3 Monster Soul

MP Flintlock Rifle (MP Firearm Blueprint):
0/10 Steel Ore
0/5 Magic Ore
4/5 Monster Soul

MP Cannon (MP Firearm Blueprint):
0/50 Steel Ore
0/30 Magic Ore
4/20 Monster Soul

“Ahh man I knew it wouldn’t be stuff that I could easily get, but steel ore, magic ore I wouldn’t even know where to start,” I say as I pull at my blonde hair.

“Well, I should probably get started with exploring the island more now that it's daylight now and who knows maybe I’ll get lucky and find that water source I desperately need,” I say with a sigh. “But first now that I have some new hides, I should make some more armor pieces and it wouldn’t hurt to make some more weapons just in case”.

Crafting:
Ape Mask:
6/1 Ape Hide
0/1 Binding

Ape Leg Piece:
6/2 Ape Hide
0/1 Binding

Ape Chest Piece:
6/2 Ape Hide
0/2 Binding

Bone Axe:
38/2 Basic Rock
6/1 Ape Bone
0/1 Binding

“Shit, fucking bindings where is some palm tree leaves,” I say as I scan the area looking for some fallen leaves vs me having to climb the trees to get some. I scan for a few moments until I see what I am searching for next to one of the bloody stains on the floor where the ape previously resided.

[Palm tree leaves] x20 has been added to your inventory.

“That should be enough for now” I say as I convert the 20 tree leaves into 10 pieces of bindings.

Crafting:
Ape Mask:
6/1 Ape Hide
10/1 Binding

Ape Leg Piece:
6/2 Ape Hide
10/1 Binding

Ape Chest Piece:
6/2 Ape Hide
10/2 Binding

Bone Axe:
38/2 Basic Rock
6/1 Ape Bone
10/1 Binding

“That’s more like it,” I say as I click each armor piece and click the bone axe icon six times “Can never have enough bone axes”. I put the familiar bone axes in my inventory and then I review my new armor pieces.

Ape Chest Piece:
+5DEF, +3RES
Chest piece obtained from the flesh of a Red Eyed Torment Ape.

Ape Leg Piece:
+3Def, +1RES
Leg piece obtained from the flesh of a Red Eyed Torment Ape.

“To say these are leg pieces is weird they look just like brown leather pants” I say as I remove my old muddy partially destroyed PJ bottoms and slip on my new pants.

“They are surprisingly breathable tough,” I say as a do a few lunges to get them good and stretched out. After I am satisfied that the leather pants are adequate enough, I hold out the Ape Chest piece out in front of me.

“This looks more like a brown leather coat, and not really a chest piece” I say while tilting my head.

Ape Chest Piece:
Ape Coat:
+5DEF, +3RES
Chest piece Coat obtained from the flesh of a Red Eyed Torment Ape.
***Are you Happy now***

“Yes, I am, thank you all powerful system for fixing your mistake,” I say as I do a little bow. I slip on the coat, and I’m surprised at how warm on the inside it feels.

“This feels nice I no longer feel like I’m on an episode of naked and afraid,” I say while patting myself all over.

“Alright now let's get exploring this place hopefully I’ll find this gold the ape was talking about and if there are any more of those damn apes I feel more confident that I can take them ou

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