Chapter 8: Chapter 8: Exploring Dodola Island

Quest: [Explore the Dodola Island]

You have awoken on the Dodola Island. Explore the area to discover more and also more importantly don’t die.
Objective: Explore Dodola Island 0/1.
Total Distance Covered: 70.36%
Reward: Skill gain (Instant Camp Fire)

“I can’t believe I have covered the majority of this island and still have not found any water” I say while looking at my map viewing all the terrain I have crossed. I look up from my map and see the beam of light of my flagged campsite clear across the other end of the island.

“What’s even more surprising is that I haven’t came into contact with any other monsters.” I say while I close my map. I continue to walk through the jungle as I chop at the local fauna as I take advantage of loading my inventory up with leaves and fallen trees.

“Now I feel like I can make as many stone axes as my hearts content with all this chopping I’ve been doing” I say as I look down at my stone axe “It’s a real shame these stone axes don’t last that long”.

“BZZZZZZZ” I hear off in the distance.

“What the hell is that noise” I say as I listen for the buzzing noise as it gets gradually louder, “It almost sounds like a bee”. I store my stone axe in exchange for two bone axes as I continue to follow in the direction of where the buzzing noise is coming from. The noise gets so loud It almost sounds like the source of the noise is right in front me. I scan the area desperately looking for the source of the noise, that is until I look above me, and I see a giant stinger coming straight for my head. I immediately raise my axes in a crisscross manner over my head as block the giant stinger, I instantly feel the force of the stinger spread across my hands as I hear my bone axes start to crack.

The force is strong but not as strong as a direct hit from a red-eyed torment ape, I think to myself as my face shudders as the thought briefly crosses my mind. I find the strength to push the stinger off me and as I do I notice my attacker is a giant bee thats almost 8 feet tall. The bee looks like it has a wasp-like body with a brown exoskeleton with three lines of bright yellow going diagonally across its body. Along with the stinger, it has six legs and one claw in each leg. No bee is complete without a pair of wings and this particular bee has four wings. Its head has two large antennae two big black bulbous eyes and two large tusks.

Target: Ivory Ferocious Bee-Scream:
HP: ??/??
MP: ??/??
Stamina: ??/??

“At least it’s not another ape” I say as I ready myself for a counterattack. I throw one my bone axes at the giant bee and the bee easily moves out of the way.

“Shit, I wish for once this place could be easy,” I say while watching the bee as it torpedoes again straight for me. It moves at a speed too fast for me to dodge but however, I do have enough time to raise my remaining axe bone axe ready to defend myself. I take my bone axe in both of my hands as the bee tries to impale me with its singer. The bee’s force is so strong against my bone axe that it causes it to shatter within a few seconds of coming in contact with its stinger. However, within those few precious seconds between my axe shattering and the bee slowing down from the force of the impact, it allowed me to grab the bee's stinger with my bare hands and tackle it to the ground.

As I have the bee pinned down, I desperately pull out another bone axe as the bee tries to escape by slashing at my back with its clawed hands. The claws feel like razor blades across my back, I can however  ignore the pain for now as I bring my axe down on its skull over and over again as green blood smears across my face until it stops moving.

STATS:
Name: Miles Egan
Class: Waste of Skin
Health: 8/10
MP: 0/10 (Dehydrated, Mana Exhaustion)
Stamina: 8/15

“The apes were tougher than you” I say as I stand up from its corpse as well as wiping the green blood off my face.

“Ughhh why is it green its gross and nasty,” I say as I shake the blood off me, “Alright enough of that now time for some looting”. I reach down and place a hand on the bee’s corpse.

Would you like to loot the [Ivory Ferocious Bee-Scream:]
Yes/No

I click on the yes icon and watch as the glowing red cracks appear around its skull and crawl towards the rest of its body.

“I hate the dissolving process, but this part always makes me watch in awe” I say as I watch the glowing red cracks overtake the bee’s corpse. I turn away as I know what happens next, as soon as I hear the dissolving stop, I turn towards it. I watch as the black smoke arises from the green stain on the ground, and I welcome into my hand.

MONSTER DATA [Ivory Ferocious Bee-Scream] has been added to system info

Ivory Ferocious Bee-Scream:
HP: 10/10
MP: 8/8
Stamina: 30/30
ATK: 10
DEF: 7
INT: 5
RES: 20
HIT: 8
SPD: 30

SKILLS:

Monster Strength, Monster Speed, Vicious Shout, Bee Poison, Flight

[Bee stinger] x1 has been added to your inventory.
[Bee Exoskeleton] x1 has been added to your inventory.
[Monster blood ] x5 has been added to your inventory.
[Honey] x5 has been added to your inventory.
[Bee Claws] x6 has been added to your inventory.
15 [Copper Coins] has been added to your inventory.
1 [Silver Coin] has been added to your inventory.
[Soul of Ivory Ferocious Bee-Scream] has been added to your inventory.

***Notice***
New Items can be crafted

Lessor Mana Potion:
5/2 Monster Blood
5/1 Honey

Lessor Stamina Potion:
5/2 Monster Blood
15/1 Tree sap

Honey Salmon:
5/2 Honey
0/1 Salmon

Bee Saber:
6/2 Bee Claws
0/2 Steel Ore

Monster Strength:
5/20 [Soul of Red Eyed Torment Ape]
          [Any Monster Soul]

Monster Speed:
5/20 [Soul of Red Eyed Torment Ape]
          [Any Monster Soul]

Vicious Shout:
1/10 [Soul of monster with Vicious Shout Skill]

Poison:
1/30 [Soul of Monster with Poison skill]

Flight:
1/75 [Soul of Monster with Flight skill]

“Oh man this is awesome I now have some crafting items for potions I’m looking at you mana potion,” I say as I click on the lesser mana potion. A vial full of blue liquid appears in my hands, I uncork the vial and give it a good sniff.

“It smells like blueberries,” I say with excitement “But I bet it tastes like ass”. I store the lessor mana potion in my inventory.

“I should wait to drink it until I get this dehydration status under control,” I say as I open my map again. I look at the portions of the map that are still grayed out as I set out a course on where I should go.

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“I’ve almost explored this whole island, but once I’m done, I wonder what I’ll do after that,” I say as I shake my head “there has got to be a way off this island.” I close my map and continue my exploration of the island.

I travel for a good hour hacking and slashing through the jungle yet again until I hear something off in the distance.

“Oh god is that what I think it is,” I say with excitement as I start running toward the sound I heard. I run so hard towards it feels like I will exhaust all my stamina just to get to it. As I run, I occasionally brush up against the jungle scrapping parts of my body as I do, but I ignore it because the sound is getting louder by the second as I run towards it.

I run for a few more minutes until the sound is so loud its almost deafening. I stop running and move to a brisk walk as I get even closer to the sound, until I spot the source of the sound. I clear the jungle and I see the most beautiful sight I have seen in a long time.

“Thank you, you big, beautiful waterfall” I say with tears in my eyes. The sight in front of me is straight out of a movie, I’m standing directly on top of a beautiful waterfall pouring directly into a medium sized pond bellow with water streaming down through the jungle. I take a few steps back to get a running start and I run full speed ahead and take a leap off the cliff side near the water full into the lake below.

“CANNNOOOONNNN BBBBAAAALLLLLL” I shout as I begin to fall 30 feet into the pond below. On my descent into the pond, I notice a dark shadow in the water about the size of your average alligator right below where I’m going to land.

TARGET: Unholy Underwater Fiend:
HP: ??/??
MP: ??/??
Stamina: ??/??

“SHIT SHIT SHIT SHIT,” I say as I rush to pull out a stone spear. I continue my descent now with a spear in hand as I get closer and closer to the shadow in the water below. As I get within a few feet of the shadow I grip my spear as tight as I can to fall full force on it.

TARGET: Unholy Underwater Fiend:
***CRITICAL HIT + SNEAK ATTACK***
HP: ??/??
MP: ??/??
Stamina: ??/??

I hold onto my spear as tight as I can as the underwater fiend pulls me further down the pond. The water is so dark I can barely see my system screen as I try to find my stone knife icon. With a little luck, I am able to pull out a stone knife and as the fiend is still pulling me underwater, I stab it repeatedly until it is longer moving.

With the fiend now dead I swim upwards to the surface of the pond. As I emerge from the pond a take a big gasp of air to only stick my head back down and drink the pond water like it was the fountain of youth.

STATS:
Name: Miles Egan
Class: Waste of Skin
Health: 9/10
MP: 1/10 (Mana Exhaustion)
Stamina: 2/15

“A one has never looked as beautiful,” I say as I look at my MP status. I swim through the pond like I’m a schoolboy and it’s the first day of summer vacation. I float through the pond on my back until I see a set of bubbles coming up near me. I pull out my stone knife ready for another fight on my hands until a dead giant fish emerges from the bubbles. I swim towards the dead fish still wary that it might still be alive, that is until I tab it with my stone knife.

Would you like to loot the [Unholy Underwater Fiend]
Yes/No

“Oh my God really with a name as menacing as Unholy Underwater Fiend I was expecting a giant piranha with razor-sharp teeth, but this is just a big old fish,” I say while shaking my head. I grab the fish and swim towards the closest shore because there is no way I’m going to loot this fish and gross up the water with the whole dissolving process. As I make it to the shore, I pull the dead fish along with me and click the yes icon. I put my head down ever exhausted as I wait for the dissolving process to be completed.

By the time I raise my head the dissolving process is complete and the familiar black smoke flows to my hand.

MONSTER DATA [Unholy Underwater Fiend] has been added to system info

Unholy Underwater Fiend:
HP: 8/8
MP: 2/2
Stamina: 5/5

Skills:
Monster Strength, Monster Speed, underwater breath

[Salmon] has been added to your inventory.
[Monster blood] x2 has been added to your inventory.
8 [Copper Coins] has been added to your inventory.
[Soul of Unholy Underwater Fiend] has been added to your inventory.

***Notice***
New Items can be crafted

Underwater Breath:
1/200 [Soul of Monster with Underwater Breath Skill]

“Nice,” I say while scrolling to my crafting screen “It has been a while since I have eaten anything and I don’t want to get another negative status effect”. I click on the Honey Salmon icon and with a glow, a piece of raw salmon smothered in honey appears in my hands. I put the honey salmon in my inventory screen as I walk towards the pond and wash my hands

“So sticky, I should have waited to get back to camp before I did that,” I say as I shrug.

“I should flag this place so I can find it better,” I say as I open my map and click on the number two icon. As soon as I do a pillar of light appears in front of me, I look towards the sky and I see a number two floating in the sky.

“That is so cool,” I say while admiring the beam of light. I close my map and walk around the shore of the pond.

“I wish I could share this moment with someone, my friends back home would get so jealous of this waterfall, probably not so much the giant apes and bees trying to kill them but yeah who would like that,” I say while I continue to walk the shoreline. I walk towards the base of the waterfall until I see that there is something behind it.

“Is that a cave behind a waterfall, man I feel like I’m in a tomb raider game” I say as I get closer to the cave. Once I get within a few feet of the cave I notice that there are unlit torches at the entrance.

“I guess I’m not the first one to set foot on this island,” I say while walking up and grabbing one of the torches.

“I need to find a way to light this torch and go explore this cave who knows there might be some goodies waiting for me,” I say while walking into the cave.

New Quest: [Explore the waterfall cave]

You discovered a cave behind a waterfall beaming with possibilities

Objective: Reach the end of the cave behind the waterfall.
Reward: +1 to all stats

“Well let’s go spelunking” I say with a smile.

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