ALICE WON'T DIE

Chapter 3 - I guess...it's useful?

Although Alice had confidently walked off, the truth was a bit different. She eventually began to carefully go down the building, making sure no monsters would notice her. It wasn't that she was running away, but she wanted to catch them off-guard.

Her breath was perfectly even as she willed her body to be quiet with Control is Mine, and her eyes scanned the surroundings zealously with Analyst.

Her skill perfectly matched her previous memories to her surroundings and gave her arrowed indicators of likely monster positions. It had leveled up a bit after she added 10 skill points to intelligence, and 10 to wisdom. The other 10 had gone to agility, since she could obtain power from mana, making strength not the highest priority anymore.

Alice avoided the areas with multiple arrows and focused on lone monsters. She could take care of the others once she had leveled up more.

Just around the corner, she followed an arrow and found a particularly grotesque monster. Its mouth was almost always open, acid saliva constantly dripping from between large fangs as if it were starved. The saliva would drip on the ground, sizzling as it burnt it away to leave small holes behind. It was thin and tall, which could trick someone into thinking its power was low, and that it might have higher speed instead. It had both.

Its bony arms dripped acid sweat as it slowly walked and looked around, crashing through some walls when it felt like it. The broken areas revealed hissing steam from being burnt.

I can't touch it.Alice came to the logical and obvious conclusion.

The monster turned around, and she finally spotted its weakness. Its spine popped out vertebrae by vertebrae on its long dark back, and just at the highest one, right under the neck, was the blue dot.

Alice pulled out a small letter-opener from her pocket. She had found it in one of the more luxurious offices, and thankfully it was quite sharp. She gripped it tightly as she made up her mind. She activated Mana Circulationand embedded 50 mana into the dagger-like letter-opener.

With extreme care, Alice analyzed its movements carefully, paying attention to the air and breeze as well. Eventually, Analyze created a perfect path for her, based on the surroundings and the monster's expected movements. She was hidden and it had no clue. She had a chance.

Carefully, some mana was added to the necessary muscles for the throw, and the dagger began to follow the path of the blue line perfectly as she quietly threw it. It met the blue dot.

"Kyaaaaaaaaak!" A terrible shriek left the monster's mouth as the mana in the dagger exploded from within its body, damaging it from the inside. The pale blue of her mana flashed from the wound, and blood began pouring out all over the orifices of its body. With bloodied eyes, the monster used the last of its strength to look for its enemy, only to find a quietly smiling girl standing there like a harmless little animal.

And just like that, the last of its strength left its body, and it fell limply towards the floor. The floor vibrated from its weight, which was a lot higher than its body would indicate.

Alice quickly left towards the next arrow, picking up the "dagger" as she ran past with quiet steps.

<You have leveled up!>

<You are the first to kill five monsters. Reward being calculated>

Hm?Alice wasn't surprised by getting only one level, as she had already leveled up enough so that she needed more experience each time. F and E-rank monsters could only give so much. She had never received such an accomplishment in her first round/life, so it was quite unexpected. It was true that she was efficiently killing the monsters in her building at a fast pace, so maybe it shouldn't have been that great a surprise.