Lying in the middle of a meadow under a blue sky in a light breeze was pleasant. No noise, no people, no assassins, no masters, just calm and murderous rabbits. What a beautiful place.
One such beast lay a few feet away from me, dead.
It was my first fight, first kill. I entered the labyrinth, stood up to the beast, and didn't chicken out. It wasn't the epic fight I imagined, I wasn't the fearless heroine I thought I would be, nor was the beast I stood up to an ancient dragon, but I didn't piss my pants as I looked into its mouth.
I hesitated, though.
Now I felt proud of what I had accomplished and calmed down, but I hesitated when I had to kill the rabbit. I cried and fought my conscience. It startled me at how unprepared I was to end the fight, how hard it was to take a life. I wondered if it would be easier in time and if I can do it a second time at all, hoping it didn't make me a monster, a blood-thirsty killer.
Time will tell. Time and another fight!
It was a fight which I didn't know how to approach. As I found out, I can prepare as I want, plan what I want, but I can't predict what will happen and how I will react. It was frustrating!
What was certain, though, was that I gained a few levels in my skills.
(ding) Painless Agony reaches lvl 8
(ding) Tireless Machine reaches lvl 11
(ding) Swift as a Whip reaches lvl 9
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(ding) Master's Shield reaches lvl 7
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(ding) Perfect Equilibrium reaches lvl 7
(ding) Space Domain reaches lvl 8
(ding) Never-Dying reaches lvl 27
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(ding) Tail of Poison Empress reaches lvl 6
(ding) Tail of Poison Empress reaches lvl 7
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(ding) Inner Perception reaches lvl 7
Unfortunately, no new tier-up, but a bunch of skills weren't far from it, even [Never-Dying], which was approaching tier three at level thirty. Just a few more levels and a damn lot of pain.
It was an incredible gain for a few minutes of fighting, and it would be great if it was like this all the time. Though, I knew it was just my wishful thinking. I gained so much because, with skills below level ten, I fought a beast of level thirty-eight. It was beyond the level of my skills, and I had to try harder because of that.
Due to these low-level skills and my non-existent experience, the fight turned out as it turned out.
I sighed aloud at the memory of how badly I had done in combat and looked at my stats.
Name: Korra Grey
Race: Human
Gender: Female
Age: 29
Class: Slave (Master - none)
Level: 92
Constitution: 64 (39)
Strength: 32 (21)
Endurance: 31 (25)
Dexterity: 23 (23)
Intelligence: 19 (11)
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Lament of the Slave
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