Life of an Undead Craftsman

Chapter: 2- First Skills and First Fight

After walking down the corridor he came to a set of stairs that descended down into the dark. Of corse he went down them.

What greeted his eyes was a forest full of trees with faintly glowing leaves. These trees provided some light and gave the whole area a sort of magical feel to it. Looking up he could just barely make out the roof one or two meters above the tree line. The floor had bits of grass here and there but it was mostly underbrush and wild flowers, some of which glowed like the trees themself.

That being the case he know that he was hadn't found the way out but probably just went deeper into what ever building he was in.

Thinking to himself, 'okay, first things first. I need a weapon and there probably isn't a person in their right mind who would sell a skeleton a weapon, so a make-shift one will have to do. On top of that if they're like me hitting them with a club would be more effective than stabbing or cutting, so I guess I'll be making me own then.'

Approaching the nearest tree and tried to break off one of the branches that was about twice the size of his boney forearm but it wouldn't give no matter how much or how he tugged or pulled at it.

Sigh, 'what the hell is this stuff?'

Starring at it intently as if trying to find a weak point when...

[Skill acquired: Wood Appraisal lvl. 1]

After seeing that flash in front of his eyes like some kind notification he opened his stat page.

Stats
    Level: 1/5
Race    Skeleton
Attack    H
Defense     G
Endurance     G
Mental    I
Dexterity    E
Agility     I
Rank    H
Unique Traits   
• Vulcan's Correction

Traits   
• Slashing resistance • Piercing resistance • Bludgeoning Vulnerability • Radiant Vulnerability • Dark Vision (50m) • Poison Immunity • Necrotic Immunity
Skills    • Wood Appraisal

'Hmm, most be one of those event things that Aqua wrote about in her letter.' After closing the page like he would an email or a pop up he looked back at the tree.

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Gentle Light Tree F+
The Gentle Light Tree is characterized by its tell tale glowing leaves. Possessing wood that is far stronger than the average tree its sought after as a general crafting material but because of its strict growth requirements its hard to find and even harder to cultivate.

[Skill (Wood Appraisal) Level Up 1 -> 2]

'Oh, that's interesting.' Excepting it for what it was, a level up of his only skill, he moved on and looked back at the tree. It was then that he realized he could see the weakness in the branches and even the tree itself.

The branch he was trying to break had weak points around the area he was trying to break it at but it would seem that he just wasn't strong enough to break it. He gave up on getting that branch and began to look for a new one. One he could actually break but would still usable.

Quickly finding one that fits his needs, it was around the size of his boney forearm, he grabbed it and began to grunt silently as he exerted himself to break it off.

With a deep snapping, that was deep and more dense than one would expect from wood, sound as the branch gave way.

'Good and thank god. That wasn't as easy as I thought it would be given the fact that I was pressing on the weak point of the wood.'

Smacking the stick on his other hand he nodded his head in approval before he began breaking off the other branches and twigs from it. See the now bare stick he wanted to smile only to realize he couldn't.

Sigh, 'Moving on.' He gave it a firm swing.

[Skill acquired: One-Handed Weapon lvl. 1]

'Maybe acquiring skills is actually super easy but Aqua said that it wasn't that easy so what's going on here?'

Now armed with his makeshift weapon he began his first hunt.

Moving through the underbrush he tried to be stealthy but had no real knowledge or able on how to do that, so he ended up make quit a bit of noise. It was so noisy in fact if he was hinting a deer it would have run off look before he saw either hide or hair of it. Even with all the noise he was accidentally making it still didn't take all that long before he encountered another skeleton wandering around.

The skeleton was a set of bare bleach white bones with red glowing specks of light in its other wise dark and empty eye sockets. Unlike himself this skeleton was actually wearing some robes granted they were filthy and in tatters. He was also carrying a wooden staff that had a finger size stone at the end. It also had a pack on its back.

'Do all skeletons have Intelligence?' He wondered to himself. 'Hello,' he tried to say to it but it came out as nothing more than clicking sounds as his jaw clacked together.

The skeleton looked over at him but there wasn't any sign of recognition in its red "eyes", then looked away from him and began to move away.

'I guess not.'

As the skeleton began to shuffle away from him. Seeing this he took the chance to strike the skeleton on the back of its head. 'To he who strikes first goes the victory.' The Wood club struck the skeleton's skull with a resounding crash causing it to crack in the shape of a spider web.

The skeleton in the robe stumbled forward stunned and unable to respond. He again took advantage of it and struck again completely caving in its skull causing it to fall to the ground lifeless.

[Skill (One-Handed Weapon) Level Up 1 -> 2]

[Skeleton [ ] Level Up 1 -> 5].