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MMORPG: Rebirth of the Shadow Mage

Chapter 34 River
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Journeying through the forest I didn't notice anything new. From time to time various monsters jumped at me attempting to assassinate me, but I didn't even flinch.

I had a familiar now, which is able to kill everything around the area.

It just took him one bite to kill the monsters trying to hurt me.

Enemies that would take a group of 3 players to handle were killed without me moving a finger. The problem was that the wolf's mouth was bloody and he had a strange need to lick me from time to time.

I had to use my abilities and intimidated Fenrir with various food restrictions to prevent him from turning me into a bloody painting.

The journey I thought was going to be fun turned into constant stress and evading. I felt that near the city I already knew all the attack patterns of the wolf and could dodge his tongue with my eyes closed.

It wasn't strange, because most of the monsters had attack patterns; it was just hard to learn them. The higher the intelligence of the monster the attack patterns will be more random.

Wanting to test my theory I closed my eyes, acting oblivious to Fenrir's shining gaze.

Whoosh...

Suddenly Fenrir leapt towards me Extending his tongue towards my face.

Fortunately I knew that it's going to happen and took a few steps back avoiding the bloody lick.

Fenrir didn't give up though and tried to lick me for another 3 minutes when he finally got me using his skill < Windy Steps >.

Eyeing him I wanted to somehow punish him, but couldn't quite find a good reason, because I left an opening to attack on purpose.

Grumbling under my nose I quickly went up to a river we've been following to find our way towards the new city. Washing my face I looked at my reflection.

It was slightly blurry and the horns were a bit visible from the hood, but my face was clean. I was about to stand up when I saw something shining at the bottom of the river.

1️⃣ Diamond Pearl [ Diamond ]

-- Rarely found in Nature

-- Upon consumption may give you some SP

~ +25 SP

My eyes slightly widened. To think I found a Diamond item randomly was beyond belief. Without any hesitation I dived into the river with an intention to make the loot mine.

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Since my attention was drawn towards the pearl I didn't even notice that the river contained various fishes.

Some of them were Carnivores, but luckily I wasn't bleeding, hence didn't garner any attention.

Diving deeper I felt Oxygen from my lungs quickly depleting. I could approximately hold my breath for a minute.

I felt water pressure press me and my head began to hurt, but I suppressed the pain and kept on going deeper and deeper.

The world around me started blackening, but I was already so close. Snatching the pearl from Mollusk I didn't expect its jaws to close. I also didn't expect them to have teeth.

- 12 HP

The Pain was bearable, but unexpected damage mademe open my mouth momentarily and I lost some precious oxygen. Now I had low to none air and needed to resurface or else I'll drown.

Whoosh... Whoosh...

I used my legs to propel myself upwards. Black sports were appearing all across my vision signaling that I'll soon lose consciousness.

Luckily I managed to somehow reach the water surface. Taking deep breaths I coughed up water.

Slowly moving towards the shore I felt my hand bleeding. Suddenly something bit my bleeding wound. Lifting my hand out of the water I noticed a small fish with piranha-like features munching on my injured arm.

< EVOLVED PIRANHA >

~ Lives in the rivers

~ Aggressive; Carnivore

~ Usually lives within groups of thousand individuals

~ Can Smell Blood

< ATTRIBUTES >

Lv. 3

HP: 50

MP: 0

STR: 20

AGL: 60

PDEF: 20

MDEF: 30

INT: 0

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< ACTIVE SKILLS >

< None >

< PASSIVE SKILLS >

< None >

< SPELLS >

< None >

< END >

Even though its Status was nothing impressive, a particular line caught my sight before I started frantically swimming towards the shore.

< ~ Usually lives within groups of thousand individuals >

Since it can smell blood and lives with thousands of similar beings they could be able to eat me within minutes.

I heard sounds of water splashing behind me, but didn't want to turn back, because it might lose me a valuable second.

While swimming I thought about my options and not finding any skill useful to fight in water cursed myself.

Calming down I couldn't help, but curse myself once again.

I've forgotten to collect the quest rewards from the mayor of Culg city. I clearly knew that the loot would contain an item useful for fights happening in water.

I swore to myself that I'll make a reminder to do that and buy some HP potions after this fight is over.

Now, I was very close to shore and could touch the bottom of the river. Somehow escaping to the shore I took a deep breath. Now the Piranhas couldn't reach me.

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Oh how wrong was I...

Whoosh...

Suddenly something jumped out of the water. Quickly turning my head you could see my face morphing from a surprised one into an angry one.

It was the same fucking crocodile that've bitten my arm off.

< ELITE DEINOSUCHUS >

~ A Powerful prehistoric crocodile; lives near the water

~ Aggressive; Territorial

~ Elite Monster

< ATTRIBUTES >

Lv. 13

HP: 850

MP: 100

STR: 1200

AGL: 200

PDEF: 500

MDEF: 300

INT: 150

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Now that I was on shore I felt safer, since my pet would help me. Unfortunately the situation was dire, because the creature before us was Elite after all.

The only positive thought I had was that I might be able to take revenge for my arm earlier than expected.

At first I was worried, because I didn't expect that the creature chasing me was not Piranhas, but now I was even grateful.

Taking a step backwards I relayed a message to Fenrir.

' We need to bait the crocodile further from the water, so it can't escape '

Fortunately the monster wasn't that smart to notice something strange in our behavior and went after us.