NOVEL WEB Chapter 12 - Leporidae
Adam who had now mostly recovered, got up from the snow he was lying in.
But now all his clothes were drenched and despite being stronger than average, he was still a weak human.
[System is there anything that I can buy to warm up my body] he asked, seeing that snow had engulfed the entire area.
{You cannot afford any equipment that warms your body, but in items you can buy clothing that have effects on your body's temperature}.
Opening up the store and looking through items, he found another layer of tabs and there was one that was clothing.
The cheapest clothing that had the effect he was looking for was an E Rank Fur Jacket.
E Rank Fur Jacket
Effect- Warms up the host's body to be able to cancel all negative effects for temperatures over 5 degrees Celsius
Adam bought it for 10 system points, leaving him 9 system points.
Within his inventory was a brown fury jacket, and he had the option to sell or equip.
Pressing equip he instantly felt much warmer and felt the warm fur jacket covering his body.
{Environment Effect Lowered - Now speed and strength are only reduced by 1, and HP shall no longer be lowered}.
With this, he instantly felt that the cold was reduced massively and the jacket he was wearing was extremely comfortable.
Although he still felt cold and was only able to function due to his strong will and above average body.
From the strength and power of the beast, Adam assumed that the higher he went up in the mountains, the stronger the beasts would be.
Adam was in a mountainous region and knew that if he went upwards, the environment and beasts he would have to battle would be harder, so decided he would go in the opposite direction until he was ready.
Trudging through the snow, Adam only just realised how crazy everything he was going through was, and that anybody else in his situation would freak out, but yet he was able to stay calm.
Marching through the snow, Adam began to realise that the altitude was lowering, and it was becoming slightly less cold with less snow, although it was still freezing and without the fur jacket, he bought he would be dead.
SLASH.
Adam didn't even notice what had occurred, but felt a sudden sharp pain and could see three deep claw marks in his left leg.
"Crap" he exclaimed as he reflexively jumped backwards to a position that had his back to a tree in order to cover his back.
"Withdraw E-Rank Club" he ordered as a large wooden club appears in his hands.
Adam attentively scoured the area with his vision but wasn't able to see anything.
"What the hell was it that slashed me," he muttered.
Pouncing out of the snow with incredible speed was a nimble, small and completely white hare-like beast.
All Adam could see was a white blur that dashed out of the snow and before he could react the beast was before him and gashed at his right eye.
Although Adam was too slow to react to the initial attack he was able to move his head back suddenly as the beast was attacking him and was able to reduce the damage.
On his face, he had three claw marks that sliced over his right eye and went from the tip of his forehead diagonally to his right cheek.
Blood flooded his eye, making Adam unsure of whether his eye was actually injured, but was too concentrated on battle.
Clenching his teeth to bear with the excruciating pain, Adam tightly gripped the club ready to strike as soon as he saw the beast appear again.
Attack after attack the beast seemed to be smart and had slashed at Adam's arms and legs multiple times as his clothes and the snow near him were dyed red.
Each time Adam was studying its movements, but his eyes were still too slow to lock onto the beast to be able to see its stats.
Once again the white blur blitzed towards him out of the snow towards Adam's face.
Adam was not willing to allow himself to be hit again and while it was mid-air he swung the club with all his force and struck the small beast.
The beast was launched like a baseball smashing into a nearby willow-like tree, that could survive in such cold environments.
Adam in a single altercation with such a small beast had lost more than 40 HP.
{LVL UP - You are now LVL 3 and have an increase in all stats and an extra stat point, where do you wish to spend your stat point}.
As this resounded within his mind Adam was overjoyed and felt that the battle was worth it.
There was no equipment as a reward but received 40 gold as a reward, and noticed that the gold awarded was 10 times that of the LVL of the beast he killed.
"Status" he stated.
{Mortal LVL: 3
EXP: 3 / 100
HP: 120
MP: 12
Strength: 12
Speed: 13
Intelligence: 17
Charisma: 5
Luck: 5}
Seeing this he knew that that small beast gave him 4 EXP so knew that it was LVL 4 and was curious to find out what kind of beast it was and what kind of loot it had.
[Spend the state point on MP] he decided.
Adam didn't hesitate in the slightest while making his decision and all he could imagine was having an army of every kind of beast all as powerful as him battling for him, but knew it was all a pipe dream if he didn't have enough MP to supply them.
He now had 13 MP but he still knew that it wasn't enough to be used commonly and should only be used as a last resort, and made MP his other focus other than speed.
Adam walked towards where he knew the beast's body was while covering his right eye with his palm.
With his left hand, he moved the snow to find a small white hare-like beast which he lifted in his palm.
As he lifted it in turned into pixels in his palm and a notification appeared in front of him and resounded within his mind.
{Would you like to collect this beast as your Leporidae base beast. YES / NO}
Adam knew that Leporidae were rabbit and hare beasts and if this were the base Adam could assume that he would be able to integrate different beasts of the same race together.
[Yes]
As he said this within his mind he felt the beast appear within his mental beastpedia.
"Beastpedia" he stated.
As it appeared before him he now found two races, goblin and Leporidae.
Clicking on goblin again to check its status now that he had increased in LVL, he saw something that he didn't notice before and there was also a new.
Goblin Summon
LVL: 3
HP: 130
Strength: 15
Speed: 9
Intelligence: 6
Special Traits - Treasure Hunting
Types Integrated - Ordinary Goblin
He noticed the Special Trait before but ignored it and there was now Types Integrated as well.
This confirmed his idea of being able to integrate other types of goblins and also made him excited to experiment with his Collector Ability and the beast's special traits.
Leporidae Summon
LVL: 3
HP: 70
Strength: 7
Speed: 18
Intelligence: 11
Special Traits - Camouflage
Types Integrated - Snow Hare
Adam felt confident and felt his survivability and battle power increased with his new summon, but seeing that he would need 100 EXP to increase to LVL 4 he knew that it wasn't time to become complacent.