OP System The Hero Backup

Chapter 1.11: Meeting With Other Humans

This forest is a dangerous place. Probably the most dangerous place in the world. Not without reason, large and dangerous monsters of various kinds settled here. From the ordinary to the legendary.

The shaking ground was also a common sight here, due to the heavy and large cages possessed by the animals and monsters present here.

Also because of that, herbivores have evolved a wide variety of self-protection. Like a pair of tusks, the skin is thicker than iron, or it may be a toxin released when they feel in danger.

Their footsteps are also increasingly light and trained not to make noise so as not to attract the attention of large and fast predators.

An example is the deer with tusks and long forked horns. They gather and search for food in small groups of ten to fifteen.

The leader of the herd leads in front and the most powerful males surround the young deer, the doe, and also the old deer that is eating the grass.

The earlobe of one of the male deer trembled, noticing that he heard an approaching footsteps. After one tail, the other stopped eating and immediately went on alert.

The move included light, slow, and somewhat doubtful. But the deer do not want to take too much risk because the males have to protect the females and the young deer.

KRAACH...

As if to be a warning alarm, the branch that broke when it was stepped on made them all run darting away from where they were eating now. Leaving the empty forest area leaping without life, whereas before it was still crowded.

A few seconds later, the cause of the sound of the move appeared. A party of four walked leisurely in a dangerous forest full of monsters and dangerous animals.

"Jo-Joshep, are you sure about this? It's the most dangerous forest in the world, you know!"

The young man spoke with trembling. It seemed that only he was aware of the dangers of this forest. But his party friends did not overly pacify him and remained on their stance to go deeper into this forest.

"Amaha ...! You're a coward as always, Rondesh! Take it easy, just calm down! The three of us have been coming in here often and coming out safely, there would be nothing bad if you were with us. Isn't that right, Miranda, Arnold?!"

"Yes!"

"Send it to us!"

The three of them laughed without any burden. Make that young man— Rondesh is not out of thought. He could only resign and follow the three of them because he also did not want to be left alone in a dangerous place like this.

Indeed, if you look at a glance, the comparison of Rondesh's body with others is quite unequal. He carried a large wooden magic unloader with the top end of the spiral, then in the middle was a shiny black magic ball.

The magic ball is colorless because it has not been channeled by magic by Rondesh, the ball does already have magic energy, but the color will be more striking when it gets additional magic energy from its users.

He was the mage in this party. It looks so obvious. While the three people in front of him were three experienced people who had been unfortunate as adventurers.

Joseph, is the leader of this party. His body was heavy and his body was tall. With so many scars all over his body and a huge sword in front of the robe on his back, it proved that his strength was not just talk.

He also exuded the aura of someone in charge of the person below him. Although people also immediately know that he is a muscle brain.

Then there's Arnold, he also has big muscles and a big body. With a hansaplast on his nostrils and carrying a large shield he held in his left hand, made him a tanker in this party.

His eyes looked more gracious and kind than Joseph's, but he still obeyed Joseph's wishes because he believed in his strength and their party.

Then the last one was Miranda, she was the only female in this party. But even so, the muscle mass on his body was also much larger and stockier than Rondesh. He carried a large mace in his right hand as his flagship weapon.

The three of them were experienced and powerful parties. No one doubts them. But there was one flaw that they could not cover, which was the lack of magic power.

They were all close combat types that relied on speed, strength and fighting techniques. But the three of them realized that it was not enough. They need great strength that can not be produced by long hours of physical exercise or just rely on fighting instinct.

So they recruited Rondesh. Although still young and mentally still weak, but if with them everything will be safe, according to them. Even if you have to get into the most dangerous forest at once.

"Nee, what exactly are we looking for here?" ask Rondesh. "Do you know the Legendary Dragon Gaia?" but Joseph asked back, as he continued walking.

"Hn? Of course I know. He is a legendary pet god whose existence is worshipped by the citizens of Lux Aeterna, right? But isn't her whereabouts really hard to find, huh?"

"About a month ago, I heard from a trusted informant that Naga Gaia had stopped here for a while."

"What?! No way?! That means we're here to look for him?" Rondesh clasped his hands together and lowered his head to offer prayers to the Gaia Dragon whom they worshipped as the pet god.

"No, it looks like he's gone from here. Moreover, the incident had passed long enough. So what we're after right now is the scales."

"His scales?"

"Yes, because his body is too big. Legendary Dragon Gaia fights by creating clones of herself from her scales whose size can reach the height of one adult. And that's what we're after right now."

"Seeking ... Gaia's Dragon scales?" Rondesh doesn't believe what he's hearing. He also could not help his frustration and tightly grasped his magic wand. "Are you crazy?!"

"Hn? Why suddenly?"

"What we're talking about is the Legendary Dragon! The le-gen-da-ris! Do you want to hunt down something that everyone in the city worships?!"

Joseph, Miranda, and Arnold see each other after hearing Rondesh's words. But after that, they laughed very loudly as if it was something funny.

They still did not stop laughing for a while until Joseph signed his hand for the others to stop laughing.

After that, he walked over to Rondesh and slightly lowered his head to keep them level. "Listen here Rondesh, did you know that their scales are considered pests by the inhabitants of this forest?"

"Really?"

Rondesh's anger subsided. He's smart enough to know the reason now and finally the protest wasn't so he did. "All right, I get it."

"Yes! Now stay near us. Because if you let your guard down a little, then you will lose your life in this Jinnestan Forest!"

Miranda and Arnold smiled because Joseph could give an acceptable reason to Joseph. And that way, the journey to find Gaia's scales clone continued.

**

Do you know what I'm feeling now? Yeah, correct. I'm satiety.

Ever since I defeated Neigh, I haven't come out of this cave and I've eaten Neigh's entire body. But of course I realized what I would get if I ate his body raw.

I'm poisoned. My HP bar was reduced bit by bit every time I chewed Neigh's meat. Then when I had already reached a dangerous limit on my HP bar, I put on the [Healing] Skill until the bar was full again.

If you ask me if Neigh meat tastes good or not. Waw. That's bad, even disgusting. His purple blood burns my mouth every time I chew. And you can imagine how tormented I was when I had to make it into a main course for one week.

Ja. I was here for a week because I wanted to finish Neigh's body. The body of his unpleasant large spider was forced to eat while gathering back my strength and all of them increasing my level.

What's?! You ask why I spend so much time in this place and eating such disgusting foods? Kufufu .. here let me give you a knowledge.

This world runs on an RPG-like system as a life support for living things here. And the system gives living beings skills that can be obtained in various ways.

There is a shortcut with the [Blessing of God] Skill that I have, but it seems like not everyone in this world has it. Then the second way that is easier and common to do, but also more troublesome, is to get it manually.

Is correct. All you need to do is repeat the activities you do continue, continue, continue, continue, continue until you get the Skills you want.

I can give you an example like if a woodworker who continues to polish and shape wood into various kinds of furniture, then in this world he will get a Skill related to wood craftsmanship.

That goes for me now too. I kept eating Neigh until only the bones were left. When it was on the fourth day and ate about half Neigh's body. I finally got it and at that time I had to be honest, if I was happy I wanted to shed tears.

I got the Skill [Eater Lv. 1]. That means I can eat any living thing and always get EXP points to add my level. Really great skill! Just incredible! And the person who thought about it was even more incredible! That's me.

I stood puffing my chest over the skeletal bones of Neigh who no longer had any flesh. Oh right, I also obtained other Skills namely [Poison Resistance] and [Hypnotic Resistance] for Passive Skills.

It seems like since I ate too much of Neigh's poisonous meat and didn't die, that's why I got that Skill. While for [Hypnotic Resistance] it felt because I managed to get aware of the hypnosis given by Neigh before.

And as for the Active Skill .. I got something that I don't really understand. I obtained the [Dark Domain] Skill. If I examine the explanation well, it seems .. I can create a dimension of my own and trap enemies in it.

Hm? What is the advantage of me catching him? What if he's stronger than me? Then if the enemy is bigger than me, what dimension can I create also trap him?

"Yes, stop. Later will also know for myself," muttered I who was half concerned with the Active Skill I had obtained earlier.

I then stood up and looked towards the [Shadow Construct] I created to seal the entrance hole. I think it's time for me to get out of here. My goal has been achieved and there is nothing more I can do.

My level has also risen to level 38 thanks to [Eater]. I took the horses and jumped hard up, destroying the previously neatly arranged skeleton of Neigh.

"[Shadow Construct: Wall, Off] !!"

I deactivated the [Shadow Construct] Skill and some of the small spiders were still waiting for me there and some had fallen because of my Skill that disappeared suddenly. You guys are so patient, huh? Thank you for waiting for me then.

"It's a gift for being patiently waiting for me!"

I whipped out the scythe on my back and activated the [Shadow] Skill. Five shadow clones of myself appeared with a black scythe that was also in his hand. Is correct. Now my shadow clone can already hold a weapon. In addition to eating, of course I also train other things.

"Then, adios everything!"

And what followed was the slaughter of the kroco spiders. As I continued to move, I and my shadows finished off all the spiders that were blocking the way and tried to attack me.

Our movement was unstoppable and I finally came out easily from the cave that was so difficult for me. While on the lip of the cave, I saltoed forward and threw the scythe upwards, while I landed in the pose of 'superhero landing' and caught the spinning scythe in free fall with my left hand.

"I swear, I'm so cool." I'm talking to myself. Even I managed to get two levels and now my level is even Level 40.

"Mirandah! Be careful with the tail!"

"??!!"

As I was admiring myself, suddenly the sound of someone shouting distracted me.

Uh ...?

Wait ....

Shouts someone?! Is there anyone else in the forest?! I mean, a real human being?!

I who realized that without further ado came straight to the source of the shout and watched it from behind the bushes so that they could not see me.

My eyes were wide and my mouth was open. What I saw was really another human being. It wasn't a big monster or a strange animal, it was really another human!

Pimply. I could not hide my pleasure and wanted to go straight to them. But I just realized they were busy. Yep. They were fighting against other huge monsters.