NOVEL SIMPLE B1 | Chapter 14 - Reward
Alexia Knight
The chest itself, I find after entering the room and walking up to it, is made out of the same carapace as the mother feeder has. And it has a large version of the mother feeder’s head on the front.
Without wasting any time, I reach out and touch the chest, making the top open up with a flash of light before an outfit appears above it. And I immediately let out a sigh of relief at what I find. Although I wouldn’t exactly call it armor.
The outfit is purple in color and has a few parts to it, with a mostly sleeveless top that covers all of my torso and has a small cape-like part extending from the belt downwards for about a third of a meter or so in a rather jagged manner, some bracers covering the forearms and wrists, and a pair of pants. And overall, the top looks like it’s made out of a mixture of the bug’s carapace and random silk, while the bracers are purely made out of carapace, and the bottoms seemingly made out of silk. The only things that the outfit doesn’t cover are the arms from the upper arms down to the elbows, along with the head.
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Wrap of the Feeder
Description: This set of clothing is on the border between being armor and being clothing, granting comfort for the wearer along with basic durability, protecting them from damage done to the covered areas on the wearer’s body. The set is resistant to poisons. This set has been created to perfectly fit the original finder, Alexia Knight.
Stats Bonus: +3 VIT, +3 DEX
Requirements: None.
Item Tier: 1
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Well, it’s clothing. I don’t care if it’s the greatest at protecting me.
And besides. Anything’s better than the trash armor the System gave me to start out with anyways. Armor that didn’t give any stats in the first place.
Not to mention that the new armor looks more comfortable too.
I keep an eye on the crevasses that the lesser feeders flew off into just in case they come back, although I’m pretty sure they won’t. Not now that their mother is dead. There isn’t a reason to after all. They’ll just go off at random until they find a new swarm to join. Assuming this boss room even lets them out that is.
But still, I take off the last remaining pauldron of my old armor, the rest of it having already fallen off, before putting on the new outfit over my under armor. Only to realize that the perfect fitting it mentioned makes the under armor unusable as it clearly wasn’t designed for under armor. So I take that off too before I put the new set on.
Then I stretch a little afterwards to test out its freedom of movement, finding it to be a large improvement from the other armor I was wearing. Even if it’s still far inferior to what I’m used to from prior to the Reset.
I think I’m happier about the outfit itself rather than having ‘armor’ again though.
Better to have something than nothing after all.
Anyways, clothing situation settled, I finally unhide my System Messages.
[Level 15 Lesser Feeder Defeated. User’s earned EXP has been increased a slight amount due to killing a being whose level is higher than their own.] x14
[Three points have been earned for killing a creature two levels above you.] x14
{Congratulations! You have leveled up to level 14! Your Species has awarded you +2 VIT, +2 DEX, +2 STR, +2 MAG, and +2 MEN. Your Class has awarded you +1 VIT, +1 DEX, +1 STR, +2 MAG, and +2 MEN.}
[Level 15 Lesser Feeder Defeated. User’s earned EXP has been increased a slight amount due to killing a being whose level is higher than their own.] x18
[Two points have been earned for killing a creature one level above you.] x18
{Congratulations! You have leveled up to level 15! Your Species has awarded you +2 VIT, +2 DEX, +2 STR, +2 MAG, and +2 MEN. Your Class has awarded you +1 VIT, +1 DEX, +1 STR, +2 MAG, and +2 MEN.}
[*New Passive Skill* – Quantum Singularity: Further stabilizes the user’s place in reality and the quantum realm, making skills and magics with any relation to the quantum have less effect on the user. Potentially affects time magic, space magic, soul magic, death magic, and other magics that directly affect reality itself in some way shape or form. Skill is automatically slotted due to free open slots.]
[Level 15 Lesser Feeder Defeated.] x26
[One point has been earned for killing a creature at the same level as you.] x26
{Congratulations! You have leveled up to level 16! Your Species has awarded you +2 VIT, +2 DEX, +2 STR, +2 MAG, and +2 MEN. Your Class has awarded you +1 VIT, +1 DEX, +1 STR, +2 MAG, and +2 MEN.}
[Level 15 Lesser Feeder Defeated. User’s earned EXP has been decreased a slight amount due to killing a being whose level is lower than their own.] x42
{Congratulations! You have leveled up to level 17! Your Species has awarded you +2 VIT, +2 DEX, +2 STR, +2 MAG, and +2 MEN. Your Class has awarded you +1 VIT, +1 DEX, +1 STR, +2 MAG, and +2 MEN.}
{Congratulations! Your Active Skill ‘Quantum Bolt’ has reached Level 3!}
[Level 17 Lesser Mother Feeder Defeated.]
I narrow my eyes slightly at the new passive skill before sighing.
It’s a really good skill. For higher Tiers.
I have never once heard of a single person with any of those types of magics at Tier 1. Not even at Tier 2, actually.
So it’ll probably be a great skill to have in the future since those are all incredibly powerful and dangerous magics. But right now it’s useless.
I sigh again before looking around the cavern to find another narrow tunnel entrance like the one I entered the cavern through. Except this one isn’t smashed apart.
After sending a brief glance at the under armor, which is still pretty badly damaged, I decide to bring it with me for the moment until I leave the boss room. Specifically because I might want it back later but don’t need it now, and I won’t be able to come back into the boss room if I leave.
So I pick it up and make my way out of the cavern before continuing on through the tunnel, finding it completely barren of feeders in the process. And eventually I leave the boss room entirely.
Then I soon find the tunnel opening up into an incredibly large cavern with a large maze beneath filled with cobwebs and large spiders.
{Lesser Arachnid – Level 21}
{Lesser Arachnid – Level 25}
{Lesser Arachnid – Level 20}
{Lesser Arachnid – Level 23}
{Lesser Arachnid – Level 22}
I blink at the sight of the spiders' levels, briefly wondering how I’m gonna survive in this place. But then I remember the fact that these are Class E species while I’m Class S. So I should survive.
Probably.
That depressing thought aside though, I dump my under armor onto the ground near me before sitting down on a random rock.
I still haven’t felt hungry nor thirsty this whole time, so I guess that really is an effect of my species. But don’t all creatures need some form of nourishment to live? Or do quantum entities just defy the laws of reality?
Then again, the strongest quantum entity kind of warped the laws of reality with the System he created, so… maybe? I could also just be sustaining myself on the quantum energy around me. I think I’ve heard that some species sustain themselves solely through elemental energy. It could be possible for me to be one of them.
Come to think of it, I haven’t checked the leaderboards in a while.
[#1 Alexia Knight – 161 points]
[#2 Lucas Nightshade – 108 points]
[#3 Aurora Frost – 94 points]
[#4 Leif Eriksson – 91 points]
[#5 Leonidas Silver – 84 points]
[#6 Alexander Frost – 84 points]
[#7 Isabella d'Aragon – 80 points]
[#8 Noah Kowalski – 78 points]
[#9 Damien Black – 76 points]
[#10 Nathan Briar – 75 points]
Oh. Wow. Guess killing those pests helped me even more than I expected.
Huh.
I look around at the large cavern before noticing some odd sort of fluctuations in my senses. And it takes me a few seconds due to my exhaustion to realize that it’s a quantum barrier.
A Safe Zone. I’m in a Safe Zone.
I smile at that realization before falling onto my back and closing my eyes, finally letting my exhaustion take me, comforted by the fact that no monster can get into the Safe Zone.