Chapter 6: Preparations for the Second Layer

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Well, that was quite the information I got and I am quite thankful that I have [Guide] as my skill, I don't like that slime having Great Sage as his skill, but now, I am not the one to talk because I will get my ass handed to me if I didn't ever ask about this layering stuff, at first,  I thought that this forest is on easy mode because the early parts of my adventure turned into a garden stroll but seeing that only a woman, a single one managed to transverse this forest from one end to the other, well I have to revise my plans.

I got to use anything I have, first I need to identify between layers properly to not be mistaken by the all-green appearance of the forest, thinking so, I asked [Guide].

[Guide], is it alright if I disturbed you to mark the layers of the forest with different colors? Like, give the trees of different layers different colors away from the color green for me to be able to distinguish them properly?

I asked this request because no matter how intelligent I am, this forest is alien to me and I cannot distinguish between layers I am so sure that my being a daughter of god will not give me any divine protection, if it did, then there will be no bunny that got his skull destroyed because of him eating my fruits and leaving some leftover behind.

My skill immediately replied with his monotone voice, by the way, he doesn't sound like Siri, he sounds like a man.

[Master, Yes, adjusting master's vision to adapt to her requests in...

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The layers of the forest will be as follows starting from the first layer:

Green, Red, Blue, Pink, and Black]

Wow, that color pattern fucking sucks, I bet if visual artists see this they will punch you to death, Haha!

[Master, Do not worry, I am a skill, they cannot do such a thing.]

I know that, it's just a joke, you idiot.

Anyway, I ignored the uncooperative skill who cannot understand jokes and asked my next question.

[Guide], can you give me the whole bestiary of the forest? I asked the question with crossed fingers and as expected it didn't work.

[Master, the god of undead founds it too advantageous for you to have the knowledge of all the forests' monsters' identities and will act as a detriment in your growth by you growing too confident.

The god of undead wants you to first make it to the center layer of the forest before giving you the bestiary]

The answer ended and I can't help but sigh, well I didn't expect much, its true and it made sense that pops doesn't want me to rely on a unique skill, but still I am his girl so I gave it a shot, after all, fathers tend to spoil their daughter.

Or so I have been told.

Anyway, it seems that the only help I can get from [Guide] is the color division of the five layers and everything else will be depending on my power, well I am not complaining because this alone is a big help so that I will not blindly walk around and I can also readjust my plans according to the layer I am in.

Hmm... What else can I do... Well, I guess for now the preparations for the second layer are already ample, I bet that that layer is the layer I will be starting my grinding, so I got to grind my skills as of now, I lack the materials though and it seems like a real sword is needed to learn the [Swordmanship] skill, the [Spearmanship] skill is learned because spear and staff have almost the same fighting style, that's my speculation and I can already affirm that.

So what I did is to continuously use the [Throw] skill and at first I thought that I am using it, but the skill I am using it seems is the [Aim] skill.

Notice[ Continuous Training has increased the level of the passive skill [Aim]

[Aim LVL 2]: Adds 7% chance to make the projectile you have thrown or attack you have unleashed to perfectly hit the target.]

But why is it that it is only aim that is being upgraded? I was about to ask [Guide] but another notification popped out with the ever-so-usual dinging sound.

Notice[ Continuous Training has increased the level of the common skill [Throw]

[Throw LVL 2]: Throws projectiles to the enemies, the projectiles can be applied with magic.]

Oh, now the notification is not in clusters, it seems like Siri is not lazy now, more importantly, it seems like it is just slower to level up skills when the target is not living the two skills that I am continuously using after all this time just got upgraded three days after my acquisition, this suggests that I have to go to the second layer as fast as possible to make this damn skills of mine upgrade, I have to find a way to learn magic without reading a magic book, though that would take a lot of time, more so that [Throw] can already be buffed by magic.

I continued to use my [Aim] and [Throw] to collect fruits, while Philo headbutts the thinner trees and lets the contents of the tree fall, this little grinding/resource replenishing activity lasted for a while now and the sun is about to set, we found a relatively tall bush which is conveniently in a quadratic shape with the clearing in its middle as I said mostly herbivores that have scaredy cat predators are in here so I am sure that this "walls" are enough for now, but of course, I still have to be careful after all there can be creatures in here like goblins that are weak but are intelligent as a human... At least to a certain extent.

And so... We two don't have anything to do right now and we are just staring at each other like first-time couples, this is rather awkward, I gave his name a good consideration and I didn't realize that Philo is a low-level undead cannot speak and just basically a moving corpse, dang it I have to work hard so that I can have a talking buddy in my walks, but still, affirming that I'll work hard so that I will not be talking to myself doesn't change the fact that I am bored, I think I ate some fruit that Makes me unable to sleep early, even my newborn body still wanna move around.

I started to get bored right now so I did everything I want, I played with my drool-making bubbles, and I Draw on the ground, I am also quite interested in the new wonders of my brand new gender but that will be a crime, so I refrained from doing so, I will leave it until I became an attractive teenager, that will not take a long time as far as my unique skills given to me by pops is to consider.

ARGH! BORING! GOT NOTHING TO DO!

I want this shit to be just a Virtual Reality so that I can log out anytime I want, but this is reality, and logging out means I have to be six feet fucking under. Thinking so, I looked at Philo who is staring at the basket of fruits and the pile of stones I prepared to use as some kind of anti-siege weapon (Don't Laugh) as if to guard it but I am sure that he cannot just have his own free will.

I walked a little bit into him, the sun is setting but I cannot take it to just wait until it went down, so I did is I went and picked Philo's face up and as I thought, I immediately found something of interest, Philo's face alongside his skull was wrecked because of my catapult-like attack, but when I turned him into an undead it was fixed with Mysterious magic and came with stitches, many of them.

First, I thought that the stitches are just part of the aesthetic, I mean it an undead and all so if it didn't turn into a skeleton, that second trope is to have the undead subordinate some kind of stitches here and there, but the stitches of Philo is true, it has texture and it looks quite a fresh hell the threads used is surgical, furthermore, it was very detailed that I won't believe that this thing is just for show.

[Guide] why are the stitches of Philo so real? Or it is really real?

[Master, yes the stitches of the Undead came naturally from your unique skill [Necromancer], the stitches are to repair the damaged part of the Undead and as you have speculated, it also added a touch of being an Undead.]

Huh... So both functionality and appearance huh? That's good and all, but won't the surgical threads be ripped open if he continuously used his head to headbutt things?

[Master, you need not worry, the stitches are being held by your Unique skill [Necromancy], and as long as you're alive, the undead under your command shall also not die.]

Huh I see, that's something, it seems like Pop thought of his new concept of power, having thought of both looks and functionality, to be expected of a god.

I continued to inspect the body of my undead bunny, his body is cold, stone cold because it was already just a corpse, I didn't notice that the sun has long been gone, I strained my eyes so that I can see every nook and cranny of his body and as I am starting to look like a fucking pervert here, a notification appeared dinging in my ear.

Notice[ Continuous training has gained you the required proficiency to acquire the skill [Dark Vision].

[Dark Vision]: Unevolved form of Night Vision, lets a person see in the darkness with blurred perception, the perception will increase per level.]

Ohoho, neat, that was quite a pleasant surprise, I am only looking intently into the body of the undead because I am curious but who would have thought that, that action will give me some new skill, now my vision started to become clear but in the darkness, it is still like an analog TV that is blurred but not blurred enough to not be able to see anything.

Now that I got it might as well get the whole package, that damn system is such a cheapskate that it didn't even give me night vision already, thinking so I started to once again stare at things, Philo, to the basket to the rocks to the bushes, I even looked outside even though my blood was pumping, good thing that I didn't saw any kind of wolves staring right on top of us, I repeated this motion and it will take quite a long while because it is hard to get acquisition by manually doing stuff, but still Dark Vision's target is darkness so that restriction was dodged in a beautiful spin and after about an hour, my vision of the night became as bright as a day as another sweet as apple notification sounded in my ear.

Notice[ Continuous training has max leveled your skill [Dark Vision] and changed it into [Night Vision].

[Night Vision]: Lets an individual see into the darkness as if it was the same as day, due to the skill being already in its final form, it cannot further be evolved.]

Woooh! Hooo! A baddie is officially in town baby!

... Ahem, turned American for a moment there, but anyway now that I got what I want, I decided to sleep letting Philo go back to his guarding position, and the moment I woke up, an arrow struck in front of me, just an inch away from my forehead.

I immediately ordered Philo to attack the assailant so that we will have the element of surprise.

Damn it, we have unwanted company.