Skill Creation in the Fantasy World

As Felix stood in the middle of a gang of bloodthirsty Orcs who were dying to rush at him, numerous ideas flew right through his head on how to deal with the situation.

'I could use Earth Swimming and go hiding again before sneaking attacks at them, but....'

He glanced at the growling monsters around him with narrowed eyes.

All of them had their eyes fixed on him as they were afraid he would escape right under their nose again like he had done the previous times.

'.....I'm tired of always running away.'

Before the Orcs could rush at him, Felix had made a decision and started his plan.

"Quicksand!"

With him as the centre, the surrounding land started to soften which irked the Orcs to take a step back.

Altogether there were four Rank 2 Orcs and about fifty Rank 1 Orcs, who were all separated from Felix by the quicksand area.

"What happened? You're not going to come now?", mocked Felix with a smirk as he wiggled his finger at them.

The Rank 2 Orcs gritted their teeth in agitation and roared furiously before leading the other Orcs into the quicksand.

"Greeaahhh!!"

Gripping his sword, Felix turned serious and eyed the monsters coming towards him from all directions while struggling through the quicksand.

"That's more like it."

He waited for them to approach him and continued using the skill 'Quicksand' to disturb the Orc's movement.

When one of the Rank 2 Orcs had arrived a few meters away from him, Felix initiated the attack.

"Agility Burst!"

He kicked off from the small solid ground he was on and jumped towards his first target.

The Orc was surprised when the human suddenly appeared onto him from a few meters away, but it responded quickly by raising its weapon to block any attacks.

Sadly, its action was useless as instead of attacking, Felix used the Orc's weapon as a stepping stone and jumped away towards a nearby Rank 1 Orc.

Swinging his shortsword, Felix applied the inertia of his force and easily cleaved through the Orc to its chest.

After killing one of the Orcs, he landed on its body which was falling down and again jumped towards another Orc.

Similarly, he continued killing the weaker Orcs one by one by occasionally using 'Agility Burst' or 'Earth Spikes' to prevent himself from getting harmed and to divert their attention.

"KRRWAHH!!"

The Rank 2 Orcs screamed in agony for losing their kinfolk right in front of their eyes while they could only struggle their way around the area of quicksand.

Watching him killing off plenty of Rank 1 Orcs, the ones farther away stopped their march in fear of losing their lives.

After taking out only around twenty of the fifty Rank 1 Orcs, Felix stopped his rampage as the others seemed to avoid getting close to him.

He turned to stare at the four Rank 2 Orcs who had gathered together and were forcing their lower bodies to move in the quicksand towards him.

The corpses of the Rank 1 Orcs lay all about the quicksand area, providing as stepping stones for movement to Felix.

But the same couldn't be said for the Orcs as they were too big to walk on the bodies of the dead Orcs so they could only push themselves in the semi-solid ground.

"It's time to end this."

Felix skipped on the surrounding corpses and made his way towards them while sending them attacks.

"Earth Spikes!"

The Orcs were already used to seeing this same skill again and again kill their folks, so they easily blocked and destroyed the spikes attacking them.

'This is going to be tough...'

Felix arrived beside them and attacked the rightmost Orc as he didn't want to get surrounded by all four of them in close quarters.

The Orc swung its weapon with all of its might to kill the human.

"Dust Blast!"

And instead of a clash of weapons, Felix used another of his skill on all four of them.

With its lower body jammed in the quicksand, and its upper body upholding the full brunt of the mini dust storm, the rightmost Orc looked like a fat piece of meat to Felix....

...which he devoured without mercy.

"Black Horizon Sword Arts: Singular Slash!"

A horizontal gleam of light spread across the neck of the Orc, before blood spurted out in a frenzy and its head slowly slid down from its neck to the quicksand below.

[You have killed a being higher than your own rank.]

[You have gained 100 skill points.]

But Felix didn't let go of this chance as he kicked away the falling head of the dead Orc, which flew over into the arms of another Orc standing furthest to it.

The Orc grabbed the head out of instinct but seeing what it was made it lose its mind for a second.

A second that Felix utilised for his own good.

"Earth Spikes!"

Sharp spikes came out from the ground and quickly pierced into the body of the surprised Orc who was still holding onto the head of its dead comrade.

Felix ignored it and jumped towards the nearest Orc from him.

He slashed at the Orc with his shortsword while he was still in the air but was met with a block as the Orc pushed him with its weapon.

Felix didn't find any corpses to step on in the area so he landed on the ground which made his legs sink into the quicksand.

"I wanted a fair fight but I guess this is it...", he muttered with a wry smile while letting out a tired breath.

Instead of struggling in the quicksand like the Orcs, Felix relaxed.

'Earth Swimming.'

His body then sank easily into the ground, stupifying the Orcs who realised that the human was just playing around with them till now.

And that he was going all out now.

They stood cautiously with their legs deep into the quicksand and surveyed the area which had gotten ominously quiet.

"GRAH!!"

Suddenly, one of the Orcs screamed in pain as it lost its balance and fell towards the ground.

The other two Orcs turned towards it in a hurry and saw that one of its legs was separated from its body and was sinking into the quicksand.

"KKEERGH!!

The injured Orc moaned in agony as it tried to pull itself back onto its feet from the quicksand that was sinking its entire fallen body.

The other two Orcs moved towards their comrade to help it, but they froze in their spots when suddenly a silver blade emerged out from the chest of the injured Orc.

"Qhiichk!"

The blade pulled itself back into the ground as the injured Orc lost the light in its eyes.

[You have killed a being higher than your own rank.]

[You have gained 100 skill points.]

The remaining two Orcs took a step back in panic, as they could do nothing but watch the other Orcs get killed one by one.

The death of so many of their tribemates and the fear of getting killed seemed to have made them go chaotic as they roared to the skies almost breaking their throats.

But their cries didn't get the sympathy of Felix as he surfaced on the ground with the eyes of a calm predator.

"Earth Spikes!"

The Orc who had caught the head of its dead comrade got attacked by sharp spikes from all four directions.

It tried to dodge and block them but its previous injuries prevented it from evading any of the spikes as it got pierced again.

The Orc's entire body got stabbed with the spikes until it could no longer move and stood there dead with the spikes supporting its corpse.

[You have killed a being higher than your own rank.]

[You have gained 100 skill points.]

The only remaining Orc had tried to help the other Orc by attacking the spikes coming at it, but it couldn't block them from all four directions.

So the Orc could only watch the last of its tribemates getting punctured by the sharp spikes before succumbing to death.

"Its only you remaining now."

Felix came out from the ground with half of his body still inside.

He calmly moved towards the Orc who stood in its spot like a frozen statue.

The Orc didn't move a muscle and simply stared at the human who had massacred its entire group of Orcs.

When Felix reached a few meters near the Orc, he stopped and looked at it in confusion.

"You've....accepted death?"

He asked curiously as the Orc continued to blankly stare at him without any emotions.

Felic rubbed his head awkwardly and muttered in a light tone.

"I had no choice, okay? Skill points are essential for my survival, and this is a dog eat dog world so...."

He suddenly stopped reasoning as he knew nothing could justify his actions of killing all of the Orcs, especially given that he would continue to do the same again and again, all for the sake of getting stronger.

"There's no point in thinking too much.", Felix shook his head as he grabbed his shortsword tightly with both of his hands.

"But the least I can do is give you a quick death."

He jumped off a corpse nearby using 'Agility Busrt' and reached beside the still Orc, before slashing his shortsword and giving it a clean slice on its neck and sending its blank-faced head flying.

[You have killed a being higher than your own rank.]

[You have gained 100 skill points.]