Playing Waterbending (Avatar: Last Aibender SI)

I couldn't help but heave a sigh while sleeping peacefully inside my ice house. As a native of the South Pole and a waterbender, I could build these houses easily.

They were cold on the outside and warm on the inside. One advantage was that they would be avoided by cold-blooded predators that lurked at night. The best advantage, however, was that it was made of ice, making it good for both defense and offense. I had a few triggered traps set up to make a noise in case something approached. Not to mention, I was half an hour away from the forest.

This was the safest thing I could do for now.

Other than that, today had been quite productive.

Not only did I gain experience points and increase the experience bar for waterbending, but I had also learned something. If I could learn advanced skills, my level would jump higher, and I had been thinking of many strategies to deploy.

One of the strategies I had thought of was spreading water on the ground and turning it into ice, so I would have an advantage against firebenders. Most firebenders depend on their feet. If you make the ground slippery, they are as good as non-benders.

Anyways, I had five days left until the execution, and I wasn't even halfway to leveling up my waterbending.

Day 2:

Today, while hunting the wolves, I noticed something.

The experience that I was getting decreased. All I managed to get from defeating a big wolf was only 1200 experience, despite having my title on.

I guess getting stronger had its downsides as well.

"It's not like I can blame the system," I muttered to myself.

One large mutt was running toward me at incredible speed.

I tapped the wet ground with my foot. Ice spread from the point where I stepped, turning the ground into ice. The wolf lost its balance, tilted, and fell while rolling on the ground.

I thrust my spear into its neck.

[Hunting up to level 9]

Hunting, despite not being a waterbending skill, was very practical. It helped increase the success rate and my accuracy. Combining it with waterbending could turn me into a sniper. Though, the further the distance, the lower the success rate.

Anyways, I put my hand on the newly defeated animal and froze its body.

The prey was getting scarcer, so I started thinking that I should start hunting docile animals.

Excessive hunting was bad, though. It would make the predators go on a rampage and attack each other.

But the thing that I didn't have was time.

I needed power urgently.

On the positive side, I was developing ways to deal with enemies.

Seeing that I had a few experience points left before leveling up my Chi Bending, I decided to invest in it.

[Chi Bending up to level 8]

[The ability to bend one self's blood to boost power has been added.]

[The skill is harmful and do self damage in exchange for greater power]

I took a look at my skills.

[-Skill Trees:

Waterbending - 9 (10,000/30,000)

Chi Bending - 8

-Skills:

Hunting - 9

Fishing - 4

Freeze - 8

-Titles: (1/1)

The Beast Hunter]

Accumulated Experience: 73,000

'On second thought, no matter how strong I get, I'll still be human. So, maybe I should try sneaking up on animals and see if I can unlock a Stealth Skill,' I thought to myself before heading to my ice house, reinforcing it, and healing the cuts I had gotten from the spikes and some bad moments.

Day 4:

Nothing interesting happened on day three except that I got halfway to level 10 through my efforts alone. In total, I had accumulated around 150,000 experience points, ready to be used at any time.

My Freeze skill had finally reached the ninth level, and I had gained a new skill through sneaking up behind animals.

[+ Skill: Stealth (Passive) level 1]

[Reduces the presence and sound produced by the user. Lowers the chance of being detected from a blind spot.]

On the other hand, I was in the worst mental and physical state possible.

There were dark bags under my eyes, my clothes had been torn, and I believe I had lost a couple of kilograms. What's worse, I didn't even remember the self-bet I made. Would it still be gay if I used the accumulated experience points? But I didn't remember thinking about that.

Such questions kept me awake in my ice house, doing exercises to increase my experience points.

'Even so, I would still have to face that centipede. There are 2 days left until the execution, so tomorrow will be the day I test myself against it. If I don't do any damage despite the training, Haru, I'm sorry; you will be remembered. If I manage to do something to it, I will attack the Fire Nation Base,' I thought to myself.

I was currently next to my ice house. I had a stick of ice linking two frozen barbells, each weighing hundreds of kilograms, and I was curling them up.

You may be wondering if I had become superhuman to lift such heavy weights.

Well, in fact, I was using waterbending. And the goal wasn't to lift the water but to lift the wooden container.

[Waterbending +100 exp]

[Waterbending +100 exp] ...

Day 5:

I was pretty confused as to whether this was the fifth day or the sixth day.

My stupid ego had led me to grind all day long, and I didn't notice when I fell asleep. When I woke up, it took me a while to figure out what time of day it was. It was before sunset.

And luckily, the system had a notification log, which was well-timed, so I could easily tell that I hadn't overslept into the sixth day.

'For some reason, I thought the sun was rising from the west,' I thought.

[Waterbending level 9 (29,000/30,000)]

I was only one thousand experience points short from proving to myself that I was straight. I hurriedly did more curls with water and tried more complicated tasks, like eating with water tentacles. Thankfully, it took only half an hour to accumulate that much, and it didn't drain too much energy.

[Waterbending up to level 10 (0/60,000)]

Since I was going to hunt a centipede and move at night, I figured I could use my newly acquired skills and level up some others. I had over 150,000 experience points, which would be enough to upgrade my waterbending by one more level. But after that, I would need 120,000, as the system would double the required amount, and I wouldn't have enough by then—only around 90,000.

90,000 experience points, however, were essential.

My strongest weapon now was using the freezing skill, and I had adapted to its application over the last few days. It had reached the 9th level, making it quite overpowered. I decided that if my freezing wasn't cold enough to beat a strong monster, I would leave just enough experience points to level it up, which was around 20,000 now.

Time to see if my effort had paid off.

[Using 60,000 accumulated experience points]

[Waterbending up to level 11 (0/120,000)]

[Using 12,700 accumulated experience points]

[Stealth up to level 8]

[Using 15,000 experience points]

[Chi Bending up to level 9]

[Able to infuse Chi into fists and kicks to boost damage]

[Using 30,000 experience points]

[Chi Bending up to level 10]

[40% less Chi required when bending.]

[Able to increase speed and power by 60%]

I then looked at my stats.

[

-Skill Trees:

Waterbending - 11

Chi Bending - 10

-Skills:

Hunting - 9

Fishing - 4

Freeze - 9

Stealth (Passive) - 8

Titles: (1/1)

The Beast Hunter

Accumulated Experience: 32,000]

An unlimited amount of information and muscle memory appeared out of nowhere, reminding me of the time I gained consciousness at 3-4 years old. I felt like Neo from The Matrix movie when he said that he knew Kung Fu.

I would have felt proud if not for the fact that I had to face a wreck tomorrow, and before that, I had to follow the plan I had made to face the 20-meter centipede.

Initially, I planned to face it as soon as I got waterbending to level 10. But now, I had it at level 11. And between each level, there was an exponential requirement to ascend, and moreover, exponential growth.

Last time I reached a new level, I could control tentacles on my shoulders with a twitch and even shoot pellets.

Now, I was quite excited to test it.

Before the battle, I decided to run a small test.