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Chapter 23 - Mad Scientist

Greyson knew Anna might be a little crazy, but walking over to the area she set up to dissect the dead Spiked rabbits was gruesome to say the least.

"Hmm, this organ is crushed, can't use that." (Anna)

She was mumbling to herself, tossing crushed organs into a specific bowl. Blood coated the apron she was wearing as she was taking notes. Until at one point she stopped.

"Well, that's new." (Anna)

"What is?" (Greyson)

"I learned another skill." (Anna)

"You know what, I feel like you're like the skill vendor because you keep coming out with another skill." (Kyle)

"I only have three skills right now." (Anna)

"Exactly, I don't even have one." (Kyle)

Anna knew he had a point, but he constantly changed how he fought or did things. She doubted any skill would form for him.

"Oh, are the survivors settling in?" (Anna)

"Since we wiped out the monsters, they have been clearing out the barn. Right now, they are trying to see if they can move an old tractor out of the barn since it has no use." (Mark) 

"Still in pain?" (Anna)

"I can feel my bones in my hand fusing back together. Yes, I'm still in pain, it is just bearable right now." (Mark)

Anna thought for a while, using her new ability to examine the parts she extracted from the corpses of the twenty dead spiked rabbits.

"Oh, tell them to experiment to see how big or heavy an item can fit into their inventory. I already tried to see if living animals can go in. Sadly, they cannot." (Anna)

"More things you want to test, really?" (Greyson)

She has been asking them to do a lot while she experimented. It is almost dark, and she is still working on things.

"Fine, just tell them to try to use their inventory if it works, they won't have to push it out of the barn, or they might be able to take it apart and move all of the parts with it in their inventory. Makes manual labor a lot simpler." (Anna)

"Point taken." (Greyson)

Greyson moved to take care of it, but Mark stood up.

"Sorry, man, I'll take care of mindless tasks like this. Useless hand and all that." (Mark)

"So what skill did you get?" (Greyson)

"Hmm, it's called..." (Anna)

[Analyze organics:

A skill desired by those who aspire to understand Anatomy. You have grown closer to what you did not understand by cutting apart monster corpses and studying their organs. You have gained this skill that will allow you to learn more about your studies. This skill is currently restricted to enabling you to see only information on organic materials.]

[Analyze Organics Level 1: 

Level one, you are no identification master but have sought unknown knowledge. You can now see if what you are looking at can be consumed. That is the only purpose you have sought for this skill for some odd reason. More abilities will be unlocked at level 5.]

[Ability available at level 5. Useful flesh: You can identify any part of a creature and instinctively understand its possible use. You may not be a crafter, but with this, you can no longer waste what you have on hand.]

Anna smiled slightly. Yeah, its descriptions were very personalized, and sometimes she felt called out, but she can't change that. It does what she wanted.

"Hello, miss... are you in the middle of something?" (Charles)

Anna was covered in blood and had a goofy smile on her face that was probably a little terrifying, so she stopped smiling and started to clean up her area, moving the meat around and moving the inedible parts to the side.

"Oh, hi, I wanted to talk to you. Do you have someone who knows how to process meat, and does anyone have any cooking supplies? Also, the spiked rabbits are edible, so you all have a valuable resource called food. Or livestock of those rabbit creatures either way."

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