They Gave Me the Useless [Harvesting] Skill, So I Decided to Reap Their Souls Instead!

Episode 2: The Awakening

Kraków — The Night Everything Ended

The shrine was older than anything Miśko had ever studied.

Someone burned this. Deliberately. The fire started from the inside.

He'd dragged the thing almost a kilometer through the forest.

Miśko Let's see what a Guślarz can actually do.

Drowner's Essence (Crude). Properties: Water Affinity, Minor Curse Residue, Spectral Binding Compatible.

He spoke a word from a seventeenth-century manuscript. The essence sank into the wood.

Drowner's Bane (Crude Totem Staff). +5 Water Curse Damage. Passive: Drowner Sense.

Miśko I made a weapon out of a dead monster's soul. And it's bound to my pulse. This is either the most metal thing that has ever happened, or I am in serious trouble.

Miśko You beautiful, disgusting plants.

The taste was an atrocity. Bitter in ways that transcended the concept of bitterness.

The PTSD hit like a freight train. For three awful seconds he was back in his apartment in Kraków.

Miśko Tomorrow I go deeper. I find more of them. I harvest more. I craft more.

Navia — The Awakening

The howl came again — closer, higher-pitched, with a wet clicking undertone. Not a Drowner. Something airborne. Something with wings.

The harvest wasn't over. It was just getting started.