Author's note: Hello and thank you if you read this author's note, if not then well.... I can't say anything so this chapter is the training chapter but it had to be done so I hope you don't mind my poor writing skill in the fights.Enjoy the chapter !
Walking past dozens of corpses in the street, I didn't encounter any monsters, but the scent of death was everywhere. Five minutes later I was in the residential district, before leaving I'll search some weapons in the houses.
I entered in the nearest one, it was a two story white house, almost nothing out of common except broken windows and door, a corpse at the entrance and blood on the walls. I began to search at the first floor then the second.... but found nothing worth it, I just took all the knives I could.
When I was about to leave, I heard some noises then out of nowhere a human came in the room, no it was not a human any more.
'A human turned into a monster....? Though it's only level 15, I can easily one shot him.'
“Come at me, I'll let you leave this world.”
“URRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRG !!!”, he screamed like a beast then ran at me, it was faster than an average human but not me.
When he was near enough, I punched him with all my strength, his head exploded and it died, as any other monsters it looted a life coin however.... hi corpse didn't disappear.
“Hmm ? What's that ?”
There was a light purple crystal which was about 2cm long and 0,5cm wide. I took it and inspected it.
Monster's coreType:EnergyQuality:CommonThe shattered souls of a monster, it's found on every monster killed.
“How come the monsters I killed in the school didn't loot those crystals ?”
'There are things I can't understand for now, anyway I have to find weapons and food if I want to survive.'
After three hours I finally found a weapon... well it was a halberd I think.
'Well why was there a halberd in a house ?'
Without thinking much of it I left the house but night was coming so I'll sleep in this house. It was a two story house, windows weren't broken and the door could be closed. I decided to sleep in the bedroom on the first floor.
I was so exhausted that I fell asleep when I lied down on the bed.
*tap**tap**tap**tap**tap*tap*tap*tap*
ROOOOOOOOOOOOOAR !!!!!
BANG !
“What the fuck ?!”
Hearing all this noise I couldn't help be being awoken, I stood up, took my sword and began to leave when I saw my reflection on the mirror...
I am 1,80 tall, have black hair like before but one of my eyes turned black with hues of dark purple, but it was the same for the white of my eye, so it was really like a devil's eye. My skin turned paler and a black tattoo under my right eye, it was just like a long tear...
“Well it's not like I give a shit about it.”
I left the room and ran toward the window, I looked outside and saw three monsters looking like dogs around 2 meters tall and 2,5 meters long, huge muscles, red eyes and black fur.... but something was not right they were clearly searching something or someone.
'They are only level 21 so if they don't represent any threat for me.'
When I was thinking that a man tried to run away from those dark hounds but they heard him and was hunted down by them. I observed the scene, it's right, if I see how monster kill I can somehow gain experience.
However, the man turned his head in my direction and his sight stopped on me, I looked at him in the eyes and he ran toward the house.
'This fucker, I don't give a shit if he lives or dies, just don't get me in your stuff.'
He entered in the house while closing the door behind him then ran straight at me, he knelt and begged.
“Please ! Please ! Help me ! I'll do everything, if you save my life I'll do everything so please help me !”
This man knelt and begged in front of a man he doesn't know, a man a saw for the first time. At what extent his despair has reached to seek the help of someone like me ? Seeing how I observed him this brown haired man of around 1,80 meters was sweating bullets, his face grew paler after ten seconds.
“Please I beg of you ! I'll do everything ! Or if you can't help me please at least help my daughter ! I'll even offer my body to these starving monster to let you escape and save her ! Please... I'll do everything... I'll do... everything.....”
'Do I help him or not ? It's bothersome to help him and I don't want to have a burden after saving his life or his daughter's life.... so it's decided, I'll kill the dark hounds but I'll never travel with him or his daughter and don't expect me to save her.'
Without saying a word I sat on the sofa in front of the door and waited.
After two minutes or so, I could hear the dark hounds' steps.
'They are near.'
As I thought that I stood up and prepared to fight, or more like prepared to slaughter. The man behind me continued to kneel, his tears rolling down his cheeks and falling on the wooden floor but there is no time to think about it, every fight even against a low level monster can be deadly.
Calming myself I waited for the three dogs to enter... the door shook violently as they tried to enter, then it broke, the man's face lost all its colours as if his last sliver of hope disappeared but me ? I was not showing anything, no emotions, only a cold gaze, my sight coldly falling on the dark hounds who were jumping toward me, claws and fangs aimed at my throat.
It would be embarrassing if I showed this man my madness so I just hid my true feelings and destroyed my enemies.
The first jumping monster neared me but when he was near enough I took out my halberd from my inventory and pierced his stomach, then I stepped to my right dodging the low level second monster and took my sword in the same time, I slashed at his left side, cutting open his skin, blood flowed out of him.
I turned back at the third one and aimed my fist toward his head hoping that I could kill him in one blow. However, I wasn't so lucky or should I say, I was too cocky to think that my strength could kill him with a single punch.
He actually only lost 30% of HP so when he landed on the ground he dashed toward me with incredible speed and bite my left leg, which decided of his fate. After losing 4% of HP I used my sword and beheaded him.
'It seems I'm not that overpowered but their weakness was clearly their low resistance.... if they have low resistance at their level, then what is a strong resistance at my level ? I'm too weak for now, got some powers and though I was strong but I'm nothing in this new world. There's surely monsters a few hundred level above me in this world moreover the one who turned our world into this shit said that the world will evolve with us so the difficulty will always increase. I have to train harder than anyone, I don't want to die.'
'And if you are the strongest then no laws can affect you, I'll be free.'
“...strong- You're very strong ! Thank you for saving me !”
I finally remembered his presence and turned back at him, there was hope in his eyes but since I will no endanger my life I'll shatter it.
“I killed them, now you're safe, I will not help your daughter so leave this house.”
Saying that the man began to get angry and cursed under his breath, I ignored it and went to sleep. I had a hard time to sleep because my mind was filled with thoughts about how to get stronger, in the first place it was to increase my level by killing monsters, I can also train my stats without fighting, moreover I can develop new powers thanks to my race.
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I'll begin my training like that : Four hours of hunting monsters and six hours of training. Of course I'll begin this morning even if I didn't sleep.
When I stood up to eat a little before training I saw that the man I encountered yesterday was not there any more which caused a great beginning as I don't want to be burdened by others, I'll only fight alone.
'But he was lucky to not die in these seven months without fighting.... or maybe he...? No I'm sure he didn't dare.'
After I ate I took a knife and went to hunt monsters... well I said hunt but it's more of real fight training, my main goal is not to increase my level but my fighting prowess, to not fall behind others.
As I was searching for monsters I walked toward the shopping district and entered a huge shop, sooner than I thought I encountered monsters, they were low level compared to me but there was four of them.
Their appearance was that of black cat with dark yellow eyes. I tried to get them by surprise but they heard me and turned their head at me, one of them began to run toward me but when he was ten meter away he increased his speed.
'Fast !'
I dodged his first attack which was aimed at my throat by side stepping. The other three monsters also began to attack.
While the one who aimed at my left leg was easily dodged a second one hit my back and a third one cut my left cheek.
'They're too fast to fight in group. I'll try to train since only 6% of my health had dropped it's already regenerated.'
Deciding to use them as a training, I dodged again and again, I received a few hits but nothing too big. After half an hour I got used to their speed and continued to dodge, a cat jumped at my throat, another one ran head first toward my belly, the third one charged with his claws at my right leg and then the last cat tried to slash at my back.
I first bent my body to dodge the cat aiming at my throat, then I rolled to the right and the cat couldn't hit my leg. I rapidly stood up and jumped, the other two cats couldn't hit me, however when I was thinking I succeeded, the cats began to attack me once more, this time I was not prepared and I dodged them without moving from my place. If I dodge like that I'll consume less energy and it' will give the chance to counter attack.
I decided to train my new dodging method for now as it will help me in the future. Four hours passed by and I killed those cats, when I was back at the house I trained my endurance, my strength my agility and my proficiency with the knife because I think this kind of weapon suits my fighting style, speed, agility and endurance are the things I must increase to survive of course I'll increase the others.
I ran until I was exhausted then I ran jumped everywhere, on all kind of stuff until I got exhausted, then I did basic training such as push ups until I couldn't use my muscles any more. Six hours were used like that, I didn't gain any stats and slept.
The next morning I did the same training except I used others monsters since I couldn't find shadows cats. At the end of the day I was really excited since I gained one stats in strength, stamina, agility and dexterity.
Of course it's not enough but it means that my training isn't useless. After a week my muscles ached so much that I suffered when moving my fingers, nevertheless I didn't give up and continued. Each day I fought with different monsters again and again, I can now take up to eight opponents at the same time, I try again and again to dodge without a single hit but I'm not able to do it.
Now I run in the middle of the streets, jumping over monsters and between houses, using only speed and agility to dodge. I also used knives to fight against low level monster or simply swinging it to increase my dexterity.
'But for how many days or month will I train ? Will I train until I can easily dodge every blow while surrounded by hundreds of monsters ? I don't know.... I really don't know.... But there is no hurry, I have all the time I want, I can even train for a few years if I wanted, I need to survive not to travel around the world, and to survive I need to train first.'
Finally, deciding to train until I was sure to survive in the world, I let my mind rest until tomorrow morning....
Days, weeks, months passed by, I trained every day, obsessed by power, my level didn't increase while sweet and blood were shed, however my stats greatly increased. I could kill dozens of monsters without being hit a single time, I could run for hours, jump three meters high and use my knives to cut through any monster I encountered.
But in the end I was not satisfied with this much power, five months of training ? What does it mean if you fall in an ambush and get surrounded by thousands of monsters, what does it mean if the skin of the monster is as hard as diamond, what does it mean if you get killed in one hit ? What does it mean if in the end you died because you were not strong enough ?
'Nothing.... it means nothing.'
I was already in front of some monsters but their level increased and not by one level but a whole five levels.
Sure five levels means nothing against one enemy but when you are surrounded by dozens of lvl.22 monster or by lvl.27 monsters, there is a difference. And these little purple goblins which are named kleirts stay in group of 40 to 50 of their own.
'This time it will be hard but I'll let them know true despair.'
“Ahahahahah.... fight me and die !”
After hearing my voice all the kleirts took a battle stance with their sharp claws and fangs, emitting blood lust all over the place.
RUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUURGH !!!!
50 kleirts running at you is something frightening.... well not for me because I don't have any right to feel fear, I have to surpass my limits and survive, so no fear is allowed.
I dodged the first attack by sidestepping then I took his arm and used him as a projectile to hit another kleirt. Five of them were already in my back so I took one hundred rocks from my inventory and turned a few times on myself while releasing all the rocks at high speed and hit the five monsters, then, before other kleirts attacked me I jumped in the middle of them, killing one with my two daggers by piercing his eyes and damaging his brain.
Monsters attacked me from all sides, I side stepped, bent my body, used my arms to change the direction of their blows, counter attacked and used what I could to kill them. I received one blow on my right side, but took the kleirt used my great strength to trash him in the group of kleirt. Two monsters at my left were taken care of by pieces of glass I picked up in some houses.
'Inventory sure is great, hidden weapon is truly strong with it.'
Seven more kleirts ran toward me, I formed an arc with my hands and released two dozen knives toward them, they died with some others. Now they are less than 20 so I can easily kill them.
I let down one knife and took my halberd, killing the nearest kleirt, then retreating a few steps, they all began to run toward me so I killed two of them by launching my halberd into the group, took another knife and waited for the kleirts.
The first two got the throat cut, while turning left to right I slashed at them in a one hit one kill, after ten seconds the last one died. It was harder than before, I got hit three times.
'It's a proof that I'm not strong enough.'
I once again fought for four hours, trained for six hours and slept....
I'm wondering how strong can I become ?