Author's note : Sorry for the late chapter guys, so this is the end of Volume 1 and also the end of the training arc.... A little explainations about what happened to humanity in this chapter. Ah, I almost forgot to ask you if you want me to change the title because some of you might think it's misleading. Well anyway enjoy this chapter, comments and ratings are welcomed.
A young man in black military outfit was running toward another man, when he was less than one meter away he launched blows after blows toward this old man. After a few dozen of blows which were easily dodged, a third man appeared above the young one but before he could reach him the young man jumped back turning a full 360° and created an illusion of another like him.
When the third man reached the ground a huge crater was made and the two old men began to run toward the young one and used all kind of martial arts to hit the young one who was dodging by perfectly combining his movements and his ability to create illusions.
But at this time a dagger flew toward him, the two other men tried to prevent him from dodging however, a light blue thread appeared and attached itself on the young man and he was sent above them. At this time he sent a wave of qi all around him to sent his surroundings and discovered his third opponent hiding in the darkness of the cave.
Five others hidden weapons were sent at him but he dodged three of them and took the two others with his hand, by turning in mid air he sent the weapons toward the hidden man, when the two daggers were sent flying a huge wall made out of water appeared and crashed on the weapons, continuing its path toward the young man.
When this water was around five meters away from him he concentrated his qi on his hands and two tiny flames appeared, then, these tiny flames turned into an unimaginable fire storm turning the water wave into nothingness.
He had now four opponents, the first two men began to run toward him once again and used their martial arts to hit him, but this time when he began to dodge, around a hundred daggers flew toward him from his right side, forcing this young man to dodge using almost no movements, he even used the weapons sent at him by throwing them toward the two men but before all the weapons were dodged he saw very small threads of water on each dagger.
It was at this time that he understood, it was a trap, all the weapons were controlled by the water using mana and not qi. When the two old men retreated by a few steps, all the daggers began to surround him blocking all of his ways to escape.
In the next second his right eye shined with red hues and a tattoo appeared under his left eye, the young man used his trump card and all his surrounding slowed down, he observed this trap and discovered the weakness, he used the wind created by this trap to create his own water and infiltrate the threads, two seconds later the daggers flew from all directions toward him but when they were just in front of him they stopped.
He did something extremely difficult to do for humans, he used his own water mana to infiltrate the other person's mana and corrupted it, then to stop the daggers which were already flying towards him he turned the water man into ice mana.
Without waiting a single second he ran toward the two old men creating two swords with his qi, before he could reach them, his fifth opponent crashed hit his body, however, his fist passed through it since it was an illusion and it was his body which was sent flying by the young man.
The two old men ran toward their target but before they could reach him they stepped on a thread made out with fire mana, it was not really fire but just heat and was totally impossible to discover in this dark cave.
When they stepped on this thread, a few dozens of magic circle appeared on the ground and were activated sending all ind of spell toward them.
It was not the end of this battle and a sixth opponent appeared, carrying a huge mace and was running toward him, he dodged the first blow but the three other opponents fighting with martial arts began to also attack, then a few dozen of water arrows and daggers were thrown toward him one after another.
The young man could do nothing but dodging all these blows and counter attack when he saw the opportunity, after five seconds he was finally cut on the right hand with a dagger, moreover it seems that the dagger contained poison yet before this poison traveled through his blood he used fire magic and burnt his hand to crisp and cut it.
In this extremely painful process not a single cry was heard from him, not even a single hesitation, his face stayed this same without a hint of pain on it.
Although his hand was cut it began to regenerate in a few seconds but his right eye shined and he jumped, just after that five hands were created from shadows and tried to hit him. His eyes turned cold, poison and shadows, there was two new opponents.
Without a single hesitation he sacrificed his right leg to escape these shadows. He continued to fight eight opponents at the same time with a face colder than anything in this world, observing and calculating everything.
Yet even with his prowess he was hit a few times and once he was hit on his upper body by a shadow, his skin began to turn black and his movements slowed down. He was forced to once again use his illusions, he also created all kind of weapons with his qi and cast dozen of spells, yet it was only sufficient to fight against eight opponents on equal terms, in the darkest place of the cave, a ray of light appeared and in less than a second pierced the body of the young man.
Everyone thought that this was over and they let down their guard, in their lifetimes they never thought that they could fall in a trap, or more like they never could have thought that this entire battle was a trap set by a person who practically sacrificed his life for this moment.
The whole cave was covered by hundreds of magic circles, they all activated at this same time and all kind of spells were sent toward his nine opponents. Moreover, before they could think of a way to escape they were struck on the ground by qi webs infiltrating their meridians and stopping their qi flow which completely stopped their movements.
This entire battle lasted for one minute and two seconds, it can be said that it's a battle between true masters, but in the next second all the spells and the qi webs disappeared.
[Truly magnificent ! Ahahahah ! I never knew you would go as far as to set a trap of this scale to win. Now I'm sure that you are truly strong even if you don't stand a chance against one of us using his full power, however, since you have won I agree with your request to go out of this cave.]
“Well... it was really hard to fight against you Xavash... If I don't use my head I have no chance to win. Moreover, I was trained by you for five years so if I were to lose, it would be shameful.”
[I thank you Kayne for this battle, it has been so long since I had seen someone using his brain more than his muscles, it's refreshing !]
“No need to thank me.”
[Of course it's thanks to us that you are strong, but if you weren't training day and night without rest you would have stayed weak.]
[Now that you are strong enough, may I ask what are you going to do from now on ?]
“It's obvious... I'm going to control everything.”
[Well I don't really understand....]
“I will become strong enough so that my name will shake the heaven and earth.”
[So you want to be feared ? For what reasons ?]
“If I'm feared then, nobody will dare to kill someone precious to me, they will instead use all their power to destroy me.... because if they fear me, they will not dare to anger me.”
[You act extremely cold but in the end you want to protect someone ? I never expected that you have this kind of feelings... well it's not like I care, I just want you to show me something interesting so go ! Go out in this new world of yours after staying silent for five years, and let everyone know of your presence !]
Kayne nodded and began to walk toward the only exit, the magic circle created by Xavash.
'Now now now, five years since I last saw my status....'
NameKayne AlfordPrimary ClassN/AHealth7860Mana7520(Qi: 24730)TitlesRaging beast – Bloody murderer – Experimental Human – Without pityLevel33Experience251/1200Health Regen/Sec786Mana Regen/Sec??Strength1823Agility2151Wisdom10Intelligence10Stamina1648Vitality786Dexterity1575
“Oooh, hmm so it's the power of someone at master high level in martial arts... no wonder those uncles are so strong.... however to breakthrough I need 30000 qi.”
When I stepped on this teleportation circle I was transported into a forest near a river.
“Hmm where should I go... hey what's that ?”
As I extended my qi around me I could feel 42 living beings approaching me, they seemed to be weak, weaker than me before I trained.
'It has been a long time since I killed something.'
All these dark goblins were wearing armors with different kind of weapons, however it's not even worth mentioning since I can kill them all in less than five seconds.
I stayed where I was and used mana to create flames n both my hands, then, controlling these flames with wind magic to create a fire tornado around them, after that, they all burned to death releasing cry of pain.
“This fire tornado is a little weaker than I thought, maybe I have to raise the heat, hmm what about that, if I stop using wind magic then it turns into a simple flame, if I use space magic to create micro gravity then, the flame is spherical...”
'How can I use my magic to create white or blue flame in this micro gravity huh ?'
When I was trying to think about it, the flame died on its own...
“Ah ! I know, if I create a micro gravity around this flame then the gas can't reach it ! So I have to use wind magic like that then... ooh... white flame ? It's good enough for the time being.”
Ah it's true, I didn't explain how magic worked in this world, most being use spells to use their mana and with the help of spells it creates a lot of skills which is troublesome since it's hard to level up all of them.
So I thought about it a bit and tried to use my mana to create different things, in the end I created a single skill which enable me to freely manipulate the elements. Of course I also learned space magic and mana manipulation thanks to Sarali the astral dragon.
In the end with three skills I can create all kind of powerful spell without chants and casting time, however it's a lot more difficult to do it, I have to keep my concentration on my mana and the battle, it's why I often use runes which I learned to create with mana manipulation and Sarali.
Runes are magic circle made out of mana so when I wish it, it will activate and release the command I wrote inside, Moreover if I want to cast an extremely powerful spell I have to create a magic circle with my mana and create the different steps of the spell.
Skill Name:Skill Rank:Skill Level:Skill Experience:Magic creationMaster541%Allow you to freely control the elemnts with your mana and create spell of your own.
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Skill Name:Skill Rank:Skill Level:Skill Experience:Space magicIntermediate999%Allow you to control space with your mana.
Skill Name:Skill Rank:Skill Level:Skill Experience:Mana manipulationMaster233%Allow you to manipulate your mana to activate various effec such as strenghtening and create magic cirlces with runes.
“So now that it's done I just have to leave this forest and search strong opponents.”
Since I never stopped to use my qi to search my surroundings I felt something a few kilometers away...
[It seems a relatively strong monster is fighting other there.]
“Relatively strong ?”
[Well it can at best make you waste a minute of your time.]
“Well, if it's like that, I will kill it.”
[Wait a minute, if you will fight then change your clothes since it will never protect you and in my generosity I will create new clothes.]
After Xavash said that, my bloody military clothes burned and a new set of clothes appeared, it was black clothes like an assassin, with a hood and two pieces of armor for my hands and feet.
(Author's note : Sorry, I didn't know how to explain it in details so for those who wants it has to be like that Here !)
“It seems light and easy to move in.... thanks.”
After thanking Xavash who created a new set of clothes I began to run with all my fastest speed toward the monster.
[Ahah, how can someone who was trained by dragons wear poor clothes, the clothes I gave you are the ones our clan's elite troop used to attack, they were named calamity's shadow. This name was the one the enemy gave them because when they wore these clothes and used their speed and agility, nothing could see more than a shadow.... they could destroy an entire city in a night with three to four people.]
“Such power is really great, I will wear them with respect.”
***
Different place ten minutes ago, ??? POV :
“Ah such a pain....”
“Stop complaining Clara ! It's a necessary task if we want to become Hunters !”
“Yeah, I agree with Henry, moreover if we become hunters we'll have to do this kind of things a lot of times.”
“Yeah yeah I understand....”
“And if we become hunters maybe we'll encounter the general of the red hammer squad ? It's said that she's truly beautiful...”
“No need to rush things pervert, being a hunter is enough to encounter a lot of women.”
“...”
In the forest a group of three people were walking and talking, there was two men and one woman, one man wore a full body armor with an axe on his back with dark blue lines engraved on it, the second one was wearing a leather armor with some iron plates on it, he was holding a two handed sword which was radiating with dark orange light. The woman was only wearing leather armor with a bow and two daggers with the same orange light.
The woman was the only one who wasn't wearing anything to protect her head so we could see that she has jet black hair with green eyes and a young beautiful face. She was no more than 16-17 years old. Her body was thin with very little curves.
As they continued to talk they didn't see that something was in front of them and when they saw it they began to step back, since the only thing they saw above this two headed five meters tall red orc was
“Wh-Why is there a crimson orc here ?! It's only the second area...”
“Fuck ! Fuck ! Fuck ! Fuck ! Fuck ! Fuck !”
“Tsk. stay calm... we will try to injure him on the leg and then escape, ok ?”
“...”
“Injure him on the leg ? Are you crazy ? We can't even see his level !”
“Then what do you want to do ? Run away and being hit in the back ?”
“Okay.... we'll follow your plan.”
They began to run and try to attack the crimson orc head on, but the man wearing an axe was hit and sent flying on a tree. The other two who were about hit were also sent flying.
“Argh ! What's with this strength ?! Prepare to attack once again !”
They continued to attack him with different kind of methods but the crimson orc let them do to enjoy this fight. After seven minutes of fight all of them had less than 10% of HP left.
“What can we do captain ?!”
“We're going to ….... die, right ?”
“Shut up Clara ! I'll be the bait and you, you will run away, ok ?”
“What are you saying ?!”
“Aaaaaaaaaaah ! Don't waste my life and run away !”
As he said that, he began to run with his axe in hand toward the orc, the others two stood up but couldn't run when they saw the fist of the orc which was aiming at Henry.
However, when the fist was going to crush the man with the axe, a shadow appeared and the whole arms fell on the ground.
“Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuurgh !!!!”
The moment the three began to realize that the right arm of the crimson orc was cut they thought they didn't think about why but instead thought that they could run away.
“Hey Henry ! Why are you still there, hurry and run while he is har-”
““!!!””
Before he could finish his sentence the orc was once again cut by a shadow, again and again until the body fell on the ground and disappeared.
***
Kayne's POV :
'Aaaah such pain, I had to save those guys in the end... If I want information I have to ask humans. But... even when their level is over 50 they are this weak....'
It was night and Kayne was sitting in front of the three wounded people while coldly glaring at them, he didn't speak even a single word since he saved them.
“Hmm... mister...? Have you something to create a fire, because it's getting cold....ahahah... not that I want to give you orders....”
'It appears that they are really anxious about what I'll do to them if they don't show some respect. Nice !'
“Hmm, fire ?”
As I said that I created a fire with my mana.
“What ? You can use magic ? Even if you're so strong you can also use magic ?!”
It was the girl who asked me that...
'Better act friendly toward them and later ask some questions.'
“Yes I can, by the way my name's Kayne and you ?”
“Clara ! And the other two are Henry and Yoann.”
“Yo !”
“Thanks for saving us.”
“It's nothing, but with your level I thought you could at least kill something like that...”
“No, impossible ! It's impossible for level 50 like us, since Crimson orc are normally level 80 or 90.”
'They don't seem to have trained hard, they just raise their level ?'
“Well it's no big deal, so why were you in this forest ?” I asked trying to not seem suspicious.
The girl answered “We were sent here by the trainer to reach level 60, ah ! I forget, are you a hunter ? What is your squad ?”
'Hunter...? Squad...? What is that ?'
“I'm not a hunter and I don't know what it is...”
““No way !”” They all answered me with their eyes popping out and glared at me like I was some kind of alien.
The girl began to open her mouth to talk, “Then... you are saying that you don't know what happened after monsters appeared ? You are saying that you are one of the survivors who live in the wilderness ?”
“Yes, so can you talk about what happened ?”
'I have to seize the opportunity to ask.'
“Well you see... After the majority of countries were destroyed by monsters, a new alliance was created with all of humanity's survivor. A year after the creation of this alliance there was already five city created around the world with different kind of schools to train those willing to fight monsters, the others can live under the protection of the city guards. A few months later, squads were created with the strongest humans as generals, their goal was to kill monsters to retrieve their cores and to reconquer our territory.”
“Wait... why do they need cores ?”
“Huh ? You don't know ? It's because someone found out that if we build a weapon with cores and a metal then, this weapon will gain abilities, enabling us to kill monsters more efficiently. However, after some time they understood that they couldn't reconquer territory due to the large number of monsters and the fact that if one monster dies then another one will appear.”
“So what is a hunter ?”
“Well two years after monsters appeared a new organization was created, “Hunter's league”, it was created to allow strong people above level 65 to become a hunter, their goal was fundamentally different from normal squads which was a project dimmed as a failure and abandoned. Hunters is a new job to kill monster and to retrieve their loots....”
“Wait a minute, why hunters are different if they kill monsters ?”
“It's because their goal is not to reconquer our territory but to sell the loots to the Hunter's league. You have to know that since monsters appeared human's society drastically changed and we live thanks to monsters.”
“Huh ?”
“Well, we can do almost everything with the loots these monsters give when they die, so our energy is provided by them, as well as food, clothes, ores and more. In the end, Hunters are considered as the elite of human's society, this is also the job which is the more payed but if you are less than level 100 you don't get payed that much.”
“Why ?”
“Because when a monster at level 100 or more dies, his body doesn't disappear and it allows hunters to retrieve everything on the body as well as the core grade 2 which contains ten times more energy and enable a Spirit blacksmith to create powerful weapons.”
“Spirit blacksmith ?”
“The job to create weapons with cores. So do you understand ?”
“I don't understand all of it but I'm sure that if I go in a city then, I will see it myself.”
“Yeah sure... huh ? They are already asleep...sigh”
“I'd like to ask one more question, who are the strongest humans ?”
“The strongest ? There is five of them, one of them is a man with the nickname of Destroyer, he is a lvl.213 Berserk, he wields a war hammer. There is also a man with the nickname of Deadly blade, he is a lvl.210 shadow rogue, the three other are women, one is a necromancer lvl.230, nicknamed Puppeteer. The other two are magic casters lvl.205 and 209 I think, their nickname is twin star since they are twin and fight in the same squad, so what level are you ?”
“33.”
“How is it possible, you're so strong ! How can you be so strong ?!”
“I can't tell you, it's a secret, well anyway can you show me the way to a city ?”
“Sure, we'll accompany you and show it to you.”
End of Volume 1.