While Damien was fighting the four other men, Ela could be seen in an almost ghostly form circling around the two men and the “Madam.”
Ela’s current form was from her class, “Spirit Walker.” It allowed her to enter the spirit realm with her body. In this form, Ela can not be seen nor hit by any attacks, but she also cannot attack while in the form. After seeing Ela seemingly vanish into thin air, the Madam and the two men turned their backs to each other and faced a different direction, waiting for Ela to make her move.
Coming out of her spirit form, Ela pulled out a short sword and sliced at one of the men, causing him to put his guard up. Right as Ela’s blade was about to make contact with his, she vanished with a poof before reappearing in front of the other man in the group.
Caught off guard, a look of surprise flashed across the man's face, causing him to not react in time, resulting in Ela stabbing him in the shoulder, leaving a deep gash and blood spewing out of the wound.
The man’s face grimaced, and he fell on one knee, holding his wound as Ela once again disappeared. The other man, now with a severe look, spoke. “Madam, do you have any skills to help us keep track of her?”
“Unfortunately, no. My skills are more suited to tracking long distances. All we can do is hope the others can capture the subject and make her back off. For now, though, just keep your guard up and don't fall for any of her tricks.
While Ela was fighting her group Damien could be seen facing off against three other men who now looked completely serious. When they had surrounded Damien earlier, they had thought it was over for him.
To their surprise, though, in what seemed like an instant, one of them was dead on the floor before they could even react.
Looking at the three men in front of him, Damien wanted to use his lighting-fast skill again, but it took quite a bit of mana out of him, around 30 mana per use. Meaning he could only use it another two times at most before running out.
Jumping into action, Damien sliced forward with his katana at one of the men, making him cross his arms above his head to block the attack with his arm guards.
Seeing the man trying to block Damien swiftly changed the trajectory of his attack mid-swing, and this time, it was aimed at the man's midsection.
Not expecting Damien to do a feint, the man activated one of his skills in desperation. Right as the sword was about to cut the man in half, a rocky layer appeared on the man as the sword hit.
The layer of rock managed to block most of the attack force but could not stop the sword completely, resulting in the man's right side being slashed open.
With blood flowing out of the wound, the man gritted his teeth before again taking an offensive stance.
“I'm surprised you managed to react in time to that I thought I had timed it perfectly,” Damien said aloud.
“You're just lucky we are not allowed to use lethal force if we could, a lab rat like you would not stand a chance,” rescinded the man angrily.
“Lab rat, huh?” Damien said, staring at the man with a blank expression.
“What’s wrong? Did I resurface some bad mem-” Before the man could finish his sentence blood came gushing out of his mouth.
Looking down the last thing the man saw was a sword lodged into his throat before his body fell over to the ground.
*DING* The user has killed level 10 stone guardian (human)
“Anyone else want to call me a lab rat, hmm? Damien asked while staring at the two remaining men with a smile while flaring his primordial presence skill.
Feeling the aura coming off of Damien’s body, the two men shivered uncontrollably and turned around before sprinting away with looks of horror.
Watching the men run, Damien scoffed and looked in Ela’s direction.
Coming out of her spirit form Ela activated another skill called spirits descent, summoning a spirit containing 80 percent of her strength.
Dashing forward, Ela and the spirit each took on an opponent each, Ela taking the madam and the spirit taking the other, as for the last one, he had long died after Ela targeted him over and over making him accumulate too many wounds and dying from blood loss.
Watching Ela fight, Damien’s face flashed with interest seeing the spirit Ela had summoned and how she seemed to be flashing in and out of existence.
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‘That’s definitely not an average class; it's too unique.’ Damien thought before realizing something. He could just ask the system, right?
“System,” Damien said aloud, seeing if it would respond like it did in the simulation.
“Yes, user?” the system responded tonelessly.
Hearing it respond to him, a smile formed on his face before speaking. “Can you tell me what Ela’s class is supposed to be and how rare it is?” Damien asked curiously.
“The system can not tell you the classes of other users nor how rare their class is either.”
If Damien had been honest, he should have expected this answer. Nodding, Damien decided to ask what the rarities were. “How many rarities are then? And what are they called?
“There are eight rarities: Inferior, common, uncommon, rare, epic, legendary, mythical, divine, and primordial,” the system responded.
Looking over each rarity, Damien was pleasantly surprised to see he had two divine skills and one primordial. Getting curious, Damien decided to ask another question.
“What is a primordial skill?”
“Primordial skills are skills even many gods will never touch upon. They are the pinnacle; many primordial skills can allow the user to do otherwise impossible things.”
Satisfying his curiosity, Damien focused back on Ela’s fight.
The first thing he noticed was that the man the spirit was fighting had already died, his body laying limply on the floor and the spirit gone.
Looking at the woman Ela was fighting, she had a complex expression on her face; jumping back after she clashed with Ela the woman looked at Damien and started speaking.
“You better hope I never catch you, " the woman said cryptically before pulling out some type of amulet and crushing it, making her vanish into the wind.
Watching her disappear, Ela felt rather disappointed at not managing to kill her and allowing her to escape. Looking back at Damien, she saw him smile and walk in her direction.
“So what now?” he asked.
“There is a town not far from here where we can stay, and allow me to get you up to speed on things that have happened in the last 2 centuries or so,” she responded.
“Sounds good; also, what was that she used to escape?” He responded curiously.
“Most likely some type of one-time use item that allows you to teleport to a set location. Most people use them in case they are in life-threatening danger.
Nodding, Damien decided to save his other questions for later and started looking at his improvements while they walked, getting a notification when he opened the system.
*DING* The user has earned a new skill
After distributing his free stat points, this is what his status looked like.
Status:
Name: Damien Atlas
Level:5
Race: High human/???
Titles: The first to awaken, Storms child,???
‘Age: 200 years’
Class: N/A (Reach level 10 to select a class)
Stats:
Health:100 —> 105
Mana:100 —>105
Strength:40 —> 55
Agility:30 —> 40
Defense:25 —> 30
Intelligence:30 —> 40
Perception:25 —> 35
Willpower:25 —> 30
Points to distribute:0
Skills: Mana breathing (Divine), The original (Primordial), Storms blessing (legendary), Lightning fast (rare), Samurai (common, NEW)
Seeing the new skill, Damien looked at its description, “Samurai.” - As someone who has taken up the katana, you have proven yourself to be learning the ways of the Samurai; may your blade be swift and your attacks true. (Slightly increases the user's ability to use a katana)
After reading the description, he felt a bit underwhelmed, as it did not do anything for him besides slightly increasing his proficiency with a katana. However, he was not too disappointed, as it was a common skill.
After spending a few more minutes scanning over his stats, Damien looked at Ela.
“What ability did you use back there?” he asked with a questioning look.
Hearing his question, Ela’s face lit up as she looked back at him. “Those abilities are part of my class called “spirit walker.” The first one you probably saw me use allows me to enter the spirit realm where I can not be seen or attacked.” She responded.
“That’s… kinda broken, no?” Damien asked.
“Not really. Even though I can’t be seen or attacked, I also can not attack either without exiting the realm first.”
Nodding, Damien thought that made sense. If she could also attack people while in there, she would be virtually invincible.
“What about the other skill? The one that summoned the spirit?” he asked.
“That one allows me to summon a spirit from the realm that has 80% of my total strength; it's one of the only offensive type skills I have.” She said with enthusiasm
“Do you have other abilities?” Damien asked curiously.
“Quite a few, yeah; most of them, though, are not offensive as I rely on my skills with my short sword more so than offensive skills,” Ela responded before continuing.
“Alright, let’s save any other questions you have for later I want to get into town so I can take a shower. All this running around has gotten me sweaty,” Ela said while wiping the sweat off her face.
Seeing Damien nod, Ela turned and sprinted towards the town while Damien followed