Orlando breathed heavily as sweat and blood ran down his face. Checking his health bar it read 39/140. Grimacing he adjusted is poor quality plate Helme and stepped forward back onto the training sands where Kaleb the young master of whatever merchant house was renting him that day stood and glared at him. With a snear the young man spat "my father paid good money to level my mace skill so you better not collapse again". Orlando nodded and set his feet and lifted his shielded. It still surprised Orlando that he could understand and speak a language that didn't exist on earth but with one spell he gained the knowledge to understand it. At first it was only enough to understand basic commands but he slowly picked it up more and more over the last two weeks.
Noticing Orlando's unfocused look Kaleb stepped forward and slammed his mace into Orlando's armored shoulder. His health only went down 3 points but the pain and force caused Orlando to stumble backwards cursing. "Pay attention pesent " Kaleb said stepping after Him with an over hand blow. Raising his shielded at an angle the mace slid off allowing Orlando to take a proper stance. With a cruel grin Kaleb rained blow after blow. Despite landing multiple solid hits he never managed to do more than 2 or 3 points of damage. Those points added up until Orlando's legs gave out after taking a strong blow to his side. Throwing up from pain and checking his health bar it read 14/140. As young Master Kaleb walked off Orlando took the time to look over his character sheet.
Name: Orlando
Level: 2
Health: 14/140 Mana: 100/100 Stamina: 32/170
Strength: 11
Agility:10
Dexterity: 10
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Constitution: 14
Endurance: 16 gain plus 1 new total 17
Intelligence:10
Wisdom: 10
Charisma:10
Luck: 10
Abilities: STALWART ( armor value is doubled the base value for physical defense, dose not effect magical damage)
VITAL IMPOWERMENT ( spend Stamina at a 1 to 10 ratio to regenerate health)
Skills: heavy armor lv (11 gain plus 1 new total 12), shields lv 7, axes lv 5, cooking lv 2, small blades lv 2, earth magic lv 1, unarmed combat lv 1,
Marks: none
Resistances: earth magic 0.5 percent.
Race: human (chaos seed) as a chaos seed you get 6 points to distribute instead of the usual 4.
Reputation: lv 1 neutral (who are you again? )
Alignment: neutral
Languages: twins common
With a grunt of satisfaction at his improvement Orlando used 20 Stamina to bring his health up to 16/140. It wasn't much and the loss of Stamina made him want to vomit again but the aches in his body reduces the slightest bit. Getting rented out as a training dummy was a helish existence but with his abilities it wasn't a death penalty like it would be for other indentured servants. When his master lord sky learned of his abilities he cast a spell imprinting the knowledge of the twins most common dialect. As with all this however this was not for free and I was informed that I would be charged for the services provided by the lord. Being unable to pay I was made to sware an oath that I would serve as an indentured servant until I could pay off my debt.
Orlando was pissed but it was that or death! But 950 gold! It would take over one hundred years for a normal farmer to pay something like that off. When I asked why it was so expensive the crafty old lord sky gladly explained that what he used was so called "mind magic " and since he is the only one in the twins who can preform the magic he gets to set the price.
Just remembering the smug old lord made his blood boil but as much of a basterd he was he unlocked the earth magic inside of me if only to get more use out of me thought Orlando. After a few minutes of brewding Orlando made it to his feet and slowly converted Stamina to health until he reached 51/140. At that point Kaleb walked up and the one sided beating continued over and over like that for the next four hours. After collapsing and being unable to continue the now sweaty Kaleb had his guards carry Orlando back to lord skys manor.