Its about time I do my very first quest
As Soren began to walk over to the quest board, Bruno stopped him once again, "Unfortunately before you start to pick quests, we have to do an evaluation on your abilities, we'd hate to have a new member go out and get slaughtered right away."
Soren nodded his understanding and followed Bruno, they went past all the destroyed tables and went through a doorway on the left hand side. The continued through the hallway past the kitchen to a backroom that looked to be covered in barrels of booze. Bruno reached down behind a row of barrels and picked up a wooden hatch on the ground that had stairs leading down towards some sort of cellar. Upon Bruno taking a step downwards, lights flared up along side of the walls. Soren asked genuinely interested, "That's cool! How do the lights work?"
"What? Where are you from that you've never seen lights like this? These are just light attributed magic stones. The stones get their power from attributed monsters as they give off magical power. The stones absorb the ambient magic the monsters give off like these here. We just engineered them to only activate when we come down here, saves some of the magical energy captured in the stone. They are very efficient each stone can last around a year or so, and once a stone runs out of energy we pile them up near where we found them to get them to recharge. Our system works pretty great at the moment and so far haven't ran out of anything we need."
Soren marveled at the city's engineering ideas, his village was using candlelight still. The pair of them walked for more than an hour before arriving to an underground training facility.
I wonder what they are hiding down here that we had to travel so far just to get to an arena
Bruno turned serious, "I hate to do this to you but this is procedure, [Inspect]."
Soren
Race: humanoid
Level: 7/15
Health: Full
skills: [swordsmanship] [polearm mastery]
"Hmm, interesting. There is not much to go off of here, though I do see that you're skilled with swords and polearms. I fancy swords myself so we shall test your competence with them later. For now please step over to this sphere and place your hand on it," Bruno said as he began to lead Soren through several tests.
Soren did as he was instructed and placed his hands on a pearlescent white sphere. The sphere glowed for a few minutes before projecting seven symbols above it. Bruno seemed to be at a loss for words.
"Y...you have some pretty amazing magic affinities, I have never known someone to have both gravity and shadow as well as radiant and holy. Even the lightning magic affinity you have is extremely rare, just who are you?"
"Those are my affinities? I had no idea, I only possess a spatial magic spell used for storage that costs me nothing, lightning magic spells, a couple light magic spells, and recently acquired a couple shadow magic spells."
"If we can do well in the tournament and get this guild around we can buy you books to teach you magic of your other affinities. You may quickly become our strongest member."
"Who, after the guildmaster, is the strongest member?"
"We have an S-ranked adventurer named Crovax, he's a....well he's strong. I'm an A rank, so for now you'll be under my tutelage. Go grab a training sword and lets see what you have."
Soren went over and grabbed a training sword, however, curiosity got the better of him [Inspect]
Level: 80/100
Class: Juggernaut
Bruno charged him and swung with his giant greatsword that he wielded in one hand. Soren barely had an opportunity to dodge, the sword was big but Bruno is a nearly eight foot tall behemoth brown bear humanoid, he does not care what the size of the blade is, and by the way the man swung the sword around, he didn't care about its weight either. The conventional dodging for a weapon of that size is irrelevant because with Bruno's strength he was able to wield the greatsword just like a whirlwind made of blades. Soren had to be able to find an opening dealing with the weapons great reach as well. He didn't know if Bruno had ever evolved or not and had no way of knowing what Bruno's class did, but one thing was for certain and that was currently, Soren would have no way to deal with Bruno if he had meant to kill him.
Bruno jumped into the air slashed using momentum from spinning to greatly enhance the power of his attack. Every stat of his was greater than Soren's who clumsily dodged out of the way of the blade but using the energy from the spin Bruno kicked Soren in his arm breaking it and sent him flying into the wall.
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Soren cried out, "Ugh! That hurt."
He is counting himself lucky that his [Iron Hide] ability was put to good use, he probably would have been knocked out with that one hit otherwise.
Bruno thought, 'He was hiding a few abilities wasn't he. Well at least if we can keep him on our side he'll be a great asset.'
Soren hit the wall hard and slid down onto the floor, however mentally something in him snapped.
Soren could feel his heart beat {thum}
That's right, I'm much stronger than I was back then and with this system I can get even stronger still. I didn't die like a dog last time, I fought till my last breath. If I have to become intimate with line between life and death so be it.
Soren rose to his feet [reflux] electrical current traveled throughout his body as he went on the offensive putting everything he had into trying to damage Bruno. Slashing left, right, upwards, downwards, backwards, and sideways even mixing in martial arts in tandem with his sword swings, however, Bruno's defense was flawless.
Alright! Even my skills can level up during training, this will be a huge help later on.
Soren and Bruno continued to spar for hours to the point where Soren was having issues holding his sword, he was completely drained of stamina but Bruno seemed to be just fine.
Bruno threw his and up stopping Soren from continuing," That's enough lad lets call it quits for today you've done well."
Soren immediately dropped his sword and plopped down onto the ground breathing heavily as sweat poured from his face.
"The highest rank I can give you right now is D rank but that's ok I have no doubt that you'll be catching up in rank very soon. Go to the bath house cause you smell something fierce, then we will talk about your quests and maybe win this stupid guild war."
Soren nodded his head in understanding. He dragged himself up off the ground and started to make his way to the bath house
What was that? Ever since I was almost knocked out I've felt some burning sensation in the pit of my stomach that wont go away. I've put my vengeance off for far too long.
Soren made his way to the bath house, a rural building dedicated to the public for cleanliness. He had been given some directions by Bruno before he left so it was not difficult for him to find. "Id like to use the bath please, I've been referred here by Bruno," Soren explained to the host. The host bowed and outstretched his arm, "Ah yes, first one is on the guild. Please if you'd follow me please."
Soren followed the host to the back where there were wooden cut-outs being utilized as make shift lockers. The host went around explaining things as he saw them.
"These are cubbies, if you put your belongings in here someone will come by to clean them. This is a mixed bath house so both sexes will be under one roof, however, they are separated into a male and female side. Being caught on the wrong side by either party will ban you from the bath house. Accidents happen here and there but we take that as a case by case basis," the host explained while trying to inquire if Soren had any additional questions not explained in his narrative. Soren just shook his head, it was a pretty simple system. The host left Soren alone in the room and he de-armored wrapped a towel around his waste and made his way to the rear of the building where he could see it split, left side for male and right side for female. Upon getting closer to the entrance of the actual bath itself, a female beastman of the more human variety came out of the bath, with dog like ears, tail, and a towel that wrapped around herself from right underneath her arms to a few inches above her knee. Her tail slightly wagging from underneath the towel dips her head a little in a "hello" type gesture and Soren returned the gesture as well. Everything was a new experience for Soren, as he rounded the corner he was greeted by a beautiful view. The bath more closely resembled a heated pond, surrounded by interlocking stone, lava rock, reeds, and other flora littered the area without making it seem overcrowded, the whole scene was accented with steam that could be seen barely hovering over the water. Soren thoroughly impressed, undid his towel and walked into the waist deep water sinking down to where the waterline stopped right below his chest, felt himself immediately start to relax. As always, without fail once you start to enjoy a really good thing, someone has to come along and ruin it. After only being submerged for 10 minutes a young human struts in like he owns the place, appearing to be just under six feet in height, greased down hair pulled back, and roughly 20 years old with a body that knows no hardship.
"Hmm, what is this? Why is there someone in MY bath house?" a voice echoed through the steam.
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Soren
Race: Lesser Astrabi
Level: 7/15
Health: 65/115
Str: 30
Dex:35
Def: 29
Int:20
Vitality:23
Charisma:40
Magic: 30
Luck:100
Bloodline: Royal
Blessing:???????
attribute points(AP) available: 0, skill points (SP) available:16, 10 shop currency (SC), free upgrade skill box x2, random skill box x1
abilities: [25% Magic Resistance-C] [Reciprocated Helper-C] [Charm Immunity-B] [Poison Immunity-A] [Indomitable Will-B] [Iron Hide-C]
skills: [Swordsmanship lvl 2] [Polearm Mastery lvl 2] [Clawed Slash-lvl 1] [Inspect lvl 1] [Spike Bombardment lvl 1] [Concealment lvl1]
Magic:
[light-D] [Radiant-B] [Holy-A] [Lightning-A] [Gravity-A] [Space/Time-B+] [Shadow- A]
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INVENTORY
-low grade healing potion