Hans still remembered that messages of despair, those fate full words.
„Survive. Grow. Evolve. Good luck."
He could already understand the first two.
Survive the chaos and start hunting abnormals.
Eat the crystals and Grow.
Just right now he can't grow anymore.
Even the second lvl 2 crystal Hans gained was unable to raise, it was an agility crystal, his stat over 4.0.
It should have as it's double the worth.
When his stat was under 2.0
Lvl 1 crystal brought 0.1 increase.
Lvl 2 probably 0.2.
After 2.0
Lvl 1 crystal brought 0.05 increase While
Lvl 2 crystal brought 0.1 increase.
Logically if the next border is 2.0 then just maybe lvl 1 becomes useless but lvl 2 should still give him 0.05.
So when it didn't Hans feared the third part would now happen Evolve.
Hans didn't new if when that process started he could defend himself.
As such he was think he needed to do it now. CSU's when Felix and his team brought back the information the others will first stand back a bit to see the other action. After not seeing any movement they will be very cautious. Till they come explore he will have at least 2 hours and when they start they will be very slow.
So now or never.
Hans laid down on his bed after checking for already the forth time if all traps are set.
Then he took the last endurance crystal he needed and ate it.
After the warm energy swept over his body, fog appeared.
The fog.
The black fog. It came from the black Watch.
It would be normal to struggle, to try to get away but Hans instincts already told him that there is no running away from it.
He lay completely still. Not moving a single muscle.
After the fog build a whole cocoon around him he fell unconscious.
He woke up in a new world. Everything was perfectly white as far as one could look. It was bright but not too bright for Hans new eyes.
Even though it should have been.
This whole world was confusing.
„...AAAAAAA. Where did I land this time???"
„However the fatigue from my muscle is completely gone. I was sure that this special fatigue was from the skills not from exhaustion."
„Select a weapon for the test."
A mechanical voice said. I sound came from all directions.
„Who is there?!?" Hans cried at the sky.
„Select a weapon for the test."
Only then Hans noticed that a multiple meter long weapon rack appeared infront of him.
On the right it started with swords.
All from different styles. Asian katanas to Arabian scimitars to European Long Swords.
It went on with spears.
From short Spears to long to Pikes and Glaives.
And on with axes. Honorable mention here are the Vikings with their heavy one hand axes and deadly two-hand double head axes with the finish being the Native American throwing axes also know as Tomahawk.
And it went on with Arabian Rider Bows to the famous English Longbows.
And on and on.
The important information to take away from this is that there were only cold weapons.
As well as all possible options could either be held in one or two hands.
„Select a weapon for the test."
The voice repeated once again.
Hans decided himself for a basic one handed axe as well as a sword which was longer then the normal one handed sword but shorter then an long sword.
The style was an European sword.
The axe he put in his axe holster on his back and graves the sword with hi right hand tight.
As if reading his mind the voice started calling out:
„The Test will start in 3 Seconds. Please prepare yourself.
3
2
1
START!"
With it a 2 level abnormal spawned 100 meters ahead.
„Activate!"
Hans didn't know how to really activate his skills. But even though normally the skills would have activated by his intent.
Here in this test no skill would ever activate.
However Hans still had the his boosted confidence.
And with it he believed that ending it in one strike was the right decision. While running he subconsciously realized that the skills didn't activate, still he pressed forward without hesitation.
When they reached the halve way point Hans in a well oiled move pulled the axe and threw it.
It was aimed at the chest.
The abnormal ignored the axe as it wasn't even a problem having an axe stuck in his rib cage.
Hans Plan never was to hurt.
No all he wanted was the slow from the impact and the most effective it was the weight hit square in the chest.
To the abnormal the slow was also never of importance however for Hans who had fought just 400 abnormals while always training for the One-shot, the Slow and Shift in the position of the Body it was shifting the roadblock away as now flailing arm on the abnormals right side would flail around behind the abnormals waist and be unable to be raised to defend the strike against the head coming from this side.
Cause a lvl 1&2 abnormal couldn't think as far as protecting other limbs which then would protect their only vital, the head.
They could only think: Hit head?
Then the time for them to collide came and Hans with his full body crashed into the abnormal falling uncontrollably.
When he stopped his complete body heart. Especially his ribs. That's the point where the abnormals arm, which was infront of its body collided with him.
But it was all unimportant.
All that counted was the head that was rolling beside his body on the no longer perfectly white floor.
The moment Hans crashed into the abnormal the head was already of and the mechanical voice appeared again declared:
„Congratulations. You've passed the test and are qualified to evolve."
„You are qualified to choose between following evolutions:
* Enhanced Human 1 (Rating 1 Star)
‚‚‚After evolving into an ‚Enhanced Human', a person gains a very sturdy body which is comparable to that of Abnormals. They also gain a 10% boost in all of their stats.'''
„
A floating display had appeared infront of Hans. The funny thing was that even when he closed his eyes the display was there.
‚Seems like I don't have much of a choice.'
„I choose Enhanced Human."
„Would you like to evolve into an Enhanced Human?" the Voice answered.
„Yes."
„Good Luck. May you Survive, Grow, Evolve."
Then everything went black again.
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