When I get to the guild, I decide to take a peek at S-Rank quests. I can't take them legally, but I can always learn what they are and where. If they end up disappearing that couldn't possibly be me right?
I look at the S-rank quests and browse through them all, in total there are about 10 quests.
'Hmm, Troll king, Fire Dragon, Demon Orc King, and some others. I think a demon orc king sounds quite cool.' I ponder over what exactly I want to fight. 'Alright, I'll just remember all of the locations, but I'll start with the Demon Orc king'
"HAHAHA! Look at the weak human looking at the S-rank quests so intently! He could never hope to face an S-rank monster!" a couple of elves were attempting to make fun of me.
"Yeah, I do like looking at the S-rank quests. They give me the motivation to get stronger." I said back to the elves who were yelling earlier. "Unlike some people, I'm not content with being weak."
"How can you call us weak! You're only an E-rank! Humans will never amount to the talent and might of the elves!" the elf took a breath, "We're loved by nature! Nature gives us higher magical talent than you plebians!"
This elf likes yelling, couldn't he just chat in a civilized manner? "Sorry elves, but I must be going. I am not planning on bickering here all day with ignorant people." I walk out of the guild while they continue to shout about measly humans or something. I stopped listening a while ago.
I wish I was silver-tongued like most protagonists in novels are. However, I haven't had the experience nor confidence in the past to act like that. Oh well, just have to try and get better I guess.
I walk out of the northern gate of the city and activate speed mode. Moving so fast to the normal person's eye's that they couldn't even see me move. It was if I had flickered out of existence. I quickly expanded mana sense to the extreme. I quickly noticed the Orc probably about 200kms ahead of me, I appear in front of the orc king nigh-instantaneously, easily creating a small crater around my feet from the stop.
I quickly spread my mana throughout my body. I flickered out of existence and in front of the orc king's face which was easily 4 meters off the ground. The orc king quickly raised his arm to block my kick that was coming into the side of his face. 'Of course, it wouldn't be this easy.' the kick connects with the orc's arm and is stopped in its tracks.
I flickered back to the ground and quickly go over the stats of the orc king once again.
[Demon Orc King:
Rank: S
Name: Wrukaog
Age: 34
HP: 4,000/4,000
Vitality: 2,000
Strength: 3,540
Agility: 1,800
Endurance: 2,500
Mana: 1,203
Total Stats: 11,043
Risk Assessment: Hard
Active Skills: Orc King's Roar (A, 65%), Killing Intent (A, 56%)
Body Skills: Tough Skin (S), Body Enhancement (B, 67%), Martial Arts (C, 3%), Strength Enhance (B, 33%)
Mana Skills: Mana Control (E, 45%)
Resistances: Magical Resistance (E, 75%), Physical Resistance (C, 37%), ]
(A/N: Sorry for breaking immersion. The skills I show you through {Inspect} are only the skills Jack deems as worrisome or things he might need to watch out for. Therefore, each enemy he fights likely has many more skills then shown. That is all.)
Alright, I know all of his skills. This should be a fun fight.
I quickly appear behind the orc, and with all my mana and strength into one leg, kick behind his knee. Attempting to bring him down. He doesn't fall but he does end up making a pained expression. I still need more mana, I quickly run around and start killing all of the orcs surrounding the king. They had not dared to enter a fight with a man who they could barely see.
I swiftly killed a majority of the orcs and assimilated all of there mana and strength into my body. The process has become much easier and way less painful. Allowing me to take in 100's of monsters mana without much effort at all. It wasn't a huge increase but I did gain about 500 mana.
The orcs seem to be focused on pure strength and endurance, with little to no mana. Therefore my abilities have not increased a lot despite killing so many. With my newfound strength, I released a barrage of kicks onto the back of the knee of the Orc King, bringing him down to the ground.
He could tank my attacks, however, he could not hit me. I am too small and too fast for him. I flickered around him appearing at different locations every time, delivering a punch or a kick to the area. It may take a while, but eventually, he will lose all his HP
[Demon Orc King
HP: 2,567/4,000]
With roughly 400 kicks I was able to bring his HP to nearly half. Thank god I have infinite stamina.
As I continue my barrage of punches on the Orc King, he got mad beyond belief. He tried all of his skills, the only one that worked briefly was the roar. It was able to stun me for a slight minute before I was able to overcome it. He had hit me a couple of times during that period, and I think I died. I'm not quite sure.
After about an hour of fighting, I had finally delivered the last blow. I kicked full force into his skull and his eyes rolled back in his head.
[Demon Orc King
HP: 0/4,000]
I might as well check my new status.
[HP: 3,468/3,468
Vitality: 1,734 (+200)
Strength: 1,813 (+123)
Agility: 1,971 (+223)
Endurance: 2,092 (+58)
Mana: 3,576 (+1000)
Total Stats: 11,186
Active Skills: Inspect (B, 11%)
Body Skills: Martial Arts (A, 46%), Night Vision (C, 58%), Body Enhancement (C, 3%), Body Manipulation (D, 98%)
Mana Skills: Mana Sense (B, 69%), Hide Presence (C, 78%), Mana Manipulation (D, 92%)
Unique Skills: Acquisition (D, 47%)
Resistances: Slashing (E, 64%), Cellular Destruction (C, 13%), Mental Fatigue (C, 48%), Physical Fatigue (D, 79%), Pain (C, 79%), Blunt (D, 12%), Piercing (F, 77%), Mana Containment (F, 30%), Mental Attacks (D, 47%), Spatial Magic Resistance (E, 23%)
Status Effects: Mana Containment (EX, Overcoming {6%}).]]