After looking at the books greedily for awhile Kyle decided to pick one, he stood up picked a random book and sat straight back in the bathtub. What did he risk ? At most a scolding, it was totally worth it if he could get new skills.
There was such a thick layer of dust on the book that he couldn't even discern the color of the cover, he used the back of his hand so wipe it and could finally see the book cover :
It was black with golden letters saying [Remnants of a gone civilization].
He had expected the bookshelf to be full of skill books so he also expected this one to be but he was mistaken, he didn't stand up to change for another book though. He still had time and Kyle had always been curious about the fantastic old world, he flipped to the first page of the book and realized there was no text.
Only the photo of a beautiful woman wearing very little clothes, she was wearing so little under the snow that he was afraid she might catch a cold. He flipped to the next page, the same woman was in a different position and had taken off her bra to reveal two huge melons !
Kyle panicked and threw the book under the bed, he looked at the bookshelf and didn't dare take another book from there, he still looked curiously at the book under the bed from the corner of his eye.
After awhile Kyle forgot about everything and just fell asleep, coming here had been a lot of efforts both physically and mentally. He had exhausted all of his energy and the massage given by the [strengthening elixir] added to his comfort.
He slept straight for the whole 10 hours until he was woken up by the old man.
"Time to wake up kid, the 10 hours went by !"
Kyle didn't lose anytime, he opened the status page straight away.
Name : Kyle Lee
Age : 15 years, 3 months, 9 days.
Race : ?
Title : ?
Job : None.
Status : At home : +10 recovery speed, +5 to all stats.
Level : 11 ( exp : 6057/6600)
Unassigned stats points : 9
Stats :
Strength : 18 (+5)
Dexterity : 16 (+5)
Speed : 17 (+5)
Intelligence : 20 (+5)
Leadership : 9 (+5)
Stamina : 17 (+5)
Luck : 22 (+5)
Skills :
[High grade Analysis]
[Medium grade swimming]
[Low grade freestyle fighting]
"Old man we did it ! 9 levels in 10 hours HAHAHA ! I love you old man !"
Kyle jumped out of the bathtub with his arms spread but the old man merged in the floor and reappeared behind him, with a look of disgust he said
"Sorry kid, I'm not into that stuff..."
"What stuff old man don't let your mind run wild ! I was only celebrating!"
"Then go dress up !"
"I left my clothes on the shore."
With another flick of his hand the old man pulled a full set of clothes from who knows where and threw them at Kyle.
"Join me outside when you got dressed."
Without losing time Kyle got dressed but there was no mirror to check how well the clothes fitted him, he was wearing a similar outfit to the old man's with simple sandals, black pants and black shirt embroidered with golden and silver fishes. Whoever saw him now would think it was a different person, on top of his attractive face he now had a noble aura to him very different from when he wore tattered clothes.
He got out and followed the old man through corridor after corridor, in the end they reached a room approximately the size of a 50 students classroom, on each side of the room were three doors on top of the one they had came in from.
The other three doors were all closed by metallic bars, to an unknowing person this was definitely a prison. Kyle looked curiously around the room and then looked at the old man, he realized the old man had backed off of the room. When he was out of the room the last door by which they had come in slammed from the sky to the ground releasing what seemed like a thousand years of accumulated dust.
"What's this old man ?"
Kyle didn't panic, even though the situation looked dire and maybe even deadly depending on what the old man was planning Kyle trusted him already, when they chatted he had heard things about his grandfather that only he knew, since this old man knew them then he was definitely a close friend of his grandfather.
"The beginning of your training, the dungeon isn't a place for noobs. I'll give you a boost and throw you out, you can come back here when you reach level 40 !"
GRUUUUUUMBLE
The three doors started to open slowly under Kyle's eyes, the flickering shadows of the approaching beasts caused by the torch's on the walls caused Kyle to take a step back.
'Will I be able to fight just because I took 9 levels in a day ? I don't even know how to use mana yet...'
After a second thinking to himself he thought
'Fuck this ! I'll beat them up and become the strongest of my generation !'
He took a step forward and looked into the left corridor, the shadows were all similar so he guessed the monsters coming out were all of the same race, wherever he looked it would be the same result.
Finally he could see something approaching, the first thing to get out of the darkness was very small, probably the paw of the giant monster. The paw kept approaching but the body never appeared, when it was close enough he realized it wasn't the paw... the monster was just tiny, it's shadow appeared huge because of the lights.
Kyle turned around and looked at the old man
"What's this ?"
"Your opponents."
Kyle looked through the other two doors and the same type of beast was coming out, it was really small. Probably around 30cm high and looked exactly like a domestic cat, he recognized the monsters and finally became serious.
He took a step back and ducked, he had already thought of a strategy to kill the beasts.
'Mirage cat, I've read about it in a book I "borrowed" from grandpa. They are very fast but can't control their own speed so they are high grade monsters in huge empty space such as plains or deserts but this room is too small for them to maneuver, if I can get them to crash their heads against a wall or to slash at another beast I win. The old man probably chose the mirage cat because of this obvious weakness, even if I didn't know anything about them I could still guess it during the fight.'
The Cat coming from the right corridor was the first one to get in the room and didn't lose any time to attack Kyle, it disappeared but before that Kyle had already predicted that move and jumped to the side, a low level monster didn't have the ability to think so he was certain that it would jump on a pray without hesitation when it saw one, of course the cat couldn't change direction mid air and crashed against the wall behind Kyle, the cat wasn't dead yet but probably had lots of broken bones by seeing how it was agonizing on the ground, Kyle didn't lose time as the two other cats were already entering the room and grabbed their mate.
He brought the nearly dead cat in front of him and showed to the other two, he was trying to see if he could scare them but the two cats jumped on him, since he was on his guard he dodged but the cats were too quick. One of them had cut his cheek quite deeply, he knew that these monsters were savagely strong despite their cute appearance but he still lowered his guard.
On top of that the cats had landed on the wall with their legs and weren't injured in the least.
He realized the cat inside his hand had stopped moving, he looked and it was missing its head... it wasn't hard to find it, one of the other cats was chewing on it.
'Gross...'
But he had found a way to kill them, he ripped the cat's body in two and threw them each at the other cats that were about to attack him, the cats didn't hesitate and jumped on the fresh meat that was given to them.
'They must have been dying of hunger.'
Now was his chance, he used all the strength he could accumulate in his legs and almost teleported next to the first cat that had cut his face, his second leg swiped the cat's head as if it was a soccer ball. Before the cat had any reaction it was missing it's head, meanwhile the second cat was still focused on it's dinner. In a second it had also lost its head.
Mirage cat level 11 killed experience +500
Mirage cat level 9 killed experience +400
Mirage cat level 9 killed experience +400
He opened his status page and his level was now :
Level : 12 ( exp : 7357/7800)
And he had also got +1 basic point to each of his stats and 1 unassigned stats point.