Pain radiates from my shoulder. I slowly start to open my eyes to see I'm back outside with Senior Yee carrying my on his back. "Don't move! You have three broken bones in your arm and two in your shoulder, I dont know who you fought in there but I can tell it was a hard fight. I'm going to be taking you back to your place so you can relax and heal after a week I will come by to check on you and see how much you have healed." Senior Yee tells me all of this as pain keeps shooting up my arm. When we approach my house he let's me down and excitedly asks. "So do you know if you are going to want to go to the Hell Walkers or if you want to be a part of the Holy souls, if you want I can put in a good wood for you at the Holy souls." I finally get to see the full picture of Senior Yee. "Thank you senior Yee for the offer but I've already made up my mind." I smile as I respond to Senior Yee. "I will walk the path between life and death! I will walk a line a line that is only for my self I shall walk the way of the Gladiator!" My voice echoes out as Senior Yee smiles. "That's amazing!" Senior Yee jumps up and down with excitement that doesnt match his appearance. "Now if you ever need anything from the Holy Souls dont forget your Senior Yee." He starts to walk away as he yells out " Right I almost forgot your reward, here you go!" As Senior Yee throws a book at me with the words, ice spike at the top of the book as he walks off into the distance. I slowly start to make my way into my house as I feel a burning sensation emerge from my arm and my shoulder! "Why is it burning!?" I fall onto the ground holding onto my arm. "I must hold on I must remain conscious! I cant fall into the darkness again!" The pain continues on for hours until finally all of the burning sensation stops and a cooling sensation takes over. I can start feeling my arm heal at a incredible speed! After another hour the cooling sensation stops. I start in inspect in my arm to see if there are any differences. I see that my arm is the same and there are no problems with it. I slowly stretch my arm, there is no pain at all! "I know I must have broken a couple bone and theres no way I could be already healed... Wait unless they gave me something to heal faster but I don't remeber every taking anything... the only other time I had this cooling sensation is when I first got knocked out by the Shadow troops." I start trying to remeber when I was given something but was unable to remeber rhe time it happened so I droped the thought. "Oh well. I wonder how lunch time is left for the update. status."
System Updating 1 Hour left, Because of hosts life and death fight.
"So I shortened the time by having that fight with old man Muzi." I decided to wait the hour to see what is going to happen but also make sure that my body is fully healed with no hidden energy. After waiting the whole hour, I freeze and everything around me goes black as I stat to adjust to the darkness everything suddenly changed to a bright white, stunning my eyes. "Shit what is going on!" I start to feel a burning sensation all over my body! The heat just keeps rising! I can see my own flesh burning off. I'm grinning my teeth, trying not to scream from the pain until darkness takes over once more. A deep cooling sensation starts to seep into my body from all around. Slowly my body starts to freeze from the cold, once again the bright white came and the intense heat comes and starts to melt skin again. I look at my skin to deep cold sensation was and see that the skin the grew back and heal before I started to burn! "This is the same as what you do to steal! By using heat and then letting it cool and repeating! Im being tempered!" After the first hour I start to see a difference in the heat, its not that the heat is getting cooler it is that my body it getting stronger! Couple more hours pass until fully I can understand the heat with my physical strength alone. As I lay in the darkness rejuvenating, the atmosphere around me changes. All the hair on my my body stands, a deep metallic blood smell starts to linger around me. Everything become a deep blood red. I can see miles around me, There's nothing to see so I look down I notice the ground is a dead land with cracks all throughout.
"Ring Gladiator Jade Skin 45% Lv 1 features unlocked, Class Unlock."
I Hear this sound off in my head as an armored hand comes out of the ground a right next to my foot a grabs ahold of me."What is that!" I yank my foot away as I retreat away I see more and more body parts emerge from the ground. Fully covered knights some with red armor, and some with copper brass armor but the ones who had copper brass were very few and in between.
"Ring. Update Requirements: Fight until you are the last one standing." It goes off once again right as all the Blood Knights start to run at me with all sorts of weapons. Spears and arrows start to fly at me as all of the Knights with bows and spear shot and throw their weapons at me! I Push back with my legs as I shoot back with unexpected speed because I still have fully gotten use to my huge boost in strength. I dodged the first volley of weapons. I start to think "Good now they have lost their weapons I have a better chance at surviving." Untill I see all the red weapons that were thrown at me turn into a red liquid that seeped into the ground and returned to the blood red Knights that threw them and became weapons once more! "Well shit!" I see a copper brass spear that was thrown at me. "I need a weapon to survive!" I run over to the spear as I inspect and grab it, I see it has a 8 foot shaft and a foot long sharp spade tip that is fully connected. As I finish inspecting the weapon a description pops up.
General Spear
strength +4
agility -1
"What the hell does that mean." I grab onto the spear as I fell that it's not to heavy but it's also not light but as I take a step back i jump there feet into the air! "Why do I feel so strong, wait could it be that thing with the spear!" I look at the spear and see the same description. Before I could investigate further a red knight is running right at me with four other red knights all with red long swords. I Ready the spear as I rush at them and thrust my newly acquired spear. Right as my spear starts to make contact with the red knight a description appears above it.
Blood Knight Lv. 1
My spear easily penetrated into the chest of the Blood Knight, but with out any slowing down the Blood Knight raised it's long sword and a horizontal slashed came right at my neck! I drop both if my knees down in an attempt to dodge the blade. The blade barely trims the hair on my head as I pull my spear out of its chest as I retreat to deal with the other Blood Knights I see that above the Blood Knight that I stabbed a cherry red bar that seem to be half full, I look over at all the other Blood Knights and see that they also have a cherry red bar above them but theirs are completely full. I ready my spear once more. I charge at the Blood Knight that I've already stabbed once and I slash the spear tip right at the Bllod Knights neck! The blade of the spear stops half way though as I tried to behead the Blood Knight, I see that the cherry red bar above the Blood Knight starts to lower at a extreme rate. The next Blood Knight is already next to be as he swings his long sword at my stomach with the strength to cut a horse in half! My arms start to bulge as I push on the spear shaft so strongly that it starts to ark like a waxing crescent moon until finally I behead the first Blood knight and I spin my body to use the shaft of the spear to deflect the strike from the second Blood Knight. My feet sink into the ground as I am pushed back five feet, from the shear strength of the Blood Knight. Black writing appears. and disappears.
-2 HP
I steady my feet as I look at the Blood Knight that I just beheaded and see that it is on the ground melting into the reddish liquid that the weapon did before!! I start to worry, thinking that maybe the Blood Knight will revive just like how the weapons went back to the knights. The red liquid slides under the Blood knight that just attacked me and starts to slowly cover the legs of the Blood Knight until it was absorbed into it legs! Out of nowhere that Blood Knight speed instantly accelerated at least twice as fast as it was before! He starts to run right at me and strikes in a vertical line right at me head, as the other two Blood Knight attacks from both my left and right with horizontal strikes with their long swords. Death creeps down my neck and all my nerves tighten, when I thought of the round house kick used at old man Muzi. "What if I do the same but with a spear but to block the Blood Knight in front of me I will finish with a stab at the end!" I ready my stance as I grab the very end of the shaft of the spear and swing the spear at the first Blood Knight as I twist my feet in the motion to commence the movement of the martial art spinning fist. A vortex appears below my feet as I feel the strength in my spin instantly double, from the shear momentum of the spear it install cut right through the Blood Knight to the left and continued towards the next Blood Knight chose to try and block my strike but my spear went right through the Blood Knight long sword and it's full body. As I come to the end of my spin I see the the Blood Knight that absorb the other into it legs jump into the air ten feet and use its momentum in its vertical slash. I naturally feel that at the end of the spin a great vortex force generated from my entire body start to shape over my spear as stab to the Blood Knight falling as a cyclone apears all over my spear that tears the Blood Knights long sword into pieces and all the way through the Blood Knight until the rotating force drips the Blood Knight into pieces as well that turned into the red liquid the starts to slide to other Blood Knights that are all around. "Great... at least five down." as I'm thinking this another ring goes off in ny head.
"Ring Uncommen Skill unlocked cyclone spear Lv 0 Requirement: Must have spear In hand Description: To spin the body in perfect motion to create a cyclone around the spear"
"I unlocked a uncommon skill? What the hell is a skill?"
"Ring A skill is what the system calls Martial Arts."
" What's with the uncommon then?"
"Ring That is the Rarity of the skill skills rarity levels are common, uncommon, rare, ultra rare, super rare, legendary. The rarity mostly correspond with the strength they can produce. It is how the system evaluates Martial Arts. "
"Okay what is the lv thing then?" I decide to ask another question as I run away from the Blood Knights hoping for another response. "Ring Lv stands for level, you can level up your skills by using them in battle, higher the level more damage can be done. It is how the system evaluates your understanding of the skill. To open skills think Skill list." I think the words skill list and instead of words in my face to see I hear the system reading off my skills in my mind.
Skill list
Cyclone spear Lv 0 [1/1000]
+20 strength when in use
Requirement: Must have spear In hand Description: To spin the body in perfect motion to create a cyclone around the spear
"I must have to use the Martial Art no wait skill 1000 times just to level it up to level 1!" When I was about to get upset a Blood Knight barely missed my leg with its strike. "Right I have all you guys I can work with and practice! and hopefully I'll learn what the strength means."