Arnos awoke up the next day.
He kinda felt lonely when he was about to start the 25 laps and no one was there.
He began running when he felt like it. He ran the 25 laps in 15 minutes. A lot faster, he wasn't even that tired.
At breakfast he ate by himself.
"What should I do?" He spoke to himself.
After doing some chores around the house he decided the check out the training dummy. He looked at it, the dummy was 1.8 meters tall. He got the instructions and switched the level to the easiest to test how strong the dummy was.
"Level 1, activated. Please choose mastery."
"Hmmmmm, let's go with a knight."
"Knight, Level 1 activates. Sparring match begins." A robotic ring sound out.
A huge blade came out on the arm and it became an arm with a sword attached. The dummy grew larger, it grew at least 10 more centimeters. It then suddenly jumped towards Arnos with inhuman speed.
'What the heck. It's such a heavy sword, how? And this is just Level 1!?"
Arnos pulled out his tralent and leaped into the air. Doing a front flip in the air and slicing straight down. It hit nothing but air. The dummy turned around and suddenly he could see 2 wave like things flying towards him.
Arnos uses Leap and got very high in the air and used Triple Slash. WHOOSH! 3 blades launched themselves at the dummy. After all it was level 1. The dummy got hit.
"Proceeding, attack may severely hurt opponent. Level 1 Knight Passed." The dummy said and just stood there.
'Holy crud, that was actually not that bad. Hahaha I'm just kidding that was level 1!? I'm so confused, whatever let's check out Level 2.'
"Level 5 activated. Level 5 Knight sparring match begins."
"What the absolute fudge?! I changed to Level 2 not 5!!!!?! Oh flip-"
The knight was somehow at least 2 meters tall. The big sword he saw then was nothing compared to the huge blade the dummy was grasping. The dummy ran at full speed and started turning.
"What the heck why is it turning?"
His answer soon came when the sword and the dummy went at drastic speeds. The winds surrounded the dummy, this reminded Arnos of one thing. A cyclone.
"Cyclone twist activate, user might be hurt. Warning user may not withstand the cyclone. Level 5 failed."
The dust parted and Arnos just stood there in shock.
"What the fudge. I was going to dodge what do you mean! Stupid dummy."
"Sigh, let's try this."
As he looked on the control menu as he read some more, he noticed something.
"User level 3 at Silent Walker. Beginner level 5. What's that supposed to mean? My level, damn why is it so low. You know what I'm going to try a ranged class now."
He looked at all the ranged classes. There was one that piped his interest.
"User selected Crossbow Mechanic Level 3. Sparring match will start."
The dummy grew a lot shorter, at maybe about 1.7 meters. A crossbow appeared but it didn't look like a crossbow. It looked like a mixture between a bow, crossbow and machine gun.
5 bolts fired out at extreme speeds followed by more behind.
"Shoot it's starting already, man I have slow reflexes."
Arnos went to the side and used Shadow Vanish. He reappeared behind the dummy and swung down. It hit nothing but a blur.
'What? This guy can clone himself?'
He looked around but no one else was in sight. Arnos activated his Presence Seeker and soon saw a bright light. He quickly dashed towards the area. That was a mistake, the dummy noticed and switched positions.
"Damn this guy is agile."
He tried to move again but was stuck. 'What the-'
He looked up to see a cloud of bolts above him.
"Frozen Bolt Rain was chosen, user can not withstand the attack. Level 3 Crossbow Mechanic failed."
Then everything went back to normal and Arnos could move again. He was sweating a lot.
"I'm still not quick enough. I'm going to run 50 laps tomorrow. I should also lift some weights. Since Master Romeus gave me those barrels and I could carry them with ease now. I overestimate myself too much."
It had been a whole hour hour and a half already. Arnos decided to cool down and go to the shack where Master Romeus has said there were weights.
Creeeaaak. The door opened there were weights of all kinds. 10kg-400kg.
"People can lift 400kgs? Well okay then, I'll start with 50kg and move up."
Arnos picked up a 50kg weight and lifted it easily. Hmm I guess I'll add more. Eventually he came to a 120kg weight. Which is not too bad since he's never lifted ever before.
Arnos lied on the grass slowly lifting the 120kg weight. He got to 150 times and put the weight back down. He was quite hungry after all that and went inside to check the time.
"12:10pm, I guess I'll go cook something."
Some vegetables were being fried in th pan. The smell smelt quite nice and fragrant.
Arnos then diced some of the wild moon rabbit he hunted the other day and tossed it in. He poured in a bit of oil and added some salt. To top it all off with some nicely toasted garlic bread.
Arnos prepared the food and sat down to eat.
"Man this looks delicious."
He took a bite, it was a tad bit bland. He added some more salt but added too much.
'Ah, I guess I wasn't cut out to be a chef afterwards, hehe uhh yeah.'
Arnos isn't such a picky person after all there was a time where he didn't know if there would be enough food that day. So he just ate it, it wasn't bad anyways. The garlic bread was fine though.
After washing the dishes, Arnos didn't know what to do. He was very bored. He remembered that they had a lake. 'Maybe I'll go for a swim.'
Arnos didn't really have swimming trunks so he just took a pair of shorts that seemed fine for swimming. On the way out he saw himself in the mirror and could see some improvement. He looked much healthier than before and it seemed like he grew a bit too.
The lake was kinda cold to touch. Arnos grabbed a stick to see how deep the lake got.
I don't think I even know how to swim. The lake doesn't have any inhabitants right? I dipped my legs into the lake and dumped my head in.
Arnos's spikes hair was all wet and over his face. The lake wasn't so bad and it seemed like no inhabitants in the lake. The lake wasn't deep but as he swam further from the bank it got way deeper. Being honest, Arnos was kinda scared that there actually were anything in the water so he decided to swim near the bank. The lake was pretty big so he only swam half a lap each time. Arnos swam about 60half laps. Which isn't bad because the lake is like 100 meters long.
Arnos dried off with a towel that he borrowed and took a quick shower. The time was 2:00pm. Arnos's mind went blank. He didn't know what to do till dinner. He sat there on the chair and an idea shortly popped up in his mind.
"I'll practice my skills while waiting, and maybe spar a bit more."
And so he sparred for a long time with the dummy while practicing his skills and enhancing them. Little by little.
"Level 2 Crossbow Mechanic passed."
"Level 3 Mage passed."
"Level 5 Archer passed."
"Level 3 Assassin passed."
Ding! A metallic ding rang.
"Updated info."
"User is now at Level 4 Silent Walker, Beginner 8. Skills have improved by a margin." Arnos read.
Arnos was really proud of the progress he made today and decided to celebrate by cooking up something very nice.
Well he tried to cook a 3 coursed meal but kinda failed and ended up eating some stew and bread. Kinda sad right? Arnos didn't care anyways, he was a bit disappointed though.
Arnos was lying in his bed quietly. The day had been great and tomorrow he would be running 50 laps and training a bit, maybe lifting a bit too and then go to the nearby town and check for anything fun to do. He was really bored so going to the town tomorrow would be fun.
The night went by nicely and morning came the next day.