Amaya was rudely awakened by the sound of knocking coming from the other side of the door. She sat up and thought to herself.
"Huh? Who could that be? I barely know anyone."
Amaya then stood up and walked over to the door.
"Hopefully it's not because of what happened at the dungeon."
She then turned the handle and pulled the door open.
As soon as it opened a voice came from the other side.
"It's been awhile, hasn't it?" It was Katsu.
Amaya was surprised as she realized who it was.
"Katsu? It really has been a while."
As soon as Katsu saw her, he noticed a major change. Not in her appearance but her presence.
"Yeah, the training academy lasted longer than I thought it would."
"Hold on a second and let me get ready. I'll meet you outside." Amaya then shut the door.
After putting her cloak and boots on, Amaya walked out of the Inn as Emi followed.
"Okay, let's talk more, Katsu." said Amaya.
As Amaya approached him, he thought to himself.
"She definitely changed since the last time I saw her. I noticed something was different when she opened the door but I wasn't sure. Now I know, Amaya killed somebody, didn't she? Her aura, since the skill is comparing hers to mine it's only yellow but, I can tell she's not the same as she was last time."
Katsu then began speaking.
"I was planning on moving over to a bigger town, Mareve. I decided to Stop by here for a couple reasons. One was I wanted to see If you guys wanted to go with me."
"We are gonna go to Mareve? I heard there's super strong adventurers over there." said Emi
"When will you be going?" Amaya asked.
"Maybe in a week or two. So you can take your time on making the decision."
She then began thinking to herself.
"Mareve, that's the place the Defender's guild is located. I guess it'll be a good Idea to check it out. I can always leave if I don't like it. Before I came to this world I wished that I could start a new life. Now, I have the chance."
Amaya then replied.
"I'll think about it."
"Take your time. Wanna head to the Sparring center and sparr."
Amaya then thought to herself.
"I guess It's a good opportunity to practice. I mean, Katsu has gotten a lot stronger than last time. So maybe I can learn a trick or two."
(Katsu: Level: 89 Hp:11,578 Mp: 4,789 Atk: 2,356 Speed: 243 Endurance: 327)
"I wanna see you guys fight." said Emi.
"Okay, Katsu. Let's head over to the sparring arena." said Amaya.
Sparring Arena....As Amaya, Emi and Katsu walked in, The Lady at the counter remembered them from last time. The lady wore a business suit.
"Your Amaya, the one that won the tournament a while back."
Amaya stopped and remembered the woman.
"Oh yea, and you're that lady that we saw when we first came in."
"That was me. What can I do for you today?" The lady asked.
"We are just here to have a quick training match."
"Almost nobody came in today so it's empty. You guys can go on ahead."
"Thank you," said Katsu.
They then walked through the second set of doors
"Let's get this fight started." said Amaya.
Katsu and Amaya both walked over to the square.
Katsu then began explaining the rules.
"Since we're stronger than last time there will be no full on attacks. To win we have to touch each other's foreheads. You may start whenever you like."
Amaya began walking towards him.
"Okay, I'm starting now, get ready."
He then squinted.
They both ran at each other.
Katsu rapidly swung his arms trying to touch her forehead as Amaya easily dodged.
She then thought to herself.
"I'm going to see what kind of tricks he has up his sleeve. But I feel kinda bad because I'm way faster."
[Opponent activated 'Speed Boost']
Katsu's hand was suddenly seconds away from hitting her forehead.
['Dash' has been activated]
Amaya jumped to the side and stepped back.
['Fast Tracking' has been activated]
Katsu then shouted.
"Burst!"
He was suddenly in front of her and reached his hand out.
"I got you now." He then stopped as Amaya was now holding his finger.
"You almost had me."
['Speed Boost' has been activated]
Katsu was surprised as Amaya disappeared.
Then, he heard a voice come from behind.
"Right here."
Katsu quickly turned around as Amaya shoved her finger into his forehead.
"Poke."
A couple seconds of silence passed.
Katsu smiled and let out a sigh.
"I guess you won, huh?"
"Yeah...I did."
['Fast Tracking has deactivated]
"She was extraordinarily fast... " Katsu thought to himself.
"So what should we do now?" Amaya asked.
A loud explosion coming from outside caught their attention.
"What was that?" Kastu asked.
"I don't know." Amaya replied.
Emi then came running over.
"There was a really loud explosion from outside."
"Yeah we heard it." said Amaya.
Katsu stared at the pair of doors that they had come in through.
"Let's go check it out"
Amaya turned to look at Emi.
"Stay here, we'll be right back."
Katsu and Amaya began running to the doors.
He thought to himself.
"Something definitely can't be right."
"Something's really wrong, I can feel it." Amaya thought to herself.
As they reached the first pair of doors Katsu shoved them open.
Amaya noticed that the lady behind the counter was gone.
They then opened the second pair of doors.
As they walked outside they noticed that most of the houses and shops had been destroyed. There were dead monsters all around the building.
Amaya turned and noticed a woman in a suit that was fighting a giant scorpion.
"A giant scorpion?!
Amaya ran over to help her but before she had arrived, the woman had easily killed it. As Amaya approached her, she noticed that it was the lady from behind the counter.
She then turned around to look at Amaya.
"Be careful, these monsters are pretty high-leveled and it's not just scorpions. There are all types of different monsters attacking."
Amaya looked at her and saw her stats.
(Level: 145 Hp: 18,978 Mp: 5,894 Atk: 7,854 Speed: 288 Endurance: 322)
"You're not just a regular worker, are you?" Amaya asked.
"Suprised you can tell. My name is Jitsuko. I'm also an S-rank adventurer at the Defender's guild."
"That makes more sense. I'm going to go look around and try to help some people. I left that little girl that was with me inside. Can you take care of her?"
"She's in good hands." Jitsuko replied.
Amaya then ran off as Katsu followed.
"What did you find out?" Katsu asked.
"Well the lady is actually an s-ranker. Also, the town is under attack by different types of monsters."
"I guess that does make sense, with all the different monsters running around?" Katsu replied.
Their running came to a stop as they were getting surrounded.
The monsters had black-colored fur and a mane around their neck. The creatures walked on all fours and growled at Amaya and Katsu.
"Are these things lions?" Amaya thought to herself.
The monsters stats came into view.
(Shadow Lion: Hp: 22,345 Mp:4,456 Atk: 2,355 Speed: 297 Endurance: 345)
Amaya Looked around and saw that there were fif-teen of them in total.
Katsu stood facing towards them with his sword drawn.
"Amaya, go and try to help the people of this town. I'll stay here and fight these things."
"Okay, be careful."
['Burst' has been activated]
Amaya moved forwards and was suddenly a good distance away from them.
"I'm heading over to the guild first. If they're in trouble I'll help them. Next I'll go check on the weapon sho-"
(Amaya: Hp: 5,943/9,943)
Amaya was suddenly stuck in the stomach and went tumbling across the ground.
"What.. just hit me?" Amaya slowly stood up and saw it. It was a lizard man.
(Lizard man: Hp: 24,789 Mp: 678 Atk: 4,000 Speed: 321 Endurance: 346)
Amaya reached her hand out as her katana appeared.
"I don't have time for this."
['Rage' has activated]
The lizard man just stared at her, then began running towards her.
['Speed Boost' has been activated.] Amaya moved to the side as she slashed its knee.
(Lizard Man: Hp: 2,357/24,789)
"That was a bad idea, making eye contact with me." said Amaya.
It quickly swung it's claws at her, Amaya dropped her katana and caught the creature's wrist.
She then slammed her fist into the middle of it's forehead.
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"I guess creatures like that are still kind of a challenge for me. It's time to check on the guild.
At the guild.....The building was destroyed and adventurers were fighting off the monsters as they came.
Hana, the guild worker had her leg trapped under some of the ruble as she tried to free herself.
"Agh, it's stuck on my leg."
A monster began to approach her. It was a scorpion that stood at least five-feet tall.
It began to lift its long sharp tail and pointed it at her, a voice then shouted.
"Penetrate!"
There was a couple fast slashes then the creature fell over.
"Are you okay?" Amaya asked.
"Yes, thank you, for showing up when you did." Hana replied.
Amaya kneeled down and lifted the ruble off of her leg.
"The way Amaya handled that high-level monster, has she gotten stronger?" Hana thought to herself.
(Amaya: overall: 16,479)
Amaya then stood up and looked around.
"There's a lot of monsters aren't there? Do you guys need help?"
"The adventurers are doing just fine. So far none have been killed."
Amaya then let out a breath fo relief.
"That's good. I'm going to check on a couple other places, stay safe."
She then began running off as she thought to herself.
"These monsters are stronger than most of the ones I've come across since I've been in this world. One on one isn't really a problem but I have to try not to get surrounded."
Amaya's running came to a stop as she heard yelling and chanting.
She slowly peeked her head around one of the houses and saw six adventurers fighting a tall monster. It had giant bat wings on it's back and it's eye's seemed to be stitched shut.
It stood still as they shot magic and attacked it.
Suddenly, long sharp claws grew out of its hands.
The adventurers then realized how strong the creature was and began backing off.
The creature swung it's claws and instantly killed two of the adventurers.
Amaya's eyes widened.
"No! I gotta help them.." Amaya thought to herself.
(Flesh Eater: Hp: 167,789 Mp: 63,000 Atk: 22,000 Speed: 379 Endurance: 457)
['Speed Boost' has been activated]
Amaya rushed at the creature and swung her fist at it, but missed as it moved.
It was now behind her.
"Dash!!" She quickly jumped out of the way as the creature swung it's claws.
The adventurers began shouting.
"Get out of here! You can't handle that thing."
"Run, we'll hold it off."
['Fast Tracking has been activated]
Amaya held out her hand as a healing potion appeared. She bit the cork off then drank the liquid.
(Amaya: Hp: 10,923/10,923)
Amaya held her hand out once more as her katana appeared.
"Don't worry, I'll handle this.Today, I'll be your guy's hero"
She then thought to herself.
"Wow! I sounded so cool."
The adventurers seemed shocked but did not question her as she was their last hope.
['Burst' has activated.]
Amaya quickly moved and swung her katana as she shouted.
"Attack Amplifier!" The katana slashed across the creature's side as blood gushed out.
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"That was easier than I thought and…. I leveled up way too much."
Amaya quickly turned around as she heard loud footsteps.
It was two more monsters, the same kind as the one she had just fought.
"Great, more of them? This is going to be difficult, especially because my endurance is getting low. I can use burst to attack first."
(Amaya: Endurance: 135/337)
Amaya raised her sword and took a stance.
"Burst!"
At an amazing speed she shot forward and slashed the creature's chest. Her attack had little to no effect on it.
"I need more strenght!"
The creature's then began swinging their claws at her.
She was rapidly slashed and hit, a couple seconds of silence passed as Amaya fell forward.
['Second Chance' has activated] (Amaya: Hp: 17,500/17,500)
As the creatures began walking off, She quickly jumped to her feet and gripped her katana.
"My skills are fully cooled down thanks to my second chance. I can take one of them down."
Amaya then shouted.
"Burst!!"
['Attack Amplifier' has been activated]
Amaya ran and swung her sword across one of the monster's backs.
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The creature then fell over.
The other Flesh Eater turned around and began growling at Amaya as she thought to herself.
"These things are pretty tough, that's why I can't let an opportunity to level up this much slip away."
The monster ran and swung it's claws at her as she crossed her arms.
(Amaya: Hp: 11,000/20,100) The impact sent her rolling across the ground.
"One more hit and I'm pretty much done for." She thought to herself.
She then stood up from the ground.
['Rage' has been activated]
"That did it."
The creature walked up and swung it's claws.
Amaya quickly jumped out of the way and held out her hand as a bottle of purple liquid appeared.
"My Mp is low."
(Amaya: Mp: 14/4,374)
She tore the cork off the bottle and drank the liquid that was inside.
(Amaya: Mp: 4,374)
"That's much better."
['Speed Boost has activated]
At that moment Amaya ran at the creature and rapidly swung her fists.
[Enemy has activated 'Absorb']
Her attacks came to a stop as she looked up at the creature. Her attacks had done nothing due to its skill.
(Flesh Eater: Hp: 167,789/167,789)
"That did nothing?!"
The creature grabbed Amaya's arm and threw her against the wall of a house. The wall shattered as Amaya fell through and rolled across the floor.
She let out a breath then jumped to her feet. Amaya reached out her hand as her katana appeared.
She then took a couple of seconds to regain some of her energy.
"Okay, I'm ready."
Amaya ran then stabbed her katana into the creature's stomach then yanked it back out as she jumped back a couple steps.
She reached out her hand as a bottle of green liquid appeared.
"I only have two more of these health recovery potions. Also My endurance is getting low. My rage skill isn't recovering it fast enough. Maybe if I just let it take over then it will recover fast, but I'll only do that if things start looking worse.
She then tore the cork off and drank the potion.
[Enemy has activated 'Speed Boost']
Suddenly, the creature swung it's claws at her.
Amaya quickly crossed her arms and the impact pushed her back.
(Amaya: Hp: 9,100/20,100)
She then moved forward and began running in circles around the monster.
She swung her sword with each step she took, the creature rapidly swung it's claws and blocked each and every attack.
"I have to land a good solid attack before my endurance gets any lower. Burst! Penetrate!"
Amaya swung her sword once more, slicing its chest.
"I need more power…."
At that moment the Amaya's skin turned dark and her eyes began glowing a bright-purple color. It looked as if a purple fog was dripping from her eye sockets.
['Rage' has evolved into 'Rage 2']
The creature began swinging it's claws at Amaya as she moved side to side.
She then jumped up and firmly slammed her fist into the center of its face.
As she landed back on the ground, the creature reached its hand out to grab her. Amaya stood there and grinned before grabbing it's claws.
She gracefully kicked it's stomach then jumped back a couple steps
Amaya reached her hand out as her katana appeared once more.
She then gripped it tightly as she took one slow and deep breath.
['Burst' has activated]
Amaya suddenly shot forward and stabbed the katana into the middle of the creatures forehead.
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['Rage 2' has deactivated]
She then yanked it out and kneeled down to catch her breath.
"I'm really tired out."
(Amaya: Endurance: 11/408)
The atmosphere had gotten quiet and there seemed to be no more monsters.
Then, people wearing silver armor came walking. They were knights.
"Are you okay young lady?" One of them reached out to help her but Amaya slapped their hands away.
She then stood up.
"I'm okay, I can stand by myself."
One of the men stood forward.
"Are you the one that beat these monsters."
Amaya then replied.
"Why do you ask?"
"These are a type of monster called Flesh Eaters. They are a Silver ranked monster. There are very few people who can take down monsters like these. So if you are the one who did this, we will need you to come with us and answer some questions."