In front of his house stood Lith, looking at the horizon it was his birthday. It was the first time in the last year he didn't have a daily quest. If he hadn't opted for Unlimited, that was the day he would have received his blessing. Lith couldn't stop to imagine what would have happened if he hadn't chosen Unlimited. He didn't regret his choice, but curiosity was nonetheless there. He sighed and took a look at his status.
¬Status¬
Lith
Level: 1
Blessing: User of The Unlimited
Health: 15/15
Race: Tainted
Strenght: 1.3
knowledge: 2.5
Stamina: 1.75
Dexterity: 0.75
Speed: 1.5
Lifespan: 1 rank
Message:
Quest:-
Abilities: Hells Pocket (0), Swimming (3), Reading, halberd(1), short axe(1),stealth (0), rhikis riding(0), sprint(1),
Tittles:
Awakening of Unlimited: 30/100
Many things had changed in this short year while he had finished teaching his fathers and completed the quest. The price was two-hole points of knowledge. It was a hellish experience. It all started pretty well as he learned about more and more things, but the pace was too fast, his head started hurting, a few seconds later he was unconscious. For the next few days, Lith had a headache. Limit (the name Lith gave the voice in his head) had explained it was to be expected that when the difference in the stat and the reward was too big, some negative consequence could occur.
The system now gave all quests with penalties because Lith had failed one of the quests given to him due to lack of preparation. While the failure of the quest had no direct consequence, Limit was convinced that failing an easy quest due to being unprepared was dumb, and so decided that hence force all quest had a penalty. Lith had tried to argue with Limit, but to no avail, penalties were now a form to ensure that Lith took the quest seriously.
Hell's pocket had proven to be more of a challenge than Lith imagine. After a year of trying he couldn't open his hells pocket. It had been a hard realization for Lith, to find himself in front of something he couldn't do, the wall seemed unsurpassable, but once a week Lith had a quest that required that he wholeheartedly tried. Luckily his fathers were there for him, and Limit explained that he should take it as mental training, not everything will be easy, the first few months of continued failure were hard, but Lith had prevailed and know it was part of his life to go against the unsurpassable wall.
The new abilities were hard to train. According to Limit, Rhikis was a sea creature that was extinct on the planet. And Stealth required people to look after him and not find him. But Rubeous and Mark were too good at spotting him. But he had hope for stealth, even if he was found every time Lith felt he was getting better at it.
Rubeous had started teaching him how to use the halberd, and in a surprising act, Mark decided that he was going to teach Lith how to use the short axes. Rubeus had confided to Lith that in all the years they had been friends, only once had he seen Mark take out the axes to fight. That was when they were escaping from the King of Rakland. Mark decided to stall for time, letting Rubeous and Trisa escape. At that time they had followed Marks's order, and a week later when the rest of the group were preparing to keep getting further away from Rakland, Mark appeared out of nowhere as if nothing happened, and then he collapsed to sleep. Why were they scaping or how was Mark able to survive to reunite with the group was things that Lith tried to ask, but Mark and Rubeous didn't want to answer.
The training was hard, and the requirements from Mark and Rubeous whereas hard as those of Limit. Hell could have broken but he should have finished the set before anything else. While repeating the same set of movements all day was boring, the movements were being ingrained in his brain. And once every week Lith had practical training, or as he called it "combat training" where he had to put into practice everything fighting against Mark or Rubeous or both at the same time. While Mark and Rubeous didn't hit him hard. They did use other styles of weapons, and sometimes more or even less strength than Lith. They had explained that training where even if he did everything perfectly he couldn't land a blow didn't make sense, he needed to know what it meant for the attacks to connect or to simply grace. A training where he never gets to land a blow didn't prepare him for when he lands blows.
He had found passion in training and fighting. When bandits appear on the desert Lith had wanted to go and fight with the bandits, and prove his progress. He was stopped by Mark and Rubeous. They had explained that they may be Bandits, but the question was if Lith was ready to take a life or to die just to prove he could fight. That talk was a long one and like a bucket call water over Lith. Luckily the bandits took off a few days later.
Lith had matured and while he still was a kid, he now saw things differently. He was clear that not long from now he will have to leave the desert and his family. Not only were the promises he had with Unlimited waiting on him, but his spirit also wanted to find more about this world.