The orb was really bright that made everyone around blinded by it though Kuro still could look straight into it.
The colour that appeared on the orb made Kuro wonder...
"This is... not on the list that she told me earlier"
"T..the orb... its colour is... rainbow?!!" shouted one of the men in shock. The bright flashed has already disappeared and now they could clearly take a look at the orb.
Everyone turned their head against Kuro and their eyes focus on the orb.
"Wait here!" Reharna face is no longer calm as she rushed to the door behind her.
"Hey hey, what is this?"
"This never happened before right?"
"A rainbow?"
The people inside started to be silence for a while.
They started to whisper to each other while gossiping about this rare occurrence. They never saw this colour before.
"Woah Kuro! I know you are strong! But this... is weird, I wonder what this colour means.
"Yeah..."
*clack* The old dungeon-like door where Reharna went into suddenly open.
A man in his 70s came out with Reharna beside him. He was holding a long woody cane on his right hand, it was long that it helped him to stand properly as his body was a grouch.
[System]
A powerful human detected
What?! Kuro shocked.
Everyone behind us was whispering as if they were shocked to see the old man. Susuki who was beside me also startled to see him as if he is one of the important figures.
"High sense activate"
High Sense is the skill I saw on my stats. I never use it before but it is for enhancing all of my five sense. It was a strong skill that even let my ears to hear the sound from a distance of 100 kilometers.
I could hear the whisper of people around me as clear as if they were talking to me.
What a convenient skill.
"Is that him? The Legendary rank Adventurer"
"That is the guild master of the 'Adventurer Guild' right?"
"I heard that he has been promoted to above the legendary rank"
Legendary rank? Reharna never said that there was this rank. But, if he is the guild master then he must be strong.
The old man's eyes suddenly looking at me and our eyes met each other. Suddenly, an ominous aura came from the old man. It felt as if there was a monster that resides inside his body.
[System]
Host stat has been reduced by 25%
[System]
Host has been recovered as there was no malicious intent.
Aren't this old man crazy strong?!
"Bloodlust? No, this is different it's somehow one hell of an aura that use to intimidate their enemy.
I was focused on him when I realised Susuki was already gone. No, he was kneeling on the ground. When I was looking around, all of the people inside the 'Adventurer Guild' was kneeling on the ground and some of them was holding their head as if they were in pain.
"Argh!"
They could not even stand! I can't say I didn't feel anything, but something like this can't really affect me. Only Reharna, that old man and me were standing right now. As expected! That woman was not simple. But this old man really on a whole new level. reduce a god stats?! that's crazy.
Why did this old man looking at me? Or perhaps... he wanted to test me?
Kuro who realised that the old man was testing him, suddenly let out an intense amount of aura.
Their aura started to clash with each other that left out a cracked in the surrounding.
His aura was good but... I won't lose!
Kuro aura suddenly becomes stronger than before that made the old man's aura slowly got destroy by it. Nephy did told him that God aura is one of the pinnacle aura, but of courseit still in the beginning stage.
*chuckle* "Bwahahahaha! this old man never meets such an interesting person for a long time. Come inside" As he invited me to came with him.
I walked slowly towards the door. "Susuki?"
I looked at Susuki as he didn't follow me. His face was pale and he was sitting on the chair in front of the counter.
"I... I pass" As he said that, he laid down his head on the counter as if he doesn't have the energy to even raise his head.
It would be best for him not to follow us. After all, if the test was really to fight and this old man was the opponent, he might faint.
"Ah, ok then"
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"W..wha what is this room?" Soon as I enter it, it was nothing like the outside. From the outside, this may look like a small adventurer guild but when I enter the door inside it was as big as the whole town. There were tons of big door inside it and there is a sign on top of it.
Using my skill < Knowledge > I could easily understand the word that I see and write it back.
"This is < Dimension Magic >." Explained the old man without looking at me. He might have realised that I seem to never see something like this. I guess it was his magic. He sure are outstanding. The same goes for Reharna, she didn't even surprised earlier while everyone inside the tavern were affected by it.
[System]
Host has learnt < Dimension Magic >
Eh? Aren't this cheating.
"We have arrived." After a long walk, we arrived in front of a really big door, it was bigger than the other door I saw in this Dimension Magic. it was at the end of the path and it was put in the middle.
The old man raised his cane on the door and it slowly open.
Suddenly there is a flash of light came out from inside the door.
After the light disappears without realising it we were already inside a big stadium with an area around 60 kilometers.
Inside it more like an arena for gladiator.
"Kohaku Kuro!" Suddenly the old man raised his voice calling out Kuro name that made him startled.
"Normally we would use our instructor to test the people who want to become an adventurer" He stopped for a while that let the only sound of the wind could be heard.
"But! You got an exception. Rainbow colour is already above normal rank. And there's is 4 more rank above them. Gold Colour is Legendary, Dark-Purple colour is Adamantatite, Light-Green colour is National-rank and the last one is the strongest and above all of them where there are said to be only 5 people in this continent to have it which is... The colour that you got. Rainbow, the highest of them all was said to have high aptitude for magic and have Outstanding strength was said to can use all class such as tank, archery, magic, swordsmanship and a lot more, the Mythical Rank!"
"Even me - myself barely reached the Legendary-Rank" he continued.
"It was impressive that you could withstand my aura just now. You pass..."
"Pass to take the test"
Barely reaching the Legendary-rank huh. His aura earlier was really powerful. As I am now, this might be a bit difficult. If I were to say, our stats are not that much different, but the experience when fighting, he must have it better than me. That's the biggest advantage he has.
I still remember the game VR I used to play... the movement and the feeling, I use to be the world top 10 on that VR game... well I guess I got the advantages here..[bruh no time for excercise but for games?!]
"All right. Bring it on" I said confidently to him. To tell the truth, I was pretty nervous here. Fighting human is different from when I was hunting a monster. Human have the knowledge, they could think of the best way possible to win. The pattern isn't the same cause they might change their strategy at any time. I never thought I would have a real fight this fast.
"Kufufu, quiet confident are we? All right." He jumped two-hundred meters away from me and Reharna was in the middle. He was fast to be honest.
"Shall we start?" His eyes earlier that seems calm turned into red as if it was thirsty for blood. His body that was grouch turns into normal as he now could stand properly where he doesn't need to rely on his cane.
[System]
Warning: Ominuous Energy detected. Host are warn to be cautious.
[System]
Host Stats has been reduced by 25%
[System]
As host aura is stronger stats has back to normal
"Damn it.. this will not be easy isn't it?"
His eyes pointed on Reharna giving her a signal.
"All right, any type of weapon can be use. The winner will determine if any of you could no longer fight." The signal earlier was to tell Reharna for her to become the referee.
Also... why did grandpa do this? Legendary rank and above doesn't need any fight thought? he could just pass with free pass...
"Ready?!!!!"
"Starrtttt"!
I was on my guard. I wanted to see myself what kind of magic he would use. The warning earlier really made me nervous.
The old man raised his cane. His eyes were scary as it turns red.
< Magma Scratch >
A red cloud suddenly appeared inside the stadium. And what came out from it was rain and its not just a normal rain but a lava!
"As expected of grandpa, he can use magic without chanting even A-rank adventurer can't do that. Now Kohaku Kuro, what will you do?" mumbled Reharna as she was watching the fight a bit far from both of them. After all she knew better than anyone just how dangerous this fight was.
*chuckle* That magic has an intense amount of mana, I could feel it. But to counter such an amount of mana...
< Heaven Shield > Kuro raised his hand. A big transparent shield appeared above Kuro that covered the lava rain that wanted to hit him. It was not shielding him but absorbed the lava.
Realising that 'that' magic won't work on Kuro, the old man stopped it.
"He also can use magic without chanting?!" Reharna was shocked. For her, people who can use magic without chanting is rare! Even the old man had a hard time learning it.
"Oho? I have never seen this kind of spell before" Of course he has never seen it. It was the skill Kuro obtained from his system. It a skill that does not exist for human.
"Indeed you are talented, but--"
"Not yet!" Kuro cutted his word...
< Heaven Shield > This is the skill that not only could absorb the magic that has lower mana than the user mana. But, there is another use of it.
"Release" As I pointed the shield to the old man.
The < Heaven Shield > suddenly shoot the same lava that it absorbed to the old man.
"Kufufu, trying to use my magic against me?" He said while giving out a smirk. He was confident to block it but he stopped when he saw Kuro was smiling.
"Wait, there is something off, my sense told me that this is dangerous!" His confidence earlier was shattered as he evaded all of the lava that was sent back to him.
"What happened? Why did grandpa evade the attack just now, he can block that lava magic" Reharna was shocked. She knows his grandfather better than anyone. It was the same magic as his and for him to block it would be child play and yet he chose to evade it.
"I see now, it not only to absorb and reflect the magic." He now realised what was the true power of that shield. His stance changed as he now takes this fight seriously.
"< Heaven Shield > can absorb and reflect the attack, but when it reflects the attack it becomes tenfold stronger!" I explained my skill to them. Though I didn't tell them that it could only absorb magic that has less mana than mine.
"What a weird magic... But," The old man hit his cane to the ground. The stadium suddenly shaking as if there was an earthquake.
< Shrine Plant >
A lot of plant in an instant came out from the ground and it was 30 meters tall at that.
It suddenly released a lot of dust that spread through the whole stadium.
I saw Reharna has already gone and she was on the audience seat as there was a barrier that protected the audience from affected by what happened inside the arena. For her to go there that's mean that this magic is dangerous.
This... is grandpa crazy?! Reharna shocked.
My system tab suddenly appears that it shows...
[System]
*Host body is in danger, HP will be reduced by 100 every second.
"What the hell? So this is a poison?!" In such a situation, I tried not to panic, there must be a way.
< Tremendere Flame > This is the skill that has AOE(Area of effect). It might be useful to destroy the whole plants using this skill.
The plants around us started to burn as my skills keep burning it until the plant around the arena got destroyed. That's work or so that was what I thought...
"< Shrine Plant >. One of grandpa ultimate magic. For him to use a wide range magic was a wise choice. But, ultimate magic is not as simple as this." Reharna started to focus more on the fight as it starting to get interesting. She rarely saw someone who can force her grandfather, the guild master to use ultimate magic.
But... ultimate usually use to kill someone... why did grandpa do this?
I guess that's the last plant. Now I could clearly see the old man as the plant that covers him was already gone. Time to counter---
The ground was shaking once again. And the plant earlier came out from the ground.
What? if I were to use the magic earlier... it would consume a lot of mana. And this annoying plant keeps appearing that it decreased my HP countinuously. He is indeed live up to his title as the guild master. Kuro didn't knew what ultimate skill was as he himself was still green on skill field.
"Kufufu, the plant will keep coming until my mana run out, but who will run out first you or my mana?" He said in a devilish talk.
"This young man is indeed impressive. I just want to make him give up so I can evaluate his rank. This magic could kill him if he were to expose by it for a long time."
After all people rank will be determine by testing and goes up as he got more achievement the orb only shows his potential...
[System]
*Host has 60% HP left.
"This is bad if I can't destroy the plant then I'll just have to stop the caster!"
I rushed as fast as I could to the old man as we were 100 meters far right now.
< God Enhancement > A skill where I can enhance all of my stats by tenfold for 15 seconds and it will consume an amount of 185000 MP. It was a gamble. Either I can win within 15 seconds or this magic effect will run out and I will lose.
[System]
*Host Mana has 20% left.
*Host Hp has 35% left.
Damn it! The old man keeps running away. I could catch up with his speed but the plant was just annoying that it could try to harm me.
Ahh, I feel dizzy!
*Host Hp is 20% left.
*Host Hp is 15% left.
Damn, I can't seem to catch up to his speed as I was getting slower because of this poison.
*Host Hp is 8% left.
"Looks like this is the end huh?" Thought Reharna while closing her eyes. He could die... but grandpa should know the limit.
She then surprised when Kuro suddenly released a high-tier magic.
< Dragon Roar > A wind attack which has the form of a dragon. The people who got hit by it would be pushed far away. and what Kuro did was find a chance where he can used it in the air and pushed the old man to the ground and somehow it worked.
He then fell to the ground. As he was trying to get up.
*chuckle* Dragon Roar is a skill where we can push the enemy to where we want. The effect is the enemy will be stunned for 10 seconds after getting hit by it, but it would be less useful if the enemy has higher mana as they could easily counter it.
"What?! I can't move?" The old man shocked.
"Hiyaaaargh! < Inertia Punch! > Inertia will forcefully push someone while the thing that touch by it went to the opposite that it made a powerful impact.
*Boom!
"Grandpa!" Shouted Reharna worried while rushing towards them, the plants earlier slowly went back to the ground so it was safe for her to enter the arena now. She cannot see what happened after the punched as there was dust covering them after Kuro's punch.
After the dust disappeared, there was Kuro and the old man. Kuro punch was at the ground beside the old man head while the old man was lying down.
*huff*huff* "My win ?" I asked while smiling. It was a satisfying fight. I could try various magic.
But.. think again is this old main trying to kill me?
"Bwahhahaha of course it is!" He just laughed it off.
Damn.. I almost killed people. the old man made sour face.
[System]
*Host HP is 0.25%
*Host MP is -3/220000
*Host body will no longer in danger but ran out of Mana. As a penalty due to using more mana than the host maximum MP host body will be shut down for a while.
"Huff..huff" My eyes got blurred before I suddenly fainted.
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