In the morning, Zane woke up at his underground house. He can already feel a newfound strength in his body. His stats had a massive change after drinking the Triple Color Destiny Potion. Very excitedly, he screamed in his head, "STATUS!"
Zane
Level: 6
Mantra: Zen's Slaughter Mantra
Strength: 13 to 31
Agility: 14 to 20
Perception:13
Constitution: 13 to 24
Mana Capacity: 0.8
Unallocated Attribute Points: 0
Unallocated Skill Points: 1
"Muahahaha! What a change! If people find out that there is such a potion, they will probably hunt me down!"
In truth, Zane was correct. The only way to produce the potion was through the precise instruction of the system. It is highly unlikely that one will be able to recreate the same potion.
Zane went back to his alchemy room. All kinds of flasks were on a table, and there, he saw that his four remaining Triple Color Destiny were all neatly stacked. It was glowing with colors illuminating the darkly lit room.
He took all of them and went to Cecilia's room. The door opened, and he saw Cecilia full of sweat with her cloth armor. Cecilia's face radiates a beauty that even the snow-white will be ashamed of. Her smooth porcelain skin is radiating. After months had passed, her golden hair had lengthened, growing up to 8 inches.
Zane was smiling when he saw Cecilia, not because of her beauty but instead, he was no longer as weak as before. Previously, because there was a high difference between his stats and Cecilia, he wasn't able to fight back properly against Cecilia's attack.
The problem with Cecilia was that she wasn't good at holding her strength. Her attack was always ferocious. Making Zane sometimes beaten black and blue. He also found out that Cecilia's swordsmanship was already an inch closer to him. Even Zane couldn't believe her improvement. It was only a few months ago that Zane dominated Cecilia.
"You are awake," Cecilia inspects Zane. Her perception was telling him that Zane has gotten stronger. "Do you want to spar?" anticipation was in her eyes.
"No. I will be going to the Arena."
"Do you want me to come with you?" she started preparing.
"No, I want you to stay here, and I want you to also take these potions."
Cecilia looked at the potions in Zane's hand. She knew how precious they are and how much effort Zane put into them.
Zane did not wait for her response but just put the potions in her hand and left.
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For the past few months, Zane has been scurrying the Black and White Market trying to find destiny fruits and materials that can increase his strength. He had bought what he needed to buy and purchased necessary things.
Meanwhile, back to his second work. Dr. Horus had gained the title of 'Miracle Doctor'. Their medical ward had received quite a lot of praise from the soldiers and officers. Because of this, they have promoted Dr. Horus as the head of the medical wards. Meanwhile, Zane was completely forgotten.
Although it was reported that another person contributed significantly to the ward, however, they found out that he was but a mere slave. The nobles ridiculed the report, and Zane was kicked out of the ward. Zane was actually very happy with the result. After being kicked out, he no longer bothered going to the ward but instead went to his own hiding place and started practicing and concocting potions with his own bought herbs.
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Zane arrived at a colosseum, west of his Umbra residence. This arena is much smaller than the usual ones. However, although it was smaller, it was still as large as the football field on earth.
'I have done all I can to increase my strength through alchemy. I can say that the resource in Capricia is not enough for me to grow to another level.
I have been stagnant with my level. It is the only thing that is hindering me in towards my growth.'
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Today he was scheduled to fight the arena battle.
As an elite, Zane was given an opportunity to fight his battle. Signing up for the separate arena advantage of this was that, the elite participants will have the knowledge of what they will be fighting. Well, that is only…most of the time. Blood Warriors must be prepared for any unexpected visitors. Mostly known as Nobles.
The Houses must approve the signup of the slaves; otherwise, they won't be able to join them.
Most of the Elites join only the fights when they are guaranteed to win. This is the same for Zane.
A month ago, an open list was given to the Elites. The list includes beasts that they wish to fight. Many beast names were crossed out, such as Two-Headed Fiend Dog, Pale Tusk Elephant, Roaring Buffoon, and more.
On the list, he saw a name beast that wasn't crossed out, the Blood Wolves.
Zane has fought the Blood Jackals before. He was closely familiar with Canis beast's attack patterns. Furthermore, he had seen them when he had joined to watch an arena fight for the past month. Overall, they were quite stronger than Blood Jackals but smaller in number, unlike the thousand Blood Jackals he faced.
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Looking at the desk in front of him, he handed him his information.
Then soon enough, the staff brought him to one of the rooms. There he saw four people armed to the teeth whose levels were around 8 and 9.
'For sure, they are elites.'
Although Zane gained a bit of muscle, he was still quite skinny. Although he had some mature features, his youth cannot be hidden.
When Zane entered the waiting room, four pairs of eyes stared at him.
"Shit! The last one we got is trash!" Said by a man whose wearing heavy armor head to toe. His helmet was like a tin can win spikes. You can see only see his eyes through the helmet. He was using a heavy maul as a weapon.
"I think they made a mistake! This guy is nothing but a kid!" Said another.
"We are doomed!"
"Go ask if we can replace him."
"What do you mean to ask? The doors were already shut!"
"Calm down everyone! We can still make it if we cooperate. We have a use for him! A fat man holding a large ax, with level 9 said smiling. "We can use him as bait."
When othered heard the word bait. They stopped complaining and smiled. A dangerous glint came from their eyes.
Zane couldn't believe what was happening in front of his eye. He wasn't even able to introduce himself. In a matter of two minutes, he was pronounced as bait.
'What the heck just happened?'
'These weaklings try to make me as bait? Let's see what happens to those who try use me as bait' He thought.
So he did not complain but just patiently sat in one of the corners.
The fat man who said he would make Zane bait was prepared to intimidate Zane to cooperate. However, he saw Zane quietly sitting in one corner and did not say anything.
He found it very satisfying. He thought Zane was too scared to even fight back. The others were also prepared to back him up, but they found that it was unnecessary.
Soon, their door was opened once again and they were led to a two-way entrance with metal gates.
The warriors tensed up. They knew that it was only a matter of a few minutes before they fight.
Even Zane couldn't help but tighten the grip of his sword. This time around instead of using his bow, as usual, he used a sword instead.
Using a bow in this situation is not very convenient.
Furthermore, he has gotten more comfortable handling the swords during the times he was sparing with Cecilia. Remembering the times she almost got hacked to death by Cecilia made Zane scared.
"Look at him! He is about to piss his pants!"
When they saw Zane's complexion, they laughed at him.
Then the sound of Gjallarhorn sounded.
The metal gates were lifted up.
"Don't you all die early," Zane smiled and started walking first.
When they heard his mocking words, they were shocked. They couldn't believe his confidence. It felt like a curse to them.
Anger started to rise from their chests.
"Ignore him! Let's go" they started running to chase after Zane.
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