Alex was prideful of his ability to tame beasts that he learned from an old man. He knew that this was gonna be easy. He was riding a wolf, feeling the wind and looking for some place to set up shelter. He began laughing at his powerful wolf mount that could be called a [Low Rank F Boss].
He soon got to a dark part of the forest and saw a cave that he could use as a base for now.
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At Jin's location
Jin was eating an apple when he heard a man laughing maniacally. Hearing this he put mana in his eyes trying to find the source of this noise.
He quickly found out it was a man riding a rather large wolf and he was heading in Jin's direction. Jin had an idea and took out his Kusarigama, stabbing the sickle side into the tree waiting for them.
When the man got closer he threw the ball at the man, wrapping a chain around him and pulling him, putting his mana in so the chain would shock him. Jin was surprised that his idea actually worked and was happy his practice on the criminals paid off.
He quickly dived down, activating [Body Compression Low Rank F] and unsheathing his katana slashing down at the wolf. The wolf quickly dodged, kicking Jin with its full force into a tree. Jin could feel the blood on his forehead and realised that this wasn't gonna be a normal battle.
Jin poured even more mana into his body, rushing at the beast again, dodging its paw attacks, going under and slashing at its stomach. The slash barely fazed the giant beast only making a tiny gash.
Jin went at it again, and as the beast attacked with its paws he jumped on it getting onto to the beast's back, slashing at it over and over again, but the wolf wasn't gonna lose that easily as it let out a gigantic roar that made Jin cover his mana heightened ears.
The wolf knocked him off its back and tried to bite him, but Jin quickly made his way up a tree to avoid it.He took a breath thinking that he was safe up in the tree but the wolf swung its paw at the tree, breaking it and causing Jin to start falling.
He quickly jumped from the falling tree to another. The wolf was about to swing again but Jin jumped down, slashing at it while it broke the tree and jumped off from the broken tree onto another tree.
Jin continued this game of cat and mouse, swinging at it and jumping onto another tree till he got to the original tree where Alex was.
He quickly slit the throat of Alex and threw him down to the wolf to keep it distracted. The wolf didn't show any mercy and started devouring its old master.
Jin climbed up the tree, once he reached the top he looked around, finding a cliff, he then jumped down grabbing the Kusarigama as he fell and slammed the orb into the wolf putting mana into it so it would electrocute the wolf.
He spread his mana into his legs to run faster than the wolf. As he reached the cliff side the wolf leaped at him. He stabbed at the wolf and put his mana in his arms to hold it up. The earth couldn't hold up so they both started to fall but Jin threw the blade part of the Kusarigama stabbing into the mountain so he didn't fall but the wolf also didn't fall since he stabbed it.
Not wanting to lose exp he quickly put mana into the Kusarigama electrocuting himself but the wolf at the same time. He was able to hold onto until he got the notification that he killed the wolf from the system. Jin was able to climb up the chain and get to his feet, walking back to the tree, he saw a cave and decided to take a rest in it.
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Several Hours later
A voice called out for Jin to wake up but he continued to sleep. The voice got mad and decided to smack Jin. The sudden slap woke him up and with a swift kick the person was sent flying. Jin saw a floating man with a sword and a suit of armor.
It took a minute for his still half asleep brain to recognize that this floating man was weird because he was well floating. The man looked angry and scolded him, "You have no respect for your elders I was just trying to wake you up and have a friendly chat with me but you decided to kick me." Jin didn't want to take this from the weird man so he rebutted, "First off you slapped me secondly who the hell are you and most importantly HOW THE HELL ARE YOU FLOATING!?"
The man realised that it was partly his fault so he calmed down and answered, "I'm a ghost. I died here a couple decades back trying the test. I always wanted to have a good fight before I died so when I did die I was refused an afterlife cause my life desire was incomplete. When I saw you fighting that wolf I felt something special from you so I decided to try and talk to you."
Jin quickly took this in and decided to speak up, "Alright then I'll help you with this but only if you can teach me something in return." The ghost smiled and was floating happily, he quickly replied to Jin, "I can teach you two things, first my sword style, and second, how to improve your terrible mana output."
Jin nodded, getting up stretching before putting his Kusarigama down and picking up his Katana, wanting to have a sword battle.
Jin's hair fluttered in the wind as the sun behind him rose up. The ghost planted his feet on the ground and looked at Jin, smiling saying, "Alright, let me show you the true power of a knight."