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[2ND TEST COMPLETED!]
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UNDEAD KILLED 1391/1000: S grade
TOMBSTONE DESTROYED 552/500: S grade
ARTILLERY DESTROYED 10/10: A grade
LICH SLAIN 5/5: A grade
TIME FINISHED 0:15:22/5:00:00: SSS grade
TOTAL: SS+ grade
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[YOU HAVE BEEN GIVEN A SPECIAL REWARD FOR SETTING A NEW RECORD IN THE 2ND TEST!]
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FOR COMPLETING THE TEST WITH AN SS+ GRADE, YOU HAVE BEEN GIVEN ADDITIONAL REWARDS
[3000 points
+2 levels
+Pandora's Box (S) "SPECIAL REWARD"
+5000 points "ADDITIONAL REWARD"
+2 levels "ADDITIONAL REWARD"
+Poison trinket "ADDITIONAL REWARD"
+Ring of Hunger "ADDITIONAL REWARD"]
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YOUR STATUS HAS BEEN REFRESH
-Fatigue has disappeared
-Debuffs has disappeared
-Health is now full
-Mana is now full
"W-wow.." Kal was in awe after seeing the rewards. He didn't expect that even after restarting, he'd still get the fruit of his labor.
"I thought I'd at least get an S rank in one of the categories but not in my knowledge would I get a triple S rank! I even set a new record? So that means other than me, there are also others who entered this tests, no wonder it's called Trial of Champions." Kal said to himself as he proceed to check his rewards.
"This is great! I got 4 levels as a reward and now I'm level 19! I also got additional points and a poison trinket, and what's this? Pandora box and ring of hunger? Better check it first." Kal in his excitement pull out the ring of hunger first that was distributed into his inventory.
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[Ring of Hunger] (Item set 1/3)
[Grade: A+
Type: Accessories
Effects:
+5 mana regeneration (Every second)
+3 health regeneration
Active-Hunger: Absorb the life force of a dead target to fill up the ring's hunger. After the ring's satiety has been satisfied, you can activate the skill to regenerate 50% of missing health and mana. If mana and health is full, instead grants a buff that increases all attribute points by 50 for 5 minutes.
Mana cost: None
Cooldown: 1 hour]
"The effects are crazy good! With this, I don't have to worry about my lack of health and mana anymore! And it's even a set piece! If I can find the other set, who knows what powerful item I'll get?" Kal said in delight. The ring was made from a silver material that had a polished shine into it. A transparent gem was embedded into it and when he looked closely at the gem, it was shallow inside which he guessed that it was were the life force would be stored. He equipped the ring into his right index finger and immediately felt the effects of the ring. Even though his mana and health was already restored from the status refresh, he could still feel the relishing effect restoring any missing attribute there might be.
"Let's check the next one!" The ecstatic feeling made Kal pump in excitement as he proceed to check the next reward. This one intrigued Kal a lot.
'From what I know about Pandora's box, when one opens it, unforeseen evil will cover the entire world. If what I believe is true then opening it might just be the last thing I should do.' Kal swallowed his nervous saliva as he slowly pulled the item from his inventory to his palm. The box was in a form of gift box that had half of it dyed white while the other half was black. A window panel then appeared in his view.
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[Pandora's Box]
[Grade: A
Type: Box
Open the box and the person will be given a mysterious reward. If the person opening it is the apostle of light then the reward will be the bright heavens, if the person harbors darkness then the reward will be as deep as the abyss. But if the person is of neutral side, neither will the reward is a flash of brightness nor does it unveil the night.
[DO YOU WISH TO OPEN IT? (Y/N)]
"I think I've done good deeds in my life, I've never smoke nor drink. I only stole when I was desperate for money but I never did it again. Maybe I am a monster and I just didn't know about it? Aaagghh! This is annoying! Or maybe I'm right in the middle so that'd make me neutral right? But I still don't know what kind of reward I'll get if I am neutral?" Kal gulped his nervous saliva after reading the items information. He recalled his memories and began tallying the good and bad deeds but because it had been years and years, he had forgotten a chunk of his bland memories and most of what he remembered where past embarrassing events he wished to forget but couldn't.
"Sigh, let's not open it for now." Kal sighed and returned the box back to the inventory. He moved on to check the last item which was a trinket.
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[Trinket of Poison]
[Type: Consumables
Rank: C
Element: Poison
A poisonous trinket that can be used to toxify the attacks of the user. If consumed, it permanently increases the fire affinity by 15 and temporarily adds poison to the user's skills that deals continuous damage and has 30% chance of a debuff effect to the target. If applied to a weapon, it temporarily toxins the attack power and grants poison aspect that slows and poisons the target, also adds new effects to the weapon. Same applies to all the other equipments.]
"Hmm...it's effects are similar to the fire trinket but the rank is higher. The fire trinkets effects is still active so it would be a waste to use it now. Also, it didn't show any poison element in the status window, maybe this one is a special element that's why it didn't show anything about it. What if I consume it now? Will the fire trinkets effect disappear or will both effects work at the same time? Nah, it's probably gonna be the latter so let's not use it now." Kal retrieve the poison trinket back to his inventory and continued on. He didn't want to distribute his points right now since he still doesn't know what the next test may be, if he may distribute it now and realize that the other attribute should have been the one being added with points, he'll definitely regret his decision.
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[3RD TEST HAS COMMENCED! ]
[You're an assassin task to infiltrate the enemy base. You must kill the strategist and steal the documents hidden in his room. Once done, you must leave the base without any witnesses.]
OBJECTIVES
[Kill the strategist: 0/1
Steal the documents: 0/7
Leave the base within 1 hour: 0/1:00:00]
"This seems easy..." Kal said after he read the test's contents. After the window panel disappeared, also did his spear. The entire cemetery distorted and reformed. The mucky ground was turned back into a grassy plain, the gloomy full moon changed into a ever night crescent moon and as he looked behind, was a forest. He look back front to see a mossy brick wall standing as high as 7 meters and what he could hear through the walls were voices of men seemingly having fun.
"Since I was automatically positioned in this wall, walking upfront in the entrance must mean walking right to death's door. So I have to climb this wall and sneak inside huh? Sounds very typical for a medieval assassination." With Kal's countless experience of climbing steep cliffs and mountain edges, climbing this concrete wall was an easy task.
"But first, where the hell are my weapons!?" Kal exclaimed to himself. He look around his surroundings but he couldn't see any weapon. He look at his clothes and pockets but there was not a single object in him. Although his clothes were change to befit an assassin, the fact he didn't have any weapons with him meant that the situation was quite dire.
"My body is a killing machine and I can adjust to any fights but the only problem is, I DONT KNOW ANY HAND TO HAND COMBAT!" Kal exclaimed and cursed to himself in infuriation. [Analysis] didn't work on his own hands and he also didn't learn any martial art regarding the body. The only time he remembered watching and learning some hand combat style was when he binge watch Pacquiao's documentary where he saw the different punching styles the people's champ used. It was a bleak memory since it was years ago but he could still remember it.
'I don't know if boxing is useful in assassination but nonetheless, let's try it.' Kal proceed to recall every technique Pacquiao used in his fight and tried to copy it using his own imagery. He started doing footworks, jabs and punches and as soon as he finished, a window panel appeared in his view.
[ANALYSIS COMPLETED!]
+360 EXPERIENCE HAS BEEN GAINED FOR ANALYSIS (17.9%)
[BOXING MASTERY HAS INCREASED BY 60%!]
[Weapon mastery: Fist has reached Intermediate!]
"Wait, that worked!?" Kal was mind boggled in surprised as he read the window panel. He wanted to laugh out loud but he was wary he might alert the guards so he chuckled silently and looked at the countdown in his test.
[0:31:29]
'Sh*t! Did I over exert myself? Dammit! I have to hurry!' Kal exclaimed to himself as he realized that 30 minutes had already passed and began climbing the wall. With his sticky and dexterous fingertips, he arrived at the top of the wall in no time. Above the wall were thorns built to block any intruders from entering the base. Since they were only made of wood, Kal began to slowly break the thorns that were in his path. He needn't break it carefully since the cracking noises of the thorns were overpowered by the sound of loud men and their acoustic music.
Kal was able to clear a path above the wall to be able to peer through the inside and there he saw the interior of the base. The base wasn't that big, it was just the size of a plaza. Small wooden huts surround the inside of the wall and at the near the center were bigger houses made of cobblestone. At the center was a tower that was 15 meters tall and below it was a brick house that seemed to be the biggest house on the base.
Kal continued to observe more of the base. The small huts were made to room one personnel, the cobblestone houses roomed 5 personnels, and the brick house roomed 20 personnel. He guessed that the tower could room a single person since it was made to look like a watch tower.
"I estimate there is at least 200 people. Sneaking inside in what I guess would be the strategist house which is the tower might be near impossible. Just alerting a single guard could mean failure. I knew this wasn't gonna be easy but I had to jinx it." Kal clicked his tongue as he continued in his observation. Although sneaking in might not be possible, Kal had some tricks on his sleeve.
"Let's see if this works." Kal focused his senses on the surrounding base. He did this for 5 minutes as five minutes passed, a window panel appeared in his view.
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[ANALYSIS COMPLETE!]
"Ooh it works!" Kal grinned in joy. [Analysis] made it possible for Kal to analyze any object as long as he focused on it. Anything solid that he peered to was considered an object and since the base is mostly solid (Rocks,cement, woods and sh*t, you know what I mean.) Kal was able to get a good 360 look at the entire base. In his eyes, the structure of the base looked like a 3d blueprint. He could see the width, height, meters, the type of materials, weak parts of the structure, the storeys and many more but it wasn't written in a window panel which would sometimes disorientate Kal's vision to focus on other targets.
"Now that I know the best path to take, let's haste!" Kal distributed 20 points in agility to increase his speed.
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NAME: KAL NIETES
RACE: HUMAN
JOB:
TITLE:
LEVEL: 15 (6%) (+4)
HEALTH: 370/370
MANA: 600/600
STRENGTH: 72
AGILITY: 94 (+20)
INTELLIGENCE: 60
STAMINA: 32
STATUS POINTS: 0 (+40) (-20)
WIND: 2
FIRE: 10
WATER: 0
TERRA: 0
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[AGILITY HAS REACHED 100 POINTS!]
[YOU HAVE OBTAINED SKILL: SPRINT (B)]
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[Sprint]
Rank: B
Type: SPD
Doubles movement speed by 30 seconds.
Mana cost: 50
Cooldown: 2 minutes
'Coincidence? I think not! So I get a skill after reaching a 100 points in an attribute? That's neat!' Kal exclaimed to himself as his face brightened in delight. As he looked at the remaining time, there was only 25 minutes left so Kal had to hurry. He quickly landed down the grassy dirt lightly without making any loud thud with his feet. The houses that faced front to the wall, he could see through the window that the men where all fast asleep and the only ones that were awake were the men laughing on the gates and some soldiers patrolling the base.
'I am speed [Sprint]' Kal darted like a bullet leaving a trace of wind that slightly disturbed and awakened the guards who quickly returned back to sleep. He followed the path were there are no soldiers in the vicinity and slowly sneaked inside the open window from one of the brick house.
He entered the house and saw 10 sleeping soldiers in the lined up bunk beds. Kal walked with utmost care and entered the corridor were the door of the tower was. As he opened the door, a soldier appeared in the door with a grunt look.
"Sila napud tay magbantay uy- (They should be the ones patrolling tonight-" The soldier averted his gaze and saw a man wearing a black clothing and was immediately taken aback.
"Kalaba-(Enemy-" Before the soldier could call out, Kal threw a punch on his left abdomen that cracked the soldier's ribs.
'Body shot to the lungs!' Kal said to himself after throwing a heavy blow to the man's lungs that made him gasped air.
"Khuuup." The soldier panted and tried to scream but his damaged lungs caused him to suffocate.
'Manila Ice!' Kal threw a giant punch to the right chin of the soldier with his left fist instantly putting the soldier unconscious. As the soldier was about to fall down loudly in the ground, Kal grabbed the soldier by his waist and brought him to a dark corner in the corridor and proceed to enter the tower.
He walked up the spiraling stairs that reached upto the top floor. After arriving at the top floor, Kal peered to the door and saw a goliath of a man writing on a paper.
'Thats the strategist!? I thought it would be a frail old man or some thin middle age dude. How is such an ogre be a strategist? Shouldnt he be some sort of captain or even a general?" Kal couldn't help but be shocked to see such bulky giant in the room.
He scanned around the room and he could see drawers the stored hundreds of papers but seemingly, 4 of it were shining in gold.
'They made sure to make the documents obvious to find since they know I can't finish this test in an hour.' Kal gritted his teeth. He slowly entered the room and was ready to make an ambush but before he could go near the giant, it suddenly spoke in a lispy light voice.
"Leth me gueth, you are here for the documenths? Righthe?(Let me guess, you are here for the documents? Right?)" The bulky man spoke to Kal.
"Pfffttt..." Kal couldn't help but force a chuckle after hearing such ridiculous premature voice coming from a mountain of a man.
"Ithe seemth you're noth therious abouth this (It seems your not serious about this)." The bulky proceed to stood up from his small seat and look at Kal. He ripped off his clothes showing the bulging muscles covered in marks of slashes. A window panel then appeared in Kal's view.
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BOSS MONSTER: Iron Byson (A)
Level: 25
Health: 60000/60000
Skills: Peek-a-boo(S), Heavy punch(A), Jab (B), Uppercut (A), Hardened Body (B), Bash (B)
"F*ck." Kal gulped his dry saliva after seeing the window panel in his view. He didn't expect it to be a boss monster of all sorts. It had more skills than Kal, the level gap was high, and the health was a dozen folds higher than the kobold warrior he had fought toe-to-toe.
Iron Byson placed both his arms into his chin with both fist closed and moved aggressively towards Kal.
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[IRON BYSON IS USING PEEK-A-BOO]
As the window panel appeared, Kal quickly retreated back but with the small space just the size of a boxing ring, Kal arrived at the walls or we could say the ropes and immediately put on a defensive stans by covering his face with his arms.
Puuuv!
A explosive punch hit Kal's left shoulder. Even though he was protected, by his shoulder, the attack penetrated to his ribs as a result, it cracked.
-100!
"Bleerrgh! Kal puked handful of blood as the damage indicator appeared above his head. Iron Byson was about to land another explosive attack with his left hand but Kal was quick to react and dodge it by dashing away.
Puuuv!
The explosive attack caused the wall in the tower to break apart and fall down the high ground causing the soldiers sleeping nearby to be awaken by the loud commotion.
"You're faths. (You're fast)" Byson grinned as he moved towards Kal now with his left arm on his chin and the other arm on his waist.
[IRON BYSON IS USING JAB!]
An explosive fast attacks came from By son's right fist. Kal evaded the blows by an inch causing the walls behind Kal to break apart and continue to fall down the tower.
Byson got nearer and nearer to Kal and as he landed a heavy punch to his open chin, Kal ducked down and retreated from behind.
'This is bad, I don't even know if I can deal damage to this guy. His chin looked like it's made of steel and I have never seen such thick neck! Knocking him out might just be impossible.' Kal said as raised his fist ready to counterattack Iron Byson.
"Come on! Thince you're not uthing any weaponths, I'll lethe you hithe me onthe. (Come on! Since you're not using any weapons, I'll let you hit me once.)" Iron Byson placed his arms in his back and lowered his guard. Seeing that Byson was confident and ready to take on Kal's attack, Kal didn't hesitate draw nearer to the arrogant man.
'Since you said, so [Strike]!' Kal threw a flaming fist right at Byson's chin. Right before it was about to impact, Byson saw the attack and felt threatened so he immediately casted a skill to protect him.
[IRON BYSON IS USING HARDENED BODY]
His entire body turned into steel that unable him to move.
Bang!
Kal's fist collided at the hardened chin of Byson and right as it impact, a loud explosion that engulf the face of Byson in flames temporarily and vanish just as quick as the hardened body's effect lasted.
-500!
'Even using [Strike] and landing a critical hit, that's as much damage I can deal from his hardened body?' Kal said in shock.
"You cheated! You used a skill right before I hit you!" Kal said to Iron Byson with an angered expression.
"Cathting a thkill is a cheat? Who dethided that? (Casting a skill is a cheat? Who decided that?)" Byson said with a grin on his face.
[IRON BYSON IS USING HEAVY PUNCH]
Byson threw a giant right hook to Kal's shoulder blasting Kal away to the wall as it crashed into rubble.
-110!
"Khuaaak!" Kal puke another mouthful of blood as he wiped it out with his hand and stood up. Byson immediately moved his large body towards Kal ready to cast another skill.
[IRON BYSON IS USING UPPERCUT]
Byson pulled his arm away back and wind swirled around the bulging right fist as he threw it at Kal's way.
Puuuv!
Kal slid right through the attack causing the skill to miss it's target and destroy a wide area of the wall in the tower.
"Don't run!" Byson exclaimed as he averted his gaze to Kal. He rotated his head to his behind but he was immediately greeted by a counter punch from Kal.
Thud!
-120
The damage was too miniscule for him to hurt Byson who just shrugged off the tickle in his face.
'What a monster.' Kal couldn't help but be in awe from Byson's ferocious strength. He move back incase if Byson would charge again and as he expected, as Byson turned around, his body was heating up that his muscles had turned bright orange and steam came out from his bald head.
[IRON BYSON IS USING BASH]
Byson began charging like a mad bull. He blasted himself like a rocket towards Kal and with such small space, Kal couldn't care less to avoid. As Byson nearing at him, Kal jumped and thrust his legs on Byson's heating body. He kicked himself out of the tower and Byson followed.
From such a height, any normal person would've died by gravity damage, but Kal was able to lightly land on the ground like a feather.
Tap
Bang!
As for Iron Byson, he crashed down the ground and landed on his feet. Like meteor he fell, the entire ground formed a wide crater.
Due to the loud commotion, every soldier was watching outside the tower curious of what it may have been so they were still in their pajamas as they saw Iron Tyson and a mysterious man fall from the tower.
"Nay kalaban! (It's an enemy!)"
"Patya sya! (Kill him!)"
Everyone began to charge at Kal and even without any weapons, they were confident they could kill him with just their number fists. On the other hand, Kal saw this as an opportunity.
"Ith theems like my tholdiers want you dead. (It seems like my soldiers want you dead.)" Iron Byson said to Kal as he crossed his arms and watch from behind.
"It seems so, but thanks though." Kal said in response.
"For what? Letting you fight my tholdiers?" Byson asked.
"Yeah. [Wind Barrier]" As the soldiers surround him like swarm of ants, a burning field blasted everyone away from the area. Every soldier were killed by the impact and those who survived were engulf in flames as they died from the scorching fire.
'Tch, I didn't even get a single point.' Kal clicked his tongue.
"You dare kill my tholdiers!" Iron Byson was enrage after witnessing the sudden deaths of his soldiers. Not one remained alive and the only one left was him and the assassin.
"Eat this!" Iron Byson threw a explosive punch at the barrier causing it to shook and crumble. The wind around the impact became thin but seconds passed, it returned normal.
"That scared me."
-9870*!
-80
-81
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"Garrgh!" Iron Byson groaned in pain after seeing his entire right arm disheveled and scorched. Blood pour down his mouth as he wipe it with his hand and looked at Kal with an intense gaze.
"What a coward! You already accumulated a lot of damage and you're just uthing this barrier of yourth to thtall time. Then I'll be waiting until this barrier dithappears. I will then rip you to threds and eat you alive!" Byson exclaimed aloud to Kal full of hatred and anger.
Kal on the other simply smiled and began walking near the corpses of the soldiers and aimed his ring at it.
[DO YOU WISH TO ABSORB THE LIFE FORCE?]
"Yes." After his command was heard, a pale green essence was released from the bodies of the dead soldiers. This green essence entered the transparent gem swirling inside as it increased more. Kal didn't stop and began absorbing all the life force of any nearby dead soldiers and as soon as he absorbed the 100th corpse, a window panel appear in his view.
[SATIETY HAS BEEN SATISIFIED]
[DO YOU WISH TO ACTIVATE THE SKILL?]
"Yes!"