Ting~
[50% OF MISSING HEALTH AND MANA HAS BEEN RESTORED]
+105 HP
+115 MP
Green and blue number indicator popped up above Kal's head that indicated his health and mana regenerating.
'Even with some of my health and mana restored, killing this behemoth in 20 minutes is still impossible.' Kal clicked his tongue as he try to come up with a plan to defeat Iron Byson.
'Fighting fire with fire is not an option I can choose since I'm just a cinder in front of his bright flames. Instead, let's extinguish his fire...' Kal stared at the item box in his inventory that showed the poison trinket. He pulled it out and placed it on his palm. The poison trinket floated on his palm. the green marble spiraled with gray smoke released an awful odor that even Kal couldn't dare to draw his nose near it.
'The best way to deal with bigger opponents that outclassed you in every category would be by injecting venom I not their body, or simply put it, poisoning them. I've seen a lot of hunters used this method when dealing with huge monsters like orcs and ogres by coating poison on their weapons but it's not very useful in hunting since the hunters wouldn't be able to sell the monster's corpse at a high price as the poison inside the body makes the corpse rot quickpy causing the quality of the monster corpse to fall significantly.' Kal thought to himself.
'Eating this will probably give me higher chances of defeating Iron Byson, but if ever it causes the other fire trinket to disappear or maybe my body will be damaged due to having two trinkets flowing inside me at the same time, I could probably regret it and have to restart this test.' Kal said to himself as he draw the trinket near his mouth.
'Ah...f*ck, let's do it!' Kal immediately swallowed the poison trinket into his mouth. Without any water to follow with it, the trinket moved from his mouth to his throat slowly. He tasted the horrible flavor that made the veins in his neck to bulge and turn green as he showed a disgusted and cringed expression.
"Bleeergh! It tastes like diarrhea!" Kal puked on the ground after swallowing the trinket. Unlike the fire trinket which had the effect of heatening his body, the poison trinket caused a stinging pain into every nerve in his body that his mind was getting nauseous from just standing.
"This sh*t is strong!" Kal cursed as he knelt on the ground trying to stop himself from getting knocked by the intense pain. He pulled himself together and slowly stood up and right after the barrier had dissipated, so did the nauseating pain.
Ting~
[TRINKET OF POISON HAS BEEN CONSUMED]
+15 poison affinity
Ting~
[SPECIAL ELEMENT HAS BEEN ADDED TO THE STATUS WINDOW!]
Poison: 15
[POISON AFFINITY HAS INCREASED BY 15]
[+3% Chance of inflicting poison to the target causing them to WEAKEN for 1 second and also dealing magic damage (1 damage per affinity point) every second for 5 seconds.
+3% Poison resistance]
Ting~
[TRINKET EFFECTS HAS BEEN STACKED (2/2)]
'Phew, it worked thank god.' Kal sighed in relief seeing the window panel. He moved on to check his status window to see the new poison element.
Ting~
[NAME: KAL NIETES
RACE: HUMAN
JOB:
TITLE:
LEVEL: 17 (6%)
HEALTH: 370/370
MANA: 600/600
STRENGTH: 72
AGILITY: 114
INTELLIGENCE: 60
STAMINA: 37
STATUS POINTS: 20
WIND: 2 POISON: 15
FIRE: 10
WATER: 0
TERRA: 0]
The elemental attributes had their own fonted color to correspond to the element; wind is grey, fire is orange, water is blue, Terra is brown and poison had a darker shade of green that stood out due to the outline glowing in a green hue.
'So this indicates a special element. I wonder what other special element I could find, there could be tens or hundreds! But right now let's focus on the boss, my speed had disadvantages in enclosed space but now that we're in a wide open area, speed will have to be the key to defeat him. I can hit him hundreds of times but due to the amassed amount of health, high defense and he may still be keeping some tricks off his sleeve, defeating him in 25 no- I might even need 40 minutes to assure a win. If I want an S grade, I must finish this as fast as I can.'
"Sigh, distribute 20 points in strength." Kal sighed. One thing he was very wary of was ceaselessly distributing his points. He wanted to use it the wisest way by using it in times of need. The reason why he had second thoughts was he had options not to spend it. He could just restart the test all over again but he wasn't so sure if the results would still be the same, unlike last time, he was just fortunate to have fully judged the situation and he didn't made any mistakes. He didn't want to rely so much on lady luck because he wouldn't improve if he continued to be a happy-go-lucky person.
Ting~
Ting~
[NAME: KAL NIETES
RACE: HUMAN
JOB:
TITLE:
LEVEL: 17 (6%)
HEALTH: 370/370
MANA: 600/600
STRENGTH: 72 (+20)
AGILITY: 114
INTELLIGENCE: 60
STAMINA: 37
STATUS POINTS: 20 (-20)
WIND: 2 POISON: 15
FIRE: 10
WATER: 0
TERRA: 0]
'Test points are currently much more valuable than status points so the more I get, the merrier I'll be.' Kal grinned and clenched both his fist ready to fight Iron Byson once again.
"Now that your only defenthse hath dithappeared, thry blocking thith. (Now that your only defense has disappeared, try blocking this.)" Byson aggressively move towards Kal with both fist covering his chin. His damaged arm was healing itself rapidly since he was a boss type monster and his missing health had already been fully restored.
Stomp! Stomp!
Each heavy steps Byson took broke the ground that left deep footprints from his sandals.
[IRON BYSON IS USING PEEK-A-BOO]
Puuv! Puuv!
Byson threw right hooks at Kal that made sharp sonic sounds as it flew and the air would ripple in response.
'There it is, the gunshot like fist that feels like getting shot by a double barrel in blank point.' Kal dashed away and dodged the powerful blows. He avoided the lethal attack and responded with his own.
'[Strike]!' Kal's left fist emanate an orange aura and hit at Byson's open abdomen.
'It's the same attack as last time! But it won't work against my steel body!' Byson said to himself when he saw the incoming attack.
[IRON BYSON IS USING HARDENED BODY]
'I knew you'd activate it.' Kal showed a grin in his face and cancelled his skill before it activated. Iron Byson was petrified for a few seconds due to the skill and when he saw that Kal didn't land a punch at him, he clicked his tongue.
'You fooled me but I can still defend it just fine.' As soon as the hardened body fade, Byson's body returned normal and Kal immediately threw a flaming punch back to the abdomen.
Paang!
-890
[YOU HAVE INFLICTED A BURN EFFECT]
-600*
-600*
.
.
[ENEMY'S LEVEL IS TOO HIGH, BURN EFFECT HAS BEEN CANCELLED]
Shaaa. .
The fire dissipated into steam leaving scorch marks on Byson's arm. He etched a wicked grin on his face and stared deeply at Kal.
"That acthually hurth. (That actually hurt.)" Byson said with a grin.
'I expected this but who said that that was my real attack? [Strike]!' With Byson lowering his guard as he thought Kal had use his powerful skill, he was greeted by a surprise attack from Kal's right hook. His fist was enveloped by a pitch dark green aura and as it made contact with Byson's chin, the aura spread around lower face and to the neck and had his head rotate clockwise by 90° angle.
-24590!
[ENEMY HAS BEEN INFLICTED BY POISON!]
[- Movement speed has fallen by 30%
- Health regeneration has sharply fallen by 80%
-Physical and magical defense has fallen by 20%
- Bleeding is now in effect. Health drops by 0.1% every second]
"Bleeergh!" Iron Byson vomited a handful of blood and saw his nose dripping blood as he wiped it off with his hand. The damage indicator appeared above his head and it continued to pop up continously every second.
'Wow! I didn't know I could deal that much damage! No wonder he always tries to block my attack. Also the poison's effect are crazy good! It's unlike the fire trinket! No wonder it's a special element.' Kal exclaimed in thought.
"You're good-!?" Byson suddenly fell down on his knees showing a pale and shocked expression as sweat covered his bald face.
Ting~
[ENEMY HAS BEEN STUNNED!]
- Unable to move for 3 seconds
- All defenses has sharply fallen by 100%
"What's this? Did you drop a coin? Well here, I'll give you hard cash and you can keep the change!" Kal dashed a threw an uppercut right at the kneeling Byson.
"Haha.." Byson suddenly chuckled causing Kal to halt is attack out of instincts and backed away.
"..?" Kal looked at Byson with a confused face. Byson continued to laugh nonchalantly and began raising his right hand.
'Wait, how!?' Kal's eyes almost popped out from its sockets seeing that Byson could still move after being stunned.
"Do you know why I was athigned ath a thrathegith even with thutch a body and not a commander or general?(do you know why I was assigned as a strategists even with such a body and not a commander or a general?)" Byson said as he began to press the pressure points in his neck and cheek with his pointing and index finger.
Ting~
[POISON EFFECTS HAS BEEN BLOCKED]
"N-no.." Kal was surprised seeing the window panel that he had instinctively responded to Byson's words. The green aura that seeped into the veins on his cheek and neck had stopped spreading and remained unmoving.
"I was never really interethted in fighths and focuth on my goal to become top ranking thcholar but thince I was born with a body of a fighter, reathching my goal became hard but becauth of the emperor, I manage to become the royal thrathegiths. Becoming a thrategiths not only maketh me the brain of the war, I'm altho the right fiths of the battlefield. I've fought hundredths of opponenths and tho far you're the firth one to make me kneel. Ath my thankth, you will be the firth one to witneths the power of my gloveth (I was never really interested in fights and focus on my goal to become a top ranking scholar but since I was born with a body of a fighter, reaching my goal became hard but because of the emperor, I manage to become the royal strategists. Becoming a strategist not only makes me the brain of the war, I'm also the fist of the battlefield. I've fought hundreds of opponents and so far, you're the first one to make me kneel. As my thanks, you will be the firs one to witness the power of my gloves.)" Byson reached out in his pocket and brought out a knuckle gloves. The gloves had a red fiber cloth and the knuckles were matte black in color. From the looks of it, it looked just like any normal gloves but as soon as Byson wore the gloves, radiating energy began exuding out from Byson's body like steam as his pupils turned red.
Ting~
[BOSS MONSTER: IRON BYSON'S STATUS HAS BEEN UPDATED]
BOSS MONSTER: Iron Byson (A)
Level: 25 (+5)
Health: 23370(+20000)/60000(+20000)
Skills: Peek-a-boo(S), Heavy punch(S), Jab (A), Uppercut (S), Hardened Body (A), Bash (A), +Flurry (A), +Ringfield (S)
'What the f*ck!?' Kal couldn't help but cursed after seeing the drastic changes in Byson's status. He immediately backed away and retreated and as Iron Byson saw Kal flee, Byson rose his fist in the air and a huge barrier spread out around the area forming a boxing ring.
[IRON BYSON IS USING RINGFIELD]
Thud!
Kal was knocked back by the transparent red barrier. He scanned the barrier and saw that the barrier was an enclosed box that trapped him from inside.
Bang! Bang!
'I can't break this barrier nor can I leave a scratch! This gotta be 10 times sturdier than my wind barrier.' Kal said as he deliberately punch the barrier.
"Ith no uthe, unleth one of uth dieth, the barrier will not dithappear no matter what. (It's no use, unless one of us dies, the barrier will not disappear no matter what.)" Byson said to Kal as he lunge himself towards him like a cannonball.
[IRON BYSON IS USING BASH]
'Sh*t!' Kal quickly dodge the incoming Byson by leaping up in the air. Byson crashed on the barrier causing it to vibrate a bit and as Kal landed, he throttled a kick on Byson's nape.
-80
'What the f*ck, that's not even considered a damage!' Kal cursed in shock seeing the how miniscule number popping up above Byson and retreated a couple steps away from him.
"That tickled." Byson said as he turned around. He confronted Kal with his intimidating aura and moved to him.
[IRON BYSON IS USING FLURRY]
Puuv! Puuv! Puuv!....
'Sh*t!' Rain of fist bombarded Kal as he evaded each one by a breadth of a hair. The speed of the fist was slightly above his so ripple of wind coming from the blast of each punch left some cuts in Kal's face.
-20
-20
-20
.
.
'Just from the air alone, I lost 10% of my health!' Kal exclaimed immediately backing away in fear that he might get hit by the sharp wind.
But Byson didn't let Kal get away from his grasps as he pursuited him around the ring like a cat and mice, no more like a lion and a rodent.
Kal was weak but very nimble while Byson was strong and huge. The two were polar opposites of one another. It didn't take long for Kal to lost a way to flee from Byson as he was ultimately cornered.
"You can't run anymore nor can you even try to hide!" Byson readied himself to throw a powerful hook at Kal that would sure to defeat him.
Bang!
His fist exploded and dust covered his vision as it made impact. As the dust fade he was shock to see that his fist was sticking on the barrier and just centimeters away from his was Kal's grinning face that had evaded the blow by jerking his neck away.
Ting~
[ANALYSIS COMPLETE!]
"Let's end this shall we?" Kal said with a smile.
"You!"
Bang!
Kal's landed a big uppercut right into the chin of Iron Byson causing him to get pushed back.
-8700!
With the added effect of the fire aspect, Kal's flaming fist dealt a massive damage and not only that, in Kal's eyes, he could see the weak points which were shown as dots (Something like this '°') and one that stood out from his weak point was lower jawline.
'No wonder he always covers it when he does his skill.' Kal said to himself. Veins bulged all over Byson's face and his head turned red in anger.
"A lowly thcum dare-(A lowly scum dare-)" Before Byson could finish his words, Kal accurately threw two punches right at his cheek and neck.
Pa-pow!
Ting~
[POISON EFFECT HAS BEEN RETURNED]
"Urrgh!" The poison spread out around his neck and face causing him to go stiff from the pain as the damage indicator popped up above him due to the bleeding effect. He hurriedly pressed the pressure points again but before he could, Kal threw a left hook on his opened chin.
"Manila ice!" This fist was enamored with poison so the other right cheek was also inflicted by the effects causing more pain into his face.
-9480*!
"Arrrghh!" Byson's anger reached the peak as his entire face began to swell from the pain and he couldn't try to block it again because Kal would interfere by landing another blow into his glass chin.
"You bastard!" Iron Byson exclaimed as he began throwing quick and powerful jabs.
[IRON BYSON IS USING JAB]
Kal already knowing the trajectory of his punches simply duck and move his head in advance causing all Byson's jabs to completely miss it's target and hitting the empty air.
'Was he always this fast? No, he read all my movements!' Byson said to himself as he move to land a right uppercut.
[IRON BYSON IS USING UPPERCUT]
"Die!"
"Heh.." Kal showed a wide smile and dashed his upper body to the left. He evaded the attack and threw and open hands to Byson's face that didn't even reach his chin.
'His trying to block my vision!' Byson realized the thrown feint and quickly lowered both his arms to protect his abdomen but he was too late. Kal's fast punch hit right at Byson's stomach and which had been imbued with poison.
Pow!
-10010*!
[POISON HAS BEEN INFLICTED TO THE TARGET]
"Urrrgg. ." Byson groaned in pain as he covered his poisoned stomach with his arms and was pushed back from the blow. But with his guard lowered, Byson's upper body was completely open and he only realized this after seeing Kal's flaming fist right under his nose.
'Ah thiet.. (Ah sh*t..)'
"[Strike]!" Kal's fist burned in flames and struck right at the poisoned jaw.
Puuv!
-37000!
The attack was so powerful that Byson's jaw was completely dislocated and his whole body blasted away and crashed through the barrier and down falling on the ground unmoving. His body was covered in burns, half of his body was green due to the poison and his intimidating face was completely disoriented from Kal's attack. His eyes turned white and so did his body.
Ting~
[YOU HAVE DEFEATED THE BOSS MONSTER: IRON BYSON]
[REWARDS]
+4 points to all attributes
+Skillscroll: Jab (A)
YOU HAVE LEVELLED UP!
[YOU HAVE OBTAINED IRON GLOVES (A+)]
Ting~
[DUE TO YOUR AMAZING ACHIEVEMENT, A TITLE HAS BEEN BESTOWED UPON YOU!]
Title: Iron Will
Only those who displayed braveness in front of danger will be rewarded with a tenacity, as strong and hard as the sturdiest metal in the world.
Effects:
- You will not be intimidated by a stronger force
- Status will increase by 20% when facing against opponents levels above you
- Stamina increases by 50 points
Ting~
[Strategist killed (1/1)~optional]
"What the f*ck? Killing the strategist was optional? But I'm sure there was no such thing written in the test! Argh! Whoever is the administrator with this test, I'm gonna kill you!" Kal exclaimed in anger after seeing that he could've not chosen to defeat the strategist in the first place and just steal the documents and leave. He couldn't do anything about it since it had already happened and decided to get the documents in the broken tower. The documents were easily found since they were outlined to be obvious to the eyes and as Kal walked away, he stopped right at the gate and looked at the now-in-ruins base.
"There's no witness if there's nobody to witness." Kal then left the base and a window panel appeared in his view.
Ting~
[3RD TEST COMPLETED]