Random events Max was talking to Nick near a desk at their castle guild system
"I'd say you are a grade C 3," Nick said to Max
And then corrected himself "Well by my world's standards it goes downward there are tiers for each letter A1 to Z1 then A2 after 100 the letters turn to Greek symbols for this upper world stuff I'd say your B tier, but you're classified as a C tier I think." Nick said knowing Max already knew the highest you can get is double S
Max thinks "So everyone here is weak?"
"No you're just ridiculously strong," Nick says looking up
"What tier are you?"
"Maybe S, you know that story I told you about kicking a fireball the heat of the sun even with my boots that make me A I'm basically a God, " He says nonchalantly having pulled a glass of milk from his spacial storage and sips it.
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A lesson
"Here is an interesting thing as you know when the rift between the worlds was mad there were certain pockets that were stabilized by using magic to fill them. structure is formed around it a 'labyrinth' was made around them naturally the thing is there is a certain special labyrinth it is roughly an A class or S class but"
"The thing that separates it is one thing, Max"
The class went silent for a second and Nick smiled
"Not that Max but the god he was the god of chaos apparently but he was also considered the god of corruption since he 'helped' people in need with certain gifts which almost always resulted in tons of people dying he was a surprisingly strong god and I mean strong and due to the chaos he was causing multiple gods and goddess went up against him and surprised a plan by the goddess of light then apparently he decimated making their magic falter using his tricks and beating them with wit and sheer tenacity combined with fighting ability and the ability to confuse and see weakness,
so the gods got a person a summon known as Grail or Grial he now is known as the god of martial arts but at that time he was still a human since he mainly focused on combat with the material arts while The Chaos Mongerer was weakened from fighting multiple gods and was about to win Grail came to save them after a two-hour fight and tumbling grail managed to send Max into one of the vats and for some reason maybe a type of magic or curse was used the near damaged Max got absorbed into the pool and turned it black cursing it any creature that falls into dies and no magic or Xp get released it just gets absorbed."
Nick stopped talking for a second
"I once visited that place before for research it was when the dungeon cycle left it clear and out of curiosity I touched that liquid for a second… it made time slow down for ages and there was seemingly only agony at first I felt I would fall into the liquid but after what felt like minutes I got a grasp on it and forced myself to stop touching it I couldn't move for two minutes after really scared me huh."
"But anyways I don't recommend anyone going there." He mutters and writes on the board drawing three characters.
"The most common bosses for that dungeon or labyrinth are a Golem creature which has a high defense and offense but low mobility, the other monster is known as the Ringleader, the third…" He twirled his marker, "I think is a boar or a panther not sure."
"Anyways next thing we got to do is talk about dashing. We can make a long hop known as a dash by using magic rings of an element preferably wind around your leg usually the calf and launching yourself. It usually makes you go a bit faster and is good for evasion. The other way to avoid things is once again simple magic circle you can of course use a written magic circle on paper but they might accidentally activate unless you use a precise one calibrated by a wizard so it reacts to a certain magic sequence or pattern. Anyways you put them on your side and use it to launch. And before you ask we won't discuss flying if you have to go high again use magic crimes on your feet to boost up also don't punch them on your legs in arms to hit harder we don't need any more dislocations and broken bones."
"Now go outside to the arena to practice your magic."
Max went outside and practiced all types of magic he had already kind of tried what Nick said weeks ago and watched as His mentor and Korvonski demonstrated the basics.
He hopped using tiny wind circles to hop and tried to do a backflip but failed and got up, looking around to make sure no one saw, and then walked off to try moving more fluidly for fighting doing something akin to breakdancing
At night He exercises, heals his muscles, practices magic, sleeps to get his focus back after tiring then repeated stretching healing, magic then sleeping,calenthetics, healing, more magic. Then the next day mostly focused on combat, martial arts.
Two days later
Max was sitting down in the basic area glaring at the ground after he received some information from John Amary was groped
apparently, that duke had taken things a bit further Max gritted his teeth so hard they almost cracked
And looked up at John "I'm chill."
His friend glanced at him knowing what he meant 'I'm so pissed that I can barely move or be distracted by anything other than breaking every large bone in that pricks body'
After a few seconds Max stood up and walked off going to some of his party members "I'd like to take a fees round around the castle and then visit Duke Cartiznel" he muttered to a tall young man with blonde hair Fredren the person in charge of the carriages and transportation for his group and assure owners for other groups Fredren glanced to his side at Max confused knowing that Max already rode around the castle today and even ran a decent amount
"Of course sir I'll put in a request for transport but since you have a mobility permit it should take long, maybe even by this afternoon." Max nodded "Thank you, sir"
Around thirty minutes later he was informed that the Duke was staying at the castle for a while and set off in one of the carriages it was a twenty-minute ride and then 5 extra minutes to visit Duke Cartiznel's abode with his friend Fredren and a random party member Joel who just came for fun.
Max arrived at the stone castle he walked straight to the gate when the guards saw Max they decided not to interrupt him and allow him straight into the castle along with Fredren seeing how he arrived in a large carriage with two high-class men chauffeuring him
He walked straight into the building and began to wonder where he assumed a higher class person would be positioned, Fred, being unsure of why he was there "I believe it would have been best if we sent a messenger to inform him of our arrival, yes?"
Max slowed down his pace "No this is perfect." He then went up to a guard to ask for directions and began to walk "Stay here." He muttered ima a gravely voice before venturing to the duke's whereabouts s
Arriving at the large wooden gates he thought something 'damn!' And kicked the twenty-foot tall five-foot wide door flying and walked into the room seeing the duke jolt up from his throne "What are you doing!"
Fred began to jog over after hearing the noise of the shattered door but was too late
Max jumped on the duke so fast it seemed like he used light magic and began severely beating the duke striking with his elbows "You fucking piece of shit, eat my ass" punctuating each of his words with a strike eventually knocking him off
Two guards emerge from the corners to stop max spears pointed at him and the menace glares at them they start charging at him but Max grabs the front of one of the spears pushes it aside and uses wind magic to boost his hook. The punch decimated the guard making him crumple as the other got closer Max used his foot to parry the blade kicking it aside and then doing a spinning kick into the guard's jaw knocking him out as well
Max sauntered over to the duke to pick up where he started punching three times before dropping picking up the duke by the neck and talking to him "Just don't be a creep"
Two people arrive first seeing Fred watching the scene
And then seeing Max's figure looming over
"What the hell!" one shouts and Max looks over seeing his mentor "Oh Hi Nick, Just give me a sec," he said before kneeing the fume and the back and softly tossing him to the side 'the repercussions are going to eat my ass' He thought as he sauntered over to Nick seeing Korvonski next to him and Max waved
Two hours later he was in a room where an authority figure was yelling at him 'I could kick his ass right?'
A period of time later Max was on his bed sitting thinking about life and bouncing he was called on
He walked into the dining room to be led by a servant to the guild room, Where he was a mission
"You will clear this A-class dungeon near the labyrinth. The details will be given to you but you will have some of your party members and two S-class guards watching over so if you are about to die they will save you"
Max opens the brochure and sees the first words and thinks 'The labyrinth huh must be punishment'
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Sorry about the break