CHAPTER 5
New Skills
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In a bar, Mr. Maxwell was sitting at the counter, drinking a glass of whiskey. Another man in a brown coat came in, he walked to a sit next to Maxwell and sat down. He signaled the bartender.
"A bottle of bear mate"
He had a British accent. The bartender brought over a bottle of bear to him.
"Glad you could make it Rogers"
"Well you did say it was something important" Rogers said while taking a sip of his bear.
"Well the reason I called you is more than one actually. The first is that they have been lots of people going on rampages because of that drug, I need your help in finding the supplier in the town."
"That's going to be quite difficult mate, we don't even know what that stuff is made of. I advise that you get try to get a team to research the drug and know its ingredients, so we can stop those who have the ingredients at the city gates. But I know you ain't dumb, so you must have thought of this and seen that the feasibility is low" Roger took another sip from his bear.
"Yeah that was my first idea, but what if the supplier is somehow growing his ingredients by himself somewhere in the town?"
"Stop stressing mate, just get the Ingredients and we can start from there. Now what is the second issue?"
"Well you are going to assist the scouting team in a months' time right?"
"Yeah"
"Good, there is someone I want you to keep an eye out for, I have a feeling the kid is more than meets the eye."
"Which kid are we talking of here?" Rogers asked confused.
Maxwell took out a phone and played the cctv video of Henry's fight. Rogers attention was drawn when he saw Henry summon three beings, but when Henry stabbed the man, his expression turned slightly sour.
Maxwell put the phone back into his pocket and said.
"He was able to take out a peak one-star meta warrior, if the academy grooms him I'm sure he will become vital to humanity."
"Maxwell, the kid has potential, but you failed to see something. He was completely undisturbed by the fact that he killed someone, I know you and I have killed our fair share of humans to, but do you remember your first time?" Roger looked at Maxwell as he spoke.
"Yeah how can I forget, I had to kill a man who was controlled by a butterfly type scarlax. He had kids and a wife, I still feel the guilt of depriving them of a father"
"That's my point, you knew had to do it for a good reason, but it still hunts you. That kid had no emotion on his face when he killed that man, he was blank. I've met people like him before, most where driven to become that emotionless to death because of certain reasons. The kid is probably living life only for himself, I'm sure he is harboring hatred for both humans and scarlax, though his hatred for scarlax will definitely surpass that for the humans, but he will get rid of anyone that proves an enemy to him."
Maxwell went into thought after hearing what Roger said.
"Still I think he will be of great help, like you said he is lonely. Hopefully he will meet people who will become part of his life at the academy.'
Roger took a sip from his bear, then looked up and said.
"Hopefully"
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Henry just came out of the bathroom, he cleaned up and wore a black long-sleeved shirt, and black jean trousers.
"Ok, let see all my messages"
[You have completed mission two. New skill gained. 40 SP gained]
"Show me the skill"
[Living death Level 1]
· This skill allows you to turn undead, it gives you unlimited stamina, hyper regeneration, increased hp, no pain and no hunger. It takes 50 mana to activate and will consume 15 mana every minute.
"Whoa, is this for real? Activate living death"
Henry felt his temperature suddenly drop to an impossible level, his skin went deathly pale.
"It's like I am a corpse"
He took his bone sword and brought it to his hand.
"It said no pain and regeneration right"
He began tearing open his hand with the bone sword. He felt nothing except the sword being dragged across his hands, when the blade cut open a place, it immediately healed as soon as it moved from the place.
Henry had a large grin on his face, as he observed his body. "This skill makes me almost unkillable, I might not know the limit of the regeneration, but I'm sure you would need something powerful to kill an undead"
Henry deactivated the skill, he needed to get through the rest of his messages.
[You have completed a hidden mission]
· Slay your race : Kill a human
Reward : New skill
Henry wanted to jump in excitement, he had gotten another new skill, this was really awesome.
[Hell hound]
Hell hound : A beast from the abyss. It possesses an infinite amount of stamina, high speed stats, high agility stats, but possesses low strength and hp. Takes 50 Exp for singular summon and 40 Exp for group summon. Current summon capacity 2
· Hell fire : The hell hounds posses the ability to breathe hell fire.
· Phantom attack : The Hell hounds can form into an ethereal body and give a lethal soul attack. Current phantom attack 2 per day
[Hell Hound STATS]
Level : 1
HP : 20/20
EXP : 0/50
Strength : 20
Speed : 50
Agility : 50
Stamina : infinite
Skill:
· Hell fire
· Phantom attack
"It said weak strength, yet it is more than mine, well their my strength as well"
"I don't think it would be smart to summon the hell hound now, I don't know how they behave or their size. I will test them out tomorrow. Ok, now is time I absorb stat points from those corpses."
Henry began taking out the scarlax corpses he put in his inventory, he took out one , then used life steal on it before digging out the core. After about thirty minutes of absorbing and removing, he was finally done.
"Only fifteen stat points from more than thirty scarlax"
Henry was upset by the amount of stat points he got, he was expecting 20 or so.
"Well its better than nothing"
Now let's take a look at my stats
[STATS]
Name : Henry Parker
Race : Human
Title : None
Level : 3
EXP : 0/300
HP : 30/30
Meta Gene : 0
Mana : 1204/1204
System Points : 115
Strength : 12
Speed : 10
Agility : 9
Stamina : 10
Mind : 12
You have 16 unassigned stat points
Skill:
· Bone Fiend (Active)
· Life Steal (Active)
· Summon storage(Passive)
· Living death(Active}
· Hell hounds(Hell hounds)
"Ok, time to assign stat points"
Henry added 4 to strength, 3 to speed, 4 to agility, 2 to stamina and 2 to mind. He left one incase of anything. He stats now looked like this
[STATS]
Name : Henry Parker
Race : Human
Title : None
Level : 3
EXP : 0/300
HP : 30/30
Meta Gene : 0
Mana : 1204/1204
System Points : 115
Strength : 16
Speed : 13
Agility : 13
Stamina : 12
Mind : 14
You have 16 unassigned stat points
Skill:
· Bone Fiend (Active)
· Life Steal (Active)
· Summon storage(Passive)
· Living death(Active}
Hell hounds(Hell hounds
Henry felt happiness deep within him, just this morning he was a weak thing, that had no purpose, but now it was different.
Henry was suddenly hit with dizziness, the whole room was spinning.
"What is happening"
He tried to balance himself but failed to, his body fell and he went unconscious.
KNOCK, KNOCK
Henry heard knocking sounds, he struggled to get up. he managed to get to the door, when he opened the door he saw a young girl of about same age as him, with black flowing hair and beautiful face. Henry had no time to admire her as he was still drowsy, so he tried to get it over with quickly.
"How may I help you" Henry asked
"I brought you dinner" She responded with a smile.
"Dinner?"
Henry looked out the window and discovered it was dark already, he must have been out for some time.
"But I didn't pay for dinner" Henry asked in confusion.
"It's on the house" she responded with a slight blush on her face.
"Oh, well thanks" Henry took the tray from her. "By the way I'm Henry"
"Lily" she said quickly as though she had been waiting to say it.
"Well good night then" Henry said.
"Good night"
Henry closed the door and dropped the tray on his bed, he went into the bathroom, he washed his face in the small sink, when he looked up he was shocked by what he saw.