I fell on my face again.
You have lost 10 health
Ouch! Even though I had a lot more health now, it still hurts to fall on your face. Now where am I? I took a look around and found myself in a place that had a lot of shiny things. Not treasures but the actual walls were at least painted gold and stuff. There were statues and painting of beautiful women around as well.
"So your the new volunteer we've been expecting."
I heard a rough voice behind me. I turned and saw a well built man with some heavy armor with gold lines on them in contrast with my noob armor that I was still wearing. He looked pretty old to me but didn't look weak at all.
"Who...who are you?"
The man smiled and promptly said, "I am Vin Hearstone of the Paladin Order under the grace of the Goddess Freya!"
I see this person seems like an idiot. Now how do I escape. I looked around to find some sort of exit.
"Hahahaha. I see your very impatient to start the training. Men should have that kind of spirit. And your beauty must have been granted by the Goddess herself! I never seen a man look so much like a woman before."
Vin started a laugh loudly again. But I was more concern about his misunderstanding that I wanted to do the training. Oh! There's a place I can run off to. But before I could escape Vin grabbed my collar and dragged me to a strange room. It was filled with scarecrows and a stack of books as well. Vin placed something around my neck and closed the door behind him.
You are the first player to discover the Altered Hyperbolic Time Chamber.
A mysterious training room that was once used in Kallamore–Haven War. Recent Experimental test have been conducted to modernise it. The trainees from this room were able to become stronger after a short period of time. However, many of them also suffered from increased stress and developed a phobia of machines. Now the training room has been refitted to give basic education as well.
After some debate on its use, it has been decided that the training would last a week to reduce the amount of trauma the participants had to endure.
+100 fame
What the hell is this. Those were the first words that popped up in my mind when I read the description in front of me.
"Eden you have a maximum of a week to finish both the basic training and basic education. It should be so hard since according to Dan and Rag you read quite a bit already so you don't have to focus so much on that part."
That isn't the problem here! Wait, you know Dan and Rag?
"Why do I have a week to finish this?" I asked a bit concern about the time limit.
"Because the collar around your neck will explode in a month unless you finish it."
Fuck.
"Now get started. Time is ticking. You'll find some food every once in a while."
What do you mean once in a while?!
ZAAAAAAAAAAPPPPPPPPP
"Arhcgfewbgnagkrnawgk!"
You have loss 30 health. You have been paralysed for 5 seconds
"Oh yeah, you'll get zapped if you don't do anything."
Fuck.
After the paralyse effect went off I quickly grabbed a book and started to read quickly. If I was right then he had to finish a week's worth of reading in a short enough period to finish the second half of the training. Eventually after a couple of hours a message popped up.
You have gained 1 intelligence
Congratulation you have finished the Basic Education Program.
You have gained 100 mana and 20 fame.
Good now to hit the scarecrow though I'm mentally exhausted. I picked up a wooden sword and hit the scarecrow. The scarecrow rebounded a bit and I hit it again.
5 minutes later....
Damn this is getting harder to do.
20 minutes later....
I wonder if this is enough for a while. I could take a break.
1 hour later....
I'm going to put down my sword now. I dropped my wooden sword on the ground and then the scarecrow glowed a strange colour.
BOOOOOOM
You have lost 100 health. You are confused
Damn what was that?!
ZAAAAAAAAAAPPPPPPPPP
"Bjnewkgvbkbgkabgkbrskubg"
You have loss 30 health. You have are paralysed for 5 seconds
Not again!
"Eden if you drop your sword for a moment the scarecrow will deal all the damage you dealt to it. Though this time I reduced the damage so you wouldn't die. Good luck"
Fuck you Vin! It would've been better if I died. I got zapped again!
"Oh yeah I forgot to install that on you."
Wait what was 'that'?! Don't install it please!
Vin opened the door took out two metal arms. He equipped it onto the scarecrow, forced me to hold the wooden sword again and strapped me to the scarecrow.
"Hit the scarecrow again."
"No."
"You wanna get zapped again?"
So I hit the scarecrow again. Wait it was heavy as hell.
"Why is it heavier now?" I said while moving the wooden sword into motion to hit the scarecrow again.
"That's the point. The heavier it is the more effective the training will be. Oh yeah the scarecrow will deal the same amount of damage you dealt to it if you don't hit it every 5 seconds. Don't worry it'll be only the damage of the latest hit not like when you dropped your sword. Also unless you deal a certain amount of damage it'll zap you as well."
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCCCCCCCCKKKKKKKKKKKK
I started to hit the scarecrow with all my might.
"Haha. Looks like your all pumped up now. Anyway see you in 3 days."
Vin walked out of the room and closed the door behind him. I noticed that there was a lot of metal cranking sounds. Did he lock it? Fuck it. I can't think right now!