As I arrive at the gym I take a glance up at the sign.
King Gym: Now accepting skill users.
I enter and greet the person at the counter, "Hello, i'd like to buy a membership." He takes a look at me and slides a paper toward me.
Pre-Member Survey:
1. Write your stats below.
2. Write your skills below.
3. What is your goal at King Gym?
Not very much of a survey, more of an interrogation. I quickly fill out the form and hand it back, the guy looks at it and begins to finally talk, "Memberships are $20 a week but since you have a useful skil it's $15."
I see, this gym is trying to collect useful skill users. Probably to eventually start raiding dungeons. I hand him $15 dollars and he puts it into the register, "If you could follow me."
He gets up and begins to walk toward the office, inside is a stack of cards and he hands me one. "This will be your membership card, don't lose it or you'll have to pay your fee again. Since you're an ability user we have personal trainers that can help you grow stronger, are you interested?"
I nod my head and he hands me a clipboard with various names and résumés on it, "These are all our trainers, find one you think would suit you and i'll bring you to meet them."
I flip through the names until I come across a guy that has the Boxing skill. My goal was to learn about boxing so this guy is perfect.
I hand the clipboard back to the guy and his eyes widen, "Are you sure you want him? He's known for using very peculiar methods."
I nod my head and the guy sighs, he begins to lead me to him but we're quickly stopped in the hall, "Don't worry I heard everything, so this is my new student, huh?"
I look up at this Six foot tall, very muscular man. "That's me, I was hoping to learn lots of boxing techniques."
He looks at me and smiles, "Then you've chosen the right teacher!" He says before picking me up and throwing me over his shoulder, "Let's get right to work!"
He begins to run over to the ring, where he sets me down and begins to teach, "Boxing is a combat style that primarily uses the fists and fast footwork." He jumps into the ring and gets combat ready.
"This is a basic boxing stance, your arms are guarding your face and stomach, and your body is balanced and planted."
I copy his stance and he begins to throw some punches, "Here are the two basic punches, the jab, and the straight, the bread and butter of boxing."
He throws some quick punches, then suddenly steps forward with a very strong punch. "There's your demonstration, why don't you come up here and try it out?"
I hop into the ring and stance up like he showed me, then I did a quick jab with my left and a straight with my right.
"Good job kid, you might be a natural at this!" Now try to hit me!"
I look up at him with a confused face, "What do you mean, you want me to actually hit you?"
"Don't worry, I'll dodge, so try to hit me."
I slowly walk up to him and begin you barrage him with jabs and straights, but he easily just ducks out of the way.
I chase him down and begin to punch faster and harder, but he still just weaves in and out.
Eventually my form is all shattered and i'm out of breath, practically out of options I use Body Enhancement to try and at least land one hit on him.
I dash at him but this time much faster, he looks at me with surprise before he catches my punch in his hand.
"That was close kid, but let's try to not rely on our skills, alright?"
He lets go and begins to speak again, "I didn't expect you to hit me anyway, but in the beginning you were doing great."
"Though, as you got more tired you lost your form a bit." He walks over to the edge of the ring, there's a tablet he begins typing into and soon the whole ring changes into a grassy plain.
"Alright, I may be too hard of a target, but how about this?"
The light around me begins to shift as something begins to form a few feet in front of me.
A Goblin.