Chapter 3: Ambushed
Along the way, Alaric thought about the new things he had learned from Anna. One of them is Tier System. From Level 0 to Level 50, that is level limit for Tier 0. To remove that limiter, one must take a promotion test. Another thing that he was told was that he should increase his stats as to its limits before attempting the tier promotion, something that only a few people had tried to do.
He was thinking that with the help of his Sacrifice, he could use those corpse and exchange them for APs and reach stats maximation. Stats maximation wasn't a secret, it's just that it's the longest and hardest path to getting stronger.
After running endlessly for half an hour, he has finally reached the Enchanted Forest. It took him 10 full minutes just to get out of Beria Village and 20 minutes more just to get to his destination.
— Enchanted Forest —
*Shuaa* *Haa!*
[-60]
Alaric swung his sword at the incoming monster, cutting a long wound on its neck.
*Grrr!!!*
The monster, a wolf with brown fur, stepped back feeling the bleeding wound on it's neck. Alaric then tried to close their distance, attempting a downward slash towards the wolf's head.
His sword hit the empty air as the wolf dodged as it nimbly jumped to the side. The wolf was fast but so was Alaric. Running at his fullest, he reached the wolf and stab on the wound on it's neck.
[-50]
[+70 EXP]
With the wolf dead, he stored it's corpse in his Inventory.
Seeing that no one else was in the vicinity, Alaric took out all of the 23 Rabbit Corpse and 1 Wolf Corpse from his Inventory.
"Sacrifice!"
The corpse, just like before turned into red particles that floats around him. ? "What is your wish?"?. The same, ancient voice spoke.
"I want the Sword Mastery Skill."
?" Granted."?
[You gained a new skill: Basic Sword Mastery - Increase damage of swords by 10%]
Suddenly, the sword in his hands feel a lot more lighter to carry. While he couldn't explain it clearly, there was one thing he was sure of, and that is he no longer uses the sword clumsily like before.
"I forgot about the skill given to me! " Alaric momentarily forgot about the random weapon skill he had received from before because of his excitement.
[You gained a new skill: Arch Slash- Deals damage in a wide arc area, capable of making the enemies bleed]
"How does that work? " He muttered, he don't even know where the rewards is.
*Grr* *Rustle*
A low growl, hidden besides a bush caused Alaric to become alert.
*Rawr*
A wolf jumped out of the bush, the word "Level8" was shown brightly atop of its head. When it was a few feet away from Alaric, he swung his sword in a arc way, activating Arch Slash, leaving behind an afterimage of his sword and a trail of blue light which was vastly different from just swinging his sword in an arc!
[-200]
[+75 EXP]
[You leveled up! Received 10 AP]
The wolf who had tried to attack him fell lifeless on the ground, it's head cut off without any forms of resistance.
*Awoo* *Grr*
Alaric who was about to pick the corpse suddenly felt his instincts screaming. The little skirmish between him and the wolf didn't go unnoticed by the others.
With the hair on his skin standing straight, Alaric stored both his sword and the wolf corpse and run away. While he was confident he could probably take them on one by one, he wasn't sure how many enemies were there and he wasn't going to stay to find out.
His goal was to become really strong and he wouldn't be able to achieve that if he were to die. He won't mind taking some risk, but right now this is not the type of risk he is going to take.
The roars were getting stronger no matter how fast Alaric run. He was already in trouble because he had to avoid lots of trees and by doing that he was slowing down a lot.
*Rawr*
Unfortunately, two beasts, two black leopard with a snake for a tail had caught up to him. Alaric clicked his tounge in frustration as he halted his steps.
'Why can't I just farm peacefully!? Arch Slash' Complaining inwardly, he took out his sword and activated his Arc Slash skill, beheading two of the approaching leopards. Arc Slash uses 60MP.
[+150 EXP]
[You leveled up!]
[You received 10AP]
(AN: 70+75+75+75 = 295EXP)
'I need to increase my Agility Stats!' He thought, adding all of his 20AP to his Agility.
[You have reached the max stat limit for Agility (30). Please complete your promotion tier first.]
'Are you fu***** serious right now!' Alaric cursed as he started running away, his speed noticeably faster than before. Minutes passed, the growling sounds had long disappeared.
Just as he thought he had survived, what he saw next made his heart shrank.
"I'm really doomed aren't I? What a cursed luck haha." He muttered lowly, inexplicable fear crawling in his entire being. 'Add 10AP to Endurance.'
[You have reached max stats limit for Endurance(30). Please complete your tier promotion first.]
Alaric was surrounded. What he saw was a plethora of beasts and monsters of all kinds, who acted like an intelligent beings, setting up an ambush for him. He can no longer run away as more and more enemies came.
But what he saw next was even more surprising as….