A New Skill

With my back against the old man, we each had two opponents in front of us. The situation we were in was bad. The old man had no weapons and all I held in my hand was the wooden training sword.

While the enemies in front of us had real physical weapons.

The old man glanced at my weapon.

"Judging by the sword you're wielding you're a student of Avrion academy, I'm sorry for getting you into this mess. Just delay them as long as you can and I can deal with the rest."

With that, the old man quickly went towards his two opponents. I didn't have time to see how he was faring against them, for the two dark guild members in front of me started to move.

Luckily there was one thing in my favour. It was night time and the alley had a lot of shadows. It was the most ideal scenario for me to use the black sash skills that I had learnt.

Using the shadows and my footwork I moved out of sight form the two in front of me. I then appeared behind one of the men ready to strike at his neck but before my blade could reach, I sensed a presence from my left. I moved back quickly, avoiding the strike.

If I was a few seconds slower, my head would be rolling on the floor right now. This was going to be a lot harder than I had originally thought. On their own perhaps I would have a chance, but with two of them.

The two men quickly came at me, I couldn't use my weapon to block their sword, it would just slice my wooden stick in half. What I needed now was speed and to be unpredictable.

I stuck the wooden sword in my mouth and went on all fours to use my beast form. Using the walls of the alleyway allowed me to jump from side to side. Using the strength of my fingers I was able to dig into the wall and hang onto them.

I pounced towards the two of them trying to strike with the blade in my mouth moving from one side to the next.

I managed to hit one of them right in the stomach but as I tried to move forward the sword wouldn't budge. It felt as if I was pushing against a boulder. I used all my strength to carry on moving forward, then the wooden sword broke into several pieces.

I didn't have time to wonder what had happened, I jumped up to the wall in front of me, and hung down to take a look at the man. The man stood there absolutely fine as if nothing had happened.

"Looks like the boy doesn't know how to use Ki." The man said to the other.

"We were afraid for no reason, he will never be able to hurt us."

The situation was grim, I had no weapon and it seemed like my attacks where useless.

One of the men jumped towards me with his blade. I jumped off to avoid the strike heading towards the ground.

When I landed, the other man came at me with a piercing strike. There was no chance for me to beat these two now. I had no choice but to run away.

When I was just about to disappear into the shadows I heard the old man's voice.

"Grab his arm and pull him towards you," he shouted.

If I could hear the man then perhaps he had won his fight. It gave me new hope that we could defeat the remaining two.

So as instructed I grabbed the mans hand and pulled him off balance towards me.

"Now barge into him and use your hip to throw him behind you."

I executed his instruction flawlessly with no hesitation. The man was flung into the air over my shoulder. The next thing I could see was the old man had jumped up as well. The old man quickly threw out his fist hitting the man in the stomach sending him flying against the wall. The man wasn't moving and small crater had formed behind him.

To be able to deal with the three of them with no weapons, the man must have been using Ki in his strikes. The fact that his punch was so powerfull only confirmed my thoughts.

When I went to turn around to check on the other attacker he had already disappeared. Then I heard a notification sound go off.

<Task Completed>

<Skill 2 1000 Unlocked>

<New Skill (Mana Drain)>

Now of all times? I still hadn't figure out how to unlock my skills and the messages appearing now just confused me even more.

With the commotion we had caused, the knights had quickly come to the scene and escorted the three unconscious men out of there. When the knights saw the old man they all bowed down to him and showed him great respect.

It was strange for the knights to act this way. I didn't even know who the guy was.

The old man then came towards me.

"Thank you for your help, you're quite the talented student. " The old man said.

"Why were they after you?" I asked.

My original plan was to capture one of the members and get my answers from them. Now with them in the hands of the knights, that was near impossible and the fourth member was long gone by now.

"Judging by the fact you don't know how to use Ki, I would assume you are a first-year? When you become a second year, join the martial arts club, I promise to reward you then." After the old man finished speaking he simply just walked off.

I fled the scene not wanting to be integrated or questioned by the knights. Luckily I had hidden my appearance meaning them or the dark guild members had no idea who I was.

When I got back to my room, I collapsed on my bed out of exhaustion. the others could see how tired I was and were respectful enough not to ask why.

I had trouble getting to sleep that night for I had a thought weighing on my mind. How did I unlock another skill?

So far I had only unlocked two skills. The first time was when I had defeated the intermediate wolf in the black forest. I originally thought it had something to do with defeating magical beasts, but when defeating the intermediate fang boar nothing happened.

Also, this event had nothing to do with magical beasts. The message I got was <Task complete>. Was it to do with defeating the black guild member? but that couldn't be the answer either because the old man was the one who finished him off.

I needed to find out what was the link between these two events. If I learnt this, I could get all my powers back.