Chapter 10
Sometimes I ask myself why I train so hard, why I destroy my mind and body for just a small portion of power that women can quickly get even by not training, and why do I do this?
And every time a memory appears in my mind, a memory that always drives me mad, a memory that always devoids any sympathy towards women.
It was a day like any other, I and my father had just gotten out to buy the food for dinner, and just for a second my hand moved away from my father's hand and touched the hand of a woman.
When the older woman saw that I was a man, the disgust on her face became immeasurable, she rose her hand ready to slap me, and by how her hand got covered in flames, that would have hurt like a bitch and would have left a scar.
*SLAP
The sound reverberated in the whole street by the mere strength behind it, but the ly thing no one expect was that the one that got her face slapped wasn't me but the bitch.
My father saw the woman raining her hand, and with lightning speed got in front of me, locked her hand, and slapped her.
When the woman realized what had just happened, tears began to fall from her eyes, and the nearby cops finally got to the scene.
I had seen them before the fight happened, both of them were women, and guess who they arrested?
My father had to stay in prison for 3 whole days and Inko got me from the police station after one day, so angry that she couldn't eat dinner that she decided to beat me up in front of the other policewoman, guess what? They didn't even flinch when that happened, they just based her to do it when she was home, nothing more.
During the whole episode not once did I cry, my eyes stayed emotionless, my mouth closed shut, and my emotions not showing, the only thing that proved my anger at the time was my nails pricing my skin and causing blood to fall, and my teeth grinding against each other, almost pulverizing.
Every time I think about that episode my motivation to move forward, even at the cost of my body and mind, to prove the worthiness of men, flares like a star, ready to burn everyone trying to stop it.
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After 30 minutes I finally arrived at my usual training spot, which is an area in the forest where the trees didn't grow and the sky was visible.
'If anything can become a skill then doesn't that mean that there might also be a skill that can reduce physical damage?'
I head towards a near tree, I take a horse standing pose, and I start punching it with my whole strength.
Each punch caused pieces of the bark to fall, but with each punch, my hand got redder and redder, until even blood began to fall from my hands, my hand began stinging like hell, but I ignored it and continued punching the tree, I even ignored all the notifications.
What had started as an experiment, began a self-challenge, I had to make that tree with my bare hands, if I couldn't, how can I hope to fight against villains and heroes?
After 30 minutes of constant punching with no stop, a blunt sound spread everywhere in the forest.
*BOOOOM
*THUMP
With bleeding hands and a smile on my face, I sit on the ground and wait for my hands to recover.
I then start reading all the notifications I had received during my "training".
The first thing was the stats gain, in total I gained 3 points in Str, 3 in End, and 3 in Vit by losing and regaining health.
'So to train Vit I have to be a masochist, cool.'
Second, I gained two skills, them being: Pain Tolerance and Hardened Hands.
I had gained pain tolerance by ignoring the pain for more than 1 minute and Hardened Hands by hitting a hard surface more than 1000 times.
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Pain Tolerance Lv. 8
The first step for a masochist is to max it, you are able to ignore 8% of the total pain.
Hardened Hands Lv.4
Some decide to fight with swords(Beta), some with spears(Alpha), and some with hands(Chad), you aimed for the hands, all damage dealt with bare hands deals 4% more damage, and all damage blocked with hands is reduced by 2%.
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'So that's why I felt my hands thicker than before, what happens when it reached level 100? Will my hands become like hard concrete? And what the fuck is the description of Pain Tolerance? The first step? What is the second? And why do I want to know it?' I thought while I saw my hands stop bleeding and slowly closing themself.
After that, I checked my skill level up, and I gained 1 level in Martial arts, and 1 in Physical Fitness.
Instead of fighting against another tree, I decide to try out my spells, first I tried Shout.
After Mana manipulation got to level 10, I became able to feel the movement of mana inside my body, and I realized that its original location and production are from the heart.
After I activated Shout, I felt my mana move from my heart towards my lunges through my blood vessels.
When mana covered my lunges, my lunges got filled my air, and before I could even realize it, a monstrous sound came out of my mouth.
Every living being in a 10-meter area immediately stopped moving, too scared to move and maybe angry at the producer of such a monstrous sound.
After 10 seconds the fear effect stopped and all the animals that were under its effect run away with all their might.
'The effect doesn't only stun, but apparently also scares living beings, maybe it was left out since the main thing is the stun effect, or maybe because it only affects animals? Further investigation must be done.'
Next, I tried Bind, but since all the animals had escaped I used it on a tree.
Dark blue ropes popped out of the ground and covered the lower half of the tree.
'Let's try something.'
When I use this skill my hands stay to point at the then enemy I wish to constrain, but what if I close my hand and order my ropes to crush the target?
As soon as I closed my hands, the ropes constraining the tree began propagating along with the bark of the tree, completely covering the lower half of the tree, the sound of wood being crashed spread, not wanting to waste all my mana I ordered for the ropes to dissolve.
When the ropes moved away the bark of the lower half of the tree was completely destroyed if such a thing would have been done to a woman at least some of his or her bones would crack or even broke.
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Congratulations your Bind Skill has evolved to Strangle.
Strangle Lv.1
The first step for a sadist, through the use of mana ropes you are able to constrain and then strangle the constrained one, which can be used as long as the user has mana, if the enemy is the too high level they can easily break the ropes and will only be stunned for a second.
Damage/s: IntxS.level
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'Masochist and now Sadist what's next?'