35 bloodline awakening
"You should have asked for help" Alter saie while looking at Raven
"i didn't need it though" Raven muttered before he continued "Well, before speaking shouldn't we move forward to find the entrance to the next stage faster?"
"Nn" Alter nodded
Both of them choose a random direction and started walking
"So? What was your name again?" Raven asked
"Alter, and you?" Alter replied and asked
"Raven" Raven replied
After that both of them started chatting, with Alter master of acting ability , he didn't have a problem to guide the conversation to some subject he is good at, especially after discovering that Raven and him share a lot of common interest, such as food preference and stories, apparently Raven likes the stories where the main character go through a lot of hardships until he finally reaches his goal, so Alter told him part of the stories he read in his past life, and he used the excuse of 'it's from a old torn book' to explain why it was incomplete,
After chatting and laughing for a long time, they noticed that it already night
"Eh? How come it already night? " Alter asked
"Well, the labyrinth is actually a ruin that had it entrance connected to the academy, i heard that a fake time is used to mislead robbers , or maybe it some sort of trap " Raven explained
"I see, so what should we do?" Alter asked
"Pass the night here" Raven replied
Alter looked at where Raven pointed, there was nothing in there except bushes, although Altrr had the memories of the previous body owner and the mental support from his bloodline which made him adapt to this world cruel world, his past life is still affecting him , so he really don't want to sleep in the wilderness
but at that moment, Raven got threw a wooden cube, the cube landed, a strong blue light emitted from it, then it expanded until it became three-storey house
Surprise was all over Alter face
Raven noticed it then he said
"It a portable house, it one of the necessary preparations when going to a expedition"
"So we are supposed to prepare?" Alter asked
"..." Raven was speechless
Alter was a bit embarrassed by what he said, so he tried to come up with a excuse
"The teleportation was too sudden"
Raven nodded and said
"Maybe it related to the skull of corrosion, it a assassins organization under a even bigger organization, from what i noticed, the laws of protection , which make us go back to the academy when we die, don't work on them, so they die for real, so they must have entered the labyrinth using some special way"
"why bother doing so?"
"Their target is us" Raven responded
Alter wasn't surprised, he had a intuition that they are indeed targeting the students of the academy
"So rather than killing us, they plan to capture us, but for what?" Alter asked
It was indeed weird, if they kidnapped the students they will only get the wrath of the families and clans backing them, even if they were to liberate them for a ransom, they wouldn't escape unscathed
"They want to kill us"
Raven words shocked Alter
"How are you sure?"
"Although the leader of the skull of corrosion is only a peak master stage, he fused with corrosion and some other laws , which resulted into a minor Death corrosion law, it easy for him to enchant some weapon with semi minor death corrosion effect, as long as it touches our heart, the protection law will do nothing, actually, the one you helped me to kill earlier had a dagger with that affect"
Alter scared at the fact that he may have died do to carelessness
"Sigh, let stop talking about this and go inside, let have dinner , you can stay in one of the additional rooms here"Raven said after sighing
"Thanks" Alter said
Raven was a bit suprised when he heard Alter, but he quickly composed himself and went inside the house
...
For dinner, they had food made by light shine restaurant, they both started chatting again
"I didn't expect you to be a genius , Alter" Raven said
"Why you say so?"
"Well, you were able to defeat someone who's at peak expert stage while you're just a newly advanced expert, not to mention that your physical and magical capabilities is stronger than others who iust advanced, in top it, you are at expert stage while being young, it a sign of being a genius"
"I see"
Alter didn't want to talk more about this subject, so he started changing the subject
After both of them filled themselves and had a nice chat, a rune appeared between them, then a light enveloped both of them
Alter was familiar with this scene, so he reacted first
" see you later"
Raven was stunned, but he understood what Alter meant, then he nodded
Thus, both of them disappeared
...
After opening his eyes, he found himself on a volcanic island
The heat in there was unbearable
Alter went around for a while before seeing a silhouette of someone, he decided to get close while being ready to fight at any moment
"Alter?" That person said
Alter eyes opened wide from the suprise
"Valter?"
Seeing that it someone he know, Alter lowered his guard
"I didn't expect to see you here!" Valter shouted
"me neither" Alter replied in a calm voice
Valter was sitting in the ground on a meditation pose, Alter curiosity was picked
"Why you are meditating?" Alter Asked
"Well, to go to the next room, one have to ignore the heat in here for a long time, it was written on top of the volcano"
Although it seemed hard, for Alter is easy, he can use his mental power to focus on thinking like hard mathematics or magic theories, although it doesn't mean complete focuse, it may help, But Valter was different
since Valter was nice to him and helped him back at the library, Alter doesn't mind helping him, thud, he activated master of acting to divert Valter thoughts
"Haah, this reminds me of thr basic runes, you have to constantly focus on it a minor error is fatal"
"Well, you can use the rune of...."
Thanks to the advancing manual, Alter have a full understanding about the basic runes and a bit about the intermediate ones, but something called 'elemental runes' weren't in there for some reason
After having a long discussion, Alter understanding of magic and theories improved a bit
light enveloped both of them, they were stunned at first but after understanding what is happening they got angry, they didn't expect that their discussion will get interrupted
But their amger is useless, both of them disappeared
...
Alter found himself this time inside forest, he looked around, he was dissatisfied for not getting anything, but he suddenly got a bad feeling coming from his back, he hurriedly summoned a crimson wall and added a rune to make it able to block a certain type of atacks that atacks minds and trespass walls
Soon After, a arrow enveloped in white light hit the wall
"Wait! He isn't from them!" A man voice echoed
Even after hearing that voice, Alter didn't lower his guard, who knows, maybe someone else from the academy want to kill him in hope to get what Alter got inside the labyrinth
from the direction where the arrow was shot, three people revealed themselves, the first one was 2 meter tall person, he didn't looke like a human, his face was similar to that of a lion, the same with his other body parts, he also had a lion ears and tail, he was holding a sword that was hald his height and width, he was wearing a leather armor, judging from his build, Alter guessed that he's either a knight or mercenary and a beastman
The other two were Alter classmates, one was a beastman too, but she looked exactly like a human except for her lion ears and tail, but what Alter found weird is that she looked taller and a bit more mature
The last one was elf, it was difficult to tell if she's a girl or a boy , she was holding a boa
The tall beastman was surprised when he saw Alter, he placed his sword in his back, then he said
"Sorry for attacking you, we thought that you are one from then, you see, there's a assassin orga-"
Alter already knew what was in the beastman mind, so he interrupted him
" I know, no need to explain"
the beastman expression didn't change and continued
"Well, that saves the trouble, Also, to advance from this room it requires 4 people to get a token which can be found inside a monster head in this forest, then we should stand on a formation, so-"
This time, the elf interrupted him
"To put it simply, you have the honor of helping me , human! this is a lifetime chance!"
The elf said in a arrogant tone and had a look on her face filled with pride
From the voice, Alter could guess that he's looking at a girl not a boy,
the girl beastman was flustered and said "A-Amy, this....well...that way is a b-bit wrong, shouldn't we introduce ourselves f-first?"
Alter concluded that the girl beastman wasn't the arrogant type but the shy one
The elf nodded and said
"Hmm, you're right, My name is Amy! you don't need to remember it! just call me your highness! and the one at my side is Elizabeth! if you bully her i will make you wish you weren't born!, as for him...No idea, he doesn't want to say his name"
"haha..." the tall beastman gave a hollow laugh while scratching his head with his paw hand
"Alter, nice to meet you" Alter said
The elf looked at him and said
"I know it nice too meet me! and dont forget how to call me"
"Alright, let stop playing~, Eliza and Alter still don't have the token, let go~" the tall beastman said
'I feel like i met him somewhere' Alter thought to himself
After going around for a while, they still didn't anything,
After a while, Alter managed to break the silence and started chatting with Elizabeth, she mostly spoke about scary rumors and superstitions, Alter could feel chills in his back since what she said was so well described, luckily, The tall beastman sometimes interject with some jokes to alleviate the mood, the elf didn't like the feeling, so she started talking too, she mostly spoke about music in her hometown, Alter now had the urge to go visit the elf kingdom, which of course, made Amy prouder
After that, his relationship with her was a bit better, after a while, they finally find the first monster, it was a giant turtle, Alter was excited , he wanted to fight, but the tall beastman slashed it and then it died, the token was extracted by him and given to Elisabeth,
Suddenly, they could hear a intimidating roar, a 3 meters tall bull appeared, it dashed towards Alter, but then it suddenly curved and went to hit the tall beastman, the tall beastman was unprepared and couldn't dodge, so he tried to block it, but the boar was slapped away, Everyone was stunned
It was Alter who did it, but he himself didn't understand what happened until he heard the system notification
[Ding....User Awakened 'Phoenix dash slap' technique]
Alter didn't check the description, he wanted to learn how to judge skills by himself so that his judging ability becomes better, after all, there may be something with hidden effects like his ring
'So this is what Emillia use' Alter thought to himself
The boar landed on it back, it struggled to get up, but The tall beastman didn't let , he slashed towards it neck
After thr battle finished, everyone looked at Alter in amazement
Alter shrugged and said "It wasn't that heavy"
No one believed him, and Alter wasn't going to insist, the token this time came out by itself and went to Alter, then the tokens glowed, light enveloped all of them, the first to disappear was Amy and Elizabeth
from the light thickness, Alter knew that he was next, he looked at the tall beastman and said
"See you later Claudio, your fish smell gave your identity away"
Shock was apparent in Claudio face, he wanted to say something but Alter already disappeared
Actually, Alter didn't know his identity by his smell, but using the analysing function
...
This time, Alter was on a desert filled with weapons, be it on the ground or the sky, swords, bows, daggers, some are curved in a weird way,
Just as he was scanning the scenery, a message came to him , it was made by mental power
'the weapons are made by mental power, you can't advance until you have a mental weapon'
Alter now understood what he should do, be started walking , but all the weapons have something that Alter didn't like, for example, he wanted a rapier, but he realized it bad at blocking, he wanted to use a regular sword, but he didn't want something difficult, he wanted to use a bow, but it useless since it made by mental power and normal arrows won't be useful
his head hurts from thinking so much, he then thought of the message again
'i have to get a mental weapon...that means i can create one! but.... the mental power inside those mental weapons is equal to ky mental power, and i doubt if i create one it will be useful, i don't know the techniques used to make it materialized'
Alter was thinking for a while, he felt like he is walking on a circle, but he had a idea
He got up, closed his eyesx and started emitting a bit of mental power, all the weapons started vibrating, then they rushed toward Alter, every time one touched him, it would enter his sea of conscience
After all the weapons entered his sea of conscious, he made themm all turn into mentala powerx then he condensed them, all those weapons became a ball of mental power
'now...let see what to do '
Alter had no idea of what to do now, he absorbed all the weapons just because he had no better idea
But at this time, the system notification rang
[Ding...Creating suitable weapon, 2 hours and 35 minutes]
'Good! eh? i have to wait 2 hours and half?' Alter thought to himself
But unlike what he thought, a light enveloped him, then he disappeared
....
Just as Alter opened his eyes, he saw a grassland , mountains and a forest
Suddenly, He felt pain where his heart is situated, and a strong cold feeling he looked down and saw blood coming out there was a black fire in there too
he looked back, what he saw was a white haired man smiling, there was a skull badge in his leather armour, he didn't look like a assassin but more like a mercenary
Alter remembered what Raven said about death laws touching the heart, he was terrified, he was afraid of dying again, but the black flames didn't feel uncomfortable, it was warm and calm
he understood what happened from the system
[Ding....User was corroded by minor death laws, but as user experienced true death, user is immune to death laws equal or lower than High level]
[Ding....Ability Discovered! 'True death experience']
[Ding....Because of the true desth experience, last dance at the edge of death reached level 11]
Alter was calm now, he know that he will just teleport out the academy, but he planned to do some damage to the man who stabbed him, in hope it would help his new friends if they met this man, he started making lots of plans, especially now that his last dance at the edge of death is level 11, which means a increase of 110% of stats
Alter looked up and focused on the man, he was 4 meters away from him, he may be able to dodge then launch a faint atack before-
Alter kept calculating using his mental power as a support, but suddenly, the man took out a pearl and crushed it, then he said
"Your friends are already dead, look, here's a image, don't worry, you'll join them soon"
Alter could see multiple scenes where multiple people where stabbed to death, including the ones he just met , Emillia and Leo were there too
Hatred filled Alter heart, Alter wasn't planning anymore, he just wanted to kill the man in front of him
'that's it, get angry! a vengeful spirit of someone talented is useful after all' the man thought to himself
But he suddenly felt something isn't right, the mana in the air, ground, and everything around them, was starting to surround the kid infront of him, the mana enveloped and materialized into ball that was spinningl at high speed,
The man back was filled with sweet, when he looked at ball, he felt like a predator is aiming at him, he retreated over 20 meters, the ball started cracking, then it exploded and emitted a very strong shockwave, even though the man was far away, he could feel that the air was like sharp knifes cutting him, he was barely standing,
As the dust calmed down, he could see the kid standing with a cold expression in his face, there was a pair of silver horns in his head, silver claws in hand, and a ethereal and transparent wings in his back
Those wings and horns made him remember of the ancient white dragon who roamed between worlds, he could feel that the wings were still absorbing mana from everywhere
the kid who was like a fearsome dragon opened his mouth and said "You're dead"
[Ding....User bloodline is a high one, bonus applied on it]
[Ding....New quest: Kill the man then destroy his soul]
[ding....User is under berserk state]
[Warning! user surpassed 200% stats increase!]
