Tutorial [3]

Elliott closed the status window and calmly judged the current situation he was in.

'I can now dodge the arrows, but still, my reflexes are slower due to the state of my body.'

sigh

Elliott sighed and concentrated again, and decided to activate his sense of touch with his sense of hearing simultaneously.

[Your haptic sense has been activated].

Elliott took a step forward

*whistling*

An arrow pointing forward

Elliott nimbly deflects the arrow to the side.

It was neither fast nor slow

'uff... it's very hard to concentrate on my hearing and touch if I get careless it could be fatal right now.

Elliott was looking straight ahead and looked exactly the same as when he arrived a few hours ago.

'Let's calm down, I've already found a way to block those arrows...'.

Elliott began to slowly move forward again.

*crash* *crash* *crash* *crash* *crash*

With every step, he took the arrows went to where he was.

Elliott started to send the arrows with jerky movements, as he never learned any fighting art either with weapons or melee, but still, he managed to block some arrows that were heading to vital places, with the arrow that was pulled out of his body earlier. He now uses it as a dagger.

Elliot continued to walk slowly down the hallway blocking the arrows with more refined movements than before, he hardly made any unnecessary movements anymore and maintained more stamina.

[The proficiency of your skill 'strengthening of the senses' has increased. 3,3%.]

[Your strength has increased by 1.]

[Your health has increased by 2.]

[Your agility has increased by 1.]

***

After walking for a long time, Elliott noticed that there was a kind of pattern in the traps thanks to unconsciously activating his dragon eyes.

"thanks to my dragon eyes notice, depending on how I handle the arrows likewise give me attributes".

For example: if I hit an arrow, my strength increases, if I dodge an arrow, my dexterity increases, if I deflect an arrow, my health increases.

It seems to work that way because different ways of handling arrows stimulate attributes. But it's not always accurate.

Also.

"I've noticed that there are some arrows with a subtly different color on the tips mixed in with the others."

As the stats steadily increased, Elliott was becoming more sensitive. And before he knew it he could now 'see' the arrows, without needing to enhance his senses.

At first, he thought he was hallucinating from the blood loss.

It was very small but the arrowheads were pitted with various colors.

But the color was too subtle to differentiate what kind of colors it was, and it was also difficult to check since the arrows come out from all directions.

And the fact that all the arrows looked the same.

However, as his eyesight strengthened and he activated his dragon eyes his ability to see dynamic objects increased, and his thinking was confirmed.

He confirmed that some arrows had different colored tips.

'the colors I managed to recognize were: green, red, and yellow.'

Elliott was lost in thought.

'What's the significance of the colors on the tips? Why are the tips with different colors? What happens if I hit the arrow that has a different colored tip?'

Sigh

'Let's calm down first let's try it'.

Elliott avoided all the dates except the one with a subtle red tip.

*metallic sound*

[Your strength has increased by 1]

Your proficiency in the skill 'sense strengthening' has increased. 4,2%.]

[Your proficiency in the skill 'dragon eyes' has increased. 0.8%.]

The message appeared informing him about the growth of his strength and skill proficiency stats.

"This confirms my theory the arrows with colors on the punda increase my stats."

After a long time, another colored arrow flew. This time it was red.

Elliot turned around and dodged all but the red one, which stopped it.

He could feel his arm numb from blocking the arrow and realized that the arrow was heavier than normal arrows.

[You have blocked a red arrow]

[Your strength has increased by 3]

"Oh~..."

Elliott felt a great change in his body.

He felt a drastic change in his strength.

It was a usual slow big difference.

'Status'

[Climber: Elliott]

Bloodline trait: cold-blooded, better understanding.

Strength: 19 Agility: 19 Health: 14 Magic Power: 20

Skills: Dragon eyes (0.8%) Sense strengthening (4.2%).

Elliott flashed a smile as he looked at his condition.

His stats have increased a lot and now he found a way to raise his stats faster.

'each color should be related to each attribute, green health, red strength. So what about the yellow?'.

When I blocked the yellow arrow nothing happened, it will be that it requires different actions depending on the color.

As soon as Elliott came to that thought...

*whistling*

The yellow arrow was faster than the others.

This time, he didn't hit it, but narrowly dodged it.

[You've dodged a yellow arrow.]

[Your agility has increased by 2.]

The yellow arrow was sharper.

Because the hit-and-dodge actions had already been done by the red and yellow colors, he extended his left arm to see if it would work.

*Disc*

[You have been hit by a green arrow].

[Your health has increased by 2.]

"This is really awesome I'm a genius, hahaha..."

Elliott was excited and pulled the arrow out of his arm happily before his expression changed due to the pain. He felt as if his arm was falling off.

Elliott tried to stop the pain from spreading throughout his body but failed miserably.

He began to feel dizzy again due to the loss of blood. He was barely holding himself together thanks to his improved health. But without it, he would have died by now.

And then...

*cough*

Elliott coughed up a mouthful of blood. Blood seeped through the fingers that covered his mouth.

Pain spread down the length of his left arm to his entire body.

Elliott continued to vomit blood.

He was on the verge of collapse.

His body could take no more. It was already a miracle that his body had endured so much pain, and if he doesn't recover he will actually die for real.

Elliott however endured all the pain and gritted his teeth.

'Genius my ass!... I'm just stupid how did I come up with such a brilliantly stupid idea to let him get an arrow in my body to boost my stats.

Elliott finished pulling the arrow out of his left arm.

His body was already reaching its limit but for his bloodline, he would have been stupidly dead a long time ago.

Elliott looks down the hallway and still has a long way to go.

Through his senses and he could feel more than yet more traps on the way.

Once again, blood rushed into his mouth at the bottom.

Elliot spit out the blood and kept walking. And his eyes changed as if they were those of a reptile and glowed brightly.

"Come on and let's finish this shit test."

Elliott hurried with staggering steps.

Ting!

[You've obtained a new trait 'iron will.']

***

"HAHAHAHAHA~....! This challenger really is either crazy or just plain stupid, it's the first time I've seen such a crazy guy in this tower with those kinds of ideas to increase his attributes!"

Thousands of screens were in front of the guardian of floor 0 Isabella, showing all the challengers that were currently participating in this tutorial, they all had a different look.

However, Isabella's eyes fixed on a screen showing a long black-haired man.

There stood Elliott who was walking as if he was about to die at any moment.

"I didn't think that innocent face was so crazy what an interesting guy."

In fact, this tutorial had a lot to do with it.

This time the tower has chosen some interesting guys who will turn the tower upside down.

Each of the top guys in this tutorial was strong enough once the tutorial was over to start climbing the tower.

They were already further along in the test than Elliott and he was halfway through the tutorial.

And, oddly enough, there was no telling which of them would have the highest score in the tutorial.

But Isabella's eyes were fixed on Elliott, who was still at the beginning of the tutorial. For a few days.

Isabella thought Elliott was going to die soon after when he first appeared.

But this little son of a bitch without any skills or training should be dead by now.

But it seems the goddess of luck loves him dearly and he exceeded all her expectations.

Others might have been torn to shreds at the beginning of the tutorial. But Elliott progressed so slowly that he even went so far as to describe arrows giving attributes.

I don't know if he's crazy or stupid, but he keeps increasing his stats by taking advantage of this opportunity.

"He's progressing well, but there are still many dangers ahead of him, let's see if he passes the next tests with such luck."

Isabella takes a glass of wine.

Elliott is already coming to the tail end of the first part.

"I just hope he doesn't die quickly."

***

[Climber: Elliott]

Bloodline traits: cold-blooded, better understanding.

Traits: Iron will

Strength: 30 Agility: 36 Health: 39 Magic Power: 20

Skills: Dragon eyes (2.2%) since strengthening (8.5).

As he walked down the hallway, Elliott looked at his status with a big smile.

'all my attributes have increased except my magic power'.

There was a big difference in stats when he first arrived at the tower, but Elliott felt that this was nothing they were more prepared to climb the tower with.

But what Elliott didn't know was that none of the challengers increased their stats as fast as he did, he did that it would take years of training to increase his attributes.

Elliott continued walking until he reached the front of a huge iron gate.

Elliott pushed the iron gate with a serious face as he thought it would be his turn to fight some kind of monster.

*Crujir*

[You have finished the first part of the tutorial.]

[Your wounds will be healed.]

....