CHAPTER 9
*CLANG*
Gideon and the skeleton clashed once again as the battle continued.
Gideon's daggers seemed to have a mind of their own as his hands became green blurs constantly attacking the skeleton with deadly accuracy.
'My Astral power will be depleted soon, I need to end this now.' Gideon thought as he jumped towards the skeleton and spun while swinging his daggers, his eyes leaving a trail of green light.
The skeleton's armour was covered in slash marks and some of the bones on it's body were cracking,but it still swung its large great sword at Gideon with ease.
The two of them clashed for another ten seconds before a small opening appeared in the skeleton's defence.
With a burst of speed, Gideon quickly appeared on the lower right side of the skeleton and struck both of his daggers that were covered in a green light at a tricky angle.
Due to the size of it's sword, the skeleton couldn't block properly and received a clean hit on where it's leg was meant to be and a loud cracking sound was heard as the bone broke.
The skeleton quickly lost it's balance and fell backwards onto it's back with a loud thud.
Gideon jumped of and filled his daggers with all his remaining Astral power and swung down at it's neck with all his strength.
The entire room was covered in light green as two very dense poison slashes that could corrode, poison, paralyze, attack the nerves and the brain, slashed down with terrifying force.
The skeleton's neck offered no resistance as it's was cut clean through, killing it instantly.
[+2000 exp]
[Ding, Host has leveled up.]
[Ding, Host has leveled up.]
[Ding, Host has created cursed weapons, additional rewards will be given.]
[Ding, Host has slain a boss from a dungeon, additional rewards will be given.]
[Ding, after numerous usages in a short amount of time, poison slash has upgraded into poison barrage.]
[Ding, due to numerous uses in a short amount of time, dagger mastery has upgraded into dagger rush.]
[Ding, due to host's efforts, poison Augmentation has upgraded into poison overdrive.]
[Poison barrage: User will unleash a barrage of poison slashes that deal poison damage, will not work on opponents much stronger than the user or have high poison resistance (cost 25 AP).]
[Poison overdrive: User will receive an explosive increase in strength, speed, sensory awareness, reflexes, resistance, blood circulation and so on (cost 30 AP.]
[Dagger rush: User's daggers look like a work of art and will be very difficult to counter against.]
[Additional rewards: Host has been given the poison amulet which increases all poison based damage by 25% and reduces Astral energy cost by 20%.]
[Additional rewards: Host has received advanced poison meditation technique which allows host to accumulate Astral energy at a very fast rate to make himself stronger.]
Seeing all these notifications, Gideon couldn't help but curse out loud.
"Holy sh*t! These are amazing." Gideon was filled with joy but this was short lived as a wave of pain and fatigue washed over him.
"Ugh!" Gideon's vision blurred as he found it difficult stay standing.
Unwilling, his body collapsed on the ground and his vision turned black.
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Dozens of men wearing what looked like high tech armour powered by Astral energy holding energy weapons gathered near a destroyed armoured train. This was the train that Gideon was in at the time.
"What did you guys find." A man who's armour looked more advanced than the others asked.
"We searched through the wreckage but no one seemed to have survived. Though, we did notice that the body one of the teenagers on the train wasn't there." One of the men answered.
"Hm? Who is it?" The leader asked.
"It's a boy named Gideon Kingston sir." The subordinate gave his reply.
The leader pondered for a little while but ultimately shook his head.
"If I'm not wrong, that boy has trash magic talent so we shouldn't waste resources on him, besides, there's no way he could've survived long with his capabilities, just count him as one of the casualties." Hearing this, the man nodded.
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"Gideon's eyes slowly opened as he stared up at the black ceiling of the dungeon room.
$Master are you okay?$ A voice said in his head as his mithril dagger hummed.
"I'm fine." Gideon replied as he stood up.
#Master you should rest, you must be very exhausted.# The voice from his bone dagger said worriedly.
"It's fine, I need to leave this place anyway." In truth, Gideon's body still hurt a lot but he decided to go anyway.
"System show me my stats." Gideon ordered.
[Name: Gideon Kingston]
[lvl 13 100/1300]
[Age: 16]
[Hp: 570/1050]
[Magical Affinity: Poison]
[Stats]
[Str: 22]
[Agi: 22]
[Dex: 22]
[End: 22]
[AP: 700]
[Attribute points: 6]
[Skills]
[Poison Manipulation lvl9, (cost 5 Ap)]
[Poison Immunity (passive)]
[Poison enhancement lvl17 (cost 10 Ap)]
[Poison barrage lvl1 (cost 35 AP)]
[Stealth lvl3]
[Critical Strike lvl3]
[Corrosive Poison lvl9 (cost 5 AP)]
[Poison Surge lvl1 (cost 70 AP)]
[Paralytic Poison lvl5 (cost 5 AP)]
[Neurotoxin lvl2 (cost 5 AP)]
[Poison Gas lvl5 (cost 10 AP)]
[Dagger Rush lvl1]
[Poison flames lvl7 (cost 15 AP)]
[Camouflaged poison lvl1 (cost 15 AP)]
[Title]
[Undead Slayer: All damage inflicted on undead type monsters will increase by 10% and all damage taken will be reduced by 15%]
[Accessories]
[Poison Amulet]
Seeing his stats, Gideon felt a bit surreal as just a little over a week ago, he could barely create a ball of poison without exhausting all his strength, yet here he was.
Gideon looked at the two daggers in his hands and smiled. He wasn't afraid as he naturally knew what cursed weapons were.
There are two ways cursed weapons are created. Either through endless amounts of bloodshed, or the user has such a close connection with them to the point where they develop a consciousness, Gideon was the latter.
"I think I should name you guys now." Hearing this, both of the daggers hummed in excitement.
He stared at the mithril dagger and thought for a moment before saying.
"You are energetic and cheerful so I will name you Fray." Gideon named the mithril dagger after the Norse god of vitality.
$YAY!$ Frey screamed happily as it repeated the name over and over again like a child.
Gideon shook his head before looking at his bone dagger.
"You are more reserved and dark so I will name you Hades." As Gideon said this, the bone dagger vibrated in excitement.
#Thank you master.# Hades thanked Gideon ecstatically.
Suddenly, two profound auras erupted from the two daggers as reddish green came from Frey and an eerie black from Hades.
[Ding, Host has named his cursed weapons and they will now be evolving.] As this notification rang out, Gideon felt his Astral energy being pulled into his weapons rapidly.
The auras from the two weapons rose higher and higher until the sound of chains breaking was heard.
A dense aura covered the two of them as a notification rang out.
[Ding, evolution complete.] Gideon looked at his two daggers and felt terrifying energy from them.
Frey was the same length but there was no longer a red crystal inside of it. Instead there were red and green lines running along it's edge that looked like veins as powerful energy ran through them.
Hades blade edge became an eerie black color with a small skull on it as black energy oozed from it.
$I feel amazing.$ Frey said sounding elated by his newfound strength.
#Its thanks to master# Hades complement Gideon.
"Well I'm glad you two are happy, so how about we get out of this dungeon?" Hearing this, his two daggers hummed in agreement.
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Gideon made his way out of the undead forest after killing a bunch of undeads that gathered around the dungeon entrance again and went back to his make shift base.
Keeping true to his all rounder build, Gideon once again allocated his stat points equally, but decided to put an extra point into dexterity.
[Name: Gideon Kingston]
[lvl13 450/1300]
[Age: 16]
[Hp: 610/1050]
[Magical Affinity: Poison]
[Stats]
[Str: 23]
[Agi: 23]
[Dex: 24]
[End: 22]
[AP: 750]
[Attribute points: 0]
[Skills]
[Poison Manipulation lvl9, (cost 5 Ap)]
[Poison Immunity (passive)]
[Poison enhancement lvl17 (cost 10 Ap)]
[Poison barrage lvl1 (cost 35 AP)]
[Stealth lvl3]
[Critical Strike lvl3]
[Corrosive Poison lvl9 (cost 5 AP)]
[Poison Surge lvl1 (cost 70 AP)]
[Paralytic Poison lvl5 (cost 5 AP)]
[Neurotoxin lvl2 (cost 5 AP)]
[Poison Gas lvl5 (cost 10 AP)]
[Dagger Rush lvl1]
[Poison flames lvl7 (cost 15 AP)]
[Camouflaged poison lvl1 (cost 15 AP)]
[Title]
[Undead Slayer: All damage inflicted on undead type monsters will increase by 10% and all damage taken will be reduced by 15%]
[Accessories]
[Poison Amulet]
Gideon looked at his stats and then said to himself.
"I'm lacking a defensive skill."