15 15. Trivial Reward

Jin's training went on for 2 weeks and 3 days. His time limit inside the dungeon was only 4 weeks so he still had a week and 4 days inside the dungeon, and in that time, he must complete the dungeon's mission: to kill the dungeon boss and find the chest key.

Now he had doubts if he had to actually kill Scar. Scar had already done many things for Jin that he was very grateful for and he would feel disgusted by himself if he was to betray his benefactor that he had already taken advantage of by acting as his long lost brother.

Due to the training using the practice sword, Jin has accumulated about 48 status points: 13 in STR, 12 in AGI, 12 in INT, and 11 in VIT which was equal to raising almost 8 levels in all.

The practice sword had been given as a gift for Jin after defeating Scar and they would continue to train every day for 5 hours.

Not only Scar gave him a reward, but the system was also grateful enough to see his efforts and gave him a certain gift.

"Scar."

"What is it?"

"The system just gave me a gift for mastering Gred's Swordsmanship."

"Good for you! And what is the gift?"

"It said to pick between two things; Muramasa an A-rank weapon or The way of a sword, a Special Feat which is the first time I had heard of."

After Scar heard the gift, he knew something about the two things the system gave as a reward.

"I know about those 2 rewards."

"You do?"

"Muramasa is also similar to Dainsleif. Though it's not one of the 8 swords, the similarity of both is that a soul is also trapped inside Muramasa. Not just any soul, it's a soul of a legendary Samurai who was a former user of the katana. The katana has been bathing on a million bloods of soldiers he had killed in countless wars. Every soldier's soul has been entrapped in the blades of the katana and to this reason, he had been hearing screams and despair of the soldiers giving him nightmares every time he sleep, eventually he committed suicide using his katana. Ever since that moment, no one could wield the katana as they were corrupted by the evil spirits inside the blade and those who force themselves to use the sword is given godly powers. After a long run, the wielder would mysteriously commit suicide and rumors has it that Muramasa himself was the reason by their deaths."

"So it's like a double edge sword?"

"Correct and The Way of the Sword, on the other hand, is not just any type of skill. Special Feats are like branches of traits combined together to make a new one. A person can only receive one. Just like mine, my Special Feat is called Beast that makes me turn into any type of beast-monster as I wish and get the traits of a beast and I can also manipulate other beasts like monsters either I could shapeshift them to turn into beastman or turn into another monster. This special feat was already inborn to me so I cannot accumulate any other special feat. But yours, it's a bit odd how the system could give such a gift to you when you only started practicing a few weeks ago. Not just that, how could the system say that you already master swordsmanship in only 2 weeks while I had mastered it for 5 years in the teachings of master Gred."

Scar was pretty jealous of Jin's extreme growth rate. He didn't know how he does it and it might be due to that he doesn't feel any pain but that doesn't connect to becoming an expert in a couple of days.

'It must have been due to my harsh training but master Gred's training is far more worst than mine.'

Scar said to himself wondering if it might have been Jin's natural talent to learn at a fast pace.

"So does that mean, the 5 of your companions are actual lions that you had just turned into beastmen?"

"Yep. But let's not talk about that now, we should focus on what gift you should choose."

The reason why Jin did this in the first place was to become the strongest. If he wanted to become strong, he needed powerful weapons to achieve that. Knowing that Muramasa would give godly powers to its wielder was an eye-candy for Jin he would've prolly choose that without hesitation even if it means dealing with the backlash. But seeing that he would receive a special feat, it would rapidly help him in growing further.

'I already have Dainsleif, why do I have to hurry myself on becoming stronger when time is by my side. Muramasa does sound pretty cool but seeing that I have to kill all of the monsters, there should be a high probability that I might loot a weapon in the level of Muramasa or even better!'

"Okay then! I have made up my mind! I choose The way of the sword!"

Ting!

You have received the special feat: The Way of The Sword!

Ting!

The Way of The Sword (Special Feat)

The user is now able to use any type of bladed weapons and every weapon wielded by the user will activate its hidden function.

New status attribute:

Swordsmanship: An attribute that will increase the mastery for any bladed weapon. Status points cannot be placed in this attribute. The attribute point will increase by 1 if the user is able to open a hidden function of a weapon or the type of weapon is unique.

Swordsmanship: 10

Swordsman Skills:

Sword Dance (Trigger):

The user must first perform a certain dance steps to activate the sword skills.

Please memorize these steps (OPEN)

Sword Wave (AOE): Level 20

A giant wave will move in a straight line dealing 900 (+50% STR) physical damage.

Mana Cost: 30

Cooldown: 10 secs

Sword Dash (Blink): Level 30

The user will dash by a few meters in a straight line dealing with 5% of the target's health as true damage and the skill will instantly refresh its cooldown.

The target that is hit by the dash will leave a Dash mark for 4 seconds. If the user uses Sword Dash to the marked target, the cooldown will not refresh.

Mana Cost: 10

Cooldown: 7 secs

<<locked>>

"..!"

"Wise Choice."

Scar smirked at Jin as he was proud of his decision. On the other hand, Jin was awestruck by the description of the special feat. He had worries that since he had chosen assassin class, the weapons he could equip was limited. The only weapons he could use were daggers, short swords and one-handed swords, other than that, he couldn't use any other weapon. But now, due to the special effect of his feat, he could freely use any bladed weapon as he wish whether it was a long sword, an ax, a spear, and maybe he could even use shields and bows as long as it is bladed. Not just that, he can open a hidden function on a weapon as long as it had one. But one thing was bothering him.

"I have been given some skills but I can only activate it by doing some type of dance."

"Oh? And then?"

"I don't know how to dance."

"That's your problem kid, not mine."

Jin pressed the open button on the window panel and he could see a 3d animated avatar doing a short dance step.

From looking at the dance, it seems quite simple as the only thing he needed to move was waving his sword in a certain manner while doing simple footsteps at the same time but to Jin, it looked impossible.

"How the hell can I do that?"

As he was grumbling at the moment, Pete could be seen running towards the two of them with a worried face.

"Boss! Your brother has extracted 80% of the Thorne's power! We must now make a move!"

"Fucking piece of shit! Call everybody else! The time has come for us to kill that treacherous bastard!"

"You have a brother?"

"Yes, he is Mufasa."

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