Power Shot

Before he got the "Way of the Grim Reaper" skill, he could barely lift his hand or walk two meters without starting to pant. Those problems had disappeared now, wielding death energy through his body had given him strength and stamina. As he still had his human side, he could not fully embrace it but in return, he could cast it black magic. However, he had yet to learn a spell, so on the training grounds, he could keep practising without rest for long periods of times because unlike the humans he was being fueled by the death energy. It was similar to the relation vampires have with blood, they would not have to eat instead drink blood to gain energy. When they moved it consumed the blood in them, but because the movement was such a simple task, it would barely consume blood. He was in the same boat, as before the end of yesterday he never had a skill and practising aiming or fighting did not use a lot of the energy which kept him running.

Now, however it had changed, with his new skill "Demon form" he would consume black magic and after a short while of using it, he would go oom. He would also feel quite tired after even though black magic and death energy were different entities. He theorised that they must have some sort of connection.

Today was the last day of training. Jake had gone from completely inept to slightly less inept. However, compared to other prisoners, he felt like he was still on step one. The rogues were at superhuman speed, the mages could cast spells bigger then jake, the tanks were just walking "tanks". Everyone around him felt completely OP compared to him, 'the game was not lying when it said that choosing black would severely weaken him' he thought. If he wanted to win the duel, he would need to be a cheeser (author's note: A cheese in a game, is when you do something highly uncommon to surprise the enemy).

He looked at his skill tree, he saw two skills that could work.

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Continuation to "Demon form"

Active skill: Energized kick ~ Focusing black magic on legs

Side effect: Legs harden

Side effect: Legs become complete black

Side effect: Legs gain a lot of strength and speed

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Active skill: Powershot ~ Imbue your next shot with black magic and make it more powerful, current shot makes it 1.2x more powerful.

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The choice was between a strong shot or a strong kick. Jake thought about it for a while, with a strong shot he could end it before it started, although the kick would surely surprise people, he doubted it would be enough to finish the battle. He decided that he would learn "Powershot".

He walked back to the shooting grounds with his iron bow, strangely enough, the mage was not anywhere to be seen. He decided to focus on his skill. He had to make black magic go out of his body and into the arrow. He closed his eyes and started focusing on the arrow in his hand, he tried to recreate the same feeling you have with your limbs. Jake tried to incorporate the arrow into his being. He clenched the arrow tightly when he would lose focus, and it started feeling natural. Then he tried to locate the black magic inside him, it was usually found in his stomach. Jake had a much easier time finding it now than before because of his practice yesterday. The magic still felt repulsive and repugnant when he tried to control it. He dragged the black magic to his chest, then he moved all of it towards his right shoulder. He then made it go down through his arm and finally exit his fingers into the arrow. He felt as if he put his fingers in the fire, however, he persisted and stared at the arrow. Then suddenly, half the arrow got covered in a black gue before it broke. Jake frowned at his failure and kept on trying.

He put the arrow on the bow and kept on trying, after 6 hours of broken arrows he finally sent black magic into an arrow without it getting broken. It felt like warm sand leaving his hand and going through the arrow with a small amount staying in. He kept filling it until it started vibrating. Then he let go and the arrow was in the shooting board without him seeing travel. All he could see was a black line where the trajectory of the arrow was. The arrow was deep in the shooting board As of now, he could only shoot three of those until he had to refill his black magic reserve.

Then he wanted to see how long he could stay in demon form. He sat down and refilled his black magic then he entered demon form, this time he had a clearer sense of the magic circulating his body, he could see that a lot of it would leave his body, it was simply his inefficiency in controlling it, therefore a lot of it would be wasted. As of now, he could hold his demon form for 30 seconds max.

He finished that day with practice at the shooting ground, tomorrow he would fight and he had a lot of adrenalin pumping in the form of anxiety. Eventually, the familiar man would come and lead them back into their cages. It took Jake sometime before he fell asleep.