16 Spells

Grim had no time whatsoever to look at the notifications that had just been shown, whether they be the ones shown personally, or the ones shown globally.

Right now he was in a crisis and it would be nice if he solved that before doing anything else.

As if reading his thoughts, the panels became completely transparent.

Grim was shocked too after he threw something like a knife in the direction of the tree, a second after which he heard a grunt.

' It hit ?' He thought but he suddenly felt something, like a connection and he instinctively followed this connection and suddenly found himself viewing a new scenery.

There was a man in front of him, with a Mohawk on his head. This was certainly a haircut not everyone would have, mostly because it was out of fashion for a few decades. This man carried a sniper rifle which was longer than Grim's whole body and was facing his back to him.

Grim was surprised for a second by the feeling of something wet in his arms and he looked down to find that his arm was in the body of this man and the wet 'thing' he was holding was probably an organ.

' Not his heart, that's for sure. ' He thought as he squeezed the thing in his hand a few times. The man would've probably died if his heart was squeezed even once.

No. What he held was on the left of his chest, from Grim's perspective, on the right side on or perhaps in his back. There was blood flowing down from the wound grim had opened on his body, and this dark red blood seemed somewhat charred as it flowed down his arm and dropped on the branch of this tree drop by drop.

The man seemed to be shocked as well, as he hadn't reacted to anything after Grim, a 16 year old teenager suddenly appeared behind him and held a lung as if holding a squeeze toy.

He suddenly coughed and sneezed at the same time, and all that came out was blood.

Grim removed his hand from inside his body slowly and looked at his arm, before turning to the man to look at his situation, but Mohawk sniper(the only details grim could observe) was already dead, and falling off the branch they were standing on.

Grim suddenly fell on his hips on a branch that was clearly wide enough to fit another half of himself, sitting down, while still looking at his hand.

[ Hero#001 has killed Champion#H026!

Champion#H026 had 3 titles bestowed upon himself, namely - 'Sniper' , 'Shadow Ranger' and 'Courageous Warrior'!

Hero#001 may choose one of the three titles to have bestowed upon himself within the next one hundred seconds or he would be bestowed with a title randomly! ]

Grim looked at the corpse of the man below the tree and then looked at the light blue notification panels in front of himself only to find himself confused.

' Will I also be just like this when I die ?' he thought as he kept looking at the panel in front of himself. ' Show history.'

[ Champion#002 has ...

[ Champion#004 has ...

[ Champion#087 has ...

[ Hero#002 has ...

[ Hero#007 has ...

Ever since he last read the notifications, things had changed. Things had changed dramatically.

Ever since Champion#007 killed another champion and got conferred a title, everything has changed.

There was a long list of Champions being killed and a shorter but still significantly long list of Champions going up floors. Some of the biggest changes were the following :

Nearly 9000 champions have reached the 2nd floor. That in itself makes the number of champions killed equal to that number.

There are nearly 2000 champions on the third floor too, so that adds that number up to the casualty count.

There are also 19 heroes now.

007 is somehow still 007.

Grim smiled when he thought of this. He was somewhat interested in this man named 007 simply because of his number, and it seems he was also interested in keeping his number 007.

' It seems people feel no guilt over killing anybody else. ' He thought as he looked back down towards the corpse one final time. ' Then let's not feel any guilt either. '

He then shook his head and looked at his hand once more. " And I just took a bath as well. " He muttered and then carefully climbed down the tree.

He walked back to the river and directly dipped his whole arm in the river while thinking of how he threw that dagger just then.

' Just like in the novels.' He thought as he looked at his now soaked arm which slowly, but at a visible rate started heating up.

' Move your mana through your whole body.' He felt the familiar flow of mana throughout his body, even at his fingertips.

' And slowly fill your magic wand with the mana that has completed a cycle.' he felt the mana around his right arm leaving from the location of the tattoo and the familiar bracelet once more came out and started rotating around his arm, completely in defiance to laws of physics.

He felt the spells he could use slowly coming through the connection he created with that bracelet moving towards his mind. ' 1. 2. 3... A total of 6.' He thought as he gained knowledge of how to use these spells without the help of this bracelet.

Suddenly he stopped when the last spell was moved to his mind. ' More ?'

[ Title 'Shadow Ranger' was randomly bestowed upon Hero#001!

Hero#001's title 'Flame Reaper' has been improved to 'Burning Shadow' ! ]

' Very well, then. The more the merrier.' He thought as he learned how to use 3 more spells.