Chapter 14

I awoke with a start, glancing around to see what had woken me. I saw a pillar of flame shoot up to the sky in the distance.

I quickly threw off the blankets and stood up. Even thought the flame was a fair distance away I didn't want to take any chances.

I grabbed the dagger in one hand and the sword in the other ready for a fight. I kept watching the treeline waiting for someone or something to run out of it.

I was waiting tensely for a few minutes before I decided to explore the area where the flame came from.

I decided to jump down rather than waste time climbing when I could use that time to be getting free stats from whatever had caused the fire.

I started running to the place where I estimated the fire had come from. On the way, I saw many trees ripped from the ground or smashed to bits.

As I got closer I started seeing streaks of ash on the ground, probably from dead orcs burnt by the fire.

I shivered to look at a particularly big pile of ash. Before I was killed there was only one creature that could burn creatures to ashes and shoot flames as high as that into the sky.

If it was what I believed it was I was very unprepared and I would probably die. If I didn't die I would still sustain very heavy injuries.

Ultimately, I decided to try and kill the creature anyway. I thought that maybe this was why I was still in the tutorial. Maybe this was the actual boss.

As I got nearer I started hearing roars and screams. I upped my pace and soon arrived in a clearing.

I immediately stopped and got into a defensive stance, not that it was going to do against a fucking dragon.

He instantly smelled me and his head snapped to my position. I let out a sigh of relief. At least it was a child and not an adult.

Adult dragons had a cross in their eyes but children only had one line diagonally in their eyes. Even so, children dragons were renowned for fighting madly without reserve.

I slowly brought the dagger up in front of me and held the sword at my side ready for the dragon to charge. He leaned back and I tensed ready to jump the moment he jumped.

Instead of charging he opened his mouth and I dived to the side knowing what was coming. I blast of white-hot flame blew past me burning the grass and setting fire to the trees.

I rapidly got back on my feet ready for whatever attack he would throw at me. Instead of attacking the dragon looked at me curiously wondering why I haven't died yet.

I used that opportunity to run toward ready to stab the dagger into his eyes, a dragon's greatest weakness. Their eyes contained the power required to produce dragon breath and if I could stop him from doing that I would have an advantage.

The dragon jerked out of his surprise and moved his head to the side causing my dagger to scrape across his scales, sparks flying.

I swirly retreated, wary of the dragon whose scales didn't break even when I had a strength stat of 28 and a very sharp dagger.

He growled at me and lunged. My eyes widened surprised at the display of speed from such a massive creature.

I twisted to the side and his claw dug into my shoulder, flinging me backwards and into a tree. I dropped to the ground taking in shaky breaths.

I felt a tingle go down my back and I barely raised the dagger in time for it to block a claw swipe. Even though I blocked it I was still thrown through multiple trees by the sheer strength of the blow.

I groaned as I stood up, I needed to get out of here, and fast. I started to run away when I felt a blast of heat roll over my back.

I ducked a massive pillar of flame going above my head, so going a few hairs. It was at that moment that my scrambled mind remembered a crucial piece of information about child dragons.

Unlike adult dragons, child dragons had limited mana and had to replenish it after a certain time. After seeing the dragons eyes I estimated it would take about ten minutes for him to run out of mana and become weakened.

I decided to stay and dodge his fire blast until his mana ran out and I could attack him properly.

Ten minutes later I was beginning to get a bit worried. The dragon showed no sign of tiredness and his fire wasn't getting less hot.

I was contemplating running away coming back after I was stronger when I got back to my feet after dodging a fire blast expecting another one to come. It never came.

I looked over at the dragon and it was lying on the but forest floor panting. I wasted no time and immediately went over and stabbed it in the eye multiple times after.

"Bing"

"Well there is the notification I was waiting for," I said opening my status.

It didn't open. I tried again but it still didn't work.

"Congratulations to Jason the Unfaltering for killing the real boss of the extreme difficulty tutorial"

"Reward: +50 all stats, 5% increase to Inheritance purity"

"Because of increase to Inheritance purity the progress has been increased"

I stared at the screen in front of me, not believing my eyes. I tried to open my status again.

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Jason the Unfaltering

Level: 20

880/5700 XP

Strength: 83

Vitality: 79

Endurance: 82

Intelligence: 0

Allocatable stats: 0

Celestial Dragon Inheritance(80% purity)

Progress: 10%

Rewards: Celestial Dragons Claws(claimed)

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I looked at the screen in front of me and rubbed my eyes. I stared, shocked. I looked way then looked back not believing it was real.

Just as I was about to pinch myself to see if I was dreaming my body fell to the ground. I looked around frantically searching for the cause of what happened. All of a sudden there was a bright flash and my vision went dark.

I slowly woke up in a massive white hall with pillars that looked to be made of pure light holding up the ceiling.

I got to my feet and looked around. I saw a door at the other side of the hall and started walking towards it. As I was walking I noticed that there were statues along the walls.

I went over to take a closer look and noticed they were made from pure mana. My jaw dropped. Before I was killed only the very skilled mages could make objects from mana and even then they were the size of a dagger and only lasted for a minute.

Whoever created these statues must have had an insanely large mana pool and exceptional control to get this level of detail.

I returned to the middle of the hall and continued walking towards the door. As I was walking my body started to feel heavier and heavier.

At around the middle of the way to the door, it started to get uncomfortable. I kept walking then suddenly the pressure doubled and I had to stop for a second to get used to it.

I kept pushing on until I felt I could go no longer and sat down. Before I was killed I had mastered the art of meditation and I wanted to see if I could meditate here to relieve some of the pressure.

After what I guessed was a few hours later I felt I had acclimatised to pressure and continued to walk towards the door. I kept repeating this process until I was about twenty metres away from the door and I was required to meditate every step.

I could slowly feel myself getting stronger but this was affecting my body. Every step I took I could hear my bones creaking, my skin showed signs of beginning to tear.

I prepared to take another step when,

"Bing"