Chapter 6 - Class Quest

Jaune was frozen in shock at all the options, but none more so than what set he went with for his current credit allowance. He saw the set White Knights Gear Set Rank B: Cost 19,800 credits.

He bought it immediately and equipped it. But that was not where the news ended he looked at his stats and new gear set at once. With shock of his sword finally upgrading once again as well!

Level 54

Exp: 27%

HP: 26,300/26,300

AP: 13,500/13,500

Fatigue: 0/100%

Class: none

Stats:

STR: 88 (+27)

AGI: 83 (+3)

VIT:83 (+15)

INT: 83

SENSE: 83 (+5)

Points available: 0

Physical dmg reduction: +25%

Skills:

-???- : ?????

Inheritor: Access to system, over level 20 access to shop

Arc Bloodline: +150 to AP

Advanced sword arts lvl 9: 7.7 times dmg with swords

Unarmed Combat advanced lvl 9: times 7.7 dmg with unarmed blows

Warriors Aura lvl 5: +30 to Str, Agi, and Vit for however long this aura is active, cost: 300 for activation, additional 30 per minute used.

Warriors Healing lvl 5: Recover 300 HP per 180 Aura used.

Rallying call lvl 4: +8 to all stats of every person you recognize as an ally within 50ft of user. Costs 160 AP, lasts 5 minutes.

Warriors Battle cry lvl 2: Lower the physical abilities of foes within a 50ft radius of user by 10 points. Costs 300 AP, lasts 5 minutes.

New armor equipped!

B rank White Knight set!

White Knight Body Armor:

+10 str

+10 vit

+7% physical dmg reduction

White Knight Gauntlets:

+5 str

+5% physical dmg reduction

White Knight Sabatons:

+5 vit

+5% physical dmg reduction

White Knight Basic Helm:

+5 sense

+3 agi

Next seal unlocked for weapon Crocea Mors!

Weapon equipped! Rank B Crocea Mors (Seal level 6)

Bonuses: +80 to dmg

+12 str when equipped

+8% reduction to physical dmg when equipped

Jaune couldn't believe his eyes as he looked at his stats and the bonuses he gained from his new equipment. And this was Rank B! How much would he gain once he reached A or maybe rank S if this system allows it!

Jaune nods to himself as he looks at his gear as it is now on his body, A nice simple helmet covering his head and going down to cover his ears and guarding his head completely with little fins on the side o it making it seem like dragon ears. His armor follows a similar design and now looks similar to something like a dragon scale armor but with key points being paldrons, a breastplate with layered segments, gauntlets that are similar to dragon scales and boots with scale designs as well, he also seems to have a battle skirt of some sort to help defend his legs and protect his hips. It even has some metal plate segments covering his legs on top of the battle skirt to help protect his legs further, and his knee caps are covered by knee pads that attach to the sabatons he wears while remaining flexible using leather.

Over all Jaune has to admit he looks amazing like this.

(For reference look up Fire Emblem Radiant Dawn Halberdier armor, it looks like that just with a white armor with gold edges design and dragon scale looks to it. And with Crocea mors as the sword and shield instead of the lance and round buckler.)

After Jaune finishes admiring himself he looks up to his last task fro the day.

~Gain a Class! Endure this class quest and unlock your full potential for growth by completing this quest!

Time left to accept, 6 Days, 3 hours, 57 minutes, and 19 seconds~

Jaune breathed in and out and then decides to make sure his friends are doing well with a video call. But right after he removed his helmet to avoid them wondering where the new armor and gear came from without a proper explanation ready for them.

He pressed call Pyrrha and waited to see what would come up. He figured he could call them one by one and see what everyone was doing today while he was away.

The call rang all 5 times through the tone until he was put to voicemail. He raises an eyebrow at this but then tries again. With a second voicemail result he shrugs and goes to call Yang next. Two voicemail attempts later he begins to worry. The same result happens with Velvet, Weiss, Ruby, Ren, and even Nora.

He is getting scared for his friends now and is worried that something happened until he called Blake and after only 2 rings he sees her confused face appear on the scroll asking him, "Jaune? Is everything okay? I wasn't expecting a call from you while you were with family. You alright?"

Jaune sighs in relief as he shakes his head at seeing her lack of panic or worry, now knowing that everything was alright, "I'm okay I was just checking on you guys, but I was getting scared that something happened since no one was picking up. I wanted to call to check how everyone was doing since I was about to go for some activities with my sister and uncle and wouldn't be able to call until after dinner. So can I ask you… Where is everybody? I tried almost all our friends but no one answered the call even after I went to voicemail twice for all of them."

Blake widens her eyes before shaking her head with a slight smile getting ready to explain what is happening. Right as she begins to explain she whips her head to the side to look at something off to the side after a huge explosion and maniacal laughter are heard, with the laugh sounding like Nora. She turns to a very worried Jaune who is afraid someone gave Nora coffee again before Jaune glanced back at a nonplussed Blake wondering what is going on. With a roll of her eyes and a sigh of resignation Blake explains, "Well everyone decided to see if they couldn't push themselves harder like you have recently. You lit a fire in everyone. Pyrrha has been sparring with every second year student and higher who would give her the time of day, even fighting professor Port of all people to push her self further. Yang is doing similar things to find her limits and break them fighting entire teams in our year and even seasoned second and third year students. And even Weiss and Velvet are looking at new strategies and combat styles while even going to the librarian for books to look and videos and online lessons from the archives to learn more from. For myself I was training against bots that are good with stealth and camouflage techniques, to better my own abilities against other tricky opponents. And Nora and Ren are training against Ms. Goodwitch to see how good their combination will be against someone who can nullify Noras strength and Rens close range combinations. Ruby is using her time to train her mind and her skills against bots using her body with modified versions of her scythe to make sure she can stand on her own if she loses her weapon and if she gets separated from us."

Jaune widens his eyes as he asks, "I motivated all of our friends and even you to become stronger than before?"

Blake nods before becoming thoughtful, "Yeah and at times we seem to get this surge of strength once in a while that makes us faster, stronger, or more durable and we have to train and workout to work through the excess once the main effect dissipates. Its strange but we figure it might have something to do with your strengthening abilities and how it has helped you grow so fast already. What do you think?"

Jaune gulps a bit too loudly while his eyes dart away while thinking of the times he accidentally used his ability rallying cry in moments of extreme stress but he wasn't aware he was affecting his friends. Especially given the distance limit he has from them given how he is across the city from them and the skill clearly says within a certain radius. So that news was unexpected, and that surprise allowed Blake to see his honest reaction to it.

Blake notices he look away and his nervousness and narrows her eyes in suspicion. And as she goes to address it Jaune notices her eyes and look and remembers how she can get information from anyone, so he cops out. "Oh Blake here is my sister! I need to get going! Say hi to everyone! I'll see you guys tonight! BYE!"

Blake goes to try and stop him, "Wait Jaune you-!"

CLICK

Jaune sighs in relief but also in stress, "I am so going to get grilled for that retreat later aren't I?"

~Knowing your friends and Blakes need for information… Yes. Yes you are my friend… You want me to give you a mute function?~

Jaune looks at the system with a, "Really?" look.

~Eh worth a shot. Good luck with the inquisition later.~

Jaune shakes his head as he brings up the quest menu again, "Yeah you're a real pal, thanks for literally 0 help buddy. Lets just get this quest over with so I can focus on what is needed for me to improve and stand a chance against that Darkness we saw in the Dungeon. Cause I have no doubt that at my current abilities I would barely last a minute before being crushed against them."

The system in its ever growing wisdom replies honestly.

~Eh… more like 30 seconds~

Jaune looks at it with a look of "Really?" again and says, "Thanks for summing that up. Ugh lets get this quest done so I can get back to my friends and help them get stronger too. After all they are all doing their best to grow stronger without a system. So I need to show them that I can keep pace with them and grow stronger with them!"

The system seems to nod with him at his determination as the accept quest button is pressed.

A huge amount of lights are shown around Jaune and he gasps as he is suddenly teleported to a castle entrance. The place is enormous enough to likely house a standing army of at least 1,000 soldiers. It has at least 4 spires on the corners, and high walls, with a main inner keep, it looks ready for battle. But also too old for battle, the walls are cracked and crumbling, the siege weapons are rotten or rusted from age, and the gate doors which look like they should be ready for any attack seem to be broken and cracked as if a battering ram already came through and bowled them right over. With a look around Jaune readies his weapons and heads through the torn apart gate doors.

Looking through with a quick walk around the courtyard Jaune sees no one out here and nothing on the walls except the siege weapons and forgotten weapons, all rusted beyond repair. Walking along one of the walls he sighs and looks out from the castle, seeing nothing but a desert wasteland going on for miles. Thinking to himself he turns to the main keep and asks, "What the heck happened here? It looks like a forward base… or a final stand keep. Either one is not very comforting for how things are looking for our fight against the Darkness."

As he looks around more Jaune suddenly thinks, "Wait System… Is this place tied to the previous user of this ability you plan to tell me about once I complete this class quest?"

~Yes this is a location the previous user kept safe with his semblance before he perished. I will give you the full details eventually but first you must survive this test of your abilities. Understood?~

Jaune looks to the main keep and sees a tattered banner with his families Symbol matching his shields symbol with twin arcs of gold on it. With a resolved nod he begins to walk back to the courtyard while keeping a wary eye out. As he passes by a rusted cannon his hand brushes past it and an alert comes up shocking Jaune with its contents.

~You have found a: Rusted Siege Cannon, Type: Junk: Sell cost 120 Credits.

Would you like to sell? YES or NO?~

Jaunes wide eyes trail away from the notification and look all around himself at all the forgotten and rusted equipment. Before a grin of glee covers his face as he uses his speed to run and touch all the items he can.

As soon as he touches one of these items he hits yes with as much or even greater sped than when he touched it to sell it. Soon he has sold all weapons, armor pieces, and siege gear he could find on the walls and courtyard. The system seems to sweat drop at his actions before simply shrugging to itself at how these items wouldn't see use anyway given how rusted and unusable they were in their conditions.

Jaune grins as he looks at his current credit score for the shop and whoops with glee at the new number: 53,781 credits.

All of that gear plus his 20,000 credits from surviving the last dungeon really helped him out. He might be able to access the A rank gear! But right as Jaune is about to go and look at the A ranked gear his finger stops on the shop tab.

If I go and use these points immediately… Then how will I know if I purchased a good item? It took me a lucky break and a brutal quest to earn this many. So I better slow my roll and wait for the need or situation that requires such high ranked equipment.

With a nod of determination he closes the shop tab and heads to the keep itself. Only to see the official quest notification hit him once he puts his hand on the doors leading to the keeps interior.

~Quest Alert! Succession of the Warrior! Clear the keep and Defeat the boss to earn your new class and the title of a true warrior for the light!

Rewards: Class earned, Shop credits 100,000, Next rank of sword unlocked, New class specific skill, all skills leveled up, +10 stat points.

Good luck player Jaune I as your system am rooting for you! Now make your ancestors proud! You got this!~

Jaune smiles at that and looks back to the hallway tat has opened before him. Jaune enters with his sword and shield ready for the fight ahead. As he steps into the hallway torches suddenly spring to life with a mixed pattern of an orange fire torch then a blue fire torch in a repeating pattern all the way down the hall before they split much further in. But the odd part is that Jaune can only see up to about 60ft ahead of him even though the passage is now lit and he can even see the glowing outlines of the further torches ahead of him. Shrugging and chalking it up to the magic of the dungeon he heads deeper while keeping his eyes and ears open to any changes in the keep.

He sees no notification on the number of enemies he has to fight so time for the Yang approach, Heh, when in doubt punch your way out. Or if that fails beat everyone who is trying to get you until you are the last one standing… Now I have to wonder how Ruby turned out to be such a sweet sister when her older sister is so punch happy? Man but I still love Yang for who she is… I mean LIKE her for who she is! Man I need to focus on the mission at hand.

As Jaune refocuses he hears something clanking down the hall from himself. Looking deeper he sees a silhouette of a large knight in armor approaching him. It looks to be about 9ft tall and has a large claymore sword for his weapon. Jaune readies his stance as it gets closer and then he gulps as he notices exactly what he is fighitng. It is a young Arma Gigas, the Knight Grimm that Weiss said she fought for her fathers test to prove her worth of going to Beacon. He remembers how she said it was strong, full of battle strategy, and tough. As he prepare sot fight it seems to notice him and begins to charge forward while raising its sword into a raised stance of combat.

It raises its sword higher as it gets closer to him and prepares to cleave him from head to toe. Jaune does the smart thing from his lessons of fighting yang and Nora. With a large and strong opponent… Get the HECK out of the way! With a quick dodge roll Jaune manages to avoid the blade as it crashes down to where he was standing.

Jaune quickly turns around and then gasps in surprise at how the tough looking rock of the keeps floor was shattered into pebbles after the sword came down. Jaune looks up to the Arma Gigas and gulps as he activates his aura ability to boost himself and launches himself at the knight Grimm. With a clang he slides to a stop on the other side of the creature and looks up to see his slash made a good sized cut across its chest plate, but only the tiniest wisps of Grimm essence were escaping the cut. Meaning that while he did damage it is similar to getting a bad paper cut to the Grimm as it barely pauses to assess the cut then look back to Jaune before readying its blade once again.

Jaune dodges and lands another cut this time on the leg of it, but once again it is barely enough to see any lasting damage. Jaune begins to think as he begins this dance of dodge and counter, Come on think! Weiss said she beat one, and that was before she began her training at Beacon, meaning either this one is stronger despite being smaller… Or I am not hitting it the correct way! Weiss uses a piercing weapon so she can get the gaps of its armor more easily… That's it! The gaps! I need to literally cut this thing into pieces if I want to defeat it more easily!

With that thought in mind Jaune leaps up and over the head of the Knight who tries to track him as it sails over its head. And once Jaune lands behind it stabs his sword into a gap in the knee joint of the armor, sinking deep into it, then wrenches his blade right out with a sickening groan of metal. The knights knee gives out and everything from the top of his shin down collapses away from its body. Making it kneel in a sense of pain. With only its right leg left it tries to rise once more.

Jaune now takes this chance and leaps up towards its head and with his unarmed combat skill charged into his left arm, brings his shield down in a be-headers cleave using his newer larger shields shape and size to stab right into the head of his foe. The helmet tries to hold against Jaunes attack but a creak and crack are heard back to back and soon the Arma Gigas has a split helm. The shadows making up the majority of its inner body flood out as Jaune actually splits its helmet completely and goes halfway down into its chest plate and destroys most of the knights torso.

The Arma Gigas slowly crumbles and fades away. And Jaune clenches his fist in victory only for his sense stat to blare a warning at him as he raises his shield quickly to block a trio of daggers that had been flung right at him. With a swift sound of three clanks Jaune readies his sword and looks over the shield to where he sees an assassin type Arma Gigas waiting as another knight type is coming down the hall at him.

With a steeled will and a firm grip on his weapons Jaune charges with a shield bash ready towards the knight type as it too readies a charge. He seems to hyper focus and calculate every move he will need to win this fight and how to out maneuver the opponents and use their weaknesses to the maximum proficiency.

The assassin readies more daggers and flings them at him in succession as another trio of blades come hurtling at Jaune from his unprotected right side, only for him to suddenly turn to the daggers and deflect them off the shield and fling them at the knight who stops and swipes the daggers aside quickly. As it finishes the side swipe Jaune is suddenly in its face with his blade coated in aura and slashes down deeply into it and nearly cleaves its chest plate into two pieces. Leaving his sword lodged in its remaining chest area Jaune leaps off of the knight, knocking it down from the force of his leap and launching right towards the assassin type.

Seeing this the assassin tries to leap away only to have one of its legs get cleaved off by a sharp shield edge. Looking back its right leg was chopped off by the shield pointed bottom as Jaune had thrown it with such force and accuracy that it barely stood a chance of dodging the throw. Now with its mobility weakened it turns to Jaune while drawing another pair of combat daggers ready to fight hand to hand. Only for Jaune to pull a Yang and rear his fist back and crash right into the main body of the lightly armored assassin and tear its body into two pieces with only his fist. It fades away as he pulls his fist out of the wall he section he crushed from the force of his punch and turns back to the knight that has finally pulled his sword out of its torso and has locked onto him.

The knight readies its blade and charges ready to cut Jaune in half only to meet his foot crushing its helmet in thanks to his new sabatons. As lands on the other side of the now beheaded knight while practically skating on the ground using the now flattened helmet piece he kicked off his now fading foe.

Jaune goes and recovers his shield and sword and as soon as he sheathes his blade he seems to snap back out of the hyper focus he was in.

Holding his head as a light feeling of vertigo hits him he shakes his head while wondering, What the hell was that!? Did I literally analyze and clock every movement of myself and of my targets with computer like ability? That was crazy! Is this what happens with the rising Int stat I have? Man I need to keep on growing it so I can surprise everyone next time I have to try and beat CRDL! I could wreck them while also out maneuvering them at the same time like Pyrrha does! That would be awesome!

As he thinks this the system lets him know something, as Jaune perks up from a ding in front of him.

~Yes player you entered a mental mode called Warriors focus. It is not an official skill just a mode that shuts off the majority of your emotions so you can focus on the necessary moves, actions, and attacks needed to shut down your opponents and target their weaknesses at the same time. It is quite the efficient mode. At least for solo fighting. But if you are in a group with your friends you may need to be careful. As with your emotions muted you focus on the fight and no longer worry for them or for the strategies needed to help everyone fight more efficiently. So it is a double edged sword when fighting with allies.~

Jaune nods as he contemplates this info. "So I will be a better fighter thanks to this mode, but I will also have fewer emotions, like a proper efficient fighter who has blocked out all white noise from their life… I honestly may use this mode only on 1v1 fights or when I am in the dungeon, after all that may by the most efficient method for gathering items, credits, and exp from the Grimm gates. And this way my friends won't think anything strange is going on."

Looking up to the system again he nods to it, "Thanks for th tips on this mental state, I'll make sure to use it when needed."

~You are welcome my Player. Now good luck with the rest of your dungeon dive. And also be warned that th elonger you stay in that mode th emore the backlask of a migraine will hit you after wards as all bottled up emotions during th emode will flood back once they are allowed to return.~

Jaune nods and thinks, That explains the vertigo I was so overwhelmed with my need to cheer, relish, be happy in survival, shocked in combat skills, and so many other emotions that it felt like I just stepped off a roller coaster. Talk about a literal roller coaster of emotions. Uh huh I'll make a mental note of that.

Jaune nods to himself with that final thought and returns the systems well wishing messages, "Thanks buddy. I'll keep that in mind and work on only using it when needed. Now lets get back to the quest at hand."

With a resolute aura Jaune marches down the path and heads to the right turn to work his way through the keep as he spots three more knight types ahead. With a yell he charges them and his aura flares as he boosts himself further.

The system looks on in pride as he begins to fight with a small mixture of hyper focus mode and with his own power without the mode being relied on too much

~You don't know it Jaune but you are already doing better than my previous user. He relied on this mode too often and fell victim to using it as his main fighting style. You are already mixing and seeing what the limits are for using it as a brief help or tip for the middle of a harsh combat. Train well and grow to be the best inheritor yet my player!~

– 2 hours later –

Jaune was panting while sweat dipped down his face and body as he looked around, the last 2 hours were filled with nonstop combat from assassin, knight, and even some archer types. With a large exhale Jaune looked at his stats and was wondering something.

Level 54

Exp: 27%

HP: 26,300/26,300

AP: 13,500/13,500

Fatigue: 62/100%

Class: none

Stats:

STR: 88 (+27)

AGI: 83 (+3)

VIT:83 (+15)

INT: 83

SENSE: 83 (+5)

Points available: 0

Physical dmg reduction: +25%

Skills:

-???- : ?????

Inheritor: Access to system, over level 20 access to shop

Arc Bloodline: +150 to AP

Advanced sword arts lvl 10: 8 times dmg with swords

Unarmed Combat advanced lvl 10: times 8 dmg with unarmed blows

Warriors Aura lvl 7: +40 to Str, Agi, and Vit for however long this aura is active, cost: 400 for activation, additional 40 per minute used.

Warriors Healing lvl 7: Recover 400 HP per 240 Aura used.

Rallying call lvl 6: +12 to all stats of every person you recognize as an ally within 100ft of user. Costs 200 AP, lasts 7 minutes.

Warriors Battle cry lvl 4: Lower the physical abilities of foes within a 100ft radius of user by 20 points. Costs 500 AP, lasts 6 minutes.

New armor equipped!

B rank White Knight set!

White Knight Body Armor:

+10 str

+10 vit

+7% physical dmg reduction

White Knight Gauntlets:

+5 str

+5% physical dmg reduction

White Knight Sabatons:

+5 vit

+5% physical dmg reduction

White Knight Basic Helm:

+5 sense

+3 agi

Rank B Crocea Mors (Seal level 6)

Bonuses: +80 to dmg

+12 str when equipped

+8% reduction to physical dmg when equipped

Jaunes stats hadn't changed since he came into the keep and started to gain fatigue. No levels, no exp increase, nothing. It was like something was keeping all the exp from him some how. Jaune thought deeper on it, Is it possible the boss has some sort of seal on the keep to where I won't gain any exp or levels until I actually defeat it and break the seal? If that is the case then this got even tougher. Hmm… I'll need to be careful and use the fatigue potions carefully once I get to the boss room. And that way I can also keep my credits fresh. At least they are increasing still for hunting these Grimm. But I wasn't expecting them to each be worth around 200 points… How Dangerous are these guys to other less trained people?!

And it was true Jaune had defeated close to 80 of these Grimm opponents making his current credit score in the shop reach up to, 69,381 credits.

With a quiet whistle to himself at his credits and his new and improved skills he looked around himself, within the 2 hours of hunting he had been hunting down every room and side hall of this castle keep to make sure he wouldn't be ambushed by anything as he explored and tried to find the boss room.

Looking around and finding an untouched hallway that was lacking any battle marks from combat he began to walk down it and see where it went. As he followed it he began to ask the system, "So system, this keep, was it involved in some great war and the Grimm won and took over it? Or am I missing the mark here? Cause I doubt the Grimm enemies here have any reason to make a fort for themselves."

The system take a bit to think before answering, ~You are right Player Jaune this fort was lost in a great war against the Darkness. So the Darkness decided to make this a breeding ground for their knight Grimm, the Arma Gigas troops, with all the equipment left over and the left over negative feelings of loss and regret the troops grew quickly. So the fort was lost and the Grimm took over. Now it is all up to you to take this place back. And this is actually a place that I am being suppressed inside of. Your skills are growing but the exp is stopped by someone else who has a powerful influence on the system. I can protect you from most of it but the exp is gathering, just waiting until you defeat them until it can pour in and help make you become even stronger. Good luck I feel like I should know this boss, but I can't remember them for the non existent life of me.~

Jaune nods as he reaches the end of the hall and comes to a great atrium room with a large domed ceiling and a huge amount of tunnels that Jaune hasn't seen yet, looking around in confusion Jaune voices his concerns, "Well a large room with no visible enemies, and lots of off shoot tunnels, this bodes well for my upcoming physical health."

He readies his sword and shield as he hears clanking coming from the tunnels. And lots of clanking at that. He prepares himself with a potion he buys from the shop that decreases his fatigue from 62 to 22 with a B rank fatigue potion.

Tossing it to the side he quickly finishes swallowing the liquid in his mouth and looks to the sides as from all 8 tunnels comes 4 Knights, 2 assassins, and 2 archers. Making a fully prepped combat formation group. Jaune looks around them all carefully and prepares his first move when he is shocked to hear another wave of clanking coming from the tunnels.

As he keeps his guard up he looks and waits for a minute as the enemies keep coming and soon they triple to create a platoon of knights that number, 12 knights, 6 assassins, and 6 archers.

Looking around Jaune has a flashback to the temple room where he tried to hold off a whole battalion of similar make in that area. Only these guys are not made of complete metal and they are weaker than the robot like knights of the temple. But they won't be easy given how they have had time to prepare themselves and gather their numbers. But thankfully Jaune knows how to best defeat them.

As the Knights in front begin to march toward him with their swords ready he waits for them until they are right in front of him and then he throws his shield up and over them. The archers and assassins all launch projectiles at it. Not realizing its just his shield with no body behind it. Knocking it back as Jaune sprints himself around the far side of the knight line and gets behind them. Jaune quickly comes at the first assassin who is rearming himself after throwing his daggers at his shield earlier. The target notices him too late and its head is severed from its body in one fell swoop while Jaune is still boosted by his aura skill.

He comes around to the next one who tries to put up a twin dagger block against his heavier blade. But instead of stopping him Jaune clanks off the block and uses the recoil to pivot and leap right through another assassin units head with a powerful thrust as if he was a recently launched ballistic missile. The assassin tries to catch up to him as he launches himself through the hole in the assassin line he made as he approaches the archers. The archers panic and hastily release their ill prepared arrows without proper aim helping them and Jaune is able to charge right through the attempt.

With a grin Jaune double grips his sword and cleaves right through the waistline of two side by side archers cleaving them in two. His speed makes him slide to the other side of the unit who are turning to attack him. But his slide takes him to the wall behind them and he readies one more two handed cleave as he pushes off the wall hard enough to crack it and leave a small crater in its face. Leaping forward and also cleaving through these two archers he flies toward.

With only two archers left Jaune throws his sword as he is midair at one stabbing it through its head as he hand stand leaps back onto his feet and leaps once more off the ground. The assassins are finally almost on him again as he comes in and lays a flurry of at least 30 punches and kicks in a nonstop combo on the poor unfortunate remaining archer who couldn't take it and dies next.

Jaune catches his sword from the falling archer who had his blade stabbed through his head and turns to the assassins who finally caught up to him. All of them shaking as they feel just how dangerous Jaune has become from fighting them so many times in the hall and thus he knows how to beat them. Jaune grins at them once again with a glint of a hunter in his eyes as he comes at them while releasing the Warriors Battle Cry skill. This succeeds and makes them all slower as he comes in and practically blenders them all with his suddenly superior speed and reaction abilities.

As he finishes on the other side of them they all fall to at least 7 pieces. The knight line finally catches up to him and surround him hoping to box him in between them all with their bulks and armors. Jaune looks around and simply smiles calmly at them and then roars out as he leaps off of each one using a kick on their chest plate and leaps to the next one across from him. Sounding almost like a large version of pinball as his leaping nonstop is crushing the chest areas of each knight weakening them with each cratering kick off of their bodies he performs.

Once he has leaped off of each knight at least 4 times he charges up aura into his upgraded blade and launches it out in a large arc of energy to behead all of them at once as he pivots in midair and completes a full midair circle.

With the last of the Grimm dissipating he breathes out as he looks around him. Fighting off another larger wave of vertigo from using his hyper focus mode throughout the final part of that fight against the knight types Jaune nods to himself in satisfaction as he groans in exhaustion from his nonstop fighting for the better part of 3 hours now.

Looking around the room as he recovers his shield Jaune thinks about where could the boss room be as he suddenly hears more clanking coming up the stairs.

He looks behind him at the tunnels and soon the room is filled with numerous Arma Gigas Grimm. They number close to 100 at this point as they come in nonstop streams. Jaune readies himself and downs another fatigue potion to prepare himself for the up coming marathon of fighting he is about to endure, with a final thought going through his head before buckling down into hyper focus mode, I'm pretty sure if I don't survive this Yang, Pyrrha, Velvet, and Weiss will kill me for not taking them out on a second date. Heh, talk about motivation to survive this.

Releasing his battle cry skill and activating his aura skill in tandem once again he charges the enemy line ready to fight and survive this dungeon.

– 10 minutes later –

Jaune was covered in cuts and bruises as he was cutting through another waist of a knight type as he pivots quickly to deflect another blade from the daggers being thrown at him as he turns to the other side to block a blade with his sword and kicks away three arrows form mid flight at him. He goes to turn and gets the breath stolen from him as he is punched from the back by a knight type.

He lands and does another aura sword slash in a large flying wave around him. Buying himself some time and distance together. As he uses his aura healing and a potion of fatigue and aura from his shop menu to drink them down right away with his space he made.

After downing them he charges once more into the fray.

– 30 minutes later –

Jaune was panting so roughly one might think he was a small wind tunnel as he looks around himself in awe at his abilities. All of the knights, assassins, and archers that were in the room are now piles of dismantled armor and weapons. He looks at his fatigue gauge and sees, 99/100 fatigue.

He buys two A rank potions for fatigue, along with rank A potions for HP and AP to recover. As he sits down and drinks all the potions.

Looking at the center of the room he sees that the center area is now a pedestal that can raise up. He looks to see above and spots a new opening that wasn't there the first time he entered the room thinking, Well looks like I now have a boss room to tackle soon. Ugh I need to be fully ready. If I don't level up at least 20 times from all of this I will need to file an official complaint to the system.

He gets to his now shaking knees as he looks around to make sure no remaining enemies are hiding as he steps onto the platform and begins to raise up into the boss room. With a sigh of determination he readies his blade, shield, and armor after making sure his HP, AP and fatigue are fully recovered. He raises to the top after going up slowly on the platform for the better part of 5 minutes slowly taking care of his shaking in anticipation for what kind of boss he should be expecting.

He raises up and he sees another domed area but this one has a painting of the entire map of remnant glowing with some sort of energy across the lines and filled in areas of the map. Across from him is a throne where the commander of the keep should sit and behind it he senses a presence waiting for him.

He draws his shield and sword and readies it by pointing the blade towards the throne and yells out, "I am Jaune Arc! Of the Arc family! Here to take this keep back from the creatures who don't deserve it! Come and face my blade to see who is the true inheritor of this place and who should truly defend this symbol of honor and justice!"

In response the presence erupts with killing intent and steps out from behind the throne. Jaune gasps as he sees the figure step out clad in armor and with a large weapon ready eyes glowing with energy. One thing is said in an ethereal voice, "Then come challenger."