CHAPTER 7: Training With Ryuu And Time Skip

The first thing Aiden did in the morning was to change his clothes and go to the hostess of fertility. 

When Mia saw Aiden, she took him to the empty place in the back where Ryuu was training.

"Good morning Ryuu-san." Aiden said as he saw Ryuu.

"Hm? Oh morning Kurogane-san. What are you doing here?" Ryuu asked.

"Mia-san told me you train here in the mornings and asked if I wanted to join, so I came. I'd like you to teach me, if you don't mind." Aiden asked.

"It's fine by me."

"Nooo Kurogane Nya~ Don't!" Suddenly Chloe came.

"Um Chloe-san what is happening?" Aiden asked.

"Don't train with Ryuu."

"Eh? Why is that?"

"There is no restraint in this elf, she always goes too far. I think you can do it with me or Lunoire or even Anya the airhead, but if you train with Ryuu, you won't make it to the dungeon today."

*Stab

*Stab

*Stab

Chloe's every word had stabbed Ryuu like an arrow, and now Ryuu's mood was really low.

"I don't think it will be that much. By the way, I would like to train with you, but I want to train with Ryuu-san too, so don't worry, I'll be fine."

"Well I tried."

Soon Aiden realized why Chloe was trying to stop him. The place where they trained was a kind of inner garden, the empty land between the Hostess of Fertility and two other unused buildings.

"Syr! Ryuu sent Kurogane-san flying again." Anya said. 

In his first attack, Aiden had entered the second floor of one of the unused buildings through a window in one blow by Ryuu before he even had a chance to touch her.

'Yep she is not hold back at all.' Aiden thought.

Seeing that some of his HP was gone, Aiden immediately bought an F rank health potion from the market and drank it, then returned again without wasting time. But the result didn't change. Ryuu was blocking Aiden's every attack and knocking Aiden down. Whenever Aiden had time or Ryuu threw him into one of the buildings, he would secretly drink the health potion and come back.

This cycle continued for several hours. They would also take a short break whenever Aiden's fatigue reached 90. Thanks to this, Aiden's Tenacity skill increased by 1 level.

Aiden looked at the Tenacity skill.

[Skill: Tenacity Lv. 3]

[Passive skill.]

[Mana required to activate: None.]

[Effect: You possess untiring tenacity. When your Fatigue drops below 50%, this skill will automatically activate and reduce all damage received by 80%.]

'When I got the skill for the first time, it reduced damage by 50% when my Fatigue was below 30%, but now it's level 3 and the ratio is 80 damage reduction for 50 fatigue, if I can get a few more levels then maybe I can get a constant damage reduction.' Aiden thought as he looked at the skill.

When it was time for Ryuu to go back to work, Aiden went to the dungeon. In the dungeon, Aiden did another title quest and this time he hunted 1110 kobolds.

The rewards were exactly the same as in the Goblin mission and the last reward was [Kobold Slayer]. But suddenly a linked quest appeared.

[Quest: Nightmare Of Dungeon] (1)

(Description: Your first step to become the nightmare of the dungeon begins.)

[Quest: Kill 4000 goblins and 4000 kobolds between floors 1 and 4 of the dungeon.]

[Time Limit: 1 week]

[Progress:

(0/4000) Goblin

(0/4000) Kobolds]

[Reward: Special Title, 10.000 Gold, Stat points based on your performance.]

[Penalty: The linked quest disappears and you can no longer continue.]

"Well, it's quite troubling. 1110 goblins or kobolds in one day is no problem, now I have to kill a total of 8000 kobolds and goblins in 1 week without increasing my stats too much. Challenge accepted!" 

The fact that it was a challenging task fired Aiden up and also the gold reward was really good. Because as Aiden wandered around the system store, he noticed that there were not only original products but also items based on anime, manga, manhwa, manhua and novels, and it occurred to him that he should make something that would benefit him from a novel he had already read, and he needed gold for that.

(1 week later!)

Aiden has hunted goblins and kobolds for 1 week and now there is 1 hour left in the mission and he has 10 goblins and 5 kobolds left to hunt.

Hunting the 15 monsters was getting harder and harder because now the Goblins and Kobolds were instinctively running away from Aiden, but Aiden wasn't going to give up, so he quickly went up to the first floor and after 15 minutes he started moving at full speed all the way to the fourth floor until he finally killed 10 goblins and 5 kobolds and the system message appeared.

[Quest: Nightmare Of Dungeon] (1) (Completed!)

[Progress:

(4000/4000) Goblin

(4000/4000) Kobolds]

[Rewards:

[Nightmare Of Upper Floors: This title increases all your stats by 50% and reduces damage taken by 70% when between 1-4 floors.]

[You've received 10.000 gold.]

[You've received 50 stat points.]

"Only 50 stat points! I killed 4000 goblins and 4000 Kobolds, what's 50?! Sigh... Anyway, at least I got enough gold to buy the things I wanted."

So Aiden opened the system store an bought.

[Dongbangsak's Damaged Brush]

[Rank: A]

(Description: A brush that's too damaged to use.)

[Price: 3.500 Gold]

And

[Emergency Restoration]

[Rank: S]

(Description: Repairs incomplete items to their pristine state.)

[Price: 5000 Gold]

"I hope it's works or else it will be a total waste of gold."

[Thank you for your purchase!]

"First, use [Emergency Restoration] on [Dongbangsak's Damaged Brush]."

[Dongbangsak's Damaged Brush is being restored…]

["Dongbangsak's Damaged Brush" has been restored and transformed into "Dongbangsak's Brush."]

[Name: Dongbangsak's Brush]

[Rank: SS]

(Description: Dongbangsak's brush, which survived through countless battles. It connects you to the Unrivaled Martial Saint.)

"Yes! Status."

[Name: Aiden Kurogane]

[Race: Human]

[Age: 16]

[Class: None] [Title: Nothing Left Alive!] (+1)

[Level: 37]

[Hp: 560] [Mp: 530] [SMp:530] [Fatigue: 00]

[STR: 66]

[VIT: 63]

[AGI: 69 =(64+%5)] (+%5)

[INT: 61]

[Sense: 57]

(Unused Stat Points: 139)

[Physical Damage Reduction: %25]

"After 1 week of training with Ryuu, I gained a large amount of stat points with body cleansing, and I have 139 points in reserve. Now I need to make STR, AGI and VIT the same stat."

Aiden took of the armor and invested points in his stats and balanced STR, AGI and VIT at 70.

[STR: 70]

[AGI: 70]

[VIT: 70]

Then Aiden took out the brush and started editing, starting with STR. His goal was to merge the 3 stats into one. As soon as the brush touched the system menu, sparks and flames started to appear. Aiden's fingers were burning and tingling from the sparks, but he still had to continue.

[You've made an incredible achievement!]

[Unique Stat: [Power] has been created!]

When Aiden finished writing, the system window closed and the brush in his hand broke and disappeared.

Aiden opened his status again and saw it.

[Name: Aiden Kurogane]

[Race: Human]

[Age: 16]

[Class: None] [Title: Nothing Left Alive!] (+1)

[Level: 37]

[Hp: 730] [Mp: 610] [SMp: 610] [Fatigue: 00]

[Power: 73 (70+5%)] (5%)

[INT: 61]

[Sense: 57]

(Unused Stat Points: 122)

[Physical Damage Reduction: %25]

"It's bad that I couldn't level up at all because of goblins and kobolds, but this is great! Now even just the daily quest will give you a stat boost equal to leveling up. Thanks to this unique stat, assigning just 1 stat point will increase my agility, strength and health! As if that wasn't enough, any equipment that grants STR, AGI or VIT also affects this, so while my armor normally only grants +5% speed, it now grants +5% to my Power stat, so VIT and STR gain the same effect! This is awesome!"

Afterwards, Aiden went to the Guild with his pouch full of magic stones and swapped them with Valis. Also, today was a special day, Loki familia was coming and they were going to test Aiden.

Also, since last week Bell has been coming to the adventurers' guild to get lessons from Eina, and it seems that Bell joined Hestia familia in his first week.

Since then, Bell has been going to the dungeon but coming back empty-handed, because his stats were very low and he had no training.

Shortly afterwards, Loki, the goddess of Loki Familia, and co-captain Riveria entered. Loki was a flat-chested woman with light red hair and red eyes, while Riveria was a really beautiful elf.

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