Immense Strength

The Void borne spirit was surprised and hurriedly rolled over to avoid her monstrous charge. Juliette did not think much about it, to her, the spirit was on its death row.

But the moment she paused to fix her posture, the Void borne spirit felt immense danger from her, thus it waved it's hand and sent out another invisible blade towards her.

'A fourth one?!' Juliette was surprised.

'A nigh-advanced Extra Ability?' And so was Damien. But their surprise, amounted to nothing.

For while surprised, Juliette also instinctively sent out the gathered Mana within her enclosed fist forward.

She threw it out, and it flashed like a blue bullet, clashing with the incoming invisible blade at lightning speed.

BOOOM!!!

And upon contact, the two supernatural level attacks exploded out into an explosion that sent both of them flying backwards.

Juliette suffered far less damage as she had magic defense value equivalent to her magic damage value. Hence the effects slightly canceled each other out.

Slightly.

Because the aftermath of the explosion was something far greater than what 0,6 points of magic damage could do.

It was comparable to 1 point of magic damage, which was the coverage of a hundred meter radius!!

"..."

"..."

Such was the terrifying force of the attack that Juliette just threw out. It was devastating. And it was purely Mana-enforced!!

Both figures stared in stupor as they watched the blue light covering a hundred meters diameter illuminate them and their soroundings.

And meanwhile,

[ TING!!! ]

[ You have killed the Lvl 3 Void borne Spirit, Oid. You have obtained 18,15 units of Life Essece ]

[ Bonus effect has been applied. You have individually obtained 36,3 (36) units of Life Essence. Your partner has obtained 44,53 (45) units of Life Essence ]

[ TING!!! ]

[ An achievement made!!! ]

[ You have automatically comprehended the rare Extra Ability, "Mana Control" ]

[ You have automatically comprehended the rare Extra Ability, "Mana Enhancement" ]

[ As the first to automatically comprehend Abilities, rare-rated ones, you have been rewarded with 200 units of Life Essence ]

[ You have obtained the exclusive reward of a 200% increase of Mana absorption for the next 24 hours ]

"..."

Juliette was surprised, but more than that, she was joyful. She finally got Abilities of her own!!

She could not wait to show off to Damien. Unfortunately, as she stood up, she suddenly fell down face flat and fainted.

Unfortunately once again, Damien was even more surprised by something else. Thus, he failed to realize the situation Juliette was in.

[ TING!!! ]

[ You have killed the Lvl 3 Void borne Spirit, Oid. You have obtained 18,15 units of Life Essece ]

[ Due to being two level lower, your Life Essence obtained has increased by 20% ]

[ Bonus effect has been applied. You have individually obtained 44,53 (45) units of Life Essence. Your partner has obtained 36,3 (36) units of Life Essence ]

[ Congratulations. You've obtained the following resources: Tier 1 Spirit Shard(Impure), Bracelet of Oid(Superior) ]

[ For defeating a trial opponent, you have obtained the following rewards: Extra Ability(×1), Tier 1 Random Treasure Chest(×1), Spirit Fragment(1/4) ]

"..."

Damien was surprised at the fact that this Void borne spirit... was actually his trial!!

It was unbelievable. But more than that, he was happy. He was so happy he wished to share the news with his now-favorite person.

Unfortunately, for the nth time,

...!!!

"Juliette!!" Damien finally realized the actions that Juliette had made, and it clicked to him that they were normally impossible for the current her.

He rushed towards her and checked her pulse, and luckily, everything was fine. Her heart rate was still beating normal. Her blood flow was also not chaotic.

As for internal damages, he would have to check later with her, once she woke up. Overall, she was 50% alright at the moment.

She should wake up in a few minutes.

Until then, he could just wait for her opponent. The next opponent was bound to be a spirit as well, since Juliette goes against spirit types.

It was as if she was favored by spirits, or were their nemesis. Either way, he was-–

Damien was about to prepare himself for the next battle to come, since his trial was long over. But just as he put Juliette down, something out of his imagination took place.

[ TING!!! ]

[ Your partner killed the Lvl 3 Earthborne Spirit, Barrd. You have obtained 18,15 units of Life Essece ]

[ Due to being two levels lower than the opponent, your Life Essence obtained has increased by 20% ]

[ Bonus effect has been applied. You have individually obtained 44,53 (45) units of Life Essence. Your partner has obtained 36,3 (36) units of Life Essence ]

"..."

Damien was now more than surprised. Due to believing that the Void borne spirit was the final trial, he did not focus on the time. Three minutes were long gone...

It was useless anyway. Who would have known that three minutes had long gone by, and the Earth borne spirit was sneaking towards Juliette?

Fortunately for them, it was swept under the explosion worth 1 point of magic damage value. And these opponents have yet to even gain this high leveled defenses.

Even for an Earth Spirit, at level 3, it did not have such defense values. After all, that was damage equivalent for some powerful Apprentice Mages and above.

How could newbies compare?

"Amazing. Really, you've impressed me more than enough in the last lifetime, who knew it would still be the same in this one too." Damien chuckled to himself, looking forward to this timeline's Sage of Beginnings.

~~~

Within David's Trial.

A giant of around 7 meters tall could be seen walking through the forest vigilantly. It held a giant stone hammer, seemingly made primitively.

It was a five meter long log, tied together with a powerful pure white stone, using strange tendon-like vines to connect the top part of the log, with the stone.

Overall, it was a descent hammer, with a descent damage dealing capacity. It's large size also made it more threatening.

The giant wore only a loincloth, and was mostly bare. It continued to vigilantly search for its prey, as it moved right besides a hill.

"..."

As it cluelessly moved past the hill, a black blur speedily rushed towards the giant, from the hill. The blur was quite fast, and easily jumped towards the giant, crossing tens of meters of distance.

The giant was still unaware of this, and was vigilantly minding its business. Until it felt something grab onto its head.

...!!!

It hurriedly tried to send its free hand to the back of its head to remove whatever nuisance was there, but was unfortunately too late.

The black blur that was moving too fast to be perceived, or rather, David, immediately punched out consecutively the moment he held onto the giant's hair.

As a second generational human, his damage value was high, then him having the genes of the Grays made him more monstrous, innately having ten tons worth of strength at base.

Then him killing the first opponent, a black bear, earned him more stats. He had a 30% multiplier to his stats with every level, unlike Damien and Juliette.

And he leveled up twice.

So each fist, was now like a hammer weighing almost twenty tons striking the head of the giant... consecutively at that.

"RaaaaAAA!!!"

The giant roared out in anger, and could not help but fall over, face flat. It was not dead, yet the pain it felt on it's head was too intense.

But David did not pause with his actions, as instead, with his eyes flashing a gray light, and his hair wild and messy, he continued to punch out with all of his might.

The sadistic smile of pure joy and ecstacy on his face made him resemble a fiend. And that was what he truly looked like at this moment.

In no time at all, before the giant could do anything, nor stand back up, David had punched its head to nothingness.

He smashed and bashed, until blood sprayed everywhere. Upon his face, upon his clothes, or all over the ground.

"Hahaha!!!"

And all he did was punch, for even then, he still punched out until what flew out was not only blood, but flesh as well.

"Hahaha, hahaha!!!"

And either than the splashing sound of fist digging deeper into a puddle of flesh and blood, dreary laughter left the mouth of the man who... who resembled a beast, more than a man.

~~~

It took quite a while for David to dig quite the large hole over the giant's head, which also signified the end of madness parade.

He paused his actions, his body cloaked completely in blood, and stood up. He moved towards the hammer, and took hold of it.

At this moment, notifications rang out within his head, which once again caught his attention.

[ Congratulations on killing the lvl 2 stone giant, Gig. You have obtained 33 units of Life Essence ]

[ Bonus effects have been applied, you have obtained 57,75 (58) Life Essence ]

[ Congratulations. You've obtained the following resources: Tier 1 Giant's Bone Marrow(Impure), Gig's Hammer(Superior) ]

[ For defeating a trial opponent, you have obtained the following rewards: Extra Ability(×1), Tier 1 Random Treasure Chest(×1), Giant's Blood Droplet(1/4) ]

"..."