Reaching Level 10

*PANT*

*PANT*

Behind a tree, Leon pants from tiredness.

'Hell! How could an archer be this powerful? I can't even get close to her,' Leon thought while hiding behind a tree. He was in a trial and his opponent was an elven archer. And a really strong one. Because of her superior sense, Leon can neither hide properly from her nor approach her silently. But the real problem is her powerful attacks. Even when Leon hides behind something, her arrow can pierce through. Plus, the elven archer has the high ground. Clearly, Leon was at a disadvantage.

"If you are man enough, come down he-" cutting his sentence, a whistle sound came.

As soon as Leon heard it, he jumped to the side to avoid getting hit. After Leon's jump, an arrow pierced through the tree which Leon was hiding behind.

Quickly finding another tree to hide behind, 'I've got to find a way or I'll be riddled with holes' Leon tried to think of something to get out of this loop. He has been doing this thing for over 30 minutes and he got sick of doing it again and again.

"Think, Leon think, there has to be a way. No trial given by the system is impossible, just you have to find the solution."

Not giving Leon time, another arrow pierced through the poor tree. This is the 50th tree Leon hid behind. If this continues, there will be no tree without a hole in this forest.

Jumping behind another tree, "Tsk, I hate archers!" Leon hissed.

"Just only if there were a way to trick her…" sighed.

"Wait tricking her?!" Leon smiled when he had an idea.

"Let's try," Leon said while unequipping his helmet. Holding his helmet in his left hand, he held the spear in his right hand that he took from the arena when he fought with that man.

Taking a deep breath, Leon threw the helmet into the air. Before the helmet touched to the ground, an arrow crushed it in the air. Seeing this, Leon gets out from behind the tree, directing all of his strength to his right arm. Leon throws it to the elven archer. Piercing the air at a high speed, it takes the spear only one second to meet with the archer.

Having not enough time to dodge it, the elven archer falls on back. Breaking some branches of the tree.

Leaving a little dust cloud, she finds herself on the ground. After coming back to herself. Tries to get up when Leon steps on her hand. Pointing her throat with his sword, looks at elven beauty.

"Well, well, well. Look, what do we have here?" Leon smirked. "You know, if you were on earth, you would definitely be a famous model," Leon said while playing with her hair with his sword.

Getting her bow from ground, "Yet… I have to kill you," Leon said when he cut her throat swiftly.

"Nothing personal," Leon says directly, looking into her eyes while blood gashes out from the elven. Leon was already used to taking lives. After all, this is a kill or die world.

This was the 24th trial Leon completed. It has been a month since Leon fought in that arena. Of course it's hard to know, but Leon guessed that much time has passed. After that fight, Leon has faced many more. Soldiers, fighters, monsters such as orcs and undead, and now with an elven. Among them the hardest one were the orcs, with their strength and battle instinct. But after some deaths, Leon got used to fighting them too.

[TRIAL 24 HAS BEEN COMPLETED]

[YOU'VE GAINED 1200 EXP] [LEVEL 9 (6920>8120/8000)]

[YOU'VE LEVELED UP!] [LEVEL 9>10 (120/10000)]

[CONGRATULATIONS ON REACHING LEVEL 10!]

['ANALYZE' HAS BEEN PERMANENTLY ACTIVATED]

[NEW SKILLS HAS BEEN ADDED TO SYSTEM STORE]

[NEW CHANGES: FROM NOW ON, SKILLS, GOLD AND ITEMS WILL DROP FROM THE ENEMIES PLAYER KILLED. ALSO SKILLS WILL BE BOUGHT BY GOLD INSTEAD OF SKILL POINTS]

Seeing an unusual extra panel, "New changes?" Leon asks while starting reading it.

"This is great! Now I don't have to wait 5 levels to buy a skill." Leon grinned. Buying skills with gold means Leon will less struggle to get them. So he is happy about the new changes. Plus, with the new change, he can obtain new items too. After all, he has been using damaged and rusted weapons until now.

"Now let's look at these new skills. Open system store!" Leon commanded.

[SYSTEM STORE] [CURRENT GOLD: 0]

(LEVEL 1 AND BETWEEN 20 SKILLS ARE SHOWING)

[FASTER REFLEXES- 100 GOLD: Increases your reflex speed for a certain period.]

[BASIC COMBAT MOVES (PASSIVE)- 100 GOLD: Player learns about basic combat moves and also gives extra buff in close combat.]

[BASIC MANA CONTROL (PASSIVE)- 100 GOLD: Buffs all magic skills damage.]

[SPRINT- 500 GOLD: Increases movement speed by 50% for a certain period of time. Uses 50 MP and stays active for 2 minutes.]

[RAGE- 600 GOLD: Gives player +5 strength and +2 agility for a certain period of time. Can be used when player's HP is below 50. Warning! While skill is active, player will feel less pain and will change the player's behavior. Uses 60 MP and stays active for 1 minute.]

[BRUTAL BLADE- 1000 GOLD: After activating the next attack the player does, will be 200% strengthened. Uses 100 MP.]

[LOWER MANA ARMOR- 600 GOLD: Player will get surrounded by invisible armor made of mana. The armor will receive damage instead of the player. Uses 150 MP and stays until it breaks or the player closes it.]

"Hmm, the new ones are good. Especially [BRUTAL BLADE] and [LOWER MANA ARMOR]. But the only problem is I am broke." Leon said while looking at his gold amount.

"Whatever, I will eventually have enough to buy them. Now let's use these points. Open status screen!" Leon commanded.

[LEVEL: 10 (120/10000)]

[HP: 210/210]

[MP: 170/170]

[STRENGTH: 50]

[AGILITY: 46]

[VITALITY: 21>23] [HP: 230/230]

[INTELLIGENCE: 17>20] [MP: 200/200]

[ATTRIBUTE POINTS: 5>0]

[SKILL POINTS: 5]

[CURRENT TRIAL-25]

"Ah, this is the best feeling!" Leon chuckled while feeling the warmness.

He gained a total 15 attribute points since level 7. And he put them all into the intelligence and vitality stats. So why is his strength and agility stats so high? Of course, because of training. He hasn't even put any points on strength and agility since he found that training gives him stats. He just only increased them by doing training. Whenever he has free time, he spends it by doing training until he sleeps. Normally someone who is on the same level as Leon would have less strength and agility. But Leon is an exceptional monster who is in another league. So it is normal that he has this much. But Leon didn't know any of this...

"Now it is turn to use these skill points," Leon said while opening the skill section. He has been using his skill points since level 5. And now he doesn't have to buy skills with skill points, so he will put them in use.

[SKILL POINTS: 5]

[SKILLS: (PARALYZING STRIKES-Level: 2/5), (BASIC WEAPON TECHNIQUE (PASSIVE), (SWORDSMANSHIP (PASSIVE) (1/50), (SHIELD MASTERY (1/5)]

"Hmm, I should max (PARALYZING STRIKES). After all, it is the skill I use most." Leon said while putting 3 points into (PARALYZING STRIKES).

[SKILL POINTS: 5>2]

(PARALYZING STRIKES-Level: 2>5/5)

!!![(PARALYZING STRIKES) is now level 5. It has reached the maximum level.]!!!

[SKILL (PARALYZING STRIKES) HAS EVOLVED TO (VENOMOUS STRIKES)]

[VENOMOUS STRIKES: Every attack the player makes carries poison. Poisoned enemies will get slower, their combat power will decrease, and they may even die from it if they have not got enough HP. Uses 70 MP and the poison's effect continues for 2 minutes and deals 150 health damage. The strength of the effect depends on the vitality of the enemy or the disabling abilities the enemy may have.]

"Good, it will be of great use to me in battle. Now, what should I do with the rest?"

"Put one for (SHIELD MASTERY) and put one for (SWORDSMANSHIP)," Leon commanded after thinking for a few seconds.

[CONFIRMED]

[SKILL POINTS: 2>0]

(SHIELD MASTERY (1>2/5)

(SWORDSMANSHIP (PASSIVE) (1>2/50)

!!![(SHIELD MASTERY is now level 2. When the player activates it while shield in use, the player will receive 15% less damage.!!!

!!![(SWORDSMANSHIP) is now level 2. Every attack dealt by sword will be 8% strengthened]

"*YAWN* Good... It was a tiring day. I better head to bed," Leon said while looking for his bed.

"Right, I don't have a bed," Leon complained before lying on the floor to sleep.

-CHAPTER 11 END-