Chapter 6

Grid after finally arriving at the hunting ground stretched his body for 2 minutes after he was done stretching, he proceeded to take out his two swords, the first one was the Deluxe Sword on his left arm, and the new additional he had was the Prodigy Sword in his right arm.

[Prodigy Sword]

[Rating: Unique

Durability: 700/700.

Attack Power: 530 ~ 810.

*5% bonus wind attribute damage.

*There will be additional physical damage when 3 combos succeed.

*There will be additional physical and wind damage when 7 combos succeed.

*'Storm Blade' will activate when 10 combos succeed.

*Attack speed is increased by 5%

*Hit rate increased by 10%

*Sword Mastery +4

*The passive skill 'Aura Blade' is generated.

A Sword that's given to enlightened beings who have proven themselves to have what it takes to surpass his/her limit.

Conditions of Use: Grid, Swordsman, or Warrior with Intermediate Sword Mastery.

Weight: 80]

[Dual Wielding Style]

*Penalty has been activated. Only 50% of the attack power of [Deluxe Sword] will be applied.

Grid seeing the system message, he made a mental note to get the dual-wielding mastery later on and thought to himself.

'Getting the passive skill [Dual Wielding Mastery] is a must since it's different from [Mountain Appearance and Flowing Streams] lastly, I need to get the other skills that would help me in the future like the passive skill [Blade Dancer], and [War Dance] since this will greatly boost the performance of [Pagma Sword Dance].'

After he finished thinking, he looked around the 'Decaying Forest' where level 50+ undead spawned, he then started moving to the deeper part of the forest knowing that a hidden event would appear since no other players had entered here.

Because the minimum requirements for hunting here would be a 5-player party that's composed of level 30+, but with Grid's stats alone that rival a level 100 Knight, he alone can hunt here with no problem and there's also the fact that the higher the level his enemies has the bigger experience he gets for both him and his passive skills.

As he walks deeper Grid hears a bunch of movement heading towards him, Grid already knows what's coming and instantly takes a posture of crossing his two swords in an X shape, as he waits suddenly a skeleton spear appears and thrusts its spear aiming at Grid's chest, Grid already foresaw this instantly caught the spear using his two sword like a scissor and snapping the spear in half.

He followed it by cutting the two arms of the skeleton spearman, and he stepped back knowing the arrow was flying towards his head, the arrow that was supposed to hit him missed and immediately he decapitated the head of the skeleton spearman instantly killing it.

[Critical Hit!]

[Critical Hit!]

[Critical Hit!]

[Due to the level gap being over 41 the damage you dealt is decreased by 23%]

[You have dealt 1,211 damage.]

[You have dealt 1,421 damage.]

[The 3rd combo has been achieved!]

[You have dealt 4,151 damage.]

[You have defeated a skeleton spearman.]

[You have acquired 10 gold coins.]

[2,000 experience has been acquired.]

As a system message popped up Grid just ignored this and instantly swung his sword, blocking two skeleton swordsmen from hitting him, as he was about to counter-attack his sense warned an attack aiming for his left shoulder, he immediately tilted his body to the side dodging the arrow, but due to this his body was pushed back by the two skeletons forcing him to take a step back.

As he did another arrow flew towards him but this time aiming for his right leg, Grid using his incredible insight just cut the arrow mid-air in two and followed it up by rushing at the two skeletons, seeing this the skeletons did the same and turned the fight into close range melee, though that was a mistake for their part.

Grid taking advantage of the close-quarter combat immediately uses the Prodigy Sword to cut both the arms of the skeletons and as that happened, the skeleton archer tried to hit Grid in his blindspot, but Grid had another plan he swung the Deluxe Sword cut one of the legs of the skeleton soldier, making it fall to the side at the same time getting hit by the arrow that was flying towards Grid's chest killing it instantly.

[Critical Hit!]

[Critical Hit!]

[Critical Hit!]

[Due to the level gap being over 41 the damage you dealt is decreased by 23%]

[You have dealt 1,113 damage.]

[You have dealt 1,211 damage.]

[The 7thcombo has been achieved!]

[The effect of the 'Prodigy Sword' has been activated, causing additional physical and wind damage to the target.]

[Skeleton Swordsman has suffered 6,831 damage.]

[You have defeated a skeleton swordsman.]

[You have acquired 10 gold coins.]

[2,000 experience has been acquired.]

[You have leveled up!]

With two enemies remaining he instantly hit the skeleton swordsman three more times activating 'Storm Blade'.

[You have dealt 872 damage.]

[You have dealt 711 damage.]

[You have dealt 684 damage.]

[Due to the level gap being over 40 the damage you dealt is decreased by 22%]

[The effect of the 'Prodigy Sword' has been activated, causing 'Storm Blade' to be triggered.]

In just 0.1 seconds Grid slashes in the direction of the skeleton archer instantly killing it.

[Critical Hit!]

[Due to the level gap being over 41 the damage you dealt is decreased by 23%]

[You have dealt 23,176 damage.]

[You have defeated a skeleton archer.]

[You have acquired 10 gold coins.]

[2,000 experience has been acquired.]

Seeing this the skeleton swordsman instantly took that chance and tried to cut Grid, but in just a second it was blocked by his other sword, and using the force of the blow he spun his body like a propeller and cut the skeleton swordsman diagonally in half.

[Critical Hit!]

[Due to the level gap being over 41 the damage you dealt is decreased by 23%]

[You have dealt 11,137 damage.]

[You have defeated a skeleton swordsman.]

[You have acquired 10 gold coins.]

[2,000 experience has been acquired.]

[Beginner Sword Master has increased by 2 levels.]

Grid let out and sigh, he didn't expect that the mobs here would have proper coordination, and as he sat down on the ground he began meditating and thought to himself.

[Entering a meditative state.]

[Increases health and mana regeneration rate by 50%, and stamina regeneration by 30%.]

[Skill cooldown time will be reduced by 10%.]

'The mobs here are much more coordinated, and it seems that these skeletons are not your average undead... Maybe there's a hidden boss here?'

After he was done pondering he opened his eyes and started walking again, intending to find out the reason why the monster had better cooperation and skills, suddenly Grid crouched down behind a tree after hearing multiple footsteps and saw 20 skeletons patrolling around the perimeter of the forest, with a follower of Yatan.

'So the reason why they have better skills and greater stats is because they're being empowered by the Yatan church? But why? This doesn't make any sense since there's nothing to gain here... Unless there's a named undead here.'

After pondering Grid immediately swaps his two swords with his Prodigy Bow and aims at the head of the Yatan follower, he takes a deep breathe. 'Huff...' and exhales. 'Sigh...' Then he let go of the bowstring while using the skill 'Heavy Shot', the Yatan believer leading the 20 skeletons didn't notice an arrow flying towards his head, the arrow containing Grid's attack power blew up his head instantly killing the believer.

[Critical Hit!]

[Due to the level gap being over 141 the damage you dealt is decreased by 76%]

[Elite Black Magician has instantly died due to his head being destroyed.]

[You have defeated an Elite Black Magician.]

[You have acquired 1,000 gold coins.]

[342,700 experience has been acquired.]

[Beginner Bow Mastery has increased by 4 levels.]

[!!!]

[Beginner Bow Mastery has upgraded to Intermediate Bow Mastery.]

[You have leveled up 31 times.]

Seeing this Grid instantly used 330 stat points and split it between Stamina and Agility and took out his two swords, the 20 skeletons instantly charged at Grid intending to kill him but with his Agility being 475 points the skeletons were not able to defend themselves as Grid did the same instantly and charged at them killing 3 skeletons using his two swords.

[Critical Hit!]

[Critical Hit!]

[Critical Hit!]

[Due to the level gap being over 10 the damage you dealt is decreased by 4%]

[You have defeated a skeleton warrior.]

[You have defeated a skeleton warrior.]

[You have defeated a skeleton warrior.]

[You have acquired 30 gold coins.]

[6,000 experience has been acquired.]

Grid didn't stop there as he instantly followed it up with multiple attacks aiming for the neck, pelvis, or shoulder from different angles, Grid already killing 7 more skeletons dodged an attack coming from behind by tilting his head to the side, at the same time slashing the head of the skeleton killing it.

[Due to the level gap being over 10 the damage you dealt is decreased by 4%]

[You have defeated a skeleton warrior 8x.]

[You have acquired 80 gold coins.]

[16,000 experience has been acquired.]

[Beginner Sword Mastery has increased by 2 levels.]

[!!!]

[Beginner Sword Mastery has upgraded to Intermediate Sword Mastery.]

[!!!]

[You have cleared the hidden achievement of raising sword mastery to intermediate level without using mana.]

[You can change to the growth type rare class, 'Aura Master'.]

[Would you like to change your class to Aura Master?]

[Yes/No.]

Grid who is still dealing with the last 10 remaining skeletons yelled "No...!" as he continuously swung his sword to either block spears or swords coming his way.

[You have denied becoming the Aura Master.]

[!!!]

[The system has given you the title 'Aura Warrior']

[Aura Warrior]

*The special resources Aura has been unlocked.

*The aura you can use is only normal rank, it can grow into a legendary rank when a certain condition is met.

*Your aura can only be used for fortification due to being a normal rank.

Grid finally achieving his purpose, is now able to use his sword skills without much problem, the first skill he uses is 'Continuous Stab' which instantly kills 5 skeletons in 2 seconds.

[Critical Hit!]

[Due to the level gap being over 10 the damage you dealt is decreased by 4%]

[You have defeated a skeleton warrior 5x.]

[You have acquired 50 gold coins.]

[10,000 experience has been acquired.]

[You have leveled up.]

With only 5 remaining skeletons on the battlefield, Grid wasted no time and jumped straight toward the 5 archers and used 'Heavy Strike' instantly pulverizing the 5 skeletons.

[Due to the level gap being over 9 the damage you dealt is decreased by 4%]

[You have defeated a skeleton warrior 5x.]

[You have acquired 50 gold coins.]

[10,000 experience has been acquired.]

'*Sigh... Finally done getting rid of them, surprisingly Yatan church is being active near Patrian... Maybe they want to plant a plague or launch an attack on Patrian?'

With Grid trying to make sense of what the Yatan church was doing near Patrian, he decided to forget about it for now and headed deeper into the forest, since the Yatan church and the undead boss were probably there.

-30 minutes of chibi Grid just slaughtering all the enemies he can find in the forest-

[You have entered the 'Forest of Abyss']

Grid arrived at the deepest area of the Decaying Forest and didn't expect there to be another hunting ground especially when the average level of the mobs was 125+, as he was looking around he saw a lot of dark knights patrolling the areas, Grid knowing he can't beat 10 of them at the same time hid behind a tree and waited for them to leave, but he didn't expect them to blubber about a piece of important information nonchalantly.

"Hey, is it true that the famous knight of the lake is corrupted and currently an undead knight?"

"From what I know yes, he was corrupted due to failing to protect his wife Guinevere from being sexually assaulted by common bandits and left for dead, and because of this he slaughtered them alongside a lot of people whether they were good or evil."

Grid hearing this information finally has a clue why they were here, it's because of the knight Lancelot who's based on the Arthurian Legend which if his memory serves him right is the second strongest knight among the Round Table.

"Oi...! The 7th servant Dark Bus has ordered us to keep watch not gossip like a bunch of noble wh*re!" 

"Yeah, yeah I doubt there would be someone stupid enough to take us on especially us having the numerical advantage... What do you say you 8 go to another area or we split by 2 for each group?"

"...Fine, you better not let anyone pass through here do you understand?!"

"Yes, we understand now go rant on another group."

After they were done talking 8 of the dark knights left the area leaving only 2 remaining Grid seeing this took out his new spear and aimed at the two since they were talking face to face, he could just throw the spear or use 'Extreme Thrust' to skewer them both at the same time.

[Prodigy Spear]

[Rating: Unique

Durability: 700/700.

Attack Power: 670.

*10% bonus wind attribute damage.

*There will be additional physical damage when using a charge attack.

*There will be additional physical and wind damage when the skill 'Spear Shot' is used.

*'Storm Strike' will activate when a critical hit lands.

*Attack speed is increased by 10%

*chance of penetrating the enemy defense increased by 10%

*Spear Mastery +4

*The passive skill 'Gale Spear' is generated.

A Spear that's given to enlightened beings who have proven themselves to have what it takes to surpass his/her limit.

Conditions of Use: Grid, Spearman, or Warrior with Intermediate Spear Mastery.

Weight: 110]

Grid made a decision and used 'Extreme Thrust', instantly Grid bridged the gap and pierced both Dark Knights, one of them died while the other one was on the brink of death.

[Critical Hit!]

[Critical Hit!]

[Due to the level gap being over 60 the damage you dealt is decreased by 31%]

[You have defeated a Dark Knight.]

[You have acquired 250 gold coins.]

[52,000 experience has been acquired.]

The remaining Dark Knight that survived tried to fight back but due to the gaping hole in his chest his overall stats decreased drastically, Grid not wasting any time instantly used 'Spear Charge' directly aiming at the head of the Dark Knight, seeing there was no other option the Dark Knight tried to take down Grid with him but to no avail because he was already severely injured, as the spear pierce the head of the Dark Knight, Grid instantly moved to the next area.

[Critical Hit!]

[Due to the level gap being over 60 the damage you dealt is decreased by 31%]

[You have defeated a Dark Knight.]

[You have acquired 250 gold coins.]

[52,000 experience has been acquired.]

[You have leveled up.]

[Beginner Spear Mastery has increased by 4 levels.]

[!!!]

[Beginner Spear Mastery has upgraded to Intermediate Spear Mastery.]

'I have to hurry and kill all the Dark Knights as fast as possible before they notice something happening.'

As he thought of this he sprinted toward the areas of each location of the Dark Knights to assassinate them one by one.

-South of the Forest of Abyss-

"Kill all the Yatan believers...! Don't let any single one of them escape this place...!"

A beautiful woman with a voluptuous body that has white hair that shines similar to moonlight and golden eyes resembling the sun yells at her comrades while swinging a white spear that radiates divine power, the Yatan believers couldn't cope with her attacks and instantly died, the paladins seeing this let out a war cry and their momentum increased due the show of strength of the woman.

The remaining Yatan believers tried to stop them with all their might and used 'Divine Punishment' to incapacitate them or hopefully kill them. Yet the woman thrusts her white spear instantly breaking the spell, and she yells to the priest and paladins.

"All priests help the paladins to subdue the remaining Yatan forces here...! I'm heading deeper into the Forest of the Abyss and stop or destroy their objective from happening...!"

Hearing her voice the captains of both the priest and paladin say.

"May the Goddess Rebecca watch over you...!"

"Lady Isabel show these heathens the might of divine power...!"

The woman whose name is Isabel nodded at them and sprinted with all her might, towards the center of the Forest of Abyss.

-Center of the Forest of Abyss-

Grid who was able to take care of all the Dark Knights is gained 4 levels making him level 45, and is now watching the 7th servant trying to dominate the body of death knight Lancelot.

'It seems Dark Bus who is supposed to be in the Saharan Empire helping Empress Marie, is the one leading the operation.'

Grid was thinking of a way to stop the ritual, Grid takes out the Prodigy set and wears all of it preparing for a fight.

[Armor of the Prodigy]

[Rating: Unique

Durability: 450/450 Defense: 175

*Increases defense in proportion to the level of the wearer (1 defense per 5 stamina points).

*Reduces physical damage by 10%.

*Armor Mastery +1

*Stamina consumption is reduced by 10%.

Armor for the one who overcomes his shortcomings through enlightenment.

Condition of use: Grid or someone with an Intermediate Armor Mastery.

Weight: 180]

[Gauntlet of the Prodigy]

[Rating: Unique

Durability: 300/300 Defense: 75

*Increases defense in proportion to the level of the wearer (1 defense per 15 stamina points).

*Reduces physical damage by 5%.

*Armor Mastery +1

*Strength +20

Gauntlet for the one who overcomes his shortcomings through enlightenment.

Condition of use: Grid or someone with an Intermediate Armor Mastery.

Weight: 75]

[Greaves of the Prodigy]

[Rating: Unique

Durability: 300/300 Defense: 90

*Increases defense in proportion to the level of the wearer (1 defense per 25 stamina points).

*Reduces physical damage by 5%.

*Armor Mastery +1

*Agility +20

Greaves for the one who overcomes his shortcomings through enlightenment.

Condition of use: Grid or someone with an Intermediate Armor Mastery.

Weight: 80]

[Prodigy Set]

[Bonus set

*All stats +75

*100% increase in critical damage.

*Intelligence +25

*Evasion rate increased by 10%

*5% decrease in stamina consumption.]

After equipping all the items he takes out his bow and aims to kill Lancelot, Grid holds the bowstring for 10 seconds increasing the damage by 100%, he then uses the skill 'Gale Arrow' Dark Bus who didn't know Grid was there, was shock as suddenly a strong arrow flew towards him thinking it was gonna hit him he used blink instantly, but what he didn't know Grid was aiming for Death Knight Lancelot's head for instant death.

With Death Knight Lancelot just standing motionless he was hit by the arrow that dealt 1,200% damage with Grid's strength, and the passive skill of Intermediate Bow Mastery dealing an absurd amount killing Death Knight Lancelot instantly.

[Critical Hit!]

[Due to the level gap being over 202 the damage you dealt is decreased by 80%]

[Death Knight Lancelot has instantly died due to his head being destroyed.]

[You have defeated a Death Knight Lancelot.]

[You have acquired 25,000 gold coins.]

[4,832,010 experience has been acquired.]

[You have leveled up 47 times.]

[!!!]

[Congratulations! You have reached level 100 and achieved the first stats awakening!]

[For every point of stamina, health will increase by 15 and defense will increase by 0.2.]

[For every point of strength, health will increase by 5 and attack will increase by 0.2.]

[For every point of intelligence, mana will increase by 5 and magic attack will increase by 0.2.]

Grid who reached level 100 was happy but due to being discovered by Dark Bus he instantly jumped to the side avoiding a fireball, Dark Bus who was angry beyond belief and wanted to kill Grid with all his might stopped sensing a strong divine power coming this way, he cast teleportation leaving the battlefield to avoid fighting a strong opponent due to him exhausting the dark magic that was wasted, Grid who saw this let his body slumped down on the ground due to being tense.

Then suddenly a woman arrives at the scene holding a white spear, Grid who saw the woman is surprised and unconsciously said. "Isabel...?"

Isabel who just arrived looked at the surroundings which were damaged due to Dark Bus casting a fireball toward Grid, after she was done inspecting the surroundings she looked at Grid and said.

"Who might you be stranger? are you part of the Yatan church?"

Grid who heard Isabel's words shook his head and remembered how brainwashed, was Rebecca's daughter in their younger years when they were only 18 years old but would change over time as they grew up...