Break

It had been six months since he woke up and now it was summer. While it wasn't really that hot this was only because in the last days the weather was quite rainy but Ivan expected that after that changed it would become warm fast.

Fitting for the time of the year tomorrow the summer break would start and then for 1 month there won't be any school.

When he stood at the school gate he couldn't help but remember the last half year. He had spent most of the time training and he couldn't even remember how many times he had died during this brutal training his mentor had forced him to do.

He checked his stats as to see how much he had managed to progress.

<< Character Ivan Hope

- Age: 16

- Family: None

- Strength: 20 (+45)

- Endurance: 15 (+45)

- Agility: 19 (+42)

- Magic power: 22 (+48)

- HP: 600

- MP: 350

- Damage: 325

- Defense: 1

- Luck: 2

Skills:

- Inspect (E) Lvl. 2

- Mana Manipulation (E) Lvl. 5

- Slave Space (D) Lvl. 1

- Tame (D) Lvl. 1

- Evolution (SS) Lvl. 1

- Reincarnation (F) Lvl. 5

- Shadow stats (E)

Titles:

- Son of Chaos (SS)

- Slayer of slightly bigger things (D)

- Dungeon Diver (F)

Achievements:

none

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Even though he was still not level 50 his shadow stats had increased by a lot so he was quite satisfied with it. Still he really didn't like what he had to do to get them this high.

He was sure that he experienced every possible way to die in the one dungeon he had to do, since he had run it until he was able to solo it. And since his mentor had forbidden him from getting a slave to help he really had to do everything solo. The boss alone had killed him at least forty times and he had experienced getting his throat ripped out by the fangs of that vampire as well as having his belly sliced open by the sharp claws. And he had to say it really wasn't any fun but luckily he had soon gotten used to it. He too had understood why his mentor had made him train like this since there were quite a few times at the start where he died because the pain from a nonlethal wound has stopped him from reacting fast enough to another attack.

Stopping his train of thought he then took a look at his phone which had chimed, indicating a new message.

"After school meet me at the mission hall. Van Bergen."

It seemed like his mentor would finally allow him to do some missions after all that would be the only reason to go to the mission hall.

The reason was one of the main halls of the slave alliance and was well visited, since it was where all the missions where displayed. Of course you could check out the available missions at the intranet too, but only at the mission hall you could accept them. After you finished your mission you had to go to the mission hall as well to turn them in and the receive your rewards.

"Hey Ivan, do you have time to go out to play today?", a familiar voice broke him out of his thoughts.

When he turned around he saw Greg wo as usual was together with Serge.

"Sorry I can't, my mentor is looking for me."

"What a shame. I had hoped we could play around today since I will leave with my family tomorrow."

"You leave tomorrow?", Ivan asked in surprise.

"Yes, we are traveling to the ocean for this break and it will be a one month tour, so we would only see each others again after the break ends."

"Damn, I would really have liked to go out with you today."

"Well, I don't think its a good idea to stand up your mentor."

"You are right it wouldn't. I still remember what happend the last time."

Ivan had once stood up his mentor because he wanted to go to some market together with his friends and when he came back his mentor had waited for him and threw him into the training room. He then turned up the gravity to at least double of what it usual would be and then forbade him from leaving until he had to school next time.

Sadly it had been a Friday and as such he had to stay in the room for more than two days. It was hell, especially since he even forced him to do more training than usual. Once he even died when he fell unlucky since the gravity was high enough that he broke his neck during the fall. To be honest it was the worst death he had until now. Not because it was painful, but because every time he thought of it he would feel ashamed.

"You never wanted to tell about it, so I can't relate but I guess it mustn't have been fun."

"It surely wasn't.", Ivan shuddered when he thought about it again.

"Then we won't hinder you, so you don't have to endure it again, and will get going."

After that the three of them said goodbye to each other while promising to meet again as soon as the break ends.

After that Ivan walked towards the alley where he usually left for the campus, but before he could enter it he was blocked by a woman who held a small girl at her hand.

As soon as he saw the woman a picture flashed through his mind. It wasn't really informative since it only was the picture of a cave with nothing special in it except a bed which kind of seemed out of place.

* Hm, did I know this woman before my reset? *, Ivan asked himself because if he didn't there wasn't really a good reason for some image to pop up. He tried to remember a bit more but there was nothing,