Cavern's Purpose

= "Don't be fixated on trying to catch an enemy with your spell that is not how you do it! Predict their moves and then fire a spell, use the time it is moving to cast a barrier, and prepare a spell, create a distance between you! Xir, do not act like an idiot!" =

Lethias' words could be heard from the side while I try and kill the Nine Eyes Bat flying overhead. The bat was fast and fierce as it would constantly fire acid towards me and with its speed, it was hard to hit it with a spell.

= "Willful Wind, come and assist in bringing down my enemy down. Hear my plea and disrupt its flight, [Wind Wall]!" =

I chanted and cast a spell that created a wall of wind that blew the bat away and disrupting its flight. It flailed as it tried to keep itself from falling down, but I calculated its path and then cast another spell, = "Spinning Water Bullet!" =

Twenty spinning bullets of water was created around me and flew towards the falling bat and without mercy the bat's wings were pierced many times.

= "That is good, now, finish it before it could recover. Remember, Monster of this caliber already has Regeneration. Even if it can't use it yet you must be prepared." =

= "Foundation of the world, skewer the trash that is dirtying the world, pierce them and destroy them, [Piercing Stone]!" Three stone spikes appeared from the ground and pierced the body of the Bat. Blood splattered everywhere and after releasing its last shrill it died.

= "That is good enough, you are getting better and better in dealing with your opponent, you can already kill a Gold-Grade Rank-2 Monster, you are improving well." = Lethias gave me a compliment.

I am still at Platinum-Grade Rank-1 but I announced that I have reached Gold-Grade Rank-2 in order to increase the level of strength of my opponent. At first, I was struggling but as time went on and I learned how to control mana and how to effectively use my spells everything became easier than before.

I approached the corpse of the Nine Eyed Bat after seeing the white light that covered its body.

* "Rise and become my Soldier." *

A ball of white light entered my body and the blood of the fallen monster shortly followed. Inside my Mana Core, another marble found its way and now, there are more than fifteen of them inside. The weakest of them was the Armored Black Panther and the strongest was this Nine Eyed Bat.

The progress of my army is good. I went out of the Room and saw Viryon meditating in the middle of the room where all the doors gathered. I approached him and asked, = "What are you doing?" =

Creating a good social life is nice to survival, connection is good and sometimes a good friend can become meat shield. Such is the wisdom that has been passed down to me from Lethias. And I have to agree, her words were all true.

Viryon opened his eyes and then said, = "You also finished? I was just trying to break the barrier that leads to the Platinum-Grade, nothing big." = he spoke with a smile before adding, = "Let us go to the cafeteria, I need to eat." =

I agreed and we went to the cafeteria where a number of people gather to eat. We ordered some food and we ate without regard to our current position in the cavern.

There is a ranking system made the other youths of the cavern and that is the ranking system. Currently, I am the second rank and the first would be Viryon. They think we are the strongest which we truly are but never truly tries to get ahead of us.

I ate a lot and almost emptied the cafeteria of its food. I am still growing and according to Lethias I need to eat a lot in order to sustain myself when we train. Our training session is long and arduous therefore it is taxing and needs a lot of energy to support the expenditure.

I still need to call upon the Nine Eyed Bat later so I need to truly eat a lot else I might just pass out. While we were eating, Viryon said something to me that catch my attention.

= "Xir, have you heard of the rumors about the upcoming Grand Trial? I heard they would be letting us head out in order to accomplish something big." =

= "I have heard of it, but I don't really think anything about it if we are to be sent out then we only need to complete the mission. We can't get out of here completely if we don't truly complete this whole training process in the Cavern anyway. What is the use of getting excited about getting out?" =

="Tsk, tsk, tsk, do you have no ambition in you? Do you not know that if you catch the eyes of the higher-ups they would reward you generously and your position will later become more secured? If you impress them then you might even win a high position when this is all over. After all, the Cavern is just for filtering the talents from the soldiers." =

After our conversation I went back to my room and for the past few months, I was doing my best to train and elevated my strength to Platinum-Grade Rank-2. My Mental and Spiritual Energy is also beginning to rise.

Where it stands, my Mental Energy is at Silver-Grade Rank-3 and my Spiritual Energy is at Gold-Grade Rank-2. Both these energies are energies and are strict of their own unique entity.

My Elemental Hydra is stronger than me right now, yes, I also think it is bullshit. They are already at Platinum-Grade Rank-3.

After another few weeks, I got a message in my UIR and it says.

= [You have been given three choices for a Grand Trial:

* Destroy the Red Sword Gang

* Kill the Head of Origin Mana Bandit

* Subjugate the Thunder Python of the Black Swamp] =

Now, which mission should I pick?