Chapter 7 – Come, Kick Me If You Dare
Alan thought for a while.
"God's blood…I've never read anything about this before." Alan thought.
"Cerberus, take me to God's blood, you're guarding." Alan calmly said.
"Yes, Master!" Cerberus stood up from his kneeling and led Alan into the temple.
Alan followed behind Cerberus into the temple. The temple was quite big. A lot of sculptures there were influenced by ancient Greek.
As for who and what the sculptures present, Alan did not know.
Cerberus noticed that Alan was looking at the sculptures around him.
"Master, the sculptures around us are the gods. Each of them represents the gods. All of it has the exact appearance of the gods." Cerberus said.
Alan looked at the bottom of each sculpture, and he saw there were the names of the gods. He looked at one of them.
The sculpture was stunning, and one could see that it was indeed a goddess. Alan looked at the name "Athena."
"So it's the God of Wisdom, Athena…Cerberus, what happened to the gods?" Alan asked.
"The gods…were slaughtered…" Cerberus lamented in pain.
"I'm sure there were tricks or any kind of schemes by the unknown entity, I doubt they were easily trounced, they were the gods of ancient Greek after all." Alan calmly said.
Suddenly, all the sculptures were emitting light from its body.
"Hmm? What's happening?" Alan was confused by the dazzling light.
The lights shone on Alan.
"Ding! New talent: God's blessing has been obtained." The system announced.
"God's blessing? I wonder what this talent does?" Alan opened his stats.
......…
Host: Alan Snow
Title
1. Recovered Child
- Grants blessing (+500 HP)
2. Monster Slayer (Equipped)
- Grants 10% extra exp when killing monsters.
3. Monster Tamer
- Ease taming monster by 10%.
Level: 28 (Attribute points: 14)
EXP: 600/2800 (To Next Level)
HP: 19000
MP: 19000
Strength: 14 (+10, Star Sword Equipped)
Defense: 9
Agility: 16
Intelligent: 17
Magic Power: 14 (+15, Hell's Flame)
Skill (Can be obtained)
1. Sword-man (Elementary)
- Lotus Formation Sword Style.
2. Sorcerer (Elementary)
- Fire magic, Hell's Flame (Legendary)
Talent (Can be obtained)
1. Memories of the previous life.
2. God's Blessing. (Grants Luck)
......…..
"Luck? Cool, although I am always lucky." Alan thought.
"M-master! You got the God's blessing!" Cerberus excitedly said.
"I guess so. Let's go." Alan smiled.
"Y-yes master!" Cerberus quickly led Alan to the God's blood chamber.
After they arrived at the God's blood chamber, Alan was quite surprised.
The chamber only had a large pool of gold liquid in it.
"This gold liquid is god's blood?" Alan asked.
"Yes, master. It is indeed the purest God's blood." Cerberus said.
"What do you mean by 'purest'?" Alan calmly asked.
"It is the blood of all the high ranked God in Olympus." Cerberus calmly replied.
"You mean like Zeus and Poseidon?" Alan asked again.
"Yes, Master, and not only them but all of the gods," Cerberus replied.
"Wow…" Alan exhaled.
"Ding! The system advises the Host to absorb God's blood." The system announced.
"Cerberus, guard for me," Alan said.
"Yes, master. Be careful." Cerberus replied.
Alan walked into the pool of God's blood.
He swam to the middle of the pool.
"Then…how to absorb?" Alan asked.
Without warning, God's blood suddenly swirled in the pool, and Alan is the center of it.
God's blood entered Alan's body through his skin and went to his blood vessels little by little.
Alan was screaming in pain. His body was in extreme pain. It was like someone was stabbing every single cell in Alan's body.
It was a tedious and terrifying process. If the one were not Alan, they would immediately faint and failed to absorb God's blood.
"This shit is so damn painful!!!!!!!!" Alan shouted out.
"Master! You must endure it, or it would leave a side effect on your body!" Cerberus worriedly yelled.
"I know! You, dumb puppy! Although this is hurtful, nothing can stop me from getting it!" Alan shouted again.
Alan was screaming in pain for hours until the last drop of God's blood was absorbed.
Alan stopped screaming. He was sitting on the ground of the once full pool while his eyes were closed.
"Ding! Refining Process: 10 percent." The system announced.
After an hour, the refining process was at 70 percent.
"This absorbing and refining process is exhausting, but I need to refine it quickly. The Snow family gathering should almost start by now." Alan thought while keeping his eyes closed.
After 30 minutes, the refining process was done.
"Ding! New Talent: God's physique has been obtained." The system announced.
Alan looked around. "Huh? What is that?"
He walked towards the object on the ground.
"A book? I guess it was in the pool of God's blood. If I did not absorb God's blood, no one could
imagine there was a book in it." Alan thought.
Alan picked up the book, suddenly, the system announced,
"Ding! Zeus's Lightning Art found. Learn it?"
Alan was surprised by this before he nodded, "Yes, learn it."
"Ding! Zeus's Lightning Art has been learned successfully." The system announced.
"Now, I have lightning attributes." Alan excitedly said.
Alan opened his stats right away. "I should also allocate my attribute points."
........
Host: Alan Snow
Title
1. Recovered Child
- Grants blessing (+500 HP)
2. Monster Slayer (Equipped)
- Grants 10% extra exp when killing monsters.
3. Monster Tamer
- Ease taming monster by 10%.
Level: 28 (Attribute points: 5)
EXP: 600/2800 (To Next Level)
HP: 19000
MP: 19000
Strength: 16 (+10, Star Sword Equipped)
Defense: 10
Agility: 19
Intelligent: 19
Magic Power: 16 (+15, Hell's Flame)
Skill (Can be obtained)
1. Sword-man (Elementary)
- Lotus Formation Sword Style.
2. Sorcerer (Elementary)
- Fire magic, Hell's Flame (Legendary)
- Lightning magic, Zeus's Lightning (Legendary)
Talent (Can be obtained)
1. Memories of the previous life.
2. God's Blessing. (Grants luck)
3. God's Physique. (Increase body talent for growth.)
......….
"Now, let's get back." Alan talked to himself.
He looked at the butler, "Cerberus, how about you? I'm getting out from here." Alan asked.
"Master can summon me once master got out from here," Cerberus replied.
"Good then, see you again." Alan calmly said.
"Yes, Master." Cerberus went back to the ground, the underworld.
Alan used his escape device.
Once he got out of the dungeon, he saw Tracy, who was waiting worriedly for him.
"Tracy! Sorry, I'm late." Alan said.
"Alan, I was so worried about you. Where did you go?" Tracy asked.
"I was having some trouble with my escape device, but it's fine now." Alan lied.
"It's okay then," Tracy replied.
"Um…Tracy, I need to go back. Do you want to follow me?"
Tracy came forward and hugged Alan. She shook her head, "I can't, Alan, I have something vital to do. I hope you can understand." Tracy's eyes moistened.
"It's okay. I'll meet you again at the academy." Alan said while patting Tracy's head, who was in his embrace.
"You're going back to the academy?" Tracy excitedly asked.
"Of course! That place needs a king. Hehe." Alan chuckled.
"Great! Okay, Alan, this is goodbye for now." Tracy got out of Alan's embrace.
"Okay, bye." Alan watched Tracy got into her flying vehicle and went away.
Immediately after that, Alan got into his flying vehicle and went super sonic.
*Whoosh*
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Snow Family's main palace.
All the members of the Snow family arrived at the competition arena. The arena was in the middle of a big stadium.
Tens of thousands of people occupied all the seats surrounding the arena.
Many people from Snow City came to watch the competition. This was one of their entertainment.
"Kyaa! I can't wait to see my Prince, James Snow! I bet he'll win this year." One of the girls in an all-girls fan group excitedly said.
"In your dreams, girl. Our goddesses, Mary and Alice, are still the ones who will win this year competition." a group of boys said.
"What did you say? No one can compare to our Prince James!" the girl fought back.
"Your Prince is nothing to our goddesses!" the boys yelled back.
Alan's family were at one of the exclusive sections for Snow family's member.
"Where did Alan go? The gathering almost starts." Rose asked worriedly.
"I'm sure he has something to do. It's okay, and we can't force him to come here too. Knowing Alan, I'm sure he hates this kind of stuff." Lukas quietly said while comforting his wife.
Suddenly a voice interrupted the couple, "Don't worry. He will come." Erica softly said.
Ever since Alan saw Erica cried in his embrace when he did not return from the Hollow Forest, he gave Erica a voice transmission device that he bought before he went to the dungeon. Alan already told her that he would be a bit late.
"May I ask how does, my lady, the Sovereign knows?" Rose politely asked.
"He told me," Erica replied while pointing the voice transmission device that she was holding in her hand.
"That's good then. I wonder why that brat did not give the voice transmission device to his parents too. Humph!" Rose murmured while pouting.
"Hahaha! I'm sorry, my lady Sovereign, my wife just worried about Alan." Lukas carefully said while glancing at his wife for a while and then, he looked at Erica, "My lady Sovereign must be very special to our son."
Erica blushed before she softly replied, "I don't know about that, but Alan is very special to me."
The couple was surprised.
"As expected from my son!" Lukas thought.
"M-my lady Sovereign as my daughter-in-law, am I dreaming?" Rose inwardly said.
Before the trio can talk further, a loud voice suddenly resounded throughout the Competition Arena.
"Ladies and gentlemen! The competition will start soon, so let us welcome our contestants from the Snow Family!"
Suddenly, a line of boys and girls came into the stadium and were introduced by the emcee one by one.
"Contestants number 27, James Snow!" the emcee excitedly said.
"Kyaa!!!! My Prince! I LOVE YOU!" a girl shouted.
James smiled at the girl.
"He smiled at me! My Prince smiled at me!" the fanatic girl shouted.
Nobody saw this, but James showed a face of disdain in a flash before he showed back his 'Perfect' face before he continued to the arena.
"And lastly…contestant number 28 and 29, the Snow Family's princesses, Mary and Alice Snow!"
People were shouting fanatically towards the sisters.
James smirked in his heart, inwardly, "You bit**** will be trampled by my feet this time."
"Sister, why I don't see big brother?" Alice asked worriedly.
"Me too, Alice, I can't see his shadow at all, but he promised us that he would be here, so, we must trust our big brother." Mary was concerned.
"Yes! He promised us, didn't he? It's okay then." Alice calmed down after she recalled that Alan promised them that he would come to the gathering.
On the arena, James looked at the sisters and walked towards them.
"Greetings, Princess Mary, Princess Alice." He bowed.
"Greetings to you too," Alice replied while Mary only nodded her head.
"I hope you guys can also do well in this year competition," James said.
"We will," Mary replied.
James looked at the sisters, "I'm not too sure about that." he sneered.
The Snow family always thought that James Snow was very promising and a genius. In their eyes, although they do not want to admit it openly, James was indeed worthy as the heir of the Snow Family. They already forgot about Alan, who was just trash now.
Mary and Alice were not one of them, although James was praiseworthy, their brother, Alan, was always the better one. If Alan was not crazy, no one could stand him.
Mary was calm. She held Alice's hand and asked James, who was in front of them, "And why do you say that?"
James was surprised, "As expected from the most highly regarded brilliant girl, indeed." James praised inwardly.
"That's because I just made a breakthrough to class D, low tier. I doubt a lowly class E like both of you can compete with me." James sneered.
James was a few years older than them, so his class should be higher.
The sisters clenched their fist.
"You think you so tough? Big brother will kick your ass!" Alice coldly said.
"HAHAHAHA! What can your crazy brother do to me? Where is he? I will kick his ass instead." James said while smirking.
"Okay, now let the master of the Snow family, Duke Lukas start the competition officially," the emcee said.
Lukas walked onto the arena. He looked at his parents, Rufus and Andrea, who were seating at the most prestige section in the stadium waiting for his father, Rufus's, permission.
Rufus nodded his head.
"Star-…" but before Lukas finished his sentence, a booming voice rang out throughout the stadium.
"Oh, so you want to kick my ass? Come then!"
All the members of the Snow Family and the tens of thousands of people were bewildered by the voice.
The only thing that they can see was that there was a male teenager gracefully landed on the arena right in front of them.
That teenager looked so very enchanting, with his silver-red over the shoulder hair fluttered in the wind.
That teenager was Alan.
Alan looked at James, "Come! KICK MY ASS!"
James was stunned, "W-who, are you, how dare you making trouble in front of the Snow Family."
"Oh, I forgot," Alan calmly said.
He looked towards the Snow Family, and loudly said, "I am the eldest son of my parents, Lukas and Rose, the Prince of the Snow Family, Alan Snow!"
"A-alan?" Rufus stood up.
"Oh, grandpa, you look so old now ~ Hehe." Alan smiled.