The day when stands learned martial arts.
Inside the game space training ground, there was a boy standing still facing a tree.
The training ground was a wide forest with a lot of trees around, but these trees were very different from the normal ones.
Most of the trees here were gigantic, reaching to the sky with hundreds of meters at least.
The boy was closing his eyes facing the tree while putting his two fists at his waist in an attacking stance.
There were few leaves falling from the tree that landed on the boy hat, but that didn't bother him.
The scene continues for a while before the boy suddenly opened his eyes.
The boy raised one of his fists to the front while he slightly moved his body to the side and one of his legs to the front before moving his other fist to the back.
In this moment something invisible was generating from the boy whole movement. From the foot he moved something was traveling his body until it reached his fist.
Suddenly, a blue arm appeared from the boy side before it punched instantly 5 times at an unimaginable speed creating few sonic booms and blow the air around, but before the air moved a lot, the boy swung his fist.
"Dance of the four gods..." the boy said before moving his fist.
The boy rotated his fist slightly, making all the air generated by the blue arm cover it instantly before he struck the tree.
"First stance..." the boy said.
All this was done in an instant.
"Basaltic fist!" the boy said before his fist hit the tree trunk.
*CRASH*
the moment the boy fist hit the tree, all the air and the energy generated by his movement exploded at the impact.
A large part of the tree trunk got destroyed instantly by the fist while the whole tree was shaking.
The boy moved his fist backward while the whole tree started to tilt before it falls down.
*crash*
The giant tree of at least 90 meters falls down while raising some dust.
"... This is my limit, huh" Akashi didn't care about the tree, but he stared at his trembling fist.
"My stats are limiting me too much" Akashi said before looking at the destroyed tree.
This scene is the result of Akashi non-stop training for 37 days straight.
Using the advantage of no fatigue or injuries in the training ground, Akashi trained like a madman for a whole 37 days except for a 30 minutes break each day. He didn't stop for a moment.
Punch, punch, kick, punch, kick, shot, slash, punch, kick... This was Akashi routine all these days in the training ground.
Akashi devoted himself to master Full Contact Karate during this period without forgetting about his marksmanship and knife mastery even if he knows that this way of training is very risky, but he needs to use every moment he has.
The Skill or the memories from Akashi head gave him a quick start in this art.
Akashi started from a basic punch and strived to use it until it became something that can be used instinctively before moving to breaking a hundred bricks, High kick, Brazilian Kick, Cutting the bull's horn.
Akashi wanted to train each skill until it becomes something he can use in any condition instantly.
For that Akashi used his Zone and eyes non-stop during this period making full use of the max potential and his eye analyzation to master this art quickly and perfectly.
In the first 5 days, Akashi was able to use his power more effectively. If Akashi without training was throwing punch randomly this time, each punch carries at least 90% from his power.
After 15 days, Akashi mastered the most basic skills in Karate before he moved towards the secret art... The Dance of Four gods.
Reaching to this place, Akashi thought his speed will drop, but that didn't happen because compare to all who trained in Full Contact Karate he has something they don't... Energy Manipulation Skill.
The moment Akashi started to train the way to use the shock waves and the surrounding airflow, this skill activated instantly, making his progress even faster than training the basic skills.
Energy Manipulation is a skill that allows Akashi to control and feel the energy in his capabilities like stamina or mental energy and now with him training this art, he is able to control the energy generated by his movement and even the surrounding airflow.
At that moment, Akashi realized the importance of his stats to this art especially DEX, so he put one point in AGI and STR while putting 5 in the DEX increasing his control over his skill and the energy.
After 23 days, Akashi mastered the first three stances. Even now he is able to use the Basaltic fist on his own without the EM, but he needs it to use Phoenix kick to send shock waves.
But he was never successful in using the blue dragon storm because he wasn't able to control and use the airflow generated by White tiger dance.
unable to control the airflow made him able to use the White tiger dance as a technique, but he can't link it with the Blue dragon storm which made the airflow explode a few times in his face causing very serious injuries.
After realizing his limits, Akashi moved back to his old techniques, perfecting them even more while using D4C and Metallica combination this time.
D4C was able to use any technique Akashi learned and made use of his power more effectively.
In the past D4C needed a barrage of punches to destroy walls completely but at this moment, D4C can destroy a part of a small building with one punch and the damage is more terrifying if it applied to people.
But D4C was unable to control the airflow and the energy generated by movement, no matter how much Akashi explained or tried to teach him.
So, Akashi reached a different approach of using his EM on D4C which allowed him to use the four gods dance, but it takes a lot of energy and stamina from Akashi because of how fast and strong D4C is.
Akashi now is using D4C speed and power as a booster for him to make his own attacks more destructive like controlling the airflow generated by D4C attacks, but 5 punches is his limit.
After finishing with D4C, Akashi tried to use Metallica. First, using the airflow and the shocks waves to carry some iron blades and shards that launch at very fast speed using the magnetism and the airflow.
Then he started to get used to transform the blood inside his enemy bodies into iron at the moment of attack. For that, Akashi brought a book about human body anatomy to know where to put the iron.
After 37 days, Akashi was able to use Basaltic fist casually without even preparing, but he wasn't able to use phoenix kick without EM which made him realize that he reached his limit of advancement and only increasing his stats or having combat will make him advance. But... He doesn't have points or money now to continue.
Using coins to buy days and renting the training ground cost Akashi 23200 coins.
Without forgetting he bought a sniper rifle and a desert eagle pistol which cost 450 for the guns and 300 coins for the ammo because they are both normal firearms, and some bombs for 1500 coins left Akashi with 1929 coins to prepare for the mission.
"... This is the end of training but it was worth it" Akashi moved his hand that recovered and activated his game menu.
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ZONE [B-Rank]
Energy Manipulation [A-Rank]
Marksmanship [C-Rank/Level 21]
Full Contact Karate [C-Rank/Level 24]
Knife mastery [C-Rank/Level 11]
Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap [S-Rank/Stage 2]
Metallica [B-Rank/Stage 1]
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Akashi's close combat skill disappeared the moment Full Contact Karate reached level 10 but that wasn't all what changed about his skills.
Reaching over, Akashi pushed his level 20 skills icons.
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Marksmanship [C-Rank/Level 21]:
Description: you're a professional gunslinger, but you're still in the human category.
Passive 1: Increase the player accuracy with guns.
Passive 2: Add 0.1 DEX for every level the skill has.
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Full Contact Karate [C-Rank/Level 24]:
Description: You're a professional Karate martial artist with the ability to control your strength and airflow but still in the human category.
Passive 1: The user is fully aware of the energy his body generating with movement and the airflow around him.
Passive 2: Add 0.1 in STR, AGI, VIT for every level the skill has.
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STR:9.4 (7+2.4)
VIT:22.4 (20+2.4).
AGI:10.4 (8+2.4).
DEX: 20.1 (12+6+2.1).
INT:30 (20).
Stats limits: 67/100.
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Akashi level skills began to increase stats the moment they broke through 20 level cap which increased Akashi power greatly.
"Everything is ready for the mission, but before going I need to do one last thing" Akashi said before operating the training ground menu and chose a single fight.
Picking the enemy, Akashi activated the simulation before some light spots gathered into a man wearing a suit standing far away from him.
"... This time... I'm not that helpless" Akashi said, watching the suit man burning with crimson flames.
The training ground can simulate players, but using players as an opponent is stupid because they always getting stronger with every item or skill they have.
But Akashi is only using him to see where did he reach now... Also, that guy is already dead.
The suit man saw Akashi dodged the fireball before launching a lot of them at Akashi.
Akashi at this moment used D4C legs to jump upwards to a tree trunk dodging all the flames.
The suit man used all his flames at this moment, making a giant barrage of flames towards Akashi in the air.
Akashi, in the air, moved his fist backward before D4C appeared and punched three times.
Akashi Rotated his fist slightly while gathering all the air generated by D4C and himself before punching.
"MUDA!!!" Using Basaltic fist, Akashi blasted all the flames in front of him while launching a powerful airflow towards the suit man, removing all the flames on his body and breaking his balance.
The suit man saw the situation isn't good, so he started to generate his flames again, but at that moment Akashi arrived.
Doing a flip in the air, Akashi rotated the air around him before landing. The moment Akashi foot touched the ground a tornado of air blasted the surroundings while removing all the suit man flames again and creating small cuts all over his body.
This is a simplified version of the Pheonix kick that only uses the already existed airflow.
*Crash*
The airflow passed from Akashi's left leg until his right one before it hit the suit man's face, sending him rotating in the air for 10 meters before he stops while dragging a long trail on the ground.
"... It seems I have become more powerful than I thought" Akashi said before turning his back to the suit man because... He's already dead.
The suit man was lying on the ground with his barrier glowing on his face which means he blocked Akashi kick, but he wasn't breathing at the moment.
If someone opens the suit man's head right now, he'll see a razor blade splitting his brainstem in half and separating it from the spinal cord.
The moment Akashi hit the man's face he used Metallica that appeared inside his foot and his energy to pass the man barrier and make the razor blade inside his brainstem before the kick and the rotation made the blade cut it.
After studying the human body anatomy Akashi reached to the perfect place to deal with any player by using Metallica... The brainstem.
The brainstem is a very important part of the human brain which connects the cerebrum and cerebellum to the spin cord. It also performs many automatic functions such as breathing, controlling heartbeats, etc... Which lead to death instantly the moment Akashi destroyed it with Metallica.
Why Akashi chose this position? It's because you never know what those players have of tricks up there sleeves. Who knows if they had a way to survive a heart injury or brain damage and even healing them, so the brainstem became the best attack position because even if they were able to recover and survive they'll never be able to stand up that fast.
Because it connects the whole brain to the body, destroying the brainstem also destroys someone's balance, sense, coordination between his muscles, and even the heartbeats, and breathing becomes an issue, so the enemy is unlikely to stand up instantly which allows Akashi to kill him again.
"... Well, with this the training is officially over" Akashi said while fixing his hat that didn't fall during the battle because of Metallica magnetism.
"Now... Which world will be it this time" Akashi said while looking at the clock next to him that said he has 1 hour and 2 minutes before starting his mission.
"I really hate this game..." Akashi said his true thoughts after he remembered a thing from 35 days.
*Flashback*.
Akashi just started to train Full Contact Karate and was taking his daily break.
Today his second day in training which his normal rest will end but before he bought any days Akashi had an idea.
Turning over and looking at the glowing sphere, Akashi felt something wrong from that sphere.
"Hey, game space..." Akashi said, but the sphere didn't answer.
"... If you told me the world by my privilege... I could buy free days, right?" Akashi said in his calm voice before the sphere glowed.
[No... According to the rules, the player that being informed about the world by an item or a privilege can't buy rest days] the sphere said with his mechanical voice.
"So... Why didn't you tell me?" Akashi said with an expressionless face.
[... The player didn't ask] "..." the sphere said while Akashi continued to stare at it in silence.
"I see... I want to buy those days... Now" Akashi said with a cold voice.
[... Please pick the number].
*Flashback ends*.
"...*Sigh*... Well" Akashi sigh before fixing his hat and smiling.
"I'm already a professional martial artist that trained in one of the strongest martial arts Also... I'm not alone" Akashi felt his two stands that will always stand with him before smiling.
[The player has 1 hour before his mission start... According to the privilege, the player will be informed about the world now... The next mission is in Sword Art Online... Good luck player] the sound of the sphere sounded in Akashi's head before he froze in his place.
"..." Akashi stood in his place without a word while some wind blew his clothes slightly.
"So... I can't choose that flying heavenly sword now?" Akashi said before raising his head to look at the sky.
"yeah... I still hate this game" Akashi said before moving out from the training ground because he needs to prepare for this mission... more than ever.