3. Grinding Skills to Become Powerful

After checking his stats h realized he got 8 stat points from 1 day of workout, he worked out as a noble too but he would earn at most 1 or 2 points, he realized that it was because he spent himself fully and that was the reason for his huge stat gain. That was half of the truth, it was true that because he spent himself fully he gained 5 stat points but the other 3 came from the bath he was in, which was made by Benjamin to fulfill this purpose.

David looked at the air and saw that ir was already night time and he realized that he was passed out for more than 8 hours since the sun was already down and probably has been for a while, he got out of the bath and wore his clothes that were right by the bath, he realized that he was probably going to not be able to eat anything for the night since he didn't hunt but he also wanted to test out his luck.

As he walked into the hut, Benjamin turned towards David and said

"Ohh, the sleeping beauty has woken up, from tomorrow onwards the plan changes in the first 4 hours I will teach you techniques and the last 4 hours you will do your workout, I won't ask you to hunt for food as I realized that you are really a chump I thought your level 1 looks were fake not gonna lie. Now come eat something and tell me everything in your character sheet."(Benjamin)

Except for the Blessing of the Universe, David told everything in his character sheet.

"Hey kiddo, are you sure there is no Blessed by this god or that god, because this looks like the character sheet of the people who have been blessed by one of the major gods in this universe"(Benjamin)

David realized at this point that he fucked up, so he decided to tell Benjamin everything including the Blessing of the Universe and how it saved David's life twice and told him he would be a great ally, also how Benjamin was deserving of trust, so on and so forth.

"Come on David even the fucking universe said I was trustworthy, why the fuck were trying to keep secrets, ok now since you can power level all your skills we will change your schedule according to that"(Benjamin)

At this point David realized that Benjamin was a power freak who only had one thing and one thing only on his mind, how to get him more powerful. He guessed that this was because he believed David would be able to beat and kill the god king and his personal army. David also had the same aspirations and was hopeful because the universe itself saw him as a powerful ally how could a king kill him, he didn't realize at this point that he shouldn't be too cocky considering he is still a level one noob, while all the higher ups are known to be around 1000-1600 levels and the god king was probably higher than that.

As David and Benjamin was eating and drinking just like yesterday they were also conversing and talking about this and that, they both appreciated the company of the other and they started to grow accustomed to each other, it would still be wring to call them close but they were slowly getting there.

The next day came this day was the day that David would learn new skills, actual skills that were created by people rather than the skills you would get when you do an action that system recognizes.

After having breakfast David asked Benjamin what skills he would be learning today.

"We are starting from the absolute basics, I will show you the perfect punch, which is the same as basic punch where you use the full extent of your power and there is no waste of energy, and if you manage to level it enough, I might even teach you an evasion skill"(Benjamin)

They left the hut together and Benjamin led David to an empty expanse of space.

"So I will show this to you as much as you want but first I need to explain to you how it works, so the key point in not wasting any energy is how you move your body ..... as you can see when you move these two muscles too fast then this muscle cannot give all its power ....so when you are turning your body you need to make sure that you don't overturn ... thats about it. Now watch me carefully."(Benjamin)

It finally ended, fucking finally I thought I would grow old and die of old age before this explanation ended. After his initial excitement about the lecture ending died down, he became excited that he was going to learn a skill. Benjamin started to execute the move, Benjamin was attentively watching, he saw every single movement that Benjamin talked about being executed by Benjamin himself, in the exact way he explained, after making Benjamin execute it 4-5 times David tried it himself, and his first try was kind of a bum, he wasn't able to execute the moves correctly, his second try the same, after his 6th trial he finally executed it well and got the skill. At this point he heard a voice in his head,

"Two compatible skills that can be fused together has appeared, in order to be able to fuse them please level them both up to lvl 50, when you fuse them together the level will go back to 1, however at level 50 the skill will be way stronger than the both of the skills. The higher the level you fused them at are the better the outcome will be. The second part of the explanation was given because this is the first time getting two compatible skills."(System-chan)

"Ooh I got the skill, what is my goal for the day to level it up to"(David)

"Lets just say level 15 so you are unable to achieve it"(Benjamin)

After hearing this David's competitive side came out, when someone said he couldn't do something he would get really hyped and try his hardest to achieve it even if it was hard he would get it in the end, his previous school life was full of examples like these, he would be bad at one grade his family would tell him he was definitely going to fail that class then he would get good grades, it was the easiest way to motivate David and it was really easy to conduct as well.

Before grinding the skill he checked his character sheet to see the effect of the skill.

Perfected Basic punch lvl1: deals +2% damage

David started punching a tree with his new skill again and again and again and again, after two hours which would be about three hours into the morning workout ,since almost a full hour was Benjamin explaining the punch, David finally reached level 15 he was ecstatic, he went to Benjamin and told him that he had reached level 15

At this point he also realized that his skilled up level has leveled up to level 2 increasing exp gain by 40% now, he didn't realize it before hand and wondered exactly when this skill leveled up.

"Don't get too excited because of level 15 mine is level 722 right now it deals about 14 times the amount of my normal attack and thats not even my highest damaging ability. Okay now I will teach you a skill called sidestep, which is basically the most fundamental dodge action, now the way it works is .... then you have to contract these muscles so you don't damage yourself..... then you have to decrease the movement as much as you can..... thats about it. The four hours is almost up just learn the skill then we will eat then you have half an hour of free time then you will do the body workout."(Benjamin)

He tried the sidestep skill and in his first try he got the skill which was unexpected since he thought it would at least take as many trials as the perfected basic punch.

David realized his arms were already really sore and he had gained 1 stat point in int and str, after this he started to wonder how long he could endure the training this time as he had no idea how he managed to go through more than 3 hours of hell yesterday.

He ate the food that was prepared by Benjamin and spent rest of his free time by going to the toilet, talking with Benjamin and so on, basically with not much because the time itself is also not much.

Then the hell started, the same run started and he was given a time limit of 10 minutes shorter than yesterdays run which surprisingly wasn't that hard for David, when you think about it he learned both a dodge skill, some stats and his already available skills have leveled up too. He ended it about 30 minutes earlier than the yesterdays run and went to the next machine.

he thought the second machine would be breeze in the park too however it wasn't. He was thinking I already have the sidestep and I have more agi too there is no way I'm gonna pass out on this one was his thoughts before starting. The thing he didn't realize is he wasn't really able to move his legs a whole lot, his space was limited which meant if he used sidestep he would bump into a wall, a stick or something. And even if his agi was higher so was his strength.

he was both using the basic punch and the perfected basic punch, he came to realization the attacks were coming at him way faster than yesterday, the attacks were proportional to his own, he realized his stupidness of believing it was going to be a breeze in the park, he was still able to dodge more than yesterday and was close to surviving in this machine for 1 hour when he got knocked out by one attack that hit him in the neck that wasn't the only cause of course but that was the ending blow.