5. Thats A Legendary Skill

As Benjamin walked into the house David acted fast and asked

"Hey Benjamin do you know the, uh the skill called the Punch of the Transcendents?"(David)

"Did you really get the legendary skill, the fabled skill that was the main reason the god of Martial Arts was called the God of Martial Arts"(Benjamin)

"Not really, but I don't think I should tell you what I got after your reaction, you look like you were about to force me to teach you the skill too"(David)

"The fuck did you expect of course you are gonna teach me the skill, one way or another. You know you aren't the only one trying to kill the god king, you aren't the only one that can become powerful, if you want to beat the god king one person is not going to be enough. The biggest problem isn't even the god king, I used to work for his father, he was less talented but, he had a whole lot more time to live you know."(Benjamin)

At this point David cut off Benjamin and said

"Calm the fuck down, I was joking, do you know what a joke is, admittedly it wasn't the best but still it was a joke calm down. Of course I'm gonna teach you the skill, you taught me everything needed to get the skill, fed me helped me out, why the hell would I not."(David)

"Come on, you know I get really heated at moments like these, you can't say I'm the one on the wrong here"(Benjamin)

They basically had a stupid fight over this which ended with both sides realizing what they were doing was really dumb and stopping in about two seconds after they realize it. They also said sorry to each other and cooked and ate some food together and then Benjamin looked at Davids ears and nose to see if anything was still wrong with him, he had healed by the time it was checked. They both slept the night and in the morning.

David intentionally explained how every muscle, strand of energy would be used to make the skill work, after the ten minutes Benjamin started to lose focus and asked repeatedly for David to just show him the skill which david kindly refused. After about a whole hour David was bored of messing with Benjamin, then he showed Benjamin how the skill would work by using it. At this point he didn't know how fascinated Benjamin was with this one punch, he started watching intently as he couldn't understand in the first punch.

David had been executing the skill for more than 12 hours when Benjamin finally got the skill himself. At this point Davids skill had leveled up all the way up to level 13 which was actually really low considering he had been able to level other punches by about 50 or even more at the lower levels.

After Benjamin learned the skill, the first thing he did was to delete all his other punch skills so that he could no longer give up leveling this skill. He was a sword user anyways, the loss of a few punch skills wouldn't effect him that much but the attack skill that he earned would be able to make a whole lot of difference. After today, Benjamin would be taking a few months break on helping David get more powerful, he would still be hunting until David reaches 25 stat points in everything.

The days of grind for both of them started they were both grinding the Punch of Gods at a similar pace because of Benjamin's high level and David not focusing solely on the skill and also doing workouts every day. After the first two weeks, David had reached the 25 stat points in every stat and started to hunt for one meal of the day.

David was out on his first hunting mission, which was definitely bound to be a bust unless something jumped on him since he had no idea how to neither find nor track any kind of animal, still he was going to try.

David had just entered the forest, having no idea how to hunt, he decided to move only in one way so that he could find his way back easily, he started moving one tree at a time looking around to see if there was any animals that he could see, however there was none for literally half an hour, he webt left and right forgetting his only forward rule hoping to find at least one monster or animal that he could kill, he didn't even find one that he couldn't kill anyways, you get the idea.

After spending all this time he was just about to lose faith in himself when he saw hoof prints not so far from himself leading deeper, as far as David knows, into the forest. He started following the hoof prints and after another 15 minutes of losing the tracks refinding them and losing them again he came to a dead end. There was nothing where he had went to, in fact the only reason the hoof prints were no longer visible was because they have been getting less and less visible all along the way, it was at this moment David realized he fucked up once again, I guess if you are just thrown out there you tend to forget to apply a few things you know.

He started going back the exact same way he came from and after a grand total of 30 more minutes he finally saw a goat lying down next to a rock, he started moving towards it and realized that it was actually hurt, he remembered seeing a cliff from when he went the wrong way, he guessed that this goat must have fallen from the cliff couldn't get back up so it opted to stay down. He sent all the irrelevant information to the back of his head and tried to get closer to the animal so he could get a sneak attack in. He move inch by inch and the animal was already asleep and it was pretty beat up from the fall too, so it didn't wake up until David was about 20 m away from it.

David realized that the animal had woken up so he used his side step skill to move right next to the goat and tried to punch it of course with the Punch of the Gods, inflicting bleeding and stun, if he didn't need the meat of the goat he would just be using all the status effects but he couldn't risk the meat to get poisonous, or any other nasty stuff, or get cooked. As the punch was thrown, the goat didn't even try to escape as if it understood that the punch would be able to kill it, it tried to ram David with his horns, which turned out really bad for David as he had put all his power in this one punch and didn't have his side-step skill.

David felt his hand hitting the goat, some bones being broken and not from his hand either, then he felt the goat hit his chest and some bones being broken this time from his chest sadly. He felt the goat being propelled backwards and he felt himself being propelled backwards too, he fell down after a meter or two and while he was still in motion he saw the goat hit the boulder he was just resting on a minute ago and then he realized at this moment that the goat stopped moving altogether it looked dead and at this point he crash landed on the ground rolling for a few turns and then stopping.

He felt the rush of adrenaline even though the fight didn't last too much. He started to analyze what he had done wrong to get hurt in an easy fight like this, he realized that his most major mistake was, using his side-step as a means to attack, because of this when he was about to get hit he couldn't run away, even if he was going to use it as a means to attack he could have used it better, as he was pondering all this he was also carrying the dead goat back to where he assumed the river would be so he could find Benjamin's hut.

He started walking towards the direction he thought the river would be and guess what it was actually the way the river was, for the first time in a long while he felt like he was able to do one thing correctly. Except for maybe creating one of the most powerful skill in the universe.

As he walked down the river slowly he saw the hut, but something was strange there was something going on, the hut was burning, there was screaming and shouting going on. His first thoughts were not again, he didn't want to lose someone dear to him again, he started running towards the hut getting ready to fight. As he came closer and closer he realized the fight was already over and he also realized that what he did was stupid, as he was no where near as strong as Benjamin so he couldn't save him anyways. He didn't care about this and ran into the hut anyways, thankfully this time he had not lost Benjamin, but he was sure as hell in a beat up state.

"What the hell happened here Ben"(David)

Showing the three bodies in the hut and the fourth body outside he said

"They are from the God Kings army, to be more precise the top 5 elites of the God Kings army, well the fifth one managed to escape so we beed to get a move on as soon as possible, they were able to track you down to here then, realized that I was living here and they waited and waited until their backup came, guess you were lucky weren't you fellow, that blessing must be really effective."(Benjamin)

As he said this he messed David's hair and laughed showing his bloody teeth, if it was anyone else they would probably be scared but for David this was a sweet gimmick done to ease him. After he was done with messing Davids hair, Benjamin said.

"We really should get a move on, the God Kings army is a scary group, and they will be pissed when they hear 4 of the top 5 had died."(Benjamin)

They packed up in half an hour, get whatever they can from the bodies and started moving towards a direction that Ben lead to, after an hour or two, David asked Benjamin.

"By the way how did you know they were the top five"(Benjamin)

"Alright alright, do you want the long story or the short story, why the hell am I asking anyways we both know I will tell you the long story, they introduced themselves to me saying I am the number one elite, I am this elite I am that elite and told me to turn myself in and not resist.

As you might have figured my acting skills are pretty fucking good, I was all like, yeah man for sure, I don't know why you guys are here but as long as its kings people I guess it must be something serious so whats the problem, they basically bought it and explained to me that you were a fugitive that I was harboring him and they needed to question me too and so on.

I was like sure man I ain't doin nothin wrong, and one of them came towards me to cuff me, I raised my hands towards him to cuff me, he jumped back knowing who I was, and I kept acting clueless. When he came back, I just waited and waited until he was literally a few centimeters away from may hand

I'll have to give it to you the Punch of Gods is indeed the Punch of Gods, when I punched that first guy, almost all of his hp was drained and as I applied all the status effect dude literally died from 1 attack.

the two woman waiting right behind this self proclaimed top 5 jumped on me as they saw what was going on, I managed to hit one more punch and at that exact same moment the second woman managed to get me in the arm, as you can see there is still a pretty nasty gash there, no matter thats not the point what was I saying."(Benjamin)

At this point David was regretting his decision to ask what had happened as it was going to turn into another 4 hour lecture.

As the end of Benjamins epic animesque tale ended, David became curious about one thing and one thing only, what now?

He was just about to mention it to Benjamin, he looked up at his face, opened his mouth but didn't say anything. This repeated for five more minutes until Benjamin said.

"Are you just going to open and close your mouth or are you going to ask the question you want to ask already"(Benjamin)