+55 Grind : Forest of Kin ¹³

In this world stod 4 superpowers which were Demon Lord which ruled over many powerful demons , Dark King who ruled over over 100 of monster race , Church who blindly followed goddess Aria and Humans who were known as the weakest out of them cause of the loss of heroes like Mercedes , Sword God and many more.

Under human faction came Elves , Beastmen , Dwarves and Human. Even though these 4 tribes were strong tribes , they weren't at their full potential now. Their ancestor were atleast 10 times stronger than the current generation , while for the demon tribes they just passed on their power to the next generation in the form of soul ball.

So to strengthen the Human faction all the 9 noble familes meet once every 2 years , of course this number may be more if they all agree to just meet for a casual party or something. But that didn't happen in these last few decades , during this meet they discuss how to strengthen the next generation and see if any Kingdom needed help.

But the upcoming meet was going to be different , the noble who helped each other were now against each other. Because of the tension between Kildian who is a territory in Frontia Kingdom and few of the noble families the 197th Noble Meet was going to be held in Serven Territory.

Another options were Druc Territory which is a elven territory and Bitelia Territory which is Dwarven Territory , but these territories were best suited for Human meetings. Which is why they decided that 197th Noble Meet will take place in Serven Territory.

Another reason that the meet going to take place in Serven is because of Princess Lecilia , everybody knew that Garius treasured his family. Which is why heirs of many powerful families planned to make a connection with Garius's sister to strengthen their foot.

That's why Head of Kildian Family , Frew Kildian came to greet Lecilia. Of course Lecilia welcomed him with open arms as she knew what kind of powerhouse Frew was. The only who was able to reach the power of our ancestors , the only man who's able to defeat Garius.

That's the kind of power she wanted to add to her family , but she didn't accept or reject his proposal of marriage. The reason was because of the enemies Frew's had , 3 out of 9 familes were against Frew. Hence she put his proposal on hold.

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「 A new skill will be created 」

The man who created the game , Rick kept a close eye on unpredictable beta testers like Finn , Rin , Yuki. These all were professional players and well known in gaming world , they adapted to any game played faster than anyone which was why their fast progress intrigued Rick.

But along with them Rick asked his employees to keep an eye on Axel too , Axel being from Rexur family was enough to get him special treatment from Rick. But apart from that Rick was really looking forward to see a player who don't know anything about gaming play games.

How will he handle a specific situation? At what rate will he progress? Can he beat a professional player if he came across one?

What Rick failed to notice was that Axel wasn't just any average man , his skills to adapt and learn new things is one of the best on the whole continent. Many people witnessed this ability of his first handed and knew what kind of person he was.

If you were to see a noob playing a game and become weak to strong that would've been boring. But for Axel it was different , he encountered and fought against monsters which a noob wouldn't dare to touch. He saw few of his play and thought that his tactics were decent which lead him to believe that he was just a average player and nothing much.

The one's who knew Axel's were Rick's employees , that was because they knew about talent in close combats. For a noob his close combat was pretty good , which Rick failed to notice during his plays.

One of his employee knocked on Rick's office door and asked for his permission to come in. Currently the HQ wasn't as crazy as it was when the game was released , most of the changes they had to make were made in version 1.2. Which is why their work load was lessened and they could do spectate testers they wished to except Finn.

The one who came to report was an employee assigned to spectate Axel.

"Come in"

After getting Rick's permission the employee with a tablet in hand stood before him and said ,

"Excuse me President , but you need to see this."

"What is this about? Which tester is it this time?"

"Yes sir , this time it's Excess I mean Axel."

"Did he finally unlocked it?"

The employee pressed some buttons in tablet and a video appeared on the PC which sat on Rick's office.

"So he did , huh. So this the difference between a pro and a noob."

'President , he's not just any noob. His close combat movements and skill utilisation is getting better as he progresses , his growth rate is faster than just another noob. Please notice it.'

The employee wanted to say this out loud but didn't as he cared about his job.

"So did he get to know the required from community or something?"

"No sir , apparently he already fulfilled the requirements few days ago. He just didn't tried to activate the skill , even this time he was barely able to activate it."

"Oh , I see. Indeed an interesting fellow."

The requirements they talked about were the requirements to obtain the skill 'Mana Infuse'.

「

Skill : Mana Infuse

Rank : A

Requirements : 250 Strength ,

250 Intelligence

」

And hence again Excess gets f*cked cause of lack of information.

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"Finally"

「

Skill : Mana Infuse

Rank : A [Upgradeable]

Level : 1

- Infusing the mana into a certain item makes you one with the item , thus you can control it as you like. The range increases as the level increase.

- As you master this technique new possibilities unlock.

Exp : 0%

Mana Consumption : 250 per minute

Cooldown Duration : --

」

The sword started to finally fly as I saw the message before my eyes , I felt a strong connection between me and the sword. I moved my hands controlling the sword and tried to aim for the awakened's back.

Even though the awakened was fast he couldn't dodge something that wasn't in his sight. Hence the sword was able to stab in the back of the monster.

「 You've dealt 2463 damage 」

'Damn , the defense of this monsters is better than I thought.'

Normally my basic attacks dealt around 3,500 damage but because of it's high defense the damage was lessened by about 30%.

I successfully retrieved the sword and got up from the ground , even though I was able to control the sword it didn't mean I could win. My opponent was someone 50 levels above me , the reason I could say this confidently was because you couldn't see the stats of anyone who's 50 levels above you.

This meant that all I could do was try to escape , Instincts skill was over and I stopped dark fuse to not use much of MP. The only thing I could do was escape and try not to die , but to do that with my base speed was impossible which was why I decided to injure it a bit.

'Why will it not?'

While thinking that I was controlling my sword and daggers and was constantly increasing the distance between me and the monster.

'Then should I try to create distance like I'm doing right now?'

'Rezite's power , no... you aren't talking about that transformation are you?'

'F*ck that , I'm not trying that ridiculous transformation again. Even if I'm somehow able to use it again , I wouldn't choose it. With the Rezite I've I can easily cross the forest and go in the village nearby. I can't just kill-'

I could feel the rage in his voice not only that but-

'Sh*t , what are you doing? Why am I so raged?'

For some reason I also felt hate towards humans.

I felt pitied him.

"Just what did he went through to hate this world , he has started screaming like the first time again. Hah , luckily I'm not in Half-Demon form or else I don't know what I'd do."

As time went my MP depleted which made it hard for me to keep up with Mana Infuse , plus Devian's annoying chant was still ringing in my head.

"F*ck , looks like I'm going 1 level down today."

I gave up as my sword fell on the ground , even though I couldn't see it's stats I could see it's HP decreasing from 100% to around 80%. After 6 minutes of non-stop flighting I was only able to decrease it's HP by 20%.

I fell down on ground as I sipped on my last HP potion , my 'Divine Heal' was on cooldown which was why I had to use multiple HP potions to keep myself alive. A kick came flying aiming for my abdomen which sent me flying until I slammed on the tree nearby.

I looked up and saw the blur of the awakened , it almost looked like a beastmen like Rin. Suddenly the awakened was out of my sight and the one I saw was a black shadow of a man before me.

"Ho , that sword looks used. Good work , relax and rest for now."