Chapter 5: Intermediate Skill

When Jillian came close to Chris, she breathed out of relief seeing that he is fine.

Fortunately, she didn't create any injuries on her brother. The kick was almost the same as a full power attack of 4th Stage Iron Warrior.

A fear of crippling her brother entered her mind. She know that her brother was dreaming to be an iron level warrior. Especially that he had only two months opportunity to be a warrior. If she created an accident now that he became one, she cannot forgive herself.

Luckily, nothing bad happened and at the same time, she was shocked. His brother physique was too strong. Even normal 2nd stage Iron Warrior would be heavily injured by that kick.

Chris was also shocked, the kick of her sister was too strong. If his vitality stats was not high, it can endanger his life. A taste of iron pushed up on his throat, it was blood. Indicating that the impact damaged his organs. It was good that the damage was not bad and could be healed easily.

"Can you stand up?" Jillian pick one arm of Chris, pulling him to stand up.

"I'm fine. I just need to rest for a while". He responded.

Jillian nodded and help him to sit on the bench beside the house.

"Im sorry, I didn't mean it. Don't worry, I will prepare the soup made of feral beast meat to easily healed up your injuries. Just wait here, I'll call you up when it is prepared".

Chris gave her a nod, assuring that he understood. He was catching his breath from tiredness on the sparring, enabling him to respond to her. He picked up the towel on the bench to wipe his sweat.

Jillian on the other hand move inside the house. She was still guilty, and immediately change her clothes to prepare the soup.

Chris was still sitting on the bench, his complexion had already back to normal after a few minutes. He was looking right now at his system panel.

Name: Chris

Power Level: 91/150 ( 1st Stage Iron Level Warrior )

Strength: 15

Speed: 20

Vitality: 40

Intelligence: 16

Skills: Boxing(4/10 Beginner)

The sparring was fruitful for him, the raise on his power level was more than 20 points. Luckily, he was able to endure the last kick. It was a frontal kick, the power was higher than round house or side kick. Adding the momentum of his axe kick, the power of Jillian kick was amplified.

"It must be because of steal" he muttered. He know that the reason of Jillian powerful attack was because of the steal.

Throughout the battle, Jillian didn't notice immediately the draining of her stamina. During their last clash, she unknowingly used too much force. Due to her uncoordinated mindset and body.

Her body natural reaction to counter was triggered.

"Haisst, it is really hard to be stronger, I will need to invest for torture in the future"

Pondering for a moment, an idea came to his mind.

"That is right, I have to look for a defensive skill. It can ease my problem easily".

"Chris, the soup was prepared, you can come in, if you can't stand up alone just ask me" Jillian shouted. Her voice can be heard from the inside.

Chris stand up and go to the dining room.

On the afternoon, Chris was left alone in the house. He didn't take a lot of time to recover after taking his soup.

Right now, he was searching for any defensive skill that suitable for him. He was scrolling and looking each of the item available in the government web. This site was available for the public since training was needed, they just need to pay certain amount when having the skill copy. After an hour of searching, he lay on the bed.

He was looking at the ceiling of the room with a disappointed look, he sighed. "I'm too poor, even common defensive skill worth tenth of thousand credits".

The current world currency was in credits, due to the technology advancement. The people decided the credits number as currency, since people do venture in the wild to defend their territory.

Hunting feral beast became the occupation of many people, having the paper money could only be unsafe during fight. So to ensure that money won't be destroy or can hinder the fight, they decided that everyone should use the electronic accounts to keep their earnings.

His father was a silver warrior so he had some ability, his family standing in the society was above the poor or in the lower middle. His father earning could only reach ten thousand a mont, this is if he got lucky to take down feral beast that is in demand. His ability limit him to hunt down bronze high tier beast only.

He can't ask his sister and father to teach him, since even them don't have it. They focused on increasing their attacks skills. It is because, investing in defensive skill was not worth much until reaching silver. The drain in Arcane Energy was great, since it will be coated in the whole body.

He can't take to ask his parent for money to buy his defensive skill. It would affect their financial status so he had no choice but to depend on his monstrous vitality.

He got up of bed and decided to raise the progress of his boxing skill than worrying his problem.

....

The next day, he was able to reach the Intermediate level of his boxing skill. The utilization of his technique was increased after the improvements. He can insert 1.5 of the total output than before in using the skill.

Skills: Boxing(1/10 Intermediate)

"Sis come on, just a light spar. I want to try my moves. Besides, the incident yesterday can't be repeated today" Eduard said. He was asking Jillian to have a spar with him. He wants to try his improved mastery of boxing skill as well as to farm for more attributes.

As long as he didn't go overboard, the steal will only tire his opponent and expend their arcane energy. It was equivalent to a buff at the same time.

Jillian was annoyed by Chris, her ears was hurting from his continuous request.

She is avoiding to spar with him, afraid that she would not able to control her attack like yesterday.

"Okay" she said. At the end, she give up.

Chris on the other hand was celebrating, he don't want to miss some attribute points as much as possible, he knows that if he depend on absorbing Arcane energy in the surrounding. It would take him a couple of months to improve into 2nd stage Iron Warrior.

His School assessment is around the corner, he had only 3 weeks to improve. He needed to gather enough strength to gain a good result, to be qualified to enrolled in beast hunting course for college.

"Okay Chris, I won't exert too much force like yesterday. I wont teach you anything today. It will just pure sparring" Jillian reminded.

Chris on the other side nodded and started to position himself.

He dashed at full speed on Jillian location. He punch at full power applying his boxing skill. He was able to hit Jillian arms, which she used to defend herself.

'steal strength + 4'

'steal skill + 1'

'Huh?' Chris immediately step backward to put some distance between him and Jillian.

He check his status.

Name: Chris

Power Level: 95/150 ( 1st Stage Iron Level Warrior )

Strength: 19

Speed: 20

Vitality: 40

Intelligence: 16

Skills: Boxing(2/10 Intermediate)

The steal effect had increased, when he applied his skill. It gives him additional points in strength and the Boxing skill proficiency was increased.

He was happy and excited, he just needed to fight and attack for a few more times and he can level up to be a second stage Iron level Warrior.

Jillian on the other hand was shocked, her brother strength was increased greatly than yesterday. The speed of his movement specially the utilization of his skill was improved.

She was thinking if his brother was a sort of genius. His improvements was great after one fight, even though he did not increased in level she could still that he can fight on the same ground with a 2nd stage iron warrior. In addition with his abnormal physique he can even contend a 3rd stage Iron Warrior.

Chris started to make his move again after checking the changes on him.

....

After half an hour, Jillian asked Chris to stop, she was already drench in sweat and her body was worn out.

"Brother we can continue next time, I will have a meeting with my friend this afternoon".

Although it was in the afternoon, Jillian wanted to excuse herself to stop the spar. She can't take the fight, she was wondering since yesterday, that her Stored Arcane was draining rapidly when fighting her brother.

Right now, half of her stored Arcane was already gone.

In addition, her stamina started to worn out, which was shocking. The difference with them was large so this was impossible.

She already breakthrough to Bronze while Chris was still on Iron Level. It should be easy for her to suppress him, even for an hour using the same output of power.

Chris on the other hand was happy, he was close enough to his breakthrough. Even if Jillian didn't asked him to stop, once he had breakthrough, he will still stop eventually.