Arriving At The Village

As she asked this, Bot Adrian and Henrick looked at her in shock. Adrian never expected she would asked, mostly because he thought she was a little stuck up. She had never tried talking to him before, but to be fair, he had never tried talking to her either.

Henrick was not so surprised, since he quite knew how much she liked fighting. She just never like training. She was also a martial artist, but she trained in the 'Nin Budo'. It was a special martial art, that focused on raw power, with as little movement as possible.

"Hahaha, sure you can, but you have got to show me your status" Adrian snapped out of his shock.

"Uhm sure, but please don't be too surprised!" She said while showing her status.

Adrian looked at her with a curious look, 'Why would i be surprised?'.

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Name: Alice Jax

Age: 18

Class: Novice Martial Artist

Subclass: Merchant

Title: None

lvl: 22

Health: 50/50

Mana: 18/18

Strength: 22

Agility: 15

intelligence: 6

stamina: 15

Vitality: 10

Bravery: 6

Charm: 8

undistributed points: 0

Combat Skills:

Nin Budo: lvl 3

Destructive Punch: lvl 3

Description: It is a punch, that does not care for any armor, and it goes for destroying your organs.

Body Crush: lvl 4

Description: A grabbling attack, where you grab the enemy, pulls the person above your head, and then smashes their back against your knee.

Thunder Pound: lvl 3

Description: It is a lot of punches hit i a quick succession. At level three, it is 9 hits in 3 seconds.

Active Skills:

Strength boost: lvl 3

Dash: lvl 2

Passive Skills:

None

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Adrian was shocked speechless by what he saw. She was the strongest person he had seen until now. He was then looking at the levels lower down, they were quite high, she must have used this evading machine to get them to that level.

A thing that Adrian was wondering, since she had so much strength, why did she not have big muscle. She was a short girl, of around 165 cm, with perfect curves like Joanna, her chest was just a little smaller than hers. She had short black hair, around shoulder length. Her face wasn't that special, but there was something about her, that made her pleasing to the eye.

The thing Adrian was thinking about now was, why didn't she join in on the fight with the tigers. She is this strong, she could probably destroy one of those tigers easily.

"With this strength, how come you didn't attack the tigers?" Adrian had to ask.

"Well ..." as she was answering, her face blushed "I-I ... I was peeing ..." She was very embarrassed about it. Adrian didn't understand why she was embarrassed about that, but he just gave her a nod.

"Anyway, are you sure you want to join my training routine?" Adrian asked, just to be sure she was ready for 'training'.

"I am, please take care of me" She said this with a little blush while looking at Adrian.

Adrian gave a small smile "Well, I already did my morning routine, and we had a small sparring fight earlier!" Adrian said. He had a thoughtful gaze, what do we do now, just before he wanted to say something, he heard Brotus yell.

"It is time to move towards the village!"

This was the perfect opportunity to do some small training with the 2 new students he got. "Guys, we just got an opportunity to train" He grinned while talking to Alice and Henrick.

Adrian started looking around, while the others were packing their stuff. He was looking for something that Henrick and Alice could lift, while they were walking towards the village. They would not get the chance to relax in the caravan this time.

As he went into the forest, he saw a big boulder, around 1 m by 2 meter by 1 meter. It would probably weigh around 200 kilograms, perfect for Alice to walk with. He lifted it up, and went back to camp. He put it in front of Alice and said "You have to lift this all the way to the village" He was also grinning a little.

He then looked around again, and found a log, of around 100 kilograms, and told Henrick to do the same as Alice, with the log. Both Alice and Henrick looked at each other, with very shocked looks, but they agreed to train with him, so they did what he told them.

Adrian himself found a stone of around 200 kilograms, and lifted that one to walk towards the village. He was not as strong as Alice, but he wanted to challenge himself. He had lifted 200 kilograms many times before, but he had never walked a long distance with it.

As Alice, Adrian and Henrick was moving beside the caravan with their heavy weights, the guards laughed at them. They were basically just using up all their energy, which was a good thing for them.

Brotus looked at his children with a loving gaze, while looking at Adrian with a grateful look. He had never seen anyone being able to get them to train what so ever. Brotus has tried many times before, but never succeeded, why was it that it was easy to get them to train under Adrian?

They didn't know it was because Adrian had a quite high charm stat compared to others. No one ever used points in the charm stat, so most people only have it at 5. There are some rare one like Adrian and Alice out there. Alice was not charmed though, she just wanted to stay stronger than Henrick.

"Hey Adrian ... Who are you actually?" Henrick had been curious about this for a while. He just never had a chance to ask it.

"Oh me?" he was pointing to himself with a curious look "I am just a normal orphan".

"You are not a 'normal orphan', no 'normal orphan' could ever fight like you do" Alice jumped into the conversation.

"Yeah, no way, what spear technique are you training? if I may ask" This time Hnerick came in with a new question. He wanted to know what famous master this young man had.

"Well, my system shows it is called 'Basic Spearmanship'. The way i got it, was through repetitive swings and thrusts with my spear" As Adrian said this, Alice, Henrick, Brotus and even the 2 guards looked at him with shocked gazes.

In this world, having manuals to train was everything. Doing it without a manual, was something only geniuses could do. What he had essentially done, was to create his own spear technique. Albeit just at the most basics of levels.

"If that is true, do you know what that accomplishment means?" Brotus was now the one that chimed in.

"It is nothing special, I only know three skills in the 'Basic Spearmanship' anyway" Adrian was talking like it was nothing. He was talking like this because he thought it was nothing really. He had grown up with a friend like Joby, who was an even bigger genius than himself.

"It is special Adrian, you have essentially created your own technique!" Alice said. She had grown up in a merchant house, so she knew the significance of this. Having made your own technique, means that you are fighting exactly how you want.

If you had a technique someone else had made, you would never be 100% compatible. Many is okay with this, but there is a few people, that is going for making their own skills. 99% of those people fail, and the last 1%, has become the strongest warriors in human history.

Alice tried to explain all of this, but it didn't really butch Adrian. He didn't care much about his technique, he just wanted to train and fight. He of course also wanted to have fun with friends, but that was hopefully while fighting.

Henrick could see that Adrian had a nonchalant look on his face at the moment, so he just smiled "You are insane!" He had nothing more to say, he felt like he might be lucky to have a friend like him in the future.

Even if they were not friends. Adrian would definitely be a celebrity in the future, and then he could brag about being trained by Adrian.

What Henrick didn't know was, that Adrian had already started seeing him as a friend. Adrian was the type, that could easily make friend, with people he is fighting. Especially if they are strong and respectful.

Time went by, as the trio kept talking, while lifting the heavy objects they had. At some point, they had even made it to the small village, as they heard.

"We can see the village, only a few hundred meters before we are there" It was brotus telling the trio that, as he saw they were unfocused.

One could not see the two guards faces from behind, but if they could, they could see two very cruel grins.