Tournament

Adrian chose to go back to the inn with Innes. He wanted to check his own stats, as well as Innes's. He wanted to get a clear picture of their combined power.

On the way back to the inn, they got a lot of looks. It seemed like it was very peculiar to see a monster together with a human in this world. Adrian chose to ignore all these looks; he was minding his own business.

As he got back to the inn, the first thing Adrian immediately looked at Innes's stats.

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Name: Innes

Age: 16

Class: Wolf

Subclass: Alpha

Title: None

lvl: 20

Health: 75/75

Mana: 45/45

Strength: 15

Agility: 15

intelligence: 15

stamina: 15

Vitality: 15

Bravery: 15

Charm: 3

Combat Skills:

Slash lvl: 3

Swing lvl: 3

Active Skills:

dash lvl: 5

Passive Skills:

Instinct lvl: 1

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What surprised Adrian was that the wolf had two of the skills that Adrian had. One was dash, and it was at a higher level than Adrian's, while the other is instinct, it was lower than Adrian's, but still useful.

It was also an Alpha wolf, which didn't really surprise Adrian, considering that it had some serious battle intent. It didn't fall from Adrian's pressure like the others did, which was kind of weird.

Adrian then looked at his own stats, and saw that he had some undistributed that he used. He kept five points to use in emergency's.

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Name: Adrian Stone

Age: 16

Class: Novice spearman

Subclass: None

Title: None

lvl: 14

Health: 60/60

Mana: 24/24

Strength: 12 -> 14

Agility: 16 ->18

intelligence: 7 -> 8

stamina: 12

Vitality: 12

Bravery: 12

Charm: 8

undistributed points: 5

Combat Skills:

Basic Spearmanship lvl: 5

thrust lvl: 3

swing lvl: 3

overhead swing lvl: 2

Perforate lvl: 2

Whirlwind lvl: 1

Active Skills:

dash lvl: 3

Passive Skills:

Disciplined lvl: 4

Instinct lvl: 2

Emotion control lvl: 3

Pressure lvl: 2

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Adrian chose to use one point in intelligence, since he wanted to learn some magic. He also put to points in strength and agility, because that was his mains stats. He was starting to think about going up in other stats as well.

Now that he knew both his and the wolf's strength, it was time to go back to the guild to choose a task. He had no idea what kinds of tasks there were, but he knew it had to do with battle as usual.

Adrian smiled a little, padded Innes's head, and went to the guild. The wolf wagged its tail, while following happily after Adrian.

As they arrived at the guild, it was filled with adventurers, happily drinking and making strategies for tasks. It was a wonderful sight to see. Adrian was just looking around with an indifferent look, walking straight toward the board with tasks.

As he looked at the board, he found a weird task. Something that he had never thought that he would see on the task board.

It was a task, where a noble house were recruiting young adventurers, to fight in a tournament. It was apparently a tournament for young geniuses. The winner would get a grand price of 200 gold coins.

Adrian could not help but think that this sounded kind of fishy, but he didn't really care. This was a way for him to fight a lot of young and talented people like himself. Adrian was truly excited to get this task, so he took it from the board, and went straight to the reception.

The receptionist just accepted the task, and didn't do anything else. So Adrian went on his way. The noble house were part of the capital, so Adrian wanted to go there now, to say that he wanted to join the tournament.

It was not a big noble house, it was one of the smaller ones, and the name of the noble house were Harlace. They had never really been the strongest, but they had never been the weakest either.

The Harlace house were situated in the rich part of the capital, where all of the other noble houses and rich merchants lived as well.

As Adrian walked through the streets with Innes, he saw that everyone had high quality clothes. They were all decorated with jewelry. Adrian felt like an outsider, he only had his plain looking leather armor, with a gorgeous spear.

He didn't show anything on his face though, he still walked with his indifferent face towards the Harlace house. It was placed in the middle of the rich society, which meant they were average compared to the other noble houses.

It was still quite a big mansion, bigger than the one that Joanna lived in. There was a lot of land to it, with a lot of smaller houses. The houses all looked really beautiful, but the mansion was in another league.

It was painted a completely white color, with black roof. There were rounded towers in each of the corners of the mansion, towering taller than the rest of the mansion. There were beautiful plants growing up on some of the façade of the mansion. All in all, it was the most beutifull building he had ever seen.

He tried to get into the mansion, but he was stopped at the gates by the guards. On e can not just walk into a noble house.

"What business do you have with the Harlace kid? You can't just walk in!" On of the guards said, while looking at Adrian with a cold look.

"I am here from the adventurers guild! I accepted their task!" Adrian gave the guard an indifferent look with a hint of annoyance. He didn't really feel like waiting here.

"Well then, sucks to be you! The spots have already been taken!" The guard gave Adrian a smirk, he looked like he wanted to have some fun.

"Oh, I will take my leave then" Adrian didn't care to play along, as he turned around. As he turned around though, he heard a shout coming from inside the noble house.

"Who do you think you are?!? You can't just do what the f*ck you want!" He sounded like he was enraged. "LEAVE! NOW!"

As he heard the last part, he saw a young man, that looked like an adventurer walked out of the mansion. He looked way too proud and arrogant. The angry man ran out to the gate, getting the adventurer to leave.

He was quite big. Around 2 meters tall, muscles bulging everywhere. He had quite the average face, and some wild spikey hair. What was the most prominent about him though, was his lifeforce in his eyes. His eyes looked much younger than his body.

He stared at the arrogant guy until he was gone from his view. Then he turned to the guard and said "We need a new recruit!" He practically yelled this in the face of the guard.

The guard was shocked, and he just stared at the man. The man just looked at him "Understood?" He was honestly very menacing.

"W-w-w-well, sir H-H-Harlace, I might already have f-found someone!" The guard was stuttering like crazy. He was a little scared. Sir Harlace just kept looking at the guard, like he was saying 'well, keep going then.'

"L-l-look b-behind you!"

Sir Harlace looked behind, and saw that Adrian were standing there. He gave Adrian the elevator looking, sizing him up from top to bottom.

"You don't look like much kid!" Sir Harlace could not help but say his opinion.

Adrian then gave Sir Harlace an elevator look like he did to him. "Well, you do!" Adrian then gave his honest opinion back.

"HAHAHAHA, good comment!" Sir Harlace was surprised. This kid dared to speak back to him, and he didn't even flinch for a second. This kid was at most 18, and he was able to stay this calm towards a strong man like him.

"Good kid! Come on in, join us in the training!" Sir Harlace invited him in straight away. Adrian seems to have met another man like himself. He doesn't know if he was lucky or unlucky.

Sir Harlace turned around, and went straight into the mansions training field. Adrian followed right behind him. As they walked to the training field, Sir Harlace started talking again.

"By the way kid, my name is Lex! Lex Harlace!" He extended a hand, to shake Adrians.

"Adrian!" He took the hand, and shook it back.

"What is your class kid?" The man was now curious, this young man was so calm it was scary.

"I am a spearman! Only a novice one at the moment!" Adrian gave his class up straight away, since it was not really a secret.

"HAHAHAH. You have a spear, that makes sense!" He couldn't help but laugh at his own stupidity. The young man had a spear on his back, how could he not notice that, with all of his experience?

They finally arrived at the training grounds, and Adrian gave a small smile again. Finally, he gets to fight young and strong people.