Dungeon of the Arrow Sage

Hayashi soon awoke and got to his feet and picked up the new weapon he had made. "I'll name you...[Black Brazen Hawk]"

Hayashi inspected the weapon he created. It looked like a greatsword that was reduced to a dagger, it had a thick, double-edged blade and wide flat, and black inside parts of the blade with a metallic grey outside, like Hayashi's hair making him smile. The other side had two rubberbands that went through each side with a wheel-like middle with a hole to keep the arrow in place.

"Pffft! This thing is for fishing, but if you're not able to use a bow, there's a slingshot equivalent!"

Hayashi walked into the first room of the dungeon where he was attacked by a golem and was blown back by the sheer impact. He slides back now taking out a second slingshot.

"Come! [Last Stand]!" Hayashi said as he landed while sliding back. "[Elemental Attunment]![7 Element Channeling]![Fighting Spirit]!"

Hayashi's powers start causing him to feel lethargic but then felt energy burst through his entire body as he rushed toward the Golem and hit it with the blade and hammer only being able to make a few cracks as the golem counterattacks.

"I can't break it in one go...But I left a few cracks. So I have to attack multiple times! [Fighting Spirit][Hunter's Sprint][Elemental Attunement][Arcane:Powershot]!"

He called on most of his skills and then remembered he could enhance his armor and weapons.

"[Blade Aura][Area: Morale][Area: Enhance Munitions][Area: Enhance Armor][Area: Enhance Weapons]" He called out the skills feeling his energy being sapped with each activation

Hayashi's mental energy was once again pushed to its limit as he rushed at the golem and fired [Arcane: Powershot] at its chest using [Black Brazen Hawk] as the arrow managed to pierce through the stone and used [Area: Morale] and [Fighting Spirit] to increase his concentration to form his [Blade Aura] into a sword. He slashed down and only managed to destroy the golem's head. The golem did not stop and tried to grab Hayashi before Hayashi jumped onto its arm and then ran to its chest activating the [7 Elements Channeling] and kicking the arrow further into its chest using electric power to shock the inside of the golem completely disabling it as it fell to the ground.

"Hah...hahaha..." Hayashi laughed as the golem fell and he sat on its back and held his forehead from risking his life before a voice emanated through the dungeon.

"Congratulations! You have passed my preliminary test!"

The voice chimed as Hayashi used[Harvest] and [Dismantle] on the golem and got back a lot of materials that he could use to create weapons as well as a few pieces of armor. "Alright! Then let's get this test done! Tell me where to go old timer!" Hayashi said as he took the dismantled resources and continued through the dungeon levels going up an ascending staircase before having to face more golems, this time two iron golems. "Great what's next you old spirit!? You better have a reward! You bastard!" He yelled while putting up a middle finger before opening his modification window. "Modification window, Show me upgradable parts of [Black-Brazen-Hawk]!" Hayashi had a second window pop up as [Black Brazen Hawk] upgradable parts were on full display before tapping on the [Whisker Biscuit].

"What's a Whisker Biscuit?" Hayashi reads the description and realizes that the whisker biscuit was the wheel-like part of the slingshot he was shooting the arrows through and chuckles to himself out of embarrassment.

"Alright then, Upgrade [Whisker Biscuit]!"

"PING!" -20 Plastic -1 Wood

"Expensive upgrade..." Hayashi mumbled as his makeshift Whisker Biscuit upgraded to a durable plastic one.

"Let's see if you're worth it! [Create Munitions]!"

Hayashi rushed at one of the Iron golems while making stone arrows and putting an arrow into his slingshot and using the arrow rest while aiming at the first Golem. "[7 Element Channeling][Elemental Attunment]!"

Hayashi was surrounded by an aura of lightning as he shot his first arrow. as a notification showed up prompting him to use one of the new skills attached to [7 Element Channeling].

He then shouted out "[Railgun]!".

The arrow makes a solid hit but is too flimsy and breaks on the armored giant automaton as Hayashi lands. "Wait a moment...there are weapon skills tied into [7 Element channeling]? Shocking."

"PING!" Through Enlightenment, you have realized that weapons and the elements may be integrated into one skill [7 Element Channeling] and [Elemental Attunment] Will now fuse. 00:20:00.

"A Timer... So I can't use this skill for twenty minutes. Fine."

Hayashi returned [Black-Brazen-Hawk] and took out his [Hornet Emporer]. Hayashi rushed at the two golems blade in hand and advanced gaining speed.

"[Hunter's Sprint]!"

Hayashi dashes into a golem's chest and impales it with his dagger before getting swatted off of it leaving the blade in its chest and taking out [Ronin] next.

"[Eye of the Hunter]!"

Hayashi became angered as he dashed again at the second golem, impaling its chest with his dagger once again getting swatted off, and taking out [Kaiser]and[Jade Tempest] as Hayashi's eyes shine a cool but violent shade of blue, he could feel something within his chest, all he needed to do was keep fighting so he could bring it out. "More..." Hayashi said as he rushed the second Golem again and spun his Karambit in his right hand before making a hook motion with his arm and making a scratch before landing the golems retaliated by swinging their weapons at Hayashi hitting him a few times from the impact left that cracked the ground and scattered dust everywhere giving Hayashi enough time to find a weakness in this Iron Golems.

"[Arcane: PowerShot]!"

He shoots a marble as he looked at the timer only 5 minutes had passed since he started fighting the metal golems and a blue flame was starting to grow from his chest as the timer decreased and he waited and looked up at the ceiling.

"Hey Old man, You here!?"

"Who are you calling old man!? I'll have you know I only died a millennia ago!"

"Sounds pretty old to me..."

"No respect!"

"Do you think you can make the difficulty a bit harder? These things only counter-attack me instead of chasing me down! Fix that for me!"

"Oh? Do you want to make this a challenge? So be it!"

The Golem's eyes glow red as they chase Hayashi around, however, this is what he wanted as his AGI increased slowly while he dodged the attacks of the sword and spear the golems were wielding.

Hayashi laughed "Never thought I would say this but...This is fun!"

He kept running and used [Hunter's Sprint] to run across the walls of the dungeon. The flame became stronger and centered itself around his chest with each passing minute as he looked at his timer.

00:12:29

Hayashi looked at the timer and was irked a little before getting punched by a giant fist and barreling into the ground, a dust cloud formed as the two iron giants raise their weapons. Hayashi is on one knee and bleeding but smiling with an eye closed as each weapon descends down to Hayashi's face, he disappeared and suddenly appeared above one of the golems as a second flame lights up before it changes into a spinning, glowing stone. The timer hits 10 minutes leading Hayashi to one conclusion and looks at the holes he made in their chests.

"I believe you've come on to something, but it will never be so easy!" The old ghost laughed

"Maybe so but..."

Hayashi landed on the back of one of the golems and jumped down grabbing his weapon and once again hanging there but this time activating his skill.

"...I ain't done yet! [Blade Aura]!"

Hayashi creates a large blade that cuts through the iron golem shattering a jewel in its chest Hayashi recalls his weapon to his inventory before going for the second weapon and jumping over the weapon as the first golem drops its spear and the second golem tries to attack him in mid-air. The timer hits 6 minutes and a ball of lightning and a ball of light manifest and spin around the small blue flame in 4 different directions. Hayashi believes he can play with the giant iron golem and takes the weapon before manifesting his blade aura on [Emerald Tempest] then rushing at the iron golem again as it tries to strike Hayashi again only for its blade to be shattered by his karambit's sharp aura. The timer reaches 3 minutes and a water swirl manifested and joined the orbit.

"PING" [Blade Aura] has reached its max level and will now evolve.

"PING" [Blade Aura] has evolved into [Specialist Aura]!

The timer hit 1 minute and a ball of glowing dark red energy and a mini tornado manifested and started to spin in a cycle with each step a few seconds pass by.

00:00:30

00:00:20

00:00:15

00:00:10

00:00:05

00:00:00

"PING!" Evolution Complete! Fusion of [7 Element Channeling] and [Elemental Attunment] has been completed and evolved to [Primordial Principles]!

Hayashi didn't waste any time activating the skill.

"[Primordial Principles][Specialist Aura][Hunter's Sprint]!"

Hayashi dashes at the golem with his karambit as the aura around his knife became bigger and darker. The once murky aura was now sharp, durable, and properly formed before a reaper holding a sickle appeared behind the grey-haired kid, the reaper's scythe synchronizing with the aura and blade of his knife.

"Weapon Skill! Emerald Reaper!" He found himself saying as he and the reaper struck the neck of the golem, decapitating it.

Meanwhile back at base the rest of [Ground Zero] was experiencing a zombie hoard and an influx of survivors who were running from the hoard. Nishiwaka and Yoshida were blocking as many zombies possible while Chiyo and Fueki were taking out any zombies that slipped past the two boys defenses as their own levels went up.

"Guys! There's too many!"

"We know!"

"Can you two advance?"

"I can! Not sure about Nishiwaka-San!"

"I can move forward! What would that accompli-"

A tiger suddenly rushed past everyone and decimated anything in it's way while clearing a path.

"Ni-Liv!" They all yelled while going through the path the cat-turned tiger made for them before it opens it's mouth.

"Get down!" Nishiwaka said as he got into a ball

"DOWN!" Yoshida said summoning a barrier with his shield and looking at his system on the inside of his shield and using his allocation points to increase his STR,DEF and DEX stats.

"ROAAAAAHHHH!!" Ni-Liv roared as an explosive beam shot out it's mouth.

The beam makes a large boom as it incinerated a large amount of zombies straight through the middle while the fighters got up. Chiyo reaches into her pouch and takes out another shuriken and threw it and a proficiency bar shows over her head.

Throwing Profiency:LVL 29

Her shuriken pierces another enemy before using a new skill.

"[Demon Whirlwind], [Shadow Strike]!"

Chiyo disappeared and a large four-bladed shuriken came out the ground, covered in a black blade extention cutting up multiple zombies and then using the skill a second time a few seconds after she reappears on the other side of where her [Demon Whirlwind] stops and uses the same skill again.

"[Arcane Star]![Demon Whirlwind]!" She throws an explosive version of her giant throwing star, exploding as it cleaves the ground.

Hayashi walks upwards towards the final level of the dungeon,it was just a lone human sized golem.

"What's this?"

"An automaton. Defeat it,it's the final trial before you clear this dungeon." The disembodied voice responded

"There's a catch right?"

"None at all."

"Works for me."

Hayashi runs at the automaton and tries to strike it with [Ronin] and [Hornet Emporer]

"[Chain Rush]!"

Hayashi strikes the automaton but it blocks him, only chipping the armor on the forearm before getting punched in the stomach.

"AGH!"

Hayashi groaned in pain and activated [BLOODLUST] and [Primordial Principles]

TO BE CONTINUED...