Chapter 4 Tutorial part 3

All the other players pressed accept and were moved to the waiting area.Xander looked at all the system massages.

"Lets accept the rewards and see what we got"

'[Grey Moon short sword replica]

[Even though it does not compare to the original it is still a great sword]

"A replica of the Grey Moon sword, not bad for a reward in the tutorial"

[Second Reward: Black Armor cloak]

[A clock that is as strong as iron yet flexible and light]

'[Increases wearer's defense by 10%]

'Light armor, in my previous life I preferred heavy armor but I think in this life this suits me best'

'I got a total of 6900 points in total, okay then divide 5000 points equal on all my states'

Xander pressed the accept button.

"Okay then my states are increasing perfectly, if I make a strong foundation I will be able to gain enough power for my revenge later on"

Xander looked closely at his states.

"Its a pity that mana and intelligence can not be increased by points but eventually I will need to increase them especially my mana"

Xander pressed accept and got teleported to the waiting area for the the final trial of the tutorial.

[24 hours left till the final trial begins]

Xander moved away from the where players where gathered, opened the store bought a mattress, pillow , light blanket and within seconds fell asleep

~Twenty hours later~

"Hey boss that guy seriously is asleep, I got close and he showed no sign of movement."

"Well then boys lets rob him of everything he's got", said a big looking guy who was the boss of a group of thug like players whom everyone was clearly avoiding being near.The gang confidently walked up towards Xander holding their weapons and surrounded him.

"Lets wake him up by cutting his leg off"

One of the minions raised his sword to cut Xander's leg but as he began to swing his sword he stopped and all the thugs noticed Xander's hair move slightly.

"Did you guys notice that"

"Yeah his hair moved slightly"

The gang members and the boss said to each other without any worry.

The minion who was about to cut Xander's legs remained frozen that the other gang members got confused as to why he was just frozen and not saying anything.

"Hey whats up with you, cut his leg off", said the boss but the minion did not respond and his hands holding the sword fell down cleanly cut at the elbow level

"Aaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!!!!", the minion screamed in pain

All the other gang members were greatly shocked by what was happening.

"Did he use some kind of unknown power?, He's hair moved a bit which can only mean....everyone retreat now attach his hands back they will heal within minutes in the waiting room."

The gang slowly stepped back and left Xander alone.

'Damn bastards, his lucky I only cut his hands which can be put back in the waiting room since all injuries are healed in here.'

Xander opened his eyes, stretched his arms and looked at the time,

'It seems I slept for twenty hours,even though I used potions to remove the need to sleep I guess my mind really needed it'

Xander wore his Black armor coat,Grey moon sword on his back and the dagger on his weist.He waited for remaining four hours to end whilst going through the book he took from the lab he woke up from.

[All players are going to be moved to the testing area]

All players teleported to a giant terraced area the size of a small town with the central area being flat with the size of a world class soccer field.The area reassembled a large open cast mine and the players where scattered all over the area in their thousands.The tutorial was divided up in the first two stages according to the world one comes from but in the final stage all players where placed in one testing area, humans, elves, demi humans, humanoids with animalistic features and so many other intelligent species from multiple worlds.

A few seconds after the players arrived in the testing area they all felt an ominous presences above in the air and all looked up.In the air was a humanoid figure wearing a rob and stepping on a small floating platform.

"Welcome to the final stage of the tutorial, I am the administrator of the tutorial and shall be giving you the details of the final challenge.Each and every individual will be given a small flag and after exactly one hour when the timer reaches zero those with five flags will have passed the final trial and will be moved to the first floor of the tower"

The players paused for a bit in thought

"And yes any means is permitted so long as you are holding five flags when the timer hits zero you pass"

One small red flag appeared in front of every player

"Struggle, fight with everything you have, offer your lives and climb the tower"

The administrator vanished into thin air

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All the players stayed still and looked at each other with suspicion.The person behind Xander blinked and Xander vanished in front his sight.

"Did he just disappear?"

Just as he said this he felt the flag he was holding leave his grasp.

"What just happen?, where did my flag go?"

No one was able to see anything but felt their flag getting snatched away.Xander moved at incredible speed navigating through hundreds of players and snatching their flags in the process.

"My flag"

"Who did that"

In the commotion of flags being snatched by Xander, players who had formed groups began to attack others without any hesitation to kill.Other players panicked as they realized this trial was meant for players to kill each other.

From the fair end of the terraced area opposite to where the Xander was snatching flags whilst moving fast a girl completely dressed in red with red hair blinked, her eyes glowed red and her field of vision zoomed to where the flags where getting snatched.

"To think there was a player that fast in the tutorial, who do you think is fast between you and that player"

A taller player behind the lady in red dressed in all black also observed Xander with his glowing eyes.

"He's fast but not more than me", replied the player behind the young lady in red.

"Collect as many flags as possible then in the final minutes of this trial kill him and take all the flags he collected"

"As per your order", replied the tall player behind the lady in red.In the centre of the area a light formed and got brighter and bigger.Xander instinctively stopped his fast movement and turned to the direction of the familia sensations he was feeling.The light at the centre scattered and blasted ten players at once and returned to the caster with ten flags.

'A holy power user'

Xander's mind suddenly became cloudy.

'Die, die die!!'

Xander's inner voice shouted, his face was possessed by an expression of great anger desire to kill, his eyes opened wide as of he was psychopath.His body expelled a dark aura and he walked slowly towards the holy power user the ignoring everyone else.After ten steps he suddenly snapped out of it and stopped.

'What was that just now?,Its like I wasn't my self, now is not the time to be lost in thought, I need to collect as many flags as possible'

Xander vanished again and continued snatching flags.When Xander took a flag it would get absorbed by his own flag and was added as a number which meant that he held one flag but on it was written the amount of flags he had collected.

After a some time with Xander snatching flags and the other players fighting each other fiercely the time was down to it's final minutes.

"He has collected hundreds of flags and the time os almost up, Its time you act", said the ominous young lady in red.

"As per your order", replied the tall man in black

The tall player behind the lady in red searched for Xander amongst the thousands of players with his glowing eyes and as soon as he saw him accelerated towards him.Xander moved between players without them even noticing, to him it was as if the other players where moving so slow almost as if they were frozen but in his movement he instinctively dodged and came to a stop.

"To think you would dodge that sneak attack,you are an interesting human", said the mysterious tall player sent my the young lady in red.

'From the experience of my previous life I can tell that he is not human even though he completely looks like one and is powerful above the level of a tutorial player.'

Xander took out his short sword and crouched down a little in preparation to attack as he did wind began to get pushed away from him.His opponent held a dagger in his hand, prepared to charge forward and released a purple aura that pushed wind away.The two's presence filled the area that everyone felt it and instinctively stepped away from them creating a battlefield for them to freely clash.

'This is my first real fight after starting life in this body, lets see how well I will do'

The two tensely looked at each other then vanished from the other player's eyes.They accelerated towards each other and clashed with their weapons at full force.

" Are those even players of the tutorial?"

They pushed against each other with their weapons then stepped back and charged towards each other once more.Upon getting in range Xander crotched down and swung his short sword from below towards the stomach of his opponent but his opponent jump over him in an acrobatic manner and swang his dagger at the back of Xander's neck to which Xander dropped down on the ground dodging the the dagger.The dagger user then threw his dagger at Xander who was laying on the ground facing down but Xander managed to sport the dagger from the corner of his eye and rolled to the left avoiding the thrown dagger then threw his short sword at his opponent but his opponent dodged it and after it had passed him he caught it in synchronization with its momentum, twisted whilst doing so.Xander stood up then grabbed the dagger which was stuck on the ground.

"Now you have no weapon", said the dagger user as he looked at Xander grabbing his dagger stuck in the ground.

"You act as if I can't use a dagger",said Xander as he pulled the dagger from the ground then threw it at his opponent.His opponent froze for a second as if something was wrong but quickly came back to his senses to see his own dagger coming aimed at his head and so used the short sword to block it but just as he finished blocking it Xander was already close with a strong punch in momentum and it connected to the dagger user's torso pushing him back a few metres with his feet off the ground.The short sword was knocked out of his hand and Xander quickly grabbed it.When the dagger user landed he immediately looked forward to where Xander was but could not see him.

"Where did he go?"

The dagger user looked up upon feeling Xander's presents from above and felt his killing intent.Xander poured out all his might in the attack and came down like a meteor at great speed.All the players had their eyes glued to Xander descending down on his opponent .Xander crushed at down at his opponent with great might causing a lot of dust to rise that the other players could not see.The spectators impatiently waited for the dust to settle and see the final outcome of the fight.

The dagger user looked at Xander coming down at him with killing intent a d determination to defeat him and his rage reached a boiling point.

"This human does not know his place, to think he actually sent me flying with a punch, I will showing him the difference between us "

The dagger user's aura spiked and became dense that the players spectating instinctively stepped back but regardless of that Xander still descended down like lightning from the heaven.He crushed down at his opponent with great speed and power that it made a loud sound. Dust rose up fron the impact that visibility was limited from everyone watching.

"What happened"

"I can't see with all this dust"

The dust slowly cleared and as it did three figures could be noticed which confused the players.And after some seconds the dust fully cleared.

"What?"

"But that doesn't make sense"

"No way"

"How?"

The dagger user's hand was held back and Xanders short sword was held back with bare hands, the two fighter's were both stopped by someone who got between them.

"How did she.....?"

The lady in red who had ordered the dagger user to take Xander's flags was between the two, she had stopped the two from colliding by stopping Xander's sword with her bare hand and also the dagger user's fist with her other bare hand.She looked at her servant with serious eyes.

"Calm down this is not the right place for that"

Xander's eyes where filled with shock with the young lady holding he sword bare handed but mostly by the dagger user's hand which had scales in the process of disappearing and after some seconds he jumped back.

"My apologies I almost lost control", said the dagger user, the dagger user bowed his head apologetically.The lady in red no longer had a serious face and told her servant to raise his head.

"Only one minute left, give me half of the flags you have, Im sure we will still be in the top three with that.

Her servant was caught off guard by her words and that is when he noticed that she did not have her flags,

"How did!!?"

"When I stopped his sword and your transformed arm in that fraction of a second he grab my flags, it seems he has greater skill that we thought.

"We can't let it end like this, if we attack him together we can take the flags back"

"No this is enough"

Xander looked at his cracked sword, and replayed what had happened in his head.

'When we where about to collide scales appeared on his right arm, his right eye became that of a reptile glowing purple then that girl stopped his transformed fist and my short sword with her bare hands! and I barely noticed her movement'

The lady in red looked at her servant.

"How was he able to use your dagger which should only Listen to you?"

"I don't know how, I was surprised when he grabbed it and threw it at me which made me freeze for a second and he used that to his advantage"

" So he was able to use your dagger, he is faster than you yet he is human, and....."

The lady in red looked at the wound in the palm of her hand.

'He managed to wound me and take my flag in the commotion, what an interesting human'

Both Xander and the young lady in red replayed what had just happened in their head and looked at each other and had the same thought at the same time.

' That individual is not normal'

'That individual is not normal'

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[End of the final trial]

[Final stage rankings]

1.Unknown 1000 flags

2.Red lady. 300 flags

2.Purple man 300 flags

3.Cyrus. 70 flags

4.*******

5.***

"A thousand flags no way"

"It must be that guy who was using a short sword"

"The following two must be the guy the short sword user was fighting and the lady that stopped them"

"Whats up with those names red lady and purple man could they not find better aliases"

Many players where gave their opinions whilst looking at the rankings.

[Enter the first floor]

Xander and all the other players pressed accept and teleported to the first floor.