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Chapter 48 Intermediate Martial-Art
Chapter 48 Intermediate Martial-Art
[Defeat or kill a Prime Tyrannosaurus Ancestor]
[Status: Complete]
[Reward:
-Receive the skill 'Life Drain'
-Instant Level Up]
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[Emergency Mission: Survive the incoming beast horde]
[Information: After a large-scale forest fire, many of the inhabitants were forced to migrate to other regions. This has created large-scale territorial battles and many small-scale ones This caused many of the creatures to team up to take over different regions.]
[Reward:
-A Basic Dagger Art
-2 attribute points
-Storage/ Inventory]
[Due to having lost a level after using deathlock, your level shall remain the same and no extra attribute points shall be given for 'leveling up']
I looked at the screens with widened eyes, however, my expression quickly changed to one of nonchalance. I already knew that I was about to be rewarded and exactly what I was going to be rewarded with.
The only thing that I had taken a mild interest in had been the system message at the end. I hadn't expected the system to need an upgrade, but after reading the message again, I realized that the system was simply leaving its 'beta' stage and entering its full release.
My eyes slowly drifted away from the message and once again landed on the entranced snake looking at the sky. Its eyes had become slightly hollow while every muscle within its body had become stiff.
I could almost feel the fear that radiated from it. It was a sensation that would have made anything think that the snake was coming face to face with death herself.
"Blanca?" I asked, making it snap out of its trance and finally look at me once again with traces of fear within its eyes.
'What a terrifying presence...' It thought to itself.
"What is it?" It answered back while trying to regain its composure.
"Are you a male or a female?" I asked, causing it to freeze for a second at the simple question.
"Female." Blanca answered after a few seconds of silence.
"Oh, cool. Anyway, shall we get going? This place is about to turn into a real mess in a bit." I let out an audible sigh, slightly depressed that I would have to leave this place so soon.
"Yes, we should. But first, we should go to the creature I killed earlier and loot its corpse. Some of its body parts can be useful to you bipedal beings, while the rest can be used to make things like potions. If we are lucky, we can extract a mana crystal from its corpse." It informed me, causing me to frown but still nod my head.
"I'm guessing that the corpse is in that direction?" I asked, making it look at me weirdly.
"Don't look at me like that. I ran out of mana so I can't really see any of its energy." I explained and caused it to nod at me in realization.
It quickly turned around and was about to go towards the direction of the corpse, but it stopped halfway and looked back at me.
"Do you want a ride?" It asked
"Sure." I replied before running up a tree and jumping onto its head.
We moved swiftly through the forest and due to the size of Blanca, we didn't have any problems with any of the other beasts that happened to be around.
While beasts usually happen to be stupid, they have the power of their 6th sense to tell them when and when to not attack something.
Eventually, we both found ourselves in front of the ginormous corpse of a tentacle creature.
"Holy crap. It's HUGE!" I cried out in surprise, forgetting that there is someone who could hear and understand everything I was saying.
Over the last few weeks, due to the lack of any interaction with any other intelligent beings, I had formed a habit of talking to myself aloud.
The snake would have looked at me weirdly as it did not see me as the kind of person to talk to all the time, but due to me still being on its head, it couldn't directly look at me.
Since the snake was taking me into consideration, it took us a few minutes to finally reach the corpse of the ginormous tentacled creature, a period that had been more than enough for my system to finally activate with a familiar yet brand new screen.
I watched as the red hologram expanded before my eyes, surprising me due to the color change.
The screen used to be blue before, but I could understand the change in the color scheme since this was technically the finalized version.
"It said 1.0 so I'm guessing that it might have the capability of updating again." I mumbled to myself before sighing and shaking my head.
The snake quickly descended its head to put me down, but I could feel it freeze for a second when it heard my voice. However, its freeze has been for less than a millisecond, an amount of time that made me question my current capabilities.
I wasn't using any red energy nor was I at my peak form. I was pretty much 4/5 dead at this point and in an extremely weakened state.
However, instead of focusing on my current capabilities, I was quickly distracted once again by the system notification.
[Arts-
Taekwondo
-Grade: Basic
-Mastery: Novice
Karate
-Grade: Basic
-Mastery: Novice
Kung-fu
-Grade: Basic
-Mastery: Novice
Boxing
-Grade: Basic
-Mastery: Novice]
[Would you like to combine 4 of your Basic Arts to create an Intermediate Art?]
My eyes widened for a split second before my mouth immediately opened, and on instinct, said "Yes".
I quickly covered my mouth short after being unable to believe what I had just said.
'Why the hell would I say yes immediately!?' I shouted at myself, but now it was too late to backtrack.
[All four Basic Arts are being combined...]
[Ding!]
[You have created 1 Intermediate martial art!]
A stream of information flooded into my mind causing me to freeze in place for a couple more seconds.
[Arts-
The Art of Wind
-Grade: Intermediate
-Mastery: Basic]
Immediately, I felt as if I could feel several muscles on my body that I didn't know existed before today. I felt as if I had a new control over my body as the influx of information entered my mind.
Knowledge of how to seemingly move my body in a way that would allow me to combine all my martial arts and techniques without a hitch. This was the main reason why I felt like I could feel every single muscle in my body, however, even that was a temporary feeling since I would eventually get used to it.
[Appraisal...]
[The Art of Wind: A martial art that mainly focuses on speed by combining all the factors of Kung-Fu, Karate, Taekwondo, and Boxing. It utilizes both the legs and arms while using momentum and rotation to inflict as much damage as possible while not sacrificing the speed of the attack.]
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