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Chapter 182: Five Months
Chapter 182: Five Months
Chapter 182: Five Months
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It had been five months since Adam joined the Eldertree Insitute.
It was the tenth month of the year, and the first snowflakes began to fall all around the New World.
As the Originals opened their windows to start their day, they saw that the color of the ground had changed from brown to a shimmering white.
Then, right in front of their eyes, the snowflakes fell slowly and delicately, creating a peaceful and enchanting winter wonderland.
While the dungeon's floor had only one season throughout the year, the New World was constantly changing with the weather.
Through the cold winter, into the rainy spring, all the way to the scorching summer, and then finally the colorful autumn.
This year's autumn was cut short for some odd reason as the snow started to fall earlier than
usual.
The joyous laughter reverberated across the streets as children woke up and went to play with the snow.
The snowballs flew through the air, splashing against the ground in a flurry of white.
While the snow took control of the New World, the twenty-fifth floor still looked the same as five months ago.
...
A group of young women, their eyes unfocused, were gathered at the doorsteps of one dormitory room, staring ahead at the room, where a young man was in the middle of his training.
With sweat rolling down his exposed, well-toned body, he continued doing handstands, pushing his muscular arms against the floor with ease and grace.
"Whoo..."
With a deep, powerful breath, he pushed his body up into a perfect vertical position.
The back was wide and strong, the arms trembled with power, and the face looked like a portrait.
The young women bit their lips, as their naive, innocent minds hadn't come across such a sight yet.
"Excuse me, please get out of the way!" Terry came and pushed the young women aside, then closed the door to their disappointment.
He was carrying stacks of heavy-looking books, but with ease, as his last five months had been spent working on his strength and endurance at the gym.
He was no longer a scrawny young man.
After putting the books on the shelves, Terry wiped the sweat off his brows and tossed a towel over to the young man, who was still in the middle of his handstands.
"Adam, Ryan, and others asked if you'd like to play a game of Mad Marbles today. After all, tomorrow the Hunter's Month starts."
While doing handstands, Adam flipped himself up and landed back on his two feet; it looked effortless, like he had perfect control of every fiber of his body.
"Fine, I suppose." Adam said, using the towel to wipe off the sweat from his body.
He had undergone tremendous transformation in the past five months.
The shoulders had become broader; he was muscular yet lean as his body had shed all excess fat. He had also become taller, almost two meters tall, with a short, faded haircut that made him look even more imposing.
"Nice!" Terry grinned and said. "They'll be here in ten, alright?"
"Ok." Adam said and entered his room to change away from his training clothes.
After changing into something more casual, he took a seat on his bed and rubbed his sore shoulders.
His shoulders had been aching lately due to the intense training sessions he had been putting himself through.
However, it had been worthwhile as he was now in the best shape of his life, but the physical transformation wasn't the only change he'd underwent lately.
"System Interface."
Out of curiosity, Adam opened the interface.
***
[Name: Adam Palestar]
[Level: 9]
[XP: 119/5000]
[HP: 900/900]
[Rank: Ordergiver]
[Weapon: Gladius Sword + Heater Shield]
[Shinecoin: 5545]
[—— SKILLS——]
[-The Little God-]
[-Advanced Blade Handling-]
[-Ground King-]
[-Shield Charge-]
[-Pull-]
[-Push-]
[-Ice Breath-]
[-Poisoned Blade-]
[-Minor Healing-]
[-Chi Strike-]
[Inventory]
[Log Off]
***
It had been a busy five months.
After surviving through that one night, he visited the outside forest every day to increase his level and reached level 9, which was already very good for his first year in the New World.
His speed of leveling up was already fast compared to other S-rankers.
He also managed to purchase a couple of new skills.
Ice Breath, Poisoned Blade, and Minor Healing were spells, while Chi Strike was a rare-ranked
skill.
After learning more about Herbology from teacher Bertha, she actually gave him Poisoned Blade spell scroll to learn. Then, he also learned Minor Healing as it was pretty useful to stop
bleeding wounds.
Chi Strike was a skill that he used in his past life, and it had amazing uses, even though it couldn't be used with a weapon. It was still fine.
Since he was level 9, he was way past Ordergiver rank already, but he would have to do a promotion test to increase his rank.
However, there was no way to do that yet.
He wasn't sure whether he would do it during the Christmas holiday and depended heavily on whether he had time beside his treasure hunting.
However, one thing was sure: his strength was already way beyond ordinary rookie level.
After increasing his physical strength, he also learned Ground King to 100 percent and was now able to use it effectively in battles. It was a very important skill to have.
Knock, knock.
Someone knocked on the door, and then it opened, revealing brown-haired Ryan, who had
befriended Adam in the past few months.
"Yo, you ready?"
Adam stood up, nodded, and joined them around the table in the living room of their
dormitory room.
Beside Terry and Ryan, there were three other young men, who were originally friends of
Ryan and ended up befriending Adam as well.
"So, we playing or what?" Roberto, a tanned young man, rolled several marbles in his hand
with a pearly sheen.
"Did you bring enough marbles?" Terry asked.
Roberto checked the marbles in his hand. There were six, which was enough for everyone to
have at least one.
"Yup!" He said and rolled each person on the table a marble.
Ryan juggled the marble in his hand and said, "So, tomorrow the Hunter's Month starts~"
"There's six of us." Brady, a tall young man, said and eyed each other. "It's only allowed to
have five people in the team, so what will we do?"
'Hunter's Month...' Adam muttered, deep in thought.
It was a one-month long event when the students of the institute leave outside for the forest to hunt monsters and gather herbs and spices for points.
The team with the highest amount of points gets a special prize that would help them greatly
in the New World.
That's why, in such an event, teams with members that already had system interfaces were
incredibly important.
Adam had received offers from many other teams that had great winning chances, but he refused them all as he planned to do the event with the young men inside this room.
However, they had to choose who would sit out.
"We'll decide tomorrow. We'll flip a coin to make it fair," Adam proposed, hoping to avoid
any hurt feelings among the group.
"Sounds good to me." Ryan said. "However, Adam, you're needed in the group, so we'll flip with everyone else."
"Hmm..." Adam frowned as it didn't sound so fair.
"Ryan is right, Adam." Glenn, the glasses-wearing young man said. "Not even Elder Ones dare to start anything with you, as you're one of the strongest students in here. You're
needed."
"Alright, fine then." Adam said and rolled his marble to the center of the table. "Let's play."