"I am so dead"
The name of the monsters were right over their heads in the system screen.
[The metal prowler]
The prowlers lunged on varun with a breaking of sound barrier speed, clawing through his chest like clawing through mere clay.
"GAH!...."
he flew back and hit on the wall of a house, making a cracked crater in it, blood dripping from his mask as it was drenched into it.
"Damn.. Never got hurt like this before... This surely hurts.... But... Why the hell do I like it, heh~"
A twisted smirk underneath his mask, as he stood up, eyes glinting slightly blue on the irises.
He looked at the prowlers and then around him.. The tree, the slides, the rides of the park for kids, and a ruined wall nearby... Iron rods poking out from places.
Varun ran towards the prowlers and they ran towards him.. Only for him to slide to side the last moment and jump over the ruin wall,... He took out the rod that was the most medium sized for him, and pulled hard.. Didn't came out, prowlers about to close in,.. Pulled again.. Still don't come out.... Prowlers leaped on him... Finally the rod came out, along with the cemented concrete on it and hit right on one of the prowler's face, sending him aside, the concrete on the rod broke to dust by the force of hitting.
"HELL YEAH!"
"Now stay on ground you idiot cat!"
The other four prowlers looked at each other and grumbled before splitting up and surrounding varun from all four sides.
"Well damn..... You all really do want to kill me.... GAH!"
The prowlers from behind clawed his back and the other three and leaped on him too.
The time seem to freeze for him, as he calculated whatever he could do in this moment. He clenched tightly on the rod, he had barely seconds to react.
[Failure of the quest will result in stopping of the player's heart]
That's when it snapped him out of trance... He pushed the rod up on the prowler's throat that was coming from front, piercing through it and purple color blood splattered out as the prowler fell down, and the other three got away... The first prowler that was on the ground woke up again and shrugged itself as came back to senses... There were four again. But he surely killed one.
[Level up +1]
[You have been rewarded 500 coins for defeating a prowler]
"Shop window"
He stuffed his hand inside the screen and pulled out a sword, glowing blue on the edges and a crystal on its hilt. About a meter long. He flexed his arm with the sword, as if testing the weight for himself.
[Congratulations, you've purchased the "predator slayer" For 300 coins..sword skill "battle dancer" Has been acquired]
"Now it's my turn... You bloody cats"
He wasn't sounding anything like normal pissed of person... He was calm... Not for coolness... He was... Because he knew he had to fight or he'll die here.
He lunged forward and side stepped right the millimeters away from the prowler and cuts him open from up into half horizontally.
[Level up +1, status window has been unlocked]
「 strength: 20
Agility: 10
Stamina: 20
Intelligence: 32
Precision: 20 」
[You have gained 10 points, would you like to put your points into any stats?]
"Add 2 points on each stat"
「 strength: 24 (+2)
Stamina: 24 (+2)
Agility: 14 (+2)
Intelligence: 36 (+2)
Precision: 24 (+2) 」
[1 point increased 2 level of your stats, level up more for further stat increase]
He didn't even bother to exert force this time... He just kept standing.. And gestured the three prowlers like someone calls a cat.
And in a minute he cuts the first one into half from between, then cut the second one's head... And cuts the third one with all four limbs off and pierce the sword into its head.
"That was faster than i expected"
He walked out of the area he was in and walked down the road leading to his school.. Killing several more monster in the way. Few "goblins", more prowlers, some wolf like monster named "blood fangs" And finally reaching his school... Which had a warning on its gate.
[Boss room]
[Level 7, "wolf slayer", "prowler slayer", "goblin slayer"]
「Strength: 46
Stamina: 46
Agility: 36
Intelligence: 58
Precision: 46」
"That's a bit too many 'slayers' I got here"
Well.. Let's see who's the boss I need to face... 'Full recovery'.."
The cuts on his chest and back got healed.
As he enters inside the atmosphere became thick and there was sound of growling similar to a lion. He kept walking and reached the center of the ground, still holding his sword.
"Something doesn't feel right here... Feels like I am being watched, but from where?"
I looked around myself with a calculated gaze, thinking about all the possible things that could come out as a boss, when suddenly the ground beneath me started to shake and the school broke away into a blast, as a big lion like monster came out.. Completely covered into metal like scales with red eyes, black fur on head and about 20 meters big.
"I don't remember asking for a freaking lion to face me..."
[Dungeon Boss: "the lionheart metalfang"]
"If you're the one naming them... Your name sense sucks... It's so cringe type of name, bruh... Just name it 'the predator king' Or something... That's also cringe but atleast better than this bullshit."
[... ]
[Dungeon Boss: "the atrox lord"]
The monster got more bigger and ferocious
"Damn... I guess I pissed you or something"
The claws of the monster slashed down on him, he barely side stepped it but still a concrete piece hits on his head and it started to bleed.
He landed a slided back a few meters, and stoped using his sword.
"Kitty is pissed, eh~"
He lunged forward, it was a senseless move, he didn't had any plans yet. He just closed in and tried to cut through the skin of the atrox, but it didn't even scratch.
"Seems like I should've used the points on strength instead.... Well... That's what a normal player might think... But increasing all stats equally makes a difference.... You have a perfect balance in yourself.. Body and mind."
He lunged forward again and sliced up, no scratch yet again.
He got behind and above it rotating his body like a fan to use the moment on the sword and cuts open the back of atrox, ... But the sword broke from the stress it took by the scales. The atrox Lord let out a glutteral growl and shakes itself and throws him off itself.
He falls hard on the staircase seating nearby on his back with a loud burst of sound and the concrete underneath him broke, he looks ravaged, clothes torn in place blood falling out of head, right arm, let leg and eyes dull.
"Why am I fighting?... To not die?... But I'll die even if I ran away... But why should I live anyway?... I am utterly useless for anyone... I am not good at studies... I may have been.. But I find it too boring, I don't like studying... Mom dad didn't say on face but they might be hating me for not doing so... I don't even earn anything... Heh... I am thinking about useless stuff while laying in front of death... I am surely shameless and idiot... There's no way I am intelligent... Why do they even say that I have potential... I am useless.... I should be dead."
[HP: 12/230]
"System?... Why the hell do I even get this... I always dreamt to get a system for limitless growth.. But what's the use.. Here I am.. Dealing with death even though I have the system... I should di–.."
Suddenly he started seeing the illusion of his parents, brother, sudhanshu, and his past self, being utterly useless and jerk.
"No... No no no.... I can't stay useless... I was a jerk... I can't stay a jerk... And what's the use of this strength I got if I can't even survive."
He pushes himself off from the crater with the broken sword on his grip and eyes faintly glinting blue.
"I always got called immature, weak minded, selfish.... I was a burden for everyone, having luxury my dad gave, friends but no one loyal except one... No... I won't let it stay the same... Now what I want is my true self... The "Me" who don't need anyone, the "Me" who is wise"
"Now what I really need is a true useful mindset!... And I am not going down unless I make it"
He lunged forward again this time with a planned gaze, he had a plan.
First he got right in front of it, and side stepped and started to run away from it... Making it follow him... To the remaining wall of the school, he used it as a leap board and bounced up, flipping in mid air and aiming for it's head as it slammed itself into the ruined school wall, this time rotated, and used all the strength he could on the piercing this time... Piercing right into its cervical and puts all his weight into the blow... Twisting the blade inside.
"EAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"
The atrox Lord limps down finally, it's scale of neck completely broke and black blood coming out... Varun fell down, barely conscious, he sat by using the body of atrox.
[Congratulations, you have defeated the atrox Lord.]
[Rewards: "full recovery" And "atrox's black dagger"]
The dagger had a black metalled blade, kind of tusk like edge inwardly.
"Full recovery"
He felt the static and got healed, the monster and everything disappeared, the school got normal again, with not a single scratch on it. He came out of school, with the torn up clothes.. Muscles visible through the torn areas.