"As an educator and one of the survivors of the past war, he has vast battle experience and reasonable skills that could enable one to not only fight against fellow humans but against the Sulckers too." "Let me fight him. Please, guys," Erix resolved, eagerness apparent on his face. Shota didn't argue further after hearing the reason behind Erix's decision. Nicole did likewise. He didn't want to fight Leo just to showcase his new strength or show to others how good he has gotten without an ability, instead, he wanted to do it for the betterment of himself and learning's sake. 'You're one of a rare kind, Erix. I never regretted being friends with you,' Nicole mentally noted after thoroughly thinking about what Erix just said. "I totally understand you, Erix. Just know that you should know that I was only trying to keep your secret hidden. Regardless, it's alright. You can go ahead with your opinion. Just make sure you won't do anything unusual that would raise suspicion," Shota tol
Without Erix realizing it, the whole class has gone silent to concentrate and watch his fight with Leo.He had left quite an impression after his fight with Natasha, so now he had come out to fight, and everyone's interest became directed at him."Show me all you have got boy and don't hold back," Leo said, as he got into a fighting stance.Before the sparring reward began, Erix decided to use his inspect skill to the type of person he was dealing with.But surprisingly and unfortunately, nothing came up. His inspect skill failed to bring out any information about Leo.[????][????][????][????][????]'Does that mean he is too powerful? If not then why wasn't my inspect skill working on him?' Erix thought.Just then another message appeared in his sight.[Quest received][Defeat your opponent][Reward: 2x Instant level up!]Suddenly Erix's blood began rushing in excitement when he saw the quest, the reward to be precise.He was longing to get such quests where he would have to level
"You were truly impressive, practically the best I ever have sparred with. Keep it up." Erix heard Leo say before he would fully open his eyes.Erix was in admiration for the weapon teacher. At first, he didn't have much respect for teachers since they would usually value only strong students and saw the weak ones as lesser beings but he felt Leo was different.Erix could tell now that Leo was able to beat him in a fight with anything he wanted, Leo was only testing him to see how strong he was. As the fight went on, one thing Erix learned was that everything wasn't about fighting, it was learning how to fight properly."Would you be able to teach me how to fight properly? After fighting you, I realized I still needed more to learn." Erix asked as he bowed down."Sorry I can't. The weapon you choose I don't specialize much on. Don't get me wrong, it suits you very well and I think you will have a great future with it, " Leo explained. "There is one thing I can suggest to help you get
Erix, Shota, and Nicole stomped out of the class the moment Leo ended the class.If no one was touched by Leo's words, Erix was remarkably touched by them. Hearing the words 'Sulckers' and 'War' brought back the painful memories of his parent's death.His parents had lost their lives during the war against the Sulckers which made him what he was today, an orphan. The pain of losing his parents struck him once again like it did eight years ago when a soldier knocked on his door and told him his parents were no more.Erix felt deeply hurt remembering the last words of his parents before they left for the war."Be well, son. If we don't make it out alive, live on and make sure to end this war when you grow up. We believe in you." Those were the few lines he managed to remember being a young lad back then.He wouldn't even remember his parent's faces wholly, only their voice was all he would hazily recall.Those words helped him through his torture and bullying throughout his days in el
"C'mon, don't you guys know that the very moment we became friends, we automatically became crime buddies too? Right now, I'm basically part of the crime even though I wasn't there when it happened," Nicole said with a smile.Erix's joy knew no bounds when he heard that. At least he was sure the girl was real and wasn't just pretending. And that was thanks to his eye of sin skill."Alright, so we're good?" Erix asked jovially, trying not to make himself too obvious.Nicole and Rin nodded. "Yeah, sure, why not?""Tomorrow is weekend so I guess you will have to wait until next week to see her, right?" Shota asked shortly.Erix thought for a second. "Yeah, kind of. I don't know if I should meet her or not." "No, don't meet her. Going to her would give the impression that you're actually trying to hide something." Rin answered in Shota's stead. "Just let her be. If she sees you and demands answers from you, then tell her the lie you have come up with. But until then, I see no reason for y
Inside a room in the first-year block, a lady was standing in front of a middle-aged man who was comfortably seated in front of a large desk full of paperwork.He had a case of terrible black bags under his eyes, probably because he hadn't had enough sleep. The lady was Jasmine, the school nurse, while the middle-aged man was general Ryker.She was there to submit her last report on the ongoing investigation."What happened to the witness?" General Ryker asked in a demanding tone after he must have gone through the report. It was apparent on his face that he wasn't satisfied."I apologize for not including the witness's information on the report. I thought it wasn't necessary," Jasmine apologized with a little bow. "The boy died. An invisible object appeared to have blocked his bronchi, thus disallowing him from respiring. But this is only an assumption, I didn't see anything on the x-ray result."General Ryker thought for a while. "You did well by not including the boy's info on the
Erix was utterly shocked by what he saw there.There were hundreds of capsules that students could use to play whatever game they wanted, but the most famous game was the one where students could fight each other.It was so famous because they could fight freely without the risk of damaging their opponent for real.Moreover, the matchmaking was done so well that they didn't fight against people too strong or too weak for them unless the person wished for something like that.When he inputted his military ID number on the screen in front of the capsule he chose, a payment option surfaced.He couldn't believe his eyes when he saw the cost of the VR game. It was awesomely unbelievable. He only needed 35 points to purchase an hour inside the game. The excitement started to build up in him.'You see, I told you to check it out first before finalizing things.' Lena told him.'Well, I can't be blamed. VR games cost quite a fortune for poor orphans like me in the city I used to live in.' Sin
'Seriously? What was that? I won't be able to go near him if he keeps using that every time,' Erix thought as he prepared to dodge multiple fireballs coming at him.However, these ones were a lot faster than the previous ones. Some part of his hair burnt off in the process of dodging that attack.'Shit! If he keeps dodging my attacks like this, he will have enough energy left to overthrow me when I'm low on power,' The black-haired guy grumbled in frustration. 'Wait, don't tell me he's intentionally dodging and waiting to attack only when I'm low on energy? You son of a bitch! I will f**king kill you!' He was fuming in anger, so without knowing it, he sent 8 fireballs flying toward Erix, but the result still never changed. The latter avoided all of the attacks."Stop dodging like a rat and fight like a real man!" The black-haired boy shouted as he sent faster fireballs at Erix. 'Is he kidding me?' Erix thought angrily. 'It's him who doesn't let me go near him and he has the guts to