Immortal Mage System

Battling monsters

ROAR!

The Wild Boar jumped high enough to reach Keith's height, pointing its sharp curved claws towards his face. Its blade-like teeth were aimed at Keith's neck with its stumpy legs almost grabbing on Keith's waist to cause him a fall.

But before that could occur, Keith was wise enough to dodge the attack. He shifted backward and moved left, swinging the sword towards the face of the monster. He aimed to pull out one of its dark vibrant eyes and decapitate its limbs, but, Keith came to discover that it wasn't possible for a Wild Boar.

Wild Boars are the strongest Tier-0 monsters who could sometimes be mistaken for a Tier-1 monster because of its brutal and destructive attacks. It was quite hard for Keith to defeat the terrible creature, but that doesn't mean that he could not kill it. Defeat and kill were two different things for Keith.

"If I can't defeat it, I can kill it."

The monster pounced on Keith after some moments, trying hard to devour Keith's flesh. However, the foolish monster didn't notice that Keith made it pounce on him just to find an opportunity to slit his throat without stress.

He had known that the only easy way to take life out of a Wild Boar was to slit its throat, so Keith had to make things fast and go for two more monsters.

Keith's longsword slashed through the throat of the Wild Boar, making it tremble upon the pointy stones of the forest. He began to perceive the bad smell of the Wild Boar's blood which was something he had tried to avoid. At this moment, Keith was on the verge of throwing up, until the system sounded.

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[You have slain a Tier-0 monster, Wild Boar].

[Talent Awakening progress: 1/3].

[Kill two more Tier-0 monsters to awaken your talent].

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"Uhh, the smell," Keith held his nose and walked away from that spot. His fight with the monster almost led him to death, however, he was glad to have survived.

'That thing almost ripped off my flesh... I doubt it being a Tier-0 monster. Who knows if monsters also can tier up,' Keith pondered as he made his way into the darkest part of the forest.

The dark and lonesome aura of the dark forest was something that could make anyone feel chills run down their spines at first sight, much less the monsters that growl loudly in it, looking for flesh to devour.

But for Keith, it was much like a fruit field. A garden.

Keith scrutinized the area as he progressed forward, trying to find more Tier-0 monsters. He stared through the distance and caught a glimpse of three monsters. There were all Tier-0 monsters as expected but they were of different kinds.

A Tiger-fanged monkey, a Horned Rabbit, and another Wild Boar.

"Fuck!" Keith cursed in disappointment, kicking his right leg through the air. "I only need two more Tier-0 monsters, what the hell is another Wild Boar doing with a Horned Rabbit?"

Keith angrily scanned the spot, watching the Boar and the Horned Rabbit as they walked around the forest, trying to catch up with the Tiger-fanged monkey that was running on the trees.

This case was rare, a monster hardly associates with another monster that was different from itself. Seeing different types of monsters wandering together around the forest made Keith spooked. But that doesn't make him relent on the aim of killing two more monsters.

It was none of his concerns after all. He was here to kill three Tier-0 monsters to awaken his talent and that was all.

'Since they are three, I will surely kill all... There might be an additional reward,' Keith thought with a confident smile and walked in the direction of the three Tier-0 monsters.

This time, he aimed to slit throats only, not wanting to waste his precious time in the dark forest.

Keith attacked the three monsters with the sense he applied from the experience of combat. The monkey was killed with the tip of the sword which went flying in the air, slitting its throat without tension. Killing monkeys wasn't much of a work for Keith to do. A fruit farmer like him kills theft monkeys who come to eat fruits at the fruit fields daily.

A monster monkey wasn't so different. Their tiger fangs only made the difference.

A Horned Rabbit and Wild Boar were similar in terms of brutality and outrageousness, but with the experience from the previous fight, Keith defeated them without much stress and ran from the deadly smell of Wild Boar blood.

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[You have slain a Tier-0 monster, Tiger-fanged monkey].

[You have slain a Tier-0 monster, Horned Rabbit].

[You have slain a Tier-0 monster, Wild Boar].

[Talent Awakening progress: 3/3].

[Mission completed... You have gained 100pts].

>>> Stay Points: 300pts <<<

[Talent Awakening in progress... ].

[The Immortal Mage System is proceeding with talent disclosure].

[Talent Disclosure completed].

[Congratulations, you have attained a core].

[The Immortal Mage System is extracting Curse... ].

[Curse Extraction completed].

[Congratulations, you are blessed].

[Immortal Mage System is detecting talent... ].

[Talent Detection completed].

[Congratulations, you have a talent].

[Talent: Thunder Manipulation].

[The Immortal Mage System is creating skill... ].

[Skill Creation completed].

[Skill: String of thunder].

[Congratulations, you have a skill].

[First mission rewards granted].

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"Yes!!!" Keith jumped in excitement and omitted the roars of monsters in the inner parts of the forest. He didn't know when he tossed his sword while he swung his clenched fist towards the air, delighted.

Before he could finish rejoicing, the system appeared again.

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[Congratulations, you are an Awakened].

[You will automatically learn the traits of an Awakened in just a day unlike learning for two weeks in the Awakened Academy].

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[In other to rank up your talent, you have to assemble many Core Fragments to strengthen your core. Once you get to the limit, you can attain a new talent].

[Core Fragment: 0/1000].

[When you get 1000 core fragments, you will become a Silver-rank Awakened].

[Congratulations, this is your journey to immortality].

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[Do you want to check your stats?].

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"Yes of course," Keith demanded.

As he said those words, shortly, the system revealed his stats.