Azzim, who doesn't have much mana, really can't fight with any special skills or techniques like the rest of his friends. What he could do so far was only to attack with ordinary physical attacks using arrows, daggers or his short swords.
He has long since realized that he has been taking a wrong path for his character growth as a warrior. But he has gone too far for him to redo everything.
They are already in the Sixth Trial, and their ticket to get out of that realm is imminent. It is no longer possible for him to repeat it all from the beginning.
Forget about killing that monster anytime soon. He even isn’t sure he could take on the monster by himself. After all, what choice does he have now?
“Looks like I really have no other choice,” he mutters.
Azzim takes out a gemstone from a small pocket that is wrapped around his waist. He puts the gemstone into a special socket slot on the hilt of his magical short sword.
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[Notifications!]
[You just installed the Blood Skill gem in a slot of your Magical Short Sword]
- After this, you will consume your HP as an exchange for any mana consumption for any skill you use.
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He who actually doesn’t have a sufficient amount of mana, is forced to bet on the Blood Skill Gem. This is a risky choice where he has to sacrifice his own HP in exchange for mana usage.
Azzim grips his magical short sword so tightly and brings it closer to his face and closes his eyes. His hair starts standing up rigidly and the band that is wrapping his head and hair is blown away. His face has turned bright red. As he opens his eyes again, those eyes look like the eyes of a madman.
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[Notifications!]
[Berserker's Rush skill has been activated. You have lost 200 HP for activation, and you will drain out 5% HP per second as long as you're in this condition]
- Base speed increased by 500%
- Total Damage Output increased by 500%
- Berserker status will turn your base HP regeneration rate into 0 per second.
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Not just sacrificing his own HP as an exchange for mana usage, he is also losing his own HP regeneration due to the effect of becoming a berserker warrior. With this condition, Azzim could only bet on the HP regeneration caused by the Vitality Aura shared by Leia.
“Let’s hope I can kill that monster first before my HP runs empty,” he mutters, talking to himself with a hard breath, starting to release a haze at the corners of his lips.
He starts running so recklessly, running so low and fast like a mad hound dog. He heads straight for Zarkhan, knowing there is no time for any maneuvers of all kinds. He knows that his HP will keep decreasing as long as the berserker's status is active.
His movement is so fast that the monster couldn't keep up with him. Slam after slam from all directions throws Zarkhan’s body all over the place.
Even if the monster still has quite a high regeneration rate, it isn’t enough to deal with the amount of damage caused by Azzim's mad attack which comes at him at a high pace. The dragon’s green skin and fleshes fly away every time Azzim slams his short sword so brutally.
“Azzim?” Leia mutters, looking so amazed to see how mad Azzim is peeling off Zarkhan’s fleshes, a condition so rare for her to encounter.
Although at this time Azzim is really cornering the monster, Leia realizes that Azzim is in a critical condition. As a well-calculated strategist who has sharp observation skills, Leia knows so well that Azzim won’t be able to hold out much longer.
Zarkhan, who no longer stands being bullied, starts his rampage and counterattack. It retaliates blindly, flapping its wings erratically and slamming his head like all over the place due to its rage.
Azzim is knocked and flown into one of the cave walls. The fact that he is again driven away from the monster makes him even more desperate, because he doesn’t have much time in that state.
Until he realizes something that gives a little hope in him. He notices something, seeming to be throbbing with a faint red color on Zarkhan’s chest. It’s something he certainly couldn't see when Zarkhan's body was still covered by his thick skin.
“Is that the heart? What if I just tore that part directly with my sword?” he mutters in speculating his chance.
In fact, he has saved one ultimate technique that he has never used. Because the mana requirement is so high, far exceeding the maximum amount of mana he has, that he could never use the technique at all.
But now, with the Blood Skill Gem has been installed to his Magical Short Sword, he starts calculating whether his remaining HP is enough for him to survive after he uses that technique.
Meanwhile, The Great Zarkhan is finding it hard to keep flying and falls to the ground. Yet, his body keeps recovering from all the wounds it has received.
“Looks like I'm really going to die after this. If that monster could still regenerate after this…,”
He mutters, looking so unsure with the decision. For a moment, he looks at Zul and Gaston and realizes he really has no other choice.
He shakes his head, trying to throw away his pessimism. The doubt has made his madness gone. In the end, he turns off the Berserker's Rush status within him.
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[Notifications!]
[Berserker's Rush has been deactivated]
- Your base HP regeneration rate will return to normal after a few seconds.
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“I really had no other choice!”
With a firm look full of determination, he holds his sword with both hands and draws it high up. His arms begin to glow slightly with a reddish light, giving off quite a strong energy aura.
He is planning to unleash his ultimate skill, The Heavenly Grace. However...
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[Notifications!]
[The Curse of The Underworld skill has been activated. You just sacrificed 1075 HP and turned it into corrupted blood for activating the technique]
- Over the next 10 seconds, each of your attacks will be amplified by the soul energy and corrupted blood plasma you draw out from within.
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“Eh?! The Curse of The Underworld?”
He is startled, looking so confused with the notification he just received.
“Is this why I got a dark red aura?”
But then he realizes, it must be because he is sacrificing his own blood for the technique instead of his mana.
“Well, naming it A Heavenly Grace wouldn't merit my current condition, huh?”
He mutters with a little silly smirk on his face, even though he looks so weak and in a dire state after consuming so much HP for that skill.
On the other hand, Zarkhan has returned to flying after having regenerated for a while. Just as Azzim is ready for his final attack, Zarkhan is also ready to leash all the heat out of his stomach. Zarkhan raises his head for a moment. He then takes it towards Azzim with his mouth wide open. A dazzling hot light comes out of the bottom of his mouth cavity. Another burst of Corrosive Breath, much more corrosive, much hotter, with far more concentrated venomous gasses than before, blows out of his mouth. It seems that Zarkhan's instinct has also been realizing it too, that he should no longer underestimate that one warrior he is currently facing. Azzim runs toward that attack with his dear life on the line, intending to block the monster's corrosive breath. Just before his body is hit by the monster's torrent, he depletes it with his sword away. His Magical Short Sword, which has been strengthened by the dense dark red plasma Azzim drew out, is able to disperse the deadly Corrosive Br
The alert system keeps appearing, showing how dire his situation currently is.********************[Alert!][Your HP has reached 3% and keeps decreasing][Your Vitality has reached 10% and continues to decline]- When your HP reaches 1%, you won't be able to move.- When your Vitality reaches 5%, your base HP regeneration rate will turn to 0 and your body will stop healing by itself.********************“Shut up!” he mumbles.And suddenly, they fall not too far from the portal. Azzim tries his best to crawl while dragging Leia along with him. But he becomes increasingly pessimistic about his chance of getting out of that place alive.“Leia, wake up. I can't drag you around like this,” Azzim cries, patting Leia's cheek again.Leia opens her eyes once more, though not fully conscious.“Then, just leave me here,” she replies with a weak voice.But then, she closes her eyes again. Azzim starts to growl, slamming his hands on the floor. He is so angry and desperate, because the portal is
Azzim realizes, his personal status has returned to the ground state, just like the first time he entered Alorexa, the simulation world he is currently in.However, he finds something odd. How could he has such a high value in Inteligence while he has such a low mana point. As far as he knew, the level of inteligence is always in line with how much mana someone has. Thought, he also knows it so well that he is not an Inteligence type warrior like Leia and Zul.But somehow, he then realizes it, that value of inteligence is not too much different than his latest intelligence value before he entered the Sixth Trial Realm.“Could it be that this number only indicates the level of insight and knowledge I have gained so far in this 10 years?” he speculates.After all, It's not like he lost his memory after he dies. He still remembers it so well how he fought the Great Zarkhan recently.Azzim gets out of the sleeping pod and rushes to find the exit. His foot accidentally hits another sleepin
Given that his only option is to retake the trial, Azzim is secretly moving to the northernmost side of Gurdat Town. He reaches to a site where there is a portal gate that is still in red color. He doesn't know when the gate will be active again. He doesn't know either when The First Trial Realm at the outside will be reset. He gets into the bushes, where he can observe the condition of the gate from a distance. He waits there while hiding his existence from the others. Some hours later, when the sky is getting darker, he hears the chattering sounds of the people he had previously met before. “Hopefully they die and be sent back here. That way, we can repay them back in the most painful way.” “But, what if they survive and then, they transfer back to this town without dying? That way, they keep their level and items. And here we are, at level 0 with just this simple white clothes. There’s no way for us to pay back what they had done to us.” There Azzim remembers, only in The Firs
The man named Zircho pulls out his dagger violently, and then laughs so sadistically, leaving Azzim on his knees while covering his bleeding belly.The other two men follow Zircho. However, the one warrior with level 14 glances back at Azzim for a moment. But then, Zircho calls for him.“Where do we go next, Lorior?” shouts the man named Zircho.As soon as that man reacts to Zircho’s call, the holographic texts above his head changes, displaying “Lv 14. The Loser No. 129 a.k.a. Lorior”.The man named Lorior, who happens to be their leader, turns and walks into the woods ahead of his friends.“Just follow me!” he says.It seems that Zircho guy has deliberately not killed Azzim immediately so that he would suffer longer. He thought, Azzim would not survive either if he just left him dying like that. However, Azzim is still alive and able to close his wound with two hands.He looks around, finding himself in the middle of a not-so-wide savanna. He hears the sound of waves crashing agains
Suddenly, he flinches, finding his entire vision filled with rippling water, as well as the entanglement of several scaly arms that he could not see clearly. Azzim tries to scream, struggling to break free. But instead, he chokes with water filling his throat. And then, he is suddenly able to let his scream out. However... “Dung!!!” Out of clues, his head hits the glass door of the sleeping pod. “Shit? What was that?” he murmurs while rubbing his forehead. Azzim pushes the door, looking so breathless with cold sweat dripping down his body. “What just happened? How did I get here?” In fact, Azzim is already in the dark room in one of the buildings in Gurdat Town. It is unclear what caused his death. Whether it was because of the wound he received, or because of something unclear that he has just experienced before returning to his senses in the sleeping pod. One thing for sure, he returns to that dark room because he just died out there. He lets his body lie down on the sleeping
That mysterious voice no longer appears. Everyone is silent, confused, trying to digest everything that has just been conveyed by someone who called himself as “Bang Sat”.“What was that?”"What should we do now?”“Hey, he said that we are in a town, right? Could it be, there is a way out of this room?”“How would I know?”And then, the dark room starts to get a little noisy as those 10 people are busy looking for a way out. They even collide with each other, and it leads to a commotion. There are also those who accidentally bump into the other sleeping pods.Until someone accidentally hits the sleeping pod where Azzim is sleeping. It wakes him up. Realizing the commotion in the dark room, Azzim pushes the door of his sleeping pod.As he gets out, he sees holographic text mentioning “Lv 0. The Loser No. 163” above someone’s head.“Oh, sorry. I didn’t know there are still people who haven't come out of that thing,” says that man in a slightly awkward tone.But then, the man notices som
Realizing those inmates are walking towards him from a distance, Azzim chooses to step aside. Meanwhile, the newbie is still standing pensively watching the bizarre sight he is encountering for the first time. “Hey, let’s get out of here!” Azzim pulls the newbie’s neck with his arm. “Wo, woaa. Why are...” “Just stay away from them for now,” Azzim replies. He stands aside by leaning against a wall of a building. Most of the inmates pass by while glancing coldly at him. It’s indeed they are all already know about Azzim’s existence in the first stage trial. And finally, Azzim sees Zircho’s face among them, grinning and glaring at him with a despised look. Azzim's just silent, not showing any emotion at all. No anger, neither a hatred. His face is so flat and cold, not wanting to let any thought inside his mind to be found out by anyone. But in fact, as a veteran assassin, he has been busy thinking about so many things he is going to do, to pay what that man had done to him. But then