*THUD*

After returning from the tiring trial, Leon faints the moment he comes back to the hub. Good thing, the wounds on him disappear one by one as Leon falls into a deep sleep while the hub takes care of him otherwise he would have died by no. But of course, Leon is not at the state to care about these.

Like a person who is seeing a nightmare, while breaking out in a cold sweat, sometimes Leon would say mutters incomprehensible things in his sleep.

...

..

"Wake up!" a sound echoed through Leon's mind when he suddenly woke from his sleep.

After his nightmare, looking around for a few seconds while remembering the dungeon, "I wish I could kill that monster twice," Leon said while getting up from the ground. "Whatever, what happened can't be changed," Leon murmured as he checked the rewards he gained from the dungeon.

"System, show me the last rewards I gained," Leon commanded.

[REWARDS:

- 500 GOLD

- Rank 2 Long Sword

- +2 Skill Points +3 Attribute Points

- Skill -[BACKSTAB]-

'Hmm, 500 gold, a sword, some points, and a new skill. Well, it really was worth my efforts,' thought while thinking what to do with his points and gold.

"Let's do it as usual," Leon said after a few seconds of thinking.

"System, put two points into intelligence and put the other into vitality and open my skill screen," Leon commanded, to look at his new skill.

[CONFIRMED]

[ATTRIBUTE POINTS: 3>0]

[VITALITY: 23>24] [HP: 240/240]

[INTELLIGENCE: 20>22] [MP: 220/220]

[SKILL POINTS: 2]

[SKILLS: (VENOMOUS STRIKES-(1/5), (BASIC WEAPON TECHNIQUE (PASSIVE), (SWORDSMANSHIP (PASSIVE)-(2/50), (SHIELD MASTERY-(2/5), (BACKSTAB-(1/5)]

[BACKSTAB: After activating, when the player hits the enemy from behind undetected, the player's attack damage will be x1.5 times stronger. Uses 50 MP and stays active for 1 minute.]

"Not my style, but it can be useful, however better than nothing," Leon said while reading the description of skill. After thinking for a second, "System put two points into [SWORDSMANSHIP]."

[CONFIRMED]

[SKILL POINTS: 2>0]

!!![(SWORDSMANSHIP) is now level 4. Every attack dealt by sword will be %16 strengthened]

"Now, let's look at you, my new friend," Leon smirked while getting the long sword out of his inventory. A sword in its sheath appears in Leon's hand.

"Aren't you a cool something?" Leon said while unsheathing the sword. Holding from its hilt with two hands, Leon looked at the sword while feeling the connection between them.

Playing with it in his hand, "Hmm, 100 cm? No 85, around 1.3 kilograms, maybe 1.4," Leon observed by himself before using analyze on it.

[Long Sword]

[Name: --- ]

[Rank: 2]

[Material: Reinforced Iron]

[Sharpness: 142]

[Durability: 100/100]

[Skills: --- ]

(A straight double-edged blade of 85 cm and weighing 1.35 kilograms.)

"No name? Then, as your owner, your name shall be... Tyrfing from now," Leon declared.

[AN ITEM'S NAME IN YOUR INVENTORY HAS BEEN CHANGED]

To adapt to his new sword, Leon started his training with it. Until now, he has been using the items that he looted from his enemies, but now he has his own companion with him on this long journey.

*SLASH*

Closing his eyes and feeling the connection between them, Leon swung it as he got used to it more and more. Cutting the air with his every swing and leaving a sound behind, Leon continued until he felt the sword like his own body part. Until he could see its shape in mind when he closed his eyes. And Leon realized that with the new upgrade, the sword's shape was looking clear in his mind.

Opening his eyes after some time, "So this is the path of sword," Leon said while sheathing his sword.

[DO PLAYER WANTS TO GO THE NEXT TRIAL?]

"Yes," Leon said before his surroundings started to change.

[TRIAL-26 IS NOW STARTING...]

While light trembled, the floor underneath Leon roared with an earthquake, and color spread to this lifeless space while painting to give life to it.

Waiting light to finish its job, some rain drops fell to the Leon's head.

"Rain?" Leon said while looking above to see thundering clouds. After a few seconds, looking again to forward, Leon saw a muddy plain while his feet got dirty from mud.

"Agh, really? I hope hub has a cleaning service," Leon joked while looking his feet.

"But isn't it a nice weather to kill..." Leon smirked while light created his enemies.

40.

60..

100...

120....

150....

"150," Leon counted their numbers. Soldiers... A unit of soldiers were directly looking at Leon.

"Analyze," Leon said in a cold voice.

[Soldier Lv.5]

[STR: 15]

[AGI: 11]

[VIT: 13]

[INT: 8]

"Weak..." Leon said when he looked at soldiers.

Unsheathing the Tyrfing and holding its hilt with two hands, "Gentlemens, no need to worry. I will quickly end this," Leon smirked while leaking his bloodlust aura without knowing.

After a second, keeping his smile on his face, Leon sprinted to them when blood pumped into his legs. As rain drops hit Leon's face harder, Leon gained more speed. To welcome him, soldiers started running to Leon too.

Meeting with each other in midway, Leon jumped as high 5 meters with his abnormal strength,

*SLASH*

and landing on a poor soldier as his sword split him into two pieces when his feet touched the muddy ground again. Leaving a corpse behind him, Leon continued his bloody path as he cut two more soldiers like a paper with his sword. It was a complete massacre. As the ground painted to red with the soldiers' blood, Leon pierced, crushed their bones with his punches, and slashed them with Tyrfing. Throwing a fist that sent the soldier flying 10 meters away while leaving a fist mark on his iron armor, Leon was sure he had shattered his rib cage.

When arrows rained upon Leon from the crossbows of soldiers, Leon cut them like nothing in the midway before they touched his body. Running around while killing the soldiers with his sword blows, he took the shape of death. The only things in his mind was cutting better and swinging it faster while he felt his sword hit flesh again and again.

Every time a head fell to the ground with a clean cut, he just jumped to the next one. Even those with shields could keep until 6 hit in front of him before their shields broken into the pieces. But in the end, Leon made mistakes too and was wounded by some of the soldiers' strikes. As he killed more, the more new wounds opened on him. Sometimes he couldn't block an arrow and sometimes a sword blow. But these wounds only made him more brutal. Like holding some soldier's head and crushing his skull or using one soldier's body to crush other, his bloodlust got stronger with every soldier he killed.

100

[-40 HP] [HP: 200/240]

70

[-50 HP] [HP: 130/240]

30

[-30] [HP: 100/240

15

[-10] [HP:90/240]

1

*PANT*

*PANT*

Leon panted from tiredness as blood drip from his wounds.

*STAB*

As something stabbed him, Leon turned at back.

[-40] [HP:50/240]

Leon looked at the soldier as the soldier's sword pierced through his abdomen.

"Are you done?" Leon asked when he grabbed him by the neck and lifted up.

"Thank you for your sacrifices," Leon said as the soldier gave his last breath in his hand.

[TRIAL 26 HAS BEEN COMPLETED]

[YOU'VE GAINED 3000 EXP]

[LEVEL 10: (3620>6620/10000)]

[REWARDS:

- 500 GOLD

- Rank 1 Magic Ring

- +2 Skill Points +2 Attribute Points

-CHAPTER 14 END-