On the day of the death door raid, the top five ranked youth of the Stormhaven Dunasty had gathered in front of the "Death door" including Ethan. There was Cresta the first ranked, Cyril the war phsyco ranked fourth, Thomas the silent blade ranked second after Cresta, Olivia the water dancer ranked third and Kaitlyn the wind stringer ranked fifth.
Thomas had pitch black hair, round face, small lips and black eyes with heights 5.9ft. He had a personality of not talking when not necessary. Olivia the water dancer had striking features and a wavy body structure. Kaitlyn also had striking features just like Olivia but with blonde hair matching the colour of her eyes.
"Why would they bring such a strong person with us?" Cyril said sarcastically. The other guys also giggled upon hearing Cyril's joke.
"Make sure to come back safely." An elder who led them to the Death door teleportation stone advised. Cresta walked forward to the teleportation stone and stepped both foot on it. In an instant she was teleported away and the rest followed behind.
[You have entered the World of the third Incarnate.]
A smile sneaked it way up Ethan's face as he saw the pop up. Cresta continued leading the group silently with Thomas by her side followed by Cyril, Olivia, and Kaitlyn. Ethan also followed up from behind silently whiles checking his stuffs in his menu.
[Menu]
[Stats][Equipments][Skills][Inventory][Store]
Ethan pointed on store option and immediately a window opened before him. He didn't have to worry much since the others couldn't see him. He had to purchase some defensive items and potions as the other ranked youths were heavily armed with unique armours and costing artifacts even Ethan hadn't seen before.
[Store](1200 Gold coins available )
[Black suit(150 Gold coins)]
[Lumaflux potion(5 Gold coins)]
[Healing potion(10 Gold coins)]
[Alpha's ring (24 Gold coins)]
[Alpha's necklace(45 Gold coins)]
Ethan tapped on the Black suit as another window popped up,
[Black suit]
Includes a special mask, two fingerless gloves, special sneakers, and a hoodie. When all the parts of the Black suit are equipped, dexterity stats is increased by 10 points.
"This is what I need."
Ethan purchased the Black suit and stored it in his inventory awaiting the right time activate it. After seeing how prepared the five ranked youth of Stormhaven were well prepared, the realised the raid was going to be a dangerous one and therefore he also had to be prepared.
"That's a flood of grim mice, A-class shadowspawn." Olivia warned as a wave of grim mice approached and all the youth had already taken their stance. Cyril manifested his lexicon and golden staff. Kaitlyn also manifested a light green lexicon with the symbol of three wavy lines which signified her wind strings. Olivia also manifested her sea blue coloured lexicon which had little water particles suspended around it as she formed a spear out of the water particles in the atmosphere.
Thomas also manifested a lexicon with a design of two daggers etched into the cover of the lexicon. He held out his dual daggers which exuded a red aura as if it had consciousness of its own.
[A-class Shadowspawn: Grim mice]
[Category: Beast]
About seventy-five metres from the group, the grim mice approached at high speed destroying everything in their path. This was Cresta just looked ahead and raised her hand as her lexicon manifested, a lexicon which seemed to be carved out of ice tablet itself with an image of a full body armour but with ice skates etched into its cover as the air around her also started freezing.
Hwoooom!
In split seconds, a gust of cold wind was sent across the herd of grim mice freezing them instantly. "Yeah, we didn't even have to battle."Cyril guffawed. Cresta clenched her fist and all the frozen grim mice were reduced to ice particles almost instantly. All this while, all Ethan did was to just sit on the ground and do nothing as if nothing was happening.
He'd once suffered against the grim mice but not now. At first it was as a result of his lightning affinity being at zero. But after the uncompleted soul training he could feel his control over the lightning increase slowly. Moreover he could feel other elements in his body but he couldn't manifest them physically and it seemed as if his control was still lacking."I think I can be able to use ice one day." Ethan said to everyone's hearing mistakenly.
"Huh? Did he say something?" Cyril turned and started laughing loudly. "Not even in your wildest dreams." Kaitlyn guffawed. "Oops, that was loud." Ethan turned as if about to leave as his eyes met Cresta's gaze.
Cresta aimed at Ethan from the back and shot an icicle but missed in microseconds. "I've never missed a shot before but how?" Cresta thought. The icicle that was aimed at Ethan's head had evaporated right before it could even hit him. Ethan continued walking as if he'd sensed nothing happening. Cresta shot anther icicle but Ethan used the phantom pace to dodge the icicle. The phantom pace left a lightning trail behind which evaporated the icicle right away.
His speed was so terrifying that all the five highest ranked didn't see his leg move.
Dooooom
"Argh!"
Cresta screamed in pain as he got slammed into a wall.
Behind them stood a human looking being clad in a full golden armour with a long double edged sword in its hand. There, an electronic sound rang in Ethan's ear.
Ping!
[Alert]
[New quest has arrived]
Defeat the special case Grimlore: The lost Golden Knight.
"We can't take on this monster. It's power is way more than all of us combined." Cresta already up again, yelled out at her colleagues. Cresta held a red gem which she crushed and instantly they were all teleported out of the place leaving only Ethan behind.
***
"You're back so soon." The elder got confused at their abrupt return. Cresta just handed over a small compass-like device which had six symbols and six letters on it starting from S, A, B, C, D, and ended with the letter E under the symbols. The single hand that was in the device was pointing at the letter A with a red light blinking quickly. "It seems that arrogant boy has nothing more to do in this life anymore." The elder guffawed. "It's good we didn't risk our lives." Thomas said.
Even the first five ranked of the youth didn't attempt to fight this humanoid being. Was it that troublesome? Special case Grimlores were Grimlores that came into existence as a result of a special event and they weren't to be trifled with and still have expectations of surviving easily. But here Ethan stood with an ear-to-ear grin ready to battle this demon. Was it as a result of the "awesome reward" he'd receive?
"Is this really me?" Ethan wondered as he manifested his lexicon and brought out his sheathed lightning sword whiles already holding the Eclipsing Fang in his left hand.
"Black suit!"
Ethan called out and immediately a black mask appeared covering only his nose and mouth. The raw black fingerless hand gloves were also worn on his hand just as the hoodie and the sneakers also.
[Your dexterity stats has been increased by 10 points ]
Ethan now sent his gaze to the grimlore and the another window popped in front of him.
[B-class Obsidian Warden: The Lost Golden Knight]
[Category: Special case grimlore(B rank)]
"The grimlore is two ranks higher than the strongest grimlore I've ever gone up against." Ethan said to himself whiles waiting for the grimlore to make a move. But instead the the knight placed down his sword and sat down.
"Huh?"Ethan got confused seeing how a grimlore had the audacity to sit whiles in a battle. Didn't it see Ethan as a threat? "Hey! kid. I can see you have more power than you think you have but still haven't mastered it. I want to fight with your trainer." The Knight ordered. "What? It can talk?" Ethan was shocked but the more pressing matter was that the Knight told him he wasn't a threat. And telling him to call his trainer was a hell of insult Ethan could never take easily.
"Haaaah....." Ethan exhaled and next used the phantom pace to get in front of the Knight but he Knight didn't even flinch and as it raised its right arm.
[Enemy has used skill: General of the army.]
Immediately Ethan saw the message, he tightened the grip on both swords. Still the Knight sat down moving. Ethan raised his sword to the Knight but instantly an arrow was shot at him at an incredible speed that forced Ethan to leap back. To Ethan's amazement, when he looked around, there were at least twenty(20) archers aiming at him and a hundred normal knights clad in silver armour.
He'd never dreamt of it that single knight could summon a whole army. That was when he remembered the name of the Golden Knight's skill: General of the army. That was when it struck him again. "If there was a general then there should be a Lieutenant General."
Ethan ran past the Golden Knight dodging arrows and fighting the minor knight whiles looking around for the lieutenant. A minor knight attempted striking Ethan from behind but got its head chopped off in microseconds as it was their weak spot in the armour.
[You have defeated a minor knight.]
[You have acquired 100 experience points.]
[You have defeated a minor knight.]
[You have defeated a minor knight.]
[You have acquired 100 experience points.]
[You have gained...]
The messages kept on appearing as Ethan massacred the knights attacking him. As Ethan continued fighting slowly his body started giving off lightning sparks.
[You have levelled up.]
[You have levelled up.]
[You have levelled up.]
Ethan's grin widened more as he tightened his grip on his two swords more. With a swing of Ethan's sheathed lightning sword, an arc of lightning energy was sent towards the archers killing them instantly.
[You have defeated an archer knight]
[You acquired 120 experience points]
[You have defeated an archer knight]
[You have acquired 120 experience points]
[You have defeated an archer knight ]
[You have acquired...]
[You have levelled up]
"I hope I can keep on this levelling up streak." Ethan laughed. After a full hour, Ethan had finished off the whole army leaving only two knights on the grounds; the Golden Knight and another knight that was clad in Silver armour with gold linings in them.
Thump, thump, thump
The knight in the unique silver armour started running towards Ethan, its steps quickening more as it continued running towards Ethan. Ethan also ran towards the knight at high speed until they clashed their swords. The knight raised its sword to strike Ethan's head but quickly Ethan sidestepped and with a powerful horizontal slash sending the lieutenant flying mile backwards.
As the knight still tumbled on the ground struggling to gain balance, Ethan used the phantom pace to get to the lieutenant's side and started punching punching it till dents appeared on its armour.
"Warden's Grip!"
[Warden's Grip has been activated.]
Ethan moved his hand forward and instantly the Sheathed Lightning sword and Eclipsing Fang which he'd plunged into the ground came flying towards him.
"Sheath surge!"
Ethan plunged his sheathed lightning sword into the chest of the knight's armour releasing a huge amount of lightning into the lieutenant knight's armour.
[You have defeated a Lieutenant knight]
[You have acquired 250 experience points]
[You have levelled up.]