Knight of Twilight

hitting level 10

Chapter 10

A few minutes later I was back at our camp again but with a frown on my face, some shameless individual had taken all my hard earned wood. Who does that?, I wanted to go house by house till I found anything that remotely looked like my wood, but I decided against it afterall I'm a chill guy.

Putting the wood down I take a look our temporary home. She put in quite a work on this one.

It was shaped like a dome and was made with wood and metal scraps covered with big leaves. The dome tent was less than 4 metres high so we couldn't stand in it but I was wide enough for both of us to sleep side by side. Thinking about the side by side part was making my heart race, I'm not a virgin or anything of that sort but Athena-sama really makes my blood boil.

I wonder what her real name is.

After setting up the fire, we had a light meal which consisted of fruits and coconut water then we slept. Night and day existed in game made to mirror Singapore time and currently it was night time.

We didn't really have to sleep ingame but it was the best way to replenish stamina. The stamina wasn't a stat that could be increased with stat points so players had to rest or sleep to replenish stamina faster.

In what seemed to be an underground shelter, there was an abrupt flash of black light. Once the light died down a person appeard on an elevated platform much like the alter from Alfonso's lair.

The Individual looked to be in his mid forties with a long hair and beard that was unkept making him look even older.

He was bleeding from his left thumb which seemed to be heavily damaged.

Alfonso was pale and his breathing was hard, to say he was furious was an understatement.

Rejoice or 'silvagod' had no idea the kind of fate that awaited him for trying to kill a mage and failing.

It had been three days since the fight with Alfonso and Athena-sama and I were currently grinding to reach level 10.

In the vast expanse of the vivere forest I was currently Sprinting through the terrain at my fastest speed, I was running for my life, right behind me was a [scaled panther].

A level 8 creature that was nightmare for unarmed players.

You wanna say I'm level 9 but that's a level difference, doesn't matter much when Im poorly equipped against a monster that's stronger than me.

Players will always be weaker than beast of the same level, that where gear come to shine.

But since I'm equiped a makeshift spear I don't think that counts.

Swishhh!!!!

Hearing the wind get slashed I instinctively duck, just in time for the small tree beside me to explode. Imagine if that paw struck my head.

With a roll I try to create some distance from the beast, Im almost at that place.

Clang!!!

Sparks literally flew off my spear which was made with metal scraps and I was pushed back a few steps.

My spear was now adorned with four claw marks while my arms throbbed from the collision.

Just in front of me was the [scaled panther], a beautiful beast standing 2 metres in height with a black body that seemed to absorb all the light around it. This guy had scales all over its body that were half an inch thick. Talk about thick skinned.

The panther pounced at me while I reacted swiftly using my spear as a batton to strike its head. My blow connected sending it back to the ground, but the force of the impact made my hands hurt. I probably had a kind of damage reflection.

Ignoring the pain I spun the spear fixing the tip to face downwards, and with a burst I'd speed I brought down the spear on the neck of the panther.

Roaaarrrr!!!

The beast thrashed around in pain while I struggled to hold my spear to its neck that now had a deep wound on it.

The wound was deep but not enough to kill it instantly.

While still struggling to pierce deeper with my spear I felt something was wrong, the beast stopped thrashing around as if in surrender.

I instantly had a bad feeling, I had totally forgotten about something important because of how anxious I was.

Beast tend to go berserk if they felt life threatening danger.

As if to mock me the panther immediately began to grow bigger reaching 3 metres in height. I mediately started running, dont wanna stay till the transformation ends, that would be foolish.

Roooaaaar!!!

The panther roared as if challenging me to come back and fight, like hell I would do something that stupid. Im running like my life depends on it, cause it literally does.

I can hear the panther catching up but it doesn't matter since I'm here already.

I cross ten metres with a leap and rolled in the ground in one fluid motion, my stats playing the major role in the acrobatic feat.

Turning around to face the panther I see it's almost on me, if I didn't jump when I did I might have become cat food.

The beast came at me without a semblance of caution whatsoever, it was berserk, stronger but at the cost of its intelligence.

Just two metres away from me the ground collapsed from the weight of the beast, sending it into the already dug out hole.

It was a trap.

Readying my spear I run towards the hole , the panther was struggling to come out of the hole, some of the metal spikes buried in the hole had impaled it during its descent.

Things werent looking good for it.

“Took you long enough”, I heard footsteps followed by a voice behind me.

Why don't you try dealing with a berserk scaled panther yourself? I retorted to Athena-sama.

“I think I'll pass, only savages will go looking for a fight with no good reason”. “Oh your the savage just incase you didn't catch on”.

Screw you, let's just put this guy to rest, I'll deal with you later for sure.

“You've been saying that for three days” she replied with a teasing smile, sometimes I feel I'm being led on by this girl.

Throwing the emerging thoughts to back of my mind, I proceed to deliver a few good pokes to the beast till it eventually died.

[ Congratulations you have reached level 10].