NOVEL NEXT B1 | Chapter 60 - Training and a Dead Bird
A Nearby Dungeon
The very first thing Ethan Silva does after stepping out of his dungeon is take a deep breath and look up at the beautiful sky above him. But before the ascendant known as the Silver Knight can so much as enjoy the scenery, his head swivels around at the sound of thunder.
Lots. And lots. Of thunder.
What the heck?
He jumps up onto the branches of a nearby tree before repeating the motion until he reaches the top of the tree, where he finds that he is currently close to the top of a decently sized mountain with another one directly across from him, and two others surrounding the mountain. But what catches his attention is the sight of a girl fighting, or rather, running around on top of the peak of the central mountain.
While being chased by lightning and for some reason not fighting back.
What… am I watching?
Ethan stands on the top of the tree with one arm wrapped around it as he watches the girl running around as if baiting the lightning. Which makes Ethan realize exactly what she’s up to. Probably.
She must be training her Electricity Resistance and tiring out the monster at the same time, since it can’t be able to continue directing the lightning at her the entire time. At some point it’ll have to shift-
His thoughts are interrupted when the giant hawk she’s baiting finally stops directing the lightning and starts to flare up itself with blue lightning that it then sends crashing down towards her.
And this time she doesn’t manage to dodge in time, getting sent flying dozens of meters through the air before crashing into the ground with some of her bones sticking out of her body and severe burns through the equally burnt holes in her armor.
Ethan briefly considers going over there to help her and what merits that could possibly bring him, only to find his jaw dropping open in silence at the sight he sees next.
The sight of her wounds all reversing themselves as if nothing had ever happened after a faint glitching appearance. Like the wounds were nothing but a glitch in a computer.
What the absolute flying hell did I just see?
Ethan blinks once, then twice, and finally a third time just to make sure he’s seeing correctly.
And what he sees is the girl climbing to her feet with a grimace on her face. But the grimace doesn’t last long and is replaced by a look Ethan knows very well. A look he often gets when looking at a skill progressing or a System Message telling him he’s leveled up.
No… is she? No…
The girl just goes back to running around while seemingly baiting the giant hawk, making Ethan seriously begin to question her sanity. So he just shakes his head, tries briefly to identify her, only to fail.
That’s probably the level 100 for wherever we are.
Since the System Creator’s memory told him about the level 100s in each island of his Tutorial Block, he already knows what the outside of the dungeon is like. So he just narrows his eyes on the girl as he tries to figure out what magical element she’s using, since the rift is blocking his senses as well.
Purple and can revert time on the body… time magic maybe? It looked kind of like I’ve heard quantum magic described, but there can’t be a quantum being here. They aren’t usually system users but instead outsiders. So I guess time magic? A very rare affinity.
Ethan watches her for several more seconds before eventually shaking his head at the sight of her just taking another lightning bolt and reversing the damages again. Then he turns around and begins to walk away, deciding that while she is interesting, he shouldn’t waste his time in the last day of the Tutorial just watching someone else fight.
So he heads towards the edge of the mountains, making his way hopefully towards the edge of the island where he can find a bridge to another island.
Right when he’s about to leave eyesight of the girl though, he glances back with a raised brow before chuckling and continuing on his way.
Crazy or not, she sure seems interesting. I wonder if I’ll ever run into her again.
He walks for a few seconds.
Probably not.
Alexia
I let out another scream of pain when another blue lightning bolt strikes me, but this one doesn’t do as much damage as the first one was doing. Not by a longshot. Now it’s only doing about half or so of the amount of damage the first one did.
And after I reverse the damage, making me pant from the exhaustion of my current training, I find a System Message awaiting me.
{Congratulations! Your Passive Skill ‘Quantum Adaption’ has reached Level 2!}
Finally!
‘Please send some soul! We’re done training for now!’ I send Luna a message, following which I feel more soul entering me, filling me back up to about half of my tank. Then I focus on the matriarch with a wide grin on my face.
The matriarch looks surprised for a moment, but doesn’t stop preparing the blue bolt of electricity that it was about to send my way.
So I begin teleporting straight up towards it with ease, which does startle it into messing up and missing its shot. But it has bigger problems to worry about as I quickly summon my polearm and bring the blade crashing down onto its wing, slicing it open without much struggle thanks to its surprise keeping it from moving away.
Then we both begin falling towards the ground now that its wing is crippled.
I don’t stop there though as I teleport above the creature, landing onto its back where I then bring my polearm straight down into its head, cutting it open with ease. And before it crashes onto the ground, I teleport off of its back slightly above ground myself to dumb down the landing a bit, even if I still end up gritting my teeth slightly.
One issue about maintaining my momentum when teleporting. I can’t really use it to break my fall.
Worth it other than that though.
Anyways, I stretch a little before letting the System Message play out.
[Level 100 Thunder Hawk Matriarch Defeated. No EXP is given due to the user’s level being capped. One Tier 1 Capped being defeated. To clear the requirement, you must defeat two more.]
Alrighty then, now that his has been handled, time to head back to the base.
As I leave the area, I briefly notice that the rift surrounding the matriarch’s peak is vanishing. Then I realize something and turn back around.
Actually, I wonder if there’s any goodies here for the taking?