Shadow parasite

In a few days, Gorn reached a plateau.

"Status!"

Name: Gorn

Talent: Low

Auto farming system (Lvl1): 10/10 targets.

Power level: 1000

Abilities: Regeneration(lLvl2); Night vision(Lvl2); Fireball(Lvl2); Fire control (Lvl2); Warrior (Lvl2); Fast learner (Lvl2); Control(Lvl2);

Equipment: Black sword; Leather armor;

Shop (Lvl1)

Inventory: 10 cubic meters

Current Gold: 600

At this point, he learned a few new things. There was a maximum number of skills that he could have at a time. That number was seven. If he wanted another skill, there was, however, the option to replace them with new ones. Furthermore, the system could also be upgraded.

System upgrade mission: Kill one thousand creatures with a power level of a minimum of five hundred.

0/1000

'Creatures? Then killing humans should also work...'

He was not a mass murderer, so killing so many humans was not an option.

'It seems I will need to make a trip outside the city pretty soon.'

Lora also messaged him in regard to the items she gave him. Surprisingly or not, their price was the same, respectively five hundred gold for the sword, and one hundred gold for the potion. As a matter of fact, both items were of good quality, and could easily be sold. The downside was, however, that twenty-five percent of the profit would go to their family.

Having solved most of the things that needed attention, Gorn headed to school, with another small goal in mind.

'That flight skill could be a life-saving method, so I must have it before I go to fight monsters if possible.'

Apart from that, Sara's other skills were of a higher level, thus more useful. Taking her skills would be quite an improvement to his prowess.

Gorn stopped in front of the school, thinking how much he improved in a short period. It was almost surreal.

Entering the buildings he slowly walked towards his class. By now, everyone knew him and treated him with utmost respect. On his way, he did not see anyone getting bullied or harassed. It seemed that his warning worked quite a bit. After a short while, Gorn reached his classroom. Sebastian, Lora, the twin sisters, as well as everybody else were already present.

"Hey, everything fine?"

"Yes, thank you very much," answered Mara and Nora.

Here, no one dared do anything to them. After exchanging a few words with them Gorn headed to his usual place at the back. After a few moments, Gorn turned his head upwards. In front of him was Sebastian. His figure was quite imposing, but that didn't affect him much. Extending his hand Sebastian said with a rather serious face:

"I'm sorry for the trouble I caused you before. I want to leave in the past everything bad that happened between us until now."

His face seemed rather genuine. Gorn looked Sebastian in the eyes for a few moments, then extended his hand as well.

"My apologies as well, I might have gone a little overboard with my last actions."

And so, with a handshake, and a few words, a lot of tension between them evaporated into thin air. Sara entered the classroom, and Sebastian went back to his seat. Gorn was pleasantly surprised by Sebastian's actions. Without overthinking things too much Gorn looked at Sara and said in a low voice.

"Select!"

Race: Human

Talent: High

Power level: 1020

Abilities: Flight(Lvl3); Wind resistance(Lvl3); Lightning bolt (Lvl4); Durability (Lvl4)

Equipment: Normal clothes

Loot: 1020 gold; Flight(Lvl3); Wind resistance(Lvl3); Lightning bolt (Lvl4); Durability (Lvl4)

Confirm target? Yes No

Gorn did not know how or where the duel with his targets went, but at first glance, Sara had the advantage.

'No matter how I look at it, her skills are superior to mine in a direct confrontation. I hope that from ten matches I will be able to achieve at least something.'

His chances were not high, but he had to try. After putting his system to work Gorn relaxed.

'Personal knowledge such as experience, combat tactics, and maneuvers are also important. There is quite a collection of books in this regard at our school. With the experience I have had with the system until now, I concluded that this aspect is not taken into consideration by the system.'

Even though it wasn't useful when activating auto farming, it was very useful in real life. A good example was Carl, their school principal. Gorn won all ten matches against him inside the auto farming simulator, however, he wasn't confident at all to do the same thing in real life. Besides theory, there were also practical classes.

"Today we will do combat training. Follow me!"

Each professor who was responsible for a class decided how often their students would practice actual combat. Since Sara was away most of the time, what they learned was only theory. Of course, the school had special trainers for the students who had certain qualifications and wanted to improve after classes regardless of theory or combat.

"It's been so long since we did such a thing," said one student to another.

Everyone followed Sara in an orderly manner. Gorn was in dire need of practical combat. Luckily he had that control skill otherwise it would have been very hard for him with the quick changes in his power. Since his power reached a stop, it was ideal to be able to fully control it even without the help of his skill.

'I could use that slot for another, more powerful skill.'

His fast surge in power brought a few dilemmas with it.

'I need to use my whole power for a more realistic, and efficient training, but if I do that, wouldn't I attract the attention of potential dangerous people?'

The weather suddenly turned rather bad. Such a phenomenon was not unusual, and most people did not think too much of it.

'I need some life-saving methods in case someone way stronger than me wants to hurt me.'

Until he got a few life-saving trump cards Gorn thought of being more careful. He wanted that at least, however, with his character, and even in general, it was pretty hard to do that.

"Alright everyone, quickly form two lines," spoke Sara.

They were already inside a huge empty room.

"Good, the person in front of you will be your sparring partner for the next ten minutes, after which you will switch to another one."

Gorn looked curiously at his opponent. It was a girl with a power level of fifteen. She looked athletic and seemed stronger because of her height. She was almost as tall as Gorn.

"Rebeca right?"

The girl responded politely: "Yes."

She had a great physique, in rest her appearance was pretty normal.

"Can you please not fight back and let me hit you?"

Gorn froze for a moment.

'What!?'

"Alright, go ahead!" said Gorn full of curiosity on what was going to happen next.

Rebeca did not wait any longer. She ran towards him and started to punch and kick him in different manners. She also used a huge variety of techniques. Gorn was like a rag doll, thrown to the ground, in the air, and beaten in every possible way.

'Wow, this girl sure knows a lot of fighting techniques.'

Her theoretical knowledge and the way to apply it was impeccable. Unfortunately, the difference in power was too massive.

"This is like a decent massage."

Rebeca stopped, she was breathing heavily and was covered in sweat. She went all out, knowing such a practice dummy was hard to find. Gorn's reputation was leaning towards the good side, that being the motive she dared make such a request. That, and the fact that she was a little 'wild', to say it more nicely.

Gorn sank into thought.

'I can learn a lot from her... Furthermore, she won't be able to figure out much. And even if, she is just a nobody.'

Using his power-up potion on other people was also an option, but that was too risky and needed to be done only on people he could trust somewhat, and in a moderate way. For the time being, he left that option to the side.

"Hei Rebeca..."

"Yes, Gorn?"

"Would you like to work for me for a few days?"

It wouldn't be bad to make some use of his 'warrior', and 'fast learner' skills before replacing them with other ones.