Skill Creation in the Fantasy World

On the stage.

Felix looked flabergasted at the sudden change in his opponent.

"ROAARRR!!"

The tattooed man who was just mere moments away from getting defeated by him, healed himself and got even stronger than he was after drinking something from a vial.

The referee who was standing at the edge of the stage frowned and thought whether he should interfere ot not.

But then his eyes moved towards the arena audience where he felt a strong presence, and noticed a man wearing an one eye mask giving him an assured look.

'T-That's Sir Graham!', thought the referee with surprised wide eyes and gave a subtle yet respectful nod towards the man.

Now that a person from the council of the underworld had given him instructions, the referee decided not to do anything and just watched how the battle went on.

But the crowd were frantic with their reactions.

"W-What was that? Is that person a monster!?"

"Look at him! He suddenly got stronger."

"Holy Shit! That scared me!" Find adventures on NovelFire-mp,yr.

"I fucking knew it! The dark guilds would definitely use underhanded means in a battle."

Their thoughts were all the same, questioning what was going on, on the stage.

Meanwhile, Mr.Dealer and Graham were talking in small voices.

"It's that right?", Graham asked curiously while narrowing his only eye.

Giving a nod at his question, Mr.Dealer replied with a pensive look on his face. "Yes,....it's the dark guild's signature yet low-quality potion, Last Shot...."

Mr.Dealer then looked at Felix with worry and muttered, "Even though the change is small, will he be able to handle him?"

Graham raised his eyebrow and joked.

"What are you? His mother? Let the boy fight, if he's in trouble, then I'll play my last shot and save him before he dies."

His words brought relief to Mr.Dealer, and he sighed thinking he was starting to get emotional these last few days.

Maybe it was because he knew the real identity of the boy, and the guild behind him, whom he couldn't afford to make trouble with.

*****

The moment Harker-monster stopped its loud roar, its eyes scanned the surroundings and met with Felix's red eyes that looked especially confusing right now.

'Dude, what the hell happened to you!!?"

Then without wasting any time, the monster threw itself upon him with a crazy look on its face.

Felix was met with a flying punch that didn't have much accuracy, but power that was three times more than that of the man's previous strength.

Swiftly dodging the attack, Felix used an Assault Impact and managed to barely push the monster away a few meters, before retreating and taking a serious look at his opponent.

After taking the potion, Last Shot, Harker wasn't Harker anymore. It could be said that his consciousness was already half dead and the body that was moving and throwing punches right now was nothing more than an empty shell.

But that didn't mean it was easy to deal with, as even though it didn't have an intelligent brain to think of during the fight, it's battle instincts were still there, but that too turned more beastly and agressive which basically used hundred percent of its power in every move.

'There's no point in wasting time thinking about what's happening. All I gotta do is defeat him as soon as I can, and then I'll have my answers.'

Shaking away all the unnecessary thoughts, Felix focused on Equanimity skill, and concentrated on the movements of his opponent.

It was complicated.

The monster didn't follow a certain rythm of moving or walking, and instead did absolutely random things like gawking at the ceiling absentmindedly for a few seconds and then snorting before acting like waking up from deep sleep and looking around aimlessly.

Yet, Felix could feel that the moment he took a step forward or backward or anywhere, then the monster would return to its beast mode and jump on him.

Taking it as an opportunity, Felix relaxed for a few seconds and started contentrating on his next attack move.

He was going to try the first technique of his Sword Arts, the Singular Slash.

Eventhough it was only the first technique of his Black Horizon Sword Arts, it shouldn't be forgotten that it was the same technique that basically sliced through the body of Rank 2 goblin, though it was of the mage type with a weak body.

Now, the monster's strength had temporarily passed Rank 1, though it lacked the intelligence of one.

A few seconds later, he was ready.

With his concentration at its highest, adding that to the Corrosion skill that enveloped baleful energy through his shortsword, and the red line of weakness appearing on the monster's body, Felix forcibly pushed himself against the ground by using Agility Burst.

There was a sudden flash on the arena stage, and before anybody knew what was going on, except for a few, they saw Phantom moving across from his position all the way to the monster's arm's reach within a mere second.

A fast blade that glowed purple due to the power of corrosion, slashed horizontally toward the monster's neck, which had a red weakness point.

Even though Felix was moving so fast that seemed unbelievable for a zero rank warrior, the monster who was acting like a fool all this time suddenly turned in a swift manner and defended itself using it's arms.

Seeing the movement of his opponent which would block his incoming attack, Felix changed the direction of his sword and bent it towards another red line that had appeared on it's chest.

The change of the movement by his shortsword which was using the Singular Slash technique, lowered the overall strength of the slash, but it was enough for it to cause harm.

"Schkweek!"

His shortsword slashed deeply into the monster's chest, making almost half of the sword impaled within it's body.

The crowd's cheering died down as they waited with bated breaths to witness the result of the clash.

Felix, who was standing while still gripping his sword had a slight smile at the corner of his mouth seeing that his opponent was out, but a few seconds later his eyes went wide in terror when he heard the sound of wind.

A powerful punch landed directly on Felix's stomach, making him spurt out blood from his mouth as he flew through the air and crashed onto the ground like a ragdoll.

"ROAAR!!"

The crowd gasped at the sudden turn of events.

They could still see a sword pierced into the monster's chest, who was showing no signs of pain, and then there was Felix who had successfully hit his opponent yet failed to inflict any damage and instead could only fall back helplessly.

"Ughh...how did it not die...."

Felix stood up while clutching his stomach and wiped the blood near his mouth.

He could not understand how the monster was able to fight like normal when a sword was impaled deep into its body.

"Shit. If this continues, then...."

Taking a deep breath, Felix stared at his shortsword which was still placed inside the monster's body, giving him no weapon to fight with.

Left with no other choice, he took a boxing stance and waited for the monster to attack him.

'There's only one option left.'

Uncaring of the extra piece of metal protruding from its chest, the monster ran forward and launched a punch.

Felix could barely dodge the punch as it slightly grazed him, pushing him a few steps back.

The next moment, Felix quickly activated his skill Agility Burst and pushed himself toward the monster's body, before tightly clutching his shortsword.

'Corrosion!'

Holding his weapon tightly, he used his skill and sent out baleful energy through his weapon into the monster's body.

The already messed up insides of Harker's body who had taken the Last Shot potion wasn't in a best condition at the moment, and the infusion of the corrosive power made it more damaged.

The monster who was about to sent out another powerful punch suddenly stopped as it's eyes widened in pain, it opened its mouth and let out a painful shriek.

"GRAAAHHH!!"

Seeing that his idea was proving it right, Felix gritted his teeth and tried to emit as much of the baleful energy he could possibly let out.

'Just die already!!'

With it's body overwhelmed with corrosive power, the monster's last instincts got activated, and it tried getting away.

But Felix who had seen this coming didn't let it go as he twisted his body like a snake and wrapped around the monster's body to not let it escape his grasp.

The monster thrashed around on the stage in anger, hitting Felix all over but he didn't let go no matter what and continued pouring out the baleful energy.

After some time, the monster couldn't hold any longer and it's body starting to convulse, before letting out one last roar and then falling on the ground lifeless.

[You have killed a being higher than your own rank.]

[You have gained 10 skill points.]

Felix finally let go of the monster's body and lay on the ground beside it completely exhausted.

"Huff...hufff...huff..."

He took deep breathes and thought about the battle he fought just now.

Unlike before where both the fighters were using their weapons and battling each other carefully, this battle was more like who would be the last one to survive.

'That was insane, but atleast I got some skill points from it....'

On the other hand, the crowd was surprisingly silent.

All of them had strange looks on their faces, showing emotions like confusion, fear and surprise.

Felix was in a serious fight, so he didn't have the time to think properly and analyse what was happening right now with the matter of a fighter taking drug like potions to strengthen themselves.

It was against the rules of the underworld arena for a fighter to take any supplement potions before or during the battle which would have a direct connection with their power grade used in the battle.

Now that a member of the dark guilds had openly taken the Last Shot potion without any care infront of the whole audience, it only meant that the dark guilds had no plans of playing this game anymore.

Mr.Dealer and Graham in the crowd looked at each other and nodded with serious faces, thinking that it was time for the real game to begin.