Chapter 5: Chapter 5.
*Znnnnn*
A small ray of dark energy that has violet outer could be sighted from afar. The ray was small in comparison to regular Cero, only a quarter of it.
[Host needs to focus more]
"Is *haah* that *hah* so?" Valentine exclaimed while panting heavily. He had been practicing Cero after unlocking and learning it without taking a rest.
"I'm trying though." Valentine stated after catching his breath.
[Host should rest before continuing. It is important to be a hard worker but it is also important to know when to take a rest]
"Okay." Valentine said. Then he sat down on the ground, closing his eyes, resting. He resting but in his mind, he was busy finding out how to efficiently channel his spiritual energy when firing a Cero. Due to this, he didn't realize he had fallen asleep.
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In next morning Valentine did the daily quest as usual. But the daily quest of that day was different from previous ones. It needed 100 for push-up and squats instead of 10, needed 50 pull-ups instead of 1, and needed 50 kilometers for a run instead of 10 meters. At first, Valentine was confused. However, after the system's explanation, it wasn't out of ordinary. According to the system, the previous daily quest was to strengthen Valentine's body to reach normal human stats, and after Valentine's body reached normal human stats, the system initiated the true daily quest.
After done with the daily quest, Valentine gathered a few ripe fruits as breakfast. The fruits were juicy, crunchy, and tasty.
After done with the breakfast, Valentine often hunts large beasts for EXP. However today, Valentine practiced his Cero.
Valentine pointed his finger in a random direction. Shortly, a small dark violetish ball created from pure spiritual energy formed then flew towards the tree forming a ray. The Cero was still small compared to normal Cero though it got slightly bigger from before.
Valentine after firing a Cero immediately formed another one firing afterward. Like this, he shot around twenty Cero repeatedly before exhausting all of his spiritual energy. Luckily, his Cero mastery, as well as the spiritual energy control, was getting better and better every time Valentine uses Cero.
Valentine sat down, catching his breath. Luckily his Spiritual energy recovery was far higher than before thanks to unlocking Spiritual pressure. And also thanks to the new skill he obtained he could recover his Spiritual energy faster and more efficiently. That skill was a passive skill called 'Boosted Spiritual energy recovery' which grants Valentine plus 3600 spiritual energy recovery stat. In short, Valentine now was able to recover more than 1 spiritual energy per second.
When Valentine unlocked Spiritual pressure, his stats skyrocketed as each stat gained 200 points.
"Add all of them in intelligence." Valentine remembered he forgot to distribute his free stat points.
[Name: Valentine
Level: 20
EXP: 1750/102400
Spiritual Energy: 1250/246000
Spiritual Energy recovery rate: 233+3600 per hour
STR: 235
AGL: 240
END: 242
INT: 233]
Soon after when Valentine recovered enough Spiritual energy to use Cero fee more times Valentine practiced once more.
"My practice is going nowhere." Valentine exclaimed while panting.
[In that case, I would recommend the host to practice on moving target]
Valentine nodded in agreement then proceeds to hunt large beasts once again.
Many hours passed and the evening was approaching. The air started to get chilly which forced Valentine to wear his handmade clothes made from fur from many different beasts he hunted.
*Znnnnn*
A ray made from pure dark violetish Spiritual energy went straight to a large buffalo. The Cero was now enough to engulf the buffalo's whole body. But still couldn't one-shot it as the buffalo survived with the heavy casualty. Its fur was burned as well as its pair of horns was shattered.
The buffalo locked its eyes on the source of the Cero, Valentine, with rage in its beady black eyes.
The buffalo bellowed loudly before charging towards Valentine at very high speed. In the blink of an eye, the buffalo almost reached Valentine's location. But unfortunately, Valentine fired another Cero, big enough to engulf the buffalo once again. This buffalo couldn't tank the Cero and died. Even though its primary target was killed, the Cero didn't stop and went straight, colliding with the ground in that direction, creating huge mushroom-shaped dust as well as shaking the ground.
[Host killed a large buffalo, earning 10000EXP]
Soon the dust dissipates revealing the remaining of the buffalo. What was left from the buffalo was an unrecognizably burned flesh blob.
Valentine approached what remained from the buffalo, placing his right palm on the flesh blob that emits a foul smell, absorbing the Spiritual energy.
Thump. Thump.
The ground began to shake as birds flew from the top of the trees they were residing in.
[Ding]
[Danger is approaching]
Valentine read the message that appeared on the bluish transparent rectangular monitor before staring in the direction where the noise comes from.
Valentine smirked as he guessed the incoming beast was the King of The Forest who Valentine was planning to hunt down sooner or later. But Valentine was also wondering how big the beast has to be in order to create such shock when it's walking.
Soon after the beast came. The beast had clean white fur that has many black stripes on its back and legs, massive teeth as well as an enormous body. The beast was twice the side of the biggest beast Valentine had ever encountered.
*Roar*
The tiger lets out a mighty roar, alerting all the nearby animals, making them run for their lives.
The tiger locked its eyes on Valentine, noticing the incoming dark violet ray. The tiger took the damage as it was too late to dodge.
The tiger bared its teeth then let out another roar before rushing towards Valentine.
Valentine responded by running in the other direction. But the tiger was able to follow Valentine no matter how fast he ran.
Valentine used Emperor to fire few bullets which were ineffective as usual against the tiger's thick fur.
This made Valentine fire Cero.
The tiger remembered Cero, thus it responded by jumping to the right dodging the Cero. When it saw another Cero, it then jumped to the left. Like this Valentine shot many Cero which the tiger responded in the same way.
"How much Spiritual energy left?"
[18690]
Valentine smirked before halting his pace. Then he pointed his right index finger shooting another Cero. This time Cero was as big as his fist.
The tiger jumped to the right to dodge. Unexpectedly, it saw another Cero coming in its way. Fortunately or unfortunately, the tiger was able to dodge the Cero with a slight graze on its right side. Suddenly, an enormous Cero engulfed the tiger when it landed after jumping. The Cero was big enough to engulf the tiger entirely, creating mushroom-shaped massive smoke of dust alongside the loud bellow from the tiger.
It was a plan after observing the habits of the tiger which always jumps to the right then to the left simultaneously. Thus he will fire a Cero as bait. When the tiger jumps to either left or right, he will fire another Cero immediately. Judging from the instincts of the tiger it will most likely dodge jumping to its original place. That's when the real attack will hit it. It was a pretty risky plan as if the tiger jumped another way it would fail completely. But the beasts aren't as smart as humans. Thus they will have a harder time resisting their habit.
Valentine collapsed as he used up almost all of his Spiritual energy, staring at the large mushroom-shaped smoke of dust.
Suddenly from the smoke, a grievously injured tiger emerged, jumping towards Valentine who was stunned since he never thought the tiger would survive from the last attack.
The tiger lifted its right paw, slapping Valentine at high speed.
*Bang*
A loud noise thundered as the paw of the tiger reached its target. But it didn't come into contact with Valentine but an ice wall that appearing out of nowhere.
"I really wanted to win without using White Album. But I'm still too weak I guess."
As Valentine states these words tiger's body began to freeze from all sides. The tiger tried to resist and ran away but it couldn't because of its injuries from the last attack. The tiger's body fully froze soon killing the tiger in the process.
[Ding]
[Host killed the King of the Forest, named Whitefury, earning 100000EXP]
"Named? Whitefury?" Valentine's eyes narrowed.
[Ding]
[Quest: Kill the King of the Forest completed]
[Generating reward]
As Valentine was wondering why the tiger was named, the same roulette appeared kn the monitor once again which Valentine responded by immediately pressing the red button.
[Congratulations on the host for gaining new Zanpakuto:...]
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