2 days passed by.
Noah was dancing with his two new daggers he created.
It was not a normal dance, he was moving in a manner that felt like he was dancing.
Noah bought a simple dagger skill from the system with nothing fancy, with just some special movements, but it still cost him the remaining 200000.
He somewhat mastered the flash skill, and now he was mastering the dagger style.
He was ready to go now.
He felt confident now that he was so powerful, but he did not know that the real hell was waiting for him. The situation he met until now was only some small trial version of the real deal.
Even that anaconda was just a bigger ant in the forest.
Noah started walking again. This time he was running with his full speed. More than 1 km per second.
This was 3 times the speed of sound, so he was constantly producing sonic booms while moving.
He learned how to move with this much speed but was still having problems. A few times he almost slammed into trees.
He reached the area where he was before attacked by that anaconda. He fled from there before, but now he was sure he would be able to teach that anaconda a lesson if he met with it again.
But now he was not running but walking cautiously.
Then he heard a notification,
[9 more days are left before the novice civilization protection period ended.]
Noah instantly stopped in his step.
What was that?
He asked the question to the system,
"What do you mean by novice protection period?"
[500 coins needed]
Damn it! Why did the price become 10 times higher all of a sudden? Was this question this valuable or did the basic prices increase with his realm breakthrough?
He tried some easy questions and the price was 500 coins.
So it was increased because he broke through to black iron level.
But he was totally broke now. He needed to kill some monsters to get answers. The reminder gave him a bad feeling.
He could somewhat guess what this might mean, but he needed to be sure.
He did not meet any monsters till now.
He walked for another 2 hours, and suddenly felt he entered a new territory.
He held both daggers tightly and he was wearing his scanner goggles.
Another 30 minutes passed and he heard a sound in the bush and looked there.
But he felt a chill on his back and jumped forward.
Only to see a black panther just missed him by a bit.
The panther was at least 2 times bigger than a tiger and it had pitch black eyes, looking very demonic.
"Where did this thing come from? I did not sense it until it reached very near me. I need a good sensing skill I see."
He looked at the panther and activated the scanner.
[Subject: Demonic Panther
Level: 25 (Demon class)
Specialty: Speed]
He got a rough outline of the monster in front of him but did not get its exact attribute level.
This goggle was too low level for that. If he wanted to create something which could also scan the exact attributes, he would need 3000 mana points. A long way to go for him.
While he was thinking, the panther vanished, and its huge black claw appeared in front of his face.
"Damn, so fast."
He moved to the side to avoid the attack, but the claw got a part of his cloth and tore it apart.
Noah jumped off from the ground and got into his battle position.
This panther was faster than his normal speed, that was for sure.
The panther again vanished and came behind him. Before he could react, the claw tore his back.
Instantly blood started gushing out.
"Ahh! You son of a bitch. You are finished."
He instantly activated the flash skill and the world felt slower to him as he moved like lightning.
The panther also moved, but it was slower than him in this state. He used the poison dagger and slashed the panther at its jugular vein in its neck region.
The vein was cut off and the poison got inside its body.
Blood was coming out like a fountain.
Noah did not stop and attacked with the electric dagger and put it into the gut of the panther.
An electric shock ran through its body and the panther fell to the ground.
It did not take long to die.
[Ding! You have killed a demonic panther. You have got 1000 exp.]
Noah cancelled the flash skill and was about to check the body, but before he could do that, 5 more black panthers appeared in front of him and surrounded him.
They were a team. They wanted to toy with this weird-looking prey first, but it was out of their expectations that the prey killed one of their comrades so quickly.
Noah wanted to curse so badly. He had become overconfident after getting so much power at once and made this rookie mistake.
He should have waited and created a skill for sensing monsters. That would have helped him avoid this disaster today.
He was already injured and had used the flash skill already. He would have to wait 30 seconds before he could use it again, but 30 seconds were enough for those monsters to shred him into thousands of pieces.
"Damn it! Let us go, I will not be down this easily."
He stood up and tightened his grip.
The five of them attacked him together. They had hunted down their prey for a long time together. So it would be very tough for Noah to contend against them.
But he did not want to run away. So he charged toward them.
But those five were faster than him and were attacking in synchronization.
He could not hit his target but he was getting injured, his skin was torn everywhere, blood was gushing out.
He was gritting his teeth and waiting for the cooldown time to be over.
But the injuries were severe and could even kill him from excessive blood loss.
9 more seconds.
Puchi!
His gut was pierced by a claw.
He coughed a mouthful of blood, his consciousness was dimming.
5 seconds!
A chunk of meat was gone from his thigh.
He screamed out loudly.
1 second left and it passed.
He instantly activated the flash skill. He had 10 seconds to finish off those panthers.
Instantly those panthers became slow in his eyes and he attacked them nonstop. He used all the moves of the dagger skill he learned in those 10 seconds.
And the time was over.
Noah fell to the ground.
The five bodies of the black panthers were still intact, but then they were splitted into countless pieces and all five of them were dead.
He heaved a sigh of relief.
Then with great difficulty he sold them off. He did not have time to search for their cores.
He got 6000 coins at once and bought a low-class healing potion with 5000 coins from the shop.
It only stopped the bleeding and the pain. But this would not be enough. He needed something more to stand again and walk.
Now that the pain was gone, he could think more clearly and closed his eyes.
He wanted to create a serum that would fasten the self-healing process of his body, fast enough to regenerate bone and flesh.