----- the next day -----
After waking up I started to sleepily prepare for the day.
Once I got a shower and got dressed, I started to go down the stairs and greeted my mother.
"Hey mom, good morning."
"Morning Lucious," she said. "While you were advancing, I picked up the form to participate in the exam. Once you finish breakfast you can sign the form, and I can drop it off later."
"Alright." I said as I started to pick up the pace of eating.
Once I finished, I started to look over the form.
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By signing this form, you agree to take the final exam and agree to the following terms.
1. You agree to take the exam and any risks involved in taking the exam such as physical injury, disablement, mental trauma, and death.
2. The participants of the exams cannot use any banned substances such as mana drugs, demonic extract, dragon blood, etc. A complete list of all banned substances can be found on the official website for the exam.
3. You agree to take the exam with honor, such as not sabotaging other participants or using dishonorable means like bribes to get ahead of other participants.
4. The participants of the exams cannot exceed the apprentice rank as to not give an unfair advantage to those who use means such as dungeon escorts.
5. The participants of the exam cannot directly take the life of other participants unless provoked into a life-or-death situation.
Failure to follow these terms will result in failure of the exam and/or potential legal action.
sign _______________
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Once I finished reading the form I found nothing wrong and signed my name, sealing my decision on taking the final exam.
After signing the form, I asked my mother for some advice.
"Mom," I said. "Can I ask you for some advice for something?"
'Sure!" She said. "What do you want to ask about?"
"After advancing I unlocked a new racial skill that allows me to create a clone that shares my skills and 50% of my stats, so I wanted to know what I should do with it." I asked confused on what I should do. "Should I use it to increase my leveling speed, or should I use it to do things for me while I sit in the house safe and sound."
After some time of debating what to say she finally spoke. "It really depends on what you want to do." She said. "I would advise taking them with you to level up if there is a risk, however if there were not any risks, I would suggest having them to go level up in a different area or do tasks for you. You could also send them away to hunt in the wild while you stay behind, since the wild can be even more dangerous than the dungeon due to unpredictability, but it can also have hidden rewards."
Hearing my mother's advice, I debated her words before speaking again.
"Thank you for the advice. I'll take your words into account."
"Alright, I didn't expect you to follow my words to the letter anyways, just remember my advice." She said as she got up. "Now, I'm going to go drop off this form."
My mother walked towards the door, but she suddenly stopped as if remembering something. "Oh right, by the way I put some money in your account. Since you advanced, me and your father decided to give you a gift, just don't spend it recklessly."
After mentioning that she walked through the door, leaving me by myself in the house.
'So, what should I do for now.' I thought. 'Maybe I should message Blake.'
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Lucious: "Blake I'm bored" 7:23
"What R U doing right now?" 7:24
Blake: "Nothing much" 7:27
"I'm just lazing around currently" 7:28
"Do you want to do something?" 7:28
Lucious: "Kinda" 7:29
"We haven't talked since we got out of the dungeon so just wanted to check up" 7:29
"BTW I advanced" 7:30
"I also signed up for the final exam" 7:30
Blake: "👍" 7:30
"Congrats and I also did the same for both" 7:31
"So yuo want to play games" 7:32
"*you" 7:32
Lucious: "Sure" 7:32
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After we finished texting, I went to my bedroom and started to play games with Blake for nearly the entire day.
It was simply a day of fun and relaxation.
----- the next day -----
After waking up and having breakfast I decided to go to the training area.
The training area was outside. It had many training dummies, a small 20m by 20m stone arena, and several training weapons.
I decided to start by creating and testing my new clone skill.
Once the skill activated a cloud of black mist manifested in front of me before dispersing before revealing another ... me?
Even if I was aware that it was a clone skill it still caught me by surprise.
"Wow, this is certainly something." I said analyzing my clone. "I didn't expect them to look exactly like me"
"Well, I understand admiring ourselves, but we did plan to train so we should probably get a move on." Said my clone with a prideful tone.
"I figured you would have a mind of your own but it's still surprising. Anyway, your right, we should start our training. You're my clone so you already know the plan, right?"
"Yeah, yeah. I already know what we're doing." They said with an impatient tone. "We are going to use every weapon we have access too, to gain every weapon skill and to increase our combat skills. Let's start already."
We soon grabbed our weapons and started our training.
We commenced battle, after battle, after battle ... and soon enough nearly a week passed were the only thing I did was sleep, eat, and train.
[you have gained the common 'novice spear mastery' skill]
[you have gained the common 'novice mace mastery' skill]
[you have gained the common 'novice great-sword mastery' skill]
[you have gained the common 'novice shield mastery' skill]
[you have gained the common 'novice crossbow mastery' skill]
[you have gained the common 'novice club mastery' skill]
[you have gained the common 'novice staff mastery' skill]
[you have gained the common 'novice hammer mastery' skill]
[you have gained the common 'novice machete mastery' skill]
[you have gained the common 'novice knife mastery' skill]
[you have gained the common 'novice whip mastery' skill]
[you have gained the common 'novice axe mastery' skill]
[you have gained the common 'novice nunchaku mastery' skill]
[you have gained the common 'novice halberd mastery' skill]
[you have gained the common 'novice javelin mastery' skill]
[you have gained the common 'novice throwing knife mastery' skill]
[you have gained the common 'novice sickle mastery' skill]
[you have gained the common 'novice katana mastery' skill]
[you have gained the common 'novice gauntlet mastery' skill]
[you have gained the common 'novice piercing mastery' skill]
[you have gained the common 'novice bludgeoning mastery' skill]
[you have gained the common 'tough skin' skill]
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