Chapter 17: No Comment
Arthur:
My heart was not at ease, I went to the old man in order to wake him up.
But no matter how much I tried in different ways to wake the old man, I did not succeed. Suddenly I felt as if my heart was being stabbed, and a feeling of suffocation overwhelmed me. In disbelief, I called him and screamed until people gathered around us.
Murmurs of onlookers
"Ah, unfortunately we have lost another person today it seems."
"No… no no… aaagh, we are all going to die, we are all going to die here."
"Calm down a little, you are annoying us with your barking now. Can't you shut up for just a minute?"
Crying… crying… crying…
"Every worker that decreases makes me more worried that the work pressure will increase."
Old man, wake up! It's time to dig. Hmm, are you pretending to be dead so you don't have to mine? Don't worry, I'm here, I won't let you move a pickaxe… no, I won't let you move from your place. So please wake up."
"Do not grieve, young man, because you did what we could not do. I thank you from my heart. Look… he died smiling. You should be happy."
When I heard the words of the man who patted my shoulder, I wiped the tears from my face and nodded with my teeth clenched against each other. I had only known him for a few days, but I treated him like my own grandfather.
At that moment, guard Claude arrived.
"What is going on here?! Why are you all gathered in one place? Go to digging now."
"What are you all waiting for?"
"I think you are waiting for me to move your asses, aren't you?" He put his hand on the whip that glowed red.
When they saw that, everyone moved to their areas.
"Good."
Claude stepped forward to find me staring at the old man's corpse.
"Hmm, what are you waiting for? You too, go to digging." His face frowned and showed the hatred inside him, and a little fear.
"He is dead." I said those two words with great sorrow so that the bastard could hear them well.
I saw shock then joy on his face and he laughed: "Hahahaha, we are relieved of him. Got rid of one, and there is only one left." Claude approached the old man's corpse and raised his foot, trying to do something.
"You deserve this… die, you damned old man." When his leg was about to touch the old man's face…
"What?!!" At that moment I rushed and stopped Claude from what he was about to do, anger on my face.
Driven by rage at his act, without knowing, my fist flew fast to his cheek.
"You damn dog! Even after his death you wouldn't leave him in peace!"
My fist struck his face, making him lean back a little, blood dripping from his mouth with a red bruise the size of my fist.
"Agh… what? You bastard, you dare hit a guard? Do you know the consequence of what you did?" A bloody, evil smile appeared on Claude's face.
He adjusted himself and grabbed his whip, a wide grin on his face.
"Death."
When I heard that word, I knew it was the biggest mistake he had ever made until now. But there was no escape, I will blow your ass up too.
A clear red aura formed on his whip and Claude began to swing it. "Hehehe… this time no one will save you from me. Taste my ability, you wretch!"
When I heard that, I raised my hands covering my face.
Luckily I did, for the attack was aimed precisely at my face. The red whip struck with great speed, hitting my wrists, another strike hitting my ribcage, and it continued with blood flowing heavily despite the defensive skill I possessed.
This went on for ten minutes.
Painful… but not anymore.
In a moment, the pain disappeared and my wounds began to heal roughly.
"Are you done? I endured you for a long time. This is my revenge."
I lowered my hands to see the whip had returned to normal, while Claude was gasping for a drop of oxygen.
"Tch… this is what they call mana depletion here. Not only did his mana run out, but his body was exhausted too."
Noticing that, I pressed on my toes to launch forward like a rocket, with a burning fist.
"[Skill I Burning Hand (Level 1)]"
Without hesitation, I drove my fist into his damned nose. With explosive power I sent him flying, slamming into the wall and forming a spiderweb-like crack.
He vomited blood from his mouth, groaning, his nose bleeding, before collapsing to the ground.
"Argh… argh…" he writhed on the ground, clutching his face.
I advanced towards him with slow steps and cold eyes.
Noticing my movements, he said fearfully: "Monster… monster! Don't come near me, stay away! How… how after all that whipping you didn't fall? By hell."
"Haha… where was your courage before? Come, I'll teach you a lesson."
"Stay away… stay away… stay away… nooo!"
I reached him, sat on his stomach and began to raise my fist and punch… punch… punch… punch… punch… punch… punch… punch.
"Damn yooooooou, and the existence of your kind!" My hand ignited with power.
"[Skill I Burning Hand (Level 1)]"
I stopped hitting him after that strike. His face was no longer recognizable, filled with bruises. Blood around his head mixed with his teeth, saliva, and snot.
I stood up, my hand covered in blood. He wasn't dead yet, the emblem didn't appear.
I looked at my gray screen:
[Skill I Pain Resistance (Level 2) —> Skill I Pain Resistance (Level 3)]
[Skill I Pain Resistance (Level 4) —> Skill I Pain Resistance (Level 5)]
[Skill I Bleeding Resistance (Level 1) —> Skill I Bleeding Resistance (Level 5)]
[Skill I Burning Hand (Level 1) —> Skill I Burning Hand (Level 3)]
I had skill evolutions, and the level of [Skill I Burning Hand] increased.
While I was thinking about my skill evolutions, suddenly a sharp pain struck my neck like electricity. It made me fall to the ground and writhe.
"What a fool, Claude… why didn't you use the discipliner in the collar?" I heard a feminine voice.
"Yes… Ability [Weak Hypnosis] – Go to sleep."
"Really…" a male voice spoke.
I feel drowsy… I want to sleep.
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Kyle:
"Ability [Weak Hypnosis] – Go to sleep." I cast my ability on the raging slave to get rid of his annoying cries of pain.
I looked towards a young girl with white skin, wearing tight pants with a shirt that showed the curves of her belly and covered her rather small chest.
"Maris, go check on Claude's condition."
"Yessss…" she went towards the unconscious Claude, her long golden hair swaying.
"Wow… his condition is not good at all. I think he needs immediate treatment." she said with her shining blue eyes.
"Alright… alright…"
After that she turned towards me, while I was close to the raging slave, and looked at him. "What do we do with him?"
I smiled: "The vice-captain and his group caught a monster, and they are thinking what to do with it."
"What did you say? A monster? Maybe we'll eat his flesh tonight." Maris drooled.
"No, Maris… this is an arena of life and death."
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[States]
[Character:
– Name and surname: Arthur Field
– Ethnicity: human
– Ability: Learning – Rank S
– Level 3 (400/190)
– Statistics Points: 0
]
[Properties:
– Strength: 17 + (39)
– Agility: 8 + (5)
– Defense (Vitality, Resistance): 7 + (20)
– Intelligence (mana): 10
]
[Skills:
– [Skill I I'm not thirsty (Level 1)]
– [Skill II Stacked Damage Resistance (Level 1)]
– [Skill I Sword Art of the Field Family (Level 1)]
– [Skill II Rapid Cell Evolution (Level 1)]
– [Skill I Burning Hand (Level 3)]
– [Skill II Warrior Miner (Level 3)]
– [Skill I Bleeding Resistance (Level 5)]
– [Skill I Pain Resistance (Level 5)]
– [Skill II Big Muscles (Level 1)]
– [Skill I Street Fighting (Level 1)]
]