The training session didn`t involve wooden swords or weights. It involved Voro entering a room on his own.
And then his students sneaking up on him and trying to kill him. They were doing a pretty good job at it. Even if Garb`s attempts were made with a mace to the face, or Mark rushing on him from the other side of the room, but still - good enough for the goblins.
"Why are you all so " Kicks Thomas and his shield-sword combo to the side "LOUD" grabs the tip of the spear and punches Mark to the face, both drop to the ground.
Garb retries his mace attempted face strike and gets countered by a knee to the chin.
3rd down
Lena dropped from the doorway and almost stabbed him with a short sword.
"Better" Voro grabbed the blade and pulled it with all his might to the ground, with the loose body of the girl behind "Quite better" .
4th person to the ground.
'Wait, that`s 4 ,where the hell is..'
[Predator LVL 1 has been activated]
wheeeeeewh
A blunt wooden arrow almost hit him in the face if not for the enhanced senses of his skill.
"So much better Lila" And he rushed towards a girl hidden in the corner while more arrows came towards him.
And soon enough the threw her towards the rest of the group.
"You`re getting better at this. Girls, good job. Boys, try to keep your mouth shut next time"
"Yessir" all with black eyes or bleeding noses got up from the ground
Voro , or mr Vane for now, got his own break and of course, that had to be interrupted by a visit from the boss
"They want results you know" sips coffee
"Yea I heard" gulps creatine shake
"We`re taking them tomorrow. Be there at 7, you`ll go in too"
"You sure it`s a good idea to let all your hunters go in at once?"
"Not all, Michael is still here"
"Oh yea. Sure thing. That makes me so feel so much better"
"Can you stop, he has therapy in progress okey?. He`s been through a lot"
Voro looked at him with a very loud side eye
"Oh shut up, you look like you enjoyed it, not got PTSD and nightmares"
"True. But we`ll see how they`ll do"
"Yea...I hope you taught them something useful" and Thorne left.
After a brief silence, shower and clothes changing, Voro finally had time to check the left over rewards from the 5th floor. There was a small notification in his system he had to ignore for a while, but if he`s to go back to the next floor, it might be a good idea to check this out.
[TUTORIAL STAGE COMPLETED]
[COMBAT SKILLS : B]
[SURVIVAL SKILLS : A+]
[MAGIC ABILITIES : F]
[TACTICAL INTELLIGENCE : A-]
[PSYCHOLOGICAL STATE : D-]
[OVERALL EVALUATION : A-]
"Why the fuck are you giving me D on psychological state?" Voro had his concerns about the grading of his performance. Did the Tower and administrator had problems with his killing habits, or is he just starting to go insane "B in combat skills...A`s are nice"
He stopped on Magic abilities. F. Assuming he had none, that made sense, but it raised a very nice question.
'If I got F, than I could have gotten higher....' Voro started thinking and bright light bulbs started to shine over his head 'I can learn magic!'
The grin filled his face. The Tower expect humans to use magic - there has to be a way to learn it then. And he`s 100% sure that it exists already. The shaman used something akin to Fireball spells from B&B.
'Goblins can, so can I' The new conviction got stuck in his head. Whatever he does, whatever he can do, he will learn magic.
Not for a weapon, not for survival - but just because he can. Just because it`s cool. Just because a month ago it was a fantasy. Just because if he does, he can do so much more.
But onto other messages from the 5th floor and the important one - Rewards
[5TH FLOOR REWARDS]
[LVL 5-> 6]
[Unallocated stat points : 4]
[Floor reward : Smoldering Fragment rank F]
[TUTORIAL COMPLETION REWARDS]
[Random stat + 3] [ For completing the tutorial, the Tower wishes you good luck]
[Random skill upgrade ] [For completing the tutorial with overall grade B or higher, the Tower wishes for you to grow stronger]
[Random Class skill] [For completing the tutorial with overall grade A or higher, the Tower admires you and awaits your story]
[Collect un-claimed rewards]
Voro of course pressed the button at the bottom without much reading
[Random stat up ] [Agility 12->15]
[Random skill upgrade] [Blood Wine Recovery 1->2]
[Random Class skill : Predator ] [Hunters Trail 1]
Happy whistling came from his mouth. Even if 2 of the rewards had 0 explanation, this was still the best loot he got from the Tower after one floor.
He held a piece of wood from the Shamans staff with its jewel on top,now named Smoldering Fragment by the system. Sadly it looked like a cloudy piece of glass, the wood was almost coal and it was only the tip.
'But its a magic staff' His internal dialogue had one thing in mind
It was just a piece of garbage now
'It`s magic garbage' Even if the facts where right in his face - the new conviction took over -
Magic
"FIREBALL" he pointed the staff at a wall and shouted the words from books and games.
.....
"Uhmmmmm FIRE. IGNIS. SOLAR FLARE ... fucking...FIRE QI I COMMAND YOU RISE"
.....
'This shit is garbage' He put it back into the Inventory window
Next reward - the class skill Hunters Trail
[Description : You are able to notice trails of your prey. On higher levels this skill will allow to track blood and scents]
'that is....nice? Its not like I`m tracking anything, why do I have this?? This is useless to me'
Onto the next one - Skill upgrade Dash 2->3
Description changed slightly [Activate to gain burst of speed for the next to steps ]
'Better...just...better. Good'
And lastly stats. This time without any proper thinking - everything into agility.
With that, he was as strong as possible and stronger than any man he ever met, better than what Thorne knows about him and more impossible than the FBAM scientist are speculating.
Perfect
-----------------The next morning---------------
The squad slowly walked into the Tower site, all 6 Hunters armed in tactical vests and modern day redesigned medieval weapons, boots ready for an outdoor kicking ass and backpack filled with goodies specific for each one of them.
Voro leading the team as the teacher and most experienced, and all of the workers and guards had an experience with him. Either a pleasant one like that ended with Thorne giving them a thumbs up or the opposite and they almost got fired.
Casual walk ended when they all got to the middle, where the black monolith was put on a classy concrete circle panel, for all to see on display. Of course, right next to it was the main bureau and Thorne`s watching window. Which he was in, sipping coffee.
"Well I`m not making a speech if any of you are wondering" Voro threw his energy drink into a trash can.
"So....Bye" And rushed towards the Tower before them
"YOU DICK" The rest rushed behind him
"First come first served little shits" and he pressed the [yes] button on the window that just appeared for him.
His students stopped in their tracks as all of them witness the system pop up for the first time and were shocked to see a light in their faces. Almost at the same time they realized what Voro has been pointing to and reading when they thought he was insane.
"So" Mark read the invitation to the first floor "Last one lives in shame forever?"
"Yup" Unanimous voice sounded in response
All of them looked at each other
And all disappeared in white light of the Tower.