Timeless Hunter: Blood Of Old-Chapter 37: Entering The First Trial

The arrow pierced through its eye and exploded, the ogre was sent hurling back and rolled on the ground.

The shockwave hurled Oriana as well, she flew back dozens of metres and crashed on a building wall leaving wide cracks on it.

Akaris took a deep breath, Oriana was covered in wounds but he was doing relatively fine.

’ Being a support fighter is great.’ Oriana cancelled her beserk skill and came back to her senses.

She stood up but her feet wobbled, "Damnit, the rebuff is worse than I thought." He ignored her and walked towards the ogre.

It was laying down with a pool of blood on the ground. He turned it over and its face was disfigured.

The exploding arrow has destroyed its right side into a mangled mess, the left side was also effected as its eye was hanging out.

The ogre was on its dying breath, Akaris sighed, he had expected this guy to give them more trouble.

Perhaps it was because he was fighting from afar and it’s a close range fighter but he didn’t feel it was that strong.

He drew his bow and shot an arrow through its skull, the arrow still failed to pierce through to the brain.

He clicked his tongue and shot it through the eye hole. Two seconds later the ogre took its last breath.

( Killed level 10 Ogre, experience gained, player has reached maximum level for current rank, experience dissipated.

You’re the first to kill a higher ranked regional boss, rewards will be given to all participants based on contributions.

Player has obtained D rank artefact, Light bringer. Does player wish to equip artefact) Particles of light gathered Infront of him and out came a sword.

The was pure silver with a white line running down its middle. It was a Claymore, the moment he touched it, it felt right in his hand.

Even more than the katana, he checked his status.

Name: Akaris Cronos

Race: Human/ ???

Level: 9 ( 99%)

Class: N/A

Free stats: 0

Strength: 18 ( + 3)

Agility: 27 ( +4)

Perception: 39 ( +6)

Endurance: 16( +2)

Vitality: 23(+4)

Will: 57 (+ 9)

Spirit: 50 (+8)

Innate traits: Eyes of Cronos (??????)

Awakened skills:

Hawk Eyes- level 9 ( 99%)

Future sight- level 2 ( 2%)

Inspect- Level 2 (70%)

Adaptation - level 10( 2%)

Mana arrow- level 11 ( 35%)

Echoes of old- level 1( 30%)

Indomitable will - level 1 ( 3%)

Mana skin- level 2 ( 30)

Gained skills:

Archery- Level 16 ( 70%)

Hand to Hand combat- level 7( 60%)

Spearmanship- level 1 ( 14%)

Swordsmanship- level 8 (70%)

Axemanship-level 2 (23)

Titles:

Child of mana

Giant slayer

Echoes(1/1)

Artefacts

- Quiver Of the endless forest F+

- Light Bringer D

Light bringer - Mighty sword once wielded by a Knight of the order of light. + 5 agility, + 10% resistance to dark magic and poison.

Skills:

- Light Blade- Infuse the sword with mana to shoot out a blade of light at enemies.

-Bolster: Increases the courage and fighting spirit of allies

He didn’t know how effective or how bolster would be useful nor could he test it right now so he forgot about it.

He unequipped the claymore and it disappeared. He saw Oriana grinning from ear to ear.

On her hands were black claw gloves that she kept playing with like a new toy. He ignored her.

Right now he was going to try to turn this ogre into his echo, he knew he can change echoes whenever he wanted and he did.

Turning the ogre into an echo drained a lot of mana, fortunately it succeeded just as he was about to run completely out.

He took a deep breath, the previous echo disappeared and its place appeared the ogre with all of its wounds healed.

Like the first echo this one seemed to lack intelligence as well. He probably should’ve expected that though.

Echoes are more like puppets than subordinates. After creating the echo he picked up its sword.

It was heavy, " I’m not carrying this around." ( Does player wish to equip E+ artefact?) He grinned.

This will make things easier, artefacts can be carrying in some dimension, honestly he didn’t know but he knew you didn’t have to carry them around.

He checked the abilities of the giant sword and it included the skill the ogre used, mana slash.

The user can store a large amount of mana before hand to use this skill during a fight but it can only be used a few times.

There was a limit to how much mana the sword can contain and the ogre didn’t have enough mana to use the skill in a spur of a moment.

He equipped the sword making it his own then unequipped it. It disappeared into his soul of whatever.

Now that everything was done he and Oriana found the nearest building that was still standing.

They found a room with a working door and slept. They needed to rest and regenerate their lost money.

They woke up in about two hours, with their current stats, they can go longer than before without sleep.

After waking up they went to the black tower standing at the centre of the city. The giant doors opened as they approached.

They paused and looked at each other then went inside. The first floor of the tower was quite large with a diameter of around 300 metres.

There was nothing inside so they climbed up the spiraling stairs. The second floor was also empty and so was third.

The fourth, fifth and sixth and all the way to the 9th floor which was the lady floor, the tower was completely empty.

On the top floor they found a blue sphere floating in the centre of the room. The sphere was sending pulses of visible waves forming a domain around itself.

The two of then drew closer and when they entered the domain they blanked out. Akaris found himself back in his house.

His old house he lived in as a kid when his parents were still around, those memories were vague to him now but they were there.

He knew, he knew this was an illusion but it felt so real, so tangible.

( Indomitable will has reached level 2, Indomitable will has reached level 3... Indomitable will has reached level 6)

Indomitable will made his mind stronger and also gave a slight boost to his will. He opened his eyes and sighed.

A single tear fell down his eye and he walked forward. Oriana was still trapped in her illusion.

He didn’t know how to get her out of it, he reached the floating blue sphere and grabbed it.

( Does player wish to take over the tower key?) ’ Yes.’ he felt resistance and something assaulting his mind.

Eventually the sphere stopped resisting and fell under his control. Having gained control of the tower he released Oriana from her illusion.

She fell on her knees and started crying, he didn’t know how to console her and left her be.

It didn’t take long for her to pull herself together. Then two portals appeared Infront of them.

One was blue the other one was gold, they both instinctively knew where the portals led.

They looked at each other and went inside the golden one.

( Entering first trial. The sea of blood and bone, objective, reach the blood tower and kill the Red Mother.)

" Fuck."

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This is the end of Volume one, thank you all for reading until now