"My will is not strong enough," Steve whispered as swept dripped from his sweaty hair falling onto the ck floor.


    utz was a way for him to gauge his strength. To deduce if he was prepared enough to face the world… the Hell that he would be thrown into. And the answer was ''No'', he wasn''t.


    "I need to get stronger."


    *Bam*


    With onest thundering punch, the mes on his body died down.


    [Time remaining: 00:00]


    *Thud*


    His body copsed t on the dark floor. The ck mes were the only thing that kept him going. With the me''s demise, all of the strength left his body. In the darkness, heid with no more mes to illuminate him.


    [Kills: 50]


    [Congrattions!]


    [You have killed the most in the bonus stage]


    [Title obtained: Man hunter]


    [Satan loves your thirst for blood.]


    [Prize obtained: Skill granted [Crimson Thirst]]


    Skill: Crimson Thirst


    Description: The user will be able to sacrifice his blood to vaporize the blood of his target. For every drop of blood the user shall lose, the target will lose an equivalent amount.


    Range: 5 meter


    Special Note: Blood volume is directly proportional to the Base Stamina attribute.


    A series of messages popped up on Steve''s status screen. But, Steve was already unconscious and couldn''t read any.


    ***


    "If I had my ninja powers, probably the oue of the match would have been different…" utz said as he still couldn''t brush off the battle from his mind. For some reason, it had touched his very soul.


    The Sun was dipping itself at the horizon probably marking the end of the battle.


    None of utz sses and powers was ninja based. Isn''t that the reason why his attack against Steve had failed? The ninjas were relied on for assassination for a good enough reason… it was because they had obtained certain powers that could aid them in assassination opponents much stronger than themselves. by deceit... it allowed them to bypass thews of this world!


    Steve had higher stats than utz, but if utz had ess to those ninja ''skills'' wouldn''t it have been a different story? But s those skills were monopolized by the ninja viges and only essible to the ninjas let alone to newbies like utz who had not even stepped a single foot on hell yet. They were still on the tutorial zone.


    "Well, I am not going to the vige any time soon." utz said as he shook his head.


    "Grr," A manticore walked with sturdy steps towards utz as its body was bleeding through several orifices. Its skin was shed so many times that one could now see its bone.


    utz could have killed it with ease but he kept it alive so that the second wave doesn''t end so easily. He was just ying around with the manticore.


    Recovering had be utz''s priority. And he hadn''t been in the mood to fight another horde of monsters in the third wave.


    ''This is probably thest one,'' utz thought.


    Ever since Steve left utz hadn''t seen a soul on the ind which again fortified his belief that he was indeed thest man. The sun disappeared into the horizon as utz was fighting thest manticore.


    It was a battle between thest of their respective races.


    *sh*


    *Thud*


    The manticore fell to the ground as it had sustained too much damage.


    [Congrattions]


    [You have survived the second wave]


    [The Third Wave has begun]


    The third wave was a mystery for utz. In his lifetime no one had survived to see this wave or so was what he had thought. At least from his ninja intel, he did not know what kind of monster would be popping up now.


    The sky was dark without any illumination. Somehow the moon had disappeared today leaving the world in the dark with stars shimmering in the night sky.


    But out of nowhere, the ind began to get lit up by mysterious blue illuminations.


    "Specters," urtz whispered.


    The blue light was their heads that were covered with a ck hood like skin. Their hands were slick like bones and they had a ck miasma covering them as they floated in the air.


    These spectres were weaker than the manticores from before. But what it loses in strength it makes up for with an outrageous ability. Thanks to their ability to neglect all sorts of physical damage they can''t be harmed with the attacks of a newbie.


    After all, both magic based skills and ninja based skills were non-existent in the newbie zone. They could only be found in Hell itself.


    Spectres were not immortal, but they can not be hurt with normal weapons either. While a silver weapon could do the thing but a cheap enchantment could do the trick as well.


    Enchantments weren''t avable in these stages so silver swords looted from trials would be the only bet for a newbie.


    *sh*


    utz shed apart a floating Specter as it disappeared into a puff of miasma.


    The only exception to the ''silver sword'' rule was an anomaly like utz. utz''s Tossias''s Demonic Spirit was itself a spirit weapon so of course, it could harm spirits type beasts like spectres as good as a silver sword.


    But there was something stranger happening...


    utz knitted his brows as his nose huffed upwards.


    "Wait, this is strange. Could it be…"


    The Specter''s that had spawned within the ind weren''t charging at or attacking utz at all. In fact, it seemed like they were dancing around him in utter joy!


    utz had ideas as to what might have caused this. But he needed to test out his theory first.


    In his mind, he tried to imagine ordering them just like he does with his [No-name] spirit. The surrounding Specter''s came closer to his call.


    ''Follow mymand.''


    ***


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