Now I'm finally in the last place I want to go before the main story starts. A dungeon in Stormwind Kingdom that is supposedly to be quite far from Emerald City but I reached this place from Emerald City in just an hour.
In that sense, I think my maximum speed already reached 600 Km/h at least. That's just my guess but it doesn't matter anyway. I just need to go even faster in the future. I'm not satisfied with this speed. And it's also because I still couldn't get my eyes used at a speed higher than that yet. I can go faster if I want to.
The entrance of the dungeon is hidden in a fog. If you take the wrong path in the fog, you will leave the fog but it's just somewhere else as you will be redirected away from the dungeon. But if you take the right path, you will reach the entrance of a temple which is supposed to be the dungeon.
This is where my strength will be tested. The reward here was just some money which is not important to me but the strength of the enemy I will face in the end is so powerful. In the game, that enemy was probably in the top five strongest enemies to fight.
That's why if I can defeat him now, I can be relaxed for the whole duration of the main story because I should be able to face off against enemies weaker than the Final Boss of the game. But that's just for the main story. I still remember the trailer where the one whom I thought to be the Demon King was sitting on a throne surrounded by kneeling demons including even the Final Boss.
But that's fine. If I can defeat the Boss of this dungeon, I can still grow stronger until the main story ends. By that time I should be strong enough to face demons stronger than the Final Boss.
But if I can't defeat this Boss, I guess I should train harder and face the Boss again in another time. Because in the game, I can still retreat without clearing this dungeon. I can just challenge it again another day.
I enter the temple and it's the first test right away. It's a lizardman.
They are creatures that are good at absorbing skill. Even though they're monsters, they can learn how to fight. And this one seems to have learned how to use a sword so I pull out my sword from its sheath and ready to fight.
I want to see how good my swordsmanship first so I won't use slip magic much.
Once the lizardman notice me the fight begins. The lizard monster pulls out its saber. The single-edged curved sword. It holds the saber in one hand.
The battle was harder than I thought. Many times I thought of using slip magic but I resisted it and I finally managed to give a fatal slash at the lizardman's torso. Then with a swift movement I slash the monster again and again until I finally cut off its neck.
That's one down. But that's just the first test. The second one is a battle against Titan Wolf. A wolf the size of a two-story house.
In the game it was not hard because the protagonist was in a party. But no matter how high the level of the protagonist was in the game, it was impossible for him to defeat the wolf on his own. So this might be too hard for me.
…If I don't use slip magic. I have learned enough that my swordsmanship is just at the level of a self-taught lizardman from the previous battle. So there's no need to avoid using the magic I'm best at.
On my journey until now, I learned many things. Including magic. But with the slingshot I have, I thought that there's no need for me to learn any offensive magic.
In the end, even after learning healing magic and support magic, the best magic I have is slip magic. I can do many things with it. It's so convenience that I even use it with my swordsmanship.
Facing the Titan Wolf, I jump to its head. Although I don't have a talent related to physical ability, thanks to my training, I can jump so high. Though it's impossible for a normal human to jump this high. This is only for people of this world, I believe. Even an ordinary adult man is stronger than an ordinary adult man in my previous world. Maybe because there's mana and magic in this world so people's body adapted to them even if they can't use magic.
For swordsmanship, other than movement technique using slip magic, there are two ways I can use slip magic. Both are extremely useful.
One is to use it on myself or my clothes. Then whenever an attack touches my skin or even my clothes, the extremely slippery surface of the skin or the clothes will redirect the movement of the attack. So the attack will slip away from my body. I will still receive damage from the initial contact but I can minimize the damage to the extreme with slip magic. This magic is just too unreal even though I'm the one who thought of this method.
The other method is to use it on my sword. I can make the sword touch a target. Then the slightest damage, or even just a dent in an armor, it's enough for me to "slip" the sword in deeper. Basically, I can ignore all defenses.
It's totally cheating. There's no way this is real. Slip magic shouldn't be this convenient but it is. Though perhaps I'm the only one in the world who would think all of this using slip magic.
I can ignore attack coming at me and I can ignore enemy's defense. Then there's no need to defend myself in a fight. My swordsmanship relies on hitting the target instead of defending myself because I don't need to.
But when I first learned how to do it, it was horrible. I managed to redirect the attack of a bandit. But although I didn't receive fatal damage from the axe, I got skinned instead on the area I was hit as the axe slipped on my skin.
It was crazy. I could see my own muscles and veins. But I learned a lot from it. And that's also the reason why I learned healing magic.
I still couldn't receive any official study of magic. I just know where I can find the magic book teaching about healing magic and other magic then I tried my best to study them on my own. It took a while to learn them. I have to study the books for days, weeks, and sometimes months.
Anyway, with my slip magic, I cut the head of the Titan Wolf in one strike. It should be strong enough that unless the protagonist was buffed physically the damage from physical attack was still too small to even hurt the wolf. But one sword slash and that's enough to cut the skull of the Titan Wolf.
"Slip magic is the best," I say to myself.
But what should I call myself then? Mages specialized in fire are called Fire Mages. Then there are Ice Mages, Wind Mages, and other mages. What about me?
…The Slip Mage is the stupidest name ever. The Friction Mage is better. Maybe that.
Now, two stages have been cleared. Only the last one left. The most difficult one.
I think if I can use magic then it wouldn't be hard at all. I can kill the last boss easily.
But I don't think the last boss can be killed easily. Not that he was too difficult to kill. But because the last boss is a human.
This is not really a dungeon. This is a place for someone to be tested. That's what I discovered about this place in the game. And the last boss was a human wearing a full armor covering his entire body.
He can leave this place whenever he wants. I don't even know if he's here today.
And so, why is a human in this place? I can't think of any answer. But I know that he should be one of the strongest humans in this world.
In the game, why is the Final Boss so fixated with the protagonist and the academy? Because the story was set in the academy.
What happened outside of the academy? I'm sure even other demons are attacking other places. And people as strong as the knight I will be facing might be facing them and they could even be losing.
All I wish for is my safety so I pick the path I know the most. Going to the academy. I'm too afraid to pick another path. At least knowing that my hometown, the Capital City of Vassel, should be safe around the time I'm at the academy makes me able to choose this path. If I know that it's not a safe place I would have forced my family to get out of that place.
Entering the last room for the third and final stage, I find an empty space instead. The knight isn't here at all.
I'm thinking of writing something and then leaving until the knight appears here but when I turn back, the door is closed.
I should be allowed to retreat in the game but it's closed and locked now? Maybe it's because it was in the middle of a battle. When it's not in battle, I can't leave.
Then letters appeared on the door. It's something that didn't happen in the game so I become extremely worried and even ready to cut the door open. But the message of the letter shocks me.
[To the reincarnator who was born in his second life as Miroslav. Please wait until your last opponent comes. He's a bit busy at the moment.]
"…I'll stay if you allow me to get out of here first so I know that there's a way out," I say to the door. Afraid and confused but I have no choice because I'm locked here.
The message then disappears only for another one to appear.
[Return here after knowing that you can leave so you will learn about the reason for your reincarnation.]
The reason for my reincarnation? So someone or something reincarnated me into this world. I was picked.
I'm trying to talk to the door again to no avail. So I leave the temple to see that I can still leave and return back to the last room because I will learn more about the truth here.
But seriously, WHAT THE FUCK!?