His four companions beat up Eros, and he stumbled face flat on the floor.
"Master! Are you alright?!" Serena rushed over.
The rest also followed as they saw their master stumble down.
The group quickly flipped him over and was even more horrified at what they saw.
Eros was wearing a strange smile, and saliva was dripping off of his mouth.
"Good night, big sis..." Eros gave a strange smile as he glanced upwards at the ceiling.
"Master?!" The group began to shake him to wake him up.
But at that mont, Eros's dumb expression was all to hide his plan. He gazed to the ceiling of the cave and finally saw 'it.'
Everyone kept shaking Eros, and his eyes started to focus.
SMASH! SMASH! SMASH! SMASH!
Eros quickly took advantage of their concern and revenge-smacked his allies with quick strikes.
The four were hit in the face and stumbled backward.
"Lesson 1! Do not be overconfident! An enemy struck down may not be defeated! Always double tap!" Eros stood and lost all the embarrassing monts it once had.
Eros then observed his team's stats as he pretended to pace around, carefully observing everyone.
"As you can see, my speed is very, very fast! I allowed you to hit !" Eros exuded the mannerisms of a superior expert giving strict training to his pupils who were still on the ground from the sudden strikes.
Eros then observed his team's stats as he pretended to pace around, carefully observing everyone.
Eros's eyes faintly glowed as he watched the stats of everyone. His powers of Wisdom were updating the stats that he knew.
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Serena
Next level: 1399/2188
Level 4 -> 6
Strength: 14 -> 23
Magic: 4 -> 6
Dexterity: 21 -> 33
Vitality: 15 -> 24
Intelligence: 35
Hit Points: 340
Force: 0 -> 3
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Wesret
Level 4 -> 6
Next level: 1384/2173
Strength: 13 -> 20
Magic: 2 -> 3
Dexterity: 20 -> 30
Vitality: 10 -> 17
Intelligence: 49
Hit Points: 200 -> 270
Force: 2 -> 4
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Philip
Level 4 -> 6
Next level: 1388/2178
Strength: 11 -> 17
Magic: 3 -> 4
Dexterity: 22 -> 33
Vitality: 12 -> 18
Intelligence: 39
Hit Points: 220 -> 280
Force: 2 -> 4
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Don
Level 4 -> 6
Next level: 1345/2163
Strength: 10 -> 16
Magic: 5 -> 7
Dexterity: 19 -> 28
Vitality: 10 -> 16
Intelligence: 54
Hit Points: 200 -> 260
Force: 1 -> 2
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Eros kept nodding and nodding as if giving strict observations on them, but then he turned his attention to the last stats he managed to gather through his Gauge technique. His use of Gauge on his allies was all part of the cover-up to hide the fact that he has already used guage on 'him.'
Eros was horrified at what to do and began to think about what he could do.
"Stand up! Now! I can see that you are all too slow for my little trick. So now, we will do a rotation. I will face two of you, and the other two will fight each other. The rules are you are not allowed to block. This is a practice of dexterity, so I want you to evade each other or . The one that scores the first hit wins." Eros gave the rules and pointed at Wesret and Don, who had the lower Dexterity stats among the team.
Eros raised his stick as he faced the two. Eros needed to practice his use of Pronto as well.
The two had slightly angered expressions for how Eros did them dirty on the last attack.
"Let's go! Keep moving at your fastest pace! Otherwise... you'll get hit!"
And so, the training sessions for increasing dexterity began. Eros focused on controlling his [Pronto] and conserving mana when he used it. He would only activate it at a split second to quickly evade and ensure attacks. His dexterity was at 37 points and was only four points faster than Serena and Philip, who had the fastest Dexterity stat.
Against Don and Wesret, Eros did well.
The two were defeated within a minute, and Eros didn't use [Pronto].
But against Serena and Philip, he used up all his mana and got struck and beaten by the surprisingly coordinated combo of the two.
SMASH!
Eros was knocked down.
At first, the two were unsure if this was another trick made by Eros, who was playing possum again.
The two approached, and suddenly, they saw Eros make an unconscious jolt.
And like good students, Serena and Philip double-tapped him in fear.
SMASH! SMASH!
Eros was unconscious for a full minute.
The mont Eros opened his eyes, he sat up on the cave wall. He almost jumped out of his body in surprise but suddenly slumped down again.
"Master! I'm sorry! We-"
"N-no! That was good!" Eros forced a smile as he held on the back of his head.
There was blood.
"Ma-Master!" Serena saw her hit was too strong and that Eros was bleeding from the back.
"I'm alright... I'm... alright." Eros chuckled with a slightly nervous tone.
"Let's continue with the next training... It's training my master taught to increase dexterity. Juggling!"
"Juggling?" Wesret echoed.
"We have a great advantage now! We can improve our dexterity. We tried to combat it, but we had a hard ti adjusting to it. So we'll do juggling. Now... erm... sorry, can you sit next to while I draw how you guys will do this juggling thing? And hand that parchnt of papers." Eros laughed.
The group worriedly sat beside Eros and gave Eros the paper and the pen.
Eros began to draw on the parchnt and was using his blood.
"Alright. So we juggle weapons like this... and this..."
The group had strange expressions as they glanced at the parchnts.
"So my master was struck with a strange curse. His perception was slow. It was a spell called [De-Spacito]. But he managed to overco it in his youth by training like this. Right now, your suddenly, soone who hasn't seen the person for a long ti arrives, they see the profound changes in the person. Your sudden level-ups are a precious example. To make an analogy, it's like being with soone every day that you don't notice that the person has been gradually gaining or losing weight. And Then suddenly, soone who hasn't seen the person for a long ti arrives, they see the profound changes in the person. Your dexterity is like that..."
Serena's eyes were glued on the parchnt as Eros kept writing.
Everyone else also had the sa expression.
"Erm... So you an, because we leveled up several tis, we would actually see the difference in Dexterity."
"Right! Your body automatically adjusts to perceive things faster. But it can be honed to another level. It's scarce to level up multiple tis within a short while. One or two is possible, but leveling up from one to six is pretty uncommon unless soone cos from an affluent background. My master used a simple trick to train. Juggling! I want you all to juggle like this and keep your eyes on the weapon. Concentrate! I will try to disrupt your focus. For now, clear out the room. Move everything to the side and leave a wide space for you to practice juggling."
The group began to lift the nurous pieces of furniture and even removed the plants and weeds that started sprouting, as well as the plants that grew.
Eros tried to stand up but sighed and sat down again.
"I can't move. Ugh. Philip! Get that formation plate. I will study the Dark Dependent thod of raising Serena to the next level. After all, you vampires are very picky!" Eros decided.
Philip gave Eros the formation plate and moved to his position to juggle.
Everyone started to juggle and had serious expressions as they watched their weapon fly high up in the air.
"Ahhh!" Don shouted as the sword fell, leaving a small cut on his arm.
"Be careful!" Eros warned.
"Grab a healing potion and keep it near you," Eros ordered, and the group went ahead and followed.
They continued to juggle, and Wesret was the first to notice it.
"It's... amazing! I can actually feel the improvent in my perception!" Wesret praised.
TAK!
A small stone was hurled at him, and he panicked as the sword fell.
"Focus! Harness that dexterity to react accordingly!" Eros called out as he finished working on the Formation Plate.
"Serena, you lucky girl. With this Dark Dependent Formula, we could make you rise in level far quicker!" Eros laughed. But then Eros suddenly started coughing, and blood ca out.
"Master!"
"Relax! It's not the injury. This one is from that ti..." Eros took off his clothes, and behind him was the Vow mark left.
"Master... What's that mark?" Philip asked.
"The Vow mark of my slavery. As you know, I broke free through a Vow Breaker spell that my forr master placed. But... these vows are quite resilient!" Eros sighed.
Eros used a mirror to observe his back and tried to draw it on another formation plate.
The rest continued to juggle, and soon, everyone was too tired to continue.
"Wow! My dexterity has increased!" Don was amazed.
"Let's continue training in Dexterity tomorrow. Now that you have noticed the changes, you can train in it. Tomorrow, we'll redo our fighting training again!" Eros spoke.
The group moved to the side and found a place where they could fall asleep.
The group drifted and drifted, and soon, everyone had fallen asleep.
Eros was knocked out due to his wounds and had already shown signs of groggy. But now that everyone was asleep, 'he' acted.
From the dark stalactite of the upper ceiling of a cave, a strange wooden figure erged. It looked like creeping branches, and finally, its figure, a wooden creature with a grotesque humanoid form, began to descend. Its main body had five hands and looked like a tree branching out. At the top of this creature was a small ugly head.
Its descent was slow and careful that it didn't make any sound.
But as it moved down, it did not notice that everyone was wide awake and was ready to attack.
Since Eros had observed the corpse and studied the books, it knew that they fell right for a trap!
Eros allowed himself to be hit by his allies the first ti, so he had an excuse to look at the ceiling without drawing attention. He even made an idiotic expression to hide that he used Gauge on this beast. Eros then initiated a plan to draw the creature out. He used the training to deceive the creature and make the creature think that everyone would be too tired!
Everyone had covered their faces and pretended to hide their faces in the darkness, but everyone's eyes were wide open.
They were all waiting for Eros to give the signal.
Eros tried to relax his body. He was the most agitated. Even when he wrote about the creature to his friends, he did not tell them that this creature would most likely be at a Captain's Level!
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