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Chapter 11 - New Skills

{Name: Draxus Katapinon}

{Age: 19}

{Race: Wolf}

{Bloodline: Hidden}

{Level: 8}

{Exp: 0/80}

{HP: 100/100}

{Energy: 0/10}

{Strength: 13}

{Agility: 22}

{Stamina: 21}

{Unassigned Exp: 1079.9}

{Skills: Swipe, Dash, Bite}

Looking at the total exp gained he felt like his brain was about to turn to mush. 'system assign 170 exp to level up!' 

{Ding! Level up: Strength +1, Agility +2, Stamina +2} 

{Ding! Level up: Strength +1, Agility +2, Stamina +2} 

{Ding! Host has reached the requirements for the first class upgrade}

{Initiating class upgrade: external influence detected: New class unlocked: Thunder Wolf} 

That was the last thing Draxus saw before his vision went blank and he felt his bones cracking stretching his body from the inside out.

Draxus let out a low whimper in his wolf body while feeling his body getting torn apart.

'I didn't know it would hurt this much! System you should've given me hints on this, what if I die from the pain?' 

{The pain is merely a short time side effect of forcefully upgrading your class, only a few apart from the system can do it on this planet, be glad}

'Yeah right, I just have to bear with this for now it will be gone soon.' he thought while crawling over to a nearby tree then falling unconscious.

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Blackthorn academy

Professor Ethan could be seen walking through the halls with a scroll in his hand, the guards nearby would bow towards him whenever he passed by but he only responded with a slight nod.

Headmaster Kingsley could be seen sitting in his office when professor Ethan opened the door. 

"Headmaster" 

"Ethan, thanks a lot earlier are you here for your reward?" Kingsley asked while gesturing for him to seat down.

"No, not that, check this I think I found clues to track down those behind Adrian's death" he said while placing the scroll in his hand on the table.

Kingsley raised an eyebrow while looking at the scroll Ethan gave him, three days earlier when Adrian was killed the whole of Blackthorn academy took the brunt of it and the Perpetrator was not yet found or the reason why he was killed. Just thinking of it made the already angry Kingsley even more furious.

Picking up the scroll and reading through the content he raised an eyebrow and looked at Ethan. "Is this real?" 

"Yes headmaster, I confirmed it's existence myself." Ethan replied.

"I'll take a visit there myself then." Kingsley said then stood up while walking towards the door.

"I'll suggest you don't let others know of your destination." Ethan said while looking towards him.

"They won't even know I left the academy." Kingsley replied.

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Draxus opened his eyes while looking at the clear skies above with dazed eyes.

'I'm alive? I'm alive.' he thought while remembering the immense pain he felt before he passed out then gently stood up.

'My body feels weird' he thought while staring at the trees around and his paws.

'I've grown taller and my claws are longer and sharper, my body feels light, it's very light' he thought while taking a slight leap then lifted his paws making a swipe towards a tree leaving a deep crack on it.

'One more swipe and it would fall, magical beasts are really different' he thought then opened the system panel.

'Why does it look so different?' 

{Name: Draxus Katapinon}

{Age: 19}

{Race: Wolf}

{Class: Thunder Wolf}

{Bloodline: Hidden}

{Level: 10}

{Exp: 0/100}

{HP: 300/300}

{Energy: 50/50}

{Strength: 25}

{Agility: 36}

{Stamina: 35}

{Unassigned Exp: 909.9}

{Skills}

{Lightning Swipe: release a trail of lightning from your claws}

{Energy cost: 5}

{Lightning Steps: release lightning to cover your body and move at the speed of sound}

{Energy cost: 5 per second} 

{Endless Devourer: Devour anything made of energy to strengthen yourself.}

'New skills and I can actually use lightning!' he thought while tapping on the skill {Lightning Swipe}.

After a few seconds of tapping, he felt frustrated and asked 'Hey system, how does this work?' 

{Say the name out}

'What do you mean? I can't talk now can I?' he thought while feeling frustrated like someone's who discovered a golden mine but couldn't take it.

{Just make a normal swipe and think of it, the same with lightning Steps} 

'Oh,... How didn't I figure that out?' he thought then made a swipe towards a nearby tree while calling out 'Lightning swipe!' 

A surge of lightning suddenly came from his chest, trailing all the way to his claws and left the tips of his claws striking the tree leaving huge claw mark almost half a meter deep in it leaving even Draxus himself shocked at the impact.

'Isn't this way too exaggerated? I just wrecked a tree with a single claw swipe, even those mutant beasts earlier couldn't do this much right?' he thought then leant his body down and burst into a sprint.

'Lightning Steps'

The next moment everything near him slowed down to a crawl and he nearly tripped over, he had to keep running to avoid losing momentum.

'System! System! Cancel it!!!' 

{Just stop running} 

'I can't!'

{Then I can't help}

He suddenly tripped over a rock and collided with a tree breaking it apart and falling unconscious.

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