Turning his gaze back towards the Straw dummy, Alan raised his hand holding the rusted knife and slashed downwards, the knife going through the straw chestplate of the dummy.
*Shkkrk*
A ripping sound rang out as a few pairs of straws were cut in half, or rather ripped in half as the knife edge was so blunt that it couldn't even slice through properly.
Taking a step back and looking at the dummy, Alan released a soft sigh as he put his hands on his hips and took a breath, as he gazed at the dummy, the amount of visible damage that he had done to the dummy was miniscule, barely a scratch.
'Observe' Alan thought as he gazed at the Straw Dummy.
[ Straw Dummy ] [ Level 0 ]
[ Health Points : 97 ]
'I did three points of damage… and the rusted knife gives me a plus two attack, so without it, I'd do one point of damage. This… is such bullshit, so i need to hit it atleast thirty four times to defeat a single one of these things.' Alan thought before taking one last deep breath and moving closer as he attacked the Straw dummy.
Downward slash, Upward Slash.
Horizontal slash, Diagonal Slash.
'This… is quite fun.' Alan thought to himself as a small smile broke through his deadpan of an expression.
Barely a minute later…
[ Straw Dummy ] [ Level 0 ]
[ Health Points : 34 ]
Looking at the Straw Dummy infront of him that looked mostly destroyed yet still standing, Alan felt like hitting himself in the head.
'Fun? Fun my fucking ass, it's boring as fuck and I can't even listen do music, and I'm naked and sweating and ugh… fuck. Not to mention the fact that I can't just swing randomly, I actually have to give it my all and properly slash at it otherwise I do less than three points of damage or I do no damage at all.' Alan thought as he gathered his breath and lifted his hand holding the knife once more and got back to work.
One minute later and exactly 11 strikes after, the dummy looked like it was barely standing, its arms had fallen off, and so had its head, the sticks holding it up had somehow deteriorated almost entirely, there was only a few straws tied around the main wooden stick that was stuck on the ground and even that stick was now tilted sideways and barely standing.
[ Straw Dummy ]
[ Health Points: 1 ]
'Alright, let's just get this over with.' Alan thought, he was sweating all over, and his arm that held the knife was utterly tired, he had tried switching to his other arm however since his left arm wasn't his main one, the attack had lowered down to zero points of damage, thus he had to return to using his dominant arm once more.
'Let's just get this over with.' Alan thought before releasing a tired sigh and lifting his arm and bringing the knife almost behind his head in the air and then swinging downwards with all his strength.
[ Ding! ]
[ User has defeated his first opponent ]
[ Exp System Has been Unlocked ]
[ Ding! ]
[ User has received 10 Xp for defeating a Straw Dummy ]
[ Ding! ]
[ User has received one bronze coin for defeating a Straw Dummy ]
As soon as the last point of health was gone from the dummy and the last strike had landed, the entire dummy had collapsed to the ground, before the stick and the straws that had fallen to the ground around it started glowing and dissolving into small motes of white light, and in less than ten seconds, the entire thing was gone, as if it had never been there.
'Exp? Yes, fucking finally, I finally have a way to actually grow stronger, I know a way, I know how i can progress.' Alan thought as pure excitement and dopamine coursed through his system, his body that had been worked and tired finally almost gave up as relief hit his sistem and he fell onto his butt on the grassy plain, his hands at his sides on the ground as he looked up at the sky and closed his eyes, giving a relieved sigh as he just took in what felt like his very first actual accomplishment since he had gained this life changing system yesterday.
After a few moments of basking in the emotions, he lowered his head once more.
'Status?' Alan thought as he guessed that would be where he would find his spoils of his hard won battle against the level zero straw dummy.
[ Status Menu ]
[ Status ]
[ Name: Alan Walker ]
[ Age: 18 ]
[ Race: Human 90%, Elf 10% ]
[ Gender: Male ]
[ Level: 1 ] [ Xp: 10/20 ]
[ S.P.E.C.I.A.L ]
[ S: 2 ]
[ P: 4* ] [ +2 Equipment Boost Active ]
[ E: 6 ]
[ C: 10 ]
[ I: 10 ]
[ A: 7 ]
[ L: 10 ]
[ Abilities: None. ]
[ Talents: None ]
[ Perks: Elf ]
[ Coins: 1 Bronze Coin ]
[ Normal Stats ]
[ Strength: 100/100 ] [ Max ] [ ??? ]
[ Perception: 100/100 ] [ Max ] [ ??? ]
[ Endurance: 0/300 ]
[ Charisma: 5/500 ]
[ Intelligence: 5/500 ]
[ Agility: 0/350 ]
[ Luck: 0/500 ]
'Alright, okay, Just one more, one more dummy and I'll be able to level up and then I can check out what I gain from levling up.' Alan thought as he used his hands for balance as he slowly got up from his sitting position and stood up once more before turning slightly as his eyes fell onto the next closest Straw Dummy, before they moved around as he gazed at the hundreds if not thousands of other Dummies all around him that covered the Grassy Plain.
'God… there's no end to them is there… really infinite, I guess I can't expect anything else from a system like this.' Alan thought with a sigh as he started walking towards his target, lifting his hand to his head and he cleared the sweat off his forehead and neck with the back of his hand and then gripped the rusted knife tighter and swung once more.
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