11 Chapter 11: Resolve

Derik reached for a bow in the quiver hung on his back and aimed for the target dummy that was about two hundred meters away, his body shook and he felt sharp pains on his joints. The bronze level combat technique; shot-series allowed the user to overwhelm his or her foe with barrages of arrow shots. Greatly increasing the attack speed of the user but at a price, the body is naturally not meant to move at such speed so using such techniques injures the upper half of the body greatly and also consumes a lot of concentration and stamina. Even with his high-speed regeneration ability, he could barely practice for four hours a day. But after meeting the Lockwood family, the way he viewed the world had changed. He could recall several events that had taken place in the past, were civilians were publicly executed by noble families. Back then, he felt that it was just humans been cruel to other humans, but after the meeting with the Lockwood family a day ago, the perspective in which he viewed things changed.

"Monsters killing humans… monsters ruling over humans" he bit his lips in anger as he shot the arrow. The shoulder section of his white textile cloth was already stained red with his blood. Even the servant who was in charge of picking up the shot arrows trembled in fear and instinctively kept her distance.

"I need to get stronger… Someone has to protect humans from these creatures" He muttered. Even though he wasn't human anymore, he still had people he cared for.

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In a blink of an eye, three months had already gone by, within those three months, Derik dedicated his time to mastering the bronze combat technique; shot series. Even after dedicating over a month to the training he couldn't master it completely. Due to the backlash of the combat technique, Derik sustained a deep injury on his shoulders, greatly limiting his abilities to make use of his hands properly, even with the healing factor provided by his werewolf ability, the injury still needed time to heal. Fearing that Derik may not be able to compete at the inter-class competition, Derik was banned from training for a month and was asked to use the time to recover, even the scroll containing the instructions needed to learn the bronze level combat technique was taken away from him. During this time, Derik occasionally visited the Lockwood family, taking advantage of his position as the Lockwood family knight, he gained access to the Lockwood family library, located on the fourth floor of the castle, where he researched on supernatural and the, he occasionally practiced with Scott from time to time, especially on full moons to help improve his control

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Area zero is the largest and most dangerous area owned by the kingdom. The area itself is surrounded by over three hundred meters tall walls to prevent the beasts from escaping.There are rumors that there are even level ten beasts residing in that area. Derik put on his black leather gloves silently, his quiver was already strapped to his back. He glanced at the other members of his class who stared at him with worried expressions on their faces and smiled, he slightly bowed and grabbed his bow before entering the carriage with the archery class banner. He stared at the streets silently as the carriage moved and tried to recall all he learned within the three months. According to the information provided to him by the archery class concerning the inter-class competition, the competition could last as long as a month if needed, the rules were quite simple, each class representative has a medal with the class symbol branded on it. The goal of the competition is to acquire the medal from other representatives of each class, the representative that returns to the wall with the most number of medals takes the first position, while the others without medals are judged purely based on performance. The carriage stopped at the residential district, in front of Derik's family house. There John Angus and little Linda stood, waiting for Derik, the worried expression on john's face made him look older, in fact, it looked like the man had aged by a decade even though only six months had gone by since Derik left. He always felt proud whenever he heard Derik's accomplishments but he never expected it to end this way. John was no stranger to the inter-class competition, there are always casualties, most times the physical classes are the unlucky ones. If Derik was a recruit in the magical class, he may not need to worry much. Derik alighted from the carriage and walked towards john with mixed emotions on his face. Compared to what the Lockwood planned to do with him, this inter-class competition is a child's play. When he met the Lockwood family for the first time, they had four major reasons for having a family meeting that day. The first reason was to introduce Derik to the rest of the family as the newest member of the pack, the second reason was to put an end to Barry Lockwood's schemes, the third was to expose the salvor family secret hidden from them by their father and the fourth topic discussed that day contained the plans to exterminate the family. Unfortunately, Derik is to play a huge role in that plan, so even if he survives the inter-class competitions, there is a high chance that he will die just a few months after. Based on the supernatural books he had read over the last few months, vampires are formidable opponents who possess great speed, strength, and perception. The most annoying part about taking on a vampire is the fact that they can only be killed through specific means, these supernatural beings are rated level 10-15 in terms of strength and age, the older a vampire is the stronger it becomes and in some cases, vampires as strong as level 20 monsters have been spotted. If he had his way he would reject this plan upfront but he lacked the strength to go against the Lockwood family. Originally he thought of seeking refuge in the holy church but he was not even human, right now the only person he can rely on is himself.

"You don't have to worry about me… I'm really strong now… I may even win" Derik tried to console his dad he wore a dejected expression on his face. John only nodded in response but couldn't hide the traces of worry and doubt in his eyes. Derik hugged his father and stared at Linda who remained silent throughout the conversation and the left. He entered the carriage once again which took him to the giant wall gate. Derik alighted from the carriage and was received by a few knights of light from the holy church and a sorcerer, these knights led him to the fifth passage to the area zero. At the passage, the sorcerer chanted a few incarnations and a swarm of insects formed, these insects had colorful bodies and glowing eyes. These insects were used to monitor activities in the forest. Derik's nose twitched slightly due to the odor that emanated from the bodies of these insects, at a point he felt nauseated. The sorcerer noticed this and felt confused, he stared at Derik suspiciously for a while but chose to ignore. Sorcerers adorned in purple hooded robes were stationed at strategic points in the town and above them were gigantic balls of water levitating in mid-air. They began chanting their incantations and beneath their feet, three-fold purple colored magic arrays around the floating water orbs. At first, blurred images appeared on the orbs of water but after a few seconds, the images became clear.

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"Welcome to the Fourth annual inter-class competitions main event…" A mysterious figure levitating in mid-air spoke, his voice was like thunder which instantly struck fear in the hearts of everyone who heard it. His face was covered with a robe and a talisman was wrapped around his right hand. This was sorcerer was regarded as Briton's most powerful mage, a high-level silver-rated sorcerer. His mastery of the power of nature is unmatched in Briton and every other sorcerer who based on the study of nature's power sort him out for tutorship.

"For the first time, all classes in the adventurers association have produced a representative to take part in inter-class competition's main event… even the oracle and enhancer classes, the non-combat classes have produced representatives… I don't know about you… but I'm eager to see what these kids are capable of …" the mysterious man said. His image on the giant orb of water soon faded and the orb split into seven orbs, on each orb a representative was shown standing at his or her respective passageway waiting for the iron door to be opened. The people cheered as they saw this, in just a few minutes betting polls were created and people bet on contestants who they felt would win the competition. In just a few minutes the streets of Briton was crowded with citizens who stared at the floating water orbs

"From the Battle-mage class, the flame beast Karl and from the Oracle class, the battle demon Cyrus."

"From the Enchantment class, god's touch Gin and from the Sorcerer class, the blood mage Kira."

"From the Archery class, the son of the wind Derik and the guardian knights class, the number one rookie Donald"

"And finally from the Assassin class, the death god Daemon" the mysterious sorcerer took his time to introduce each representative of the various classes.

After the announcements, the knights of lights opened the iron doors and each participant walked into through it. Derik watched a knight of light push the iron door open and was inwardly shocked, it usually took three to four normal guards to push the gate open but a single knight of light was able to accomplish this easily.

"Proceed," the knight said indifferently. Derik nodded and dashed forward…

[This is just the first step forward!!!!]