Chapter 64: Master? Part 1

Adam instinctively felt that the man wasn't ordinary and he could use his full strength against him, and even if he was normal, he was too arrogant and deserved a beating.

Adam jumped up off the ground and cracked his knuckles as he walked over to the short chubby man.

Without much talking, Adam dashed towards the weird man, using half his speed, and held his arms up to protect his face in a boxing style stance.

Adam didn't have any hand to hand combat experience and had never fought anybody before integrating with the system, so was using only what he had watched online from fighting videos and tutorials.

However, despite having ideas and brief knowledge of how to fight, Adam had never used it first hand and this was Adam's first hand to hand fight.

[The best fighting style for me with my dual-wielding mastery, for now, will be boxing as it also the one that I learnt the most about] decided Adam.

Swinging a rapid jab, using half of his total speed, towards the man's face, Adam wanted to gauge his ability and whether he was actually worth fighting.

The left jab was direct and quick and just as Adam thought he had struck the man, he felt as though he had punched through thin air.

He had his eyes glued on the chubby man the entire time, but he had no idea what happened to his fist and how he had managed to miss.

"Is that all you got, even for an ordinary person you are only average" ridiculed the man gloatingly with his hands still held behind his back.

Adam was shocked and baffled and had no idea how his strike had missed, but seeing the arrogant expression on the stubby man's face, he couldn't help but get fired up.

"I will show you all my strength" roared Adam as he stopped holding back any strength and speed and burst forth launching a powerful right fist at the man's face.

But just like the previous time, the fist didn't hit anything and it seemed to be easily dodged by the stubby man.

However Adam knowing that, had launched a left hook to his side right after, hoping to catch the man off guard, but once again it didn't land on him.

"Your not too bad and thought you could catch me off guard with the second punch, but you are still to readable and sloppy" observed the weird man with a smile.

Adam continued launching a flurry of strikes with all his speed and strength and not one of his attacks landed.

After a few minutes of continuously attacking, Adam saw his MP, which represented both his Internal and External Energy, beginning to fall and stopped attacking.

[I have no chance against him and even though I feel like I am getting closer to hitting him, he is too quick and all I see is a blur when he dodges my attacks with his hands behind his back] thought Adam to himself.

Seeing Adam's attacks the weird man had a wide and arrogant smile.

"Tired already. I must say your strength was shocking and I wasn't expecting you to have the strength of a rank 2 Novice. But you are still too weak and sloppy" mocked the man.

"But you launched so many attacks at me and it is only fair I do the same" he stated as he suddenly swung a kick at Adam's head.

Adam had no time to react and he was launched flying and crashing into a wall of the dojo.

The single strike knocked out Adam and he didn't even see it coming.

Opening his eyes again, Adam awoke in a dark space that he recognised from when he just arrived on Floor 1.

"This must be my consciousness and I must have been knocked unconscious" mumbled Adam to himself.

Replaying what had occurred in his head, Adam still couldn't see what had occurred clearly. But what he could see was that the man's arms were still behind his back, so it must have been a kick.

[System what level of cultivation is that weird man at] asked Adam curiously.

{That is information that is currently unknown by me, but even if I did know, I wouldn't be able to tell you} answered the system.

The system's answer shocked him and it was the first thing that Adam had asked the system that the system didn't know.

"So I really must have struck gold to have found such an incredible cultivator to be my master" exclaimed Adam joyously.

Checking his status, Adam had lost a few MP from the one-sided fight he had with the weird man, but what shocked him was that he had hardly lost any HP from the weird man's attack.

"It seems he really didn't want to hurt me otherwise he would have killed me in that single strike" observed Adam.

[System forcefully awaken my consciousness] ordered Adam, remembering how he regained consciousness on Floor 1.

{Forced consciousness awakening}

As he heard the system, he felt as though his consciousness was forced back into his body which was a very painful experience as he awoke to headache.

"You already regained consciousness, but not naturally. You seem to have forced your consciousness back into your body" observed the man.

Adam was shocked by how he had easily managed to understand what he had done and he was becoming scared that his secret would be revealed.

[I need to be more careful and can't reveal anything to do with the Dungeon System] noted Adam to himself.

Getting up Adam stretched his neck and couldn't help but ask the man how he had managed to knock him out without harming him.

"It is simple. I didn't even make contact with you and you were merely overwhelmed by my Internal Energy" explained the man gloatingly.

He made it sound very simple and easy, but Adam could guess how difficult it would be to do so and how much control and strength it would require.

But instead of debating or arguing with the man, Adam suddenly blurted out what he really wanted.

"Can you be my master please"