Training 1

*swosh, swosh*

bone fist after bone fist were coming Nics way, he had defeated two of the skeletons now their are five of them.

nic have been fighting these five for what seemed like hours, everytime he went to strike one of the skeletons, another would either attack him or pull away the skeleton from his attack.

they were like a perfect team, each of them did everything precisely, their all the same strength but together they are strong enough to put nic's strongest form in a corner.

nic had lost almost 50 times by now, the 5 shadow skeletons watched him as though they were mocking him, no matter what he did he seemed to fail.

'how the hell am I supposed to fight these things' nic watched left and right as he was now surrounded.

no matter how much he tried to keep his eyes on them it was pointless as one always seemed to be out of his vision.

seeing a chance the shadow skeleton behind nic wasted no time, it rushed in, they had incredible speed and was already in reach of nic in seconds.

the shadow skeleton fist came rushing to Nics head, however nic had already fought with these things many time, he already predicted this, but predicting didn't make it any easier.

he leaned to the right and was barely grazed, and with the momentum from the lean he brought his left foot to the head of the skeleton, the kick carried extreme force and knock the skull off its boney neck, the skeleton was dispersed into smoke before two more appeared.

'guess I was right, every second is precious, I have to attack at any second am giving, I cant hesitate' nic thought as he looked back at the 4 shadow skeletons rushing towards him, the moment he defeated the shadow skeleton was in seconds, he learned to not waste time trying to block or trading blows.

'all I need to do is make sure every blow is fetal' nic smiled feeling as though he has achieved something.

the shadow skeletons attacked and nic wasted no time in dodging, but every time he dodged he used the momentum to strike his leg at the shadow skeletons weak point, with this technique he defeated 4 shadow skeletons.

'this will be my new signature technique, before I was just fighting like a wild beast, but with this technique if perfected I am closer in becoming a knight, it is even simple to perfect all I got to do is train my reaction time, and foot works' nic was deep in thought as a smirk appeared on his face, he finally found a fighting style that suits him.

"now it's time to get serious" nic shouted

[meanwhile somewhere in the northern lands]

"bartender, another glass!" a big muscular man said raising his empty cup in the air, he was at a table of 6, the building looked like a old western bar, an it was mostly filled with men, they all were humans, but some wore bloody armor and damaged weapons as though they had just fought a war.

"hey what's the meaning of this weeks bounty" one of the men at the table said as he pointed at the wall of the building where there were many papers stuck to the wall, on the papers the words wanted can be seen broad as daylight.

"did you see the price for bloody ripper, those guys most be mad to put a bounty on his head, he is a knight for peace sakes" another said looking at the wall of papers, his eyes fixated on just one, it had 20000 gold under his name, but their was no picture of him.

"nooo not that, am talking about the one named nic" the muscular man said with a smile.

"ohh the halfling, I forgot about that one, I heard that the price is reasonable but he can't be found"

"the price is 100 gold, with that I can build myself a mansion and still have silvers left over" another said as he drooled.

"why spend so much on something that wont make money it's such a waste dono" another said angrily.

"your one to talk, arnt you the one with the harem dream!" the drooling man said as everyone in the bar began to laugh.

the man blushed and hid his face in embarrassment "anyway I heard lots of hunting parties are being made to search for him" he mumbled.

"it's pointless, they say his location is unknown" another said with a depressed expression.

"well I guess it's time for us to make it known, we are the best finders of the Bar Hind Guild, and I heard they are willing to pay 10 gold for finding him"

"fuck that!, we will be the ones to take his bounty!" another shouted as he raised himself from his seat with his beer mug in hand.

"yea we will!!!" all the group members raised from their seat.

meanwhile at another table a man resides, he was sipping on his beer as he listened the conversation of the group.

the man seemed mysterious, he wore a hooded robe, and for some reason everyone in the bar moved as though they did not realize he was their, it was as though he was not in the bar.

a couple minutes after the group left the bar staggering, they all cling onto one another as they walked side to side out of the door.

the man then got up and followed them, "here is your tip" he said to one of the bartenders as he left the bar.

"huh, who was he?, when did he come in here?" the girl said confused as she watched the man leave, she then looked in her hand to find one gold coin, she looked at it in disbelief.

....[a couple minutes after]

"ahwh!, somebody help!!!" one of the men that was in the bar cried.

as he looked on the white cold ground, he can see that the snow have been painted red, his guild members were cleanly decapitated.

the night seemed like a horror film as one man stood before him, his white hood had not even a single drop of blood on it, and his face was covered in darkness, only his unique brown eyes can be seen glowing in the darkness.

"am sorry for what happened to your friends, but raising thy voice in my presence was only to be punished" he said as he looked down on the scared man.

the man pants start reek as a wet patch appeared.

"tch, disgusting" the man in the white robe looked in disgust, "this is why humanity was looked down upon, instead of seeking revenge you wet yourself, just disgusting, cant believe I need help from someone of your level"

"help?" the man on the ground said as he looked up at the man, he was scared and confused.

"why yes, am in need of your S-rank tracking gift" the man said with a bitter smile, "an for your cooperation I will spare thy life" his eyes glowed more intensely.

"aand w..ho do you wa..nt mme to find?" the man said trying to hold back his fear, he seen what this man was capable of, no he saw the little of what this man was capable of.

"nic!!" the man shouted with great anger.