Chapter 47: A strong teacher
Sergeant Lee after seeing the students move out of the way, finally turned to face the werewolf with his eyes blazing with fury. Meanwhile the werewolf was still in shock after seeing his hand being cut off so easily. The werewolf just stood looking at its stump that earlier held his hand.
Now, the werewolf had its two hands cut off. That was when it lifted its head to look at the human who managed to cut its hand off. "You.. you managed to cut my hand so easily. How? How did you do it?"
Sergeant Lee didn\'t respond, he just calmly walked forward a bit then he took a fighting stance. And then sergeant Lee exploded forward with such force that the ground beneath his feet was broken. And then he swung his sword at the werewolf\'s neck. Quickly snapping out of its daze, the werewolf quickly ducked avoiding the hit.
Without its hands, the werewolf was limited to only dodging now. Sergeant Lee quickly repositioned himself and dashed forward towards the werewolf again. When he got to the werewolf\'s position, instead of his sword, sergeant Lee used his leg to throw a roundhouse kick that connected successfully with the werewolf\'s head causing the werewolf\'s head to go crashing down on the floor with such force that it made the werewolf\'s whole body bounce a few times before coming to a halt.
The students who were all watching sergeant Lee\'s show of strength, were in so much awe at what they could see.
"Are we all seeing the same thing?" Peter asked with his mouth wide open.
"Yeah, and I thought that Jack was the only one who could make the werewolf go flying like that." Cindy said.
"You guys shouldn\'t forget that I\'m just a student and sergeant Lee is a, well a sergeant." Jack said while standing to get a better view of the fight.
Jake who was also watching the fight was quite disheartened. \'I guess I still have a long way to go before I can handle a werewolf on my own.\'
Meanwhile, after bouncing a few times, the werewolf finally came to a halt and then slowly stood up with its head bleeding slightly. Then it smiled at sergeant Lee. "And here we thought that the humans have gotten weaker. We should really have attacked sooner."
Sergeant Lee still didn\'t reply, he just ran towards the werewolf again and when he was close enough, he used The Triple Threat technique to get behind the werewolf, he pushed off from the ground again and then swung his sword very fast and cleanly. Then sergeant Lee dropped now smoothly and walked towards the students without even looking back.
The werewolf didn\'t even feel anything, it just stood there stunned and then finally, it felt a shooting pain across its neck and it finally realized its done for. \'We have truly underestimated the humans. We should have attacked soon…\' then the werewolf\'s head fell off its body and its body followed next. Lee then finally got to the students position.
"Was that the only one?"
The students for a second there, they forgot how to speak because they were so amazed by what sergeant Lee just did. The thing that they were all struggling with. That even their combined teamwork and strength couldn\'t do, Sergeant Lee did it with ease. Without even breaking a sweat.
Then finally Sophia snapped out of her daze. "Yes sir, it\'s the last one."
"Good. Let\'s all head back to the academy." Lee said already assisting Jake to stand up.
"Academy?" Sophia asked. "Aren\'t we supposed to be going to the shelter?"
"No. We are all going back to the academy."
"But what about the beast hunt?" Sophia asked again.
"It\'s cancelled, all the students in the shelter have already gone back to school, and anyone hunting, has been brought back." Lee replied.
"But how did you know that there was an attack here?" Jake asked.
"The shelter has equipment that monitors the atmosphere. So when the portal opened up, the shelter were notified but we didn\'t expect for students to be all out here."
"But why did it take you so long to get here?" Kate asked.
"One, we didn\'t expect any students to be out here so we decided to round up the remaining students that were still out hunting. Before we will deal with the threat. It was your friend I suppose, that informed the shelter that you guys were still out here."
Getting their response, they decided to leave it at that and head back to the academy together with Lee. After a an hour of walking, they got to the shelter, got into the portal and was transported back to the academy. Sophia decided to suck up her complains. It turns out that the score and position they got on the first day, that was gonna be their score.
Meanwhile, when they all got to the academy, the whole students were given three days break because of what they experienced. While some of the students left to go to their town to visit their family or rest, Jake and the rest of the gang decided to rest up in the academy since most of them had no where to go to.
While relaxing at night, Jake decided to check his system for the notification he heard in his head immediately Sergeant Lee defeated the werewolf. Opening up his system to bring up past notifications, Jake was pleasantly pleased with the rewards he got.
<Congratulations! User has managed to survive the werewolf attack.>
<Rewards for completion: 2000XP, two new skills and +10 in all stats point.>
\'Woah! This is very much. How come the system is feeling so generous lately?\' Jake thought.
"Well, you deserved it. If it wasn\'t because of you and Jack, you guys would have been dead by now." Zee commented.
"Yeah. That\'s true. Speaking of Jack, I saw first hand how that Qi is useful and now am wondering how Jack managed to learn the skill."
"Maybe you can ask him tomorrow." Zee said. "For now, let\'s quickly check your new skills and then so you could get some rest."
"That\'s true." Jack said opening up his status screen.
<Status>
<User: Jake Lucas>
<Level: 10>
<Combat level: Skilled>
<Skill level: Trained>
<XP level: 400/1200>
<HP: 40/40>
<Strength: 45>
<Agility:41>
<Endurance: 48>
<Congratulations! User has levelled up twice. User is finally in level 10.>
<Main quest completed.>
<Rewards for completion of main quest: A passive skill granted.>
"Now that\'s an improvement from what I was before." Jake said. "Haha, it all feels funny, from someone who was the bottom of the barrel, I am now almost equal to Jack and Sophia in terms of strength."
\'Too bad the XP bar keeps on increasing the more I level up.\' Jake thought dejectedly. \'Anyway, let me see the new skills I got. They better be worth it.\'
<Skill Tab>
<Melee combat (Lv2): Deals 20 damage with intermediate weapons therefore removing 20% HP from enemy.
<Stealth (Lv1): Increases evasion chances by 10%>
<Inspect Skill (Lv2): Brings up information of an enemy>
<Frenzy Strike (Lv2): a skill that deals rapid consecutive attacks for 6 seconds, with a cool down timer of 10 minutes.>
<Second wind (Lv1): Restores 5 points of user\'s HP. (Skill can only be used once a day)>
<Stun Strike (Lv1): stuns the opponent, making them vulnerable to attacks for a second. cool down timer; 2 minutes>
<Strength Surge: Increases user\'s strength by 10 percent for five minutes. Cool down timer; 1 hour.>
<(New) Lockdown(Lv1): Immobilizes the opponent for 5 seconds. Cool down timer; 3 minutes.
<(New) Step shift(Lv1): A short, quick movement skill to create or close distance and gaps within one metre.
<(New) Immunity{Passive}: This is skill is always active, it protects the host from any werewolf bite that could turn the host to a werewolf.>
"Woah! Now this is so dope. To be sincere, I love this system. This is truly amazing." Jake almost laughed out loud.
\'But come to think of it, the fight was really difficult. If it wasn\'t because of sergeant Lee, we will all be dead by now. I really need to learn that Qi and master all of my system skills soon before another attack. And I know that perfect place to master my new skills.\' Jake thought with a smile on his face.
After more exploration, Jake decided to call it a day and go to sleep for their 3 days break will begin tomorrow.