Tyrant

Just as he was leaving the the town"s square, Rahz felt a sharp pain in his right arm and screamed "Ahhhhh! who dares to hurt, I your f..." Right before he finished his sentence BAMMM!! he felt another sharp pain but this time was his left arm.

Rahz wailed again, " Ahhhhh!! you sucker punch me ! What kind of warrior does that?"

"This kind" Said Bhirl towering over the sorry looking Rahz. " I didn"t manage to hear right, Who farted during the ceremony?"

Realizing what was all about, Rahz struggled to place a smile on his face and said " Lets not dwell on the pa.s.s mate. What you said, what I said, what the elder said is not important. What is important right now is that I am 3 inches taller and finally a warrior. Lets just do our best from now on and become the strongest warriors in Helgahvall" Without knowing Bhilr nodded his head and forgot about his revenge. Rahz took this time to silently mix with the leaving crowd. It was very easy for him to move within the crowd due to the foul smell coming from his body. Everybody just moved out of the way for fear of touching him.

Very quickly Rahz got home and took a bath. While he was cleaning himself, Rahz finally had a chance to check the skills acquired during the ceremony. The majority of the skills were pa.s.sive in nature. The most important one was definitely the ability to absorb energy from heaven and earth as well as the life force of vanquished foes in order to evolve. This skill was called Rune of the awakened. The rune will absorb the energy acquired by the warrior and used it to slowly change their bodies into a higher level of existence. The Rune will also allowed the warrior to use energy for supernatural abilities granted by their cla.s.s. This superb pa.s.sive skill will evolve with the fighter throughout his life, and the t.i.tles granted to one particular cla.s.s come from the evolution of the rune. The other Pa.s.sive skills were just a slight increase resistance to elemental magic.

Apart from the pa.s.sive skills, Rahz learn two abilities. The first was an offensive skill called devastating blow that allow the warrior to cover his weapon with Energy that increase the sharpness of the weapon causing 50% more damage to the enemy. The second ability was the utilization of energy for defensive purposes and it was called Strengthen Defense. This ability allows the warrior to strengthen his defense or the defensive value of weapons by using a portion of his energy.

Once Rahz read this two skills he could not wait to start practicing. He got out of the bath, got dress and started practicing with a stick near by. Rahz hit a tree with his made up weapon and found out that there was not even a scratch left on the tree. After a few tries Rahz finally got the courage to use the devastating blow skill to strike the tree. As he stroke towards the tree, the stick in his hands glowed with energy and left a big scratch on it. Rahz was pretty amazed about the power of the ability; however, he quickly realized there was a huge problem. Every time he used the skill, he felt tired, like he had exercise all day long. By the end of his practice he could not even lift the stick with his hands. As he sat down the rune of the awakened started working to replenish his energy from the energy in the environment.

After 15 minutes pa.s.sed Rahz was able to move again. This experiment thought him that he could only use this ability sporadically in a fight as after using it 5 times he was completely exhausted. After resting for about an hour, Rahz felt that he was back to his normal self so he decided to try the defensive ability. When he activated the skill his body was surrounded by a thin layer of energy and he felt that his skin and bones were strengthen by a small margin. The drain of this skill was even greater than the offensive skill. After using it 2 times he felt that he could not move a muscle. Once again the rune of Awakened started working and within the hour he was back to normal.

After experimenting a few times he discovered that he could use this ability to only strengthen his weapon, and that using it this way it spent a lot less energy increasing the quant.i.ty of uses to 4 times before collapse. While absorbing energy for the third time, Rahz felt that even though he was absorbing energy his body still felt weak and he was light headed. In that preceise moment he felt a sharp pain in his stomach and felt extremely hungry. After recuperating for a while he quickly went to his house and gorge in whatever food he could find.

When his mom came back to the house and saw him eating food like a famine Demon she smiled and asked " Did you use your cla.s.s skills?" Rahz nodded and kept stuffing his face.

" Now that you are starting your training as a warrior you got to understand your limits. If you run out of stamina in a life and death battle it would be devastating. Rahz, it is very important that you give 110 percent during the special training, It may save your life someday".

While talking to her son about safety, Etta started making dinner.

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Rahz"s father was a very special existence for the village due to the fact that he had been in the great city of Silverwind and learn the art of Forging. Even though, Rhaen"s skills were not superb, He was still an intermediate blacksmith. As far as the village was concern his skills were G.o.dlike. Since Barbarians hunted for living, they knew the value of having excellent weapons.

The ceremony held during the day signified the need for 10 sets of weapons. Rhaen had been working extra hours lately in order to finish the orders from the parents of the new awakened children. It was already amazing that he was able to finish all the orders.

With a smile on his face, Rhaen wiped the sweat from his forehead and took a look at his latest work. It was a two handed axe.

Rhaen look at the copper axe with pride in his eyes. He knew this weapon will never let his son down. The axe was 4 ft long, had a 2 sided head, and a spike at the top of the handle. The edge on each side was 8 in long. The whole axe weight it about 90 lbs. The axe was quite heavy for Rahz to wield comfortably from the get go. However, it will definitely increase his strength and stamina the more he practiced with it. Rhaen wanted his son to reach heights he was never able to climb when he was an adventurer.

By the time Rahz"s father got home it was pretty dark outside. Rahz had not seen his dad since early in the morning, and he was very eager to show him the amazing changes that had happened to him.

As Rhaen got close to the house, he was able to smell his wife wonderful cooking, this always put a smile on his face. Rahz was outside using his 2 new skills in order to increase his experience towards the next level by stimulating his body through energy depletion. Seeing his son working so hard filled Rhaen"s heart with joy.

"Rahz take a break and come see what your dad got you".

Rahz stop what he was doing and ran to his dad"s side.

As he was getting closer he saw a ma.s.sive looking axe that was radiating a sharpness that made his hairs stand up. He subconsciously slowed down to a crawl.

His dad was a veteran mercenary so he understood what was happening. With a grin on his face he said, "This is your new partner. Congrats on awakening."