The Rune Knight (Monster Tamer)
CHAPTER I The First Step
1.2 Meetings and Challenges.
Today is my second day in the Academy city. Last night I got a letter that training will start tomorrow morning. So for today I am free. I planned to go around the city and take a look around so as not to get bored at the inn.
I closed the door with 2311 and slowly locked it. The sound of my feet accompanying my steps down the stairs is quite long.
"Hi, pretty girl. I'll drop my room key, yes" I said a little teasingly to the yellow short-haired girl. After that I gave her the key to my room.
The girl's face turned red and did not answer my words. I went straight to the exit while waving my hand at the girl.
I went around looking at the city crowd. Right at the end of the western exit of the city was a crowd that caught my attention. After I approached it turned out that there was a bare-handed fighting competition for the prize money of 10 million rupiah.
Looks big bodied people and have strong muscles lined up to sign up. I think this is a pretty good place to test my skills that grandfather has honed for 1 year before training. I get a sequence number of 3 in a random number draw. When I looked at the battle table it turned out that there were 16 fighters registered in this competition.
The sound of the audience very boisterous sounded like they wanted to immediately watch the fight. I can only listen to the voices of the audience and the hosts from a distance. The participants were placed in different rooms so that no one would know what kind of battle model happened in the arena and who their next opponent was.
"Tok tok," a knock on my door.
I stood up and opened the door immediately. A 20-year-old woman in tight clothes was seen after I opened the door.
"Hey young man, I'm Lina one of the match organizers. Your turn has come, please go that way towards the arena," said the woman introducing herself and pointing with her right hand.
The roar of the audience was so loud that it made me tremble a little. It's the first time I've performed at a show that has an audience like this. I climbed up the yellow staircase made of a pile of rocks that looked very sturdy.
I was finally in the middle of the arena. Many people looked at me as if they were unsure of my abilities.
"Hey boy just come down, you must have lost," shouted one of the spectators who sounded clearly in my ear. After that all the spectators laughed together as if underestimating my ability.
Finally I could see my opponent walking towards the arena. A man with a scar near his eyes and looks very scary. Maybe that guy's about 25.
"The rule is, one must not kill, two if you go out of the arena are declared defeated, three if you surrender are declared defeated, four are not allowed to use weapons. Are you ready?" the referee informed the rules and asked us for readiness.
The referee only wears white pants and looks very strong even though his body does not have large muscles. I was really curious how strong this referee was. His gaze felt very provoking.
"Ready!!" I said while getting ready to take the horses.
There was also a voice confirming the readiness of the man before me.
"Ready Fight," the referee loudly instructed that the fight began as he retreated back a few steps.
I immediately tried to take the initiative to attack as soon as possible. Run and use my right hand to hit right in the face of the opponent. But he managed to fend off with his left hand. He hit back with his right foot trying to kick me from the right side aiming for my left foot. But I jumped and went back until I stood up straight.
"Well he's strong," I muttered with a sigh.
"Hey boy don't run away," the audience again shouted in a tone that underestimated me. After that they laughed again.
My opponent was running at an incredible speed and was suddenly behind me. Then he tried to hit me with both hands.
I was shocked, but I quickly responded to the attack by jumping up while turning around and standing on my opponent's hand. While I kicked using the left foot with incredible speed and strength. The kick hit my opponent's right face. My opponent immediately bounced towards the exit of the arena and crashed into several spectators until it destroyed the barrier wall on the side of the arena.
"It's almost close, '" I muttered while slightly worried about my opponent's condition.
The furor in the arena instantly dissipated. All the spectators opened their mouths and were glued. They were shocked to see my strength and speed.
"The winner recalls," the referee shouted to break the silence.
"Heeeyyyyaaaa.." the audience cheered loudly again.
"You're a great kid," the audience could be heard screaming at each other with whistles.
I did not feel like I had defeated the next 2 participants quickly. Even with only 1x attack. I was hesitant about this tournament. I went to this tournament to test my fighting skills. But the result was beyond my expectations.
"Well, since I've reached the final round as soon as I finish, at least I get a prize of 10 million rupiah," I muttered with disappointment while imagining the money I would receive.
When I got to the top of the arena in the final match, I saw a woman my age. The woman was wearing a light blue shirt with long black hair unraveling. The parasite was so beautiful that I was overwhelmed by its beauty.
"Are you ready?" ask the referee to me and the lady.
"Wait a minute wait, I'm fighting this woman?" I said in shock when the referee asked us for our readiness.
"Hey, are you doubting my abilities?" the woman looked at me and spoke in a high voice.
"It's not so, but I." I replied shyly and was cut off by the referee.
"Hey boy, don't underestimate someone even if she's a woman?" said the referee with a slight snarl.
"Well, what may I do," I replied despite my hesitation against the beautiful woman in front of me.
The match was about 30 minutes. I only fended off and dodged by occasionally trying to attack despite the hesitation.
I saw the woman was very angry reflected by the look on her face. Maybe he felt I underestimated him and wasn't serious about fighting him.
But suddenly an assassin and a fenrir appeared in the middle of the field. The assassin covered his entire body except the top of his head and only his hair color was pitch black and his two eyes were also black. Beside him was a fenrir one of the mythical monsters that had a very dangerous poison if it was hit by its bite.
When I looked around the arena, it turned out that the arena had been besieged by the Carleon royal warriors.
"What's going on here?" the referee asked the assassin who was in front of him.
"We're just going to take this woman back" the assassin replied as he pointed towards the woman I was fighting earlier.
It turned out that the woman was no longer in her place. How shocked the assassin did not see the woman he was looking for.
"Guk guk," fenrir beside the assassin barked towards me.
I'm shocked too. Why did the fenrir suddenly bark at me in the depths of my heart. After I realized there was an existence that I knew behind me. That's the woman I was with.
"Daughter, don't act like a child. Let's go home" the assassin said as he extended his hand.
"I want to go home after you beat up my front boy" said the princess who was the one who fought with me.
Instantly the assassin moved quickly and swung his hand towards my body. My body was completely unable to keep up with the extremely fast movements of the assassin. But suddenly the referee was in front of me and resisted the attack of the assassin who was intending to attack me.
"Just calm down boy, I will protect you," said the referee speaking to me while holding off an assassin's attack.
But I didn't see like he was protecting me. From what I saw in their fight, it seemed like the referee only wanted to fight with an assassin.
"Helder caught the man in front of the princess," the assassin gave the order to fenrir as he fought against the referee.
"Well!!! it's a Holy Gryphon," I said while festering.
The arrival of the Holy Gryphon made the audience who initially enjoyed the referee and assassin fight immediately run scattered.
"Holy Gryphon!!!, run away later you are eaten," shouted the spectators as they ran.
After about 5 minutes the area outside the arena only carleon warriors remained. They just stood straight like waiting for orders from assassins who were busy fighting with the referee.
"Stop Dion!!!!" the sound of someone who was very familiar with me from outside the arena.
Assassin stopped moving, so did the fenrir that was spitting fire colored hitampun come to a stop. Seen someone wearing all-green clothes and has the royal mark carleon darting hit the head of assasin and fenrir to the bump.
"Hey long time no memory" the man greeted me in a familiar tone.
"Sir!!!" I said in surprise to see how easy it was for him to hit the assassin and the fenri.
The incident ended with the princess brought forcibly by Mr. Shahir. The princess was tied up with a rope, so she looked like a caterpillar on the shoulder of Shahir.
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"Bhhhhhhhh!!!!" I'm bad luck, shit shit shit." I screamed to myself while rushing to make preparations to wear clothes and shoes.
I went out through my bedroom window to the roof of the closest building. I kept running and jumping on the roof of the building towards the tallest tower in the city center.
The entrance gate is closed. There was only one guard using complete armor on his entire body inside the gate.
"Master, the guards let me in. I'm the lucky one to be a training student here sir. My mom and dad are gone. This is my chance to make them happy, sir. Please." I acted melas in front of the guard and let out crocodile tears.
"Is that so, son?" ask the guard seriously.
"Yes sir. This is the wish of my parents before I die" I said, weeping.
"No!" the guard replied to me as if he was mocking me for knowing my heart.
"Move aside to move aside," the voice came from the right side of the road.
I looked and saw it. It appears that someone I met was arguing with Mr. Shahir.
"It's all your fault, Shahir. You tied me up and forgot to let go until morning. I'm finally late. How are you responsible for all this?" said a woman while running and scolding Pak shahir. It was the princess who was my opponent in the final of the tournament yesterday.
"Ehhh, You. What are you doing here?" the princess asked with her shocked expression and suddenly stopped beside me.
"Ehmmm anu, I'm late hehehe" I replied with a smile to the princess.
"Stupid. Where there are people like you on the first day of training opening comes too late" said the princess insulted me with a condescending gesture.
"sorry. Don't you realize you're too late. That's what I heard when you were angry at Mr. Shahir while running here," I replied proudly.
"Look at that Shahir, because of you I became a level with this stupid boy," said the princess while lashing out at Shahir.
"Take it easy, princess. The guards let the two of them in" said Mr. Shahir as he lifted the princess and led her inside the gate.
I slowly sat down on the bench closest to the entrance. I saw probably around hundreds of training disciples in this room. All the students were wearing black uniforms with the Academy city emblem right on the right arm the same as the one I used.
When my ass just touched the seat. The acceptance ceremony is over. All students stand to leave the room to the class that has been divided according to the chosen job. I also pretended that nothing had happened to avoid my embarrassment.
I walked through a room full of
with students who look confused just like me. They looked like they were looking for something on the benches in the room.
I finally found you in my heart relieved. The bench says my name right in front of me. The bench was located right in front of the instructor's desk and it disappointed me a lot. I closed my face with both hands while holding back my annoyance with the sitting position I got.
The training center in this Academy city was named the Academy District. Classes are divided based on the chosen job and the ownership of runes. My class is a job thief class and where the students have runes. There is only 1 rune class. It also contains only 15 students in my class. This number was inversely proportional to the grade without runes. Their number could be divided into 5 classes and each class numbered 40 students.
Standing right in front of me were two people who looked very similar. The first person was the person I met at the tournament as a referee. He wears a garment called a dobok and coats his hands with a bandage. His name is Jihan and he is a guardian. The second man was named Johan and he was an assassin. He was wearing a fairly tight outfit of dark blue and saw a knife between his hands.
"Ok our introduction is done. Now we will directly give you a task" said pak jihan while summoning the mythical monster he had.
A holy gryphon appeared outside my classroom window. We were instructed by the two instructors earlier to go out into the field approaching the holy gryphon earlier.
"His name is Shiro," said the jihan pack as he stroked the mythical monsters he possessed like a pet.
Next it's Mr. Johan's turn to summon the mythical monster he has. Seen a group of bats clustered and formed a body like a human. It was a vampire one of the high-level mythical monsters.
"The name is Venom" Johan introduced the vampire to his students even though the vampire would not approach us because of the sunlight.
The two of them explained the function from runes to how to tame mythical monsters. Approximately after 3 hours they explained regarding the runes and mythical monsters, they finally stopped talking for a moment.
"You are the man who sits at the far right and the woman in the middle. You already have a mythical mosaic, try to introduce yourself and show your mythical monster friends," said Mr. Johan, pointing at the two students.
The boy was Icko, he was from the Uruk royal family. The mythical monster that was with him was a lizard guard. This mythical monster has indeed been the protector of his family for generations.
After Icko, it's now the daughter's turn named Sheila. He came from the imperial royal border family where the place was the territory of the water mythical monster. Sheila pulled out a mythical mermaid-type monster that was very beautiful carrying a harp. He accidentally got it when helping the mermaid while netted by fishermen.
"So your job is to find the mythical monsters that you will make partners. The time we give you is a maximum of 6 months. The Academy district will help you find the mythical monsters you want," said Johan, assuring all of his students.
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Pedia Monster
■ Fenrir: A mythical monster that has a dangerous poison on its teeth. It can spit out black flames that are difficult to extinguish. It has a wolf-like body and a bluish black feather. High level mythical monsters. Including the beast race.
■ Holy Gryphon: A mythical monster that can control the air around it. It has a lower body like the legs of a lion and half of it is an eagle. It can manipulate the density of light so that it is like removing a laser from its eye. High level mythical monsters. The legendary bird race.
■ Vampires: Mythical monsters that can heal and strengthen themselves by sucking the blood of opponents. His body is similar to a human. But his skin is bluish. It has dark magic and drain skills. High level mythical monsters. The undead race.
■ Lizard Guard: Mythical monsters that can fight using different types of weapons. The ability to survive is quite great because it has a reduce damage skill. Mid-level mythical monsters. The lizard race
■ Mermaid: A mythical monster that can support partners with her singing. Have the ability to fight quite agile in water. Low level mythical monsters. Including the seaman race.
