BXBX NOVEL Chapter 10 Clearing Up The Monsters
After they killed the orc, Aiden decided to look at the rankings to see how many points they had gotten before coming here with him.
Thinking about it, the ranking panel opened in front of him instantly.
[Rankings]
[Aiden: 52 points]
[Ava: 28 points]
[James: 18 points]
[Gus: 12 points]
Aiden was in front by a large margin since every kill he made would be his and he had received no help killing them which put him at the top of the leaderboards.
While Aiden was looking at the rankings, Gus and James were starting to approach Aiden, feeling happy to have succeeded in killing the orc.
"Did you see how I distracted him and then James did some weird moves!" said Gus, moving his hands in the air trying to imitate what James had just done while killing the orc.
"Yeah, I saw all of it. You guys looked pretty strong out there, did you know each other before this trial, or are you used to fighting together?"
"Oh no, we\'ve never seen each other before," replied Gus, confused as to why Aiden would ask that.
"Well, now that you guys proved that you at least had some strength for yourselves, let\'s kill the rest of the orcs," said Aiden as he looked around him and saw at least fifteen orcs moving nonchalantly, unaware of them.
As Aiden was talking, he seemed to notice an even bigger change than earlier in Ava, she seemed scared, not saying anything which wasn\'t anything like she had acted since the start of the trial, it was weird. She, also, didn\'t try to approach Aiden anymore, maybe something had happened when they were fighting the orc, thought James.
"We should prepare a plan to make sure none of us even would die, what do you say?"
"A plan? No need for a plan, let\'s just charge in, we\'re clearly stronger than them! Look at those!" said Gus, as he showed off his muscles which were most likely made of fat.
"Sure, whatever not like it affects me," said Aiden, not caring if they made a plan or not since he was able to kill the orcs by himself without any help.
"Let\'s split up, me and Ava will form a group and you guys will form another. Killing them this way would be faster."
"But, we would be alone again," said Gus with a tone that indicated he wasn\'t sure if it was the best idea.
"Aren\'t both of you guys strong, I mean you just killed that orc like it was nothing right!" interrupted Aiden, acting friendly with them trying to boost their morale.
"You\'re right, let\'s do it, James let\'s try to kill at least one more than them!"
As Gus said that, the group separated into two pairs and left to hunt the orcs remaining.
Ava had not said anything when Aiden had proposed the idea of splitting but she didn\'t want to form a team with that man especially now that she knew from which family he came. One mistake would probably result in her death when they finished this trial.
She tried to distance herself from Aiden as best as possible because she didn\'t want him to hate her after leaving him alone at the start, but it didn\'t work Aiden went closer to her every time and started speaking to her.
"Alright, do you see that one," said Aiden as he pointed once again at an orc.
"Hmm, sorry if it offends you when I say this but before fighting shouldn\'t we at least know what we can do?"
"I guess you\'re right, well I remember your skill. Your skills are charm related and can affect the mental monsters right?"
"That\'s pretty much it. But what can you do?"
"Well, you\'ll see when we fight but I can do most things since as I have said before I am not being restricted by any type of class," answered Aiden, keeping the mystery around his abilities a secret from Ava.
"Now, that\'s done let\'s go and fight one!" said Aiden, excited about this fight since it would be the first time he would be getting help from someone when fighting an enemy even in his past life he didn\'t get that opportunity.
As they were moving toward the orc that had chosen to fight, Ava couldn\'t help but notice that Aiden seemed like a ghost beside her.
\'Why the hell can\'t I hear any noise from him when he\'s moving around? Is it a skill? Or some type of technique that he has learned from his family?\' thought Ava, realizing that Aiden was even more powerful than she thought before.
Getting close to the monster, Ava decided to cast her spell which caused the orc to be even more confused than he already was, which helped Aiden because there would be no chance of the orc noticing him.
He did almost the same moves as James earlier but there were executed much better which shocked Ava.
\'Did he learn this skill just by watching him earlier, that\'s crazy! Is that the power of one of the four families? Or is it his ability?\'
However, what she didn\'t know was that she was very far away from the truth since he had been abandoned by his own family and was currently living in the slums. He also didn\'t learn the skill just by watching James since he already knew of it and had practiced it for many years.
Then, using his movements, Aiden appeared right behind the orc and swung down his mace which caused a lot of damage to the orc once again, but it didn\'t kill it in one strike. But as he did another one, the monster started to dematerialize into particles like all the monsters he had killed before him.
[You have killed an orc.]
[You have gained 20 XP.]
[+2 points]
It seemed the points for killing the Orc had been separated between the two of them.
He was now level 7 and had added his two free stat points to his strength.
An hour later, the two groups had succeeded in killing all the orcs that had entered the city and received a message from the system.
[You have killed all the monsters from the final wave, do you wish to fight the boss monster?]
Seeing this message, Ava and Aiden went to find the other two who were sitting down and looked completely exhausted. It seemed like the fight against the orcs wasn\'t as simple for them as it was for Aiden and Ava who seemed to be in good shape that they could even take on another dozen of monsters.
"Do you guys want to fight against the boss monster?" asked Aiden.
"No chance! I don\'t want to, killing the boss monster is only for the elites, why would I even try," said Gus whose attitude took a complete turn around, he didn\'t look confident anymore. It seemed fighting that many monsters for a while caused him to think about his strength.
"You, James?"
"No, I\'m fine. I don\'t want to," answered James, keeping his answer brief.
"Ava?"
"Hmm, sure I guess I can\'t leave you alone," replied Ava, thinking that if she accepted maybe it would make her gain points with the Nightshade family and Aiden would forget about her previous actions.
"I guess it will be just the two of us."
"Well, guess I\'ll leave, good luck! I hope to see you guys again," said Gus loudly just as he had been doing since they had arrived.
Without saying anything, both James and Gus disappeared just like the monsters teleporting back to the real world.
"Let\'s do this!" said Aiden confidently, as he looked where he could see a monster as tall as a giant who was also looking at them menacingly.