Skill Creation in the Fantasy World

"Creaak~"

Steve pushed open the door slowly and glanced around at the main hall. Finding nobody there, he showed a thumbs up to Felix and sneaked inside.

Felix followed behind like a soldier doing a crime and entered too.

They hurriedly ran toward the stairs without making any noise and went to the first floor.

Stopping in front of his room, Steve turned sideways and reminded Felix.

"Oh yeah Felix, we can\'t go there again for a few days as I have some missions to do. Don\'t worry we can go when I\'ll have some free time."

Felix paused opening his room\'s door and stared speechless at the green-haired boy.

\'Am I a kid for you to always be there beside me? I\'m gonna go there alone tomorrow anyways...\'

Nodding at him, he went inside his room.

He locked the door and started removing his clothes, before entering the bathroom and taking a bath to refresh himself.

Coming out, he wore different clothes and went out to the dining hall to fill his stomach.

After a satisfying lunch, he came back and started to meditate for the rest of the day.

\'I should meditate for now and then do some training after dinner....\'

Spending the whole day in his room under the sunlight, he meditated until the moon came out.

Later, Felix went for dinner and took his sword to one of the training rooms to practice his swordsmanship.

Completing the day with exhaustion, he went back to his room and fell asleep all tired.

\'Let\'s sleep for now, there\'ll be a long day tomorrow in the arena....\'

*****

The next day.

Felix came out of his room wearing a robe on himself. He slowly moved downstairs and checked around the main hall.

It was five in the morning so there was no one in the hall.

\'Good!\'

He still sneaked cautiously toward the main door and opened it with his card.

The door opened and he swiftly went out.

Coming out of the gate, he took a deep breath and relaxed his excited state of mind.

\'Today I\'ll have to fight until I can\'t...\'

With a motivated and resolute mind, Felix took steady steps moving toward his destination.

He had made sure to remember the way when they were going and coming back from the underworld, so he did not forget the way.

Moving on the almost empty streets as it was still before dawn, he continued traversing in the fresh and cool atmosphere with slightly dark surroundings.

He walked across the streets and entered an alley before going deeper until he found the manhole they had entered yesterday.

Felix looked around at the place and made sure no one was there in the area.

Bending down, he rotated the cover of the hole in a certain way and took it out after a click sound came from there.

He went inside the manhole and covered the lid back on the top before climbing down the steel bars to the ground.

\'I should wear this now.\'

Taking out the black mask he bought yesterday from inside his robe, he hid his face with it.

The mask covered the upper part of his face and his silver hair, leaving his chin and red eyes visible.

\'It\'s better now....\'

After making sure his identity was perfectly hidden, Felix walked ahead in the sewageway for a few minutes and stopped at the door of the room.

Opening the door, he stepped inside and moved toward the guards.

There were two different guards than yesterday but they did the same checking.

"What do you think of blood in the form of art?"

One of the guards asked narrowing his eyes.

Felix coughed twice to hide his embarrassment and replied with the chunibyuu-type answer.

"Umm, it makes me want to.....choke you to death?"

His expression looked really strange when he said that but the guard just nodded and went back to his seat.

The other guard stood up and chanted an incantation near the wall making a door appear there magically.

Felix stared at the scene excitedly as it was not every time he would get to witness such a magical scene.

The guard then opened the door and welcomed him just like the last time.

"Welcome to the Underworld, we hope you have an enjoyable stay...."

Giving the guard a nod, Felix walked ahead and stepped across the door making his way into the underworld all alone, unaware that he would one day become the most important person in the hidden underworld.

*****

After entering through the door, Felix arrived at the entry and exit point from where he walked out of it toward the black market.

The black market was ever bustling with stall keepers shouting praises of their items and customers haggling for lower prices.

"We have potions, drugs, and many other things!"

"Come here and buy the strongest of the medicines that can even revive the dead!"

"Can you reduce the price by twenty percent? I have a harem to feed..."

"Huh! What do you mean you won\'t sell it for free? Do you even know who I am?"

The never-ending conflicts and disputes that riddled the area were, without a doubt, the fundamental traits of this lawless place, clearly identifying it as a black market.

With interest and a bit of caution in his eyes, Felix roamed around the streets under the dim lights of the artifacts hanging from the ceiling.

\'There\'s so many things they\'re selling out here that I can\'t even identify...\'

Felix thought as he glanced around at the items that were being sold on the stalls. The treasures were all shining in different colors attracting people like moths towards them, but he didn\'t have the slightest inkling of what they were used for.

\'I should hurry and create that skill \'Inspect\', but I won\'t be left with many skill points left if I create it now.\'

He mused wanting to create the many skills he wanted and thought of how he could obtain skill points for that.

Pondering, Felix walked in the streets of the black market and reached the entrance of the Arena.

Upon stepping through the entrance, his heart quickened its pace, stirred by the resounding cheers of the exuberant crowd at the peak of their excitement.

Even the air inside felt charged, filled with bloodlust and tension, setting a serious tone in the atmosphere.

Felix carefully walked keeping a distance from the people around and went downstairs from the entrance to the ground level of the arena hall.

There were fights going on with a huge crowd in the area all around regardless of the fact that it was still just five in the morning. It made him wonder what Steve had said yesterday.

\'What he said was true. The people in the underworld really don\'t care about the time of the outside world.\'

Glancing at the many arena stages, he made his way to the end of the arena hall and reached the underground stairs that led to the Arena Management office.

He had expected to encounter the two buff guys from yesterday but it seemed they were not here as two different people were present here.

The guards stopped him and asked for his identification to which he showed them the card he had obtained yesterday from inside the office.

They checked the card on an orb and handed it back, giving him entry inside.

Just after he entered inside, a voice from the side called out to him.

"See, didn\'t I tell you that you\'ll come to find me after your first battle?", the man spoke as if he was some fortune teller.

Felix was surprised when someone spoke to him, but when he turned to the side, he became much more surprised almost feeling dumbfounded.

"Mr.Dealer?"