Blood Queen Reborn-Chapter 10: System Users Fight

With the cue sent for the students to stand up and search for a new weapon to try out, Quinn got up and searched for a weapon himself.

This has been what the class had been doing this past week, which made sense as there were new students coming in and out of the class a lot. It was also an opportunity for students to try out a bunch of different weapon types, which Quinn was struggling to do.

Quinn had yet to pick out a weapon he truly wanted to master. He had already tried out a sword, a spear, a staff, a mace, and a few others but they were longer and more unwieldy; plus, it was harder for him to use those as extensions of himself; nothing really seemed to click for him; they were longer and more unwieldy; plus it was harder for him to use those as extensions of himself. As he stood in front of the large array of beast gear, a system message appeared.

[An enemy ability user has been detected]

[You have received a new quest]

[First fight: defeat your first opponent]

[Reward: 50 EXP]

Looking behind him, Quinn could see Erin fighting with a larger man almost twice her size. She seemed to be zooming around him, too quick to catch or hit, until she managed to land a few heavy blows to his chest with the flat part of her silver-colored sword, sending him flying.

[First fight has been completed!]

[50 EXP received]

[55/100 EXP]

[Additional quest reward]

[Skill unlocked: LV 1 Inspect]

Quinn saw Erin stand there for a second, then he saw in his vision that she was looking at the skills tab. There was now one skill available.

{Erin} I hoped for something better.

Erin turned to look back at Quinn, then walked over to where he was. He quickly pretended to still be examining the weapons because, honestly, Erin kind of scared him.

"Pick one out already," she sternly said.

Quinn glanced at her, then back at the weapons, "Sorry, it’s just that I’ve already tried out so many of these by now, but I still haven’t decided on one to use."

Erin looked at the wall of weapons then started using her Inspect skill on a sword. Quinn could now suddenly see the same messages about the weapons in front of them.

[Blueslicer Sword]

[Basic tier Beast weapon]

[Strength + 2]

[Agility +1]

"Does this help?"

Quinn perked up, "It actually does."

The two walked around the walls as Erin inspected each of the weapons; they all listed different stat improvements which were mostly about strength, but there were a few that increased speed too.

After a bit, Quinn could tell Erin was getting annoyed. She could’ve been out there fighting people, collecting EXP, but was instead trying to be helpful. Eventually, they came across a pair of black gauntlets with little horns at the top. The fingers were pointed like a claw, and they had sleeves made of cloth.

[Black Horned Gauntlets]

[Basic tier Beast weapon]

[Strength + 3]

[Defense + 2]

[This weapon is compatible with the skill "Blood swipe." When used with the gauntlets, Blood Swipe will have an increased power of 5%.]

"Bloodswipe?" Quinn whispered, before the gauntlets were shoved into his arms.

"Can we get to fighting already?" Erin said, grabbing a basic tier sword next to the gauntlets.

Not wanting to waste Erin’s time anymore, Quinn quickly put on the gauntlets, joining her on one of the fighting-mats.

Quinn wondered why Erin was even bothering with him about all of this, and why she wasn’t treating him like the usual high levels treated the low levels. Yes, she was commanding, and a little arrogant, but he would’ve expected her by now to beat him up for the sake of beating him up.

Even though the two were about to fight, she wanted Quinn to get a beast weapon, and for them to spar on equal footing. It didn’t seem maliciously intended, which made her behavior seem a little strange, and part of him wondered why that was the case.

Quinn and Erin stood opposite each other, both in their battle stances. Quinn held his arms up in a defensive position, while Erin held her sword up over her head offensively. She purposely chose a basic-tier weapon from the walls simply because she wanted to fight with the same level of gear Quinn had. Otherwise, it wouldn’t be fair.

There were eight total tiers of beast-gear, all measuring the different levels of strength and power they had. a tier above Quinn’s gauntlets, at intermediate instead of basic. While Erin had her own sword that she used against the man twice her size, it was a tier above Quinn’s gauntlets, being intermediate instead of basic.

A few students decided to slow down their sparring to pay closer attention to the fight at hand. They never expected the ice queen herself to willingly choose to fight the abilityless Quinn.

Right before they fought, Erin used her inspect skill on Quinn.

[Name: Quinn Talen]

[Race: Human]

[Ability: None]

[HP 6/6]

[Blood type O-]

[Quest: Defeat Quinn Talen]

[Reward: 10 EXP]

{Erin} Only 10 EXP?

Quinn awkwardly smiled and shrugged.

{Quinn} I guess so?

{Erin} Wow, you really are weak.

{Quinn} Hey! I watched plenty of old martial arts movies ya know! Don’t underestimate me!

{Erin} Sure...

She gave Quinn a small frown, making him slightly shrivel up.

Immediately, Erin went in for a swing of her sword; it was too fast for Quinn to dodge, and he only narrowly managed to block the hit. He stumbled, trying to regain his footing. He peeked through his gauntlets only to see Erin landing a kick to his face, forcing him to fall and land on his back.

[10 EXP received]

[65/100 EXP]

"Look, I don’t like to hang out with weaklings, but we’re unfortunately linked, and I have to do something about it," Erin spoke matter-of-factly. 𝐟𝐫𝕖𝗲𝘄𝚎𝗯𝕟𝐨𝕧𝐞𝚕.𝕔𝕠𝐦

Quinn took off a gauntlet and held his nose, it throbbed a little in pain. He was slightly glad that his nose took the brunt of the damage instead of his glasses.

"Think you could go a little easy on me?" he muttered, sounding slightly nasally.

He got up from the floor, and looked at Erin, who seemed to be a little transfixed at something on his face. Quinn was about to say something, until he saw the message appear on his screen.

[You have received an optional quest]

[Drink the blood of your victim to absorb a stat point]

Quinn then looked down at his hand to see a few droplets of blood as his nose was bleeding.

"What the..." he said before having his uniform collar grabbed and lifted.

Right in front of everyone, Erin was lifting Quinn in the air, almost single-handedly, but only in Quinn’s point of view could he see that Erin’s normally icy blue eyes were now glowing blood red.