The moment Luna ate the breakfast prepared by Alex, she couldn't help but shout,
''Delicious.''
Alex smiled upon hearing her praise. The breakfast was finished in the blink of an eye.
''Too delicious I don't mind eating this every morning you know?'' Luna said while staring at Alex. She was dead serious.
Smiling Alex said, ''I don't mind cooking for you.''
''Good. So, what does my honey want to say?" Luna asked after getting a satisfactory answer from Alex.
Alex was surprised that she knew he had something to say.
''Well, I'm sorry I won't be able to accompany you today as I'm going to train until late in the night. I must prepare for tomorrow, Leon will not be an easy opponent, the third princess is even more dangerous,'' he explained.
Luna wasn't dissatisfied hearing Alex's words, on the contrary, she found it normal, so she said.
''Don't worry I understand. Train hard. I know you can win against those two.''
''Thank you, love. You can h-"
''No need to finish what you're saying. I will be training with the girls. We mustn't fall too much behind, especially now that someone is targeting you.'' Luna cut Alex off and said.
Alex couldn't help but embrace Luna for a moment after hearing such words. After cuddling for a while they separated from each other and he left the room to go see his sister.
After chatting with Gracier and informed her about his training Alex left with Silveria.
Choosing another room he lay down on the bed, while Silveria bent over and stared into his heterochromia eyes.
''Master once again congratulations on your engagement. I have the perfect gift for you. You will understand once you are on the other side. See ya over there.'' she then flicked her fingers not giving Alex the time to question her.
Alex immediately falls asleep, his consciousness was sent to the Illusionary Battlefield.
He appeared in the Inner Zone. In front of him were endless snow and an ice forest.
''I wonder what Silveria meant by saying the perfect gift,'' Alex murmured while scanning his surrounding.
''Well, to help you in your training, I changed the Conversion Ratio (Real World Hour/Illusionary Battlefield Hour).''
Silveria who appeared in the air explained.
Alex's eyes widened when he heard Silveria's words, it was exactly what he planning to ask her. Who would have thought that she would see through him and propose it first?
''How is the current conversion ratio?" Alex asked, his eyes were full of anticipation.
Crossing her arms Silveria announced, she was sure that Alex would appreciate her gift.
''The current Conversion Ratio (Real World Hour/Isolation Space Hour): 1:24.''
Boom!
Something exploded inside Alex's mind the moment he heard those words. His eyes became bloodshot, his breathing quickened. 1-hour outside= 1 day here, it was to say for example 5 hours outside= 5 days here. This was exactly what he needed at the moment.
''Sil, you are the best. Indeed, it is the perfect gift for me,'' he said.
Chuckling Silveria said something that makes Alex furrowed his brows.
''You can only stay here for 10h (outside hour). It's the best I can do.''
''Sigh! It's to say 10 days. Well, one can do a lot of things in ten days. My goal will be to conquer the Endless Forest during these ten days.'' Alex declared eyes full of determination.
''That's the spirit. If you were to conquer the Endless Forest, what you will gain I think will help you in the incoming fights. Your chance of becoming the champion will increase. So do your best. I'm going to cheer you up from the sky.'' Silveria said before creating popcorn and started eating it.
Alex's face twitched few times.
Sighing he decided to start his training right away.
''Oh by the way the restriction put on your status has been lifted. You can now freely check your status,'' Silveria added.
Alex who was walking deeper into the ice forest stopped and before calling out his status.
''Status.''
『[Alexander Kael Touch]
Class: Magic Gunslinger
Age: 17
Male
Race: High Human
「 Rank 7」
Level 65
Experience Value (XP): 200/18800
Magic Power: 5020/5020
Magic: None
Attack: 1100
Defense: 1000
Agility: 1130
Intelligence: 1000
Luck: 780
BP: 0
SP: 0
Gift: Two Guns * Semi-sealed*
Skills: [Advanced Appraisal Level 1] [Item box Level 2] [Swift Fingers Max] [Divine Sense Level 4] [Throwing knife Level 5] [Dark Vision Level 2] [Dual Wielding Level 2] [Accel Level 3] [Knife Art Level 4] [Link Level 3] [Gun Art Level Level 10] (New) [Normal Regeneration Level 5] [Mana Recovery Level 5] [Synthesize Level 2] (New)
Special Abilities: [Language Comprehension][Danger Sense] [Overdrive] [Death's Eye] [Envisage] {Erase} {Magic Bullet} {Snatch} [Hellsing] [Xerox]
Titles: [Otherworlder] [The one who can't use Magic] [The one whose fingers are faster than Flash] [Goblin Slayer] [The Reborn]』
Alex was surprised to see that he had acquired a new skill. Come to think when he was fighting against those assassins, he seemed to have heard a system notification.
Curious, he decided to check the skill's description.
[Synthesie: The ability to merge multiple bullets into one bullet. Not only this bullet is faster but it is also powerful as well.
Current level: 2, is to say two into one.
Cost: 50 MP]
'Wow! What an incredible skill. I will try to level to five before leaving.' Alex decided.
[Synthesize]
Alex immediately used his new skill.
Bang Bang!
Two bullets merged into one, the new bullet tore through the air at incredible speed before piercing through two ice trees.
Crack!
Like a fragile piece of glass, the two sturdy ice trees were broken into two.
Alex gulped seeing the scene in front of him. He wondered how powerful this skill will be at level 10.
'I can't wait to test it in a fight.' he murmured.
Before trying to merge three bullets, unfortunately, he failed every time he tried.
Not wanting to waste his precious MP he decided to postpone his experiment for now.
After he decided to postpone his experiment for another time done with, Alex continued to walk deeper into the ice forest. While walking he kept thinking about new ideas, is it possible to combine synthesize plus Phantom Bullet and one of his special bullet? If he were able to do it then how powerful this bullet gonna be?
Come to think that bullet he had used in the fight against Leonardo, the Chaos bullet was incomplete if he were to merge synthesize plus Phantom Bullet plus his special bullets. He thinks that bullet would be perfect and dreadful as well. Maybe it won't consume all his MP. Such a bullet would be his trump card.
Shaking his head, Alex decided to focus on the task ahead as he had the impression that the chaos bullet will be completed only after synthesize reach the max level. Something that would not happen soon.
Suddenly, Alex who was walking stopped on his feet because something was coming towards his position at fast speed.
Alex readied his gun and from the other side of the forest something came out. It was a gigantic purple (mixed with white) lizard of 6 meters long. This lizard had a pointy white scale all over its body, above the lizard head was [Bane Lizard Level 62 (Mini-boss)].
The moment the bane lizard appeared, he looked at Alex as if he was looking at an ant.
Alex gulped, to think he would encounter a Mini-boss so soon. What bad luck. The skin of this monster must be pretty tough, meaning a normal bullet would not do any damage to it.
Knowing that this was not going to be an easy fight, Alex decided to remove his eye patch, however, halfway through the motion he stopped and jumped back because the bane lizard who had stayed silent until now attacked.
Opening his mouth, the bane lizard roared.
''Roarr!———!"
A deafening roar like a raging billow echoed in the forest. Just the soundwaves alone were enough to shake the whole forest.
Tremendous cold winds rose from the ground and formed a strong wind tornado that sent Alex crashing back.
Crack!!!!
He broke several trees in the process, Alex couldn't help but vomit blood. His back hurts like hell, thankfully before starting today's training, he wore Loki, or else he would be dead. Never he would have thought this monster to be this formidable.
Suddenly, Alex felt a chill down his spine, he quickly switched his gun with his two knives (Razor and Reaper). Crossing the two knives in front of his chest, Alex was able to defend against the bane lizard tail's strike.
Bang!
Once again Alex was flung back, he rolled on the ground a couple of times before standing up again.
The bane lizard was already before him and wanted to strike Alex with its sharp claw, however, his claw stopped few centimeters away from Alex's face.
Alex was coldly glaring at the bane lizard with his heterochromia eyes. He made use of his right eye, it was why the bane lizard momentarily froze.
Knowing that it was a temporary solution, Alex put strength into his right leg before sending a powerful leg strike toward the chin of the bane lizard.
Bang!
The enormous body of the bane lizard was sent tumbling back.
Alex locked his gun toward the monster white belly and fired.
[Synthesize]
Bang!
The supersonic bullet arrived before the still thrashing bane lizard and pierced through his belly.
Boom!
An anguished wail filled with pain could be heard.
Alex's attack didn't end there after shooting synthesize, he made use of phantom bullet to finish the bane lizard. There was an enormous hole in the belly of the bane lizard.
After twitching for a few minutes, the body of the bane lizard became motionless before disappearing.
Alex held his knees to catch his breath.
It happened at that moment.
Whoosh! Bang!
Alex's head burst like watermelon and he was insta killed.