“Well that was nauseating”

Azrael said as he shook his head twice just to get rid of the dizzy feeling he had. The transport made him feel like his consciousness was left in a washing machine for hours.

Looking around he was surrounded by massive trees.

“Haah”

“That was really too sudden.”

The transport was not sudden by any means whatsoever it’s just that his preparations were really just abysmal.

Recalling his transport he remembered that the identity that the supreme God arranged for him was that of a traveller. No home no background just an average person you ran into when walking around. That’s not bad and all but did they really need him to be transported in the middle of the forest.

“Well that what it is no use in complaining” he said to himself as he look beside him. There lies the scythe he just bought.

“I’m not really into impulse buying but I really don’t know how to fight or anything so how do I use this dangerous looking stick” he picked up the scythe held it in his two hands then tried a couple of horizontal swings.

“It is not as bad as I thought”

He then started practicing with the scythe he just obtained. He used moved like slashes over and over again to accustom himself with his new weapon. He tried doing thrusts with the spear like tip. He imagined himself battling some sort of enemy like he was blocking a weapon dodging left and right here and there while slashing, after he got more comfortable he started trying some acrobatic moves with it like spinning the scythe in his front then to his back, throwing it into the air and catching it he was so engrossed in playing around with the scythe that he did not bother how long he was doing it or even the original reason of why he was doing or where he was after a long time of playing around he felt tired and decided to catch his breath.

“Haah..Haahh…Haaah”

“That was fun”

He never knew wielding a weapon was that exciting. Back when he was alive he was not really a what you call outdoor type of person. A day of fun for him was sitting in his room watching TV, reading a book or messing around with his computer at home. The more he kept thinking about it that weirder it feels how was he able to pull of those moves he just did considering his lack of athletic ability.

“hahahaha so that’s how it is the attributes does not only affect strength agility and vitality perse but also flexibility and body coordination”

He could have not been more incorrect in his assumption. The real reason he was able to do those moves is because of his high Intelligence. For him who thought that INT merely represents magic power he never really considered that it could affect his close combat abilities. Normally when a person has an abrupt increase in any of his parameters the body needs time to adjust for those sudden increase. For Azrael who was suddenly promoted to 5 times higher than his original it should be much harder for him to adjust but the truth is INT represent something much more basic than that of magic power it is intuition. Intuition the immediate grasp of truth or you can call it a type of sixth sense whether it is the detection of danger or the most effective methods to dispatch an enemy or differentiating between truths or lies without any prior knowledge or experience what Azrael just pulled of is what we may consider “Intuitive Learning”. To pull of an effective slash from a scythe need weeks of training for a normal person but he was able to pull it off naturally to be able to do such an action needs thorough knowledge and understanding of a scythes characteristic because of its unusual blade, to be able to dodge and move effectively in using the scythe without letting the length of the weapon hinder your movements for a beginner is an improbability and the more advance moves he pulled of like spinning the scythe to and fro as well as throwing it in the air while catching it needs a lot more than just flexibility and body coordination but understanding the weight balance of the scythe, having a protruding blade edge for the scythe means its weight is imbalance as the center of gravity will more likely shift towards the protruded edge rather than the middle and doing such actions without proper training will undoubtedly resulted to a loss of a limb or even death.

“Although I can at the very least make use of my weapon I just don’t know where the hell I am.”

“Well no other way around it I guess I just have to keep walking”

After walking for a while he suddenly felt hungry.

“Ah I’m starving even if I do get out of this forest and reach a town I wouldn’t be able to eat. Damn they could’ve given me a little bit of pocket money ”

“Well at least they dressed me in a fantasy like clothes it would’ve been awkward if I suddenly walked into town wearing my hoodie and jeans”

What Azreal was wearing now was a typical Villager A clothing with a travelling cape draped al over him. What was truly weird was the seemingly normal looking person was holding a 2 meter scythe.

“Really this thing is a huga pain to just be carrying it it doesn’t even have a scabbard or anything I shoul’ve just gone with the sword”

“Yosh if I ever return I’m gonna find me an item pouch that can fit this thing.”

While he was strolling he felt something from a distance.

“Hmm this feels somewhat weird”

Curious to what this feeling is Azrael decided to look for the source of this uncomfortable feeling. As he got closer and closer to the source he saw a huge shadow looming over the horizon about 200 meters from him.

“What is that thing”. Azrael leaned forward to get a closer look of the shadow.

“Oh!! It’s a big bear.”

“Perfect. This is a chance to see how much my strength improved after I upgraded my status.”

A normal person would’ve tried to run away after seeing a big hulking bear but Azrael is not a normal person for someone who lived his life without any emotion over death even fear he did not think or to be more precise he just doesn’t care whether this encounter would kill him or not he viewed that knowing his own strength is more important.

“Okay let’s do it”

He ran towards the bear at full speed.

The sound of him approaching seems to have alerted the animal and tilted its head toward Azrael’s direction. Seeing him charging over to it the bear unleashed a roar that scared the birds in the area and proceeded to lunch himself toward Azrael. The view of a man and a beast running towards each other like longing separated lovers was a sight to behold but before they could crash into each other the bear suddenly attacked with a swipe from his left paw. Rather than retreating Azrael instead advances forward and at the last minute ducked, after the attack passed he positioned himself behind the beast making the scene look that they were standing back-to-back with each other but rather than turn around and attack the back he himself ran forward and after two 3 steps he stopped and turn around and there laid the corpse of the bear with a decapitated head. As he was standing there dazed he recalled what he just did at the instant where he and the bear were standing back-to-back he just adjusted the angle of the scythes blade that was trailing behind him like a plough and with the momentum of his ran he dragged the bladed edge and decapitated the neck of the bear. Those who could clearly see what happened in the battle know that his method of killing the beast can be encapsulated in one word “efficient”.

Azrael replayed the events of the battle again and again in his head the more he does the more confused he gets. During the whole battle he felt that he was in total control he was able to analyse the speed of the bear, the distance between them, the moment of collision, the trajectory of the attack of the beast, the proper timing to duck, the appropriate way to dodge, the precise position where he should be in, the degree of angle of the scythes attack and the beast’s vital point all of which resulting in a clean kill. He did it without knowledge or experience he just felt that it was the most appropriate thing to do at that time the most appropriate method to achieve his objective with the least amount of effort.

While he was analysing the battle in his head in a stunned state a voice breaks out from a distance that halted his musings and made him stand on guard.

“That was a beautiful kill”

A Red haired youth was walking towards him holding a bow carrying a quiver of arrows wearing what seems to be leather armor and a green shirt.

Azrael kept looking at the youth who just arrived. In his mind countless thoughts were racing but the most prominent one is “Why is he here?”. He doesn’t need this man to introduce himself to him because this man is the subject of protection for his second task the Count of Alsace and the protagonist of the world

Tigrevurmud Vorn