Lady Alice courtyard, Red Academy City

"Lady Alice has instructed me to give this sword to you"

She handled me a sword hilt, about 18 cm in length, I pressed the button on the side, green laser of approx. 90 cm popped out of it. I cheered for the new candy, but when I thought my life being in the decision of other I felt sad, but when I thought of the benefits my mood lightened up.

"You have to live in the portable dungeon for 40 days; otherwise you will be kicked out of the Lady's house"

Ah here comes the punishment of slavery

"Yes"

Without any more discussion she injected mana into the fist sized dungeon core, after she broke a sweat the core lightened up and a circular blue orbital portal opens up.

"Go in"

"yes"

Going from a portal felt like jumping into water

Inside the dungeon, Alice Courtyard, Red Academy City-

In my village there were many stories of adventures and mercenaries getting rich instantly from successful raiding of dungeon,

'Mirage, what is this'

'A personal dungeon; Lady Alice have made this dungeon, use it well'

'Could a dungeon be made by us?'

'A person of her caliber could'

'I see'

The main entrance felt like a block room, I could see a screen, a bed, a toilet and a door.

[Welcome to the dungeon, without further ado, you can access the screen for your human necessity, with enough contribution point you could access specialties for improving your stats]

A bread- 1 contribution point

1 liter water-1 contribution point

Mild healing- 5 contribution point

Full healing- 20 contribution point

"How can I have my contribution point?"

There is no answer

'Guess I have to find it myself'

'Creak'

[Level 1]

I could see a number of trees, every tree has a number on the them, I am curious of what could the number be.

I have some hunting experience but for the first time I am using a long sword, it is lightweight maybe about 250 grams

The shadowy branches are giving me creeps, but curiosity gradually overcomes me, I approached the first tree cautiously, I readied myself for any possible attacks, but out of my expectation the tree used only one branch to attack me from120 degree angle, I moved my body away from it, and when it hit the ground I struck it with my sword. The second attack came simultaneously from the same direction I moved and repeated the same process, Every time I attacked, the number on the trees head kept on decreasing from 50, and when I reached the number the tree vanished from its place dropping a white coin.

I could see a hologram of [1 contribution point] on the left side of my face

I could understand why Lady Alice sends me here; it is good for my sword training.

I approached the second one the branch launched its attack from 120 degree from the left position, but this time it felt more heavy, I dodged its attack in a way I could also attack simultaneously and it worked!, The number on the tree is 100, I have to practice the same move a 100 times.

I approached the third tree, this time the attack came from the angle of 90 degree, swift and light, I dodged the attack from the right and attacked it simultaneously. The number kept on increasing in the multiple of 50, this time it is 150.

'I see'

I understood one thing a tree attack in one angle for first time in light and swift manner, the next tree attack in the same angle in dense and heavy manner.

The branches attacked from an angle of 90 degree, 200 times in swift manner, the next tree attacked from the same angle 250 times in dense and heavy manner. I am already sustaining some light injuries mainly in my arms.

'You should take a rest'

'No, I think I could move forward'

'Overexcitement will lead you to harm'

'Let's see that'

I barely succeeded in cutting down a branch for 500 times, this time the branch tilted with maximum force in a curved manner, in a form of scythe it aimed for my waist, i got no time to dodge, and my only choice was to cut it down, here comes the problem, I had to strike it with full force to cut down a branch, and dealing with heavy one made too much pressure on my body. I go no choice but to take the full brunt of the force and move backward, my waist bent in u shape.

I coughed up a bottle of blood, my vision spinning for a minute, I laid down there for a while, I felt soreness of my muscles, I didn't felt it when I was attacking the branch, What mirage said is right, I have to take a break.

I moved my body to the door which is about 100 steps away, and opened the door.

[Level 0]

I touched the screen, and the message window popped up,

I looked over my left side [contribution point-10]

I bought a mild healing pill, two bread and a bottle of water.

[Contribution point-2]

'You should clean yourself first'

'Nah I am too hungry for that'

the bread is white and soft and water is sweet, I took a minute to savor the flavor and munched and gulped in a minute, at last I looked over the yellow round pint sized odorless pill. I gulped it too, a little sweet taste. My pain subsided a lot, and I could breathe more comfortably. I lay on the bed and looked on my status window.

'Activate status'

[Hp: 5, STR: 5, Agi: 3, MP: 10]

There is no change in status, I don't think working on this dungeon will help me in any regard other than practicing my technique or am I am coming to a conclusion very early?

If there was a method in which I could raise my stats along with my techniques it is the best possible outcome. It is really unexpected that I have to train in a personal dungeon, lying on this bed feels like a distraction for me, I just want to go out and train again and again.

'What have you learned?'

'I guess, swinging of swords in different direction'

'Is that the only thing you have learned?'

'Yea'

'Don't you think it is not enough?'

'You think I would have an understanding'

'Yes'

'I am too lazy to use my logical brain'

'It would cause problems later on'

'Don't you think?

'It's only day one'

'I know'

'Rather than wasting time i would swing my sword, in this way my muscle memory would remember it'

'It might not take you very far away'

'Maybe'

'But I want to know how far I could go with hard work alone'

'I see'

'I assume everything depends upon an algorithm'

'If I search for better algorithm along the way i guess I could be better than most'

'We will see that'

'Yes'