I Wanted To Be A Good Person Once - Chapter 38

Chapter 38 Initial Experience of the Awakened Ability

Originally, Fang Ze thought that as a grown man, he could at least exchange a few blows with the disaster creature in front of him, right?

However, when they really started fighting, he realized that he had overestimated himself.

Fang Ze was knocked to the ground almost as soon as the shadow warrior moved. He didn’t even last two moves.

Perhaps because he had not fought or battled many people in his two lives, Fang Ze was almost completely unable to resist the attacks of the shadow warrior.

He could clearly see it with his eyes, but his limbs could not keep up at all.

Sometimes, he could clearly see the shadow warrior rushing forward. He reflexively wanted to reach out to block, but before he could raise his hand, he was punched heavily in the abdomen and fell to the ground in pain.

Moreover, during the battle, Fang Ze gradually understood why the Late-Night Investigation Room had evaluated the shadow warrior as the weakest of the disaster creatures.

This was because he realized that ever since he fused with the World Laws and obtained his Awakened ability, his body seemed to be slowly becoming stronger and stronger, and his resistance to attacks also became stronger.

That rate of growth was practically visible to the naked eye.

At first, when the shadow warrior punched him, it took him five or six minutes to get up.

However, toward the end, even though the shadow warrior’s fists had hurt him, his attacks were no longer unbearable.

Furthermore, this was the result after only half an hour.

He estimated that once he completely “absorbed” the physical enhancement of his Awakened ability, it might be very difficult for the ordinary attacks of the shadow warrior to pose much threat to him.

Furthermore, this was someone who had just Awakened.

If he were facing an Awakened who had Awakened for a few years, he believed that the shadow warrior would be even more powerless.

“Is this… protection from the World Laws?” Fang Ze could not understand the reason for this change.

After all, he knew too little about Awakened people and Awakened abilities.

He could only record the changes in his body first. He planned to find a chance to get a professional answer after he escaped from the task force.

Furthermore, after half an hour of “being” tempered, Fang Ze had a rough idea of the shadow warrior’s attack patterns.

To put it bluntly, perhaps due to his intelligence, the shadow warrior’s martial techniques were extremely simple and direct.

However, that didn’t mean that his attacks didn’t work.

On the battlefield, there were times when the simplest technique was the most efficient.

Besides, Fang Ze didn’t have the right to be picky now.

Thus, after half an hour of practice, he stopped and used his powers.

Recalling in his mind the entire process of being hit by the shadow warrior’s explosive hammer, and the various moves and routines of the shadow warrior, Fang Ze silently recited, “I want to borrow the effects of the next ten days of training.”

As Fang Ze chanted, a round, red-eyed rabbit suddenly appeared in the void in front of him.

The rabbit had wings. Its red eyes stared dully at Fang, and it repeated mechanically, “Borrowing ten days of training, activate!”

With its voice, it turned into a white light that enveloped Fang Ze.

Fang Ze felt as if he was constantly discovering changes in his body. His muscles began to tighten, and his body began to fill with more and more power.

Not only that, but he also began to have a lot more training experience in his mind.

They were all about how to exert strength, how to move, how to attack, and how to deal with the attacks of the shadow warrior.

A moment later, the effect of the ability ended.

Fang Ze felt like a different person.

He clenched his fists. They were clearly the same fists, but because he knew how to exert force, he felt like he could use more than twice as much force as before.

“Is this… a magical Awakened ability?”

For a moment, Fang Ze felt that his journey, and twists and turns along the way, had been worth it.

He looked up at the shadow warrior with a determined gaze, then clenched his fists. “Again!”

“Whoosh!”

“Pa!”

“Oh…” Fang Ze held his abdomen and was punched until he curled up again.

Clutching his stomach and gasping in shock, he held up his hand. “Wait, wait a minute. I’m not ready yet. Don’t rush.”

For the next ten minutes, Fang Ze readied himself for another sparring session with the shadow warrior.

This time, it was a real sparring session.

The first time, he might have been knocked down in one move because he wasn’t paying attention. However, later, after Fang Ze focused, he finally began to fight the shadow warrior back and forth.

At this moment, Fang Ze finally understood how powerful his Awakened ability was.

Borrowing the training results in advance was not only about physical fitness, martial arts proficiency, and the increase in hostility.

He also borrowed other aspects, such as the habits of exerting strength, dodging, muscle memory, and even combat instincts.

If Fang Ze had to describe it, it was as if the self that had trained for ten days had descended to the present.

The only thing that “displeased” Fang Ze was that ever since he’d borrowed the ability, a repayment list had appeared in front of him.

The content of the list included ten hours of high-intensity sparring sessions with shadow warriors, ten hours of running, and ten hours of squats.

Furthermore, at the end of the entire list, there was a countdown for 30 days.

This meant that Fang Ze only had 30 days to complete these three missions.

However, Fang Ze felt that it would be very easy to complete these goals in 30 days.

This made him wonder if he should borrow something else.

After all, he was escaping. The more prepared he was, the better.

Besides, since he had obtained his ability, he had to test it in many aspects.

Fang Ze rubbed his chin at the thought and looked at the shadow warrior.

Now, since Fang Ze only had one sheep, he could only shear this sheep.

Therefore, thinking of this, Fang Ze asked, “Do you have any killing moves or powerful moves? Can you teach me?”

The 2.5-meter-tall shadow warrior was silent for a moment at Fang Ze’s words. Then, it raised its hand high in the air, and a puff of black smoke rose from it before it coalesced into the huge rod from before.

Thenm it raised the huge rod, the muscles in both arms bulging, and swung the rod hard.

“F-! Boom!” At first, there was a loud sound of air being torn apart. Then, the iron rod slammed into the wall and quickly bounced back.

Fang Ze gaped at the scene before him.

Although the wall was unscathed, Fang Ze didn’t think that meant this move wouldn’t work.

After all, Lady Knife proved that just because she couldn’t cut through a wall didn’t mean that she couldn’t cut through people.

Moreover, just from the sound of the air being torn apart and the loud sound, one could tell how powerful this move was.

But… could he learn it?

Was this just a simple force technique?

It wasn’t a racial skill of the shadow warriors, right?

Fang Ze looked at the shadow warrior hesitantly and asked, “What’s this move called?”

The shadow warrior stumbled and struggled to make a sound. “Rod Throw.”

“Hiss…”

To be honest, at that moment, Fang Ze was overcome by the simple way the shadow warrior named the move.

Besides, throwing a rod was boring and harmless.

He pondered. After he learned this technique, he wouldn’t throw a stick.

Instead, he could throw broadswords, axes, and chainsaws!

He believed in the lethality of throwing each weapon accurately.

While pondering the future direction of this move, Fang Ze tried to use his ability again.

“I want to use ‘Credit World’ to borrow ‘Rod Throw’.”

As Fang Ze called out, the round rabbit with two wings appeared in front of him again.

It looked at Fang Ze with its fiery red eyes and shouted mechanically, “Borrowing martial technique ‘Rod Throw’, activate!”

With that, it exploded and turned into a white light that enveloped Fang Ze again.

As the light enveloped him, Fang Ze realized that the training process of Rod Throw and the technique gradually appeared in his mind.

How to exert force, how to adjust his muscles, how to use his finesse, how to throw the rod out, how to increase the destructive power…

All the details entered his mind as if he had practiced them himself.

While absorbing this experience, Fang Ze was surprised to discover that this technique was indeed just an ingenious technique.

However, the fact that it had so much power had to do with the unique physical structure of the shadow warriors.

Therefore, as a human, since his body structure was different, not only did his power decrease a lot when practicing this martial technique, but he would also be especially injured when practicing it. This also affected his efficiency in practicing this martial technique. As a result, he did not borrow that much experience.

After absorbing 30 days of experience, Fang Ze took a chair and tested the Rod Throw technique a few times. He roughly deduced that this martial technique could increase his strength by at least five times. Its lethality was astonishing.

When he used this martial technique, the muscles in his arms would bulge like the shadow warriors. After using it, his arms would be extremely sore and burning.

He had to rest for half an hour before he could recover.

It was really an exaggerated and magical martial technique.

Fang Ze suddenly found this world fascinating

There were all kinds of magical abilities and such a physical martial technique.

This was the world of men!

He felt that his future would definitely be very exciting

Just like that, after practicing for an unknown period of time, Fang Ze finally stopped. He was exhausted.

Then, he closed his eyes and looked at his “Credit List” in the upper left corner.

“Ten hours of high-intensity sparring with shadow warriors: 1.5 hours/10 hours”

“Ten hours of running: 0 hours/10 hours”

“Ten hours of squatting: 0 hours / 10 hours”

“Practice Rod Throw 60 Times: 2/60”

Other than running and squatting, which he had barely done, whether it was a high-intensity sparring session or practicing throwing a rod, Fang Ze completed everything

Thinking about it, there were still 29 days before the deadline.

“Never mind. I’ll continue repaying tomorrow.”

With that in mind, Fang Ze directed the shadow warrior to clean the Late-Night Investigation Room and restore all the items to their original state. Then, he sat down in a chair and prepared to sleep.

Just as his eyelids were about to close.

Suddenly, he woke up. “Huh… Did I miss something?”

“I haven’t looked at today’s gains.”