NABC Chapter 20 The First Portal
Chapter 20 The First Portal
They were special robes only for higher ranked disciples, and I was the highest rank as a direct disciple of the lead Elder. Victoria was there to wish me luck. We kissed and hugged and I told her to stay cool with finger guns, like a dork.
My master, Elder Ravenkin didn't give me any information about what I'd find on the other side of the portal. He said it was best if I learned to think on the fly and adapt to new situations.
When I walked through the portal I ended up somewhere else. Obviously. It looked like Japan, but hundreds of years ago. I got a system notification as soon as I entered.
[Daimyo Nobuhiro has taken your family hostage! You must make your way to the stronghold to rescue them!]
[Main Objectives: Rescue your family and kill Daimyo Nobuhiro]
Weird. The environment on the other side of the portal was very much like a game.
'System. What's going on?'
[I'm not sure. I was forced to translate those dimensional messages by the rules of the portal itself]
Hmm. Since it was so much like a game, my first thought was that these portals were not accidental. They were designed by someone or something to train the 'players' to get stronger.
I deduced this from the fact that I knew the difficulty of the portals were linearly progressive. Meaning, they went from easy to hard, rather than all being a similar difficulty, which is most likely what they would be if they were random.
I looked over at the archer just in time to see an arrow coming right at my face. I narrowly dodged it. I ran up to the three archers while diving and dodging arrows. I slashed two of their throats with my forearm blades.
Then I slapped the bow out of the hands of the third archer and grabbed him by the head. I slammed his face into the dirt and stomped on the back of his neck.
[Lv. 5 Prince]
After that, I tore through dozens of samurai, archers, and even samurai archers. I stabbed, slashed, punched, kicked, and even bit my way through them. With the addition of biting, I was able to finally use my venomous bite ability to kill some enemies.
The notifications came in like crazy. I progressed through Vampire King to Emperor, to Sovereign, to Overlord, to Dominator, to Tyrant, to Supreme, and then finally to Transcendent.
Then I got to a bridge and another notification came in, but this one was from the portal.
[Secondary Objective: Defeat Karo Masanari on the bridge]
There was a samurai standing on the bridge but this one wore a demonic mask over his face. His breath turned to steam in the cool air and blew off the bridge.
It was a rope bridge so I had to be extra careful to grab onto it if it was cut. I stepped onto the bridge and approached my opponent warily. He had his sword drawn but he was holding it down, so I couldn't tell if he was in a strike position or not.
I put my hands up to guard my face and torso. As soon as I stepped within range, he swiped at my midsection just below my elbows' ability to block. I instinctively lift my leg to try to block it with my shin bone. And I did. It's just that when I did that he chopped off the bottom half of my leg.
My lower leg fell to the floor of the bridge. He tried to take out my other leg but I dropped down and blocked the blow with a forearm. I either needed to protect my legs with Vi or learn to fight with a sword so I could parry and block attacks better.