Rebirth: The New Game of Life

Chapter 362: Completing the Challenge

Almost five years later ...

Zi An spent the last few years throwing the axes from one side to the other and then going to pick it up because she did not know how to get the axes back to her.

After a year of playing and picking up axes, Zi An finally managed to control its trajectory and hit the ground after that day, it was much easier for Zi An to use the axes as she gained the passive ability to throw axes.

The following year, Zi An was already able to handle the ax with some precision, it took another year for it to reach targets that were standing at a distance. In the third year of training, Zi An began to train with two axes, despite having increased in only one the number, the difficulty was multiplied several times.

Because Zi An used her right hand to throw the ax, now she was using her left hand, even with the ability to throw axes, Zi An still had to make her left hand have the ability to hurl the axes. To master the left hand, it took another six months.

After three and a half years, Zi An was able to make perfect use of the two-handed axes, but one requirement was to throw the axes in any shape and direction to hit the targets.

Zi An still had to master the art of throwing the ax, for example, throwing the ax diagonally and during the trajectory, the ax being able to make curves, or at the moment of throwing both axes at once without them hindering the trajectory one from the other.

With only a month left to complete it five years, Zi An was able to master fifty percent of the things Draven could do with the ax. The other fifty percent needed to use their energy to find the axes to make them fly in various directions during the trajectory. And that was impossible for Zi An at the moment.

When Zi An finished her training and rest, it was only two weeks to finish the fifth year. That day she accepted the challenge.

The challenge was basically to hit ten targets, five stopped, and five on the move, the targets were just straw dolls. The stationary targets were side by side, but there were only three, the other two were behind the first two. The moving targets were running from side to side in a circle, there were those that were slower and faster.

To cut the heads of the targets stopped, Zi An had to throw the two axes at once, for it was necessary that within three seconds a head should be cut. If more than a three-second pass between the cuts, the challenge will be invalid, Zi An discovered this after a few attempts.

As Zi An already had some mastery in playing the two axes, it was not difficult to hit the five targets, it only needed dozens of attempts. However, setting the targets in motion was extremely difficult, the difficulty was extremely high.

The slower targets were easier to defeat because their speeds were like snails, but the last two targets were being extremely difficult to defeat, as one of them seemed to be walking quickly, and the other was racing through the circle.

After hundreds of attempts, Zi An became tired and rested, as she looked at the two dolls, she discovered that there was a pattern of movement. The two dolls always passed through the same places.

Upon realizing this, Zi An began to calculate the time and speed of the two dolls, she wanted to determine the best angle and place to hurl the axes. Only three days left to complete the five years, she used two to calculate the trajectory of the dolls.

After the second day passed, Zi An was motivated and focused, in the first attempt to play the two axes, the heads of the two dolls are cut off. She got it on her first try.

A few seconds after the success of Zi An, Draven's voice is heard.

"Congratulations on completing the challenge, you are apt to receive my inheritance." After the voice finished speaking, two balls of light appeared in the sky heading toward Zi An, a ball of light entered her body and several sounds of the system was heard, the other ball fell to the ground giving the shape of two common axes, it was only made of thin steel.

After the sounds stopped, Zi An looked at her status, she saw that her class had changed from None to League of Draven and statistics were increased, the skills of the throw axes were also received, but only a few, to unlock the other skills, Zi An needed to get stronger or master some previous skills.

Zi An was at level 40, but to use the axes it was necessary to be at level 45, for the time being, she had to use her swords or ask to forge two axes to use.

Seconds sometime after the challenge was over, the world began to break and a strong light appeared, Zi An closed her eyes because of the strong light. Opening her eyes again, she realized she was in the little cave again.

But there was something different, the cave was no longer dusty as before, now it was clean and the skeletons that were in the place had disappeared. And a little altar appeared and on top was the piece of paper that was inside the skeleton and the two axes that were on the floor after she completed the challenge.

The moment Zi An touched the paper, the other half stepped out of its space ring and merged with the other piece. When the two pieces merged, the map was completed.

Analyzing the map, Zi An did not know where it was but knew that it hid a great treasure of the Axe Gang. She tucked the map and the axes into her space ring, after which, Zi An broke the wall and started to make her way out of the cave. During the journey, Zi An killed dozens of ants easily with the skills she received, some could be used without the axes.

When she returned to the city, Zi An realized that it had been five years since she entered the cave and passed the challenge. This was no surprise to Zi An since it was commonplace for such a thing to happen.

Zi An was worried that she had not sent any messages to her family in the last five years. After searching for information in the Adventurers' Guild, Zi An discovered that her family was killed by members of the clan themselves.

She was shocked when she heard this news, and tears began to fall from her beautiful eyes. But when she discovered the reason behind it, Zi An felt as if her world was over, she felt an extreme desolation, but at the same time an endless hatred.