The Rise Of A Tribal Deadbeat - Chapter 63

Just being around the giant was nerve-wracking. But Zok soon realised the advantage inside the cave. The giant was a huge creature. Someone who would make even the bravest of fighters scream like infants.

However, its size was the thing that would work against him inside the cave. The gave was barely big enough to let the giant stand without hunching over. Which meant the giant’s movements would get restricted if they fight inside the cave. Hence, its attacks would get affected as well.

On the other hand, Zok would not have such a problem. Thus he will be easily able to dodge the giant’s attacks. It didn’t matter to him if he could hurt the giant enough it not. As long as Zok was able to dodge enough attacks he would eventually be able to beat the Giant’s ass.

But there was a slight problem with this plan of his. Cero was taking too much room inside the cave and Zok could not afford to bump into Cero while he was dodging the attacks from the giant. But more than that, he was worried about Cero’s safety.

Zok might have an arsenal filled with skills and abilities. But he wasn’t sure he could protect Cero from harm. Thus, he decided before he did anything, he needed to get Cero out of the cave. Thankfully, he already had a plan for it. It was a bit dangerous, but they should be able to make it.

“Cero, get behind me. I’ll clear a path for us. Rush towards the exit when I say so.”

Cero snorted lowly. He sounded nothing like the proud creature he always was. But it didn’t matter. Zok had made up his mind to defeat the giant and get out of the cold lands. He could do it as long as he was fighting only one of them, it was doable.

‘Yes… It’s not a threat if there’s only one of them. Thankfully I know there can’t be any more of them because the index told so.’ Zok took a deep breath, ‘I just have to make sure not to get hit…’

Getting hit was the biggest one of his worries at the time because he knew, it was over if he got hit once. The [Dodger] class abilities would not activate against the same creature again, and he would inevitably die at the hands of the giant.

‘Think positive damn it!!!’ Zok cursed himself before smacking his head, ‘Time to use those points then.’

In the meantime, the giant stood in front of them as if he was waiting for them to make the first move. It was the characteristic behaviour of a predator. The giant wanted his prey to wiggle in fear as he destroyed every semblance of power and hope the prey had.

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You have learned the skill <Berserker’s Charge lvl 5> by spending 20 control points.

Unallocated Stat points: 20 —> 15

Control points: 22.75 —> 2.75

Your level is low to control the skill as it is. The level of this skill has been adjusted accordingly to your level.

[Berserker’s Charge lvl 4]: This skill allows the user to charge for 5 meters in a certain direction. Enemies hit during the charge suffer physical damage up to 100 (+70% of users strength) and get stunned for 1.0 seconds. Once this ability is activated, the user can not change direction until the charge is completed.

Cool-down period: 10 minutes

Higher level perks will unlock as the skill and the user level up.

The skill will level up once it had been used a certain number of times.

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‘Next up agility… Let’s go.’

Zok was going all-out. He didn’t want to leave even the slightest chance to get screwed over by anything and the best way to ensure that was to increase his agility to as much as he could. As being more agile would directly affect his ability to dodge the attacks.

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You have used Unallocated Stat points to increase your agility.

Agility: 100 —> 115

Unallocated Stat points: 15 —> 00

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With everything done, Zok was ready to act on his plan and he wasted no time in doing so.

“Cero, charge now!!!”

Zok activated his newly learned ability and shot towards the giant at full speed. As soon as he activated the ability, it felt like his legs were going to fall apart at any second. But he tolerated the pain… he had to do it. If he screwed up then it would all be over.

The giant saw the little human rushing towards him and reeled a punch in. However, before he could throw the punch at Zok, Zok had already slammed his head on the giant’s left knee. As expected, the charge only did a little bit of damage to the giant.

However, Zok’s aim was not to injure the giant, but to trigger the second effect of the [Berserker’s Rage].

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You have successfully hit the <Mystic Cryo Giant> using [Berserker’s Charge].

The target has been stunned for 1.0 seconds.

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Zok’s head smash wasn’t part of the plan, but since it was his first time using the skill, he did not know how to control his body so he did what he could. On top of that, since the Giant had not attacked him yet, the Elude class had not activated, meaning Zok was free to hit the Giant.

Cero was charging right behind him, thus he did not linger around and immediately jumped out of the creature’s way. The Giant was stunned to do anything and as a result, Cero was safely able to make his way out of the cave.

Zok, on the other hand, stayed behind and took out his spear. He was ready to fight the giant now. However, the giant did not look like he was happy with the stunt Zok just pulled off. In his frustration, the giant slammed his curled up fist on the ground. The shockwaves generate from the punch were enough for the [Elude] ability to trigger.

‘Forget about losing [Elude]… if one of those punches hit me, I’ll be a goner.’