Skeleton Knight was first to react upon seeing Sky front of him and take a step forward. Stupefied Sky stood there while Skeleton Knight came closer. Skeleton lift his sword high and slash towards him from the rear side towards his chest, in mean while Sky came back to his senses and took a step backward avoiding a fatal injury.

  A few bones flew towards the wall from the Sky; of course they were bones of Skeleton armor he was wearing. All of his body was covered and protected by stone solid skeleton soldier‘s bones, which he found and wore while fighting skeletons.

  “I am lucky that those bones were not mine, but I wonder if this armor can be repaired after”, Sky spoke to himself. He took his chudan stance and made the first clear hit to Skeleton Knights head.

  After a closer look, he finds out that Skeleton Knight’s hp dropped down to %94, he quickly calculates that its hp should be around 350.

  “Pretty tough one, gona be hard”

  Skeleton Knight’s eyes shine like a burning star and talks in a mocking tone

  “Hahahaha, you are going to die, Human” and swings its sword towards Sky again but this time aiming towards his shoulders.

  “Clang” clash of metal can be heard all throughout the passage, echoing all around. It was because Sky, stops Skeleton Knight’s short sword in mid-way.

  After clash of swords, swords lock each other for a few second before Sky takes a step backward to make his second move with the happiness on his face because of the sudden system notification about new proficiency. Sky takes a step forward aiming towards Skeleton Knight’s head again.

  “Clang”, Skeleton Knight blocks his attack with his round shield.

  “I won’t receive same trick twice, human” and swings its short sword against Sky again.

  Since because Sky is too close to Skeleton Knight holding sword with both of his hands, he can’t recover from this position to quickly dodge of parry the attack. Only move he can think of himself is to block incoming sword with his left arm covered with bone gloves.

  And he quickly checks his hp 88/130.

  “I won’t be able to hold it long, I need to do something”, he says to himself and thrusts the sword forward piercing Skeleton Knight’s right shoulder.

  After hearing a few bone breaking cracks, he takes a step backward to retake his stance again. Skeleton Knight brings his shield and sword closer to each other taking a defensive stance. Seeing Skeleton Knight not attacking, Sky thinks this is his chance to attack again he attacks his shoulder again but only hear a clashing sound of Sword and shield meeting each other.

  “I need to do something”, Sky tells to himself. He starts to thinks about different figures that carved on the wall in dojo. One holding sword high, one holding sword down, “I can use a different stance”, he tells to himself but which one.

  With lots of questions and thoughts in his mind, Sky takes a step backward and gives a few meters distance between him and Skeleton Knight. He drops his shoulders down and his body centered on his right foot, slowly moves sword to his rear hiding it behind. Than he focuses all of his strength in his arms and shouts.

  “Come on, pile of bone”

  Skeleton Knight rushes against Sky. Sky’s hands begin to emit shallow golden light while Skeleton Knight is coming forward. Skeleton swings his short sword towards Sky aiming his shoulder which is covered by Skeleton Soldier’s big bone armor.

  Suddenly Sky slashes his sword towards Skeleton sword. Sword passes through Skeleton’s shoulder and its arm holding shield drops on the floor after a cracking sound from disjoints.

  At the same time Skeleton Knight’s short sword meets Sky’s shoulder as well, passing through his bone cuts through his flesh.

  He feels the sudden pain from his shoulder and checks his hp 64/130 and says to himself

  “I am still in better condition than bony, it lost an arm”

  He takes chudan stance again and strikes towards Skeleton Knights head.

  With quick successions Sky avoids Skeleton Knights sword by taking a few quick small steps backward and striking taking steps forward to its head. Losing ability to defend itself from fierce attack of Sky, Skeleton Knights HP drops quickly and becomes a pile of bones after a few minutes.

  After resting and recovering a few breaths long from the thrill of fight, Sky checks the bones for possible item drops.

  Sky’s eyes full opened looks the item with a weird grin on his face and talk to himself.

  “Rare Item, But increased enmity from guards. They are already behaving badly to me; I can’t afford to wear this”

  He checks for more items but only finds a few more bone armor which is similar to one he wear. Checking only durability, he swaps with higher durability ones with the one he wears and leaves the passage before skeleton’s respawn.

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  A girlish grin on his face, he jumps around while leaving cemetery and walks towards back to city to give quest and redeem rewards.

  “Hello Sir Lin, I am back”, sky talks to Guard Lin which is standing next to guard post at southeast gate.

  “Good, I was not expecting you to come back this quickly”

  “Is there anything I can help you with Sir”, Sky asks respectfully.

  “Yes there is one, but I don’t know if you can complete. You might be going to your own grave, kid”

  “Please tell Sir Lin, I will do anything within my power to complete the task”

  “At the end of the passage below cemetery, there is a bloody murderer Skeleton Knight. Can you eliminate it and return its cloak”

  Sky grins towards guard and accept the quest ignoring the system quest information

  “I already killed Skeleton Knight, Sir” Sky says and takes the blue cloak which is covered by blood from his inventory and gives to the guard.

  Guard Lin which was not expecting to see the cloak to come from Sky’s bag gets shocked and replies in more welcoming tone

  “Good, Kid, Good. You are good. Take this, this is my spare sword” and gives a sword to Sky which was standing next to Guard post leaning towards wall.

  “Thanks Sir”, Sky saluted to Guard Lin and leaves there quickly.

  “I couldn’t check my skills and stats for a while. Show status”

  “Level 5? I guess I missed one of the system notifications. Ohh and I got a skill in previous fight.”

  “Novice swordman? Aint I was beginner swordman”, Sky asks to himself and checks the book of combat arts again.

  "And i got an other proficiency parrying"

  "Good! at last a defensive skill. But even though I level up, my strength or HP doesn’t increase. I wonder what’s the mystery behind it", sky murmurs to himself.