Hikari: Rise Of The Weapons Master

Zack spent the rest of the night observing and seeing how various people reacted to the new changes. Most had decided to barricade their houses and hide while others had taken hiding to the extreme.

Around seven in the morning, Zack decided that it was a good time for him to return. Once Hayden appeared at Eva's house, Zack would take them to the new dungeon he had in his mind.

Though the place would be hard, it was still one of the best ways to test their strength.

'But before that, I have to go ahead and make sure that Jack and Marcus use the new system to the maximum.'

Zack then landed on the roof of Doogle mansions a few minutes later. He dashed down to the bottom of the room and entered his gaming pods.

After that, he made his way to the alchemy rooms both of them discussing something while a destroyed alchemy cauldron lay in front of them.

"Oh, hello Zack. You can go now." Marcus said unconsciously as Zack raised his eyebrows.

"You both do know that I can kick you out of this place any time I want?"

Suddenly, both Marcus and Jack snapped to attention as they gave Zack a salute. The latter chuckled before he reached the cauldron and suddenly placed his hand below it.

The cauldron caught fire as Zack raised and decreased the temperature of the fire himself.

[ A new skill has been created! ]

[ Perfect flame control (Alchemy): This allows the alchemist to have perfect control over their flames. ]

"Share a skill," Zack said out loud as the skill window opened up in front of the duo. They exchanged a glance before pinching each other's cheeks and finding out that they weren't dreaming.

Zack then threw his flames in the cauldron and used the fire to mix whatever remained inside for a few seconds.

[ A new skill has been created. ]

[ Adequate mixing (Alchemy): This allows the alchemist to know how much he needs to burn an ingredient and for how long. ]

After sharing that, Zack went ahead and smelled the things above the cauldron for a few seconds before throwing another set of his blue flames inside.

[ A new skill has been created. ]

[ Sense of smell (alchemy): This allows the alchemist to tell what can be created by just smelling the ingredients. Also, works of material already put inside the cauldron and being burned. ]

"Now I will leave. When you can create a pill that can restore the health of anyone above level 40, tell me." Zack spoke before walking out.

Jack and Marcus both looked as though they had just been handed diamond in pure daylight. They stared at the information on the three skills before starting to work.

In the beginning, Zack had only chosen the two of them for what they had done for him in his previous life and due to their future alchemy talents.

If they just kept using the normal alchemy recipes they had, they would have stayed as an average alchemist.

But due to what Zack had given them, they would easily rise to the top since they had the determination and the will to do that. Zack had made a gamble for the future and it had paid off.

'No one would be able to get that level of skill anywhere, at least not all of them. Now, I go and see Hayden.'

The black-haired boy smiled as he logged out and woke up in the gaming pods. Now, two more pods of the same rank had appeared inside the place giving it a total of four pods.

The two new pods had been brought for Lisa and Hayden while Kevin was continuing to play in his room. He had made it pretty clear that he would only protect his older cousin and nothing else.

He wouldn't help Zack but wouldn't get in his way either making it safe for him to do whatever he wanted.

Zack then climbed back up and entered the special meeting room. Ten minutes later, Emma and Lisa entered the room and both had smiles on their faces.

Talking with each other had been an easy job considering they already had a somewhat neutral relationship inside the game.

Hayden too appeared ten minutes later as a smile appeared on Zack's face. Two more and he would have all of his team there.

[ I am not coming there so you do you. ]

'She should give me a heads up before doing that.' Zack thought with a sigh as he had been expecting Eva to give a speech and all.

Yet sticking true to her character, Eva had ditched them for work and had left without telling.

"Today we will be raiding a dungeon and I will be judging you of your teamwork. Whoever does exceptional will get a custom-made skill for themselves and yes Emma, you are included in that too."

Zack explained as the entire team nodded. The four of them then entered the underground room and sat in the gaming pods.

While Hayden appeared in the underworld, Zack, Lisa and Emma appeared inside the guild. The trio moved outside and waited in the garbage dump to see Hayden appearing there a few minutes later.

"So where are we going to go?" He asked as the quartet moved out of the garbage corner. Despite pure daylight, no one was there.

Zack suddenly raised his hands to his mouth and did a taxi-cab whistle. A moment later, Daedalus and Icarus dived down from the sky while looking at Zack and Emma.

He could have just called them through their connection but decided that it was better to show off a little.

"Hop on." Zack climbed on top of Daedalus while Emma did the same with Icarus. Hayden climbed behind Zack while Lisa climbed behind Emma.

After being seated, the two eagles took off while making their way to the place directed by Zack.

'Let's see how we will handle the dinosaur dungeon. Shouldn't be that hard.' Zack thought as he made the two eagles go towards the western side.

Unknown to him, Gugnir was glowing inside his inventory…