"You brought a human, I hate humans. I'll kill him" the Nix said now with malice in its voice.

Its eyes and lips turned from white to bloody-red. Shiny silver daggers appeared from its pitch-black left hand

"Human, or kid like master Nagrom calls you. It's time to die" The creature soon broke into malicious laughter, I looked at Nagrom to see him calmly looking at me with a blunt face, arms crossed. 

Every step the Nix took towards me made me clench my chest harder. My breathing became heavier it was like an invisible force was pushing me down, so this is the pressure they show off in comics and novels. 

This is probably some joke of some sort, I never offended them so it's either that or they just wanna massacre humans and that means me, I'm the only human here.

 I'll just have to act like I'm not terrified. I straightened my back and stood tall still gritting my teeth and clenching my chest. The Nix was now arm's length away from me.

 It looked up at me with a fierce gaze while smiling with its currently blood-colored lips, and that's when it did something I didn't expect, The dagger disappeared from Nixie's hand, and it stretched out its right hand for me to take and then he said "Nice to meet you, I am Norox, I'm a Nix" 

the pressure stopped  as well so I stopped gritting my teeth and released my hand from my chest and took his hand and answered "N-nice to me you too"  I looked in Nagrom's direction and asked 

 "may I ask what this all was for" then he answered  "It was a test to see if you are a real hero or not? You have passed the first test, If you don't pass the second test you shall not pass to enter my workshop.  and of course no pass no weapon. and those are the only rules. Therefore you have no restrictions"

those are the only rules, that means I can try as many times as I want. "If I don't have any restriction, that means I can try as many times I want over, right? and how do you know I'm the hero?" the dwarf now looked at me and smiled.

Unanswered questions ran through my head and wanted to go out my mouth but I saved them for later,

then the dwarf said "The test will begin now, Norox will attack you without weapons. He will hold back to the point that his attack with the strength of an average human person but he will move with the speed of a well-trained human. No " he then clapped his hands two times.

 I was is in a  transparent white space. Everything was completely white, I still had a foothold and my opponent Norox was in front of me. His big eyes and lips with the same bloody-red color as our first encounter, even the thought of it gave me chills down my spine

now sprinting towards me at full speed, he threw a punch to my solar plexus and sent me flying. I landed hard and coughed up blood on the transparent floor. The pain was so intense I couldn't even scream in agony "This can't be the strength of an average human" I thought through gritted teeth. 

Norox wasn't longer rushing towards me as he first did, he was walking to me step by step, slowly but surely. While I just stood there helpless with some wood to defend myself from a beast, Norox was only a few meter's away from me I expected him to one-step towards me, but instead of that, he pointed his palm towards me and the Nixie's thin arm stretched out and was on its way to me.

 I tried to hit the extending arm with the wooden stick I had in my hands, but without any luck, the Norox's long arm broke my wooden stick on its way to my face. I felt his pitch-black palm cover my face. The arm didn't only increase in length but also size, His arm was as thick as a tree trunk.

Norox released his palm, but instead of doing the same thing over again with a greater force, he punched with his gigantic fist and it ended up getting my head crushed and blown away.

The last thing I saw before blacking out was the blood from my nose and mouth, and my last thought was 

"How many times am I gonna die in a so pitiful way. getting my headshot or head crushed by a punch"

 I immediately found myself standing where I was before the geezer Nagrom sent me and Norox 

to the transparent white room.

"Welcome back Kid, you got clapped," Nagrom said with his arms behind his back like a master who is disappointed in his student. I wasn't even his "friend" I barely know him so how can I be his student,

 "Don't tell me things I know, you senile old bastard. And don't think you are my master" as soon I said that, I felt a blow at my cheek 

"Respect your elders, calling me geezer, old and is one thing but calling me senile is going far over the damn line you impudent little shit!" Nagrom roared I wanted to talk back but he cut me off 

"you should be happy that I'm letting you use the Lillith, teenagers these days think they are so high and mighty"

he has a point I, but who the hell names a transparent white room 'Lilith' thought. 

I could feel my hair being blown away by his noise, the same thing that happened before he took me with him down to this underground room.

Norox only stood there in front of me, like he did before the two of us were sent into 'Lilith,' 

"you have failed the test, you will now train your physical attributes, Begin" 

and again I was back in the white transparent room where I got one shot to death

this time it wasn't a wooden stick I got as a weapon it was a simple long sword

-QUEST:

[Swing the sword: Up-down 10 times]

and so I did it was heavy to just hold the sword, but I got used to it. When I had finished swinging the long sword 10 times

-Reward:

-[ "You have received  additional Strenght: 5" ]

-[ "Strenght: has increased from 8 to 13" ]

-["You have leveled up"] (1)

  -["You have leveled up"] (2)

    -["You have leveled up] (3)

-[New skill unlocked: Scaredycat] 

This must be one of those skills that sound lame but are good, there's always something like this in novels and comics I thought 

-[New category unlocked: Points]

-[Continue] or -[Close]

-STATS:

-lvl:5 

-Skills: Seeker of Wisdom (C-rank), Scaredycat (B-rank) 

-Strength: 13 

-Points: None 

(Author: Appraisal skill will not be shown in skill category in future chapters. It's more of a system ability)

And I was right the fact that the skill Scaredycat was a B-rank skill meant it had to be something okay, at least

I clicked the skill Scaredycat to see its info and...

-Skill Info: Scaredycat

-You will instantly be transported 50m from any danger at will.

Scaredycat buffs agility by 50.

I closed the System window, and I got more and more quests, after I got the Scaredycat skill, most of the training quest rewards were mostly strength and agility together and some were durability, and after doing 60 more quests my strength and level looked like this

-Stats:

-lvl: 49] (advanced  by 44 from 5)

-Strength: 74] (advanced  by 61 from 13)

-Agility: 79]  (advanced  by 74 from 5)

-Durability: 57) (advanced  by 50 from 7)

My body was also different I was still the same height as I was before but I had gotten a kinda athletic physique in just some hours because of the system that it almost scared me. And not to mention that I was sweating like hell.

I made up this technique where I swing the sword fast in random directions for a long time while moving I call this technique: scatter slice. Maybe I can hold my own against Norox now that I've got this awesome power-up, but he probably has a higher level and surely more experience and more skills than me I thought " I've wasted enough time here, time to go back to Elaine. after one last match with Norox"