He looked at it for a while and spoke in an enraged voice, "What the fuck do you mean by a slave? It said to earn my freedom, not to become a slave to another... person or whatever that is!?"
"Why? Just why does it always have to be me who has to suffer first arriving in this hellhole and now this a slave to a god or something!"
He screamed, and after some time, he grew quiet. Then, he began pondering something and stood up from the corner where he had been huddling, speaking.
"I want to be free from...Everything, no pain, no stress, and I want to live life being free not a slave to someone or something... But I still want revenge on those who killed my brother so I have to become stronger!"
Ethen summoned the ruins that told him about his attribute.
[ Future Sight: An active attribute allows the user to see a certain distance into the future depending on the mastery current time ( 10 seconds ) ]
[ Denger Sense: A passive attribute that allows the user to sense incoming Denger ]
"That is kinda good actually, but now the question is how to use a sword, that is a problem I have to deal with, but for now, my eyes are about to give out, let's just sleep."
***
The next day, Ethen woke up and changed the flowers that were on the grave and cleaned the stone that had his brother's name engraved on it.
He had a grim face while cleaning the grave it seems he was still sad about his brother's passing.
After cleaning the grave, Ethen went inside Roy's, his brother's, house, cleaned it up, and took his sword.
"So...umm what now?"
"Training I have seen brother do that but...well something is better than nothing"
"Start with a thousand sword slashes"
"1"..."2".."3".."4"..."5"..."350"
"Huff...Huff...that was tiring how did he do a thousand slashes"
"Well that is enough rest let's get back to training"
Ethen did the thousand sword slashes for the whole day until his hands were going to give up.
Then he ate food and went to sleep.
***
"1198".."1199"..."1200"
It had been more than a month since Ethen began his training, and now he was easily able to swing a sword. He also used his attribute and found out there are no drawbacks to using it.
"Huff...huff so now that this is done I should leave this place for a while to go get some experience in real battles"
Ethen had been packing to leave for a while now, so he had already collected all the necessary supplies for a long journey. After today's training, he was planning to go, but before that.
"Hey there big bro it has been a month since you left me well..it is turning out great I got a good attribute not what I wanted though became a slave to some supernatural entity or a god or something like that...well guess it's bye for now don't worry I will come back..."
A single drop of tear fell from his eyes but he wiped it off and smiled.
Ethen then started moving west since the nearest town was there he wanted to reach the city to climb higher in the deep and find the people who killed his brother.
***
Ethen's journey was filled with troubles; he had to cross large rivers and make his way through countless forests, and now there was one big forest that he had never explored that he had to cross.
During his journey, he was always worried about a monster coming and attacking him, but there was nothing but silence, which would have been nice, but he just felt more paranoid.
After what felt like an eternity of walking Ethen finally reached the last step before reaching the town.
He looked at the forest for a while, took a long breath, and slowly made his way into the forest.
Then the cycle of walking, resting, and walking again started, but he was taking fewer breaks because he wanted to leave this place fast.
But even though he rushed things, eventually the lantern became dimmer and dimmer till it completely stopped working, and the whole world was engulfed in darkness.
Ethen had set up a small camp in some type of cave. He built a fire and was looking outside while resting and pondering tomorrow's plans.
He was trying to sleep, but his eyes wouldn't close because he was paranoid of monsters, but he hadn't seen one till now.
But eventually his eyes gave out from the exhaustion...
After an unknown number of time, Ethan woke up due to a weird feeling that he couldn't explain.
"Huff...Huff..."
He hurriedly checked his surroundings to see if he was in any type of danger.
"Nothing is here so what happened?..."
He touched his heart to check if it was still in place or not.
"Well, it's still there..."
He again looked around in confusion, but this time he heard the steps of something, it was kind of like how a walking house would sound, but heavier and louder.
"What the hell was that?"
Then the steps became louder and louder Ethen started to light up the campfire in a hurry.
"Come on...light up"
After two tries, the fire lit, and standing before him was a moose-like monster with black fur and red eyes burning with rage. It was just that it had sharp fangs instead of normal teeth. The antlers were sharper and longer; it was around 4 meters with its mouth overflowing with saliva as it stared at Ethen.
Ethen took a step back and looked at the viscous beast.
"Umm...hi there....big guy"