Thank You! all my readers for the love and support you have given to our novel as today our novel had hit the 1M readers. A W "Bang Bang!" I heard loud noises behind me, when I looked back I saw Shawn and his teammates are attacking monsters. I can’t see clearly how many monsters died but they keep coming out of caves as there has been a large cloud of dust at the entrance but Shawn and friend keep attacking and drinking a mana potion. I could hear faint sounds from afar, Carol and her team also fighting the monsters like Shawn. "Grrrrr! Grrr!" "Bang bang bang!" loud cries of monster and attacks from the show’s team is grating my ears. Soon smoke cleared and I can see four bodies were lying in the ground but three giant earthworm monsters were moving toward Shawn and his two teammates. From their size and aura, they are definitely Corporal stage monster but Shawn did not seem flustered seeing them and attacked them at his own will. Although those three monsters looked fatally injured, they are not and only their outer defense is broken. They started to fight in wild abandon, seeing the fight, I shook internally. It did not look to fight between Private grade and Corporal grade but Corporal grade Versace Corporal grade. The fight is going for half an hour but there is no clear winner on the surface but I can tell that those three Corporal level monsters not going to survive more than half an hour. The fight would have finished in the first twenty minutes if not for monsters ability to burrow into the ground from time to time. I started to feel faint vibration under my feet but I didn’t think much, assuming they were just the vibration created by the fight but I was so wrong. ’’Bang!" ’’Grrr!" An earthworm monster comes out ground not far from me and started to cry out in its grating voice. It stalled for a while as if since the environment and then suddenly it comes toward me making that uncomfortable notice. It is small compared to monsters that Shawn and team fighting but it could still eat me whole easily. I thought of running but there is no use as this is mid-level Specialist grade monster, in the cave I successfully able to run away from Corporal grade monster because space was narrow and it wasn’t able to chase me at its full speed but here is different. I activated my sword, armor, and shoes while still circulating the 20th move of exercise. I know, I am not its match right now but I just have stalled it for while as Shawn finished his fight and save me. Fuck! I hit myself hard feeling ashamed, since when I became such loser that I want others to save me and especially from those who are lower grade than me. ’’Ahhh!" I screamed loud and run toward the monster to attack it, no matter how powerful this monster is, if not kill it, I will at least injure it for my pride. I run toward it with all my speed, by making a momentum, I wanted to make my strongest attack. These shoes are really amazing, my speed had increased nearly two times, these shoes are best to make an instant movement. "Clank!" my sword hit it, cracking the earth layer off its skin and even drawing out its blood. "Grrr!" it roared and tried to eat me with its mouth but using the counter force of my sword, I dodge it’s the mouth. Seeing it’s coming toward me with its mouth opened, seeing it’s speed, I don’t have any option but meet it with my sword. ’’Clank!" "Thud thud thud...." as I attacked it with my sword, I felt a shock ran through my body and I have to take a few steps back. I even received some internal injuries due to shock but I don’t have time to dwell on it as it is coming toward me. ’’Clank clank clank!" I kept defending against its an attack if this keeps going, my internal injuries definitely will worsen. I can’t do anything except for defense and of course, try to circulate advance moves of exercise but harder as I already feeling immense pain. Now I truly understand the necessity of skills, I had thought as long as I am able to circulate more moves of exercise it will be but it is not. Supreme combat exercise best used to make the body stronger by creating more seals but it cant give you instantaneous and lethal power, only Skills give that. I am really regretting not accepting Jim’s offer, half a month ago Jim suddenly asked if I had any half skill when I said no, he wanted to give me one saying he had many. I declined to say I had no need for skills as I had supreme combat exercise and that is enough but I am so so wrong, I know that now. "Clang!" I felt a little less shock this time as I successfully circulated the 21st move. Still, it not enough! Not enough! I roared inside and started madly attacking it, although I barely able injure but it gives me some release from feeling repressed past few weeks. ’’Clank clank clank!" ’’Thud thud thud..." ’’Puh!" I vomited the blood as my internal organ shook. Even receiving injuries, I didn’t stop madly attacking while still circulating exercise. This madness started to pay off, my attacks become lethal as the circulation of exercise reached the 23rd circle, only one move 24th. "Grrrrr!" we both engulf in madness, the monster was already quite mad of inhaling the gas from glass ball and now gaining small injuries from my relentless attacks. It moved its mouth toward head without caring for consequence but I defended it from while taking a few steps back. ’Kacha!’ "Fuck!" I shouted as my shouted dislocated by the attack, I quickly adjusted it back to its place without wasting any time and attacked it again. I may look mad who fighting without his life but that is not, there is a method in my madness. Even since I attacking it, five out of three of my attacks were concentrated on a single spot on its head. I already removed the defensive layer of it with my attack and I only need to make attack accurately to finish it off but there is a problem, I didn’t think my attacks are powerful enough to pierce its skull. I think only after circulating 24th move of supreme combat exercise and that’s what I trying to achieve through my madness. ’Crack!’ another one of my bone cracked, this times it’s my hips but I did not and keep attacking. ’’Yes!" I shouted through my gritted teeth as I succeeded in circulating 24th move of supreme combat exercise. ’’bam!" ’Crack...’ another some of my bones crack, in my happiness of circulating 24th move of exercise, I git distracted and got. Wiping my bloodied mouth, I quickly get up. This is a blessing in the curse, monster and I have enough space between us that I could probably jump over its head. "Ahhhh!" shouting with all my heart, I ran towards it with heart. ’’Grrr!" It shouted seeing me running toward it when there is only three meters distance between us, I jumped. If I want wearing grade 1 shoes, making this jump would have been quite hard but it is quite effortless. "Grrrrr!" I opened its mouth seeing me jump toward, I will definitely end up as its food but I smiled seeing the monster acting as I predicted. As I was only one meter away from it, I did flip in the air with the aid of my Grade 1 shoe artifact. ’’Puchi!" I pieced the blade into the skull of the monster as I directly above it and left the sword in its skull. ’’Grrrrrr Grrrr!" "Thud!" I heard it’s mournful cried as I landed on the ground with the thud. "Grrrr!" it cried out it pain loudly but soon its cries started to slow down and it fell on the earth motionless. I remove the bottle healing potion from my pocket and drank it and let go of everything. I powerlessly fell on the ground as I watch the dead monster body, I didn’t even want to take out my sword from the monster as I am feeling pain due countless broken bones in my body.