A leveler in Equestria

It's been two and a half years since I broke out of Tartarus. I spent all of that time wandering around Equestria.

I visited Appleloosa, dodge city, Seaquestria The hippogriffs land, Griffinstone, Trottingham, Manehattan, Baltimare, Vanhoover.

In my time, I was attacked by a dragon, but he couldn't do anything to me. I ignored him for long until I couldn't anymore, so I killed him.

He alone gave me two levels. I didn't know why considering that he wasn't much and easier than the Everfree chimeras.

So I got greedy and went to Dragons' Lair.

Yes, some were dicks, but I couldn't bring myself to kill all of them because I can't blame all of them when the vast majority was lovely, and a couple were dicks, so I killed the dicks.

I leveled up quite nicely from them.

Speaking of leveling up.

My current stats were.

Name: Mike
Level: 55
status:
Endurance: 85. Strength: 94. Agility: 93. Charisma: 85. Stamina: 90.
Physique: Muscular
Health: 1000/1250. Mana: 5123/7500.

With 25 skill points available I spent them like this.

Name: Mike
Level: 55
status:
Endurance: 90. Strength: 100. Agility: 100. Charisma: 90. Stamina: 93.
Physique: Muscular
Health: 1000/1250. Mana: 5123/7500.

I had many crystals from my travels, so let me show you the new two skills that I got.

Skill: Minimal deception.

A skill that allows you to change minor physical body parts.

The body parts that are able to change using this skill are.

Eyes: Includes eye color, iris type.

Vocal cords: making your voice either deeper or softer.

Of course, I made my voice deeper because.... you know... masculinity.

This was one of the skills that I acquired.

My second skill was.

Skill: Element Control: Fire.

A skill that works like the skill Mana manipulation, but this time instead of pure mana, you will use fire.

The fire's heat depends on the amount of mana in the size of the fire.

It means I can create a small fire that is ten times hotter than a normal fire.

These are the new two skills I got and spent my time polishing.

I used the deception skill primarily for either intimidation or to trick some of the bitchy females that thought they were better than any male.

I don't know how it got like that, but it is what it is.

I noticed that those mares are likely to be the ones who know how to fight and have a good amount of strength.

The fire skill was valuable. I managed to get used to it, and I unlocked its secret perk.

Special perk: Fire elemental.

A perk that makes your Elemental fire increase in intensity and lowers the mana cost.

Which means that you can use more fire from the same amount of mana.

The heat will be 8 times greater, and it is entirely controllable.

When I make the strongest fire, I can muster, it turns into a beautiful majestic Violet with a tint of black color.

Now let's talk about a useless skill that I managed to make sound.

Skill: pheromones

A skill that allows you to manipulate body odor.

Making you able to increase either sex appeal or charisma.

Basically, this skill was helpful in two ways.

To make the opposite gender lust for me.

Or to make myself smell nice in formal places.

Because I couldn't shower with soap and shampoo, only water. I was always a little stinky, so I got this skill.

Now that I explained my new skills, let's talk about Equestria. More importantly, the big things that happened.

First was that Twilight turned into the fourth princess. Princess of magic or friendship, I don't know every paper says one of those.

There was an attack at the crystal empire royal wedding by creatures that are called a changeling.

Shapeshifters in a nutshell.

They were led by their queen. Queen Chrysalis, but they were defeated.

The royal couple had a foal and named her flurry Heart.

And there was a return of an evil king named Sombra or something.

A guy named discord, who was a spirit of chaos, attacked. To me, he was just a teenage prankster.

A guy named Tirek also attacked.

All of those things that happened aren't in the correct order because I didn't care.

This world was peaceful.

And there was some news about me.

They weren't friendly.

A monster spotted killing a dragon.

A monster dared to attack princess Celestia.

A monster managed to break out of Tartarus.

But all of them had described me wrong. Some said that I had wings. Some didn't. Some said that I'm a giant creature. Some said I'm the size of a minotaur.

All of those blunders were made to be thanks to the confusing news about me.

Most of the time, I wore a hooded cloak to hide myself in my travels.

It was rare to see me cloakless.

I grew my hair and beard and tied them to hide my face creating a hair mask.

Now let's get back to the current time.

• ⚝──⭒─⭑─⭒──⚝

"How much for some of those carrots?" I asked an old mare who I did a favor for.

"5 bits per carrot." The mare carrot top said.

"And why is that?" I asked.

"Don't you see these are top-quality carrots? You can't find any carrot store that sells these carrots." Carrot top said.

"This mare," I thought because Carrot Top managed to build a reputation from the Carrots I purified a long time ago.

Her carrots weren't of the same quality as the ones I purified, but thanks to her reputation, she increased her prices, and the nobles are the only ones that buy from her, and thanks to that, she was able to hire the unicorns that use the longing spell. Thus continuing her scam.

"I think I saw better carrots once," I said back to her.

"What do you mean? I'm the best if there was somepony that had better carrots than mine, I would've known." She said.

"You got greedy Carrot Tops. Too bad, and here I think that You used my skill in a good way." I said in my normal voice.

Her eyes widened.

"Mike?" She said.

"In the flesh," I said back.

She took a normal stance, and what she said next shocked me.

"What do you mean your skill. You didn't do anything all of this success is because of how much hard work I put into my farm." She said.

"Look here, Carrot Top. Just like I managed to make your stand more famous, I can burn it to the ground." I said with a deeper voice.

I turned around and left, leaving her behind.

"It seems this town is a plague to the world," I thought.

"I should've known better than to come back to Ponyville."

I saw a mare dive headfirst into the ground.

How did I know she was a mare?

Thanks to the display she put for the whole town.

I hate to admit it but from the amount of time spending away from humans. I was sexually frustrated, And I was beginning to be sexually attracted to the other female species.

I walked down to her and helped her up.

"You okay?" I asked.

"Yeah, I'm fine, thank you." She said, and one of her eyes darted to the side.

"That's why you fell," I thought and helped her collect the papers and got one for myself.

I began reading the paper.

It mainly was gibberish, but one title got me piped up.

Tickets to the Crystal Empire fighting tournament are available. The tournament starts in a week.

The winner reward is a royal request

I chuckled to myself.

• ⚝──⭒─⭑─⭒──⚝

I went to the ticket-selling stallion and asked how to sign up.

He gave me a survey paper and asked me to fill it.

I filled it, and he gave me a number.

After two days, I walked to the same stallion again, and this time he gave me a paper telling when the fights begin and who will be fighting who.

• ⚝──⭒─⭑─⭒──⚝

I went into a barber and shaved my hair and trimmed my beard.

And went to where the tournament was held in.

It was a very huge stadium, and I walked in.

Apparently, it was forbidden to hide your Identity, so I trashed my cloak, and the guards didn't recognize me.

I was happy because ponies seemed to forget about a monster that attacked princess Celestia.

A mare took us to the middle of the stadium, and the ponies were cheering.

I looked at the crowd and saw Celestia and Twilight looking at me with wide eyes.

But the pink princess or Cadance and another princess, this one looked like a smaller Celestia, but she represented the night.

"Must be Luna," I thought.

They were smiling at me.

"Why are they smiling?" I thought and looked at them, confused.

I saw the rest of Twilight friends, and they were scared. I could feel their emotions from this distance.

They were pissing on themselves, type of scared.

I looked at the contestants and noticed one thing.

They were all female, no male.

All of us counted 32 contestants.

There were ponies, griffins, Zebras, hippogriffs, diamond dogs, and minotaurs.

Cadance flew down to us and began talking.

"Welcome contestants to the Crystal Empire fighting tournament. I would like to explain some things first thing. First, the arena is enchanted by the strongest protection spells to avoid lethal hits. You'll feel the pain of an impact, though. and you will have cuts and bruises. If you hit an opponent hard enough to injure them fatally, you'll be disqualified immediately.
The protection spell is breakable. If your spell breaks, you'll have the option to either continue or give up." She said.

"This is everything that I wanted to clear. Now please introduce yourselves. and go to the waiting rooms." She said.

We introduced ourselves to each other, and everyone that I greeted was visibly surprised because I'm a male.

"I will enjoy beating all of you," I thought because some of the contestants gave me a mouthful. After all, I'm a male, and because I was missing an arm.

We got to the waiting room, and I sat down on one of the couches.

I was approached by the griffin. I will fight in our turn.

"Well, well, well, look at this joke. They paired me up with a male," She said, and I just looked at her emotionless.

"You think you can go against me, huh? Guess what I will wipe the ground with your face so you could know your place. slut" She said a little loud.

I just ignored her, and she continued to insult me.

I saved it up so I could beat her up badly in the fight.

They began talking with each other.

Apparently, all of them were specially picked from their leaders to fight here, so they represent the best fighters in each place.

The fights began, and every two that leave, only one returns with some minor injuries.

• ⚝──⭒─⭑─⭒──⚝

It was finally my turn, and the griffin gave me the last insult and got to the arena.

The guard told me to either use a weapon or magic. To use one, I leave the other. So I settled for magic.

I stood a reasonable distance from the griffin. She was heavily armored with razor-sharp iron talons on her claws.

She had a wicked sadistic smile on her face.

"LOOK HERE, YOU PATHETIC SLUT" She screamed.

"I'M THE STRONGEST FIGHTER IN GRIFFINSTONE."

"I WILL SHOW MAKE YOU KNOW YOUR PLACE." She screamed and emitted a bloodlust aura.

To me, it was a pathetic aura that was even barely noticeable, but the ponies were a little scared from her aura.

"YOU FEEL THAT THIS IS THE ROYAL CONQUEROR AURA."

"YOU LOOK LIKE YOU ARE ABOUT TO GIVE UP TO ME ALREADY," I smirked at her and tore apart my shirt.

She charged at me, and I simply put my hand in my pocket and waited for her.

She was swinging and flipping using some strange techniques, but I just dodged them.

"WHEN WILL YOU STOP RUNNING?" She screamed.

"And here I thought you were at least a little strong," I said and grabbed one of her legs and threw her to where she was in the beginning.

She charged at me again.

I dodged again and again.

I Smiled and turned my iris into red color with a slitted pupil and deepened my voice.

I raised my hand to strike her and emitted an intent to kill with it.

She noticed and flew back a little.

This time she knew she was already in the fire and didn't say anything and kept flying and diving down at me.

She thought that I couldn't reach her.

I sighed because this was getting boring and I wanted to eat something.

Celestia's POV

Mike didn't strike the griffin, but I noticed his intent to kill when he was about to do it.

This monstrous intent sent shivers down my spine.

I saw mike sigh and looked at the griffin again, who looked at him confused.

It was only a fraction of a second...

I couldn't see him when he moved.

He was behind the griffin and threw her again to the ground.

The griffin stood up again and barely managed to dodge Mike's strike.

"This is definitely not his full strength." I thought. This was a joke to him.

He flew back to the ground.

He looked like he teleported from his speed alone, and he was in front of the griffin.

He grabbed her legs and broke them. She screamed for him to stop, but he didn't care.

He threw her again, and she was crying and screaming.

He walked to her slowly and raised one of his fists, and it turned black, and I felt his murderous intent.

This time it was stronger than the first time.

It was intense full of hate and...

Scary. It was scary, I was scared.

"What is this intent," I thought.

It wasn't normal; I could see the griffin die ten different ways from the intent alone.

The griffin screamed.

"I GIVE UP PLEASE I GIVE UP PLEASE I'M SORRY."

And Mike's fist was a millimeter away from her chest.

The murderous intent disappeared, and he turned around and walked back to the waiting room.

The griffin passed out from the intense fear.

I looked at Luna, who was looking back with wide eyes.

"Is that the creature you told me about, Tia?" She asked.

"Yes, this is Mike. The Apex of the Everfree."