447 The first shard!
『You have defeated an undead entity who was two stages above you!』
『You have gained a significant amount of stats!』
『Your Strength, Agility, and Stamina stats have increased to 500 points each! You have hit the limit of your potential. You will not be able to increase your physical strength until you remove your fourth limiter.』
『Your perception has increased by ten points!』
The system notification rang in Roy’s ears.
Roy smiled. It was honestly pleasant news. He had become so strong that he had stopped earning stats from killing beasts. The stronger the person, the harder it was to increase stats. So he had hit a plateau. But the undead monsters of the ashen land were really special. He earned an increase in his stats each time he killed them, and killing the Lich gave him the most amount of stats!
It wasn’t the quantity that mattered. It was the quality.
Roy closed his eyes, feeling his strength. It was incredible at a level he only felt from Arlo. He didn’t have an accurate grasp to measure it, so he couldn’t tell how strong he was. But if he had to put it somewhere, it would be around somewhere around the raw physical strength of a peak-level grandmaster!
‘My bloodline skill isn’t restricted by the limiter. I can double my stats by activating Power Boost. How strong will I become then? Would my strength rival a Realm Lord? Or would it be greater than one?’ Roy thought with a silly smile.
The future was looking good!
He looked at his stats.
They were as follows.
Roy
Power level: 3rd step (Comparable to an average peak-level Grandmaster)
Class: Mythical level body tempering trainee.
Age: Sixteen years and eleven months old
Defied status: Semi-Devil (3/8 limiters removed)
EXP POINTS: 2.3 million
Soul spell: Mana shield, Subspace (lv:4/5), Miracle, Night’s Mist, Absolute Defense, Physical and Magical defense!
Health: 1200, Endurance: 100
Physical Defense: 40% (Reduce all incoming physical damage by 40%!)
Magical Damage Negation: 32% (Reduce all incoming Magical damage by 32%!)
Mana: 10000 wisps of magic, Aura: 100000 units
World Energy Sensitivity: 100%, Mana Sensitivity: 100%
Strength: 500, Stamina: 500, Agility: 500, Energy: 10000, Mental Energy: 250, Perception: 30
Physique: Evil Suppressing Draconian Lord-rank Physique
He had become a true beast.
No one would believe that his 16 years old body packed a power that could annihilate low-level aura beasts (1 to 9 years old) in one punch!
Intermediate-level (10-39 years old) aura beasts might survive one of his attacks using their skill, but his second punch would eradicate them from existence.
‘Advanced-level aura beasts might be able to amuse me. But I probably won’t lose against them.
Roy didn’t know how strong they were as he had never met them, much less fought them.
Thus, he came to such a judgment.
『Ding!』
A system notification suddenly sounded, pulling him out of his thoughts.
『Malachi Shadowborn had left behind his class weapon!』
Roy’s eyebrow raised. ‘Malachi Shadowborn? So that’s the name of the lich I killed.’
He looked at the void staff, a hint of bewilderment vivid in his eyes.
Class weapons usually disappear with the death of their owners. That had been the case for several centuries.
And when an awakened transforms into an undead, their class weapon also disappears; otherwise, there would never have been instances of black knights and crimson mages hunting down the experts of the human race in order to steal their weapons.
『The void staff was once washed in the Fountain of Eternity. Hence, it has retained its true form despite receiving no nourishment for hundreds of years. It won’t be dissipating anytime soon. You may pocket it!』
As if on cue, the system answered Roy’s question. He could tell that it had become more intelligent compared to the first time he obtained it.
“Ah, yes! How could I leave it behind?” Roy said as he walked up to Void Staff and picked it up.
Class weapons are usually bound to their hosts, but it was ownerless.
The connection between it and the Lich was dissolved the very second Malachi threw away his humanity and became a monster that was neither alive nor dead.
‘The stupid decision he made in the past is helping me after his death. The void staff is ownerless, so it can be used by literally anyone who can manipulate aura or mana.’ Roy thought with a smirk.
Actually, the void staff wasn’t that useful to him in normal battles as he already had a skill that could open up a black hole that was capable of absorbing and releasing attacks, but it would prove to be immensely helpful in war.
It not only provided him with the ability to teleport a satisfactory distance, but it also gave him a skill that could improve his ultimate move to the next level!
‘I can use its void step ability to avoid attacks or blink up to enemies when they least expect it to catch them by surprise. And its ultimate can ensure a 100% hit rate. Using its ultimate with the full power of my subspace can be devastating. An army of a hundred thousand will be reduced to dust if level 9 fireballs explode on them at point-blank range!
‘It isn’t half-bad.’
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From his subspace, he took out the items he got from the altar.
His subspace opened and closed just as fast, leaving three shards in his palm.
Two of them were the shards of the chaos-causing flutes. It was an item that Chaos was trying to obtain.
‘I already had one of its shards in my possession. Adding these two, I now have three.’ Roy thought.
There were seven shards of the indestructible chaos-causing flute. Roy already possessed three, and after finding four more, he would be able to create it. But, of course, he didn’t want to use it. He wanted to destroy it. But even his level-9 fire wasn’t enough to melt it.