Standing in the middle of the horde in the Sahara desert, I took a deep breath and closed my eyes. 'Emma' I imagined myself next to my wife, seconds later I opened my eyes and appeared next to Emma. "Welcome back" Emma smiled as she was fighting the monsters, "Thanks".
Asura re-appeared falling down into the forest, taking a deep breath I looked around and sensed the fissure area. "We will meet up later guys, keep up the fight" I waved at them and ran towards the river by the end of the forest.
Swish! The wind that gathered from my flow destroyed everything in its path. 'Inventory' I took out my hammer and jumped into the fissure.
"?!#@" The lizardmen spoke in a different language, I stood outside after getting used to the gravity of this place and killed the three lizards that were opening the fissure. As I was about to jump into the closing fissure a lizard stood at the fissure holding a two-handed axe.
Sigh, the fissure closed and I was stuck here. 4 hours until I can use void tear again… "Mountain Form" I slowly inserted my legs into the ground and took my stance.
"Human!" The lizard shouted as he ran towards me, Slash! He slashed with his axe, I sent an open hand to its sides changing its trajectory. My eyes became cold and the mask cracks began to increase.
"Shhhh" I took in some air slowly while fending off the axe, "Demonic Retribution" I began to go on the offensive without moving my lower body.
Ting! Tak! Ting! Tak! My fist and hammer began to hit the Axe but the lizard, on the other hand, kept dodging the attacks.
"Dimensional Speed Hack!" I shouted and my hands disappeared from eyesight. Throwing my hammer inside the inventory, my hands began to fend off the lizard, Crack! I broke his axe before trying to pierce him on his neck.
Slash! I was cut from behind, damn it! I turned my body and fended off the lizards attack me while the lizard who held the axe got another one and came back to attack.
"ohhhhhhh!" I screamed in anguish and Strengthened my legs. "Space, open" I cast a spell and a rip happened in the sky itself, "Swallow energy". The rip began pulling everything, I hated using this skill as it is too dangerous for me and my companions.
The lizards tried to hold on to anything they can see but even the pillars of wood on the side were pulled up. I felt tired from the energy intake of using this skill, in the end, I am still weak, killing S grade monsters are simple as long as the weakness is there.
[Congratulations you have killed Grade C Lizard warrior | +300 experience]
[Congratulations you have killed Gr…]
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The notifications in the chat log were repeating itself, my face under the mask began becoming pale, "Thunder Rage" Electricity combined with demonic retribution spread everywhere.
Ding!
Ding!
…
[Earth Adventurer guild has reached level 2]
Huh? I felt the power inside my body, closing my eyes I enforced my body while thunder rage was still on. The rip in the sky began closing, seems like my energy can't support it, sigh…
"I will kill you human!" The lizard took a random sword on the ground that fell and rushed towards me, I opened my eyes and took my legs out of the ground before running towards the lizard. "DIE!" I shouted as I disappeared from my place and appeared next to him.
He dodged it by jumping and then slashed at me from above. I use the sword side to hit before sending him a punch to the stomach. "Slow time!" My pale face began becoming blue, I finally was able to pierce him but his body reacted and slashed my arm off. Luckily I used my other hand and cut off his heart.
[Congratulations you have killed, Grade SS Ismat!]
[Due to killing a Grade SS Guardian you have gained Primitive Battle Axe]
Huh, a weapon with no grade? 'Inventory' I took out the Battle Axe and looked at the information, shock covered my face.
[Primitive Battle Axe]
Attack: 4122
Special Trait: Leech 0.9%
"… That is normal? No item quality, no defense, no level???" I shouted, startling the lizards that are in pain on the ground
『The things you created are beyond your realm during that time...』
"Well, if it was beyond my realm, how could I have been able to create it?" I asked a logical question
『Your class plays a part in that』
"Meh" I carried the axe and looked at it with interest, the design is simple… Slash! I dropped it on a lizard on the ground.
I kicked the head and sat near it, throwing the axe inside the inventory, I took out some food and began eating. After I finished the food I thought about something interesting.
Placing my hand on the dead lizard body I began to move my fingers in a circular motion, creating several runes on its body… After finishing the process, the body turned to light and what fell from the light was a small tablet made out of dirt.
[Congratulations you have obtained Grade F Shabby Ruin] x1
Shabby ruin: formed of six lines. It is associated with despair, fire, and a takeover. Inverted, it is associated with willpower.
"Hehe" I looked at the shaking lizards who lived and began walking towards them.
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Grade F:
31 Cracked Cosmic Rune
43 Sub-par Body Rune
30 Substandard Fire Rune
Grade D:
48 Frayed Chaos Rune
31 Mediocre Astral Rune
12 Low-grade Blood Rune
23 Damaged Tempest Rune
11 Cracked Lunar Rune
43 Cracked Nature Rune
1 Ragged undefined
Grade E
31 Ordinary Lava Rune
3 Common undefined
Grade C
10 Master Soul Rune
"Nice harvest, hahaha!" I laughed as I threw the runes in the inventory, might make them prizes in the quest list.
The runes have many benefits, crafting strong weapons are one of them, creating shields to prevent monsters are also another part… but the most important one is strengthening attributes in the system I created.
[Master Soul Rune: Gain +1 Spirit Permanently]
I nodded and finally closed my eyes before appearing next to Emma. "Hello~" I hugged her on the back before giving her a kiss on the cheek. "Good work" She smiled as she was standing with the others.
Looking around I noticed that there were no monsters left. "Take this" I threw the Runes towards Emma. "Go back to the island, we have closed up the two fissures, they won't open for a while as the first phase only allows two"
"Are you coming?" Emma asked I shook my head "I discovered a new way to get runes, I plan to make them available to everyone" I smiled as I went towards a monster and began engraving marks on its body.
"I will wait back home my love" Emma smiled as she entered the door with everyone else. "Kuku, Brother, what happened?" Asura asked looking at my arm that is growing now.
"A mere swordsman nearly killed me, a damn lizard Asura!" I shouted in anger. "Don't dwell on it, what grade was he?" Asura asked
"Grade SS" I replied as I engraved the bodies of the monsters. "Kukuku, forget it, we won't be fighting them until the 5th phase". Asura changed from his large form and appeared on my back.
As I engraved the monsters, I began thinking about the energy consumption. What is energy? It makes me tired after using skills to its highest level but in the end, I can end up dying because of it…
Is energy something that flows like the blood or the energy of my level?
[Congratulations you have unlocked Energy bar]
A new bar appeared under the health bar, "Haha!" I laughed.
Health Bar: 1426/4550 | +7/s (25xlevel)
Energy Bar: 3562/10010 | +12/s (55xlevel)
Rage Bar : 33/100
I smiled, this is good, let us see the new code 'open book'
My face froze, there was a fifth page… I waved my hands and looked at the fifth page with shock. "Oh my god…"