Oblivious to the powers moving in the void between dimensions, Merlin was sitting in the car that was slowly moving to the north. Foveros was already deep in meditation using the Mammal Law Set. Merlin himself decided not to enter that state for now, since being in the open always had its dangers, and seven years of the apocalypse had taught him many things, including the habit of never completely letting his guard down, even against the weakest of enemies.
Instead, he decided to grind levels. Naturally, this was not for himself, since killing Tier 0 beings, no longer gave him any points. Instead, it was for Max, the chief of police. Merlin had instructed the two people within the car to drive slowly, while at the same time he had kicked Max out of the car and told him to clear every single zombie in the area.
To attract more zombies, the car was continuously honking, which was attracting an endless swarm of zombies from all directions, and Max had to kill all of them.
Naturally, Merlin was not just sitting and doing nothing. He was grinding his passive skill [Elemental Body] by continuously using Tier 0 spells to reduce the speed of the zombies around Max, and give him enough time to kill them.
In this way, they made their way north, to the dungeon located there. It was the same place where Merlin had entered with Jack and a few others, and found the skill [Puppet making].
His goal for this trip was to clear out the dungeon before it gets remotely as strong as his last life. It was a well-known fact that as the mana density increased, dungeons became stronger and stronger. When the mana density increases, the dungeons can create stronger beasts of higher Tiers. Last time, the final boss of the dungeon was a Tier 2 magic beast. It had taken them, a team of 5 Tier 1 humans, almost 3 days of slowly chipping away at the life-force of the magic beast to defeat it.
However, this time the dungeon had had only a few days since it was formed, and the most difficult monster present could not be even close to a Tier 1 beast. It could only have things like tigers, or elephants that existed before the Apocalypse.
People speculated that dungeons themselves had consciousness, along with a system like the humans, but one that relied on mana instead of zombies. However, no one was able to figure out the truth since dungeons only became stronger with time, and the one the Merlin had cleared was one of the last to be cleared.
After the first year, dungeons became forbidden zones where only those seeking death venture into, and therefore no new information was discovered, since the speculators only came up with the idea during the second and third years of peace. During the second and third years, humans had finally gained an advantage over the zombies, and instead of creating resistances, they had created civilisation and were thriving. This was all until the mana burst in the fourth year tipped the balance once again against humanity.
But Merlin did not want to discover any of this. He was not a scholar, nor was he a scientist. He was a fighter, and would remain one for the rest of his life. He had decided to get the skill, and that is what he would do.
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Time passed, and Max became tired. They were almost 80% done with journey, and it was already night time. Since the others were not like Merlin, and Max was also exhausted, Merlin told the people to stop honking. He then jumped out of the car and walked slowly towards the still fighting Max. Along the way, he was using Tier 1 [Earth Spikes] and Tier 1 [Wind slashed] to shave off hundreds of zombies.
Slowly, he was able to cut through the zombies and got a hold of Max. He did not want to kill a lot of these weak zombies. Therefore, he picked up Max and jumped back all the way to the car, before creating a thick dome of earth, using the Tier 1 Spell [Earth Wall] after modifying its shape to that of a dome.
He then instructed everyone to quickly eat dinner and then catch some sleep. He too, shifted the earth inside the dome, to clear the blood, bones and rotten flesh, before sitting down cross-legged to begin his elemental law set meditation. While doing this, he was also continuously supplying a small amount of mana to his spell to keep it running.
A normal person would not be able to complete this feat even if they were Tier 1. The only reason Merlin was able to do this was due to his incredibly powerful soul, and intelligence, which allowed him not only to multitask like this, but also use mana more efficiently.
After around 5 hours of meditation, Merlin opened his eyes and checked his status to see the effect of the meditation.
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Status
Name: Merlin Ross
Race: Human
Class: Student
State: Embarrassed
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Titles:
Last Man standing
Asura: The enemy of Gods
Hero: The Symbol of Hope
Meticulous planner
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Strength : 150 (+50)
Dexterity : 150 (+30)
Vitality: 150 (+20)
Mana: 152 (+120)
Intelligence : 152 (+75)
Sense : 152
Evasion: 150
Critical: 150
Soul: 152 (+150)
Toughness: 150
Worship: 100
Shards: 0.25
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Skills
-Master Skill: Parallel Thought
-Master Skill: Foresight
-Unique Skill: Vampire's Touch
-Unique skill: Berserk
-Unique Skill: Paragon of Hope
-Active Skill: Tame
-Specialised skill (Tame): Mental connection
-Active Skill: Inspection
-Passive Skill: Elemental Body
-Passive Skill: Multiplier
-Passive Skill: Will of Steel
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Tier 1
Lv 1 (0/100)
Note: Only Tier 1 beings will give stat and evolution points
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Notice
Tutorial Period will last for 72 hours.
Ends in : 30 hours
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