[ You have reached level 14 and all progress has been halted until you successfully advance. points will be stored and accumulated until you break through ]
Leo looked at the flash if notifications in his eyes, he was currently drenched in sweat and blood but his eyes glitter with satisfaction as this was his goal.
Leo ignored the dozen notifications as he still had something he wanted to do. With the closest corpse right in front of him, leo placed his hands on the body and started "Shadow Consumption". Like before, the dark essence twisted and flew into his body through his eyes and mouth hole.
[ Shadow consumed/ + 1 attribute point ]
The heavy fatigue that has assaulted his body had slightly lessened enough to move his body a bit as he moved on to the next monster corpse and the next and the....
Leo altogether consumed 69 shadow essences from 69 Monsters as well as carving out their rune crystals. Soon they were in one large pile close to decapitated Tasmadoor body. Standing on his two feet again, the fatigue was gone and Leo could freely move without hindrances.
"Phew now that was exciting" Leo looked at the massacre he was now capable of pulling off by himself. He wouldn't have believed anyone who told him such a thing could happen 3 days ago but now he has actually done all this as it laid before his eyes.
On his left were the many crystals and on the right were about 7 treasures that he had yet to completely obtain.
After calming down the excitement, Leo sat on the floor cross legged and opened his system interface. He had gained up to 114 attribute points from both the battle and the Shadow consultation and he was in no rush to distribute these points yet. Looking through the floor of notifications, leos previous excitement that he had forcibly brought down beamed again as his face radiated with a wide grin.
[ Paths To Advancement: To advance to the stage of a Main Shadow Demon, You must choose a class ]
[Black Swordsman]
[Shadow Assassin]
[Night blade]
[Dark Ranger]
[Low level Mage]
[Blacksmith]
[Martial Warrior]
[Shadow Forge Master]
looking at all the options leo had a basic understanding of the lot of them. In his head, he was such suited for a assassin or maybe he could pull off being a swordsman or a Ranger.
However the one thing that caught his eye was the one he hadn't seen before.
[Shadow Forge Master: A cross type breed of a blacksmith and Necromancer. This class allows you to summon beasts from Hell and the Underworld as your underlings. You will have 50% resistance to Demon and Devil attacks and complete immunity to attacks from all Demonic beasts under the Empire Rank. A 20% boost in all physical abilities as well as the ability to create your own personal Shadow army with a weapon of your choice. This weapon can be made by you at any time and can only respond to its forge master. Naturally this class is much harder to attain than the others and has only been created for a unique Hybrid such as yourself ]
Apart from major astonishment, leo also had doubts as well as confusion in his heart about this road he wanted to take. After all there is no use of a powerful class if he couldn't achieve it.
"Oh well, how hard can it be?"
Leo choose the Shadow forge master as his main class all because of the generous rewards but the requirements coming right after made his heart want to explode from his chest.
[ Requirements to complete ]
[ Empire Rank Mana stone/ Empire Rank Rune Crystal/ Shadow essence of 10 Monster Rank Beasts/ Shadow Essence of 1 Empire rank Beast/ Shadow Essence of Zombie king Paro/ Kill 5 monster rank beasts in 1 hit/ Appoint 5 Humans as your Lesser Demons ]
"What the fuck! And Empire rank Mana stone as well as a Rune Crystal of the same grade, Is this System fucking crazy? and as if that's not bad enough, I need to kill 10 monster rank beasts as well 5 in 1 hit".
Leo couldn't help but curse loudly completely unafraid of attracting more enemies. What made it hard was that until he completed all this, his strength would forever be at a bottleneck. Furthermore who the hell is Zombie king Paro?
Leo could feel a migraine coming on his head. as he felt slight regret for being too impulsive. The system always gave him good luck before but now it had shown it ugly side once more.
"Well no going back now" That was leos mindset, once he made a decision he would never think back at it but this decision had made him to feel slight regret.
After that he looked at his notifications that popped up from the battle. The attribute points were from the battle and shadow consumption which were more doubt, his biggest gain here.
After that his happy mood was once again rekindled.
[ New passive skill Danger Sense, Level 10: You body sends electric signals to the brain informing you of even the slightest bit of danger in the surroundings ]
Leo had gotten this passion skill from a Red Haired spider monster at the level 8. It kinda reminded him of Spiderman's spidey sense in the movies
Another one that made leo almost jump for joy was the instant materialization skill that appeared after he broke past level 10. That was how his subconscious was able to instantly create two new katanas that aided his battle. His shadow ability had also gone through a change as his shadow manipulation was now at the next level.
[ Instant materialization skill level 10 Active skill: As long as you have the right items, You can create any weapon below the Empire rank. Skill costs 30 mana points to use ]
Leo picked up the two katanas and smiled softly. These weapons were at the top of the Monster rank. Currently the ranks between monsters were as follows.
Standard Rank
Monster Rank
Empire Rank
Legend Rank
Berserker Rank
Devil Rank
Dragon Rank
Demon Rank
Using his new skill and concentrating, leo made two katana sheaths as well as a buckle that wrapped his body diagonally which he attached the blades to and swung over his back. Leos face turned pale, "Just these sheaths takes so much energy to create".
With a pouting face, leo looked at the next joyful screen and sighed in relief.
[ Active skill Shadow Realm: A dimensional space were items can be stored no matter the size as long as it is non living ]
Leo really needed this skill, he walked over to the pile of crystals and with a stretch of his hands, his entire stash disappeared into the infinite storage space.
With a satisfied smile leo had finally finished with his rewards but the next notification made him a little bit puzzled.
[ Your thirst for battle grows, Your Blood Rage skill has become stronger as well as your urge to kill ]
At first leo was a bit worried but he threw those thoughts to the back of his head for now, after all a stronger skill was always better right?
Next leo walked to the 7 treasures he had obtained from fighting and Inspected them one after the other. The first was a skill or that Leo didn't hesitate to crush without even reading the contents.
[ Level 13 passive skill Gluttony: You can understand, dissect and analyze high complex moves and information as well as a higher understanding of martial arts and the strength and weakness of your opponents ]
The excitement leo had felt before now felt normal, he was wondering how he would use all this stuff when he got back home again. he hadn't seen Michael and was eager to set foot back on Earth soil.
The other treasures consisted of dual daggers, a pair of bright purple gauntlets that automatically increased strength, A strange, weird looking book as well as a skill or that he didn't really read through. Not to mention, a level 10 runic ring and a strange needle.
Leo stored all of these things in his storage as he planned to look at this stuff later on. The question to escape Karos had long disappeared as his body hit level 14 but his stats were still halved in sunlight.
[ Stage has been cleared, Increasing difficulty. All monsters will be in the range of level 9 to level 14 until you beat the Boss monster ]
"What the fuck is this"