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Strength - 10
Speed - 10
Defense - 10
Endurance - 10
Mana - 7/10
Death Energy - 18
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[ You have reached the limit of Level 2]
[ The physical stats can not grow any further]
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After a series of rapid growth in his stats, Dave had never imagined that there would be such a limit. It was shocking but didn't affect him that much, as the Death energy stat was still accumulated whenever he killed, he can just boost his stats when he will reach the next level.
The [ Mark Of Death] will be useless for a while now. One thing he noticed was that whoever he killed was marked with a weird text somewhere on their body that was glowing in a Lilac hue. It wasn't a language that Dave was familiar with and he sure wasn't interested in checking every corpse of the people he had killed himself. The text appeared wherever he landed the last hit, first he thought that it was just a coincidence but then he delivered the killing blows on the head several times, and the text appeared there.
' Maybe because of these texts, it's called [ Mark Of Death]'
He didn't free the town folks out of the prison cells as he considered that going out was not safe yet. He quickly got out of prison once he was done dealing with every one of the enemies there as well. The security office was filled with corpses around every corner, he could tell that many people tried to fight back but were burnt by those fireballs.
Common people in this world also had skills but because they lacked mana they were unable to use it more than one or two times. Thus, they might not have been able to fight back despite having some very useful skills. He searched for the kids that the terrorist was after but was still not successful.
' Where could they have taken those children? I am sure that the boss of these terrorists will also be where they are keeping them.' He thought.
He noticed that the attacks from these terrorists were getting stronger. Their fireball attacks were larger and caused more damage than before. This led him to suspect many things about this power being shared between the terrorists, so the lesser the number of the terrorist the stronger their attacks were. With the little knowledge, Dave had of Skills, he understood that the same skill can not be learned by two different people so he dismissed this possibility. If it's a fire-type skill then two people must have two variations of the skill.
For example, if one person has a fireball skill then the other person must have something like a sea of flames. He had read the concept of skill trees when he was in hiding under the protection of Oscar thus people having the same skills doesn't make sense.
The plausible answer to why each of these terrorists can use the same powers could be that, It's either a magic spell as Conan and others suspected, or something that he doesn't know about yet.
The smoke that rose from the ground was making the sky above look very ominous but there was something else. There was a Lilac glow in the sky the same mysterious glow that emanated from the text on the corpses of the people he killed, it wasn't sinister or soothing. The energy was there like a constant, that it would exit forever, and every time he killed someone it became more and more visible to him.
He ran from one building to the other in hopes of finding a way. Some brave villagers in the prison told him about the places where the enemy could be hiding.
The amount of power in his one attack was enough to shatter a thick wall like it was nothing. his speed allowed him to run faster than the fastest animal on earth. His body was able to do any amount of damage and still feel nothing because of Defence and Endurance.
He has physically grown in size because of these constant power-ups. He now had very strong muscles. The clothes he was currently wearing barely fit him, and sometimes he had a hard time controlling this newfound strength within himself.
' I have completely become a different person,' He thought. ' Is this what being a superhuman feels like?'
After a while, he also stopped by one cloth shop in the town to get something to cover up his burnt clothes. He quickly, only took a traveler's Cape and nothing else from the shop to save time, as only the clothes on his upper body were burnt.
Just as he got out of the shop, he was blinded by an orange flash, when he looked carefully he was surrounded by flames. The same attack that he had defended against when he was running away. The fire swept everything in its path but was unable to even scratch Dave because of the [ Invisible shield].
' So those guys have finally come.' Dave thought, he wasn't affected by the flames at all but the area around him melted. He knew that spikes would rise from the ground so he jumped on the roof. Just as he jumped a man attacked his shield with a heavy sword.
The man swung the large sword like it was nothing. While from the other side a huge fireball came and flared the entire building with flames.
" Who are you?" The Agent Known as Iron asked. " Are you here to save those kids?"
" I should be the one asking about your identities, Who are you bastards? Why did you burn down the entire town?" Dave asked in an angry tone of voice.
" Oh about that...I am very sorry...hahaha...i am very sorry to burn your hometown...hahaha" Iron laughed like a maniac and then the next second put his hand on the roof. " So you are a citizen of this town."
Dave jumped to another roof quickly because he could make sense of what iron was going to do. The Metal spike rose just a second after he jumped. Dave kept running from one place to another completely ignoring the guy who attacked using flames but that was a mistake.
A tornado of flames surrounded him, blocking his vision, for some reason he was unable to get past the walls of the flame tornado. And from the ground below his feet, several spikes of metal rose that injured his feet, and for the first time Dave saw the cracks on his shield.