***
A few days later.
Dimension Justice Base.
Aaron stood in the center of the training field, his focus pointed forward, his hands stretched out to bring up his two soul servants.
Two days ago, Jack the Ripper's servants had reactivated after being deactivated for five days.
"Come forth," Aaron pleaded.
Two white lights flew from Aaron's forehead, appearing right before his face in the form of two soul servants who would be completely obedient to Aaron's will, Jack the Ripper and Gregori Rasputin.
[MP -24000]
'As I expected, once the servant feature is unlocked, the MP amount to summon one servant will be 12000 MP.'
'This will save me quite a bit of use on my Additional MP,' Aaron said.
Aaron opened the system panel and pressed the servant menu. He had some Soul Elixir that increased the servant's EXP. The higher the servant's level, the stronger each of their attacks.
[Enhance Servant]
[Choose Servant:]
[1. Jack the Ripper]
[2. Gregory Rasputin]
'Since their basic combat is different, I'll probably pay more attention to Jack the Ripper's servant level first,' Aaron said.
What Aaron was referring to was their servant types. Servants have three types of basic combat: offense, defense, and support. Jack the Ripper's basic combat is offense, which is supported by his talents.
Gregory Rasputin was a support servant because his reality talent could trick the enemy even though Aaron did not deny that Rasputin's soul level was higher than Jack.
However, after both become servants, they will have the same level of being Aaron's soul servant.
[Servant Details]
[Name: Jack the Ripper]
[Servant Lv: 1]
[EXP: 0/1000]
[Talent: Stealth]
[Rank Talent: S-R]
[Enhance Servant?]
[Yes] [No]
Aaron pressed the yes button and started enhancing the servant's ability. He had 10 Soul Elixir lv.1, which could increase the servant's EXP by 100 per elixir.
By using ten Soul Elixirs, Jack the Ripper's servant level could be boosted to 2nd level. Aaron couldn't wait to see what kind of changes would happen if his servant managed to level up.
[Servant Enhance confirmed]
[Servant selected:]
[Jack the Ripper]
[Starts scanning for item requirements]
[Soul Elixir detected]
[Quantity: 10]
[Grade: 1]
[Requirement met]
The ten elixir bottles with white liquid looked lit up and flew towards Jack. It seemed to circle around the servant in a clockwise direction.
One by one, the Soul Elixir bottles broke, and the liquid inside turned into a stream of energy that was absorbed by Jack.
[Servant EXP +100]
[Servant EXP +300]
[Servant EXP +600]
[Servant Enhance Successful]
[DING! Congratulations as Servant has leveled up]
[Servant Lv. 2]
[DING! Congratulations as servant's ability increased]
[Servant Range: 1km]
[Servant Duration: 5 hours]
[CP +2000]
'Hmm... with the servant's range increased, it could help me a lot when doing infiltration or recon in the forest or enemy territory,' Aaron replied.
'It's better than what I thought.'
He allowed servant Gregori Rasputin to return while he told Jack to go scout. In the white mist, Jack disappeared to carry out Aaron's orders.
Through the servant's shared vision with Aaron, Aaron could see that Jack was scouting some distance from the Dimension Justice base location. He entered the forest, detecting several monsters and gangs of adventurers from other groups.
"This is good. They won't see him, but he can see them clearly."
"See what?"
Someone startled Aaron when the young man was scouting using his servant. He blinked and switched to normal vision, clearly seeing that the woman speaking to him was Liel.
"Liel? What are you doing?" asked Aaron, shocked.
"I'm trying to walk around the base since I have nothing else to do. What are you doing? What are you looking at?"
"It's a—"
Liel moved his face closer to Aaron, smiling flirtatiously as she focused on Aaron's eyes, "Are you doing something naughty?"
Just as Liel asked so, a mysterious white mist appeared on the practice field. Liel sensed a strange energy fluctuation in the place.
The woman immediately went on alert while bringing up a blood dagger from her blood magic ability.
"Calm down, Liel. He's not a threat."
Jack came out from within the white mist, surprising Liel as the woman sensed a fairly strong ability from the strange man. Aaron turned his head, ordering Jack to return.
Liel was even more startled. It turned out that the strange man was not an ordinary man but a soul servant that Liel had never met before.
He walked up to Aaron again. Asking questions curiously, especially about where Aaron could get a person's soul.
"About that, it's a bit difficult to explain."
"Did the mysterious woman give it to you? The woman with red hair," Liel asked.
'She has a high level of sensitivity, even to guess like that.'
"Something like that."
[ANNOUNCEMENT!]
[Monster Raid in Dark Pillar Tower will open soon]
[All adventurers are requested to prepare]
[Countdown until Monster Raid Gate opens]
[00:11:59:43]
The monster raid panel was back, opened for the second time in a week. Aaron smiled excitedly. He could join the monster raid this time because the previous punishment had expired.
"The raid is open again. Are you joining for this one?" asked Liel, making sure.
"Of course. I can't miss this opportunity. We can go up to the city floor."
"Why do you want to help me so much, Aaron? I thought your first impression of me was pretty bad."
Stunned, that was Aaron's response when she said so. Liel's pupils rounded broadly in a sign of affection, continuing to watch Aaron as she hoped his answer would be what she expected.
Never had she felt something like this. She often thought the men were weaker than her, so few of them dared to get close to Liel.
But, Aaron was totally different. Although the two were briefly acquainted, Aaron was not intimidated by Liel's rough and tomboyish attitude. That's what surprised Liel.
"Because we have the same element, although it's poisonous to you. It makes me feel like I am responsible for healing your condition."
"Responsibility, huh? Isn't there anything else? Maybe like feelings-"
"Aaron!" called Isabella, running from behind Liel as she interrupted Liel's words.
Isabella continued to run with her system panel still active, showing the same form as Aaron and Liel. Arriving at the practice field, Isabella invited Aaron to start preparing for the monster raid.
Liel glanced sharply to the side, then turned her head and walked away with a grumpy heart. Aaron watched Liel leave, as did Isabella, who kept watching her.
"What's wrong with her?" Isabella asked. Aaron shook his head, not knowing.
"Who will be participating in the raid this time?"
"Alisha, Lorelei, Clara, and us. I don't know who the other members are."
Aaron cleared his throat. He invited Isabella to go to prepare everything. According to the time calculation, Aaron suspected the raid gate would open at three in the morning. That meant he and the others would have to stay up until then.
But before that, he had to tell Alisha about his availability. They went to Alisha's study and told her about it as Alisha was talking with some members of the Dimension Justice group.
"Aaron. Did you get the notice?" asked Alisha, Aaron cleared his throat.
"Good. Yesterday's team mapped the maze. We might be able to find the floor boss room easily," replied Alisha, pointing ahead as she introduced the leader of yesterday's raid team.
"About that, you have nothing to worry about. I have a detailed map of the third floor, which I got from the raid monsters."
"Really? Can you share it with us?"
Aaron did not mind. He pressed his system watch and copied the map to share with the people before him.
The young man also invited Alisha to be the raid group leader this time since she was more familiar with the dark pillar maze on the third floor.
[Copying the third-floor dark pillar map item]
[Sending a copy of the item]
[Recipient:]
[1. Alisha]
[2. Mira]
[3. Alpha]
[Send a copy item?]
[Yes] [No]
An incoming notification appeared on the panel of the three people, with a panel with Aaron's name and other information. Alisha smiled and started to open the copy of the map.
[You received a copy item (Third Floor Dark Pillar Map) from Aaron]
The map opened. Alpha, who was the leader of the raid team yesterday, could only gasp as he realized that Aaron's map was complete, even to the location of the floor boss room. Alisha was even more optimistic with this map.
"Thank you, Aaron. If you're free, we'll have a strategy discussion session tonight here," said Alisha.
"Alright. I will come after preparing my stuff."
"I will wait for you."