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CRAAASH!
That axe was very heavy; it took almost a spey strength to grasp its plete weight and the power that man had added to it with his myriad of stupid skills. His aura overflowed like a crimson fme; he resembled a mighty warrior, yet he remained weak and patheti front of me.“H-Huh?"His eyes opened wide when he finally realized that the awkward silehat came after he swung his axe against me was because he, in fact, had not killed anybody yet! His stupid, goril-like face groaned in disbelief.
“W-What the…?! What did you- A barrier!”
“Barrier?”
I grabbed his axe and then pulled it, dragging it towards me. He didn’t want to let go of his on, so I zapped his hands off with Photon Energy, turning them into ashes.
ZAAP!
“UUAAAGH!”
As he screamed in agony, I grasped his axe. It was made of pure gold with dragon decorations. Quite a beautiful on; it reminds me slightly of the artistic aesthetiurim. Where did he get this on?
“A rather beautiful axe, despite how pathetically weak it is, might have some sort of hidden potential.” I smiled. “I’ll be taking it from now on- Hm?”
Suddenly, I noticed rays of ic light hit my body, aacles made of shadows attempt to pierce my robes, though they dealt no damage. The magi and the rogue woman tried to go for a sneak attack from behind. Well, it did no damage either way.
“Did you thought sneak attacks would wainst me? Now that you’ve all attacked me, unfortunately, I won’t hold back.”
“W-What?!” The warrior, the rogue woman, and the magi all screamed at the same time.
"Oi, you hulking idiot, what the hell is going on?! I’ve never seen someone just steal a on off your hands! Also none of our attacks dealt any damage?!"
“W-What?!” The warrior, the rogue woman, and the magi all screamed at the same time.
"Oi, you hulking idiot, what the hell is going on?! I’ve never seen someone just steal a on off your hands!"
“That woman is dangerous; fall back!”
The rogue and the magi quickly stepped back. I suppose being Level 1000 gave them some sort of experien battles, enough tnize I wasn’t just someohey could easily bully.
“GIVE BACK MY ON!”
However, the muscle of their team charged towards me. Magic circles around him opened, summoning a rain of silver-colored swords and spears. It seemed his magic was the ability to summoal—how amusing!
“Sure, you have it back!”
I swung the axe with minimal effort, and a wave of Immortal Essence was unleashed, sshing and disiing his little flying projectiles and cutting through his entire body. The hulking giant, whose stats were probably ridiculously high, died in a si.
“W-Wha…?!”
His split-apart body spttered on the floor, his gusts falling and painting the grass red. The smell of blood filled my nostrils—nothing new for me. I’ve seen this se way too many times. He was only able to ask a single question before he died, and it wasn’t even a pleted sentence.
Should I pity him?
Why?
“I told you that I wasn’t going to kill you if you didn’t step forward, yet you did.” I sighed and grabbed his soul. “I don’t feel so nice right now; you just interrupted a nient with my mother and my sister.”
“W-What’s happening?!”
Crack, crack…!
“AARRGH!”
CRASH!
His soul squirmed as I crushed it and then shattered it into tless pieces. The glowing fragments of his soul were immediately absorbed by my physique.
“Not bad; the soul of a Level 1000 does carry a bit of power, huh? And Divinity too! How nice.”
The rogue and the magi were already esg. They didn’t even try to fight back. I noticed them attempting to run away using a teleportation spell. How nice. I want to learn more about that myself, too!
With a siep, photoniergy zapped my entire bht behind them. I found the magi desperately f a magic circle as the rogue guarded his back.
“Surprise! Where do you think yoing?”
“Shit! She’s here!”
"Wait, the magic circle is not do!”
As they screamed, I quickly sprinted forward. Swinging the axe, I attacked the rogue woman with minimal strength. The leopard-beast woman, who was incredibly pretty, swiftly evaded my first attack with an explosion of speed and then appeared right behind me, gritting her sharp teeth.
“{Abyssal Dagger Arts}: {Ohousand Phantasmal Cuts}!”
A thousand cuts rushed down my back as she attempted to reduce me to shreds. The attacks didn’t even tickle, although they had very fancy chraphy and many explosions of darkness.
“It is truly a pity that a beauty like you is my enemy. But let me tell you something: I do not spare people when I decide to kill them. I don’t ge my mind, even if they’re a beautiful maiden.”
My axe quickly cut through her hands, which flew away in explosions of golden fmes. A sed ter, I grasped her head with both of my hands and pressed them tightly. A pity, truly a pity, but that’s how life is. If you let these is trample on you and insult you, you won’t ever make yourself respected.
“P-Please no! Don’t kill me! I was wrong! I will even bee your servant! DON’T KILL ME!”
She kept struggling as her skull started to shatter and her eyes began to pop out of her face.
“Goodbye.”
SPLAT!
Her head exploded into pieces. Brains, eyes, skull fragments—everything. I simply sed the blood from my hands as I looked at the trembling magi; his magic circle was finally done.
“Shit, shit, shit! WORK! FUG WORK!”
FLASH!
His body was enpassed by a fsh of blue and gray light and disappeared from where he was. He might have thought I couldn’t chase after him and that he was a lucky one. However, he couldn’t be far from the truth.
“race you left behind.”
I grasped the Mana Trace his magic left behind and simply followed it with my bination of Movement Teiques and Partial Spatial Manipution. In a split sed, I appeared right behind him, trespassing on dozens of Tower Floors.
“Hahhh… I-I made it… Those two died. Holy sh*t, she’s too dangerous!” He muttered. “W-What kind of monster is that strong without even being Level two thousand?!”
As he gasped for air, yet to notice I was right behind him, I looked around my surroundings. It seemed this was the Tower’s tweh floor. A nd of fmes and volic sery. This arently a safe area inside a mountain. But the outside world was a hellish and bzing ndscape. I noticed tless demonid bzing creatures walking across the nd.
“So this is floor twenty, huh? Quite big!” I ughed.
“W-What?!” He gasped, suddenly realizing I had followed him.
“Surprised? It is very easy to track a trace of yic if you are so bad at hiding it.” I ughed, appearing right in front of him a sed ter.
“G-Get away from me!” As he screamed, he fired several beams of blue light. “{ic Rays}!”
The rays didn’t even harm me; I simply blocked them with my bare hands. They were ridiculously weak! And he calls these “ic”? They’re simply a lesser-light attribute spell.
“I’ve seen what truly ic power is, and you don’t have it. Whave you that spell probably scammed you.” I said.
“W-What?!” He screamed before my hands could grasp his arm, tearing it apart from his body. I then stole his staff a it for myself before kig his legs and shredding them into pieces, blood spttering everywhere.
“NO! P-PLEASE…! DON’T KILL ME, PLEASE!”
As he screamed in agony, his magic attacked me tinuously; s of light, beams of “ic” light, and stars fell over my body, geing huge explosions. Yet all of it was mere replicas; nothing of it was actually at the level of power to call it “ic”!
“What a disappoi you are. Is that all yic? Oh, did you run out of Mana already?”
“W-What do you want?! Please… Don’t kill me! I’ll give you anything! All my credits, all my items..."
“Is that so? Drop them there then.”
“A-Ahhh!”
He quickly dropped a pile of valuable items and credits, shown as white-colored s. It seems I first extort these mortals out of their items before killing them, as killing them doesn’t give me access to their iory items most of the time.
“This will be useful for my sister and my mother. Thank you. For that, I will give you an agonizih!”
“What?! But I…!”
“Do you think I spare anybody? Foolish mortal, this is merely the divine punishment you receive for offending a primordial such as me! Repent in hell!”
I quickly grasped his head and slowly tore it apart from his neck; his screams reverberated everywhere, and people started runnio see the massacre, only to catch a glimpse of my hands tearing his head off his body, blood c my face.
“What? Did you lose something?” I asked. “Give oep, and you might face a simir fate to this utter fool,” I said as I grasped his soul and shattered it into pieces.
“So? Anybody?” The Pyers slowly started walking back, full of horror, and then ran away. “Good! Don’t get involved!” I sed myself again as I sighed in relief.
I hate to admit it, but I did enjoy killing these fools. It seems Murim has truly fucked my head. I know my mother and my sister accept me even as a bloodthirsty monster. But when paring my past self to what I’ve bee, there’s a certain sense of hollowness.
“I suppose this is what es with having beurim’s stro.” I sighed. “Yet even then, I was uo even front the Heavenly Will, and I had to run away…”
Despite how strong I might seem, pared to that monster, I am weak. I o get strohere’s a feeling withihat the time I escape from his clutches won’t be the st time I see him.
I’ll bee strong enough so I make him pay for everything he did to me. For having put me in that horrible world and for f me to turn into the monster I am now.
“Hahh… Well, that is that.”
I moved back to where I was, greeting my family, who were still paralyzed where they were. I hugged my mother and my sister and told them that everything was alright.
“Sorry about that! Everything is alright for now. If anybody like them es around, I’ll just kill them.” I smiled.
“Okay, but big sis, your face has some blood on it…” Ruby sighed.
“Dear, did you have to chase that magi down?!” My mother asked. “Aren’t you a bit too ruthless?”
“If I didn’t kill him, we would be risking him ing back for us with even more hunters,” I said. “It is better to remove the opportunity for this to even occur. Sorry if it es as distasteful, but now that the world has ged and the Tower exists, I am sure many more share this thought process.”
“I guess… You’re n; maybe we are the dumb ones for feeling bad about it.” My mother said.
“ly either…” I said, smiling back at her. “That feeling you have, that feeling of remorse, of guilt... Embrace it. Don’t let it go away. It is what makes you human. And it is what makes your emotions precious. I, iher case, have fotten what it feels like to even be a human anymore.” I gnced into my bloodied hands.
“Katherine…” My mother muttered, hugging me from behind. “It’s fine, dear... You’re human to me; you’re my daughter.”
“Y-Yeah, e on…” Ruby was trying to say something but couldn’t think of anything.
The very thought of them just trying to cheer me up was enough to quickly make me smile and feel pletely happy. Nobody was ever there for me back then; I was pletely alone, always alone. Nobody was there to hug me, to tell me that it was okay to feel sad, or to question yourself.
“I’m happy to have you two with me. You two remihat I was once a human.” I smiled, hugging them both. “Now! Shall we go? We got some bees to hunt!”
“Alright!” Ruby nodded; she was doing her best to cope with everything, although I could notice stress building up on her.
“Let’s go then; I am making my two daughters S-Rank Adventures.” My mother smiled, nodding.
As we moved forward, the figures chasing us tiheir pursuit. However, no matter what, I could not feel any sort of animosity from them. If anything, it felt like they were waiting for an opportunity to talk with us.
Oh well, I did get a lot of gains from those three fools too, so it’s not so bad!
Ding!
[You have sin [Bzing Berserk Warriustaf: Lv1014], [Shadow Leopard Rogue Kunoichi: Essenica: Lv1008], and [Spatial Warlock: Herleck: Lv1050]!]
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[Your Level has increased from Level 487 to Level 553/999!]
[All your Stats have increased. You gained Bonus Stat Points and Skill Points.]
[The Skill: [God Predator (SSS): Lv3] Skill effects have been activated. You have devoured the Divinity Fragments of the Avatars of the {Father Of War And Iron}, {Maiden Of Crest Moon}, and {Schor of the Stars}!]
[All your Stats have increased by +4.000]
[You gained +3.000 Divinity.]
[You learhe Magic Skill: [Bzing Iron onry Creation (S): Lv1]
[You learhe Cssless Skill: [Crest Moon’s Shadow Dagger Style (S): Lv1]
[You learhe Magic Skill: [ic Star Magic (S): Lv1]
[The Skill: [Divine Css Absorption: Lv2 (SSS)] Skill effects have been activated. You have devoured the Divine Csses of the Avatars of the {Father Of War And Iron}, {Maiden Of Crest Moon}, and {Schor of the Stars}!]
[You devoured the [Bzing Berserk Warrior] Divine Css!]
[You devoured the [Shadow Leopard Rogue Kunoich Divine Css!]
[You devoured the [Spatial Warlock] Divine Css!]
[You have earned +5.000 Skill Points!]
[For having sin so many powerful Avatars of many Tods, you gained +600.000 Credits.]
[The Css Skills: [God Predator (SSS): Lv3] [Divine Css Absorption: Lv2 (SSS)] have Leveled Up!]
[Their effects have been strengthened and intensified.]
Oh, they were Avatars too…
[The Tod {Father of War And Iron} roars in fury, asking what happeo his Avatar!]
[The Tod {Maiden Of Crest Moon} was sleeping when it all happened and is fused!]
[The Tod {Schor of the Stars} is shocked by your brutality and monstrosity. He swiftly decides to never i with you again.]
Sorry about that; don’t worry, yoing to join your Avatars soon enough.
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