Speed Is King

[Congratulations. You have completed your upgrade mission.]

[Black Phoenix Goddess System unlocked.]

“Yes! Finally!” Jessica whooped for joy after she finished absorbing the last of the Dark Nether Viper Beast Core.

She had been tasked to absorb the beast cores of two hundred Lord Level dark-elemental beasts and fire-elemental beasts EACH for her last system upgrade mission. She had literally dumped every single curse word she knew at the system when she found out.

“Which dumb-assed, bald-headed, pock-faced, flappy-bellied, rotten-toothed, scrawny-legged moron of a Sponsor actually made this upgrade mission? How on EARTH am I supposed to find so many Lord level dark and fire elemental beasts? AND even if I find them, how am I supposed to kill them? What a dumbass! DUMBASS! DUMBASS!!!!!!” Jessica had screamed in frustration.

After moping about for an hour or two, Jessica had finally gritted her teeth and went on to another killing spree to level herself up so that she could be strong enough to kill so many “blasted” dark and fire elemental beasts.

Her luck turned out to be extremely formidable indeed, because within the hour, she had met with a King level fire-elemental beast, a ferocious Flame-Bellied Salamander.

After killing it and absorbing its beast core, she realized that one King level fire-elemental beast core was equal to TWENTY Lord level beast core!

“Ahahaha! So the Sponsor is not such a dumbass after all. Turns out I only need to kill ten King level dark elemental and fire elemental beasts each. Hahaha! Good! Good! What a genius sponsor I have!” Jessica had laughed happily.

She had quickly hunted all the Flame-Bellied Salamanders in the area and completed her quota for ten fire-elemental beast cores, and then some more.

However, hunting for King level dark-elemental beasts proved to be a much tougher mission. She had to hunt long and hard, kill countless beasts over a wide swath of land before finally stumbling upon the Dark Nether Vipers.

When it rains, it usually pours.

For Jessica, it was raining Vipers.

Literally.

HISSSSS!!!

A massive Dark Nether Viper had struck at Jessica from atop a huge tree as she was walking by. She had easily dodged its attack and then unleashed her barrage of skills.

BLACK FLAME BURST!

BLACK FLAME SWORD!

DARK CURSE!

LIFE SIPHON!

WHAM! WHAM! WHAM! WHAM!

Her skills smashed into the poor Dark Nether Viper who hadn’t expected that the weak and delicious looking little girl to be such a thick iron plate! No, not an iron plate. An iron bomb!

It died very quickly under Jessica’s savage and efficient attacks.

But unfortunately (or fortunately?) for Jessica, the massive tree and the few others around it turned out to be a Dark Nether Viper nesting area!

After killing one, all of the other Dark Nether Vipers were immediately roused to battle, and all of them launched deadly killing blows at Jessica!

BLACK FLAME ARMOR!

BLACK FLAME WINGS!

Jessica had no choice but to take to the skies and slowly pick off the Dark Nether Vipers one by one.

It had been a long and tedious fight, and she had to exert all of her strength to kill a few, escape for a bit to recharge, and then return to kill a few more.

But after killing close to fifteen Dark Nether Viper Kings, she had leveled up to an impressive 310.

“I am a King level life form now!” Jessica had exclaimed joyfully as she gathered all of the Dark Nether Viper beast cores together and prepared to consume them.

That was three days ago.

And now, she was a King level life form with an upgraded system.

The SSS Black Phoenix Goddess System!

“Show me my new stats.” Jessica said with undisguised excitement.

Black Phoenix Goddess System (SSS-Grade)

Character Name: Jessica Musk

Current Level: 310

HP: 15500/15500

Current Experience: 6600/31000

Strength: 125

Intellect: 20

Endurance: 20

Reflexes: 75

Luck: 20

Fire Resistance: MAX

Dark Resistance: MAX

Skills

[Level 36 Black Flame Burst – Release a ring of fire around you and dealing 7200% fire damage.]

[Level 40 Black Flame Sword – Generates a sword of flame that deals 8000% fire damage.]

[Level 30 Black Flame Wings – Creates a pair of flame wings that allows you to fly for 45 minutes.]

[Level 40 Black Flame Armor – Creates a Black Flame Armor that absorbs 8000% of your damage output every second.]

[Level 15 Greater Rebirth – Revive to full HP upon death. Permanently gain 10 (+5 after every Greater Rebirth) points in all stats after rebirth. 15/15]

[Level 30 Dark Curse – Unleash a curse on your enemy dealing 200% dark damage per second for 30 seconds.]

[Level 30 Life Siphon – Absorbs 3% of your enemy’s max hp every 5 seconds.]

[Level 1 Black Phoenix Goddess Aura – Weakens enemy attacks by 50%.]

[Level 1 Black Phoenix Goddess Flame Strike – Unleashes a powerful burst of energy using the Black Flame Sword, dealing 10,000% damage to enemies from a distance.]

[Black Phoenix Goddess Sacrifice – Turns a target to become a devout follower of the Black Phoenix Goddess permanently, at the cost of the Black Phoenix Goddess’ life. 15/15]

“Impressive.” Jessica breathed in wonder.

“All of my basic skills had their damage multiplier increased from before. My Black Flame Sword now deals 8000% damage instead of 6000%! Mwa ha ha ha! And Greater Rebirth? That’s just wickedly strong. The more I die, the stronger I’ll become. And at my 14th rebirth… Five times fourteen… seventy. Plus ten… Eighty. Plus all the previous gains… I don’t even know how strong I’ll be! Hahaha!

AND the three new skills I have…

The Black Phoenix Goddess Aura is incredible… It literally doubles the number of enemies I can deal with.

The Black Phoenix Goddess Flame Strike is impressive. 10,000% damage from a distance is even more powerful than my melee attack!

[Affirmative.]