Undying Warlord

[334 Essences and 9 <Bronze> Essences have been absorbed→ +4.5 Strength, 6.1 Health, +1.9 Stamina, +4.1 Agility, +1.3 Mana]

Approximately 16 higher-leveled mutated monsters’ Essences were there in the ordinary Essences he had absorbed.

As such, Dilan was only slightly astonished when he noticed how much of a boost he received from a single huge battle.

He had sustained numerous tiny injuries but none of them was even close to the wounds he had inflicted upon himself.

Dilan had forgotten about the injuries while fighting, which led him to take a look at them once everything was over.

However, there was not much of an injury left to look at, to begin with.

This clearly showed how potent his healing capacities were.

And his Health stat had just increased to 20.5 Units, strengthening his physique and capabilities to recuperate even faster!

‘Shouldn’t there be a limit on how high a stat can reach at Tier-0?’

It would make sense because otherwise, it was questionable whether he could even label Tier-1 monsters as more powerful than Tierless monsters, to begin with.

After all, one could reach level 10 with the average stat of 4 units, or be like Dilan with a Health stat of over -20-, and an Agility of -15-!

Dilan was really confused as to what the limit of a Tierless Ascender was because his body didn’t really feel burdened despite the powers he had received.

If he were to be at his limits, this would have happened._-.

While thinking about it, Dilan approached the permanent Gate.

The bluish liquid was in a stable form and seemed to be completely unruffled by whatever had just happened.

As such, he couldn’t help but approach it, while holding two Bronze Essence crystals in his hand.

“Please give me something good, otherwise, I will beat the shit out of you!!” Dilan’s mood was already bad because there had been quite a few injured Survivors.

Other than that, the resurfacing memories of his family bothered him the most.

Shaking his head to get rid of those thoughts, he held out the two Bronze Essence crystals with the thought of throwing them inside the permanent Gate, just to receive notifications.

[<Bronze> Essence crystal of Tierless Level 10 Mutated Dizziran Rat and Tierless Level 9 War Krendel have been detected!]

[<Bronze> grade treasures can be exchanged with 5 <Bronze> Essence crystals of the same type!]

After reading the messages, Dilan halted in his tracks.

“Is that some bad joke?!” He could only mumble before re-reading the message once again.

‘Looks like the first Bronze treasure I received was just a welcome gift…is that so??’

Scratching the back of his head, Dilan couldn’t help but be confused.

But instead of bothering about accumulating enough Bronze Essence crystals, Dilan simply absorbed them.

The War Krendel didn’t provide him with any further Status points.

However, the return from the Mutated Dizziran Rat was more than enough to lift his mood once again.

[<Bronze> Essence crystal of Tierless Level 10 Mutated Dizziran Rat has been absorbed→ +0.6 Stamina, +2.1 Mana]

Dilan had hoped to exchange the Bronze Essence crystal of the Mutated Dizziran Rat with a Bronze treasure that was related to the high mana attribute or mental attack of the monster.

Because that was not possible, absorbing the Essence crystal was the most logical answer.

The boost in mana was quite helpful, and it allowed Dilan’s last stats to cross the threshold of 10 units!

Each of his stat was more than ten times the average of a human before the Primordial Ascension if one were to exclude Mana as it didn’t exist at that time.

[Permanent Gate to (Krendel’s Underground Valley). Requirements to enter the Gate are met! -All Stats <4+>, Tierless Level [10]!]

For a moment, Dilan considered entering the Krendel’s Underground Valley at once.

But that would be quite irresponsible to everyone, who fought against the monsters of the second wave with all their mind.

With that in mind, he returned to the huge hall on the second floor before approaching Kathrine.

“How is the current situation? We didn’t have any casualties, right? I saw some injured Ascenders, but everyone looked quite fine after absorbing the Essence crystals of horned rats and Krendels.”

Kathrine could only nod her head before her attention turned to one particular direction.

“It looks like the Essence has the innate trait to decrease our fear of killing monsters. It doesn’t obliterate our fear but it is still amazing how much everyone changes after leveling up once or twice.”

It was truly surprising, even more so if one saw how the complexion of several dozen scared witless Survivors changed in a matter of minutes.

Dilan was just about to say something else as he saw that Kathrine’s gaze was still fixated on something.

‘Why is she so interested in the Krendel Warrior’s bodies?’ He pondered, only for an idea to pop up in his head.

“The Krendel Warriors were at level 7. So you can take them to the cafeteria for Yvonne. She should start experimenting with her Origin ability as quickly as possible. And while replenishing her mana, Yvonne might as well focus on learning how to control Mana.

This should be quite important for her in the future as well!”

After he said this, Dilan stood back and simply observed the entire battlefield for a few moments.

Some corpses were mutilated beyond measure. Hence, they couldn’t be used for anything anymore.

With a sigh, Dilan could only tell one of the Ascenders to return to the cafeteria to get Bianne and everyone else to come over.

They had a big task at hand, sorting the corpses that were still usable, dismantling the hide of the monsters like the War Krendel to create leather armors that were hard enough to block the bites and scratches of lower leveled zombies and so on.

There was too much work to do. Thus, Dilan quickly lost track of time.

He was still tired but his Stamina recuperated faster than it could deplete thanks to his high Health stat.

Bianne had arrived a long time ago, followed by some reluctant Survivors that vomited the last remnants of their breakfast the moment they witnessed the state of the second floor’s battleground.

Dilan and most of the others had ignored this reaction, but a batch of Ascenders came over to give them mental support.

Meanwhile, Yvonne was amongst the calmest, which astonished not only Kathrine, but also Dilan.

He had expected Yvonne to panic after probably having developed some severe trauma against everything that involved violence, blood and death.

But given her demeanor, she didn’t seem to be all that bothered at the sight of the dead bodies.

“Is that because of her Origin ability’s passive effect?” Kathrine mumbled when thinking about the only logical reason for Yvonne to be that eerily calm.

“I guess so…”

Dilan’s answer was certainly not pleasing at that time, but when Yvonne simply made her way through the corpses to calmly approach the same Krendel Warriors, Kathrine and Dilan spoke about, they couldn’t help but be certain that her instincts led her around.

This was quite interesting, but what amazed them was the way darkness currents emerged out of her hand.

At that moment, the temperature on the second hall had cooled down by several degrees, while the darkness currents were slowly finding their way towards the closest Krendel Warrior.

The corpse began to twitch, and the sound of bones breaking could be heard only for its legs to start twitching.

Meanwhile, Yvonne began to sweat profusely.

Her entire back was already drenched in sweat but her eyes were fully fixated on the corpse right in front of her as she mumbled.

“Arise, and serve me!”

Yvonne’s voice was eerily cold, and Dilan could faintly perceive that her eyes had turned pitch-black for a second.

However, this felt like an illusion because the pitch-black color had disappeared in a millisecond when Dilan blinked his eyes.

“She is an ideal fit to become a Necromancer…” Dilan mumbled, wondering if Yvonne’s Origin ability would overlap with the Necromancer occupation, or if they would collide with one another.

Meanwhile, Dilan’s eyes flicked to the walking corpse of the Krendel Warrior.

He could clearly tell that if Yvonne learned to control herself properly, she would become extremely powerful, maybe even more powerful than himself.

But that was obviously something Dilan wouldn’t accept.

After all, he had his very own Origin ability and a very compatible occupation for this Origin ability.

And that was something Dilan knew even though the occupation of his choice didn’t really reveal anything about it to him!

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