Evil crow*

Set was grinning from ear to ear. The two runes he had obtained were obscenely powerful. After walking for an hour he stopped. He entered a nearby cave was surrounded by dense trees and proper view of the cave was obscured. He wouldn't even know it was there if he had not been close to it. The inside of the cave was fairly small, the ceiling was measly four meters away. He quickly brought out the metal crane and injected it with his power. The small metal crane to life and grew in size rapidly, it was now three meters long. Flames covered the body of the crane making it look like and undying Pheonix. But that wasn't the least of it, all of a sudden the Titan Blade appeared and the sun mark on the blade shown with blinding light. It was so bright that not even Set was able to see through what was happening. After about half an hour the light dimmed down, but what met his eye shocked Set.

The Silver Metalic body of the crane was now completely black. The other thing was that on the belly of the crane was the same mark that was on the Titan Blade, except this one was gold. The crane seemed intimidating but Set was not afraid. When the whole thing was occurring he felt a strong connection being formed between the crane and Set himself. Set was very excited, he jumped on the back of the crane and commanded it to fly. The crane heeding its master's command hastily made its way out of the cave. When it came out of the cave it flapped its wings. The trees that had been covering their way were immediately incinerated. The crane was fast the sheer speed of it made Set almost fall over.

The crane slowed down and started to fly at a more manageable pace. Set immediately started flying towards a spot where he might be able to kill Demon-class beasts. Set on the way there had taken out the remaining Horny Goat's beast cores and had absorbed their essence to make his Hell flame stronger. At the end of it all, hell flame had upgraded to Lv.27, but it was beginning to act up. He had used all the beast cores which were 200+, yet he was only able to progress two levels? Set out of concern asked the system what was going on. But the answer he received was most heartbreaking.

The system told Set that the only reason he had been leveling up like crazy was because of Rage. Since Rage had already reached level twenty with the innate ability, and when Set took it, because his power level was too low the hell flame was sealed, it was merely leveling up to go back to its original power status. Meaning from now on his leveling up speed was going to be slowed down. Set was sad but he had already expected this. He was interested as to why he was leveling up so fast and now he had his answer. He didn't dwell on it too much because he had another big problem. If he wanted to level up from Demon to Saint then he was supposed to max out his innate ability and also needed to max out his body fitness.

But given Set's interesting innate ability, he currently had a total of seven different innate abilities which were Manifest, Cursed flame, Time turtle cap, Lady Luck kisses, GOD'S WILL, Shell, and of course Hell flame.

The others were merely skills aligned with one or more of the innate abilities. But just as he was thinking he suddenly froze! Hhis was was pale as he was scared of the direction his train of thought had gone! But he couldn't help it. If a person had to max out their fitness and ability to level up to saint then he was going to have to do that six more times than a normal individual and that was counting on the fact that he wouldn't kill anybody and snatch their powers or manifest power of his own.

Even though Set had a body fitness a bit stronger than an average person, he was still able to use hell flame to its fullest power without damaging his body. He suspected it had something to do with it being fused with the Titan Blade but he couldn't make sure. Set uncertain of his leveling up future remembered the stat points he had not used.

. . .

[status bar]

[Host: Set]

[Power level: 10]

[Age: 16]

[HP: 150]

[Title: The slayer of horned beasts: THE BASTARD]

[Status point: 15(+96)]

[Strength: 90(+5 wolf fang)] [Agility: 50] [Preception: 50]

[Speed: 50] [Stamina: 50]

. . .

He had one hundred eleven free stat points to use and after careful deliberation, he distributed them to the stats he needed the most.

. . .

[Status point: 0]

[Strength: 100(+5 wolf fang)] [Agility: 80] [Preception: 50]

[Speed: 80] [Stamina: 91]

. . .

Set left with no more stat points, felt his body improve significantly! It was as if he had been given a super energy drink... a super energy drink that increases your speed, agility, strength, and stamina! Tinking back to how much he struggled with the Horny Goats, with his newfound strength he could decimate their numbers before needing to catch his breath!

After celebrating his body improvement he turned his attention to the Saint-class armor. He sent it back to the system and asked how much it cost. Set unwillingly coughed up two hundred blood points. After some thinking, he also gave the five chunks of rare metal ores to the system. Because there was no way he would consciously give up five hundred blood points. He also gave the runes to the system but was met with a surprise.

. . .

[Would you like to study the Light rune?]

[Yes] [No]

. . .

[Would you like to study the Dark rune?]

[Yes] [No]

. . .

Set hearing this was interested. He decided to learn them, costing him twenty blood points. Bringing down his already low reserve of blood points to 332. A flood of information invaded Set's mind. After about half an hour of this Set woke up from his dazed state he had learned a lot about the two runes but what he had learned scared him. The potential of the two runes was far beyond the boards of simple buffs. If used properly they would become scary things. And the crazy thing was, the flood of information he had gained was only a small part of what was actually there!

Realizing this, Set ordered the System to further study the two runes!

The system told Set the armor would finish being fixed in three days. But Set immediately regretted that decision seeing the fact that he was going to hunt the Evil crows!

After a while of traveling the sun was at the highest point and the heat was almost head cracking especially for Set who had been under direct sunlight for almost three hours straight. Looking in the distance, Set was relieved and excited. He had spotted a mountain that looked like a sword pointing towards the heavens. The mountain was so tall that the peak was obscured by the cover of the clouds. That was his destination, the mountain was called Sword mountain for obvious reasons. It was home to the Demon-class monster known as Evil crow. These Evil crows had the power of peak Demon-class and were the size of trucks with a wingspan of up to twenty meters. Set was here in hopes of maxing out his hell flame and if possible to max out his fitness for the hell flame. He curled his body firmly around the metal crane's neck and prompted it to fly at full speed.

World-class speed was scary. What would have taken at least an hour and a half in a manageable speed was zapped short to a mere five minutes. There were many instanced where Set was almost thrown off his mount, and due to this scare, he had to use his GOD'S WILL ability, to glue himself onto the crane!

Set was now floating steadily at the belly of the mountain looking towards the top. But before Set could go above the clouds towards the peak five massive pitch-black crows dived out of the clouds, flying ferociously towards Set!

But Set wasn't alarmed. Instead, he was elated, as they were the reason he was here. They were the Evil Crows!