Chapter 23

It was amazing! If things kept progressing at this speed, Harry would have enough money to pay for his own school fees and finally rid himself from his dependency on the Dursleys without just turning into a street side beggar.

While walking back towards the domed hall, Harry couldn't help but wonder what was it that determined the amount of loot he got from his kills. He didn't know for sure, but he had a feeling about what he was.

With a thought, Harry brought up his stats and pressed on Luc.

Luc-6

Luck determines your luckiness. This is useful in certain skills and also determines what you get as loot. The higher your luck the more chance you get of obtaining higher loot

Harry's eyes widened at this. This…this was what he needed. He then quickly put all his stat points in Luc.

STR-8

VIT-4(+2)=6

DEX-4(+2)=6

INT-9

WIS-5

LUC-11

POINTS-0

Satisfied with that, he moved onwards towards the end of the tunnel, where he found the few Inferi who had managed to survive the flame blast. Too wary to use up what was left of his mana, Harry decided to use something different. Pulling out his old kitchen-knife that he'd stolen from the Dursleys, Harry used his other hand to pool some mana onto the blade and set it on fire, after which he stabbed them each in the head. One by one, they all dissolved into dust.

Ping!

A new skill has been made due to constant use!

Blade Mastery, Lv-1 (80%)

Allows the user to freely handle swords and knives.

5% more damage when using blades.

After everything was cleared up, Harry walked around the chamber, gently brushing his fingers over the curious little symbols that adorned the wall all around him.

Wondering if they had any magical properties to them, Harry gently pushed some mana into one of the symbols. Immediately, it started glowing. Then the ones beside it…then the next…then next.

Slowly but surely, every single one of the symbols in the cavern lit up with a gentle silver light.

Caught off guard, Harry could barely manage to stay on his feet when the whole cavern he was stood in groaned and started quaking. Loose rocks and dust fell from the ceiling and a group of bats, shaken free of their perches, flew around the cavern forcing Harry to duck as the ceiling above him groaned and parted, opening up to the lush forest above.

The moonlight flooded the cavern, and as soon as it touched him, the floor he stood on started rising as well, lifting Harry along with it slowly up to the ground level.

Harry looked around with panic, desperately trying to figure out what was going on, when suddenly an extremely loud howl ripped through the air.

"Wait a minute," Harry muttered as he realized what was going on. The boss that the quest mentioned…could it be what he was thinking? Harry's eyes flitted to the sky, and immediately his suspicions were confirmed. The full moon that shone on him so brightly was much more foreboding than it had been before.

Every muscle in his body tensed, and Harry was suddenly on guard. If what he thought was actually true and there really was a werewolf that he had to fight, he didn't want to use fire and draw attention to himself.

He'd read the stories. He knew how strong werewolves were known to be, and if even half the rumors were true, he didn't want anything to do with this one.

Cautiously, he activated the wardstone perk.

Wardstone perk activated!

Grants +1000 HP and +1000 MP when activated it at the cost of -25 MP per minute. All wounds are healed. All ailments cured. +20 Str,+20 Vit, +20 Dex.

'I'm going to have to watch how I use this,' Harry realized as he reread the cost, "I can barely use the perk for an hour with my current MP.' Harry thought to himself.

1125 MP divided by 25 to be exact. 45 minutes. That was his limit if he used no magic at all when he was boosted, which was unrealistic. Knowing that his flamboyant use of fire magic burned through his mana fairly, fast, he estimated that he'd have 15 to 20 minutes at max depending on how much magic he used.

Gamer's Mind, being back at full strength, helped Harry come up with a plan.

At its simplest, it was quite similar to what he had done with Carrow. Buy enough time to figure out its weaknesses, then find an opportune moment to strike at those weaknesses.

Getting the idea to hide, he quickly ran towards a nearby tree full speed, using his boosted Dex to run a couple of steps up its side before jumping and grabbing onto a low hanging branch. With a grunt, he pulled himself up onto it and started climbing the branches up into the more leaf-covered area that'd hide him better.

He'd just found a place to perch and hide in between the leaves and branches when something burst through the foliage and onto the clearing he was just in.

Harry stilled.

It was a grotesque looking creature. It looked like a wolf, but not so at the same time. Its front legs a little too long, its snout a little too short, its eyes a little too human. And its entire body was riddled with scars.

Its eyes swept the clearing, presumably looking for the source of all the ruckus that had been caused when the platform had raised into the ground. Harry watched with bated breath as the glowing amber orbs looked across the clearing. Hoping to get some information to help him escape, Harry mouthed the command, 'Observe.'

A window popped up.

Beta wolf Lv-27

HP: 2700/3000

MP:500/600

Race-Werewolf

Str-35

Vit-15

Dex-35

Int-4

Wis-2

Luc-2

A human that upon the complete rising of the full moon, becomes a fearsome and deadly near-wolf. This condition is caused by infection with lycanthropy, also known as werewolfry. Appears in the form of a wolf but there are distinctions between them and regular wolves. They are bloodthirsty, strong and will hunt any human they sense.

Kill to gain- 1000 Exp.

While it was incredibly tempting to fight the werewolf and gain a level, Harry wasn't sure he was ready for this, and fighting someone with strength stats higher than even his boosted ones wasn't a risk he wanted to take.

With a stab of panic, he realized that he had forgotten to pick the portkey up once he had arrived.

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