5 Leveling Up

John and Sezar never bothered to conceal themselves so they were open for Mike to detect them.

'Yeah guys go ahead and keep watching and only start your job after I level up ahahaha', the reason I noticed them tailing behind me back in the village is simply cause John and Sezar were open for me to notice them, like what they are doing now for example.

After all, this is not the first time that the ex-owner of this body will get pursued and then beaten up so they never bothered hiding.

However he simply had to do something so he can keep living under the same roof as his parents, so the dead Mike never bothered to care much about the bullying since he had nothing to resist them with and he didn't want to get kicked from the house, or else he might end up dead in a matter of days considering how weak he was, so he followed the same routine almost every day. Even though he knows that he won't survive for long if his sister got to tier 1 or got married.

After walking for some time Mike finally saw a Bear wandering around in the forest, so he rapidly turned to Jessica and said " Yo, little sis, seems that those trees are of good quality can you please help me in killing that bear so I can start doing my work?".

After saying that he inwardly said scan to inspect the bear's panel.

Almost promptly, the same screen popped in front of him showing the bear's info.

[Panel]

[Name]: Wild Bear

[Age]: 10 years

[species]: Bear

[Level]: 10

[Chances of death]: 30%

Hmm seems like it is species instead of a race for beasts but who cares. niceeee actually a level 10 from the get-go, this will help me level up by who knows how many levels, but at least I will still gain some levels even if the experience earned wasn't a lot. Since the difference in levels is 10.

Hearing Mike's words Jessica locked into the bear that she had already seen a while ago before even arriving here.

Not bothering with her brother, she instantly cast earth bullets on the bear after noticing that the mana radiance coming out of the bear, is only that of a low leveled monster and not even close to tier 1.

The moment the bear caught sight of the two humans not far away from him, he roared with hostility, which probably meant for them to stay out of his territory, but while he was at it, Jessica already fired the earth bullets.

Seeing that they wanted to fight, the Bear roared angrily again and immediately charged ahead lifting his right claw in front of his face to block the earth's bullets.

But to his surprise, more than half of the bullets which were numbered 4, hit it directly in the face which was being protected by his claw and one of the bullets even managed to burst out his left eye.

Upon seeing the bloody mess the face of the bear was in and how it looked simple to do that damage with one spell, Mike's passion and thirst for power instantly skyrocketed, after all, if people can manipulate this magic at tier 0 level 22 then what about tier 2, 3 or even more.

Yet outside, Mike was still wearing the same calm expression as ever, and he doesn't need to fake a panicked one anyways since the ex-owner of his body did witness a lot of this.

After calming himself down a little, he started to operate his brain at full speed on how to manage to get a hit on the bear without arousing suspicion.

However to his good fortune he already found one a few seconds later, even though it will look weird and out of character but for the experience of this level 10 bear Mike won't mind it.

After losing one eye, the bear instantly became enraged and charged forward without a care in the world just so he can kill that human that dared to assault him in his territory and take an eye from him.

The charge of the bear with full force a little bit shocked Jessica but that was only for a second, and she instantly started circling mana inside her body to cast an earth wall to block the incoming bear charge.

However, before she almost completed casting the spell, Mike jumped at her hugging her by her waist and dragging her down with him rolling for a few seconds on the ground.

Jessica and even the bear were both speechless at this sight, even the bear noticed that Jessica was almost gonna finish her spell and deal a good blow to him, much less the human next to the girl.

The bear couldn't control his speed to halt after missing his target so he directly bumped into a tree behind Jessica.

Upon stabilizing herself and seeing her brother's eyes that stared at her worriedly, Jessica knew that this good-for-nothing thought that the bear was gonna get her so she instantly said with anger in her tone " I didn't need your help and I won't be needing it so if you ever do such a thing again and disturb my spell cause of your stupidity I will kill you myself".

She didn't put much thought into what her brother did because she just learned the earth wall spell not long ago and Mike never saw her using it, so she rapidly threw those thoughts into the back of her mind and started casting the spell again so she can cage the bear between the tree and her earth wall.

Sadly for Jessica, Mike was not even paying attention to her complaint. He was instead concentrating his gaze on the axe that was stuck on the bear's side, he couldn't help but inwardly start laughing at himself cause of his stupidity for forgetting that he can act as a caring brother and throw the axe to deal some damage at the same time even if it's neglected damage.

Still, that doesn't seem like it will work again, so he first stared at the bear that Jessica already trapped between her wall and the tree, he was fascinated by how she can make the earth's wall a little circular in shape so she can trap the bear inside.

But Mike wasn't that surprised since he knew these magic skills are nothing in towns and cities, after reading all those novels, almost nothing will amaze him here.

After a few seconds of Jessica bombarding the Bear with earth bullets which it seemed that it didn't expend much of her mana despite casting it 4 times with an earth wall. He heard a boom caused by the bear's body smashing the ground, and promptly after that, a few system notifications entered his ears.

About the mana consumption, he chose to think about it on another day, when he fixes his body problem about not being able of cultivating. So he directly opened the system to check his harvest.

[ Gained 100 experience points]

[ You leveled up]

[ You leveled up]

[ You leveled up]

[ You leveled up]

[ You reached level 4]

[Gained 4 points on each Stat]

[Gained 8 free points that you can freely distribute]

Upon seeing this, Mike directly went to check on his panel.

[Panel]

[Name]: Mike

[Age]: 22

[Race ]: Human

[Level]: 4

[Lifespan]: 68 years

[Strength]: 5 > 9

[Stamina]: 6 > 10

[Speed]: 8 > 12

[Intelligence]: 14 > 18

[ MP] : 0 > 4

[Abilities]: 1

Skill: invisibility ( description)

Free points: 8

Seeing the added points on his stats, and the feeling of getting stronger that was penetrating his soul and bones.

Mike knew for sure that he will get addicted to this feeling, cause even s*x couldn't come close to it , and the feeling of him getting stronger is just way better.

After getting the feel of his new body for a few seconds.

Mike moved his sights to the 8 free points of distribution, he already knows what they mean so he started pondering for a moment over where to put them, Jessica was busy dismantling the bear to get the most profitable parts of it, like the claws or fur especially since it's winter, so he could take some time to put things together.

He first went for what he needed for his hunt which will turn a little bloody even more later, understanding that, he went for strength and added all 8 points to them.

He mainly did it so he can amass a burst of damage the moment he goes out of his invisibility, later on. He doesn't need MP since he can't use it now, and he for sure doesn't need the others since he will mainly close up on his enemies one by one using invisibility.

After he distributed his points, he felt another burst of energy that run through his whole body, and now he felt a little more the increase in his strength by merely looking at the small new muscles on his body and especially his abdominal that got slightly better than his skinny self previously.

While Jessica was checking the Bear, she noticed the axe stuck at his side while trying to change his position, she of course knew who it belonged to so she immediately questioned. " Yo there, what is your axe doing on the bear instead of the trees. You better provide me with a good explanation for this".

Mike forgot about the axe cause of how focused he was on the system, but upon hearing his sister's question he thought about it for a moment and answered with an embarrassed expression " I. I actually was afraid of how fast that Bear was charging at you, so at that moment I jumped on u attempting to get you out of his path, and so I threw my axe targeting his side so you can have an easier fight, I'm sorry sister if that wasn't of help to you or disturbed your fighting. I just couldn't let myself watch as my sister was almost hit by that wild bear ".

After hearing her brothers answer, Jessica felt some warmth dwell inside of her for a few moments but she directly suppressed it and said nonchalantly " I appreciate your good intentions, but I'll say it again that I don't need you, so simply go take care of your job since we don't have all day long" after saying that, she pulled the axe out of the bear's side and tossed it gently in front of Mike, after all, she can accidentally kill him if she throws it at him.

Mike hurriedly answered with "it won't happen again little sis and thank you for killing the bear I'll start cutting these few trees right away aha" he laughed awkwardly at the end while scratching the back of his head.

"Yeah, you do that till I finish this bear" Jessica gave a casual command while going back to her work as well.