Chapter 43 C- Rank

Clomp! Clomp! Clomp!

The sound of heels clomping resounded through the corridor, garnering the attention of students walking to their respective classes. Their gazes fell on a woman with red hair and red eyes that seemed to sparkle with stars. She looked nervous as she walked down the corridor.

"Good morning, Ms. Juvylenor." a female student greeted as she saw the woman approaching.

With a smile and a slight nod as acknowledging her greeting, Juvylenor walked past her. "Is she nervous?" the student wondered, watching her walk away.

Arriving in front of her office, Juvylenor entered and sat in her chair. "Sigh—why is he taking so long?" she mumbled to herself with a heavy sigh. "I should have asked where he was going and where he planned to enter—sigh," another sigh escaped her mouth.

It had been two weeks since he entered the dungeon, so as his master, she was naturally concerned about him.

"But one thing is clear, he won't die that easily." She said as she remembered his training with him. "He's a monster that adapts and grows with every second, a true genius. If he entered some hidden dungeon and came out alive, he would be far stronger even with his messed-up body condition... But I'm still concerned."

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Clank! Clank!

SQUEAK!

The monster's fierce cry resounded in the cavern. Activating my Soul Bound and Gravity Field skills, I tried to dodge the monster's fierce onslaught by increasing and decreasing my body's gravity. Its six tails shot at me, trying to grab and pierce my body but its actions were futile as I dodged it narrowly escaping from gaining injuries.

As time passed, I became exhausted, and it became incredibly difficult to dodge its tails. On top of that, the monster constantly shot plasma beams at me wearing me out.

Swoosh! Grab!

"Shit!" I cursed as one of its tails grabbed my legs and pulled me, causing me to lose balance.

Kacha!

"Cough!" I felt a metallic taste in my mouth as I coughed up blood. The monster's tail had pierced my chest. As blood flooded out of my body my consciousness started to slip

"Cough! Cough!"

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30 MINUTES AGO

"It's good that they are territorial." I mumbled. Most lizards are territorial and guard their territory from other lizards. They spend most of their time alone or alongside dozens of other lizards. Typically, they don't spend time with others of their species, except to mate, but there are exceptions.

I looked at the fallen lizards who couldn't move an inch as paralyzing poison coursed through their bodies.

Squatting down, I looked at the monster in front of me and straight into its eyes. "C- rank monster, it amazes me how I even managed to hunt down hundreds of you guys." I said to the monster. "Don't you agree? I'm D+ rank now with overall power around E rank and you guys are four sub-ranks higher than me." I looked at the monster and smiled. "Sure, I devised plans to hunt you down, but isn't that still concerning? Haaa, what am I talking to a bunch of brainless monsters?"

「Compressed Water String」

「Core Release: 50 percent」

A string made of highly compressed water jetted out of my body and coiled around the necks of all the monsters. Compressed Water String is a skill I created by combining water and gravity. I compressed water to the maximum until it took the shape of a string, and with gravity, I ensured it became durable enough to hold multiple higher-ranking monsters. With the core release, the compressed water string became strong enough to hold C rank monsters.

"Die."

Thud! Thud! Thud!

The monsters fell to the ground as the string sliced through their thick skin and bones. The water string looked like a sewing thread, but it was sharp enough to decapitate them.

「Absorption Gacha」

Ding!

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Mana: 1

Durability: 1

Durability: 1

Mana: 1

Strength: 1

Strength: 1

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I felt a slight ache in my core as power coursed through my body. After waiting for three minutes, the pain vanished.

===Status===

Name: Jadel Wayner || ?[Jake dane]

Race: Semi-mers ?[???]

Occupation: Assassin Lvl.3 ||

?[Swordsman Lvl.2]

Innate Skill: Emperor Of The Ocean ||

?[Gyrokinesis]

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?Rank: C-

?Strength: 361

?Speed: 349

?Agility: 351

?Stamina: 304

?Endurance: 360

?Mana: 371

?Intelligence: 165

?Luck: 197

?Charm: 563

?Talent Limit: A-

===] Skills [====

===] Techniques [===

Soul Bound: Lost Gem

Affinity: Water » Ice || Darkness » Shadow

Spells: Waterball ‹★› || water bullet ‹★★›||

Water barrier ‹★★› || Mist ‹★›||

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"Finally, C- rank,"looking at the status screen, I mumbled in satisfaction.

"It's a pity I can't increase my status points now." Now that I've reached C- rank, all the monsters are of the same strength as me, so even if I hunt them down, I won't gain anything aside from mana stones.

"I think it's time to enter the boss territory." The boss monster is a mutated lizard monster, ranked C+, and its territory is filled with female lizard monsters, blue in colour with silver rubies on their heads.

"It's quite funny" I laughed as I thought about this. "95 percent of the lizard monsters I encountered were male, with only 5 percent being female. And the boss monster is having his fun while these guys are dying by my hand." It was mating season for them, so my timing was perfect and kind of bad at the same time. I could easily hunt the others as they lived in small packs in their territory, but when it comes to the boss monster, it's living with most of the female monsters in the cavern.

I started walking after finishing my business here. Once I regained control over my body, I realized I could control the other personalities—not control them, to be precise, use their influence to my advantage.

Apart from myself, there exist three distinct personalities within me: Kid Jadel, Emotionless Jadel, and Crazy Jadel. Kid Jadel's influence allows me to engage in combat with the carefree joy of a child playing with a pet but there are also other things I don't understand.

Emotionless Jadel, on the other hand, suppresses all my emotions, rendering me devoid of feelings yet enhancing my combat prowess to that of a skilled assassin.

And then there's Crazy Jadel. It's the only personality I couldn't control. When I tried to use it, it fully influenced my mind and took over my body. When I woke up, I was in a pile of corpses, hugging a monster's dead body while I peacefully slept. This almost caused my death.

The overpowering stench of blood permeated the cavern, attracting a horde of monsters. When I woke up, the place was filled with more than a hundred monsters, and I barely escaped. If not for the preparations I had made, I would have definitely died.