Chapter 9: Overwhelming Pressure

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[Player: Xerel

Level: 402 (+60%) (+135 (+24%))

Class: None

+Title: One in a million (3 more titles)(+1 title)

Race: Human

State: Calm

HP: *22,750/22,750 (+15,000)

MP: 3160/3160 (+3000) /+1000\

STR: 1542 (+300)

AGI: 1122 (+300)

INT: 316 (+300)

DEF: 455 (+300)

Status Points: 0 (+1350)]

(Fixed the error of health point. 1 def= 50 health points)

"You know what? Let's make it balanced. Distribute 500 points in Intelligence and Defense and distribute 175 points in both Strength and Agility."

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[Player: Xerel

Level: 537 (+84%)

Class: None

+Title: One in a million (4 more titles)

Race: Human

State: Calm

HP: 37,750/37,750

MP: 7160/7160 /+1000\

STR: 1842 (+175)

AGI: 1422 (+175)

INT: 616 (+500)

DEF: 755 (+500)

Status Points: 1350 (-1350)]

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[CONGRATULATIONS YOU'RE THE FIRST HUMAN To REACH 1000 POINTS IN THE DEFENSE ATTRIBUTE!]

[YOU HAVE BEEN REWARDED]

[Fortification-(A)(BUFF): Increases physical and magical Resistance by 500% and absorbs 80% of damage in the next 15 seconds.

Mana Cost: 500

Cooldown: 3 hours]

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[CONGRATULATIONS YOU'RE THE FIRST HUMAN TO REACH 1000 POINTS IN THE INTELLIGENCE ATTRIBUTE!]

[YOU HAVE BEEN REWARDED]

[Accel-(A)(BUFF): Decreases cooldown of all skills by 50% and heals 50% of mana. Durations of skill effects increase by 5 seconds.

Health Cost: 1000

Cooldown: 12 hours.]

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[CONGRATULATIONS YOU'RE THE FIRST HUMAN TO REACH 2000 POINTS IN THE STRENGTH ATTRIBUTE!]

[YOU HAVE BEEN REWARDED]

[Overdrive-(A)(DMG/DB): Lock on to a target and deal 90% of their main health as damage while sacrificing 50% of your health and weakening you by 40% for 1 hour.

Mana cost: 50%

Cooldown: 48 hours]

"This is crazy! The skills I got are gonna be useful but [Overdrive] is gonna be my last resort. With this skill, I could probably defeat a God even without using the invulnerability effect well that's something to discuss at another time. For now, I'm pretty much a killing machine! I still have a lot of Runestone in my inventory and also the tome of knowledge!

I'll learn those later after I deal with these flying experience sacks."

Xerel flew up in the air and began chasing down the flying monsters. With his enhanced speed, he easily caught up to the monsters and started hitting the weak point of each one of them. This caused all the monsters to aggro at Xerel. The casted barrage of attacks at him but Xerel continued flying as the attacks simply turned into nothing after it made contact with the barrier. Xerel continued to hit the weak points of the remaining monsters who weren't aggro'd yet and as 10 minutes passed, all the monsters were chasing after Kal like a swarm of birds.

Xerel increased his speed more and lured every monster into moving in a line. As soon as they aligned perfectly behind Xerel, he used [Blink] and teleported by farther to the front.

This gap would be easily overlapped by the monsters but it was enough time for Xerel to properly place himself in a perfect spot. As soon as he teleported, he averted his entire body to the face of the monsters pursuing him.

He held Rafiery and pointed it straight at the incoming monsters.

"[Exemplified],[Burn Out]."

Rafiery glowed in a golden light as its tip generated a red burning orb. This orb grew bigger in no time shot out a giant laser blast that was imbued with the golden experience of the [Exemplifier]'s effect.

CHOOOOOOOV!

Everything on the line was burned back to the shadow realm as half of the monsters pursuing him instantly died and the half who survived had all their health in a critical state as every one of them went berserk at the same time.

Every berserk was different from the others but they had one similarity. It was that every monster would lose their state of mind meaning they'd go rampant and moved by their blooded instincts.

Despite the wounds in their body tearing them apart, they all pounced at Xerel like starving lions lunging themselves on a stray gazelle.

With the protection of the barrier, Xerel was safe. Given that everyone came so close to him, he had an easier time hitting their weak point as he started to strike the monsters sticking themselves on the barrier.

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[+17,589,900 EXP]

[+23,879,990 EXP]

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[LEVEL UP!]

[LEVEL UP!]

[LEVEL UP!]

Countless window panels appeared on his view as the sound of window alerts continued to resonate in his head.

Xerel earned 147 levels, 20 runestones, and 13 items.

"In just a few hours, I'm already level 500! I'm already way past the rank of Overlord which I assume is in the level of 200~300. I'm the strongest human in the world but let's not be satisfied with this, there are still worlds yet to be discovered and who knows if there are other people stronger than me? I'm not just talking about Mega-Earth or Super-Earth, there are still 5 other piles of earth. I can't defend my family if I'm already satisfied with just this much so I'll aim higher!"

Xerel flew up as he wanted to try and get the peak of the tree. When he arrived at the level where the ward had exploded, Xerel was completely fine as he sighed.

"Phew, I thought the invulnerability wouldn't work but I guess it was all in my head."

Xerel continued to fly up as soon as he reached the halfway mark. The surroundings began to blur, Xerel continued to fly as the blurry effect slowly cleared and he was immediately given a fright at what he saw.

"What the fuck is this place!?"

The blues sky had turned into a gloomy purple, the brown tree had changed into a grey one. He could now see branches of the tree and what surprised him a lot was the monsters he was seeing.

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[Red Dragon

Rank- Primordial 2

Level- 640

HP: 100,000,000/100,000,000

State: Disturbed]

[Fallen Angel

Rank- Primordial 1

Level- 700

HP: 150,000,000/150,000,000

State: Despair, Alert]

[Air Leviathan

Rank- Mythical 3

Level- 740

HP: 500,000,000/500,000,000

State: Dormant, Evil]

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There were thousands of mythical creatures which were mentioned in tales and legends. What he was surprised by was neither of them looked exactly as described in the books.

'Why the hell do they look humanoid!?'

Xerel gasped in shock. The monsters started to lock their gazes at Xerel as they revealed their teeth and fangs at him causing him to fall back a bit.

None of them dare to move from their position and simply showed threatening looks at him. Xerel sighed knowing that nobody meant to harm but suddenly, a window panel appeared in his vision as the surprised expression turned into utter shock.

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[INVULNERABILITY EFFECT'S DURATION IS RAPIDLY DECREASING!]

[-0:30:00]

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"Shit!"

Xerel quickly descended the tree. His vision gained blurred as he was suddenly inflicted by an insurmountable pain in his body.

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[INVULNERABILITY EFFECT HAS DISAPPEARED]

[-28,067 HP]

[YOU HAVE SUFFERED A LETHAL DAMAGE! CONSCIOUSNESS IS SLOWLY FADING]

"Aargh!!"

Xerel puked a mouthful of blood as in an instant, his health dropped to 20%. His body had been injured badly due to the tree's overwhelming pressure as a result, he fell unconscious and crashed hard to the ground.

Bang!

[-1,245 HP]