Chapter 41 Who am I?

"Oh, what's that?" The white haired figure looked at a small blue lizard with a twinkle in his blue eyes.

"It's so cute~" running to the lizard he picked up and started rubbing his back with a cute smile, like a little boy who found a cute pet for him.

"Why are you so cut– ouch" His words were cut off as the small lizards bit his finger.

Splash!

The air around him suddenly shifted differently as he looked at the lizard with tear filled eyes. With a sudden squeeze, he squashed the lizard, killing it instantly.

"Bad boy, biting when I only showed love." His tone was chilly and menacing, his face turning cold as he looked at the squashed dead body of the blue lizard with his hands covered in blue blood.

"You have become more cute now." He showed a big, pleased smile, and after looking at the corpse for a few more seconds, he threw it away and started walking.

"Clear the dungeon, huh." His expression changed again. "That's easy, peasy. I will just straight up target the Lizard Queen and flee, hihihihi." humming like a little boy, started walking

He walked in the cavern for 8 minutes, not seeing anything aside from small lizards and mana stones that illuminated the cave with its glow.

Pss! Pss!

Hearing the hissing sound of the lizard, he looked in that direction and saw six lizards walking around and eating the mana stones. Quickly taking out his weapon, he readied to jump at them, but calming himself, he observed their movements.

"Fire type lizard" All the lizards were blue, with a span of 3 meters when they stood up. Every time they make a hissing sound, a blue fire comes out of their mouth.

'These types of lizards have a high sense of smell and are able to feel vibration on the ground, but they can't feel me.' he thought.

He took out the two bracelets and wore them on two hands. As he activated them, the nanobots slowly moved on his hands and covered his whole hands.

Gravity Modulation

Decreasing his body's gravity, he leapt to one of the lizards and slashed its back of the neck.

Clank!

But it didn't even leave a scratch, as it's protected by its hard skin. Seeing that it was attacked by an intruder, it suddenly tried to attack Jadel.

Raw mana swirled around it and entered the monster's mouth. Its neck shone in blue as it was prepared to breathe fire at Jadel.

"No, you don't." increasing his body's gravity, he grabbed its neck and pointed its mouth at another lizard that was approaching him quickly.

Blaze!

A blazing blue fire left its mouth and hit the lizard, making it halt its steps.

Slash!

Without wasting any time, he slashed the monster's neck.

"So only the back of the neck is tough, huh." He leaped to another monster gripping his dagger; he slashed its neck without using gravity modulation, leaving a fatal injury on the monster but not killing it.

"So, without gravity modulation, I can't one shot the monster, and it seems to be close to D rank." He took a mental note of his analysis.

The darkness started to emerge from his shadow and twisted, covering his legs. As his legs were coated with shadow, with a blurring speed, he rushed and slashed the necks of the remaining four monsters one by one, instantly killing them.

「Absorption Gacha」

Ding!

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Mana: 3

Mana: 2

Strength: 2

Endurance: 2

Endurance: 2

Speed: 2

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"Two more speed status points to breakthrough rank."

Approaching the dead monsters, he started butchering them to find the mana core. For him, mana core is crucial for mana engineering, and he can make a variety of gadgets with it.

"That was beautiful." He wiped the blood that splattered on his face and started walking to his destination with a stoic face.

This time, he was neither a normal person nor a crazy guy. But this time he acted like a child but was at the same time a mature adult. Every time he sees some sparkling cute things, he will rush to them and pat their bodies, and when killing them, he will turn into a different person who has a cold demeanor and enjoys the beauty of the blood.

Tumble! Thud!

His legs wobbled as he tried to walk. With a thud, he fell to the ground as his legs gave away. With an expression of dread, he looked at the empty space in front of him.

Drip! Drip!

Blood dripped from his nose, but he didn't care about it. With furrowed eyebrows, he made the expression that he was recalling something but couldn't remember it.

"…W-who am I?" As he mumbled, his face showed utter shock.

"Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? Who am I?" He mumbled like a broken machine, kept uttering the same words over and over again. But suddenly he paused and smiled as if he had realized something.

"...Yeah, I'm Jadel…"

Blaze!

Multiple blazing fires shot at him, Illuminating the cavern with its blue light. "Don't disturb me." Screaming, he rushed at the small horde, which consists of 17 monsters.

「Core Release: 50 percent」

「Gravity Modulation」

「Dash」

「Lost Gem」

「Shadow Monarch」

Unleashing his skills, he skillfully dodged all the attacks that were thrown at him. Arriving in front of the first monster, he sliced off its neck.

Swoosh!

His figure suddenly turned into smoke; like a ghost, he appeared in front of another monster and stabbed its eyes.

SQUEEEE!

The monster cried in pain, but he showed no mercy. Gripping his dagger tightly, he sliced its facial skeleton, then, grabbing its upper teeth, he ripped out the sliced skeleton, revealing a blood filled throat.

Blood gushed out, painting him in blue color. The other monsters didn't dare attack him, as the monster's helpless, pained cry echoed throughout the cavern before its death.

Normally his expression would be one of pleasure, but now he showed none of that, as if his face were devoid of any emotions.

"You guys don't want to attack." His cold voice resonated in the cavern, sending chills through their bodies as the monsters felt their demise was approaching. "Hhe, what am I asking a bunch of brainless monsters?"

His figure turned to smoke again as he disappeared from his spot.

SQUEAK! SQUEAK!

Monsters constant, pained cries resounded in the cavern, sending jolts to other monsters that were close to him, causing them to flee in that place.

As he finished them all, his face slowly showed emotion. Looking at the butchered corpse, he smiled widely, enjoying the gruesome scene in front of him.

But again, he asked himself the same question. 'Who am I?'

Keeping his smile, with a sudden shift in his expression, he uttered. "Hihihi, I'm Jadel, my sister's cute little brother."

Smiling, he walked confidently but suddenly paused, his smile slowly fading away as he mumbled to himself.

"Who is Jake?"

"No, no, I'm not Jadel; I'm Jake, Jake Dane." He said, his expression changing to dread.

"But I'm Jadel, though." With a sudden shift to a cute face, he said.

"No, I'm not."

"Yes I'm"

"No"

"Yes"

"No"

"Shut up." He commanded himself, his voice brimming with authority.

"I'm Jadel, my father's weapon." With these words, his face slowly became devoid of any emotion.

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Tik! Tik! Tik!

Boom! boom! boom!

Large explosions occurred that looked like one of their nests, as some monsters were mating here while others were protecting their eggs. With the explosion, gray smoke filled the place, paralyzing all the monsters caught in the smoke.

Thud! Thud! Thud! Thud!

Slowly, the monsters started to fall one by one as the poison spread throughout their bodies.

Jadel observed from the sealing, his legs were inside the shadows. "It's working flawlessly." He muttered as he observed, his eyes piercing through the smoke.

Poison bomb It's a bomb he created with the core of the poison monsters. Most of the monsters will only have a single element, so naturally, the mana filled in their core will be the same element. With this, he created multiple bombs with multiple elements, covering one of his weaknesses. Slowly descending to the ground, he started killing the monster.

"Few more points to breakthrough to D- rank." He said, after absorbing them.

Cluei! Cluei!

"That." Hearing the weird cry of a monster, he looked up and saw a white lizard with wings flying above his head. For a moment, clarity returned to his eyes as he saw the monster. Increasing gravity in his legs, he jumped and tried to catch the monster, but before he could do so, a small portal appeared and sucked the monster in.

"So that monster is here, huh. good to know that."