Chapter 4: Rewards

Countless window panels blocked Xerel's view. A wide grin etched on his face. He couldn't be any happier as he jumped in joy.

As a result of killing the turtle, he earned 145 levels, 3 titles, 2 items, and 2 scrolls which he didn't know what it was yet.

"Holy shit, I'm already level 146!? So this is the effect of an experience booster! With this, I should be as strong as S-rank hunters! No, I'm stronger than that, maybe I could reach the Overlord rank!"

Xerel jumped in joy but briefly stopped in his celebration. He looked at the dead turtle, it's had deep holes in every part of its body, its shell was cracked and its brown rough hide had gone gray.

"It's monster core should be worth a lot. No, selling it would cause a worldwide alert, I might get investigated in the process. I may be strong but I'm not strong enough to protect my family. Let's see if I can pierce its hide since it's a turtle-type monster, its monster core should be right under its name.

Xerel checked through its nape, first he examined the neck and tried to poke it with the Sabre.

"Oh! It's a lot softer than I thought. Could it be that its body became soft because it died? Does this affect other monsters I kill? What I know is that monsters killed will have the same defensive properties as they die and even if they went berserk, its defensive property should've doubled or at least decreased minimally. Nah, let's not talk about that first, time is running so let's skin this monster and get its monster core."

Since the Sabre had only a sharp precision on its point, Xerel had a hard time slicing through it but since the meat of the turtle was easy to dig into, finding the monster core became relatively easy.

Tak!

His Sabre hit through a solid object so Xerel immediately stopped drilling it. He placed his Sabre back and dug inside the muscles with his bare hands.

He was able to grab a crystal rock the size of a football (Rugby). It was glowing in green and brown color and the middle was a symbol that resembled a floating island.

"This does not look like a monster core."

Ting~

[Terra-forma Spiked Shell

Rank- Legendary

Type- Runestone

Effect: 50% of any incoming damage will be absorbed. After the damage reaches the player's remaining health, the absorbed damage will be converted into spikes that deal twice the damage in a wide area around the player and heals 20% of the damage dealt back to the player. The defense will increase by 200 in the next 10 seconds.

Cooldown: 10 minutes]

[Do you wish to absorb the Runestone? Y/N]

"With this, even after the invulnerability effect disappears, I can still fight back against monsters. Yes!"

Ting~

[Terra-forma Spiked Shell-(Active): 50% of any incoming damage will be absorbed. After the damage reaches the player's remaining health, the absorbed damage will be converted into spikes that deal twice the damage in a wide area around the player and heals 20% of the damage dealt back to the player. The defense will increase by 200 in the next 10 seconds.

Mana Cost: 800

Cooldown: 10 minutes]

"Nice! For now, let's check my player status before I proceed."

Ting~

[Player: Xerel

Level: 1 (0%) (+145 (+86%))

Class: None

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

Race: Human

State: Happy, Excited

HP: 5032/5050

MP: 1060/1060

STR: 172

AGI: 122

INT: 116

DEF: 105

Status Points: 0 (1450)]

"I may encounter bigger monsters and get to the weak point is going to waste a lot of time so let's focus on my agility and strength."

'Distribute 1000 in agility and 450 in strength.'

Ting~

Ting~

[Player: Xerel

Level: 1 (0%) (+145 (+86%))

Class: None

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

Race: Human

State: Happy, Excited

HP: 5032/5050

MP: 1060/1060

STR: 172 (+450)

AGI: 122 (+1000)

INT: 116

DEF: 105

Status Points: 1450 (-1450)]

Ting~

[CONGRATULATIONS! YOU'RE THE FIRST HUMAN TO REACH 1000 AGILITY POINTS!]

[YOU HAVE BEEN REWARDED]

[Blink-(Active): Teleport to a 100-meter range in an instant. Attack speed will increase by 80% in the next 5 seconds.

Mana Cost: 100

Cooldown: 10 seconds]

"..!"

Xerel's eyes widened in shock as he read the description of the skill.

"I'm not even a mage class and I can use teleportation? This is one broken skill and its cooldown is only 10 seconds? I heard that mages would have to chant long incantation just so they could travel a kilometer and I can easily travel a hundred meters without even chanting!"

Xerel was thrilled at the thought and suddenly remembered something.

"Now that I remember it, Teleportation is of space element, wasn't that dead mole of space element since it was able to traverse through portals? Wait a minute, where did it go?"

Xerel looked around the giant turtle and found the mole sticking between two spikes, it had been mushed to the point it couldn't be discerned on what type of species it was. He looked around its corpse and found a marble-sized stone glowing in a purple hue.

Ting~

[Rift Distortion

Rank: Mythic

Type: Runestone

Effects: Cut through space to traverse in a different dimension. You can only travel to the dimensions you have entered.

Requirements: 100 space elements, level 200

Mana cost: 90% Mana

Cooldown: 1 year]

[Do you wish to learn the skill? Y/N]

"Yes!"

[YOU DON'T MEET ALL THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE SKILL, FORCE ACTIVATION WILL WEAKEN YOUR STATUS BY 50% FOR 1 YEAR. DO YOU STILL WISH TO LEARN THE SKILL? Y/N]

"So this is my only way out of this world. I thought I'd be stuck here forever but fortunately, that's not the case. I don't know a lot about this world and I'm 100% sure that it's not Super-Earth since the system already stated that I'm the first-ever human to enter this world. It might be a whole another world that people have yet to discover. Leaving now will cause me a lot of backlashes and being given the chance to defeat countless powerful monsters without being hurt is a huge boost for me to become the strongest hunter in the world. I won't miss that opportunity- no, I won't waste this. Yes, I'll learn the skill!"

Ting~

[Rift Distortion-(Active):Cut through space to traverse in a different dimension. You can only travel to the dimensions you have entered.

Mana cost: 90% Mana

Requirements: 100 space element

Cooldown: 1 year]

"Finding more space moles is my number 1 priority, but for now, let's hunt some monsters. 15 minutes have already passed and the monsters are fleeing this area because of this rampant turtle. Let's see how fast I can run."

Xerel started running, he slowly jogged and saw that even jogging, his speed equaled a speedster hunter and as he placed more power on his feet his speed became as fast as sound.

'Even with my Sonic speed, I don't feel out of balance. Is this one of the properties of agility? From what I learned in the RPG games, agility affects movement speed, balance, attack speed, casting speed, and footwork. Then I guess Strength affects my raw power, pressure, energy, and stamina. The defense would affect my health points since 1 point of defense is equal to 50 points of health, it also enhances my tenacity, endurance and magic, and physical resistance. Intelligence would affect my Mana point since 1 point of intelligence is equal to 10 points of Mana and enhances my thinking, magic output, analysis, and senses. Well, that's only a theory but I'm sure that's the case with the system."

Xerel continued to talk to himself as he dashed around for monsters.

'I don't see monsters at all, are they hiding from me? Pfft, that'd be a complete joke, this is God's Domain, I should be seeing godly entities or something but where are they? For now, let's see my titles.'

Ting~

[Ancient Oppressor- The first human to have slain an Ancient Rank monster alone.

Effects: Legend and below ranked monsters will instinctively avoid you while Ancient ranked monsters will be wary of you.

+20% damage against Ancient and above-ranked monsters.]

[Shellbreaker- Given to those who have defeated a monster with 5000 defense.

Effects:

+20% armor penetration

Corruption-(Passive): Every Critical Strike eats away 100 points of the enemy's defense (Stacks up to 10 times)]

[Heavyweight- Given to those who have continuously dealt massive damage against a target.

Effects:

Conqueror-(Passive): Every attack on an opponent increases damage dealt by 1% (Stacks up to 15%)]

"Fuck! No wonder there's no monster around? It's because of my title: Ancient Oppressor. Now S-rank monsters would run away from me. Ugh, this made things harder!"

Without any monsters in sight, Xerel continued his search and looked at his inventory. He brought out an armor. It had a very shiny steel texture, a thick layer, and the turtle patterns had some spikes on it that made it look very uncomfortable to wear since it's built to be used by tank class hunters and the thorn didn't look practical at all since it may harm the wearer if they accidentally get pricked by it.

Ting~

[Terra-Thorn Carapace

Rank- Legendary

Type- Body Armor

PR- 800

MR-700

Durability- 2500/2500

Effects:

+1500 HP

+10 HP regeneration

CounterStrike-(Passive): Reflects 10% of damage to the enemy as magic damage.

Requirements: Level 150, 300 Defense]

"I don't meet the requirements but fuck it! Equip!"

Ting~

[WARNING! YOU ARE FORCEFULLY USING THE ARMOR WITHOUT MEETING THE REQUIREMENTS, HEALTH WILL RAPIDLY FALL BY 1% EVERY SECOND!]

"It's very flexible than it looks! The thorns won't harm me since I'm invulnerable but it still looks annoying. Let's check the next one"

Ting~

[Earthen Grip

Rank- Legendary

Type- Gauntlets

AD- 400

PR- 100

MR- 100

Durability- 1000/1000

Effects:

-20% Attack Speed

+10 Terra Element

Skull Basher-(Passive): Basic Attacks deal with splash damage in a small area, (50% Strength). 15% chance of stunning the enemy by 1 second.

Requirements: Level 140, Strength 500]

"Well, this one at least lets me equip it!"

Xerel equipped the pair of gauntlets. It had the same shell-like pattern as the armor and there were spikes on the knuckles. The gauntlet went over to the elbow and despite its thick texture, it felt like pair of elastic gloves.

Xerel continued to check the remaining items in his inventory and they were the scrolls.

Ting~

[Elemental scroll

Type- Legendary

Type- Scroll

Element- Terra

Effects: Permanently obtain 10 Terra Element affinity.]

[Do you wish to use the scroll? Y/N]

"Yeah sure, well I still don't know how having a Terra Element will help me. Maybe I get terra resistance or some sort of defense since terra is usually a defensive element."

Ting~

[+10 Terra Element]

Ting~

[Item Scroll

Rank- Legendary

Type- Scroll

Effects: Randomly obtain a legendary item: Runestone (5%), Weapon (10%), Armor (20%), Adornment (30%), Consumable (70%).]

[Do you wish to use the scroll? Y/N]

"Although the odds are quite shit, let's open it."

Ting~

[Ender Eye (3x)

Rank- Legendary

Type- Ward

Effects: A ward that can scan through a bird's eye view. It is only visible to the user of the ward. It can travel 160 kilometers max (100 miles) and the user can teleport to the location of the ward (1-hour cooldown)

Duration- 48 hours]

"It seems that I just hit a jackpot!"