『Ding! Congratulations. You killed the Almighty Lord of the Yin-Yang River.』
『You will now be handsomely rewarded.』
『+10000 EXP Obtained! 』
『All your basic stats, including endurance, as well as the health point bar, have increased by a significant amount!!!』
『Ding! Congratulation. It's detected that you have learned to combine your sword skills with aura techniques and special abilities! You have met the last condition to level up your swordsmanship!! Your swordsmanship has improved from the basic level to the intermediate level!!!』
『You have become an intermediate-level swordsman. It has become easier for you to deduce different ways to combine your magic, special abilities, and aura techniques with your sword skill.』
These system's notifications rang in Roy's ears as he made his way out of the body of the creature he had just slain.
Moments later, the onlookers saw wisps of mist coming out of its eyes and mouth, gathering in mid-air and solidifying into Roy's human form.
Roy landed just before the corpse of the horned beast, then waved his hand slightly, opening up his status screen.
NAME: Roy
Power Level: Mythical level body tempering trainee, Legendary level True Mage
Age: Sixteen years and ten months old
Titles: Young Lord of Cruelty, Annihilator of Snow Wolf Clan, Cruelest Hidden Sword of the Sun, Nightmare of Young Chaotic Beings.
Physique: Innate Energy Refining Body.
Defied status: 2 out of 8 limiters removed
EXP POINTS: 1.73 million
Health: 235/250
Mana: 2300 wisps
Aura: 10000 units
World Energy and Mana Sensitivity: 100%
Strength: 163 (170)
Stamina: 152 (156)
Agility: 155 (160)
Perception: 15.5
Endurance: 100
Physical Defense: 10% (25%) (Reduce all incoming physical damage by 25%)
Magical Damage Negation: 2% (Reduce all incoming magic damage by 2%)
Stat points: 0
Skill point: 0
Item Equipped: Devil's Hand, Shadow Piercer, Moon's Reflection, Ghost Chaser, and Ghastly Armor.
Noteworthy Items: Shard of Ninam's First Song: A Deceitful Heaven (can not be learned), rune stones of complexity, and Elixir of Ascension (Can be used to increase the size of either one of your energy storage by 1000 points).
He looked at it and smiled, pleased to see how strong he had become.
'What I was a week ago can't be compared to what I am today.' Roy thought. 'Trying hard really matters. I have grown a lot in too short a time.'
It's just as he said; he has become ridiculously strong from nothing in less than two months.
His raw strength was halfway up to the peak of an aura master, and he was already strong enough to rip apart any beast below the power level of an aura monster with his bare hand.
Roy looked in the direction of the forbidden capital, deep in thoughts.
'I am certain that I have surpassed the youngest prince in terms of raw strength. An unawakened like him, who is known to have only removed one limiter with the help of his authority, can't grow up to become as physically strong as me even if he depletes the resources of the empire. Unless he awakens, he won't be my match.'
Unlike Roy, It was impossible for the youngest price to raise his basic stats above 120.
His authority had helped him remove a limiter, but Roy had removed two with the help of his uncle and system.
He was physically far stronger than the prince.
'Still, I shouldn't look down on him.'
But he wasn't confident about defeating him as the latter had something he lacked.
Roy was seen standing before the beast in silence.
Suddenly, the system's notification rang in his mind.
『Ding! It's detected that this is your first time killing an aura beast. You will be additionally rewarded.』
『Its entire mana sea shall be extracted and transmitted to you』
"Eh? What is this?"
Roy was bewildered to see countless specks of red and blue rushing out of the corpse of the horned serpent. The specks parted ways. All the blue ones entered his body while all the red ones went past him, sinking into the ground, becoming nourishment for the world, or, rather, Far West Major Realm itself. The blue specks entered his sea of magic. He could feel that they were plunging into his mana sea. Then, he felt its size increase rapidly.
『The effect of your passive title, Cruelest Hidden Sword of the Sun, is in effect.』
『You are seeing what can't be seen.』
『Your magic sea has been nourished greatly.』
『The size of your sea of magic has increased tremendously.』
『You can store 1600 more wisps of mana in your magic sea.』
『You have leveled up 16 times.』
『Your True Mage class has advanced from the legendary level to the ninth Mythical level.』
The many notifications sounded in his mind.
Roy was no longer bewildered.
"I get it. What I saw was the deconstructed version of its magic sea. The harmful particles were removed from the beneficial ones for me, which entered my magic sea and nurtured it, helping it almost double in size."
The onlookers saw Roy gaping at thin air with a wide open mouth and felt bewildered.
Sensing their gazes on him, Roy snapped back to his senses and closed his mouth shut.
He was afraid that the onlookers would mistake him for a fool if he stood like that any longer.
He cleared his throat and turned his back to them, his lips stretching into an excited smile.
"Amazing! Whoever created this system and imbued it with various functions is an unparalleled genius with no equal in the multiverse."
Roy praised the creator of the Strongest System in his mind.
He was already certain his system didn't just pop out of nowhere.
It had an origin, a creator, and an unimaginable background.
To him, everything related to it was a mystery.
How it ended up in his hand was also a mystery he was yet to unravel.
However, his ignorance about these matters didn't stop him from worshipping the one who created this system with mind-blowing functions.
'Maybe a God or a being greater than it created it and gave it to me for some reason? But what could that reason be?' Roy wondered.
