Leaving the man’s corpse to rot over the building’s cracked top, Lucian decided to head downstairs.
Walking down the floors, Lucian’s mind seed to have drifted into a world of its own. Even though his body moved continuously, his eyes didn’t follow his footsteps.
’First infinity... then transcendence... and now Infinite Qi... I just can’t get my head around these things... maybe it’s because it’s only been 3 days, but for so reason, they make feel exhilarated yet stressed at the sa ti.’ He shook his head involuntarily.
"Well, there’s no point in stressing about sothing that can’t be changed." He raised his head and sharpened his gaze.
’System, show my status.’ Unlike before, Lucian decided not to say it out loud this ti. It was both a test and an experint since, in reality, it’d be troubleso for him to declare each of his commands out loud for the system to respond.
In critical situations such as life-and-death fights, such a small variable could take one’s life in an instant. Since declaring your next weapon would only alert the enemy further.
Surprisingly, his test ca out successful, as a system window materialized in front of his eyes almost imdiately.
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[#~System Notification~#]
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[Understood.]
[Fetching host’s status...]
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With that, a new system screen appeared over the previous one.
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[#~Status~#]
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[Na - Lucian Cross]
[Alias] - Hollow
[Title] - [The First Achiever]
[Race] - Human
[Talent] - ???
***
[Level] - 2
[Exp] - 0/150
***
[Elent of Creation] - Infinity
└ [Traits] - [Transcendence (F)]
***
[Unique Authority] - Infinite Qi
└ [State] - Sealed
└ [Traits] - [• Perfect Qi Flow], [• Mana Conversion], [• Environntal Qi Absorption]
[• Current Qi Absorption rate - 0.01 Qi / 5 sec]
***
[Stats]
└ [HP] - 250/250
└ [Stamina] - 200/200
└ [Qi] - 0.01/1.00
***
[Attributes]
└ [Strength] - 20
└ [Agility] - 21
└ [Vitality] - 20
└ [Intelligence] - 25
└ [Endurance] - 20
[Current Unassigned Points] - 6
***
[Skills]
└ [Passive] - [Indomitable Will (F)], [Perception (F)]
└ [Active] - [None]
***
[Techniques]
└ [White Rank: Whispering Breeze thod]
***
[Inventory]
└ [E-rank Mana Stone] (x1)
└ [Novice-rank Full Armor Set] (x1)
***
[Equipnt]
└ [Weapons] - Novice Daggers (Pair)
└ [Armor] - None
***
[Current Tasks] - [Task #3: Cultivating Qi for the First Ti!]
└ [Progress] - Ongoing
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Staring at the system screen with a rather straight face, Lucian ran his mouth silently.
Although silent, one could easily read his lips as "What the fuck?"
It was a reasonable response. Especially so if one were to be smacked with a gigantic blob of words on their face under the false na of help.
"But that aside," he looked towards the screen again, "my stats are quite sothing... Although I am a bit skeptical about the whole concept of attributes right now, I just can’t get my head around the current situation... The level and attributes just don’t add up!"
It was a valid concern, since within the book he wrote, stats were a topic of war. To maintain an environnt of fair play, Lucian had decided to limit the number of attributes one could gain upon leveling up to 3.
Any player who leveled up would receive a total of 3 unassigned attributes that they could use to give their overall strengths a touch of uniqueness.
As such, with average attributes of 5 at the beginning, one could only reach the foothold of 8 upon reaching level two. However, Lucian, on the other hand, stood at the average of 21 attributes with a total of 6 unassigned ones.
In simple language, Lucian had beco a man with attributes that rivaled a level 10 at just level 2. And not just that, but a man who possessed the highest-graded elent of creation, a pair of unique passive skills, a unique title, a unique trait, a unique authority, and, to top it off, a unique system of his own.
With just that much, he could have already beco the strongest individual in the world. But still, sothing seed to be making his subconsciousness uncomfortable.
"There’s still 14 hours left until the completion of the synchronization... It would be better for to prepare well enough since no one knows the future. Prevention is better than cure, isn’t it?" He smirked, staring at the contents of his inventory, more specifically, the mana stone.
"In normal cases, one is strictly prohibited from attempting to intake the raw, concentrated energies such as mana stones, as they spike their energy levels in an instant. Which, even in the slightest, could lead to energy deviation."
"Although this would’ve been even worse for since the coherent traits of both Mana and Qi—even though they share a common origin—make them incompatible. It was to the point that one could call their presence hostile to each other."
After walking down several stories, Lucian had finally arrived at the ground floor. There, he decided to put an end to his words, as any more sounds would simply attract more flies like the one he had just beheaded on the roof.
But to deal with that, he had already thought of a plan. A plan that may work better than any other.
"In an apocalypse where humans’ existence is at risk, and the only ones they could ask to protect them are themselves, which place would beco completely useless in tis when the laws of the jungle are applied in real life?" He slowly began walking in the opposite direction to the exit.
After a while, he ca across a small door at the very end of the corridor. Without a second thought, he pushed open the door.
As he did so, he noticed a dry, salty sll in the air. The room was dark, and hardly anything could be seen, but just by its sll, Lucian was sure of it.
"The place where no one enters? It has to be the Archive Room!"
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