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Chapter 61: Chapter 61

Darius and Gunner walked through the pathways established in between the large forest trees that led to the same Lost River bridge he had visited twice this past week.

On the way, Gunner kept observing their surroundings with a mixture of curiosity and wariness, his alertness out to the max. Darius was pleased by Gunner's behaviors, as he had not needed to tell the other anything beforehand.

Then again, for someone who had likely been captured as a slave, it was natural to act wary in these kinds of places. Darius himself was calm as he walked along, confident in his perception and Mind Power.

Should anything ambush them, Darius was prepared to blink away in a split second before any attack could hit him. Then, it would meet the angry assault of Gunner as well as the bombardment of spells from the Magus, equaling a very sad fate.

Darius branched off into the forest around 3 kilometers into their walk as he sensed something strange. Once under the boughs of the trees, he had heard a stomping sound as well as felt that something shook the earth.

Gunner's eyes narrowed as he rushed forward before Darius could and placed his ears to the earth to pinpoint the origin of the sound. Darius was silent, allowing his Branded Servant to do as he wished.

Gunner soon rose and turned to Darius. "This should be the territory of a large beast. Not sure about the exact breed, but we should prepare for a tough fight."

Darius nodded and gestured forward. "Proceed, Gunner. Take the lead and begin the fight, I will be right behind you and assist if needed."

Gunner assented and rushed forward like a juggernaut, smashing through trees and rock alike as he entered a small clearing near a cave. Just in front of the cave, a large Ogre was trying to smash its way inside by using a large makeshift club.

Darius blinked right behind Gunner and watched as the large lad walloped the Ogre right in the small of its back, stunning the ogre and sending it crashing into the wall before it.

Darius used that time to Analyze the monster before him.

[Detected target is of an Enemy affiliation. Displaying details accordingly.]

[Name: Single-headed Ogre

Race: Ogre

Class: Warrior

Subclass: None

HP: 121/125

MP: 14/14

Level: 8

Strength: 13

Agility: 6

Endurance: 10

Intellect: 1

Charisma: 1

Luck: 1

Abilities: Stomp, Consume, Grapple

Weapons: Wooden Club]

Darius saw that this enemy was similar to the Blue Troll in many aspects, which wasn't surprising since Trolls and Ogres shared many traits. Darius did notice it had better stats than the former, but not by much.

However, what disappointed him was the fact that the monster was lower leveled than him. This meant that he would likely be leaving this battle with only 1 experience point as consolation, assuming he would get any at all.

As a consolation, Darius was hoping that Gunner would receive enough experience to shoot up the Ranks.

Before Darius could follow up with a casting of Sparks, the voice of Caesar suddenly sounded in his head as the world around him seemed to come to a complete standstill.

{Hello, Darius Stone! It is I, Caesar, your friendly helper during your journey in the wonderful world of Faust!}

{As you've been informed during your grace period, there are certain moments when you'll be given the opportunity to talk to me or I will descend to contact you.}

{The former can occur due to something you have accomplished that pleases my mistress, while the latter will mostly happen in instances where I will have to educate you about a crucial feature going forward.}

{Today, I'm here to explain the exp share mechanic of the Supreme System!}

{Your acquisition of the System Brand should never have happened, but it seems your luck is truly not bad, Darius Stone! Had it been up to me, you should have ended up with a rotten banana instead!}

{Well, that is beside the point. The System Brand allows you to brand compatible targets to act as your servants in battle, although you can naturally use them outside of it as well. These beings will be completely loyal to you and will possess the same means of growth as you, albeit with some detriments.}

{The esteemed Goddess is looking forward to seeing how the plans you have put in motion will turn out. As such, she has instructed me to share a bit more about this special item you have been granted.}

{It might interest you to know that you are actually able to brand a target no matter their stage. However, you should be warned that once branded, they will be forcefully reset to level 1 in all instances. Still, they will benefit from higher starting stats the higher their previous levels!}

{As you have already learned, you can only have a single servant at your current stage. You're able to release your Branded Servants at any time, although that will result in their deaths. As a Journeyman, your limit will double to two and there will be more as you climb the stages!}

{Now that I've shared that information, I shall address my initial objective in coming here, how experience is shared between master and Branded Servants!}

{Your relationship with your servant when in combat is that of party members, just like it has been the case of your games back on Earth. As such, you will directly share experience for every kill, split equally regardless of your wishes! Yay!}

{However, that is not the only important thing to note. In the case where there are level discrepancies, the experience modifier will be calculated by using the differences in levels of all involved parties. The formula used will be the difference between you and the enemy compared to the difference in the average level of your Branded Servant and the enemy.)

{To give a practical example, take your current battle! The Ogre is level 8 while you are level 11 making for 3 levels of difference. Since this is the first fight of your Branded Servant, he is at level 1 thereby 7 levels below the enemy.}

{The difference between your 3 levels of difference and his 7 levels of differs, results in the final experience modifier being 4 levels worth of XP!}

Darius was silent as he listened to Caesar, but the more the intelligent entity spoke, the more Darius' smile widened until it became quite twisted. He wanted to shout aloud in euphoria, as he had not heard a more foolish and abusable mechanic in his life!

The sheer loopholes! The benefits of exploiting them! The wealth of nefarious ideas running through his mind! Should he complete any of them, his path to becoming a Supreme would be smooth as silk!

However, Darius' joy bled away the next moment as his sharp mind noticed one big flaw in all this. With such an open-ended mechanic that even a toddler would understand how to abuse, how could Vena, a Goddess of Games as well as Caesar not notice this?

Exactly what had Darius missed in his calculations that made the one watching him unbothered by the many 'mistakes' he had encountered so far?


Chapter 62: Chapter 62

Darius noticed that time began to return to its usual speed. He cut his train of thought and decided to investigate later, for he had gleaned a single clue from everything he had heard and experienced so far.

He shifted his attention back to the fight, just in time to see Gunner leap into the sky and crush the Ogre into the earth with his knees. Like a beast, his Branded Servant began punching the back of the Ogre's head in with a shocking amount of force.

Darius paused as he opted to watch Gunner fight instead of outright interfering. A part of him didn't want to believe it, but it appeared as if Gunner might be able to kill a monster 7 levels higher than himself on his own.

Darius felt that it should be impossible, but he also felt it was logical. The reason he himself could not achieve such results at Gunner's level was because of the single fact Caesar had highlighted when Darius first awoke in this world.

No matter how talented, handsome, or witty Darius thought he was, at the end of the day, his talents were tied to mercantilism. His genius revolved around mercantile concepts and his charisma shone in negotiations. In every other situation, he was just another 70+-year-old man at best.

Especially combat. Caesar had bluntly put it that the transmigrator would struggle to become combat-capable before the Journeyman stage, which would have been true had he not lucked out with Transmutation and created various things to assist him.

Darius only cheaped out by learning skills easily through skillbooks. Alas without skill points, those skills would stagnate forever, not to mention that they were all at the basic stage because of his low CP threshold per day.

In contrast, Gunner was half-giant that was born with better stats than Darius, whose talent for combat far surpassed his master due to Giant's bloodline. According to the system, it was even royal blood!

[Single-headed Ogre - Level 7 Monster

HP: 98/125 MP: 14/14]

Gunner was seriously laying down the hurt on the monster with his never-ending punches. Even Darius began to grimace at his brutality, imagining himself trapped beneath the half-giant lad while he rampaged.

However, at the end of the day, the Ogre was still a level 8 monster. Despite its dizziness, it pressed its arms to the ground and pushed its torso up forcefully with all its strength.

This tossed Gunner off its back and made him roll and crouch like a beast, his expression locked into the rictus of a snarl. His green eyes glowed with brutality like a shark that had been triggered by the smell of blood.

The Vanguard didn't give the Ogre much time to gather its bearings as he charged at it once again, bringing his shoulder forward as the focus of his momentum.

The Single-headed Ogre roared in a mixture of anger as well as disgruntlement as it noticed the Branded Servant's charge, then swung its club to meet the lad's assault. Here, Gunner's weakness showed, which was his poor Agility.

He was unable to alter his trajectory as he had put too much force into the charge. As such, his torso was struck by the barrel of the club, sending the lad flying into a nearby tree. Not only did Gunner crash into it, he even broke through.

Darius' face became grim as he planned to quickly heal his Branded Servant in case the lad was crippled, but was shocked to hear him roar and smash what remained of the tree aside as he glared at the Ogre with the light of madness in his eyes.

A strange greenish energy coiled around Gunner the longer he roared and even Darius felt pressured by the power he was generating. Confused as to what was going on with that, he checked Gunner's status.

His eyes widened when he saw that the half-giant had somehow gained a new skill called 'Earth's Guardian'. Upon inspecting the skill, Darius understood what was going on.

From the description given, Earth's Guardian was a skill exclusive to the royal family of the Giants, who had been blessed by Gaia as her protectors on the surface. They had been blessed to have increased defense, offense, and magical resistance, yet poor speed.

It would explain why Gunner's starting stats had been so high in those categories, as it was purely a racial thing.

However, the idea that Branded Servants could auto-learn and retain racial skills even after been overwritten by the Supreme System gave Darius many ideas for the future.

As for Gunner, he charged at the Ogre once more, who roared back in defiance. It activated one of its skills, 'Grapple'. It rushed to meet the lad to take him into a grapple hold, which Gunner mimicked as both fighters clashed in the center of the clearing.

The two struggled to overpower the other as they shifted about and struggled while locked in the hold, but Gunner was slowly losing ground. After all, he only had 12 points of Strength while the Ogre had 13, which was just enough to give it the advantage.

However, the green energy surrounding Gunner became more intense and began entering his body slowly, making his skin start to glow in the same color.

The more energy entered the lad, the more of an advantage he gained over the Single-headed Ogre, that was now sweating and screaming at Gunner.

The Vanguard wasn't done, as he suddenly absorbed all the greenish energy at once and channeled it into his arms.

To the horror of the onlooking Darius, Gunner smiled menacingly and roared in dominance before he raised his left leg and braced it against the chest of the Ogre, using his newfound strength to rip the arms of the monster right from their sockets!

The half-giant wasn't done yet, as he used both arms like a club to beat and brutalize the now dis-armed Ogre to its knees.

Darius could only watch on in a mixture of dismay and morbid fascination as his Branded Servant beat the life out of the monster until its body was no longer recognizable before he stopped.

Bloody and panting like a beast, Gunner turned and glared at Darius.


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