Chapter 7: First Kill

After sensing his ancestor's departure, Jesse instantly collapsed to the ground while his whole body was shaking from fear, you can even see sweat mixed with blood dripping out of his forehead like a little rain.

But he still had that big smile attached to his face. About the garbage his ancestor spoke about, Jesse knew what he meant while not helping it but giving another glance to the hole inside of Bell's body.

When Jack was talking to Jesse, he was extending his pressure to his whole body the entire time and that's why he couldn't help but kneel and kowtow that hard, it's so that his old Ancestor can take pity on him and let him live, he already knows how cold and savage this ancestor of his is and that's why he introduced Bell to him while acting like he is helpless ( while he was indeed helpless about the whole matter since the other side is simply stronger ). He was hoping from the moment he noticed the old man walking towards him for such an ending or a similar one.

As a gust of air spread into the environment. You can see earth bullets hitting the last wolf's head penetrating deep into its skull, and similar scenes or close to it were visible on the other wolf's dead body, and like that it died hitting the ground.

Jessica collapsed to the ground heavily panting trying to catch her breath, she lost all of her mana killing this low-level wolf pack, even though she neared tier 1 and could take care of them without any risk. She still doesn't have much mana to support such expenditure.

After all tier 0 mages can indeed absorb mana from the surrounding environment and use it to cast their spells. But there is always a limit to a tier 0 mage's body ability of how much mana he can absorb and if he tries to take in more than he can then his insides would collapse.

And that's the second reason why it takes time to advance, but the more mana they absorb and circulate, the more their bodies get used to mana, and after doing that process till they can absorb and circulate mana while talking or eating. Then that's where they hit the limit of tier 1 and have to form their dantian so they can advance to tier 2.

However even without dantian, tier 0 plus tier 1 mages do contain mana inside of their bodies, and that's in their blood, but of course, it's only a little amount compared to a dantian.

But that's already so helpful since that mana can keep making their bodies stronger than average humans so they don't tire or require much sleep or food, sadly if they run out of mana inside of their blood, they will go back to being as fragile as normal humans.

Of course, this only works for people below tier 2, after all, with a dantian, things are entirely different for mages.

And the most important reason is that tier 0 /1 mages can still use that mana contained inside of their blood While fighting to fasten their spell casting because it's way faster than absorbing mana and then using it to cast spells.

Mike was having it way easier, he was simply cutting down trees, and happiness was written all over his face in, this 1 hour he already managed to level up 3 more times reaching level 7 with little to no effort.

Mike found out that even dealing a single blow to the beasts, the system will still give him the experience for the kill, so he was simply throwing rocks from time to time at the 3 beasts Jessica was fighting while gathering wood at the same time, he honestly wanted this to go on forever, but he had to change his plans upon seeing his sisters condition after killing the wolf pack.

Jessica was gonna start circulating her mana to recover some of it inside of her body but when she sat cross-legged, she noticed the communication device litting up in her pocket, so she instantly poured the speck of mana that she had left and activated it.

This is only the cheapest and most common communication device in this whole world, and it can only receive 1 sided messages from the other half of this device that looks like a pen that has been cut into 2 halves, so it doesn't require that much mana to operate.

After seeing the context of the message, especially the part about her ancestor recovering and the family meeting. She instantly had a serious expression on her face and gave a signal to John and Sezar to delay the beating for another time.

Jesse didn't mention the death of Bell to anyone while summoning them, since that's a subject his ancestor will take care of and it's only suitable to relay the news face to face anyway.

John and Sezar were disappointed and even a little mad at first but remembering that she is Bell's future bride they chose to back down for today with reluctant looks displayed on their faces.

Mike was gonna check his panel and put his free points in strength like always, but upon seeing Jessica's change of expression and the departing figures of Bell's lackeys, he almost couldn't contain his laughter and happiness.

' Seems like something Happened so they had to go back, well, I was gonna make my move even if they didn't go, since Jessica was oom as a mage and that's what's called a free kill in games. '

' But now with the departing figures of Bell's lackeys, I sadly can't blame Jessica's death on them, so I guess I won't be going back to the village and simply keep heading south till I find a village or a town, my invisibility is not forever after all so I can't go to the village and steal whatever I need. ' Mike began planing his next moves.

Mike doesn't know that he managed to escape a disaster with that decision of his, because if he went back without Jessica to his house and his old Ancestor noticed something.

And he surely will, since Mike got stronger after leveling up, and as a tier 2 warrior, Jack can notice things weaker people can't, so seeing a weak kid getting stronger overnight and his sister going missing on that same day, he will instantly kill him out of rage .

Because he was planning on nurturing Jessica as a mage and making her the pillar of the family in the future, but all his plans were destroyed by her death .

He was indeed healing his injuries all over the past 12 years, but Jack still ordered Jesse to notify him of any outstanding kids from the new generation if any are born, so he knew about Jessica's existence.

"Father told us to go back for an urgent family meeting, seems like our ancestor is finally healed and ordered everyone to come back so pack up and let's start moving" Jessica faced Mike telling him about the order she got from her father.

" Our ancestor?, that's good news for our family that he finally recovered, go ahead, I'll be right behind you, just let me gather those packs of wood first. " Mike said while bending and starting to gather the wood in packs .

So Jessica chose to move ahead and not wait for him as Mike suggested.

Seeing Jessica getting up and walking in the direction of the village, Mike instantly called up the system to put his 6 free points of distribution in strength.

[Panel]

[Name]: Mike

[Age]: 22

[Race ]: Human

[Level]: 7

[Lifespan]: 68 years

[Strength]: 20 > 26

[Stamina]: 10 > 13

[Speed]: 12 > 15

[Intelligence]: 18 >21

[ MP]: 4 > 7

[Abilities]: 1

Skill: invisibility ( description).

' I wonder how much damage can i deal with 26 strength, let's just hope that I didn't risk putting all my 14 free points into strength and then I won't be dealing any evident damage. ' he thought, with some expectations towards the damage that he can deal.

Seeing his sister a little ahead, walking without even offering to help him out, Mike instantly activated his invisibility skill.

'Interesting , this feeling is really cool , I wonder if I should become an assassin hahaha. Ehm, let's first focus on the task at hand right now. ' Mike mused.

'Even though I'm leaving the village now and I don't actually have to kill Jessica, I will still do it for the sake of that Gucci experience that a level 22 will give. Ehm no, no, this is me taking revenge for the owner of this body for how much he endured after being bullied for years, yes, that's the reason indeed hehehe'.

' Dead Mike, Thank you for the body, I'll be sending your sister next to you so you don't feel lonely wherever you are.'

Thinking up to this point Mike grabbed his axe and started slowly moving towards Jessica from behind while trying his best to not step on any broken branches or something along those lines.

He wasn't surprised after seeing that the axe turned invisible upon touching it, cause if that wasn't the case, then he will have to get naked whenever he activates the skill, which will honestly be weird if that was the case.

After a few seconds of moving stealthily without making any sound, Mike finally caught up to Jessica.

' It is really hard to try and sneak up on people without making any noises, well, I finally caught up at least.' Saying so, Mike strengthened his hold on the axe and directly smashed it on the back of Jessica's head using every strength he could muster from his body.

Upon contact with Jessica's head, the axe directly penetrated her skull, but it didn't go all the way down and stopped halfway through her head. But that was already a death blow to her anyway.

Blood gushed out of Jessica's skull, making it look like a tiny fountain was made, but the only difference was that it was blood and not water.

After retracting his axe from her head, Jessica's body collapsed into the ground making some sound upon contact and generating some dust caused by the crash. Soon, a small pool made of blood was formed under Jessica's upper half.

'Huh?', Mike was so puzzled about this for a moment, he was not panicked or anything of that sort cause he killed someone, he has already done so in his past life, because of some guy that wanted to play the hero while he was robbing a little shop alone.

If you step between Mike and his benefits or goal, then he won't care about who you are or what you are, much less killing a human, he will gladly turn into an ant if it means reaching his goal.

What puzzled Mike the most, that he even ignored the system's notifications ranging in his ears, was Jessica dying so easily.