Kapitel 24: Two Becomes One, Lvl 36

|B-Rank Twin Cleaver|

|Second Form: Two Becomes One|

OOOM!

Romulus's power more than tripled what it once was, with the Pearlescent Cleaver becoming double his body height!

His piercing eyes honed in on the brightly shimmering golden spot closest to him. The monster's tail was still in the process of wrapping around, so he had all the time he needed to make one strike. He just had to execute it!

"You have something shiny here," Romulus said with an icy tone. "It must be bothering you greatly, so I will do you the favor of scratching your itch. No need to repay the favor."

SHING!

Immense colorful energy fluctuated off the edges and tip of his blade as it stretched more than a dozen meters into the air. Then, with an arm blur, it sliced through all distance and reached the large golden blot of light beneath the Grimlit Lurker's right eye. It cried out in pain as greenish-red blood gushed out of its lower eye, making it violently squint and tumble onto a few houses. The razor-sharp tail that was less than a few inches away from beheading Romulus's head was suddenly flung off to the side, following along with its owner.

'With it now on the ground,' he smirked.

His cleaver stopped vibrating and emitting so much energy as it reached for a state of pure tranquility. Only then did it spasm, and completely out of expectations, it shrank and condensed.

|B-Rank Twin Cleaver|

|Third Form: Blazing Katana|

The massive cleaver transformed into a curved and extremely sharp Japanese-style katana. Getting into a proper stance, Romulus bent his body and narrowed his eyes. Then, with a violent crackle of crimson lightning, he vanished from his spot in the sky. As his figure zapped in a zigzagging fashion, several bloody cuts showed up on the Grimlit Lurker's giant body. They were shallow, but Romulus did not need them to deal serious damage. He simply needed them to distract the monster long enough to allow him to aim for the kill. And just as intended, the cuts made the Grimlit Lurker shriek in pain, clearly overreacting over the minor scratches.

While in Elemental Dominator form, Romulus created numerous more bloody lines. When he finally made it to the monster's twitching eye, he clenched both hands over the katana's intricate dragon-adorned handle, only to slash down with overwhelming might and cut even deeper into the same spot as the previous wound. Yet, that wasn't the end of his relentless strikes; he boosted himself toward the open wound and dove straight into it. Upon making it a few meters into the monster's bright red eyeball, Thorkun erupted in energy, turning into something akin to a self-imploding star.

"ROOOAARGGHH!!!" The Grimlit Lurker bellowed out in fury as it clawed at its eye, attempting to stop the insufferable pain. It even stabbed its ridiculously long tail into the pitch black and red eye, but even that was not enough to stop the pain. Slowly, blackened blood trickled out of both its eyes, which became progressively worse. Moreover, its head also started to unnaturally increase in size, with its wobbly movements becoming far more unstable.

Then, with a disgustingly loud and gruesome sound, the Grimlit Lurker's head exploded! Like a smashed watermelon, its head pieces and brain matter splattered the surrounding dozens of medieval-style buildings. In the middle of this disturbing sight, calmly floating in the sky, was an extraordinarily handsome man. His raven-black hair cascaded over his back like a mystical waterfall, his body partly covered in the blood of his enemies, and his disposition embodying the aspects of both elegance and death.

This was who he had become — who Romulus had become.

Tap, Tap.

Upon landing on the bloody, damp cobblestone road in a refined manner, a number of system notifications bombarded his vision.

[Ding! You killed a Lvl 51 Grimlit Watcher and received 315,000 EXP!]

[Ding! You leveled up!]

[You have reached Lvl 36!]

[You obtained 3 Stat Points in all of your main attributes!]

[You obtained 3 BP!]

[You obtained 3 Stat Points in all of your main attributes!]

[You obtained 3 BP!]

After perusing the latest system notifications, Romulus pulled up his system interface. Realizing that he had a lot of BP just sitting around accumulating dust, he burned through 75% of his stash and further improved his stats. With 90 BP to work with, he had many ways to distribute it, but from what he could tell about himself, Agility was definitely first, then Strength, then Intelligence, and finally, Defense.

'It's not like Defense is the least useful; I just have higher boost percentages affecting it. Therefore, it is of the lowest priority,' he thought, his mind still churning over the best distribution path.

Ultimately, Romulus decided to dump 35 of his BP into Agility, 25 into Strength, 20 into Intelligence, and then 10 into Defense. After which, his system interface looked like:

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[Name: Romulus] — [Level: 36]

[Job: None]

[Title: None]

[MP: 18,000/18,000]

[BP: 31]

|Strength: 166 (830) | Defense: 138 (1380)|

|Intelligence: 145 (725) | Agility: 189 (945)|

{[Skills: [EX-Rank Truck-kun's Retribution], [S-Rank Magical Eye (Lvl 3)], [S-Rank Minimap (Lvl 3)], [S-Rank Elemental Dominator (Lvl 3)], [S-Rank Elemental Dominator Transformation (Lvl 3)], [S-Rank Devour (Lvl 3)]

[S-Rank Discerning Eye (Lvl 1)], [A-Rank Rudimentary Ascendant Glow (Lvl 2)], [A-Rank Elemental Condenser (Lvl 2)], [A-Rank Hyper Regeneration (Lvl 3)], [B-Rank Twin Cleaver (Lvl 3).....]]}

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