Chapter 45 - Stage 6 : Farming XP (1/2)

Moving room to room, the brothers continued their massacre. They proceeded to kill each sleeping target on the left side of the Grand Staircase; before moving on to the right, leaving a total of 13 corpses in their wake before they stopped to rest with only two rooms remaining.

Along the way, their assassination technique didn't differ much from their first attempt. Cynrik would deal the first blow to their target by slitting their throats, while Brance, who was now thoroughly coating the removed hidden blade with Wind Mana, would forcefully slam the blade fully into the target's head.

They only had to adjust their strategy in one of the rooms where a naked couple was sleeping. They had split up and attacked separately; Cynrik dealt with the woman while Brance used his sword to cut off the man's head in one swing.

With each kill, they continued to receive double rewards since every target was at the minimum level 13 and the highest so far being level 16. Even though their targets were of a different Tier and higher level, it didn't matter. A sleeping target was a defenseless one. Seeing how easily they could kill these people who were stronger than them, Brance and Cynrik both swore to never sleep heavily for the rest of their lives.

The simple thought that someone significantly weaker than them could reap their lives when they went into slumber unsettled the brothers greatly. Their only saving grace was both their high VIT and their Body Tempering. When they acquired the BOD TEMP stat, Tobs had explained its benefits to them. In Vinestra, beasts had a naturally more robust defense than most beings, and their BOD TEMP stat gave them a similar physique to a beast with the corresponding Tier. Currently, with their BOD TEMP being at Tier 2, they would only suffer minor injuries from someone in their Tier. At the same time, the damage from Tier 1 beings could hurt them, but they were more resistant.

That's why Cynrik had come up with this plan. He was well aware that if push came to shove, they could at least survive long enough to escape. But hurting someone of a higher Tier was a different story. Every time he attacked one of the Tier 1 beings, he could feel the resistance from their skin. So unlike when he killed the people in the basement who were all Tier 0, he found himself having to exert a lot more force to slit their throats. This resistance was why he told Brance to coat the blade in Mana to add extra damage.

While Cynrik had given his younger brother a hard time for being unable to kill their first opponent instantly, he couldn't fault him, and thus after his little skit, Cynrik didn't mention it again. Brance understood why he couldn't kill the first target with his initial strike and subsequently adjusted with the second and saw a noticeable difference.

Room by room, they swept through silently like reapers, killing its inhabitants without waking them. The result was a massive amount of XP. 35,900 to be exact, which raised both of their levels to 7, 24 Stat points, 12 Tier 1 Codex's, and more than a dozen storage devices.

Letting out a tired sigh, Cynrik proceeded to scroll through his gains from the assassinations. Looking over the Stat point increases he had received, Cynrik didn't know whether to laugh or cry. He had acquired 4 DEX, 6 INT, 4 STR, 4 AGI, 2 MIND, 4 VIT, and 24 KIN. Although he was glad to see his stats increase, he was depressed that it had messed up his well-thought-out build. Aside from leveling up to level 7, the biggest gain, in his opinion, was the KIN points. Upon reaching 10 KIN he had been notified that he received a skill.

-Your Killing Intent Attribute has reached 10 points. Therefore, the host will now be able to unleash an intangible and invisible force equivalent to 1.5 times Vinestra's gravity on an opponent.-

At 20 it increased to 1.75g, and at 30 it reached 2.0g. Seeing that every 10 points added to his Killing Intent Attribute only led to a 0.25 increase in the force he could exert made Cynriks heart sink, and when he saw that leveling up didn't increase his KIT like the rest of his Stats, he couldn't help but let out yet another sigh.

Eventually, after staring at his Stats panel for a few minutes, he decided to throw caution to the wind and dump all 8 of his newly acquired Stat points into his AGI, increasing it to 64 and making it his highest Stat. Once finished, he sent his new Stat profile over to Brance before standing up and stretching.

: Status :

: Cynrik Jetlensr:

: Human Male:

: Age-7:

: Soul Age-36:

: Level: 7 :

: Essence(XP): 4800/65000:

: Distribution: 1 Per All :

: Mana Codex Tier: 1 (Proficiency= 20.0%) :

: Mana Cycles: 300 (Proficiency= 20.0%) :

: Mana Circuit Tier: 1 (Proficiency= 20.0%) :

: Gravity Resistance: 3g (Proficiency= 100.0%) :

: Body Tempering: Tier 2 (Proficiency= 0.0%) :

: STATS :

: HP 460/460 :

: Mana 221/221 :

: Stamina 230/230 :

: Stat Points- 0:

: Skill Points- 80 :

: Strength- 29 :

: Dexterity- 57 :

: Agility- 64 :

: Intelligence- 27 :

: Vitality- 46 :

: Mind- 35 :

: Killing Intent- 33 - 2.0G :

: Affinity :

:(SAG)Dark-Tier 0 (Proficiency= 10.0%): :Expand:

:(BG) Fire-Tier 1 (Proficiency= 10.0%): :Expand: