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[You have sin the Dungeon Gate Boss: [Hobgoblin Champion King (C+ Rank)] x1!]
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[Your Level has increased from level 33 to Level 37!]
[All your Stats have increased. You gaiat Points and Skill Points.]
[You earned +11.000 Credits for sying a Dungeon Gate Boss all by yourself!]
[What an incredible feat! You received the Title: [Dungeon Gate Keeper] for forcefully closing a Dungeon Gate!]
[You have used Mana to manipute Space itself, you have gained enough skill proficy.]
[You learhe Magic Skill: [Partial Spatial Manipution (B): Lv1]!]
[A Dungeon Gate Treasure Chest has been geed.]
POOF!
As I g the corpse of the monster fall into pieces, I ighe system messages for a moment and looked at the stra incredibly iing process. I saw the monster and the gate’s mana dense and then absorb iergy from the system itself, materializing into a golden-colored treasure chest. Impressive! I have only seen this level of Energy Materialization in the oldest Venerables of Murim.
“You sin the boss already?!” Ruby cried. “Big sis at least makes it more iing, like a big fight with stakes!”
“Oh my, you wanted something longer? Sorry, I was trying to close the gate, and the poor thing just came out at the worst time.” I ughed. “Ah, don’t worry about new Gates ever appearing around here. I’ve folded the space very, very tightly. So if something tries to appear, it will fail miserably. This extends around... a hundred meters from here?”
“Wait, you just stop Dungeon Gates from ever happening?!” My mother is now the one shocked.
“I guess so. Uhey e from the skies…” I looked up. “Anyways! Look at this big treasure chest! Doesn’t it make you feel rather excited? I feel like I’ve bee a child again with all these frivolous game-like meics. Let me see.”
I opehe treasure chest, revealing three prizes inside.
[You have opehe [Dungeon Gate Treasure Chest (C+ Rank)] x1!]
[You received the following rewards: [Skill Book: Mana Manipution (C Grade)] x1 [Hobgoblin’s Champion King Butchering Axe (C+ Grade)] x1 [Hobgoblin Champion King Soul Orb (C+ Grade)] x1]
“Ooh, aren’t these quite the iing little tris?” I wondered, grabbing the huge axe. “Ah, this is useless, though.” I threw it away.
“Did she throw away a C-grade on?!”
“G-Grab it!”
“That thing costs at least a million dolrs!”
“Get away; I saw it first!”
As usual, the mortals fought for trash like rabid dogs.
“But this is a soul tained within an orb! Now this is something only immortals of middle to higher stages do! No mortals could ever... How amusing. I will o study this method. And—oh, a skill book, huh? I might as well use it, no?”
[You have learhe [Mana Manipution (C): Lv1] Magic Skill!]
[You ow sense and manipute Maer. With each Skill Level, this ability will rise greatly.]
FLASH!
I felt the flow of Mana beuch better around my body. More or less, I could better grasp its ditions. Although it was still very evasive of my grasp, I was slowly getting a better hang of it. Though it is much easier to increase my Mana level.
“Ahh, more Primordial Essence!” I sighed in relief as I bined my Mana with Immortal Essence, geing a beautiful seven-colored dew withierior of my Core. “Wonderful, I feel much better now.”
I o keep leveling up if I want to pletely restore my strength, I suppose.
[Your [Mana Manipution (C): Lv1] Skill has Leveled Up!]
“Oh? That fast? I suppose refining Primordial Essence must be a very high level of mana manipution by itself?” I wondered as I made my way bay family yet again. “I’m done! Let’s go now, family.”
"Katherine, why did you drop the axe?" My mom looked pale. “Someone already snatched it away!”
“Oh, that thing? No worries! If you want a better on, I make you something with my Eight-Layered Golden Sun Alchemy Cauldron, mother. I have it stashed away inside of my Inner Realm.” I smiled at her. “Just ask ter, and I’ll make you something strohan that pathetic little toy.”
“E-Eh? Okay, honey, I guess…” My mother was still trying to process what I just said. “Let’s go now; no more distras, alright? You get too sidetracked!”
“Ahah, my bad. I am just too curious sometimes.” I giggled merrily.
“Seriously, I guess you haven’t ged in that regard.” Ruby ughed.
In a few minutes of walking through these memorable streets, we reached the Hunter Association Building I had eyed before. People kept ing and going from it. Most of such people tained sizable amounts of Mana iheir bodies.
I held back my desire to just absorb all their Mana for myself. I was from the Orthodox fa, so we don’t sy mortals without reason. Though those monsters' Mana reserves were det.
And about these crystal things, I should probably absorb them ter.
“And here we are… Well, Katherine, are you pnning oering in those clothes, though?” My mother wondered. “You look like some geisha or a cospyer, dear.”
“What?! These beautiful and colorful robes were refined for hundreds of years, Mother!” I pined. “I know that Earth has its own clothing s, but why should I care?”
“So you don’t embarrass us, big sis! Think a bit.” Ruby pined, crossing her arms.
Before the stares of my mother and my sister, I only sighed. I suppose they were n. I had to “fit in,” even if a bit. I’ll keep the whole aesthetid the dress, but I’ll take away a few things here and there. I suppose wearing heels is okay, right? Jeans too. There.
FLASH!
“It’s done; is this more acceptable? I ged my robes to something more fitting.” I smiled.
“W-Woah…” My sister muttered. “So you ge your clothes to look however you want?!”
“That’s amazing.” My mother said. “Ahis beautiful dress, the jeans, and those red heels go so well with you, honey. You’re really a doll!”
“Ahaha, mother, you ftter me.” I smiled, feeling slightly embarrassed. “Now, let’s go inside.”
“Wait, big sis, you’re really ripped! Look at that belly, so hard, like a brick!” My sister muttered. “And your arms... I didn't notice before, but they’re bulky too, yet delicate at the same time. How?”
“A dy must always keep their beauty if possible, but that doesn’t mean I will shy away from developing a strong body,” I answered. “Once we’re doh these things, I will teach the two of you some teiques. I might even allow you to begin your cultivation journey. I want you to be strong as well. You too, Ruby.”
“Eh, me too?!” Ruby cried in surprise.
“You share your powers with us?” My masped. “Be careful where you say such things, honey. Don’t speak it loudly. There are cameras everywhere in this building.”
“Right, I shall be more careful from now on, mother.” I nodded. “Now, you must be the receptionist of this little hut?”
As we ehe building, I walked, skipping the line and talking to the receptionist, who was assessing a young bck-haired man’s things. Both she and the young man stared at me first, perhaps in awe of my appearand beauty. Mortals are very easy to read.
“Y-Yes, I am. But please wait in line; many people are waiting and-”
“Line? A Primordial waits no lines. will attend to my needs right this instant.” I touched the table, slowly spreading cracks through it. “Young man, will you atiently behind me?”
“What?! No way! I waited here for like half an hour!” He said, barking back like a savage. "Don't think that because you're a hot bitch, you'll get to do whatever you want! I am a fervent believer in gender equality, so if you don't stand away, I won't hold you responsible for what I do to you, ma'am!"
“Is that so? Such a savage. Mortals these days, I swear." I sighed. "Well, if you-"
"Just get the fuck away, whore!" He barked back even more furiously, suddenly throwing me a kick.
Yet his kick didnt eveo me, hitting an invisible wall.
This wall was the differen power betweewo, my very i.
"So this is how it's going to be. Very well, if yoing to bark like a dog, you might as well die like one.” I kicked his stomad sent him flying faster than their eyes could see.
BAAAM!
[You have kicked someoh such strength and speed that they almost died! In fact, you held back most of your power, showg incredible trol over your own irength. You learhe [Kig Strike (D): Lv1] Cssless Skill!]
“Ugh…!” The man vomited a mouthful of blood as a huge crater formed in the walls. I waved my hand, my golden energy healing all his wounds. I was a merciful immortal.
“Will you attend to me now that the dog is gone?” I asked politely. “Don’t worry, he’s healed. He’s fine.”
[Due to your merciful acts and your amazing trol of healing teiques, you learhe [Healing Golden Light (B): Lv1] Magic Skill!]
[Because of help to someone wounded, you learhe [First Aid (D): Lv1] Cssless Skill!]
Oh, grinding Skills is quite easy.
“W-Wha… What the hell?! Kyaaaah! A criminal!” The receptionist ran away.
Arms suddenly started ringing all around the entire building. People started running away. And the huhat stayed quickly poiheir ons and magic at me.
“Oh my, such a generous reception.” I smiled. “I guess this is what I get f to ask for some respect around here. Maybe I should teach everyone here some manners first?”
“Stand where you are!” A tall bck man showed up, wearing sungsses and a bck robe. He was bulky and looked to be overflowing with Mana. “I am the Hunter’s Association Chairman of this area; my name is Nichos Heisen, and I am an S-Rank Hunter. Lady, you just kicked someone and almost broke the reinforced walls out of nowhere. Do you uand what you did? You killed the man!”
“He’s not dead though; look.” I pointed in the distahe man was standing up, looking around fused.
“Huh? I’m alive? But I am sure my stomach was crushed…” He muttered, toug his skin and finding not even scars behind.
“See? I kicked the dog, but I don’t like killing animals without a reason, so I healed him back.” I smiled at the man named Nick. “Now, I just came here with my family to be registered. As an Immortal, the minimum treatment I ask for is to not wait for a damned line. Will you help me register so I please my family, or will you make this harder for the two of us?”
“Is that a threat, ma’am?” The man asked.
“Take it as you will; I only speak the truth,” I said. “I will do what I say I will do.”
“Alright, take her down; she’s nuts.” The man said this as dozens of hunters rushed towards me.
“Oh no…” I could hear my mother face-palming. “Katherine, please, be gentle.”
“She loves getting into trouble, huh?” Ruby crossed her arms.
As soon as I heard their words, the hunters approached. A barrage of weak and very sloon attacks came my way. It was so slow that it felt like I could drink tea while waiting for them to reach me. I simply walked across the attacks; I didn’t eveo evade them; my body simply resisted it all.
“How dull. And you call yourselves hunters?” I yawned. “{Primordial Spiritual Body Arts}: {Photon Needles}”
Needles of Photon Energy surged endlessly from my body, pierg the hunters’ bodies arog them, knog them out on the spot. I don’t know what Ranks they even were, but they were all weaklings.
“W-Wha…?! She knocked down ten B Rank Hunters?!” Niuttered. “You… You’re a monster hiding as a human, aren’t you?! Everyone, run! I will hahis!”
The man’s body suddenly started swelling up, his body size increasing up to four times, as he was now packed with gigantic, rge muscles. His bck skin turned as bck as charcoal, giving it a metallic gleam. His Aura of Mana was rather sizable, so this is an “S Rank Hunter”, huh?
“RAAAH!”
He leaped forward, his gigantid bulky arms pummeling down on me like titanic hammers. The ground below us shattered, yet his fists couldn’t even hurt me. Rainbow-colored barriers made of nine colorful colors protected me from his attacks.
“What…?! A magic barrier?”
“You could call it that, yes. Sure.”
“Heh, perfect then.”
He smiled, his face dist into pure joy as he activated one of his skills, and his hands overflowed with a bergy that seemed to attempt to distort Mana itself aroy it.
“{Mana Break}!”
His fists rushed down once more, both at the same time, attempting to smash the barrier into pieces with a mighty strike. The entire building trembled; it was slowly falling apart. These people really don’t know how to keep their things, huh?
BAAAM!
Yet there are were no cracks left over my barrier.
“You’re incredibly weak, so you boast with such fidence. Are you sure you’re not the one who has gone insane?” I asked, looking at him in the eyes.
“W-What? Nothing is w?!” He muttered. “Is that an S-rank barrier? You’re S Rank!”
“S Rank?” I asked. “No, I think I might be beyond that, perhaps.”
I disappeared from there and reappeared above him, using my new Partial Spatial Manipution Skill to teleport a short dista's quite a useful little ability, I have to admit.
“Now, let’s see… {Kig Strike}! Was it?”
I swung my left leg towards the man’s right shoulder, and my Aura exploded with my Mana, f a sshing bde so powerful and fast that he was uo deted evade in time. My kiot only pierced through his “incredibly hard” skin, but it cut through his limbs, his arm falling down and spttering blood everywhere.
“UUAAAGGH!”
The man screamed in utter agony, his eyes gring at me furiously as he kicked me, but that didn’t help at all; I remained in midair no matter how hard he attempted to pummel me down. I suppose he has no more tricks. Is he just a brawler who relies on endurand fighting prowess? He’s awfully weak to do so. The battle monks in Murim would easily crush him like an ant.
“How many limbs must I cut or break before you learn your lesson?”
I kicked his other arm, and it was gone. I then kicked his legs and broke them, and then I pushed my palm into his chest, using my teiques at the same time. A zap of Photon Energy reached the rest of his body, paralyzing him as it pierced through all his nerves arocuted his muscles.
“{Primordial Spiritual Body Arts}: {Photonic Seal}”
“Uuggh…!W-What did you…?! How you- Aaggh…! I am an S Rank… I shouldn’t lose at all! I-I… Ugh…!” He kept vomiting blood as I stood over his chest.
“Nichos, I do not io kill you, nor do I ever io fight you either.” I sighed. “I will heal you and everyone else. I even repair your little building. Will you allow me tister with your hunter association and not make a fuss about it now?”
“Y-Yes! Sure! Whatever you say! Please don’t kill me; I have two daughters!” He cried; he was telling the truth.
“Of course I won’t. I think you’re a good person, Nichos. You were just proteg your pce, right? A Master would uand that. But you itted a grave mistake by offending an immortal. I hope you learn from this experiend never it the same mistake again, okay? Other immortals would have killed you within a split sed of you ever badmouthing them. I believe I am quite merciful instead.”
“I-I will… I will learn… Ugh…” He was already looking rather terrible. I better hurry.
“Okay, well done.” I nodded, patting his forehead. “How about we use another skill, eh? {Healing Golden Light}!”
A wave of healing golden light enpassed everyone I hurt, and their wounds immediately healed pletely. In fact, even their energy and stamina were restored. By fusing these skill effects with my teiques and Ki energy, much better results be created. What an iing power this system thing has!
“Are you alright now? There, there. Everything is fine.” I looked like Nichos slowly sat down, looking at himself.
“I am healed pletely. My wounds, everything, not even scars…” He muttered. “Lady, thank you for your mercy… I… Well, ologize for offending you. We were not aware you were so supremely powerful. Are you perhaps a World Css Hunter? My boss old me someone like that was ing to New York…”
“Oh, no, I am trying tister, so I am not a World-Css Hunter or whatever,” I said. “Now, now. Let’s get started while I repair your little building.”
Everyone gasped in disbelief as the building swiftly came back together to a pristine appearance. I maniputed my Immortal Aura and my Ki Energy into tless hands and repair tools, quickly crafting everything back to normal with some synthesizing abilities that I acquired from learning Alchemy ba Murim.
“And done! As good as new and more reinforced than ever before. It should not break anymore, even when S Ranks fight inside.” I answered.
“T-Thank you so much…” Nichos swallowed saliva as he looked at me. “Please, e with me if you want tister; I will personally do it for you, dy… What is your name?”
“Hmm, you call me Bing Xue!” I said.
I prefer to save my real name for only my family.
“Bing Xue… Alright, please e with us. And once more, I am deeply sorry for our disrespect. You are so powerful, you could kill us all, yet you only taught us a lesson and healed us. I think this is the first time I have ever experienced such overwhelming power from a person and not a monster, yet such benevolent mercy at the same time…” He started g while walking upstairs. I waved my hand at my family, telling them to wait for me.
“Do you o cry for that?” I sighed. “Seriously, mortals these days…”
[You have maniputed a powerful fn energy simir to Light and Thunder with incredible dexterity and prowess, you learhe [Photon Essence Manipution (A): Lv1] Magic Skill!]
[Your [Kig Strike (D): Lv1] [First Aid (D): Lv1] [Partial Spatial Manipution (B): Lv1] [Mana Manipution (C): Lv2] [Healing Golden Light (B): Lv1] [Photon Essence Manipution (A): Lv1] Skills have Leveled Up!]
[You have defeated dozens of powerful hunters and even pletely folded an S Rank Hunter, said to be the stro iy right now, you received the [Ued] Title!]
[The Gods of the Tower have begun to watch you with great i.]
[Some of the Gods of the Tower show great fear of your overwhelming, unpreted, and nonsensical strength.]
[And ods of the Tower feel captivated and fasated by your overwhelming and domineering authority.]
[You have received several Avatar Requests from the Gods of the Tower (38)!]
[Once you accept the Avatar Request, the Gods desd into your body and, at the same time, give you great power to climb the Tower more easily.]
“No thank you.”
I waved my hand, rejeg all these creeps. They’re not going to be my friends, nor will I ever bee one of their avatars. I will kill them and free my world. That’s what I will do.
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