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As I waved away the system notifications, I looked at my Inner Realm, my treasury had bee even rger, as there were many monster materials, items, potions, and equipment I had taken away from that spatial magi whose name I don’t remember anymore.
But above all of that, I got Credits, and not just a few, but a few million of them, right away! Indeed, it seems that higher-floor pyers accumute a lot of credits. This level ohousand man had quite a small treasure with him.
I mao get 3.320.000 Credits out of him, and with that, I now had a total of 4.475.000 Credits. ime a fool appears, I might as well extort them out of their belongings before killing them. Although I belong to an orthodox fa, there was nothing wrong with taking away the belongings of the wicked for us and using them to help good-hearted people, is, or even the victims who survived.
I will probably sell these items ter and earn enough money for myself. Although I want to keep living with my family, I would prefer to still get a home for myself ba Earth. And not whatever thing, but a big manor if possible. For that, I need a lot of money.
We decided to walk towards our destination instead of just flying there to watch the sery, rex, and chat. I o help Ruby with something because I now feel guilty that she might have lost the opportunity because of me.
For now, though, I decided to upgrade my Privilege Skill to Max Level as I had enough Credits for that.
[You have exged 4.400.000 Credits.]
[The [Premium Pyer Privilege (SSS): Lv2] Skill has Leveled Up to Level 10!]
[Your Skill has reached Max Level! Max Level Bonus Ability has been added to the Skill Effects.]
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[Premium Pyer Privilege (SSS): Lv10]
[Skill EXP]: [--/--]
A Premium Skill is often given to Administrators who beta-test new System Funs. It is not something that Pyers should ever receive.
Grants the partial ability to manipute System Funs, allowing you to keep your System even without it being bound to your body and soul.
Increases the amount of Stats gained per Level by x2 of the chosen Css Stat Growth.
Increases the amount of Skill Points and Stat Points earned by 10 after taking a Css, grants access to the Skill Shop.
Decreases required Skill Points to learn new Css Skills by -50%
Increases Cssless and Magic Skill Slots by +1 -> +5 (Upgraded!)
You ow Sponsor other Pyers by using Credits to buy a Divine Blessing, giving them special Skills reted to your developing Divinity, Abilities, Bonus Stats, and Items.
Decreases the Prices of Credit Shop Items by -50% (New Ability!)
Increases Credits Earned by +50% (New Ability!)
When sying a powerful foe, there’s a 20% ce to randomly obtain one of their Skills. (New Ability!)
Decreases All Damage Taken by -20% (New Ability!)
Grants Total Immunity to all Status Effects. (New Ability!)
You choose to {Extract} on the corpses of foes you sy, turning their corpses into EXP, Mana, and Vitality. (New Ability!)
You further accumute “Credits” by sying powerful Monsters and Boss Monsters, which you exge for valuable items in the Administrator’s Shop.
Level Bonus (10): Credits Earned Increases by 100%. All Shops give you a dist of 50%. The Gods will show 100% more i in you.
Max Level Bonus: You ow further edit and ge the System Structure within your viity and your Status. To create more precise ges, however, you spend Credits.
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Ahh! Now this is a fine Skill. These abilities are indeed quite something. Although the damage decreases, immunity feels pletely useless. Extract has many uses, at least in terms of mana, so I further refine my Primordial Essend also gain even more EXP, so I further level up and gain even more Mana.
Then there’s the Bonus Ability after Max Level. I further edit and ge the System Structure. Huh, I’ll have to try that ter. I wonder what I could do. It certainly gets messy when I try to ge it, as I am not profit in this strange magic, but I indeed shatter it and transform it by using my Alchemy abilities.
Perhaps with this and some credits, I could make ges that won’t bee too messy ter on.
But for now, there’s something I o do.
“Ruby, did you get a Css by any ce?” I asked her.
“A-Ah, about that…Well, yeah, but its kind of me.” She sighed.
“I see, I guess the ces of getting an Avatar-reted css were out of the questio me remedy that for you. I ow create csses; do you mind if I give you one?” I asked her.
“W-Wait, what? You make Csses? How’s that even a thing?” She gasped.
“It seems that’s a new power you acquired somehow.” Said my mother. “How though?”
“It is part of my Css Skills! I absorb the Divine Csses of foes I sy and then grant them to others.” I smiled. “But the normal ones would be me, so let’s bihem. Let’s see…”
[You bine up to three Divine Csses together. Please choose carefully; o’s do ot be reversed.]
[Stored Divine Csses]: [Radiant Light Divine Archbishop] [Brilliant Mother of Light Holy Saintess] [Divine Radiant Tempr of Holy Light] [Bzing Berserk Warrior] [Shadow Leopard Rogue Kunoich [Spatial Warlock]
“Whies do you want, dear?” I asked my little sister. “Choose three of whatever you want.”
“Ooh! Wow, you bihem and make them even more OP? That’s wicked, big sis." Ruby gulped saliva in awe. “Err… I’ve heard hunters with space magic are really famous. So Spatial Warlock, for sure. Then… Hmm, Bzing Berserk Warrior because of fire, and I use a sword. And then... Err, how about the Kunoichi ooo?”
“So you want the csses of those pesky bandits that attacked us, I see!” I smiled, nodding. “Yes, they seemed strong. Alright!”
[You have chosen the Divine Csses: [Bzing Berserk Warrior] [Shadow Leopard Rogue Kunoich [Spatial Warlock] for Divine Skill Fusion!]
[Fusing Divine Csses…]
FLASH!
All three Divine Csses bined in front of us, showg as bubbles of divine essence, and then came together into a brand-new Divine Css. A bubble of bck fmes and spatial essence is surging from within.
[You have successfully bihe Divine Csses: [Bzing Berserk Warrior] [Shadow Leopard Rogue Kunoich [Spatial Warlock] into [Abyssal Bzing Berserk Bde Master Of Dark Stars (Divine Rank)]!]
“There you go, Ruby! It is done.” I quickly imbued the bubble into her chest.
Ding!
[You have exged 10.000 Credits. You have sponsored [Pyer: Ruby] with a new Divine Css of your owion: [Abyssal Bzing Berserk Bde Master Of Dark Stars (Divine Rank)]!]
[Pyer: Ruby] has fully assimited the patible Divine Css. Her previous Css has been forcefully deleted by your System Authority.]
[Pyer: Ruby] Stats have increased! All her reted Skills to her Css have gained +2 Levels as a bonus.]
[She has unlocked the Divine Css Skill: [Space Tearing Bck Star Swordsmanship (SS): Lv1]!]
“Woah!” She gasped for a bit in surprise as the Css's immense power flowed through her whole being. In mere seds, for a moment, her appearance ged.
Her hair turned long, bzing like bd red fmes. Her skin turned deep red, with bck tattoos resembling bck stars, and her sword was enpassed by a mass of space-dist bck fire, growing in size to a ridiculous appearance of over teers.
“T-This is insane! I got a new Skill out of it too!” She said it iement. “Mom, check this out!”
She swung her sword into the skies, and as a giant wave of bck fmes exploded into the blue sky, a cra space suddenly opened after the explosion, which then slowly closed. I was able to faintly see several little bck tentacles and red eyes gring at us through the cracks. So administrators also repair these things, huh?
"Calm down, Ruby; don’t do that again if you are not fighting a monster, okay? You almost broke space itself." My mother was still processing what happened.
“Hahaha! Well, we are here, so we might as well let her go crazy!” I admired our view.
There was a huge castle, or more exactly, a beehive, in the shape of a castle. It was surrounded by giant stone walls, and there were thousands of enormous, four-meter-big bees flying everywhere around the beehive. Inside of it, there owerful S-rank monster known as the Spirit Bee Queen.
“This must be the Spirit Bee Queen’s Castle, huh? sidered an S-Rank Duhat nobody has ever cleared yet.” I ughed. “I suppose that band of bandits could have been able to help here but were too busy trying to look for easy mooo bad it ended badly for them.”
“Y-You don’t o put it that way…” My mhed. “ht! Before we go, Ruby, didn’t you have a monster pet? It would be better if you hatch it now so it gain EXP.”
“R-Right, the egg; I left it inside of Big Sister's Inner Realm!” Ruby said. “ you get it bae, Katherine?”
“Sure, here.” I waved my hand and quickly brought something with me. It wasn’t an egg anymore; it had hatched a few ho and had been roaming my pace without end. It ate some of the Primordial Golden Lotus Flowers on my ponds and then ate a Yin and Yang Koi Fish too. So it got quite the appetite.
“Meow!”
It was a cat—a cute bd red cat—that was sitting over the palm of my hand, rather perfectly so. It was a kitty for now, but it had quite a sharp g has bright red eyes and tiny bck horns over its head, adorned by a pair of cute demon-like wings and a long, pointy tail.
“It’s called Demonic Doppelcat,” I answered. “You go now.”
“Mereow!” The cat leaped off my hand and then immediately ran to Ruby, rubbing their nose over her legs. “Prrr~” It urring adorably.
“Oh my gosh! It’s a cute kitty!” Ruby was very happy, holding the cat with her hands and lifting him up. “I’ll name you... Felix!”
“Meow!” The Doppelcat suddenly leaped into the air and released an explosion of bck smoke. After that, the cat’s form ged, being a nearly identical copy of Ruby!
“What?! So that’s why it's called Doppelcat!” Ruby gasped.
“It seems so.” My mom nodded. “So it copy your appearance?”
“Mereow!” The cat turned into shadows, summoning a bck fme sword—or, well, two of them—and unleashing sshes against the walls in front of us, breaking them apart. This quickly alerted the bees. The power of those sshes was at least half as strong as Ruby, which is not bad.
CRASH!
“W-Wait, the walls!” My mother panicked.
“BBZZZTT!”
A swarm of angry Giant Spirit Bees rushed towards us. Eae was at least cataloged as A+ Rank Monsters. Who were above Level 300. I tell why nobody came here; a single one of these bees could destroy even experienced hunters. And it was on the first floor, where experienced hunters were very rare as well.
“{Photonilight Spear}”
I materialized a spear out of my Photon Essend u into the skies. A bst of pure golden light illumihe skies as an explosion of thunder and light covered everything.
BOOOM!
The bees were instantly disied; the swarm ing towards us was no more, although a hundred more were on their way.
“Alright, I’ve opehe way! Ruby, Mom, I’ll cover your backs; you also have barriers to protect you from damage, so attack them without fear until you kill them.” I said. “No matter if it takes you many hits, Yoing to level up a lot today; be prepared!”
“Gotcha!” Ruby nodded. “Felix, let’s go!”
“Meow!” Her doppelganger, made of shadows, leaped with Ruby.
“Ruby! Even with a barrier, don’t be too reckless!” Mom followed her from behind as I stayed right by their side.
I stantly jured Photon Sunlight Spears to bst the annoying bees, while my family slowly started killing them oer another. I was able to see how they battled as well. Ruby sshed her foes with her swordsmanship teiques, releasing explosions of phantasmal energy and bck fmes. The level 300 bees took heavy wounds each time they received her blows. Though they didn’t die right away, after getting hit three to five times, they did.
Felix plemented her attacks, making it much easier for her to kill the bees. She was also practig her evasion teiques, despite the bees being much faster than her. She got hit several times due to the big level difference, but thanks to my barrier, there was little to worry about.
My mother followed her from behind, juring swords and spears of steel jured from her elemental martial core. At the same time, she unleashed strong fist and palm teiques. Her spear teiques were also used, now with her being able to jure spears out of her own body as her cultivation advanced further through the paths of metal and light elements.
The more these elemental essences are cultivated within the core and physique, the strohey bee, to the point where our own bodies gain the ability to produce these elements as well. My mother had gotten the hang of it very quickly, barely being hit as she stantly created floating steel shields, ented with light to further grant them defense.
Ihan thirty minutes, all bees were eliminated, and after we massacred everything ihe castle, we came in front of the Spirit Bee Queen; she was at least over Level 500 acc to the system, a true S-Rank threat.
She had the shape of a fatter and bigger bee, but with the upper torso of an ioid woman. She looked rather cute, but I didn’t have any time to fall for a monster we had to sy, and oh barely any intelligeher.
“BBZZZTTT!”
She stantly jured spirit magic, summoning the power of the enviro and drawing the elemental essence of the nearby forest. With this, she could jure endless spear-pointed roots of wood and beams of light. And even slig wind attacks, which looked quite deadly to any mortal.
While ag as their shield, I advanced forward while yawning a bit. My mother and my sister rained as many attacks as they could on the Queen Bee, slowly debilitating her by cutting off her many limbs and then her wings.
The beast gave its st struggle before its head was sshed by Felix, sneaking behi the st moment.
SLASH!
“Hey Felix, you stole my kill!”
“Meow!”
Felix, however, started purring after turning bato his cat form and rubbing his fa Ruby’s legs. She couldn’t get angry with the little kitten anymore.
“e really did it... Well, without your help, it would have been pletely impossible, though.” My mother smiled. “But I hought I could ever do something like this heless!”
“Indeed, Mother, don’t give me too much credit; you dealt most of the damage! grats!” I cpped my hands. “Shall we go to the mission then?”
“Wait, so soon?” My mother cried. "Let's rest for a bit, please." She sat down on the floor.
“Yeah, let’s take a snack break or something.” My sister nodded. “I brought some soda and chips. Here, grab your favorites, sis.” She threw me a of Pepsi and a bag of hot chips.
“Oh well.” I shrugged, sitting over the throne of the bee queen aing chips.
Naturally, the ones chasing us finally appeared, rushing towards us. and then kneeling in front of me. It was a trio of beasts. Two of them were bck-furred wolf women, and the only man was a gray cat. They were all wearing bck robes, resembling rogues.
“Oh, so you’re finally here, huh? What do you want? Depending on your answer, your fate might ge.”
“P-Please help us!”
“We need someorong like you…”
“ill give you everything we have…”
“Everything you have, huh?” I smiled. “Go on, show me your siy.”
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