He tio search for other orcs while being stealthy. A couple of mier he saw a orc with his back fag him.

  He discreetly approached the orc. When he was near, he rushed at him, aiming a ssh at his Achilles tendon. However, due to his ck of real bat experience, he missed and cut his calf instead. What could have been an injury that would have greatly dimihe orc's speed became only a minor wound.

  ‘How I could miss that?’ Mikael thought disappointed in himself.

  The orc roared in pain before rapidly turning and pung toward Mikael. Mikael ducked uhe punch, sshing along the length of the orc's arm, and finished his move by cutting across his chest. All the cuts were light, but they were bleeding.

  I’ll try to kill it by making it bleed to death. I think it’s the best strategy sidering that it’s stronger and more durable than me, but I’m faster. The main reason I use this tactic is that I ’t cut through its bones with my sword.

  The ortio unch punches and rarely unched some kicks but Mikael evaded all his attacks by being defensive and cutting the orc when he had the occasion.

  The more the fight sted the slower and the more tired the orc looked until he finally colpsed to the ground.

  ‘No kill notifications? Oh yeah nearly fot I said that I didn’t want to see notifications too often… Now that I think about it’s a bad idea to not have the kill notifications activated, like now I don’t know if the orc is dead.’

  “System, you reactivate the kill notifications, but still keep all the other notifications at a minimum? ”

  [Preference modified]

  [k Orc killed 12K xp received]

  [Css Martial Artist has reached the max level.]

  [Selectable Css: Tier 0:Swordsman, Gunner, Hunter, Cartographer, Advehief

  Tier 1:Martial Master, Hunter(Aedris)]

  Mikael looked at what the different csses were , but only three of them caught his attention.

  [Swordsman 0/25

  Tier 0 Css

  Description: You’ve always liked the sword, and now you’ve begun to learn how to swing it, but it’s still extremely bad, so ressing.

  Stats: +1 AGI, +1 VIT, and +1 PER per level.

  20% increase in the learning speed of sword skill.

  10% faster attack speed when using a sword.]

  [Martial Master 0/50

  Tier 1 Css

  Description: You aren’t a martial arts neophyte anymore and have already begun to walk the martial arts path.

  Stats: +3 STR, +1 AGI, +2 END, +1 VIT, +1 PER per level.

  60% increase in the learning speed of martial arts or reted skills.

  40% more damage when using your body to fight.

  30% more attack speed when using your body to fight.

  Your talent in Unarmed Martial arts is increased (Perma).]

  [Hunter(Aedris) 0/50

  Tier 1 Css

  Description: You have joihe hunter guild from the Aedris world and have bee a hunter.

  Stats: +1 STR, +1 AGI, +2 END, +3 VIT, +1 PER per level.

  The body refining teique of the Aedris world is 2x more effective.

  When using body refining teiques, you learn them faster and have an easier time uanding rading them. Your body talent is also upgraded (Perma).]

  “System you expin how the css system works and the differeween tier 0 and tier 1 css?”

  [Csses are separated into tiers. Each tier is strohan the one before, to unlock for example a tier 1 css you’ll o have maxed a reted tier 0 css and have dohe necessary a. For example, the Hunter(Aedris) is unlockable by maxing a tier 0 fighting css (Martial Artist, Hunter, etc…) and being a hunter in the Aedris world.]

  [Each time you max out a css in a tier, the XP cost will multiply, but it won’t affect the other tiers. For example, if you maxed out the Tier 0 css Martial Artist and it was your first css, the first level required 100 XP. Your sed Tier 0 css will require 200 XP, and your third will need 300 XP, and so on. An important thing to note is that XP costs don’t transfer between tiers! You could have already maxed out five Tier 0 csses, but your tier 1 csses will not a an xp ultiplier.]

  ‘Hmm, so the XP increases... It’s a little annoying and will slow down my leveling speed, but not by much, sidering that the XP a monster gives increases faster than their strength.’

  ‘I think I’ll take the swordsman css because when I max the css I will maybe unlock a reted css like Sword Master or a simir css! Sure the tier 1 css looks and is stronger but the thing is that to max them they o reach level 50, if the XP cost stays sistent to pass from level 49 to 50 it would need like 1M XP soo……’

  [Swordsman Css selected]

  ‘Let’s tihis hunt.’

  Just after the third orc felt dead Mikael received a surprising notification

  [Too many stats gai the same time for the current strength level. Add the stats periodically to help the body adjust?

  Warning: not listening to this advice cause severe pain, or in the case that far too many stats are added, the implosion of the body and sequently, death!]

  [Yes no]

  Mikael logically took the yes option and saw that his stats increased for the five minutes.

  ‘It seems that the time Kiara writhed in pain was because too many stats were added at the same time but if our stats were more disproportionate she wouldn’t have ehis lucky…’ he thought, feeling a little nervous about this possibility.

  He frowned while thinking, ‘If she had died like that, I would have been a bit sad and angry about it. I mean, I have spent a lot of time with her retly, and she is good pany. I’ll say we could almost be sidered friends...

  “System why didn’t you inform me about the danger of gaining a lot of stats at the same time when it was Kiara that was gaining stats?”

  [You didn’t ask.]

  “I didn’t ask for that—really? That’s your answer!?” He felt a surge of anger upon hearing the respo quickly calmed himself as a thought crossed his mind: ‘The system doesn’t owe me anything. Even if it—or rather, she—didn’t warn me, I ’t really bme her. I’ve decided to call her "she" sihe voice is that of a woman anyway. In fact, I should probably sider that I owe the Akashic Records for this opportunity. Yes, I paid with my lifespan, but holy, it’s a small price to access the incredible world of the Records.’

  ‘This small talk has put me in a bad mood. I’ll go kill some orcs to clear my head.’

  Just after he had this thought he began to hunt the orcs. Of course, he was cautious and sequently hunted orcs slowly. In the 5 hours, he was capable of killing 8 more oraturally, his hunts weren't easy each time. Some were dohout injury and some caused him some wounds. Once, he escaped from a fight after a sed orc appeared during his fight with the first orc.

  During this time he also maxed the Swordsman Css and sequently unlocked the tier 1 Css Sword Master.

  [Sword Master 0/50

  Tier 1 Css

  Description: You aren’t a novice swordsman anymore and have already begun to walk the path of the sword.

  Stats: +1 STR, +2 AGI, +1 END, +2 VIT, +2 PER per level.

  70% increase in the learning speed of sword arts or reted skills

  30% more damage when using a sword.

  50% more attack speed when using a sword.

  Your talent with a sword is increased (Perma).]

  “Status”

  [Name: Mikael Angelini

  Race: Humah in World)

  Lifespan: 21/99

  Overall Power: Tier 1

  Military Rank: Recruit 0/10 MP

  Global LVL: 25 : 8,9K/39,7K XP

  Css: Sword Master LVL: 1/50 : 240/18,2K XP

  Stats:

  Strength: 48 > 63

  Agility: 50 > 91

  Endurance: 49 > 64

  Vitality: 25 > 63

  Perception: 24 > 62

  Active Skills: None

  Passive Skills: Unarmed Martial Arts Mastery Tier 0 Level 1, Footwork Mastery Tier 0 Level 1, 6th Seier 0 Level 1, Swordsmanship Mastery Tier 0 Level 1

  Life Points(LP): (0) 140]

  “Uh, System why the fuck does the Sword Master eed 18,2K XP to pass from level 1 to 2 !?”

  [It’s because Tier 0 csses are sidered Newbie Csses, so the XP cost grows expoially to make early leveling easier. However, from Tier 1 onwards, the XP o level up will be calcuted by taking the total XP required to go from level 0 to level 50 and dividing it by 50. This also means that each level will require the same amount of XP.]

  ‘So every level will be just as hard to gain… Iing.’

  Mikael thought for a moment before deg to end the hunt and head back to the city, but just when he was ready he saw the state of his clothing.

  His clothes are dirty with earth stains from all the time when he fell to the ground during his fight but above all he had blood stains all over him.

  Mikael eechless. ‘I look like I just itted a murder and then decided to roll around on the ground!’

  ‘Whatever, it’s not like I’m going to a fashion show in these clothes. I’ll just head back to the guild and grab some hunting gear for ime.’

  , he walked out of the forest aered the city. His bloodstained clothes drew a lot of stares, but nobody bothered him, so he didn’t mind.

  After wandering around the city for a while, he arrived at the Hunter’s Guild brand walked in.

  Just after he heard a loud voice say “What the fuck is a hobo doing here?”

  The loud voice drew some gd Mikael looked in the dire of the void saw a bald man drinking with 2 uys but they weren’t looking like proper huhey looked like they were 7 months pregnant probably from drinking too much alcohol.

  Mikael answered because he didn’t share the mi of some protagonists who think that staying silent is a sign of humility—he believed it was just a sign of being a pushover. He shot the man a disdainful gre. “I’m no hobo. I was out hunting, and my clothes got dirty during the fight. If you ’t evehat, maybe you should stop pretending to be a hunter.”

  The hunter was instantly enraged by his words. He jumped to his feet, smming his hand oable. “What did you say, bastard!?”

  Mikael gave him a sympathetic look and calmly replied, “Even your hearing’s defective... I really pity your parents.”

  The man saw red instantly. Mikael’s seemingly casual words hit a sensitive spot, as he had indeed been aba birth. Enraged, he charged at Mikael, screaming, “YOU BASTARD!”

  ‘I ’t kill him, or I might get into trouble. After all, I don’t know the rules of this world. But it should be fio hurt him. I use this opportunity to send the message that I’m not someoo mess with.’

  The man threw a clumsy punch, which Mikael easily dodged, before delivering a ‘powerful’ punch straight to the man’s stomach. He was sent flying two meters before crashing to the ground while the sound of his bone-breaking where heard!!

  "ARGHHH" he screamed, writhing on the ground in pain.

  Instantly, the noise in the building died down. Mikael g the man’s friends, who looked ready to join the fight but quickly residered after seeing what had happened. None of them dared to eve his gaze after watg their frieaken down with a si.

  Mikael ignored all the stares on him as he approached the ter, where Ruby stood. She was a bit surprised to see him take down a man with a si, but not overly so—after all, she had witnessed his examination, and a D-rank hunter was sidered strong even among the hunters, certainly strohan a random drunkard.

  Ruby g his bloodstained clothes and said, "It’s good you decided to abandon this quest before it killed you."

  Mikael noticed where her gaze had nded and inwardly rolled his eyes. "I’m not here to forfeit the quest. I’m here because I fi!"

  “Wait, you’re serious?” Ruby was stunned. It had only been about five hours, and he had already pleted a quest above his level!

  “Of course I’m serious,” he said, opening his backpack to reveal the blood-soaked orc ears. “So, what do I do with these?”

  Still surprised, Ruby replied, "Give me an ear—I o check its authenticity."