[Stats]
[Strength: 1000]
[Agility: 1000]
[Endurance: 1000]
[Intelligence: 700]
[Mana: 600]
[Aetheris: 400]
[Charisma: 500]
[Luck: Knull]
[Attribute Points: 805 (+2055)]
"How does Host wish to distribute Attribute Points?" the system asked.
Ryuk’s gaze sharpened before he commanded:
"Add 500 points to Strength, 500 to Agility, 500 to Endurance, 800 to Intelligence, and 500 to Charisma."
The moment the words left his mouth, Ryuk’s body began to stiffen, something Isha noticed as she sleepily opened her eyes, only for them to widen in shock when she saw it.
Green veins glowing with blue energy crawled across every inch of Ryuk’s skin.
They coated his face, his lungs, his hands, and even his legs. She reached out to touch him, only for her hand to be violently repelled.
She stumbled back three steps, staring at her hand as it steamed heavily, a burn mark etching itself across her palm.
Immediately, the sofa Ryuk sat on began to melt into nothing, and even the very ground it touched turned to dust and vanished into the air—and then...
VROOOOOOOOM!
An unbelievably hot wave of aura blasted through the entire room, slamming Isha against the wall.
Her face pressed tightly into it before she was hurled through, rolling down the balcony multiple times before coming to a stop.
Her worried gaze darted back into the room, only to find Ryuk hovering in the air horizontally.
Arcane tattoos of blue flaming energy were spiraling across his form, and then it happened—the aura burst forth like a wave, blanketing the entire inn.
Everyone within froze where they stood, unable to move a single inch.
"What’s happening!?" a voice came from downstairs as the B-ranked Adventurers felt the oppressive energy pressing down their bodies and restricting their movements.
The only person still standing was the bartender, who held a handkerchief to clean a glass cup, but then it shattered into pieces.
His eyes narrowed as he looked up at the ceiling.
In the next instant, he rose from his seat, resisting the crushing pressure of the aura.
He began walking up the stairs seemingly unaffected by the paralyzing force.
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’Hey system... It’s hot. Really hot. I can feel it burning from the outside too...’ Ryuk thought.
Right now, it felt like molten lava was pouring through every single bone, every cell, as his heart furiously pumped the lava-like energy throughout his body.
Even his nanobots seemed to be getting hotter with the energy surging through him.
[You used more than 2000 attribute points at once, which is too much for your body to handle. So it’s being rewired and restructured to contain the new power... forcefully.]
[Don’t worry. Just endure the heat. It’ll be over in a sec. And it’s just a minor disturbance in the outside world. Nobody’s dying...] the system reassured, as Ryuk floated in darkness, the sensation of increasing strength burning hotter and hotter until it felt like an entire year passed in that agony.
"Hey, it’s getting worse..."
[Just hold on, Ryuk. I’m almost done.]
’Almost done? What do you mean, almost done? Almost done with what?’ Ryuk questioned—but then...
KAAA-CHHAAA
It was as if a chain had snapped deep within him.
Ryuk’s eyes snapped open in the outside world, a powerful blue beam of energy erupting from them and piercing straight through the ceiling, blasting a hole into the sky.
A revolving blue cyclone cloud soon formed above the inn.
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"Huh? What’s going on in there..."
"It’s coming from the B-Ranked Adventurers’ area."
"Weird. Is there a battle going on?"
"Don’t know. But I’m pretty sure an A-rank will be deployed soon if they don’t stop it."
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"What’s going on here?" a voice rang out beside Isha.
She whipped her head to the side to find a tall man beside her.
He wore a blindfold over one eye, the other eye moving from her to Ryuk.
"I... I don’t know," Isha replied, still stunned.
Then, she watched as the man slowly removed his blindfold.
When she tried to look at it, her breath caught—the eye held a golden revolving vortex, cracks running like lightning around his eyebrow.
"You? What are you going to do?" she asked, feeling the man’s aura begin to seep into the space around them.
It was at the level of Elder Celine’s.
"He’s on the verge of a breakthrough, but if he keeps going like this, he’ll destroy my inn. I’ll just push him away from here to avoid that..." the bartender said.
Taking a single step forward, he walked through the wave of blistering aura, unaffected as he made his way to Ryuk.
His eyes narrowed at the intense blue waves of energy spilling from him, the veins across his face frozen in the motion of burning pain
"Hmm." A thoughtful hum escaped his lips as his hand reached toward Ryuk’s arm.
The closer he got, the louder the sound of burning became—but then he gripped Ryuk’s hands firmly, although his hands also burst into blue flames.
With a single step forward—
VROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!
A section of the entire inn was obliterated into dust as a fading blue figure was launched outward, soaring nearly 10 kilometers before finally smashing into one of the distant massive mountains.
The mountain collapsed, burying the figure within.
"There. That handles it," the bartender muttered, reaching back for his blindfold and tying it across his face before turning back—but then his eyes flickered.
"Where’s the girl?" he whispered, realizing Isha had vanished into thin air.
What was more shocking was that he hadn’t even sensed her leaving.
’Hey system. It’s literally burning!’
’I can’t take it any longer!’ Ryuk screamed in agony, the intensity of the burn amplifying a thousandfold.
[Just one more second. I’m almost done!]
’DONE WITH WHAT!?’
[And... DONE!]
[I’M DONE!] the system announced as the searing sensation began fading quickly. When Ryuk opened his eyes, he paused in shock.
Then he saw it.
And it overwhelmed him—
...A feeling of nostalgia.
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