CHAPTER 115: STATS

[SYSTEM NOTIFICATION]

[Congratulations, Host. Your skill [Superior Healing (A)] [1,000,000,000 / 1,000,000,000] has Uploaded to.

[Divine Healing – S Rank] [652 / 100 billion]

[Divine Healing – S Rank]: Classification: Miracle-Type Healing skill

[Description: Heals near-death conditions. Reverses physical trauma, regenerates organs, cures curses, and restores soul and consciousness damage (up to B-Rank attacks).]

[Survivability Clause: Death only occurs if 70% of the body is destroyed, including both the heart and brain.]

[Note: To gain healing experience now, Host must suffer near-death or body-wide catastrophic damage.]

[SYSTEM UPDATE]

[Congratulations. Host’s skill (Keen Hearing) has advanced from Intermediate ➝ Advanced.

Host can now perceive micro-vibrations, subsonic pulses, and directional audio sources across long-range environments.]

[SYSTEM ALERT]

[Killing Intent (SSS) – (C): 100,000 / 100,000]→ Upgraded to (B): 7,626 / 1,000,000,000

New Effect Unlocked: [Killing Aura]

[Killing Aura – SSS Tier]

Type: Active / Passive

Category: Aura Type / Reaper Type / Slayer / Warrior

Description: A deep red aura, saturated with pure killing intent, manifests as the embodiment of the user’s will to kill a suffocating force born from a lifetime of relentless slaughter. This aura-type skill envelops the entire body and all physical extensions, amplifying every aspect of the user’s physicality. Strength, speed, endurance, reflexes all heightened to brutal extremes under its oppressive influence.

Effects:

Body Reinforcement: Boosts physical strength, speed, and endurance.

Aura Armor: Coats the user in dense, invisible energy grants high resistance to physical and magical attacks.

Aura Weapon Coating: Envelops weapons or limbs, making them sharper and able to cut even non-physical matter (like energy, magic, illusions).

Razeal whistled as the storm of system notifications finally faded from view.

He stood in his room again alone, vibrating with energy. The silence after exiting the training space felt heavy, like walking out of a war into an empty cathedral. It felt boring.

Ten and a half hours. That’s how long he’d stayed locked inside. Not in the beginner spaces, either like C or B rank. This time, he pushed into the A-Rank system space. And after that, he touched the edge of S-Rank.

A-Rank Training Space → Time Amplification: x100,000

S-Rank Training Space → Time Amplification: x1,000,000

He’d spent nearly all ten hours inside the A-rank zone, fighting nonstop, honing every sense, pushing his abilities to the edge.

But it was the final stretch—less than an hour in the S-rank realm—that carved something new into him.

He hadn’t chosen monsters or put selection on random this time. No oversized beasts. No elemental titans. This time, he chose a humanoid opponent his own size, but terrifyingly advanced. A pure physical fighter.

No magic. No cheat skills.

Just fists. Movement. Combat instinct.

A master duelist.

The man Razeal had chosen as his training opponent inside the A-Ranked System Space was no ordinary fighter.

He was a Battle Master a living encyclopedia of war. Hand-to-hand combat, swordplay, spearwork, daggers, whips, axes, throwing weapons, close-range brawling, long-distance pressure, ambush response, reactive stance-breaking twenty different weapons, dozens of styles, and countless ways to kill.

He knew how to handle any fighter. Up close. From afar. Fast or slow. Direct or deceptive. His body was a weapon, his instincts ironed from centuries of simulated war.

And Razeal?

He faced him again. And again. And again.

Until he became one himself.

Now, Razeal could say it he was a battle master.

Not in name. In substance.

The kind of skill he now possessed? It wasn’t something people his age even dreamed of touching. Not even most veterans. It was the kind of experience earned in lifetimes of war and battlefield, concentrated into years through sheer, unforgiving time dilation.

He didn’t just fight that A-Rank opponent.

He destroyed him.

Thousands of times and thousands of them together.

Every duel, every death, every defeat carved something new into his style. And in the end, Razeal defeated the A-Rank Battle Master across every weapon and form fist, blade, kick, grip.

Hand-to-hand? Mastered.

Swordplay? Refined.

Multi-stance? Seamless.

He could even claim the title of Weapon Master, though not in the traditional sense.

His opponent had the edge when it came to conceptual weapon energy the deep, symbolic power of Blade-Aura, Spear-Aura, and technique-bound forms. Aura-infused strikes. Attacks that weren’t just physical, but philosophical.

Razeal couldn’t do that.

But what he could do?

Was something far more different then that way but dangerous in its own way.

He created his own weapon flow a fluid, formless, ever-evolving style that didn’t rely on stance, or set technique. He moved like water, cut like lightning, and adapted faster than thought. His transitions were too fast, his rhythm unreadable.

He took the old man’s advice to heart: Don’t limit yourself with stances or styles. Be free. Use skills like tools, nothing more.

Razeal had lived those words.

He had died millions of times in the amplified realm of the A-Rank system. At first, he was pulverized. Crushed. Dismembered. Humiliated. But little by little, inch by inch, he turned the tide.

He learned.

And then, he dominated. Anyways he surpassed A rank strength as much he is aware now.

But he didn’t stop there.

When the A-Rank was mastered, he entered the S-Rank system space.

There, he met a different kind of monster.

His opponent? A woman. Beautiful on the surface. But beneath the elegance a full-Insane blooded psychopath.

Magic. Physical attacks. Blades. Aura. Martial technique. Curses. Regeneration.

She had it all.

An absolute all-rounder.

Razeal fought her for months. He never managed to kill her, not even once. He came close cut off limbs, crushed bones but she regenerated every time. If not for that ability, maybe he would’ve beaten her seven or eight times.

Still, it was defeat. Thousands of them.

But he learned.

From her, he refined his combat instincts. He sharpened his reaction time, defense, and skill combinations. He learned how to push past his limits, how to fight at the edge of death for hours on end.

He was convinced she was at the absolute peak of S-rank. Maybe even beyond it.

But now, he could stand toe-to-toe with S-ranked opponents. Beating them might still be hard, but he had new advantages.

Especially now that he had Divine Healing.

Half-immortality.

As long as more than 30% of his body remained heart and brain intact he wouldn’t die. Not truly. Not easily.

[It’s time for your duel, Host. You should get going. The crowd might already be waiting.]

"Yes, I know," Razeal muttered, shaking his head. He ignored the new skills the system had already shown them to him in the simulation space. If anything, he was already used to most of them.

"I’ll get ready," Razeal said, raking a hand through his long violet hair.

He paused.

"...But first," he smirked, "show me my stats. Let’s see how far I’ve come."

The system shimmered.

[STATUS]

[Host: Razeal]

Alignment: True Villain (Unredeemable)

Villain Rank: A++

ATTRIBUTES

Strength: B

Agility: B–

Endurance: S–

Mana (MP): S-Rank [ 7.812 billion / 100 billion]

Will: B (Scales with aura skills; currently tied to Killing Aura)

Mental: SS–

Charisma: S

Luck: Negative

ELEMENTAL AFFINITIES:

Shadow (low Intermediate)

Necrotic (Extremely Low)

Blood (Low-Intermediate)

ARTIFACTS: Shadow Heart (SSS)

SKILLS:Obsidian Skeleton (S), Divine Healing (S), Minor Strength (F), Shadow Step (A-Rank) [Non-Upgradable], Keen Hearing (S) – Advanced, Flow (SSS) – Basic, Killing Intent (SSS) – Rank B

Killing Intent (SSS) – Effects

1. Killing Body – Physical stats scale with confirmed kills.

2. Killing Perception

• Intent Sense – Detects all hostile presence and directional threat.

• Fear Resistance – Immune to suppression or fear auras.

3. Killing Intent – Bloodlust and Killing illusion.

4. Killing Aura – Aura of pure bloodlust. Increases strength, speed, endurance. Grants aura armor and weapon reinforcement.

"We’ll definitely win this duel today," Razeal whispered, eyes scanning the floating screen.

The raw stats?

Maybe yeah they are aren’t much impressive. Not compared to those monsters he is going to face.. and that too the people who are standing lowest on that list.. maybe high ones his stats not even close. But the truth was simple:

His true power lived in his arsenal.

Without it, he might be a high B-rank, maybe scratching A-rank in raw stats. But once his skills came into play? He jumped tiers. Entire leagues above others.

He was made of systems, effects, tricks, and destruction.

Flow gave him vision and strength.

Shadow affinity gave him speed and creativity.

Divine Healing made him unkillable.

Obsidian Skeleton made him unbreakable.

And Killing Aura?

Killing Aura was the storm.

Literally most of his stats were all thanks to it not to say the effects it have.

Also looking at his Will stat now, he noted the change.

"B-rank... finally."

It was rising directly with his mastery over Killing Aura. The more control, the more pressure. The more pressure, the more devastating it became.

The potential applications? Endless.

Every movement enhanced. Every reaction refined. Every swing of a blade hit harder, faster, more precisely.

Also

He glanced back at his mana pool 7.812 billion. The result of absorbing every single monster core he’d had. It wasn’t just a stat boost it pushed his Shadow Affinity up as well.

Medium-Intermediate now.

That meant more flexibility, stronger manipulation, faster reshaping. He wasn’t just using shadow as terrain anymore. He was weaponizing it mid-combat.

He exhaled, long and slow.

Excitement buzzed in his blood like voltage. Not anxiety. Not nerves.

Anticipation.

Today wasn’t just a fight.

It was a message.

Today, he was going to slap the entire Empire in the face.

He would stand in front of nobles, warriors, scholars, peasants, royalty and declare the one thing none of them wanted to hear.

’Victory’

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Hey guys,

First of all, I want to thank hmalmorished for the huge help with the Golden Gachapon 🚀 and for the motivation!

Also, big thanks for helping us reach the Top 50 in the Golden Tickets ranking and in pretty much all the other rankings we’re currently in.

Anyway, I tried to keep this Chapter as short as possible. If I didn’t, it would probably turn into another 10-Chapter training arc. By now, most of you have a general idea of the skills and power levels. For deeper knowledge and skill reveals, you’ll get that during the duel.

Sigh I was hoping to at least start the duel or be close to it in this Chapter, but I guess that’s coming next.

Thank you all again! And don’t forget to drop your Power Stones and Golden Tickets. Love you all! ❤️

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