Luck's mind drifted off in the disarray as he observed the message in front of him.
(What the fuck is this?!)
His shock only continued to grow the more he read the message. He was pretty sure, no, he was certain that a message like this had appeared to anyone ever before. It was as if he was in a game.
(Is this some kind of prank?). He thought as he quickly glanced around .
Unfortunately, he couldn't find the laughing mysterious figure that he imagined he would see.
(Okay, so this thing is real.)
Luck caught up with reality quicker than he expected to. If this thing was real, that meant...
Luck's eyes flashed with a mixture of excitement and curiosity.
First of all, stat points could only be gained from absorbing the core of others. Each rank gave a seemingly fixed amount of stat points to be freely allocated by the user.
It was by this allocation of points that allowed mortals to progress through the ranks of power in hopes of attaining godhood.
(I guess this video game logic doesn't seem to shocking if I look at our own power system.) Luck thought musingly as blood pumped through his body with expectation.
With the beast cores he gained, combined with a hundred stat points not only himself, he doubted that Kira and his summons wouldn't be able to reach the next rank.
Skill points were something he didn't quite understand what to do with as he had never heard of them form any awakener or even form the numerous books he had read.
It ignored it for now though, as the environment he was currently in really didn't leave much room for speculation.
That said, the cream on the crop was most definitely the Shadow Inventory skill. Just by the description alone, he knew he would never have to worry about spatial treasures because of this.
And all he had to do was clear this beasts out of existence. This couldn't have been easier for him.
"Are you okay bro?"
Luke's voice reached his ears causing him to turn around to see his teammates staring at him weirdly.
Why wouldn't they? They had just watch his expressionless face flit through a series of emotions they rarely saw displayed on his features.
It was safe to say majority viewed this boy as a block of stone.
Luck smiled lightly "Yeah. Let's go".
He didn't even wait for their response as he rushed through the field, the gap between him and the horde growing smaller by every second.
"Hey!" Harry called out " Wait up you battle maniac!"
The others looked at Harry weirdly but didn't say anything as they charged forward as well.
(Beast cores here I come) Luck thought in anticipation but contrary to his thoughts, he slowed down a bit to allow the others to catch up.
Him and Luke's speed had already surpassed the speed of the fastest athletes Old Earth. Though that margin was still small, it was more than enough for them to be still at the front of the charge, even they slowed down a bit.
"Terra and Tara stay at the rear" Luck said " Your in charge of crowd control. Make sure nothing takes advantage of our blind spots."
The girls nodded as their steps came to halt with the sound of arrows and bullets coming afterwards.
"Us three will handle the rest" Luck completed causing the other two to respond with a wild grin.
"Fire Burst!"
"Rush"
Upon reaching five meters between them and the horde, Harry and Luke exploded with almost double of their initial speed, catching the charging beasts off-guard while they began to reap lives.
Luke suddenly threw one of his longswords causing a sneaking centipede to be pinned to death next to Harry.
Not bothering with thanks, Harry launched himself of the blade's hilt, dealing several blows to dozens of giant prey mantises that surrounded him.
(He just got his class and he's already this impressive) Luck thought as he slashed the throat of a wolf near him, hopping unto its back and launching himself into the air as he raised his hand.
Three bone-white spikes appeared behind him .
"Skeleton Spike (Floating Pierce)"
*Puchi**Puchi**Puchi*
They shot down, piercing the heads of the unfortunate monsters below.
(It seems my hard work payed off ) Luck thought with a smile as he landed on the ground, rolling across to dodge a pray mantis' slash.
Three black whips emerged from the ground as they slapped the beast to death.
"Stupid Rank F". Luck thought in annoyance as he ran at several Rank E monsters.
"Kira, let loose"
"AWOOOOOOOO"
Kira howled as a copy of her ripped away from her as they laid waste to the beasts in front of them, effectively allowing Luck to breeze pass them.
Several whips and spikes appeared by him, unleashing havoc on the horde.
A prick Luck recognized as his sixth sense suddenly screamed at him to get out of the way unless he'll be screwed. And get out he did.
*Whoosh*
The wind howled as a two meter tall mantis appeared in his peripheral vision, slicing through the air. Its red eyes gleamed dangerously as it looked at Luck making its mandibles click with apparent hunger.
"Red Eyed Sickle Mantis" Luck said as he slowly grinned "Rank D"