22 Squad's Power Up

"So what is the plan Leo? Are you going to keep us waiting like this?" Jack asked after he saw Leo spacing out a bit and randomly pointing in the air in front of him.

"Worst comes to worse, I will just need to kill them if I feel that something is off. I do trust them enough to help me get out of this mess I am now finding myself in." ignoring Jack's ranting now about how Leo might have just lost his mind, Leo finally clicked Jack and Natalia's name as he pressed the invite to squad command on the screen.

Beep Beep Beep!

-Choose what features you would like to give your new squad members access to-

"What!?" screaming out in an extremely loud pitch, Leo nearly fell over on his side in shock!

"If I choose to, I can give those two access to everything I currently have access to thanks to this screen. However, if I want to place specific limits, I can as well?" slapping himself on the face, Leo got up and quickly clicked only a single option.

Beep Beep Beep!

-You have been invited to Leo's squad, will you accept the invitation?-

Not understanding what was happening, Jack and Natalia quickly retreated backwards away from the two screens that have appeared and asked them this question.

"W-W-W-" lost for words, Natalia started to mumble as Jack refused to approach the screen.

"This is a type of magic that I have. It works similar to a contract and will not harm you. Please click the accept button so that we can move forward with my escape plan." Leo told Jack and Natalia.

After several minutes and realizing that the screen would not attack them, Jack and Natalia both clicked the accept button and another window quickly appeared in front of them.

"Status screen?" feeling confused, Jack and Natalia looked to Leo for guidance.

"As part of the contract, you both can receive attribute points and level ups as long as you remain in my squad. The attribute points will allow you both to grow your strengths that much faster, while leveling up gives you both additional attribute points to use."

"Jack, it looks like since you are level nine, you now have a total of forty unused attribute points available to you. Natalia, since you are level eight, you now have a total of thirty five unused attribute points available to you."

"Jack, since you have gone through so much training to increase your speed, if you distributed your attribute points into your strength and constitution, you should be able to face even stronger enemies in close combat. You seem like you were trained to be an assassin of sorts, but, your fighting style seems more direct."

"Natalia, as for you, intelligence and wisdom should help you greatly. If you increase your wisdom, you should be able to increase your ability to cast spells for a much longer period of time. Also, by increasing your intelligence attribute, you should be able to learn new spells faster." Leo explained to both Jack and Natalia.

Right now, Leo was only at level four. This meant that he needed to rely on Jack and Natalia's power boost from using their attribute points, in order to escape successfully and as a squad. The only reason Leo felt that he was strong for his level, was because others at a higher level couldn't match up with him by their own stats.

After visually seeing Jack and Natalia using all of their attribute points, both of them started to release a faint glow from their bodies. However, after only a few breaths of time, these faint glows went away and they looked normal again.

"So how do you both feel?" Leo asked his two squad members. He never saw a glow released from his body due to using attribute points, so he was rather worried.

"I feel incredible!" stretching out his arms, Jack decided to slam the ground of the barracks with both fists. The building was made of very tough materials, but, Jack was easily able to leave large dents in the floor without a single scratch on his hands.

At the same time, Natalia chose to cast a spell, except, this time she did not use any chants! Instantly, a small ball of fire appeared above her staff as she sent it to one of the walls. The ball of fire crashed into the wall of the building and also left a very large dent.

"Whoa! Natalia only some of the more core disciples of your household can cast low leveled spells without any chants!" amazed at what he saw, Jack quickly commented on Natalia's newly founded power.

"Oh? If your household could see your strength right now, you would also be promoted to a core disciple as well. You really should consider accepting their teachings and become a real assassin." Natalia replied as both her and Jack were shaking from excitement.

However, almost instantly, both Jack and Natalia turned towards Leo and actually kowtowed to him!

"It can be said that our training had got us this far, but, without your help, our future might not have been as good. We will follow you with our lives on the line and hope that you will allow us to serve you one day once you also become stronger." Jack said with a tear rolling down his eyes as Natalia nodded her head in agreement as well as several tears as well.

"All that I wish for, is that we can move forward as a true squad and become stronger together. You both have proven with your actions, that you see me as an equal, and so, I will always do the same. Though, I think it is about time to prove just how formidable our squad really is now." Leo replied as he helped his two squad members up.

Quickly depositing the three cards he was able to loot from the goblin patrol they defeated earlier, Leo spent them all on exp pills and quickly increased his own stats as well. Now ready to roll out and put on a show that Martin and Nathan would never forget, Leo's squad headed outside.