Chapter 244: Fishing In Troubled Waters

Varian sighed in wonder.

He couldn't see what happened inside, but just from the satellite images…he could tell that the five secret realms were obliterated.

Particularly, one…according to Boo, that Secret Realm was a few hundred miles wide.

Each mile had to bear the fire attack equivalent to three nuclear strikes.

"Monster." Varian muttered as he waited a few miles away from a Secret Realm.

It was destroyed by a man and woman—Lighting and Water. Their powers complimented each other and resulted in greater damage.

But…

"Argh! Crazy! How dare they send level 9s?!"

"I hope Abyssals take down the planetoids!"

"These stupid bitches need to learn a lesson!"

Three heavily injured order members growled as they fled the scene.

Only Bali's fire attacks killed everyone in the secret realm.

In case of the other four realms, there were some remnants. Of course, since they took care to kill the strongest ones, the surviving dreg had no level 8s.

Looking at the heavily injured Level 6s, Varian's lips curled up.

The army would be here in a few minutes. He had to make do and kill as many as he could.

"Tsk." Varian snickered and drew his sword.

The Order members suddenly heard a metallic clang and exclaimed. "Army?! No, he's just a kid."

"Just a level 5?! How dare he mock us?! Kil—!"

As they were speaking, the three already started to use their powers.

Varian felt his body turn heavy as the gravity increased, then his mind felt dizzy and finally a thunder bolt shot at him.

It'd have been really dangerous…facing the attacks of three level 6s.

But—

Slash!

Varian teleported behind the mind awakener and slashed his sword.

At the same time, he turned on his comm's capture function. Essentially, it'd record who he was killing and report it to the central server.

"Wha—"

The Mind Awakener didn't understand why Varian was able to break out even when he died.

Varian shook his head as the gravity spiked and the Gravity Awakener dashed at him with incredible speed.

From the back, arrows of lightning covered the sky.

"If you're not injured, I can only escape. But now you don't even hold 30% of your normal power. Idiots." Varian cursed and his body blurred.

As he rushed towards the Gravity Awakener, he felt the force of gravity suddenly change.

"Guh!" He was strongly pulled from behind. His speed dropped drastically and Varian felt his bones slowly twist under the pressure.

"Changing the direction of gravity…Good!" Varian smiled and he covered himself with space armor and lightning, and used the reinforced strength to resist the gravity.

Whoosh!

Varian and the Gravity Awakener collided in mid air.

A gauntlet appeared on his hand and in the next moment, his fist connected with Gravity Awakener's hammer.

Boom!

Varian felt a heavy force coming off from the other person and stumbled back. There was a sweet taste on his tongue as blood slowly overflowed from his lips.

But the Gravity Awakener was much worse. His already injured body couldn't bear the attack and collapsed.

"I'll remember you." The Lightning Awakener swore and a lightning cloud appeared under him.

In the blink of an eye, he was already miles away.

Varian would've had trouble if this was before, but since he already advanced to level 4, he locked the other person and teleported in front of him.

"Wha!" Looking at Varian who appeared in front of him mid air, the lightning awakener shrieked in fear.

"Please spar—"

Varian cut off his head without a word and continued hunting.

"Master, there are four level 6s fleeing in the coordinates…"

"Master, there is a level 7 awakener fleeing, take a detour…"

With Boo's assistance, Varian kill count increased.

Even though his opponents were severely injured, they were still level 6s. Thus, two things happened.

He was slowly getting injured and the system's notifications, which were in silent mode, kept ringing.

His killing spree lasted for five minutes and the army arrived.

Varian boarded the ghost ship and took a healing potion.

"Thirty Level 6s…300 seconds, not bad, I guess?" He panted.

He was already spent. He could fight level 5s for hours, but fighting level 6s and so many of them, was a different thing altogether.

Besides, every enemy of his put everything on the line when they realized he was after their lives.

It created a far more intense battle than a normal duel.

But the results were equally gratifying.

'Status'

[Body Path Level 5: 410/2000 (+100)

Space Path level 4: 60/1000 (+30)

Lightning Path Level 4: 465/1000 (+50)

Morpher Path Level 3: 360/400 (+30)

Mind Path Level 3: 130/400 (+100)]

"Awesome!" Varian smiled cheerfully.

He wanted to fight Level 6s like this everyday, but if they weren't seriously injured and couldn't exert most of their strength, it'd be seeking death.

Body Path and Mind Path had the most improvement.

The reasons were obvious.

He used Body Path mainly and took a lot of damage. At the same time, out of the thirty level 6s, ten were Body Awakeners, be it Enhanced or Controller.

He faced three Telepaths, and their mental attacks only helped him grow.

Next was Lightning Path. He only faced five of them and the first two were already dying.

But at least, taking their lightning attacks head on, his own lighting improved.

Finally, there were two Space Awakeners that improved his space powers.

His Morpher powers rose mainly in response to his injuries.

"These are the best five minutes…" As he muttered, he checked his comm.

>> Cadet Varian, your act of slaying thirty level 6 terrorists is commendable. Had you not taken care of them, they would've sneaked away and recuperated their injuries, eventually becoming a menace to Earth's peace.

Worse, they could've entered the cities and wrecked havoc.

Your bravery saved lives and maintained peace.

Human Armed Forces recognizes this contribution.

But considering they were already injured, your merit points are lowered.

You are awarded 9,000 merit

"….so many?" Varian wondered if it was fake.

Boo explained. "Master, the value of any action is measured relative to the circumstances.

When the Asura Squad destroyed the Secret Realms, the reinforcements of the Shadow Order from other planets arrived in the Dungeons.

These injured remnants would all be saved and what do you think they will do?

They will fiercely retaliate! Suicide Bombing, Hostage taking, hijacking! Anything!

Every attack on Shadow Order was followed by a fiercer and crazier retaliation!"

Varian paused for a moment and sighed.

In his extermination list, Shadow Order was silently added.

Shaking his head, he opened his comm.

{Varian

Cumulative Merit Points: 21, 510

Current Merit Points: 21,000}

The target Eric, Second Year supervisor, gave was 20,000 mp.