Chapter 237: Bronze Rank III

The smoldering remains of the village was left behind as Rezar and Samira dived back into the confines of the forest, maybe it would have been better if they rested a bit, built as far as he was concerned Rezar was in a hurry, and the longer he spent the more chance the orc bandits would have to get away. Frankly speaking they didn't need to go through the forest again, but Rezar liked the cover the forest gave him, the orcs won't see them coming. Things have happened pretty fast in the village, so there was probably still enough time for them to catch up with the bandits.

Samira had said the bandits were an hour ahead of them, but based on when the entries in the diary was written, those bandits could hours, a day if not days away. However thankfully they got a scent, and while it was completely weird for vampires to track like common dogs, this was as important as it came. They could only chase after the bandits by relying on their superior senses, and not using everything at their disposal because it wasn't exactly normal would be incredibly stupid. Rezar shook his head as he decided to a pay a bit of attention to the system notifications he got during the battle.

[skill Necromancer: Summon Skeleton Has Leveled up to 3. Mental increased by 5, Magic by 10, Skeleton is now a lot more resilient, stronger and faster. Amount of skeletons summonable has been increased.]

[Skill Weapon Mastery: Swords, staffs, chains have leveled up to 2, strength increased by 9, speed by 15, constitution by 6]

[Skill Magic: Mana Charge has leveled up to 3, Mental +5, Magic +10]

[Skill Necromancer: Spectral Skull has leveled up to 4, Mental +12, Magic +12]

[Skill Vampire: Supernatural Body has leveled up to 5, Constitution +20, Strength +20, Mental +25, Magic +25, Speed +30. Auxiliary effects unlocked! Pick one.]

[Skill Vampire: Supernatural Body level 5 Auxiliary Effects: (Power King: Strength +50) (Undying Lord: Constitution +50) (Mage Prince: Magic +50) (Dark Seer: Mental +50) (Speed Demon: Speed +50)]

Rezar nodded his head to no one in particular as he looked at the system prompt. If he could stop moving for a while he could maybe give himself a week or two to train and increase his stats and rank. But he's been busy ever since he returned from his short visit to hell. It would have been completely bad if he had to be honest, but thankfully the increase of his skills were adding levels to his abilities. While the gains weren't as obvious as a full blown training that would help both his skills level up and his body gain stats, it was still a steady increase in ability and he was quite happy about it.

But even with all this, his Supernatural body skill getting to level 5 was shocking, it was almost as if the fights with the wyverns and followed quickly by the giant pumpkin was quite lucrative. Even more so for the pumpkin, perhaps with its root lodge in Rezar's body, the skill might have leveled up after being subjected to a poison or skill designed to probably turn him into the same mess as the tool booth officer that had been the trigger for the showdown with those Halloween siblings, heck the brother was even named Jack! Which was a weird coincidence. Never the less back to the matter at hand, Rezar had to choose from the auxiliary skills offered to his [Supernatural Body] skill.

While vampires were known as really fast or really strong, it seems their growth or abilities wasn't all round. Sure they were faster, stronger and much more resilient. But it seems the vampires of at least this new Elysium would have to pick a specialization. His magic and mental were his highest stats, his speed was lagging but it was coming along just fine, what he lacked most in was his constitution and strength. If he had to be honest, he severely missed the time when he could take any sort of damage and immediately shrug it off like it means nothing. Not now where a bunch of injuries would leave him down and out for the count. But back then, and even now he lacked the strength that vampires were known for.

It was a conundrum, but Rezar knew what he had to choose. In gaming terms his extreme healing factor had made him sort of tank, he always took the front line while his followers could spam skills as much as they wanted to.

It didn't matter if they also hit him in the process as he would be completely okay in just a few seconds. But at the time he had a bunch of other skills to help him deal a lot more damage than the norm. maybe it was time he went a different route than before, besides all stats drew from each other. You couldn't have extreme strength without a sturdy constitution to manage it. And if you increase your strength stat, unlike the old world where the allocation of stats was unreal and impractical, in this new Elysium a hundred strength would probably add a +20 or 30 constitution.

Of course the numbers wouldn't be seen, but it could be felt. But even above all that there was a system alert that he was all too happy to see, looks like he wouldn't be as weak as he thought he would be.

[You have gotten three stats above 100! You have advanced to a Bronze rank III, stats advanced!]

[Skill Vampire: Supernatural body has chosen Power King as auxiliary effect.]

[Rezar Deathwind] = [Age: 17] = [Class: King] = [Rank: Bronze III]

[Race: Vampire] = [Bloodline: Storm Dragon// Death God//(HIDDEN)]

[Mental (II): 4] = [Magic (II): 9] = [Constitution: 56] = [Strength (II): 0] = [Speed: 76]

[Traits: War Edge//Black Magician]

{Skill Trees}

[Vampire: Supernatural Body {Power King} (5)// Bullet Time (1) +] [Necromancy: Summon Skeleton (2)// Spectral Skull (3) +] [Magic: Magic Mastery (5)// Mana Charge (3)// E.M.P (1) +] [Arms: Dual Swords (2)//Staffs (2)//Chains (2)//Unarmed (0) +] [Dragon's Arte: 13 Pulses (0) +]

[Skill Points: 86]

There was actually a possibility he might have reached Bronze Rank II before, he had just been ignoring the notifications he's got till now. Never the less he was stronger, and he could feel it from within the depths of his body. He was more than ready to go put a bunch of orcs in their place.