Chapter 120: Calm before the storm?

After getting out of the shower, Ray returned to his room and immediately collapsed onto his comfy bed.

With his eyes barely able to stay open, he closed them and fell asleep instantly.

Even with the boost the totem master had given him, Ray had been pushing his body to the brink of destruction. If not for his insane stamina, physique, and vitality stats, he would likely be in the realm of the dead by now.

That was how intense his training had become.

After sinking into the bed for about four hours, Ray slowly opened his eyes, a warm smile gracing his lips.

The first thing he saw was Yuna's cute face, cuddled up next to him.

"She's really addicted to cuddling with me now," Ray thought to himself, still smiling.

Freya was also leaning against him, with Vanessa and the others all in their positions around him.

Ray gently got up and woke the other girls.

"You can't all cuddle like this: Vanessa, Freya, Grace, and Evelyn," Ray said, his expression turning stern.

"Why does Yuna get to cuddle with you then?" Freya asked, pouting cutely.

"It's because you're seven months pregnant, and she isn't," Ray replied with a sigh, pointing at her belly. "I'm just worried about our baby. If something were to happen, I don't know how I'd handle it. I just don't want to risk anything."

"It's fine, Ray," Freya said softly, a reassuring smile on her face.

"Thank you," Ray smiled in return. "Let's go eat lunch first."

With that, they all left the room together.

However, Ray was still contemplating. There were still two months before his firstborn could be born. During that time, he could very well reach a physique and vitality of 100 to break through his body's limit.

This was his end goal because even if he opened the system shop at that time, it wouldn't mean that he would automatically be able to break his body's limit; it was likely a shortcut to breaking it.

But if he broke it like that, Ray didn't believe that there would be no repercussions, so all he focused on was breaking his body's limit to have a qualitative advantage.

Only then would he have the confidence to take on every S-class Awakener out there when he does break his limits and dismantle whatever organisation was behind it even if there was a hundred S-class Awakener standing in front of him.

The only thing that gives one confidence is one's own strength. Even without this apocalypse, all things are meaningless if you don't have the skills for it.

Although the general acted of his own free will, that organisation played the key role in Aurora's death. As for the general, he was only going with the flow.

"Status."

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-Mutation energy: 1896

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Ray had hunted some undead previously; however, he wasn't as lucky as he had expected.

There were only a few undead beings, and even level one undead were hard to find. So, Ray's mutation energy had basically only increased by two hundred in this month, and that was it.

"By the way, Ray, Shelly, your secretary, was saying that something strange is going around the undead lately, so she wanted to inform you about it," Freya suddenly spoke while eating breakfast.

Ray paused for a moment before nonchalantly nodding his head.

Of course, Ray wouldn't abandon them. They were his precious women who would bear children for him.

After some time, Ray went to his training room again with a calm expression.

"There is definitely something brewing among these undead, and I need to increase my strength fast."

As Ray settled, stood tall, and back straight, a sense of urgency brewed in his mind.

"Status."

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[Name: Ray Crownwell]

[Status: Awakened (S-class)]

[Skill: Body Strengthening (Awakening IV), Necromancer (Awakening III), Analyser (Awakening I), Weapon Master (Awakening I), Fire Magic (Awakening II), Lightning Arts (Awakening II), Healer (Awakening III), Ice Magic (Awakening I), Mechanic (Awakening I), Genetic Synchronisation (Awakening III), Overlord of the Sky (Awakening III), Space Mastery (Awakening II), Totem Master (Awakening I)]

—--

These were all his skills.

"Let's advance some of these skills; this could definitely help me to reach a hundred in Physique and Vitality."

With that thought, Ray started to upgrade all his skills. First, Weapon Master and Mechanic were F-class skills and thus couldn't be advanced. As for body strengthening, it has already been maxed out.

Analyzer, although a B-class skill, couldn't be advanced either; while for Necromancer, he didn't have enough mutation energy for it.

Then Ray looked at the Fire Magic skill and started to advance his skill systematically as much as his current mutation energy could allow.

[Fire Magic (Awakening III)]

[Lightning Arts (Awakening III)]

[Ice Magic (Awakening III)]

He advanced his first two skills by one level and the last Ice Magic by two levels.

Ray could feel the warm energy coursing through his body.

When he looked at his stats again.

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-Physique and Vitality: 84 original

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"It's better than nothing," Ray thought bitterly in his heart. It had barely increased by three points, mainly the strengthening came from the Lightning Magic, but it was still an improvement.

Then Ray resumed his rigorous training by setting up the totems again. He even invited Elsha and made her set up totems for more effective training.

Whenever Ray got tired, he would cast Self Heal on himself, so he was working out non-stop like a well-oiled machine, constantly pumping his muscles to the limit.

Finally, after a month of rigorous training, Ray paused his training as the red panel flashed in front of him.

[Ding! The host has reached a hundred points in Physique and Vitality. Would you like to break your body's limit?]