Chapter 165: The Warmth Beyond

He vaguely noticed so many question marks in places of mana. He reckoned it wasn't coded in the system to know some things. He smirked at the fact that, there were things he knew, the system didn't.

It wasn't all knowing after all. Back then, it was even able to tell what was on his mind, now he was perfectly capable of blocking it out. It couldn't penetrate his defenses at all. And most of all, that didn't seem to break the game, it didn't even seem to have noticed the anomaly.

"System, can I rename the things you've question marked?"

Ding!

[Maybe the queen gave a few hits too many to the head guardian, there are no question marked items.]

The system had always been kind of useless he didn't readily expect for it to be suddenly useful. He was still half-expecting. He still double checked just to be sure he didn't imagine them. Sure enough, they were there.

Ding!

[Congratulations on going above level 50 and unlocking the wealth stat. It keeps your wealth safer, depending on how much experience you lose after dying, your wealth may stay intact. It's not full proof, so don't go dying on purpose.]

"Huh? Wealth stat? There was something like that in the past? I don't quite remember." He took a closer look.

In his hurry, he looked over everything else and landed directly on the fact that Hubris was still listed as his mount, meaning one way or another Asgard and the Underworld were connected. After seeing his mount nothing else really mattered.

He took a closer look at his stats this time, he could see how strong he had become. He couldn't believe the system was so weak that it thought his kaos energy was infinite. If it were he wouldn't be sitting here right now.

"I've gotten quite strong. Ancient robe? Holy sh*t! The monkey King strikes again!" He proclaimed looking at the heavens, excitedly.

With each and every stat he looked at, it surprised him greatly. He was even level 90, no one could hope to catch up to him now unless they discovered the same thing he had.

"Hold on, system, how come I'm level 90? I was level 46 and you gave me 20 levels!"

There were still players attempting a world boss. It was the same earth slug. It looked like a fire-breathing creature made entirely out of mud. He caught a glimpse of the same group, hoarding the monster to get most of its rewards through contribution.

He had never tried this before, but he threw Ryu into the air. He followed with a jump, so heigh that he was able to land ontop of his staff. Surpringly, he didn't fall he had perfect balance ontop of his weapon.

He hovered above the monster, changing it's properties bit by bit. It went from a mud monster, to frozen mud, to crystallised and eventually, it shattered into thousands of shards.

A naughty smile appeared on his face, he disappeared at the crime scene before the system even gave him a notification.

With a single breath, he was at their home base. After months, it hadn't changed a bit. But reminded himself no time had passed.

"Okay gang this is where you'll be living, but before that, I need to go scouting. There's a dungeon called Armageddon, also, collect information on the crow mafia gang." He finished thoughtfully.

He knew the dungeon from his past life, it was ranked S. But knowing how almost everything was changing in this game, he couldn't trust his past knowledge much. He didn't even need it with his strength currently.

He still liked being prepared. He walked into their base, and went straight for their shop. He could hear the hammer going at it, even before opening the door.

He creaked the door, darkness was all the room was, except for the furnace that kept the room alive. A little light entered from him opening the door, he peeked, seeing his friend he hadn't seen in months.

He simply watched him, creepily, as he worked on whatever he was working on.

"Kiro, the light is disturbing. Come in." Hiro invited him in, he truly preferred being closed off while working.

Kiro entered but he still didn't close the door. Hiro hadn't looked up once since his friend got here.

He annoyingly took his goggles out, instead of anger, at Kiro's appearance, shock and concern plagued his face.

"The hell happened to you?" He asked with a warmer tone than he intended.