Chapter 60: Runemaster

His comprehension of the death rune had achieved 3.42% just as he had comprehended the rune, which was an incredible feat. 

But this didn't mean that it would continue this way, this result had been achieved by emptying a prosperous mountain's negative energy mixed with a large amount of universal energy to stabilize it and using the chance to absorb some death runes to increase it. 

From now on, it wouldn't increase as drastically as now.

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Race: Human(Cylius)

Tier: 2

Runes: Dimension (5.4%) Death (3.42%)

Strength: 1.9

Speed: 2.7

Agility: 50.0

Soul: 49.9

Mana: 2.7

Lifeforce: 2.8

Active skills: [Yin Barrier lv.2] [Yin Tentacle lv.3] [Life Absorb lv.4] [Mind manipulation lv.2] [Teleportation lv.1]

Passive skills: [Yin manipulation lv.3] [Living detection lv.1] [Rune String Detection lv.1]

Description:

[The owner of the status. Has extraordinary soul power and perception. Fighting prowess boosted significantly. Comprehended two top-tier runes.]

...

This was his status now, he had added the runes feature since it could be helpful to how much he had advanced. 

It would be a slow crawl, well his crawl would be much faster than the average though.

Today he was thinking of trying the runology, if he had the talent, he may want to become an esteemed runemaster of a large organization. There would be no burden as he would be treated as a gem but for now, it was too early. 

Although in the international standards, being a 14 year old would give you an adult status, he would still be looked down upon because of his age. 

But well, he won't try to contact the world for now, now h already had many things in his plan. 

From searching for ways to kill a destiny blessed one to entering a good Genetician School, he had planned many things. 

In the school, he would spend 4 years in it which was a short amount of time compared to his lifespan but a particularly important time. 

Now back to runology, he would first learn from the rune artifact he had received and try to extract its runes as a sample. 

After analyzing it, he would try creating his own rune artifact. 

...

"Hmm, interesting" looking at the rune engravings in the artifact, he was surprised by how delicate it was.

The technique behind it was securing the rune strings and engraving it, and add some more things. 

For example, one would need to make the rune stable and also try to make it not damage the material, or else it would just be damaged by the engraving itself. 

So control and stability was an important thing. 

It sounded easy but doing it was far harder than one could imagine. Engraving it might be easy but the restraining part was the hard one, otherwise, the rune would be active at all times resulting in instability and power shortage over time. 

'Maybe the cores of monsters are also a form of runic material and the ones that had condensed were the material condensation of runes... maybe when we absorbed them we lost most of them and only being able to record a piece which was the genes...' 

'Maybe the ones we absorbed had degenerated much that they had become a gene and the monsters that had cores in the first-tier had some conditions like the core restraining itself...' 

Thinking this, I knew I had crossed the boundary allowed to be known. If I were to disclose this information to the public then I will be chased by the Federation until I die even if I was a genius!

'I can't afford for that to happen, I can't at all costs...' just thinking this he suddenly looked at a tree branch, an ordinary tree branch that would be ignored by most people. 

But right now his pupils constricted he was sweating with a pale face. 

His whole body cold, his constricted pupils stared right at the clinging caterpillar with white pupils and a purple body seemingly invisible. His figure fluctuated from illusory to real as he clung on to the branch effortlessly.

This caterpillar was strange with 5 features on the flat face that looked like a human. 

From his instincts and the notification from the status, he could see the danger level of this thing.

[High-level fluctuation detected. Danger level: 100]

[Host is advised to stay away from the creature.]

[Host is advised to stay away from the creature.]

[Host is advised to stay away from the creature.]

[Host is advised to stay away from the creature.]

[Host is advised to stay away from the creature.]

....

Repetitive notification of scarlet red color emerged, making the alarm in his mind go off repeatedly. 

Looking at the caterpillar of two meters, I was engulfed in fear.

Throat dry, eyes constricted, body pale and soul in shock he was oblivious to this thing in the past, but now that he had found it he was almost going to fain from the fear he felt. 

This fear had nothing to do with willpower, it originated from his soul.

This wasn't the urge to kneel when he faced a dragon nor was it the holiness he felt when he encountered the fourth-tier human. 

This was the fear that didn't make him feel anything except pure fear. Nothing except the burden that was in his soul. This aura made him want to faint right away, placing a huge burden on his soul. 

Just then he heard something, a sound that reverberated in his ear and paralyzed him completely. 

"Ah, you noticed" this simple sentence, but he can't describe the fear he felt. 

His mind blank he couldn't think of anything at the moment. 

But then he heard the caterpillar talking again. 

"The mending of the world has gone well, the day we invade will come again" a wide grin appeared on the caterpillar's face which was filled with sharp teeth. 

With a poof, he went away and wasn't seen.

"Pud" 

With a pud, he fell to the ground and fainted. In front of a supreme existence whether you have mental willpower was bullsh*t it didn't matter. 

From the start, he had already fainted in his consciousness and it was only his subconscious that kept him standing. 

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"Where am I? What happened after I saw my status?"