Reborn Zombie

by Stayrr

When a normal human suddenly dies and enters another world with the almighty cheat, their very own system, what do you think would happen? They will rise above every other being and soar the skies, for they will become an unstoppable force that brushes through the entire world, causing waves... Or so it normally goes, right? After Victor dies, he did get transmigrated, but it wasn'

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By the time Victor got to the 48th floor, he had already finished the beholder, and left the system to do its analysis. He quickly went through the floors one after the other, and on the way he would encounter a group who were also heading out after the dungeon was cleared while trying to kill the rampaging monsters that attacked them.

By the time he got to the lower floors as he climbed closer to the surface, he slowed down a bit and paced himself. First of all, the system had finished analyzing the tenaise, so he immediately instructed the system to incorporate the tenaise into his second form. The process was started, and all Victor had to do now was wait for it to be through with.

While going back through the floors, Victor came across a death body that he thought looked familiar, so he stopped to check if he recognised it. Since it was a human body, it would only belong to one of the young men that were part of the group he followed not long ago.

As he bent to look at the body's face, he immediately recognized who it was. It was Larry, and his body had so many different injuries, and even Victor who wasn't an expert could tell from the marks and injuries that it wasn't done by a monster. He had noticed two of Larry's team mates acting suspiciously, but he didn't care to bud in since it had nothing to do to him. In the end, he wasn't surprised that this was the end result.

"Quite unfortunate indeed." Victor said, as he stood up to leave. He had found the body while using one of the shorter routes through the floor, and this place was a bit hidden, so Larry's body would not be found, and it could just be said that he died of a monster attack.

Victor left the body and moved on, but as he turned to leave, something grabbed unto his trouser. Though the strength wasn't much, it was still noticeable. Victor knew it was Larry, and as he turned he saw a body that had already given up, but with a soul that still longed for the world. Even then, there was no way for Victor to help Larry..

There was a way, and Victor could turn him into an undead, but whether or not he would retain his intelligence was uncertain, and Victor was not going to bring back a useless human to become his soldier. Maybe if he felt some sort of sentiment he would, but he didn't.

"Maybe I should just try. If it works, then good for him. If not, then I did my part." Victor said.

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He turned to face the body properly so that he would use his skill, but then since the body moved, it meant it wasn't dead yet… This would be a good experiment.

Victor stared down at the body, and with a word, 'Arise.' He watched the body on the ground twitch a little, then violently, then it slowed down and slowly stood up and just stood there.

'Maybe it failed in the end.'n0𝓋𝓮𝓛𝑈𝑠𝑏.𝓬0𝓂

[You have acquired an undying soldier that will forever serve at your side with unquestionable resolve]

[Human has dropped in level due to effects of being reborn]

[Human Level 65]

Victor was about to release the summon and disband the new undead he had gained, but then he heard a voice call his name.

"Victor? Is that you? But, I am sure that… This is not the after life either." The voice said. It was Larry.

Victor didn't say anything and just watched Larry speak to himself until after about a minute, he calmed down.

"Are you done now?" Victor asked.

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"Yes master." Larry replied.

"Do you remember your life from when you were alive?"

"Yes master, I do, but…"

Victor could more or less guess what was going on. He had become an undead, and his feelings and emotions, something he used to have are no longer present. The life he once lived as a human now feels distant to him, yet familiar in a way, but it was one he could never go back to living. Because of the nature of Victor's skill, he resurrected loyal followers that would fight by his side and even sacrifice themselves for him. He didn't rely on some grudge or negative emotions to bring and bind souls back to the world. He himself wasn't sure on how it worked, he just got the skill and used it, nothing more.

'It's interesting that he still retains his memories. This means his past experiences are not lost, but are also retained and are still accessible. His ability should still be there too, so it all works well.' Victor said in his head.

"It's all good. You shall be known with your former name, Larry."

Moving forward from there, Victor found another body, and it belonged to one of the members of that group, but unlike Larry, this body was brutalized. Many major parts were missing, like the hand, legs, and part of the chest and guts. It was completely wrecked. It would be better for him to ignore this one and proceed.

Also, there was no need for Larry to follow him behind, so he just unsummoned him and carried on. With Larry, he had gained a very good experimental subject where he would try to make him as strong as possible, while maintaining his human form. Who knows, maybe when he get's out of the dungeon, he would have to infiltrate the human cities and things like that. Having an at least close to normal looking subordinate worked well. If he ended up not needing to infiltrate or work with the humans, which he felt was how it was going to go, then he could just forget about retaining a human form and just buff him as much to make him more powerful.

Overall, there was no special effect from having a human in his legion. If not for the superior intelligence for now, there was no other thing that placed them higher than the rest.

Victor finally got to the first floor, and without time or the feel to reminisce with his base floor, he headed straight for the exit.

Getting there, Victor walked towards the exit, and as he got close a message popped up before him.

[You are no longer bound by the effects of the dungeon]

In that moment, Victor didn't walk out of the dungeon, instead he was sucked in be something that seemed to cover the exit.

The world around Victor went blank, and then suddenly light reappeared, but when Victor looked around, it was utter chaos, something didn't seem right.

"Where exactly is this?"

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Victor didn't need to look around much to know that he had gotten out of the dungeon, and he was now in one of the possible parts of humanity that have been taken over by monsters and otherworldly creatures. The entire surrounding gave off and aura of apocalypse, the type he recalled seeing in movies, and for some reason it felt like he was being watched all over constantly. The feeling was just eerie. He was alone and could not detect any other presence around, but at the same time it felt like eyes were all over the place.

The first thing Victor did was summon Larry, since he had the most knowledge about the situation they were in, being a formal human that resided in this world before.

"Come forth Larry." Victor said, and just then from a faint smoke that shrouded the area before Victor, Larry appeared from it.

Before Victor began any questioning about their current situation, he just had to hand Larry some clothes to change into. The ones he had were soaked in blood, and had many parts torn. It definitely gave him a savagery look. Maybe it was because of the fact that they had become zombies, the shame that was supposed to be there while changing before someone else was absent, but Victor still turned away to give him space.

"Larry, can you explain what we are doing here? Aren't we supposed to exit the dungeon from its entrance?" Victor asked.

"Yes lord…"

"Remove the lord and just talk normally, and go to the point." Victor interrupted..

"Yes.. Master. I also don't know the reason for this strange occurrence. Normally we would be outside the dungeon entrance after exiting the dungeon, but how this is even possible…"

"I see. So basically, this is a rare occurrence?"

"Well, it has never happened before, as far as I know." Larry answered.

Hearing Larry's answer, Dustin was quite unsure of what the reason was. He thought back to the system notification that said he had been marked, and sure enough that was the only thing that was different from every other thing that had happened so far. Victor couldn't think of how it was connected, but that was the best he could think of for the time being.n0𝒱𝑒𝑳𝑢𝑠𝚋.𝓬0𝑚

There was also no reason to tell Larry about his system even though Larry had practically become part of his legion and could not do something like betray him, there just was no need. Thinking about it wasn't going to solve anything, and since they were already outside the dungeon, they should get to other things and focus on the things before them for now.

Victor would have to gain more information about the world first before he planned anything major, and in such a world, one of his major agendas was getting stronger, and fast.

Victor could clearly feel the location of Ramok's master, but he hadn't made the decision whether or not he would go complete the request Ramok made or not. Eventually he would, but right at the moment he wanted to collect more information about the world he was in. Though it was good to be strong and powerful, but even the most powerful man will eventually fall if he negated the need to arm himself with adequate information… Or so the saying goes.

Victor asked Larry if he would be able to recognise the place where they were, not expecting much of an answer as that would be almost impossible, and sure enough Larry didn't know. Victor was told that almost half of the planet had turned into uncharted territory where monsters and beasts inhabit, and humanity had been forced to flee these areas, of course, this was after they lost many people, and when strong powers had yet to appear.

Basically, the story was not like the way it happened in the novels and manga. After dungeons and gates began appearing on this earth, the governments around the world did try to do something about it, but failed completely as their modern weapons could only harm so many monsters. Maybe it was a problem of adaptability and survivability, which humans were not the best at, but it took at least six to eight months before the first awakened people appeared.

These firsts were not strong enough to take on the stronger monsters, as by that time, countless dungeons and gates had broken and monsters from the other side crossed into the earth. From this era, countless heroes were born, and stronger people surfaced in different places one after the other. The thing was, even after all these years, humanity had still not been able to reclaim the land that was lost, though they were walking towards it.

It didn't take long for Victor to come to a decision after thinking about it for about some minutes. He was stranded in an unknown land, and he knew not the way that led out. His only chance of leaving this place was by picking a certain direction and just start walking till he reached someplace where he could then get directions. Right now, they were in what seemed to be a city, so there was no way he would be finding the way to anywhere using nature.

'In such a time like this, a flying skill or form would be really helpful.' Victor said in his mind.

"If the only choice we have is to just pick a random direction and head that way, then why don't we head towards the direction where Ramok's master is."

Victor unsummoned Larry, and began moving in the direction where he felt the drake's master. As he walked through the streets of what used to be a city, the feeling that he was being watched remained with him, and from each building it felt like something was peaking at him from within.

'System, are there any monsters or other creatures in the vicinity?' Victor asked.

[Yes]

'I knew it. Identify them.' Victor commanded.

Just then, numerous pop up texts appeared that showed what the creatures were.

[Shadow Ghost Hound Level 20]

[Shadow Ghost Hound Level 20]

[Shadow Ghost Hound Level 20]

[Shadow Ghost Hound Level 20]

[Shadow Ghost Hound Level 20]

[Shadow Ghost Hound Level 20]

[Shadow Ghost Hound Level 20]

[Shadow Ghost Hound Level 20]

[Shadow Ghost Hound Level 20]…

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The pop ups didn't seem to end, as every building around Victor was filled with these creatures. He had identified the creatures now, but then, the share number of them was something else.

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Looking at the countless monsters in the area, Victor finally understood why he had been having the feeling of being watched since he got here. It turns out that these monsters had been stalking him.

From their names, he could guess that they weren't monsters with physical bodies, and physical damage probably wouldn't do any damage to them, so the only offense was to use magical attacks. The other thing was the fact that he had yet to be attacked by these monsters even though they literally covered the entire place. Maybe it was because he was a fellow monster? Victor was not sure, since monsters still attacked other monsters.

Another reason he thought was the reason for them not attacking came from their names. A monster with such a name would probably be a night creature, and if they took damage or were disadvantaged during day time with the sun up, it was clear that they wouldn't attack and just waited for the sun to go down..

To test his theory, Victor brought out Amadon and ordered him to enter one of the buildings. Sure enough, Victor was quick to find out that these Shadow Ghost Hounds were not at all gentle and calm creatures, as the moment Amadon entered the building, he was viciously attacked by two of these creatures. It seemed they were using a kind of stealth skill, but he could still follow a glimpse of their bodies and movements. He immediately called back Amadon as he had tested his theory, and just kept moving.

The experience points a level twenty would offer was small, but if he was to consider the number of these creatures, than perhaps it would be worth it.

To achieve this minor goal, Victor had to wait for night to reach before these monsters would gain the balls to come out.

When the sun had begun to set, the Shadow Ghost Hounds became more restless by the minute. From what Victor could tell from conducting some more experiments, he found out something important. The Shadow Ghost Hounds were not some kind of creatures with spiritual forms, so this meant that they could still be harmed with physical attacks. It was possible that the Shadow Ghost Hounds had a stealth skill, as that was the only way for them to remain unseen, that or their bodies were naturally like that, as a part of their ability.

It would be very draining to keep using a skill for so long, unless it was a passive skill. It was more liable that this was their innate ability. The point was that there was no point where they became completely visible, just from time to time and when they got hit.

Just before the sun went down, Victor brought out his legion, all except Larry, and made them spread out into the city. This was a good chance for all of them to level up and grow stronger, so he was ready to keep them awake throughout the night. If possible, he would like them to reap the maximum benefit and clear as many of these Shadow Ghost Hounds as possible.

Once night came, Victor and his legion began their confrontation with the Shadow Ghost Hounds, and so far, it was going in Victor's favour. For each Shadow Ghost Hound that he killed, he got 28,000exp to 32,000exp. Surprisingly, the Shadow Ghost Hound didn't seem to finish as they kept coming and swarming Victor and his legion.

Konda was able to cause wide area physical attacks, and was able to deal with the monsters a bit, but was steadily getting swarmed from time to time. His poison attacks weren't working well against the monsters, so this only other way was to use his superior level to overpower them. Similar to Konda, Arac was also a physical oriented fighter that didn't have many magic kind of abilities, or skills. But unlike Konda, Arac was not struggling with the Shadow Ghost Hounds at all, as his skill steel thread proved to be very effective.

Konda was able to cause wide area physical attacks, and was able to deal with the monsters a bit, but was steadily getting swarmed from time to time. His poison attacks weren't working well against the monsters, so this only other way was to use his superior level to overpower them. Similar to Konda, Arac was also a physical oriented fighter that didn't have many magic kind of abilities, or skills. But unlike Konda, Arac was not struggling with the Shadow Ghost Hounds at all, as his skill steel thread proved to be very effective.

Amadon also didn't find it hard, as his hands were extremely sharp and made mince meat of the Shadow Ghost Hounds. The ones who found it simplest to deal with the monsters were Gurok and Pyro. Both of them had AOE skills that made dealing with the monsters easy, so they had little difficulties compared to the others. As for Victor, he was doing quite well, too well, and was gaining a steady stream of experience points.n0𝓥𝖊𝗅𝑢𝚜𝒷.𝑐0𝐦

A few hours into the night, Victor had already taken out plenty of the Shadow Ghost Hounds, and their number seemed to be diminishing as time went by, but the fact that they could still show up in packs only showed how much they were in number.

Victor was having it easy fighting the monsters, as they were low level and apart from their stealth and ability to warp through nearby shadows, they still had to attack with their bodies by biting and clawing their target. Some time later, Victor noticed that another presence had appeared in the area, and it seemed to be stronger than the Shadow Ghost Hounds that they had been facing up until now. It didn't seem strong enough to cause him to worry at all about its presence, so he ignored it for the time.

After several minutes had passed, the monster finally made it to where Victor was, and for one thing, it turned out to be a kind of monster Victor had been looking for, one with wings which would give him the ability to fly.

"Nature really plays to your cause if you favour it, huh."

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"Nature really plays to your cause if you favour it, huh?" Victor said to himself. 'I'm not sure if that even makes sense, oh well.'

The monster that had appeared wasn't to Victor's liking because of one thing, but apart from that one thing, it was exactly what he was looking for. The monster looked like a humanoid rat without hair on its body that stood at 2.5 metres tall, and had webbed wings on its back for flight. n0𝓋𝗲𝓵𝑈𝚜𝑏.𝗰0𝓂

[Ravenger Level 50]

The monster's level was within range, so Victor had no trouble at all taking it down. Just as it landed on top the building nearby, the ravenger's eyes shown with a dark red light that pointed towards Victor and the hounds that lay motionless on the floor. Without wasting much time, Victor picked up a chunk of rock from the ground and tossed it at the Ravenger. It must have thought that the rock was harmless, as it was only the size of a small stone, but the moment it got close to touching the Ravenger, the rock exploded.

This attack enraged the ravenger, and it flew towards Victor in an instant with intent to kill, as it stretched its hand out to claw him, but Victor easily evaded the attack, and using the monster's momentum against it, he grabbed it's hand and with a bit of guidance showed its face to the hard ground, then he stomped its face with his boot. Unlike when mobs jump another person though, this stomp was not one the ravenger would be living to tell the tale.

Victor without wasting much time got down and sat beside the monster's dead body, and then began eating away and swallowing chunks of flesh as he turned them to evolution material.

[New sample detected. Analyzing sample]

Just then, when the new sample had began analyzing from the initial chunks Victor ingested, another notification popped up before Victor, and it was another thing he had being waiting for.

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[Evolution process complete]

[Gained new skill Eye of Dreams Nightmares]

[Gained new skill Perception]

[Received 20 stat points]

[Magic 10, Intelligence 20]

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Seeing the benefits this time, Victor was satisfied, but when he looked at the intelligence, he couldn't help but feel that he might be slowly turning into a scholar.

The first skill he gained was self explanatory, as it was a sort of mind attack that could induce sleep, and on top of the sleep even play sweet dreams or horrifying nightmares. The second one was what interested Victor the most. The skill's name simply read perception, but from what Victor understood, there were many ways this skill could work, and he was happy to test it. He could only hope for it to work in the same way he thought it would.

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[Eye of Dreams Nightmares]

A very powerful attack that puts the target to sleep, and you are able to induce a dream, or a nightmare in them. There is no difference between the world they experience and the real world, to the target, it is the same, and whatever they experience in it is true. It resides in your left eye, and the target has to make eye contact for the skill to activate.

Level: 2

Mana cost: 100

[Perception]

This skill allows you to have a 360 view of the world around you.

Level: 1

Mana cost: 3/s

Radius: 5m

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Victor read the description of the skills he had just gotten, and though the perception wasn't what he was hoping it'd be, it was still a very good one. The thing was he already had a very good sense and even without the skill he would still be able to observe the area around him within a 5m radius, and even more.

For the time being, Victor kept the window away and finished the monster in front of him. After he was done with the ravenger, Victor stayed around for a while, as it seemed like the hounds were not coming towards his side anymore, so he left it up to his legion to take care of.

After the system analyzed the sample, Victor entered the evolution panel to do his changing and fusing of forms. As far as he was concerned, this was the first time he was using a feature of the system that seemed like a chimera making simulator. The rest before this might have seemed like evolution in many ways, but this time the entire process was that of customizing a chimera, completely.

He asked the system to take the wings from ravenger and add it to his human form, so that that form would gain the ability to fly. It would be more convenient if he added the wings to his current zombie form, but he wasn't sure yet if he could remove them later. Victor made the effort to confirm from the system, but even then he still didn't want to add the wings to his current form.

It took just mere milliseconds, and instant for him to change forms, so he wasn't worried if something was to attack him and he needed to change forms. This time, the process wasn't long, and after a few minutes, he changed into his human form, and before he did he remembered to take his shirt off. This time, his human form had fully incorporated the wings into the back, and Victor could feel a little bit how it worked. The wings felt like separate limbs attached to his body, but at the same time it felt like he could move them without too much concentration.

There was no way to test his new form than to actually fly, so Victor was going to do just that. To begin with, these were webbed wings, so he couldn't do something like glide, and they worked very different from bird wings.

For starters, bats fly while bounded by inertia as they are unable to fly upwards or downwards, and can only go in a straight line theoretically, so their flight requires more physics than a bird's feathered wings. Understanding this was something Victor needed to do. The problem now was the fact that the wings on his back were not exactly like bat wings and just have some similarities. The wings on his back were not as flexible, so he wasn't too sure how they would perform.

'Maybe I'm just over thinking it.' Victor said in his mind.

Victor spread the wings on his back that spanned almost two and half metres in length of each wing when stretched fully, and tried to fly. He managed to lift off the ground some feet into the air, but that was it. After a point, it just felt like he would fall if he tried to go any further. The flying seemed to be harder than he originally thought, as it was taking a lot from him to just coordinate the wings to enable him lift himself from the ground.

Sure enough, this was a world that was crawling with things that didn't follow common sense. The wings unlike he had thought didn't have most of the issues he thought they would, but he still needed to do some testing.

Next up, Victor climbed upon a building where he would try to jump off of. It was a two story building, and Victor was sure that he would not die if he was to fall from this height, and he had even placed his mark somewhere else just in case, so that he would be able to teleport there.

"This height is enough. After some practicing, maybe then I can go find Ramok's master." Victor said as he looked down from the roof of the building.

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It took until morning of steady practicing before Victor was able to fly properly and be coordinated, enough for him to know that he could perform good passable air manoeuvres in case he was attacked by flying monsters.

"This should be enough." Victor said, as the sun started rising from the horizon.

Slowly, the Shadow Ghost Hound were starting to retreat back into the buildings and shadowy area to avoid the sun, but still some were left on the street as the buildings in the area were mostly story buildings, so at that early time in the morning, most parts had plenty of shade so the monsters were not affected.

Victor looked at the information that had been popping up on the system, and he could see that members of his legion had levelled up quite some levels. He brought everyone back and unsummoned them back. Because of the structure of the city, walking around will be way harder than flying, so Victor was happy that he had wigs. The city had more tight streets than it did spacious and wide one. Also, the buildings around were almost all story buildings, so it really gave the tight feeling and one would literally be moving in a maze.

From the top however, Victor could oversee everything, and from there he started his travel towards Ramok's master.

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It didn't seem like this direction led to potential human settlement as Victor flew by, but it didn't matter too much. If after all he gets thrown somewhere not in the vicinity of the dungeon, then knowing whether or not human settlement was nearby wouldn't be too useful would it?

Slowly and slowly, the landscape had transitioned from that of a city to some field where things seemed to be grown, to a bit of forest and woods, to a desert area with considerably more rocks than usual.

Flying with these wings had become more natural the more Victor used them, and after some days of flying, he had developed a very solid understanding on how it functioned. Initially, he needed to actually focus a bit on the wings to get them to do what he wanted, and he had to consciously move them, but now everything was different. The wings almost moved on their own, and Victor felt like it was just something handing behind him, and all he needed to do was control where they took him.

On the way so far, not a lot of monsters had attacked him, and he had just flew over the entire journey. From time to time, he would also let down his legion to kill and gain experience points and grow stronger, but for the most he just ignored the temptation to want to go down and gain some easy experience points.

If it was experience points, then the place he was going to would have plenty, he just had to be patient. If he is supposed to be stronger than Ramok and this dungeon he was going t wasn't an abnormality too, then the monsters inside would also be strong, Victor thought.

After travelling for all this while, Victor had finally reached his destination, and for the first time in his life, he was looking at the outside of a dungeon and how its entrance was. Unfortunately, he hadn't inquired about the dungeons and the process of entering them, so he had no idea how to go about it without being forceful and dragging attention to himself. At the front of the dungeon entrance, there seem to be a team of people that would be anchoring the entrance process, and then there are eleven guards present, and all the guards are level 60 and above, and below level 72. Amongst the people not on guard uniform, their level ranged from 30 to 60.

Victor could imagine that if he was to enter this dungeon forcefully which would mean he either ran straight into it or he would have to kill the people, other humans would come here immediately to find him, and once his image is made public as a villain, that's it, he can forget every plan of entering human society.

For guidance on what to do, Victor brought out Larry and asked him. According to Larry, one needed a dungeon permit before they would be allowed to access a dungeon, and Victor had none. .

"Without the permit, it is impossible to enter the dungeons, unless it is an unregistered dungeon." Larry explained.

Another thing was that once another team had purchased a permit and entered a dungeon, others are not allowed to enter until the team inside came out, only under special conditions could it happen otherwise.

"What if I kill all of them and enter, that way no one will know what happened here, since there'll be no one to tell them." Victor asked Larry.

"Well, all they need to do is push a button and it will alarm the officials. Unless you are ok with facing an army of elites, then you should leave that option." Larry responded.

"Then what about you? You still have that hunter badge with you right? That should be good enough to get you inside with some lies here and there."

"That is a plan that is going to be difficult to carry out without a permit."

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'Who's that?' The man on the desk asked himself, as he saw a man approach.

At the entrance to the dungeon, there was one sizable desk placed to the side by the left, and seated behind this desk were three people. Apart from this three, there were eleven guards around. Two remained in a fixed position beside the dungeon entrance, while the rest would shift from time to time.

"Hi, my name's Larry. Here to raid this dungeon." Larry said with assurance in his voice and actions, definitely not a bad actor in the least.

The people behind the desk and a few guards that heard him looked at him of a second, then some of them laughed. Larry seeing their reaction remained serious, and had not broken character at all as he stood upright and firm.

"Like you said, raid. It's called a raid for a reason, and that is definitely not a one man job. No matter who you are, I advice you return." The man behind the desk wearing a brown suit said.

According to what Larry and Victor had planned, if they resisted, there was no need to waste time and push forward that they let him, he should instead say that he is part of the team that went in not long ago. This lie was of course relying on the likable chance that a team had actually gone in. If there was no team, then well, Victor would have to result to the original plan.

Larry followed the plan and acted like a spoilt young master of some influential group that had finally joined a guild and can now go for raids. After disturbing the entire place for a good while, the officials there finally allowed him in, as they were fed up with him. They didn't know what family or group he belonged to, so angering him was not the best option. Besides, the team inside the dungeon at the moment was very powerful, so they doubt that some young master would be able to do much.

The guards took him to enter, but he just shook them off telling them that he could do so himself, and so they left him. When Victor saw that Larry had entered, he was thankful that their shitty plan ended up working, and now it was his turn to act.

Inside the dungeon, Larry had just entered, and was waiting not too off from the entrance. The plan was simple and short. Larry would enter the dungeon, and with the mark on his body, Victor would teleport into the dungeon and then there would be no problem.

'Let's go.' Victor said in his mind as he activated his teleportation skill, but them he would be disappointed by the message that would appear before him.

[Skill activation failed]

[Due to the difference in dimensional cosmological space and distance, teleportation is impossible]

[Skill level may be too low]

"What the FUCK? Is my teleportation so weak?" Victor said to himself. Looking at the coins he had left too, there weren't much left at all. This only left Victor with one option.

'Guess I have to result to the original now.' Victor said in his mind.

Looking at the desk in front of the entrance, Victor was sure that it was the place where the button will be. Any sort of alarm button will be closest to the office workers, and since there is no other place where a button like that would be, Victor was sure that it would be there.

First of all, he picked up three chunks of rocks the size of stones, and then he threw the rocks towards the entrance one after another. His throwing was surprisingly well aimed, and it landed mostly where he intended, but with the bouncing and rolling, maybe a bit off.

The most important thing was that one of these stones landed close to the table, and before any of the humans there could even thing about what was going on or where the projectiles came from, Victor had already activated the explosion.

BOOM! BOOM! BOOMM!

The entire place went into smoke. At that same moment, Victor appeared before the entrance, and before heading in he made sure to take care of the three behind the table, and also silenced all the guards in succession. When he made sure that there were none left alive as he received experience points, he headed into the dungeon.

"Mast.. Vic-tor, why did it take so long for you to come, did you.."

"Yes, there was a change in plans, and I had to use the front door. But worry not, nothing happened and I took care of everything."

"Oh I forgot to say this, but if there is no relay from the team set at the dungeon entrance or gate entrance, the officials will send someone or a team to come check. Sometimes dungeon breaks can happen before the speculated time, so they keep an eye out for things like that." Larry said, with a straight face.

"Did you become defective? Or have you always been this dumb? Isn't that a very important information you should have mention to me earlier?" Victor said as both men looked at each other with straight faces.

"Let's move then. We would have to be fast with this one then."

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70 Into The Dungeon II

"Come on let's go." Victor said.

For this dungeon, they didn't have any information on it whatsoever, so they just stepped in blindly. Unfortunately, Victor happened to enter this world during the time when dungeon levels were at the highest. These days it was common to see monsters of level 80 inside dungeons from time to time, and if one was unlucky enough, then they would even encounter a monster of above level 100. Whatever it was that existed inside this cave though, Victor was sure that he would be able to take care of it with his overpowered skills.

Yes, he was aware, some of his skills were overpowered.

The entire first floor of the dungeon for some reason had no monsters, not even a single one. There were no monster corpse either, if not Victor could have speculated that the team that entered the dungeon did so not too long ago.

This dungeon was also a cave type, and after spending months in an endless cave system, Victor felt like he had reached home... Not really. He didn't have much of a feeling to begin with, so that wasn't really possible.

They quickly made it to the other side of the cave where the path that led to the second floor was located. With the aid of the system, finding the way through the cave was relatively easy even though it was more complicated than the previous ones he explored.

As they arrived in the second floor, Victor had to put Larry away, as him being there just becomes a burden since his level and strength was not good enough. Victor advanced by himself, and sure enough, after only walking for a bit, he encountered the first monster. The monster was a lizard type, and was similar to the salamander from the previous dungeon; the only difference was that the colour of this one's skin was close to black, and not red.

[Steel Scaled Lizard Level 50]

It's skin had some silver undertone to it, but it wasn't much. Victor didn't waste anytime and rushed the the lizard with a punch. He landed a punch square on the lizard's back causing it's body to bend in ward, but that punch was not enough to kill the lizard. After he landed a few more punches, the lizard finally gave up and died.

[You have killed Steel Scaled Lizard]

65,000exp

Victor looked at the lizard's body, but he couldn't tell exactly why its scales were black while it had steel in its name. It was either the fact that he had a skill that hardened its scales to become as strong as steel, or maybe the skill could turn its scales to actual steel.

All of this didn't matter though, as Victor had no need for this sort of skill, seeing as his body was already as strong as steel. After he killed the lizard, Victor changed back into his zombie form. The human form wasn't as tough, and the wings he had on his back weren't helping either.

become stronger. After they went through the city, they had all gained some level, well except for 10:29

Larry. With their new level, they should be able to take care of the lizards in that floor no problem.

After that, Victor made his way into the dungeon little by little, making sure to take advantage of all the monsters there to increase his experience points, no matter the amount. By the time he had gotten to the end of this floor, Victor had managed to kill at least 50 of these lizards, all of which were of similar level to the first one he killed.

He quickly advanced to the next floor after that, not waiting for any of them to respawn so he can reap the full benefit, but that didn't mean he wouldn't benefit still. Before he advanced to the next floor, he summoned his legion and allowed them to use the lizards in that floor to level up and become stronger. After they went through the city, they had all gained some level, well except for Larry. With their new level, they should be able to take care of the lizards in that floor no problem.

After he left, Victor's legion only needed to wait for the monsters to spawn again then they would get to work. He himself hadn't encountered any monster so far while on the third floor of the dungeon, but he had a feeling that this floor would house some strong monsters. Eventually, after spending some minutes running around, he ran into a lizad similar to the one from the previous floor. Close to half a metre in height, and 2.5 metres in length, just a bit longer than the previous group. Another difference between the two was the colour of their scales. Unlike the black scaled lizards from the previous floor, this one had almost silver scales that glistered a bit under illumination from crystals in the cave.

[Adamantine Scaled Lizard Level 50]

Surprising enough, it had the same level with the ones from the previous floors. Seeing this, Victor could guess that the difference in strength came from the toughness of their scales which was difference in defence. With his zombie form, Victor could break steel swords and block them with his bare skin, but this one was different, he wasn't sure how much damage he would be able to do to such a creature. To test it out, there was only one way, he charged at it and just like before threw a punch targeting it's back. n0𝑣𝐞𝒍𝔲𝐬𝗯.𝓒0𝓶

Unlike the previous lizard, this one didn't even seem to have received any form of damage at all. Victor's punch simply bounced off its back without seeming to have done much. He tried again for the second time, and this time he added a bit more spunk, and as his fist approached the lizard's back, the line tattoos on Victor's right hand glowed a violent red like a volcanic reaction was happening within, then..

DUNM!!

Victor jumped back a bit to see if it had any effect, but still there was nothing. Seeing this, Victor was sure that he wanted this creature's evolution material.

Since it was a creature with very strong physical attack resistance, Victor wondered if its magical resistance was also strong, so he rushed before it and used his Touch of Death, and unlike what he had thought, the lizards just collapsed on its stomach immediately.

as it seemed, so he just abandoned it.

10:30

[You have killed Adamantine Scaled Lizard]

65,000exp

The thing with lizards was that their defences were good, but they lacked an attacking force or power. Maybe for humans these guys would prove to be some challenge, but Victor was sure that if one was strong enough, they would be able to triumph over the lizards quite easily.

Before Victor resumed moving deeper into the dungeon, he would have the evolution material from the lizard first. Since the lizard's scales were so strong, it wasn't something he could just take apart so easily. So instead of the stress, Victor just grabbed the lizard's mouth, and tore it apart from that point.

After eating enough of the lizard and gaining enough evolution material from it, Victor moved on. He could have still savaged the little parts , but opening those parts up from the inside wasn't as easy as it seemed, so he just abandoned it.

The third floor provided Victor with nearly 40 of these monsters, and from every single one of them, he made sure to take as much evolution material as he could, after all, it wasn't for only one person. After heading even deeper into that floor's cave, Victor eventually ran into another specie of these lizards that were quite similar to the Adamantine ones, if not completely the same.

Just like the adamantine scaled lizards, these one were also silvery coloured, and their size was the same. The only difference between the both of them was the clear presence of long claws these lizards wore as weapons. When the system identified them however, Victor saw the difference between the both.

[Titanium Scaled Lizard Level 50]

These lizards were fewer in number than the others, so it didn't take much time to deal with them. Their scales were also strong, and as the case was with the adamantine scaled lizards, it seemed like they didn't have to activate a skill or an ability, it was simply part of their natural physiology. All these would be useful in a fight where he needed to increase his physical defence, and it could also be used to attack, there was no rule blocking that simple fact.

Victor stored all the evolution material and headed for the path he saw on his way here that led to the next floor. He was quite thankful that he didn't bring his legion down to this level, as they would have actually been unable to harm these creatures, not to talk of killing them. The ones who could use magic would have a much easier time compared to the more physical fighters like Amadon and Arac. Gurok had at least two or three skills, so he would be able to scrap through.

When Victor reached the fourth floor, he could immediately feel the change around. He could not explain it, but something was different.

'The humans are definitely on this floor, I can tell.'

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Victor could almost smell the presence of humans in the fourth floor after he entered. The fact that these team of humans were able to make it this far so quickly only proved one thing. They were either just that strong, or they were excellent at running away from monsters. Victor could guess that they would be of the first type if any of them was an emitter.

This dungeon was a peculiar one. The monsters were well adept when it came to physical oriented things, but once they were in the face of those who use abilities, specifically emitters, they became completely useless. Because of this loophole, it would be possible for any emitter to kill these monsters, no matter the amount of time it takes.

Victor was curious the kind of monsters he would meet on this floor, and he was also curious just how far down this dungeon went, how many floors it had. If on the first floor, he was already encountering monsters with levels of 50, then what would happen in floor forty? If t weren't for his skills, Victor wouldn't have dared to even advance deeper into the dungeon, as he would be unable to face the monsters there.

To advance further, he needed to explore the floor, which was also a cave, but unlike the rest, this one was narrower and quite humid with some water gathering here and there. Victor was a little suspicious, but he was sure that whatever it was that came for him, he would be able to handle without any problems. As he kept going in further, Victor eventually came to a corpse, and it would seem like the monsters in this cave had beaten him in the case and reached the prey first, or more like the prey reached they. In the end both the monsters and the humans were prey before Victor.

After that body, he found two other corpses, and this time he stopped to examine the corpses to see how they died. From what he could see, both died the same way, or rather, they died to similar weapons, or claws. They both had claw marks, but the injuries weren't too deep. Perhaps if the claws struck the gut or the neck, or even perhaps an artery, then it would be dangerous, but this one didn't. What seemed to have been the killing blow was a strike to the heart in the second corpses, followed by another stab close to the throat, while the third corpse was a single strike to the head, through, the head. The similarity between these injuries was that it was made by a piercing weapon. If it was a weapon and not magic, then it most likely was a spear that was used, as that would explain the injuries left behind.

Examining the bodies was just like a bit of role playing for Victor, in actuality, he could care less. He could bet on his life that these weapons weren't some tough diamond hardness weapons, there was absolutely nothing to worry about.

Eventually, after a few more minutes had passed, Victor came in contact with the humans and the monsters. Both sides were engaging in a fierce altercation, and to Victor's surprise, the monsters in this floor were none other than lizard men. He had read much about them in manga and novels, and although they were always on the receiving side, these creatures were a must face fantasy creature for the protagonist of 80% of the fantasy stories he knew..

'This explains the structure of this floor and the terrain. Come to think of it, the first corpse had some burns on her body.. Interesting.'

From Victor's point of view, he had seen a new member to add to his legion. With the right evolution, he could turn these lizard men to something closer to their parent origins, dragons. Of course, they wouldn't become dragons, but making them dragon newts wouldn't be impossible.

'System, identify those creatures.' Victor said, as he watched both races fight some metres ahead.

[Human Level 70]

[Human Level 85]

[Human Level 77]

[Human Level 75]

[Lizard Man Warrior Level 80]

[Lizard Man Warrior Level 76]

[Lizard Man Warrior Level 71]

[Lizard Man Warrior Level 68]n0𝐕𝐞𝓁𝑢𝑆𝑩.𝑪0𝑚

[Lizard Man Warrior Level 60]

The human's seemed to be outnumbered, but they were doing alright holding off the lizard men. While Victor was there, they managed to kill one of the lizard men, and then their numbers were equal, and the playing field was even, at least for a minute.

All, the lizard men had to do was call for back up and it was all over. The human with the highest level was an emitter, and though Victor couldn't tell what exactly his power was, he was a little sure it had something to do with witchcraft and magic. Saying magic wasn't really something he wanted to use as a word to describe it because almost everything in this world was magic oriented, so it was kind of like trying to specify a particular shade of green, but then only using the word green to describe it.

The highest level human there used his ability to restrict the lizard men's mobility, and even though it didn't last for long, it was enough time for his teammates to land decisive attacks on the lizard men. The more they did this, the easier it got, as the lizard men were weakening. His power also seemed to be draining the life force of the lizard men.

As time passed and the lizard men were dying, one of them let out a cry that travelled through the cave. It was clear what that was for, but at the first moments, it didn't seem like there was going to be any response. The humans even paused for a bit to see if something would happen, but there was nothing.

"Get one with it and kills these thing before reinforcements come!" The level 85 human barked at the rest while still maintaining the restraint on the monsters before him.

The others came back to their senses, and the one at the front grabbed his sword tightly about to swing it and cut off the lizard man's neck that was before him, but then he was cut short of his goal as a spear impaled him through the spot just below his neck.

"What was that?" One of them asked.

"Reinforcements…"

From one of the routes that led out of the place where, a lizard man came running out of it with the speed of a speeding arrow. The lizard men themselves were already quite tall standing at about two metres tall, but the one that came out just then was at least 2.5 metres in height, and had a more slender body than the ones there already.

The ones Victor saw first, which were the ones fighting the humans were bulky and had defined muscles, but this one had a more slender figure and and its muscles looked less bulky, but more compact and well defined. For one, it's speed was no joke, and it was able to get to the humans in no time at all. Before they could even react and attack the new enemy, the lizard man was already before the one that had his spare in his throat, and before his body could fall to the ground completely, the lizard man had gotten there and pulled out his spare.

It made quick work of the humans there, but the last one could parry its attacks and defend himself. The only human left was the level 85, and at this point he must have used a lot of his energy, so he didn't have much left in the bank. The lizard man retrieved its spare and in succession thrust it once again right in the path of the level 85's chest area, but again, the level 85 raised his hands, and the spare was stopped by an invincible force that shimmered with a rich green colouration every few seconds.

The grunting was real, and the human was clearly being pushed back, but it was one of those fights were both sides had almost equal strengths, so the fight was not going anywhere in particular.

At this point, Victor had seen enough and could no longer wait. After all, he needed to finish here quick and leave this dungeon. If time came for the team stationed outside, who were already dead, to give their report and nothing was relayed back, the human society would send their people to investigate in case of an outbreak. The problem is to deal with such a thing as an outbreak, they would end up sending some of their stronger forces, and Victor wasn't too confident about dealing with the entire human population at this point. In fact, he was sure, he was sure he would die if such a thing were to happen. He would take countless with him, but in the end his power had yet to become that fierce.

'It's time to end this.' Victor said in his mind.

As he stepped out to intercept the two fighting each other, the level 85 human fell to the ground, and from behind, another lizard man that looked identical to the one that appeared last came into light, while the human laid there with a spare buried in his back.

"Well, I guess that has been taken care of then. System identify those monsters"

[Elite Lizard Man Level 80]

[Elite Lizard Man Level 85]

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"System identify those monsters"

[Elite Lizard Man Level 80]

[Elite Lizard Man Level 85]

'Good stuff. These guys will make for better soldiers than the weaker ones.' Victor said in his mind as he sighted the new lizard men.

The elite lizard men quickly moved to try and support the others that were held by the humans, but what Victor thought was a show of care or something actually wasn't. As the elite lizard men picked the others up, they broke a spear on each of the lizard men backs, probably as punishment. Victor could immediately see why they were the elites, ass there was hierarchy in this lizard men society. He also thought to follow them in case there was some kind of lizard men settlement close, but that would be unnecessary, as if he raised one, it would be able to point him in the direction if the village exists.

'Seeing as this is a cave dungeon, I doubt there'll be any such village though.'

What Victor thought of doing would immediately fail, and he would be left with the option to kill them, as he had been found out. The lizard men sure were alert, and maybe it was because they were focused on the fight before, they didn't notice him hiding there.

One thing Victor had not worried about till now was the fact that his presence was too present sometimes. When he met a human, they would thing he was actually a low level human, which he was, but he was obviously stronger due to the special conditions surrounding him. It seemed like the humans weren't as perceptive as monsters, but this had made Victor become conscious of this fact. If he was to meet a human with some sort of skill that allowed them to be more perceptive, they would see his true self. If he was in disguise then, it would blow his cover instantly.

One of the elite lizard man maybe out of some type of instantaneous reaction threw its spear straight at Victor, and surely, their weapon was different from the other lizard men as its spear pierced through the boulder that was Victor stood behind, aiming for his chest. Victor evaded the spear, but then he didn't let the spear to go uncollected, so without drawing it out of the boulder, he directly placed it in his inventory.

The lizard men would be quite perplexed how the spear disappeared without anybody touching it, they were sure it was because of Victor, the enemy before them. Victor wasn't going to waste time with these lizards, as he called them for short, so using his teleportation skill, he appeared in their midst an using another skill negative burst, he instantly killed all the lizard men except for the one that threw the spear.

[You have killed Lizard Man Warrior]

95,000exp

[You have killed Lizard Man Warrior]

89,000exp.

[You have killed Lizard Man Warrior]

82,000exp

[You have killed Lizard Man Warrior]

79,000exp

[You have killed Lizard Man Warrior]

71,000exp

[You have killed Elite lizard Man Warrior]

115,000exp

'Ah, good. Let's use this as the selection criteria for the last one to join my legion.' Victor said in his mind just before a message appeared before his eyes.

[Enemy has been affected by your skill Undead Aura]

[Enemy is experiencing Illusions due to the effect of your skill]

[Enemy has died due to the effect of your skill]

[You have killed Elite lizard Man Warrior]

105,000exp

[You have levelled up]

"Oh yeah, I can't raise the elite lizard men and add them to my legion. The level difference is still high… Crap."

Victor had almost forgotten about the restriction, so now he had to rely on the lower lizard men to fill his legion. Since there were elite lizard men, he could only rely on the evolution of the lower ones into the elite. With that, he picked at random one body of the normal lizard men and placed it aside. He didn't know which one had the highest level he could bring back, so he just left it to lady luck.

Victor got to eating the lizard men before him to get their evolution material, and he didn't leave the human's out of it. When he was done, he had accumulated quite the amount of evolution material. He thought of leaving the human evolution material so that he would use it on Larry, he encountered Arch humans sometime ago, so he was hoping to make Larry one. He himself didn't need it, so there was no need to turn himself into one.

Since he could always get the human material… No, Victor thought to not be greedy and just let Larry have this one. There would be plenty of humans later that will have even stronger abilities that would give him better skills. He was able to benefit well from the other cave because the people that were sent there were elites with strong abilities. As for this guys, he didn't know what their abilities were, but apart from their leader who had the highest level, Victor didn't see anything special in the others.

When he was done, he stood up and focused on the lizard man he set aside. With his will, he activated his skill, but then-

'Wait, system, what is the limit where I can't raise monsters and add them to my legion?' Victor asked mentally while suspecting something.

[The limit is 50 levels above yourself]

"…" Victor was speechless, almost.

"Can't believe I forgot and thought it was 40. Can't rewrite my mistakes now, those guys are already in my system as evolution material. I'll have to find another group then." Victor said.

To do so, he would still need the guy before him, so he still went on and raised him. After he did that, he made the lizard man who was now part of his legion to direct him to their settlement. Maybe it was because their connection an bond wasn't strong like when he names them, the instructions and questions he could direct towards the lizard man was little and simple, anything complex and it wouldn't understand.

They moved through the cave, through the more narrow and normal sized tunnels as they made their way to the lizard man settlement. Unlike the previous cave where he could even jumped several metres into the air and still not meet the ceiling, this floor's cave only had so much of such places that were that spacious. After a couple minutes, they got to the settlement, and from where they entered from, it was from a hole in the wall at about 10 metres above the floor.

The place looked like something that was dug out of instead of a natural landscape. The place was large, as it stretched out about the size of a football field, and below were various lizard men that covered the entire place. If Victor was to guess the number, he would say they were nothing less then a hundred of them down there.

There was no need to even ask the system to identify the monsters below, as he would just be blasted with the information. From what he saw earlier, Victor knew how to differentiate the elites from the normal ones. All he saw down there was a field full of experience points lingering around waiting to be taken. When he was done, he would eat anyone that was left, there was no need to hold back here.

'Before I go down there, let's check my status screen first.' He levelled up when he killed the lizard men earlier, which meant he level 39 now.

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Status

Level: 39 (576,000/12,500,000)

Name: Zombie#2314

Race: Undead(Zombie Lord)

Evolution Material: Fiery Tailed Wolf – 1000…

Class:

Title: True Undead […, One Who is Favoured by 'The Process' […]

Coins: 300

Hp: 3,650/3,650

Mp: 3,930/3,930

[Stat]

Strength: 232

Agility: 156

Sense: 127

Vitality: 71

Magic: 80

Intelligence: 140

remaining stat point: 122

[Innate Ability]

Undead Body, Infernal Body

[Skill tab]

Passive: All Title, Rot Bite lvl-MAX, Undead Aura lvl-MAX, Recovery lvl-1, Art of Combat lvl-2, Weapon Mastery lvl-4, Sixth Sense lvl-5

Active: Legion of the Dead lvl-2, Domain of the Dead lvl-1, Touch of Death lvl-2, Negative Burst lvl-MAX, Fire Breath lvl-MAX, Inferno Ring lvl-4, Teleport lvl-1, Remote Explosion lvl-4, Death Curse lvl-3, Plant Manipulation lvl-1, Earth Stump lvl-1, Hot Hands lvl-MAX, Terror lvl-1, Excavate lvl-4, Demon Chain Bind lvl-1, Demon Shadow lvl-1, Eye of Dreams Nightmares lvl-1, Perception lvl-3n0𝑣𝐞𝒍𝔲𝐬𝗯.𝓒0𝓶

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'That's a lot of skills alright.'

From the humans before, Victor was able to acquire some wealth in cash and upped his coins to 300 after getting 220 from them. The plan was to invest in some skills that would help take out enemies fast, and for that, there was one skill he wanted to test the most.

Victor immediately invested in the skill terror, and brought it to level 3, and the effects were exactly what he wanted them to be.

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[Terror]

Induce fear in the target and can be lethal if the target possesses a weak mind that can be easily broken.

Level: 3

Mana cost: 50 per use

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What Victor wasn't sure of was whether the skill would also collaborate well with his other skill which he wanted to test, but then the only way to find out was to try it himself.

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73 Fiery Entry [Terror]

Induce fear in the target and can be lethal if the target possesses a weak mind that can be easily broken. n0𝗏𝚎𝐋𝓊𝗌𝚋.𝑐0𝔪

Level: 3

Mana cost: 50 per use

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With this skill in the play, Victor could only wish it also worked the same way he thoutt it to, as that was the key part of his plan. The skill's description said nothing about whether or not the skill affected only a single target at a time, or exactly how it worked. All Victor wanted was for it to affect more than a single target, as that is the key to his plan.

While observing the multitude of lizard men from the above position, Victor was yet to be found out by his targets, so he thought it nice to do a little dramatic entrance into the place and announce his presence with some sparks.

He looked around, but there was no sizable chunk of rock in sight for him to use his skill on, so he took out of his inventory a weapon he had just recently picked up, a sword. He kept it since he wasn't sure when he would get to have his own weapon, and it wasn't like the ones he already had wouldn't deteriorate. It was good to have a spare at hand at all time, just in case.

Victor used his skill Remote Explosion on the sword, and for this one he put in quite the amount of mana, almost making the sword unstable. He aimed the sword randomly at nothing and threw it below, amidst the lizard men, an surprisingly it wasn't interrupted by anything until it stabbed the ground.

Before the lizard men thought of raising their heads to check where the sword fell from, a loud sound rocked the entire place.

"Boom..."

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BOOOOMMM!!!

The explosion created below was truly amazing, as it was way larger than what Victor expected. He originally thought that all he needed to do was create an explosive from a bigger mass, but after the display below, he was certain that size wasn't the only factor. From now on, the best explosives were the ones that had an unstable foundation.

'If only I did my chemistry, I would have figured out something like this from the start.' He thought.

After the explosion went off, Victor jumped down from where he was, and from similar different holes other lizard men also returned through.

When Victor threw the sword, he did so with quite the strength which caused the sword to land close to the middle of the football field sized place, so naturally that was where the explosion happened. The explosion in turn covered a quarter of the entire space. The entire place was thrown into confusion as lizard men rushed towards the place of the explosion to help their people. The waves of vibration created from the epi-centre where the sword exploded also added to the chaos, and as though that wasn't enough for the lizard men, Victor added another.

As he fell towards the ground below, Victor activated another skill that was equally as destructive as the bomb to the earth, and when he hit the floor, he did so with enough force that it was as though another bomb had gone off.

.

DUUUM!!

..

Earlier, before Victor jumped down, he made another investment in one of his skills, and that skill was Earth Stomp.

[Earth Stomp]

Create a powerful wave that travels through the earth, and is enough to destabilize surrounding creatures and collapse weak or small buildings.

Level: 4

Mana cost: 50

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With the waves created from the use of this skill, and the ones created from the explosion, by the time both collided, the waves bounced off each other and created another turn of earth shaking rumbles that travelled the whole place and possibly beyond.

After that, the entire play became a massacre. With the lizard men not knowing what had hit them while having an enemy in their midst, but being too shaken and in a confused state, they didn't realize on time that somebody else was with them. Using that brief moment of a couple seconds where the lizard men were confused and didn't immediately attack, Victor started with the activation of the skill negative burst that dealt an area of effect damage and took out a bunch of lizard men at a time.

Victor was enjoying the constant inflow of experience points as he killed the lizard men, and though he felt no particular emotion while doing so, the experience points were much welcome. After he use his skill two more times as he moved from one section to another, the some of the elite lizard men had caught on to what was going on, and so they made their way towards Victor in attempt to stop him. This however would prove futile.

As Victor had noticed, those that were farther away on the opposite side were the least affected, and that was also where the elites were concentrated the most, so as these elite ran towards him, they approached from that side. While they ran towards him, they also brought their fellow lizard men along to settle things, and after they were close to the half way point, a couple metres from where Victor was, he activated a different skill.

Finally, the time had come for him to try out the skill he had been hoping to test out. For this to work, he only needed to activate one skill, and that skill was Terror.

The moment he activated the skill, all lizard men that were headed towards him which would number around 30 fell to the ground, as their bodies crashed down and into the dirt. At the same time, Victor received several system notifications, and that was it, the combo was successful.

[Enemy has been affected by your skill Undead Aura]

[Enemy has died instantly due to the effect of your skill]

[You have killed Elite lizard Man Warrior]

[You have killed Elite lizard Man]

[You have killed Elite liza]

[You have killed Eli]

[You have killed liz]

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The plan was for the Terror skill to cause the enemy to enter a state of fright, and since they had showed fear in Victor's presence that was related to him, they died instantly due to the effects of that skill. A perfect combination to create massive death. 'Now, if this skill works over electronics, then I would have become a very terrifying existence.' Victor thought in his mind as he appreciated the successes of his combination.

With this, he had once again gained another way to take care of a multitude of weaker creatures all at once without needing to move himself.

With the mysterious fall of the elite lizard men and lizard men that were attempting to attack him, the others became wary, and since nobody knew the reason why the ones that rushed forward had fallen, they didn't dare approach carelessly. At this point also, Victor was getting many messages that indicated that people were dying to his passive skill Undead Aura.

From the area furthest behind, two lizard men were seated. They looked old, and instead of weapons, both of them held long staffs that curved at the top. From the design of the staff to the way the others treated them, Victor could take a wild guess that those were the leaders of this lizard men settlement, and the fact that they were holding such staff would mean that they practiced some form of magic. So, as it would be best to do at the moment, Victor rushed for them, but not before spreading tens of pieces of rocks around to other places.

To the others, it might have looked like nothing, but little did they know that those rocks were about to take more lives than those of pig's. Victor was fast on his feet, and appeared before the two lizard men in less than a second.

The remaining elites which were not many at this moment, if Victor was to count, he would say about seven or eight of them were remaining, they rushed to the two elder lizard men and surrounded them in a crescent formation acing Victor in order to block him off he he attempted to come. The rest simply rushed at him.

After using negative burst against the lizard men that rushed at him twice in quick succession, he didn't need to use his teleportation, as he instantly appeared before the two lizard men elders, completely evading the elites that stood to block his path. He then swung his sword in attempt to take out the elders in one swing, but then his weapon collided with something green, and the two were transported to the opposite side of the place from where they were seated.

For one, if Victor could hear the lizard men's language, he would most definitely be hearing their doubts on how he was able to get behind them, but he wasn't interested in any language class at this moment, neither did he plan to draw out this battle.

"I don't have time for this sort of tricks you lizards."

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Victor wasting joking around or trying to see their cards. He needed to be out of the dungeon before the humans sent people to observe the dungeon, and the last thing he needed at the moment were two lizards wasting his time. On the contrary, he might have actually struck gold, as instead of the elite lizard men, he had found something that was potentially higher, which were the two old lizards. When he checked their level earlier, he confirmed that adding them to his legion was possible, as they were both level 85.

[Lizard Man Oracle Level 85]

[Lizard Man Oracle Level 85]

If he was right, then these oracles would be shamans, and that was something that would be welcomed in his team, seeing as he had mostly physical oriented monsters and only two that relied more on skill.

Victor didn't waste much time with them in the end, as he had the perfect counter for enemies that could teleport around far distances. He wasn't sure of the range of this skill, but all he needed to do was get close enough, and he achieved that using his teleportation.n0𝒱𝚎𝑳𝚞𝑠𝑏.𝒸0𝑚

Victor wasn't sure if the lizard man oracles had used a spell on their self to make it possible for them to follow his movements, as they countered his earlier attack quite easily, or maybe it was an automatic defence system, so he went with the safest option. With his throwing strength, he picked up an sword and threw it as hard as he could towards the lizard men, but for some reason, they didn't even think of dodging it despite the time they had to react. Perhaps, they were just that confident in their defence and knew it wouldn't do anything, but that didn't matter.

As the sword flew passed bodies of lizard men and destroyed ground, and passing through thick smoke caused by earlier explosions, Victor seemingly appeared out of thin air more than half way through, while the sword kept going, 'this is good enough distance.' He said in his mind as his body skated across the air.

With his mind, he activated his skill Death Curse, and he could immediately feel the mana leave his. Seeing that Victor was approaching them, the oracles used a magic that controlled the earth before Victor to grow into long and sturdy spikes just along his path, and then they vanished again, reappearing in another corner of the football field sized place.

Of course, Victor simply teleported again to the sword's position, and easily avoided the trap, while the oracles in turn were not doing any better themselves. It was possible that they might have had an idea of what kind of curse was placed on them, seeing as they were something of shamans themselves, if not similar, Victor noticed them doing some weird motions with their hands, but it didn't seem like it was working, as after four or six seconds, the first one fell, then the second followed.

Seeing the oracles fall, the remaining lizard men that had been watching from the side were plunged into fear, and that only worked in Victor's favour, as they began dying one after the other. The result of this was a chain effect where the death of one would make another afraid, if they weren't already, and that lizard man would also died, in turn instigating another. After all was done, Victor settled down on the corpse and began munching, but not before raising one of the lizard man oracles. .

The first question he asked was whether both oracles were needed for their power to work, and the answer was no.

"That's good and convenient. Now, your name will be Shanok. I could give you something better, but I just feel this one suits you better." Victor said, as he ordered Shanok to gather him all the corpses. To his surprise, Shanok proved to be more useful than he thought. All Shanok needed to do was use his magic to do the gathering. Within a minute, he had piled up all the corpses near Victor, and Victor put him back inside as he had no use at the moment.

For whatever reason, the lizard men found it mandatory to loot their human enemies whenever they killed them, so Victor also acquired quite the amount of wealth from looting them in the end, bringing his total coins to 3,040 coins.

Victor didn't take evolution material from all the corpses, as he didn't think he would need that many. Once the evolution materials reached 500,000, he stopped and burned the remaining corpses with his fire breath before leaving the place.

While Victor was leaving, he picked up a small piece of rock and threw it towards the hole he came from, and as it got close he teleported to its position. The throw wasn't perfect, so he was a bit off after teleporting, which meant he needed to act fast if not he would just fall back down. Luckily, he was close to the walls, so he brought out a sword from his inventory and stabbed it into the wall, then after manoeuvring his body to stand on the sword momentarily, he jumped towards the hole and managed to fix his hands into the bottom part of the hole before climbing into it.

Because he had to be focused in the fight, he wasn't paying attention to the notifications and messages his system was popping out, so he made a note to check everything while he left. The first things that showed up were a bunch of notifications telling him that he had killed a lizard man and the amount of exp he received, and after going through at least a hundred of these messages, he found something that caught his eyes..

[You have levelled up]

These days levelling up wasn't felt as much as before as his stats were already high. If he wanted to feel something, he would have to dump a bunch of stat points into one stat before he would feel the same rush of energy that he felt before when even a single point was added.

Also, maybe it was because he didn't have a class, he enjoyed no special benefit from levelling up. Maybe it was because of how this world worked, as there were no classes or jobs, or any of that game stuff. People just possessed abilities, and depending on what the ability can do, they would know how to advance themselves. This wasn't something Dustin was worried about though, as it didn't affect him in the least. On the contrary, he didn't dislike this no-class style at all. With no class, he had the leeway to advance himself anyhow he wanted. Being able to use a sword and possess skills that have nothing concerning warriors was a big plus in the end, so it all panned out well.

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Status

Level: 39 (576,000/12,500,000) 40 (5,126,000/17,000,000)

Name: Zombie#2314

Race: Undead(Zombie Lord)

Evolution Material: Fiery Tailed Wolf – 1000…

Class:

Title: True Undead […, One Who is Favoured by 'The Process' […]

Coins: 300 3,040

Hp: 3,650/3,650 3,700/3,700

Mp: 3,930/3,930 3,980/3,980

[Stat]

Strength: 232 235

Agility: 156 157

Sense: 127 128

Vitality: 71

Magic: 80

Intelligence: 140

remaining stat point: 122 127

[Innate Ability]

Undead Body, Infernal Body

[Skill tab]

Passive: All Title, Rot Bite lvl-MAX, Undead Aura lvl-MAX, Recovery lvl-1, Art of Combat lvl-2, Weapon Mastery lvl-4, Sixth Sense lvl-5

Active: Legion of the Dead lvl-2, Domain of the Dead lvl-1, Touch of Death lvl-2, Negative Burst lvl-MAX, Fire Breath lvl-MAX, Inferno Ring lvl-4, Teleport lvl-1, Remote Explosion lvl-4, Death Curse lvl-3, Plant Manipulation lvl-1, Earth Stump lvl-4, Hot Hands lvl-MAX, Terror lvl-1, Excavate lvl-4, Demon Chain Bind lvl-1, Demon Shadow lvl-1, Eye of Dreams Nightmares lvl-1, Perception lvl-3

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With these, Victor had benefitted from the lizard men in more ways than one, and he was satisfied with the results. He hadn't wasted his time there for nothing. Since these were dungeon monsters, Victor was sure they would respawn, but when they did, who was going to explain the cause of so much destruction and scorched lizard man skeletons? He wondered. Not like it was important, it just gave the mind fruit to munch on.

'Talking of fruits of the mind, why is my name still the same as before? It still reads Zombie#2314, like some code name.' Victor thought to himself, while rubbing his smooth chin.

"Isn't there a way to change it? Not that it bothers me since I'm the only one who can see this, but still, it would be nice to see my actual name instead of this."

Just then, the system responded with an answer, an answer that would put a smile on Victor's face if he was still a being with emotions.

[It is possible to update your name since you are no longer bound by the dungeon]

[Will you like to assign a new name now?]

"Yes."

[Assign new name_ _ ]

"Victor."

[Confirmed, name has been assigned]

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"So I could do that ever since I defeated that thing huh? I completely forgot about the matter." Having to see the usual Zombie#2314 in place of his name, Victor had gotten used to it that he even normalized it subconsciously.

Now that he was done with the lizard men issue, it was time to progress deeper into the dungeon. It didn't occur to Victor at the time, but he would have just invested his coins into the Legion of Dead skill, so that the capacity would increase and he would be able to add more undead to his ranks. It wasn't all bad though. In the end, its better to have fewer followers that are strong, than many that are average.

'But seeing as I have the means to make them all strong even if they are much, that is something I should think about.'

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Evolution Material:n0𝗏𝚎𝐋𝓊𝗌𝚋.𝑐0𝔪

-Fiery Tailed Wolf – 1000

-Zombie – 15,000

-Dungeon Bat – 5000

-Dark Poisonous Spider – 200.

-Giant Forest Snake – 200

-White Mountain Tiger – 500

-Grey Lycan – 4000

-Ghost Gecko – 2000

-Mantant – 10,000

-Fire-Imp – 2000

-Red Back Salamander – 30,000

-Poison Frog Colony – 8,000

-Dark Incarpos – 10,000

-Human – 2,200

-Ravenger – 500

-Steel Scaled Lizard – 5,000

– Adamantine Scaled Lizard – 7,000

-Lizard Man – 500,000

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With the materials he had, Victor decided to evolve Shanok first before he continued his descent. The more he made use of the evolution system, the better he understood it and its functionalities. Victor no longer needed to do extended study of the different forms and possibilities of the evolved monster, putting both together, he could tell what the result of the evolution would be, and the only time he needed to actually study the entire process was when it was something unfamiliar or something that had a lot of variables mixed in.

With an order to the system, Victor ordered for Shanok to be evolved using as much Lizard man material. Because of how the process worked, one monster could undergo multiply evolutions under the same material, so all Victor needed to do was specify to the system to carry out a continues evolution on Shanok until the material was exhausted, or the max evolution was reached.

Following that, the process started, and as usual Victor would be unable to make use of the Shanok during the process of evolution.

After that floor, Victor went through two more floors, and to his surprise the dungeon had come to an end. Definitely not as long as the first, but the monsters were strong right off the bat. Victor walked towards the enormous metal doors calmly as he paced himself. The door had two statues erected on both sides that resembled guardians of some sort, and each of the statue had its hand on the sides of the door, as if they were keeping it in place. Victor had a basic idea of what was about to happen, but he decided to ignore it regardless and just continue onward.

Victor got to the door, and just like the last one he tried to push it open, but also like the previous one, it didn't even budge.

"Same thing huh?" Victor said, while folding his hands.

Just when he would expect for the statues to move, they didn't disappoint and did just that. Victor suspected this kind of cliché set up the moment he saw the statues, but alas, he could only wait for them to activate.

'Finally moving huh?' Victor said in his mind.

Looking at the now moving and alive statues, Victor could not make heads of which race these giant monsters were, but then again he didn't even want to know, since they were about to become statues again, for real this time.

Both monsters were ash/grey in colour, and their bodies seemed to house the immerse amount of fat, but with no folds on them. If nothing else, they looked bloated. Seeing as they weren't Cyclopes, Victor concluded the fact that the key did not lie in their eyes, but then what was it

'There is absolutely no clue as to what I am supposed to do with these guys.' Victor thought. "Or maybe Ii should just blast a hole through this metal door…" He left that as a last resort tactic. For t=now, he would try to follow the original plot.

At this point was when the monsters charged at him, since they had been in the process of turning back into flesh and organic components. Needless to say, their opponent had no wish to spend time with them, and so they found themselves to have once again returned to their slumber just moments after they awoke.

Victor, using his go-to skill waited for both monsters to attack from both sides, as they both dropped a leg on his petite body. All he needed to do from there was to activate his Touch of Death skill and hold both of their legs, killing them instantly the next minute.

"Hmph.. Still nothing."

Victor stared at the metal doors with a blank expression, but in his mind he was racing through what he could do to open the door. There were a few options that popped up, but in the end nothing worked. After trying some of the ideas, but to no avail, it was time to try the next one. All he needed to do for this one was get the blood of these monsters unto the doors, and hope for it to work.

'This is a fucking dungeon, not some kind of maze or puzzle. I still don't get why they doo stuff like this. Isn't the whole aim to get to the boos monster and kill it? This is not a stupid game to begin with.' Victor thought in his mind while the doors rumbled.

This last method seemed to have worked. Victor's days of playing video games that didn't at all help him in his academics were finally showing its worth in real life situations. Slowly, the enormous doors of metal began sliding inward.

Victor only waited for the door to open up just enough for him to enter, then he did. There was no need to wait for the entire process like some kind of movie, it was completely time consuming. As he walked into the room like compartment that housed the boss monster, Victor could notice some similarities between both boss rooms, and immediately, he spotted the boss monster.

The boss monster was a dragon, this he already knew, and just like the other boss, it was still lying there without moving a single muscle, probably until he created a disturbance like with the other. The room had several crystals embedded into the walls that provided lighting, and it was even more spacious than the other one. Also, this boos monster seemed to retain its original features, and was not given something like an extra head like Ramok, the only thing that was striking was its name and level. When Victor read it, he simply had no words, and it also added to his suspicions.

[Ancestral True Dragon 'Garmorock Level 150]

The level was definitely an insane one, but for an ancestral tru dragon, Victor felt it too low. Dragons were supposed to be godlike existences, as is the case for even normal dragons, and the strongest human's level was even above 200, and even then, he isn't a god. But then, an ancestral true dragon was placed at a mere 150, truly something to pay more attention to.

The thing that had Victor thinking wasn't just the fact that the dragon's level was too low for what it was supposed to be, it was the fact that such a being could be captured and brought into another world so easily, if it happened the way Ramok explained it. To have such power and be able to control and even reduce the strength of such a being that is supposed to be on par with gods, it only made Victor wonder who or what was behind such doings. Thinking of it now, perhaps being marked back then wasn't such a simple thing.

'This is something for later.' Victor said in his mind to dismiss the thoughts momentarily. For now, what he had to do was focus on the more pressing issue before him which was how he was going to go about fighting a level 150 monster.

No matter how strong he was, a level 150 monster was a level 150 monster, the rank difference could not be discredited that easily. He had been able to escape many foes because of his unique strength as his levels were compressed to give him absolute strength, but before such a creature, he wasn't sure how the battle was going to go. Faced with such a predicament, there was only one way Victor could think of.

'I can only hope for this all powerful dragon to have become a mere insanely powerful lizard after being brought here. Just like Ramok, most of its strength should have been taken away, so maybe this won't be as difficult as I'm thinking.'

"Let's begin."

'I can only hope for this all powerful dragon to have become a mere insanely strong lizard after being brought here. Just like Ramok, most of its strength should have been taken away, so maybe this won't be as difficult as I'm thinking.' Victor thought to himself, as he stood before the sleeping dragon.

He was very sure the dragon before him would possess some very annoying skills and abilities, so he was seriously looking for a way to make things easier for himself. Victor went through his skills in his head, trying to find one that would best do the job for him in other for him to secure an advantage, but then the best idea struck him.

'Why exactly didn't I think of this since!" He exclaimed at his slow thinking, it was right before him the whole time.

Now that he thought about it, there were two skills in particular that would would work the best in this situation, but even without much thought Victor knew which one to go with. If the first one happened to fail, the second one could always be used to compensate. The first skill was his Excavate skill which was the best shot at dealing the most damage before the fight officially started, and the other was the skill Eyes of Dreams Nightmare. The first one would work since it affected the space in question in a subatomic level, while the second one could even affect reality itself, even though everything happened in the target's mind. These two skills were undoubtedly among his top five.

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(A/N: For those that would want to see the description)

[Excavate].

Excavate the fiscal matter around a set area into void.

Level: 4

Mana cost: 50

n0𝑽𝞮𝓛𝑢𝗌𝐛.𝓬0𝑚

[Eye of Dreams Nightmares]

A very powerful attack that puts the target to sleep, and you are able to induce a dream, or a nightmare in them. There is no difference between the world they experience and the real world, to the target, it is the same, and whatever they experience in it is true. It resides in your left eye, and the target has to make eye contact for the skill to activate. Experiences in the dream world affect reality in the actual world, and this is totally under your control.

Level: 1

Mana cost: 100

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Without wasting much time, Victor positioned himself before the dragon's head, and with his usual stoic expression, he mentally activated the Excavate skill, aiming it at the dragon's head.

'Excavate.'

At that moment, the dragon's head suddenly went missing following some of its upper body section, and then Victor jumped backwards as he made sure to distance himself enough, just in case the dragon woke up with an AOE skill. He waited for some seconds that quickly turned into ten, and then twenty, but the dragon never stood. The most it did was flinch a bit, and its body tried to move, but apart from that nothing else.

'HUH?' Victor couldn't help the thought when something appeared before his eyes.

[You have killed the Ancestral True Dragon 'Garmorock]

500,000exp

Staring at the message that just popped up into his vision in utter disbelieve, Victor's mind clicked fast as he calculated the situation before him. Obviously, dragons weren't hydras nor were they trolls, their healing capability was better than most creatures, but it couldn't even be called a super healing factor. Ramok was just a special in the end.

"Geez.. To think I would kill a monster so high above my level that the power gap might actually be levelled in one blow.. I have really outdone myself." Victor said as he moved closer to the dragon.

Maybe if the dragon was awake and had all of its defensive abilities activated, it would have been a much harder fight? Victor thought, but then again, his Excavate skill completely ignored most defensive magic or skills, so it would still happened regardless. At this point, he would be a bit sad that he was unable to get the drake's evolution material, as that regenerative ability was just too much. With that, Victor made a mental note to find something with that sort of ability later on.

Seeing as the first 'tremor' had rocked the dungeon signifying that it had started closing, Victor hurried up with the material extraction process as he swallowed chunk after chunk of the dragon's flesh. He could only imagine himself in a snake form and swallowing the entire body whole, seriously, to think that never crossed his mind.. Heh.

On the other hand, Victor was still wondering when the dragon was going to appear, or like Ramok, speak to him. The main purpose of him coming here to begin with is to free this dragon to begin with. Maybe he didn't give it enough time to boot its brain as he just up and killed it in its sleep? Victor thought to himself, but then there was nothing much he could do. 'Then what about the treasury I was promised? Those this mean I won't be getting anything?' Victor queried in his mind. Ramok did say to speak his name when he met his master, which was the dragon, and the dragon would understand. 'Why don't I try that?'

"Ramok." Victor said. "Ramok sent me here to free you." He then said again and added a bit of detail as he thought that would at least work… Nothing happened still.

Victor then took out the key he received from Ramok as he remembered the drake's words. Ramok did tell him that the key would glow after he killed the dragon, there was nothing that said he needed to communicate with the creature first, so maybe..

The moment Victor took out the key, it shimmered with an intense glow of golden light that was almost blinding, then the light calmed as it returned back into the key. Apparently, his mission was complete. Victor quietly stashed away the key for now and focused on the dragon first. The dungeon was going to close soon, so he really didn't have time to be looking at the riches and wealth acquired by Ramok throughout his lifetime, he could always do that later.

When he was finally done with the dragon corpse, as he hurriedly ate every single bit of it, leaving very little behind together with the bones, Victor hurried out of the boss room. The crack that appeared in it had already started expanding in size at a dangerous pace, so he tried to get as far away as possible. He hadn't explored this dungeon well, so he was unaware of some places that would be short cuts, so he just relied on his map and followed the ones shown on it which looked like potential shortcuts. IF there happened to not be a passage way through the path he was taking, Excavate was always an option, and Victor just went through the walls.

Finally, after getting to the floor where he left his Legion, he took then back in as they were unsummoned, and then he went full speed out of the dungeon entrance. All together, he had only spent a couple of hours inside the dungeon, so he was a bit quick about it if that was taken into account the normal time needed to clear such a difficult dungeon, not to mention that the human team that was sent inside would have been completely useless before the guardians of the boss room. That was if they even managed to reach it, which they clearly didn't, being killed by normal lizard men no less.

Even with Victor's ground breaking clearing time, that had nothing to do with the time it took for the human government to react to a dungeon with no officials guarding it, which would mean possible outbreak or something bad, anything for that matter. Outside the dungeon entrance were a team of humans that dressed in similar attire, marking them as a team of some sort, quite clearly. The moment they saw Victor emerge from the closing dungeon, they reacted and focused all their attention on him.

Victor who just rushed out of the dungeon was quite surprised to see how fast the humans responded. He could understand, as the time to send report might had been the next hour after he killed the team stationed outside the dungeon when he entered, so there was nothing out of his calculations. 'I'm so glad I didn't lose my intelligence.'

Victor had two choices in this situation which he was faced with at the present moment. Coming out of the dungeon, it was morning, very, very early in the morning. He steadily casted his eyes moving through the people before him slowly, studying them. They approached him slowly without saying anything, and Victor knew not what was to be done in these sorts of situations according to their standards, so he just remained silent and allowed them for the time being, waiting for them to make the first comment. Though, he had already decided.

With the two choices presented before him, he could cooperate with the humans before him, or just kill them and be done with. Of course, the better choice was obvious. 'This shit is so stressful.'

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'Uhh.. I really wish I had Larry with me, seriously.' Victor said in his mind, as he raised his hands to show that he wasn't a threat.

Between the two decisions, Victor chose the one that would benefit him a little more, and that was cooperating with the humans. With his hands held slightly up, he looked at the humans before him, and then immediately lowered his raised hands slowly. He wasn't sure, but if there was one thing he knew would stand in this world, it would be that the government officials would somewhat respect hunters. There was simply little need for him to cooperate 100% following all their orders. He looked around seeing the bodies that lay there, and really, he could not be bordered, after all he was the cause. At this point, Victor was the worst actor, so he didn't even make the attempt to act like he was curious about the bodies or any of the sort, but to at alleviate the suspicion the people before him might have…

"Looks like they've been dead for a while, what happened here?" Victor asked in a somewhat monotonic voice, actually throwing the people before him off their game. There was silence in the air for some seconds as Victor could clearly see the reaction from those before him.

"We were hoping you would be the one to tell us that." One of them who was closer to him said.

"If so, then I have no information concerning the events that took place here." Victor responded. He really had no idea how this things worked, or who the people before him were, and he just could make no guesses.

The humans before him were dressed in unformed attire of black and silver colour, black being the dominant colour out of the two. It was quite evident they were some kind of division, but that was the problem, he didn't know what division they belonged to… 'I can smell something going wrong.' Victor thought, just before he heard a voice from the slender looking man closest to him..

"We would need you to follow standard protocol no.228 and proceed accordingly." The man said, and that was where shit hit the fan. Victor was not one of their citizens, he knew not of no standard protocol.

'I really wish I left Larry outside…'

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'Negative Burst.'

At the activation of Victor's skill, the senses of those before him flared, as they felt their lives being targeted by something ominous and their bodies stiffened trying to prepare them to flee, but alas before they could react, their bodies just fell to the ground, never to move again. The only one of them to survive was the one farthest away from the whole group, and seeing her team mates suddenly collapse to the ground might have been a little unexpected, and she couldn't come to her senses and react in time before she felt a hand through her stomach from behind, and at the same time the man before her had also vanished, then..

'I didn't even need to teleport.. Heh.' Victor sighed mentally. "And that is how I lost and informant." Victor said, a bit sarcastically.

From what he could see, the guys he just killed seemed to have come there via some kind of craft, and he could spot it just some metres off to the side. He ignored it for the moment and turned to the human corpses. There was a reason he didn't burn these guys. "Larry." Victor called out as he summoned Larry. "Go through the corpses and take anything valuable. Leave nothing of value behind, not even the least." Victor ordered. Naturally, Larry would be the most suited for taking the spoils since he was more familiar with the things of this world, he would also know which was good and useful and which was not.

Victor just approached the slender man as he laid on the ground dead and took the sword he had strapped to his waist. After closer inspection, Victor noted that the ones he had were better in quality, at least to his eyes, so he threw it back and ordered Larry to choose his most comfortable weapon from the ones there and leave the rest behind.n0𝒱𝚎𝑳𝚞𝑠𝑏.𝒸0𝑚

By the time Larry was done and presented Victor with everything he could get, Victor was just nodded after inspecting them and stashed it away in his inventory, as they disappeared instantly. From what Victor could see, whatever the era this world was in, it was a very interesting one. The humans that came to inspect what had happened here came with medieval type weapons as their weapons, and even their clothes had a bit of a suggestion, or more accurately inspiration from the medieval times. But then again, their devices were technological, and the level of said technology wasn't low either. It wasn't high enough to be compared to some sic-fi tech Victor knew from earth TV shows and ideas, but they were definitely more advance than what his original earth had. All in all, it was a beautiful mixture of fantasy and technology, really a dangerous weapon. And with this discovery, Victor was really starting to get some ideas about his system.

"We're done here. What I'm looking for is not here, which means…" Victor said, as his vision trailed off towards the craft that was some metres off behind some rock that managed to block it off showing only its top parts.

Before heading towards the craft, Larry gathered all the bodies in one place and Victor using his Infernal Breath burned them to ashes, leaving dry bones behind.

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"What's taking them so long?" A female figure sitting inside what seemed to be the cockpit of a craft said. The place had various screens everywhere, and lots of components here and there. She sat there playing with her nails and her picked them and occasionally used her teeth to dig out whatever was stuck inside.

She might have been sitting here for a while now, as she was desperately waiting for her teammates to return. "Come on! I told them I had a date! And I wouldn't want to miss this one seeing as I don't get many to begin with!" She complained to herself. She was just in the motion to cross her hands over her chest when she noticed an intense body of fire rise into the air, only to disappear after a few seconds. Seeing the fire caused her to focus there, and her anger seemed to have been forgotten at that moment.

"Did something really happen? Arrggg!" the girl screamed in a fit of anger and scrambled about her chair for a bit. "Fine, lets get this over with as soon as possible then, I'll give them a hand."

Flipping a switch, the craft came on, and in mere seconds it rose into the air slowly before its nose turned towards the direction of the dungeon entrance while moving forward a bit.

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"What the?… Hey Larry, can you fly that thing?"

"Well, I think? I'm not sure, but I can certainly try." Larry responded.

Before them was the craft that landed behind the rock hovering in mid air, and just like Victor would expect from a sci-fi creation, it made just the minimal sound compared to jets and helicopters, or even small planes.

From inside the plane, the girl was shocked to find nobody near the entrance, and as it was basically still dark, she was unable to see well around the place. After enabling night vision though, she was able to clearly make out what was going on down there. Much to her dismay, after also enabling something to improve her vision, he spotted a pile of ashes and objects mixed together somewhere in the middle close to the entrance of the dungeon, and not far from it, some feet away stood two humanoid figures staring towards her direction.

"Shit." It didn't take her much thinking to realize that whoever these men down there were, they were hostile, and therefore something she needed to kill if possible. If the close combat experts of her team couldn't do much against them, then she was the last person that would face them, thankfully she had the craft. Before she gave the command to fire though, the sound of something impacting the windshield of the craft caught her attention, and the moment she turned to look, a man's figure appeared right before her very eyes, causing her to flinch a little before watching the figure slide off back to the ground.

'That thing is slippery.' Victor noted.

While he was falling back down, he first unsummoned Larry, then he felt the spot where he placed the mark on the craft's windshield and then… He disappeared again, this time reappearing inside the cockpit of the craft somewhere beside the lady inside, completely frightening her. She was ok at first, but the moment Victor stretched his hand towards her, he fainted. Victor didn't need even the system to explain to him what had happened, even it still did. It was clear that the girl had died to his skill, Undead Aura. 'This skill…'

"Come forth Larry, take over this thing."

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"Take over this thing, Larry." Victor said to Larry as he emerged from the smoke mist. After he noted that Larry had gone towards the control seat and had started going through whatever the screens before him was, he turned his attention to the lady that Larry threw behind the seat to make way. Seeing her again, Victor couldn't help but think about his skill Undead Aura. On one hand it was a powerful skill when used correctly, but for the most part he could see how it would become a nuisance in future. What if he only wanted to make someone a little scared as threat, he would end up killing them without achieving the desired effect. The stronger it got, the wider the range of people and creatures that he would be able to intimidate easily, meaning massive meaningless death. Not that he particularly cared about the deaths, but then again there would be no sense to it, making it stupid and uncalled for, not really his style.

'I have to somehow find a way to go around this and do something about it.' Victor thought in his mind. Most of the creatures he had met up until now simply didn't show any fear, or when they did it wasn't fear of death or one that triggered the skill, as apparently it had its specific triggers. When it came to humans however that so much loved their lives, like most intelligent creatures, Victor could already see how this particular skill would affect his plans. 'If I can't come up with anything, I just would have to settle for being a literal shinigami that can't control his power.' Victor said nonchalantly in his mind.

"Whatever, let's deal with the matter at hand first.".

From Larry's report, the closest city to their current location wasn't his residing city, so he didn't have much of any information about important things, but since it is also one of the neighbouring cities to the one he used to live in, he at least has the basic knowledge.

"So firstly, the power cores wouldn't be able to last cover the trip, and I'll have to fly the remaining way there if I want to get to your city, and this is not your city, so you are not familiar with it.. Fine." Victor said, as an idea formed in his head.

He asked Larry to land the craft first, or as Larry refers to it, an airship. Larry started talking some complex and useless things about shuttles and warships, or something like that, but such information was not needed at the moment, so Victor just resolved to call all such aircrafts Airships. For now, they would find a way to move the airship deeper the way they came from in order to hide it. From what Larry said, there was just no way the patrol units would reach that deep to look for the culprits, as not culprit would even be crazy enough to push deeper. Heck, even now there was no patrol unit on duty so far out.

"Rather than go back, wouldn't it just be better if we just abandoned the ship here and headed straight for your city? No need to leave a trail." Victor said, and in the end they resulted to that. It might have not been much, but this small thinking session that shouldn't have taken as long as it should gave Victor a thought, one he definitely considered greatly. Perhaps, just having monsters that were strong and could follow some instructions wasn't enough, intelligent one would be more effective.

"Alright, let's move towards your city for now Victor said before abandoning the airship and moving towards a separate direction from the one they were going to go. With the map they collected from the craft, finding their way around wouldn't be too hard. All they needed to do was study it before throwing the device away because these devices are always being tracked and can be used to get them later. Really, what the government from Victor's original earth wouldn't give to have such technology.

They continued towards the city which Larry used to live in, and for the journey Victor used his human form with wings on his back sometimes, and if he noticed the presence of any aircrafts, he would get down and try to hide or just go by foot if the terrain was favourable. He did this throughout the early hours until the sun was properly up and he started spotting more and more aircrafts in the air. Apparently, most of the land was not filled with covering, so Victor running on it would be quite noticeable by these advanced technologies, he thought. With that the only way was to move further into the side where the abandoned side was and then he could feel a bit safe. Honestly, he could fight off on aircraft, but that would mean putting a target on his back by a whole race of humans. Not the brightest choice.

Due to the need to hide from time to time and sometimes fly due to the terrain of forest or similar, Victor had to frequently pause from time to time or use his wings. Flying as he was now was not as fast as his running speed, so Victor on air could only move at somewhere a little bit above 50% of his running speed. It was only after the evening was setting in did they manage to reach their destination, the city where Larry used to live.

Of course, just like a post apocalyptic city would look, there were high solid walls surrounding the entire city. From what Larry said, not all settlements had this kind of walls, the only reason why this one had such a defensive wall was because it was located at the farthest edge of the remaining unaffected land, and was more prone to monster attack if there was to be any dungeon break or movement of nearby monster settlement. Despite this, the city was relatively easy to access, and Victor found it easy to enter counter to what he thought. He did get a few stares and glares because of his look of fiery tattoos all over his visible body, and the scattered hair only added to the savagery look.n0𝑣𝓮𝑙𝒰𝓢𝔟.𝑪0𝗆

The first thing Victor did was to find a quite place where it seemed like people didn't frequent and summon Larry, from there, both of them walked the streets and roads, as Larry took them to his apartment where he lived. As quite the high level hunter himself, he had the funds to support some level of luxury, so his house was no doubt beautiful and comfortable. It wasn't a mansion, but it was big and good enough for a bachelor.

"Not bad." Victor commented, making Larry to bow a little.

On the way they did get a few suspicious looks, but nothing alarming, so they didn't worry about it. Surely, a guy walking around with lit up tattoos would be quite eye catching, and avoiding attention would be almost impossible. Victor couldn't help but commend the way the city looked, as he had only seen such things in only movies of science fiction. There weren't flying cars or something like that, but the feel it gave was something he would relate to a cyber punk kind of environment, even though it didn't have much of the features yet, 'it's surely getting there.' He said in his mind. To think a world where magic exists would be heading in the direction of science more, at this point he would think that the things around would function using some form of mana manipulation or something like that.

From then both men spent a few days indoors just lazing around. There was no need for them to rush anything, not like they had some kind of agenda at the moment. For now, Victor would like nothing more than to understand the world which he was now in, and learn as much as he could about it. Luckily for him, the brain of his which always forgot the answer to questions during exams and tests back on his original earth seemed to have been improved, and he could retain and hold more information. Again, he could only thank god for his intelligence. Seeing as the system was trying to turn him to some kind of scholar, it was good that he could use it like this.

During this time of being at home and doing nothing, Victor also took that time to look through the things Ramok had, his treasury. It was normal for the drake from another world to hold many things that were arcane and mysterious to Victor. Heck, he hadn't still understood this current world he was in, talk less of another world that was seemingly more advance than the current one, in a way. If this one had advance science, then the other had advance magic. Of course, there was one thing the system recognised regardless of the world or dimension in which it came from, and that was money. Needless to say, Victor had just gained a fortune enough to max out all his skills and still remain plenty for his generation to come.

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"Holy shit, I just became a multibillionaire in system currency.. So much." Victor said while looking at his system window. Of course he didn't become a billionaire, but still the amount he before his eyes definitely weren't what he was expecting at all.

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Coins: 3,040 5,003,040

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In fact, he had stretched it too much saying billion, the coins just grew so much that Victor had to wonder if looking for the perfect bloodline was all Ramok was really doing. Even with all the money, the treasury was still half filled with countless pieces of equipments and other things that Victor was sure would take him centuries to go through, but then again, that begs the question. Just how long will he be able to live? If anything, after coming to a fantasy world with advanced magic and science, there was absolutely no way Victor was about to be bested by time and die of old age… It just isn't happening. One of his titles practically stops him from dying, but then again there was aging and other factors.

'I'll have to work towards that eventually, but right now I can focus on other minor things. No need to rush just yet. Besides, I don't think dead bodies age.' Victor said in his mind. Before anything, the need to learn more about his current world was on the top of his list. The unrealistic way protagonists that transmigrate to other worlds in isekai anime and just start roaming around and never bother to know about the world they have been taken to was just so astonishing for Victor. Every single time, they just walk around like they own the place, and somehow some way, they either meet some beautiful adventurer girl that then falls in love with them, or they came with cheats and end up saving some stray or stranded princess, 'really?…' There's no way people ruling the world would just turn a blind eye to such a threat as Victor, ahh…

"Not that I care for it though. Don't have time to be thinking of some fictional isekai cheat magician. Got things to do. Also, I have to get stronger, I've seen some of their abilities, and those aren't half bad either. There were some that definitely could hurt me really bad." Victor noted.

There was one way to go about it then, Victor pulled out Larry and asked him of a place or person that can provide him with information, one where he wouldn't be traceable by the government, something like a black market.

"Well, I have no idea about such people or places, but I do know someone who can help with that." Larry said, lowering his head a bit at the end.

'Huh? Did he just bow? Who thought him that? He usually just stands straight… No mater.' From what Larry told Victor, he now at least knew of a place to start looking. For a hunter such as Larry not to know something like this, Victor was beginning to question what kind of hunter he was. He knew nothing of the world he was in right now, but one thing he was sure of was that these said hunters were not the most trust worthy, 'maybe that was why he was killed by his own teammates? He certainly couldn't blend with them.'.

There was always the choice of the dark web, which was one hell of a place as he could remember, but the problem would be that Victor had absolutely no idea how to access it in this world, or even how to go about it if he successfully entered. Back in his world, he did try to do the dark web thing, as he tried hacking once upon a time, but then he gave up and only scratched the surface of it.

Victor waited till it was midnight the next day before leaving for the place where Larry pointed out for him. There was no need to think it too much, as if he felt lost along the way, he could always pull Larry out and ask him directly. Before midnight reached though, Victor made sure to go over his skills again, and since he now had the funds, there most definitely were upgrades that needed to be done.

"First of all…" Larry said, as he brought up his system interface.

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Status

Level: 40 (5,626,000/17,000,000)

Name: Victor

Race: Undead(Zombie Lord)

Evolution Material: Fiery Tailed Wolf – 1000…

Class:

Title: True Undead […, One Who is Favoured by 'The Process' […]

Coins: 5,003,040

Hp: 3,700/3,700

Mp: 3,980/3,980

[Stat]

Strength: 235

Agility: 157

Sense: 128

Vitality: 71

Magic: 80

Intelligence: 140

remaining stat point: 127

[Innate Ability]

Undead Body, Infernal Body

[Skill tab]

Passive: All Title, Rot Bite lvl-MAX, Undead Aura lvl-MAX, Recovery lvl-1, Art of Combat lvl-2, Weapon Mastery lvl-4, Sixth Sense lvl-5

Active: Legion of the Dead lvl-2, Domain of the Dead lvl-1, Touch of Death lvl-2, Negative Burst lvl-MAX, Infernal Breath lvl-MAX, Inferno Ring lvl-4, Teleport lvl-1, Remote Explosion lvl-4, Death Curse lvl-3, Plant Manipulation lvl-1, Earth Stump lvl-4, Hot Hands lvl-MAX, Terror lvl-1, Excavate lvl-4, Demon Chain Bind lvl-1, Demon Shadow lvl-1, Eye of Dreams Nightmares lvl-1, Perception lvl-3

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Victor took a look at the skills he had acquired all up until that moment, and then the spending began.

Recovery lvl-1 lvl-5 (MAX) _ Art of Combat lvl-2 lvl-9 (MAX)

Weapon Mastery lvl-4 lvl-9 (MAX) _ Sixth Sense lvl-5 lvl-6 (MAX)

Legion of the Dead lvl-2 lvl-5 (MAX) _ Domain of the Dead lvl-1 lvl-5 (MAX)

Inferno Ring lvl-4 lvl-5 (MAX) _ Teleport lvl-1 lvl-5 (MAX)

Remote Explosion lvl-4 lvl-7 (MAX) _ Death Curse lvl-3 lvl-4 (MAX)

Plant Manipulation lvl-1 lvl-6 (MAX) _ Earth Stump lvl-4 lvl-5 (MAX)

Terror lvl-1 lvl-7 (MAX) _ Excavate lvl-4 lvl-5 (MAX)

Demon Chain Bind lvl-1 lvl-6 (MAX) _ Demon Shadow lvl-1 lvl-4 (MAX)

Eye of Dreams Nightmares lvl-1 lvl-6 (MAX) _ Perception lvl-3 lvl-7 (MAX)

And with the advances in skills, his coins also went down, but not nearly down as much to make him even bothered in the slightest.

Coins: 4,995,640

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As it was now, though Victor was still very cautious of what he may encounter when he went outside or if there was something that he couldn't go against, deep down he knew that he was pretty much near unstoppable. With two of these skills, anyone could be considered S rank, and he had a multitude of them.

When the time came, he just left home and headed towards the place where Larry directed him to go. He had to do a bit of travelling as he ran through the rooftops of the city, and though the atmosphere was different than the cities he had been to before, it was still beautiful in some places, while majority of the other places weren't as good. It seemed like some places were prioritized above the others, and naturally were taken care of better.

With Victor's speed, it only took about eight minutes for him to get to the destination, and before him as he observed from the roof of a building that wasn't too tall, maybe a two or three story building, he saw the little provisions store Larry described, and though the hour was late, he could clearly see people coming and going rather more frequent than should be the case. 'Cities, people really don't sleep do they?' He asked in his mind as he his figure disappeared from the top of the building and emerged from the small alleyway beside it, headed for the shop.n0𝒱𝔢𝓁𝔲𝑆𝓫.𝒸0𝑀

As Victor walked through the door, the first pair of eyes that jammed with his were of the exact same description of the person he came here looking for, the one who was going to show him where to go and how to go about it. He steadily approached the man that looked to be in his forties, with beards covering his chin and the sides of his face and connecting with his moustache that almost covered his mouth. The clothing style as Victor had seen so far was well different from what he was used to. There were the classics and most basic ones that he was sure even the aliens wore, the shirts, jackets, jeans, so on and so forth, but what the man was wearing now could only be described as the ultra upgraded version of the base jeans, t-shirt and jacket combo, so he was just going to refer to it as that. 'This is definitely because he is a hunter.. there's no way people go around dressed like this.' Victor concluded in his mind. The big build of the man also helped in complementing his style well. If someone was to take a guess, they would think he was from the Norse people.

As though the man knew he was there for him, the moment their eyes locked, he just calmly turned and headed towards the door positioned at the corner of the shop towards the back, probably the bathrooms?

The man walked in first, and as he did Victor could clearly see the white tiles and lighting, so he walked in just some steps behind, but then as he did, the entire place changed to a different scenery, and both of them were now standing in a place that looked to be a cliff, and the man simply walked off it and disappeared.

'Really now, did I just get dumped somewhere by this idiot?' He said, as he turned to looked behind seeing the tall trees that covered the land just before the cliff, "Good thing I put the tag on him." If he could help it, the situation was kind of funny, but then, those kinds of emotions don't come readily to him.

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'Really now, did I just get dumped somewhere by this idiot?' Victor said in his mind, as he turned to look behind, seeing the tall trees that covered the land just before the cliff. "Good thing I put the tag on him." His markings were at most just small black dots, but then again they could qualify as tags either way.

For the one who just threw him away in some far a way place where he hoped to never see Victor again, he was completely drenched in cold sweat visibly soaking his under white shirt. There was no mistaking it. The person he just saw didn't do much, but there was no mistaking the aura of danger that completely overpowered him. If it wasn't for his years of experience, he would have peed his pants uncontrollably, even now he had to use the toilet to relive himself. 'Seriously, where did such a monster come out of? And why exactly was it after me?' He thought to himself slowly, as he took a leak inside the toilet, while contemplating reliving his quietly rumbling stomach.

These thoughts didn't last though, as the man wasn't given the luxury of using the toilet to dump his waste, since the waste came gushing out of him that instant. While being carefree and contemplating whether or not he needed to use the toilet at that moment, the man felt a sudden touch on his shoulder, while the feeling he was about to die completely gripped his form like an over body chokehold from a big monster, constricting him in every way. Alas, this one was much aggressive and pure with intent than the one he felt when the strange man he transported away entered the little shop, he really felt like he was about to die the next second, and as much he couldn't control the free moving matter that resided in his rectum ready to be splurged out..

'What the fuck's with that dickhead!' Victor almost screamed in his mind before he instantly calmed. He was almost drenched in shit just then, causing him to teleport himself out of that soon to be mess when he left back to the living room of Larry's house. 'Seriously? There simply was nowhere else I could think of at that instant, not like I have other places outside the dungeons.. that have already closed.' He said to himself. There was no way he was heading back just yet either. It probably wouldn't affect him, but still, the last thing he would want to see is walls and door splattered in grown man shit, not to talk of the smell. He just would rather not have that image and smell burned to his head. He would come back for the man later.

Back in the shop, the man just hastily walked out of the shop without wasting any time. If the shop owner was to find out something that happened while he was the one who just came out of it, that would be disgraceful. Honestly, there was no way he didn't leave a trailing behind him with the stink, and that for sure gave him away the moment he passed through the shop's doors close to where the person running it was.

There was also a reason why Victor had to come this particular day, as according to Larry it was the day this grunt came here. For the reason as to why he visited this little back street shop, they had no idea, and it concerned them not. The good thing here was that Victor now had his tag on him, so he always be always to find him. As for the tagging part though, he was going to use it now, as he just appeared behind the man again, this time not touching him, instead he positioned himself a bit further away from him and then…

"Hey." Victor said in a monotonous voice that would normally be a little matter, but to his surprise the man still jumped in fear at his voice. What Victor didn't know was that his pressure was incredibly suffocating and frightening for the man. He didn't know how to control it well, or this guy was just very sensitive.

"Lo-look man, I don't know what you want, but I'm very sure I'm not the guy you are looking for." The man said, fear present in his voice and the way his body was shivering. Victor seeing this really didn't want to waste his time here anymore. For all he knew, the man could be gathering backup or whatever, and he wasn't really in the mood of killing.

"Tell me about the informant, fast. I don't want to ask twice." Victor said, not quite sure how he was supposed to go about the interrogation, if it was anything of the sort.

"What informant? I don't know an-" Before he finished, Victor interrupted.

"Larry clearly mentioned that you did, so know that you are dead if don't know anything." Victor told him deciding to go with the threat to his life.n0𝗏𝑒𝑙𝚞𝑆𝑏.𝑪0𝓂

'Fuck you Larry!!' The man screamed in his head while it became clear to him that there was no getting out of this.

It only took a few more minutes before the man finally gave in and told Victor where to go and when. According to him, he had a meeting with this person, and now Victor was going to be the one to go meet this person in his place. As for why the man didn't use his ability to get out of there, Victor didn't know, and he didn't want to know. He got what he needed, and then there wasn't another reason to stay there, so he left.

After Victor left, it took the man some minutes to realize that, as even after he felt the constant pressure ease up on him he didn't dare move or turn around to check if Victor had really gone. At the end of the whole ordeal, he was simply glad that he was able to keep his life at the end of it all, and the monster simply left.

'Sorry Ann… You'll have to take it from here.' The man cried in his mind as he thought about it deeper. HE should have just kept his mouth shot from the start and not blab about something like this to an outsider to begin with. "Too bad I'm stuck with this trash ability." He said before moving on.

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"Alright, step one is done." Victor said, as he puffed into the living room of Larry's house, which had now sort of become his house. He would bring Larry out so as to have company around, but Larry requested to be within Victor, saying something about being or feeling more comfortable there. Victor had no use for him at the moment, so he had no problem with that. With that, the house had become Victor's, in a way.. many ways. As for now Victor was unsure if the guy he just basically tortured into giving him the details concerning the informant would do something like warning the informant for anything like that, so for now it was 50:50.

Since finding an informant was partially done, Victor focused on what he wanted to get, as in the information he actually wanted. He wasn't stupid not to have thought of the possibility of his presence in the city being known, but then again he wasn't an important person in any way, and he could only beg that he didn't stand out too much because of his appearance. For now there still wasn't any way for him to hide the fiery tattoos. He would also want to keep himself hidden as he had no knowledge about the laws of this city, or country, whatever he would refer to it as. If it was ok for immigrants or refugees to live around why doing jobs, then that would be great. Honestly, only a prick would ban something like that.. right? Either way, Victor decided that keeping a low profile was going to be his best bet, and by low profile he meant being as nonexistent as possible.

With the idea of secrecy in mind, Victor concluded that the only dungeons he would be able to enter were unregistered dungeons where the government and similar associations wouldn't be concentrated, or even pay no attention to. No matter the direction he was going to head down in the future, there was one think Victor knew he required the most, and that was power. If nothing else, he desired overwhelming power that would place him leagues above all others, securing himself complete safety, to an extent.

The next day came by, and Victor dressed in clothes that covered every single part of his body stepped out of the house he was in, and since all other houses around weren't story buildings, there wasn't much rooftop he could take advantage of, he had to just use the street. The man from the previous night had given him the name and the place, but he didn't give him directions. Using the available GPS device Victor acquired, he was at least sure he had a chance, that was why he left home early, so he would have enough time to look for the place and be there on time..

It took some hours, since Victor had to act normal outside and couldn't just run around the place. Fortunately for him too, the dressing he was now rocking wasn't bad, as it blended well with the crowd. Seeing as this was a city was one that housed many hunters, seeing weird dresses every now and then was totally normal and raised absolutely no suspicion. After some hours, Victor finally got to the place, and as he took a quick glance at his watch, he could see that he was a few minutes early, he made it quite on time. He sat down slowly at the spot where he was to meet with the informant and then, he waited.

Five minutes later into the agreed time, Victor was actually wondering of the person was going to show up or not, and just then someone walked passed his seat from behind and sat on the one right in front of him. They were sitting on chairs that were positioned close to a park, and each of these chairs had a table in between them, some other settings had more chairs, but this one only had two. Anybody familiar with this kind offsetting would think it belonged to a restaurant, but it didn't actually. At least not these ones.

The person that sat on the seat before Victor seemed to be a lady, and she wore a hat that blocked her face in a way that Victor would actually have to bend his head and try to peak if he wanted a clear view of her face. With an overall coat to match the hat, Victor could very much shake his head at the memory of Inspector Gadget, but then again, that was just a thought.

"Are you the informant?" Victor asked, as he raised his head enough for the other person to catch a glimpse of his face, that is if she could even do that. With the hat covering her eyes, Victor could very well disagree that she too was unable to see properly. Not that he was complaining though, as he himself was pretty much the same. The only visible part of Victor's body was the space from the mid bridge of his nose to the middle of his fore head. The mask he wore and the hoodie covered the rest when it came to his face.

From the small gap, the lady could see the two fiery tattoos that ran down across Victor's eyes, and apart from that, that was all.n0𝗏𝑒𝑙𝚞𝑆𝑏.𝑪0𝓂

'What kind of freak do I have to deal with this time?' The lady asked in her mind after noticing what she identified were tattoos, or maybe some glow in the dark kind of makeup? Honestly, that wouldn't be the first time somebody spotted such dressing.

"Yes, I am the informant." The lady responded, and Victor could hear an accent in her voice. Honestly, he had no idea just how similar this current world he was in was to his original, but then again, it didn't matter. He wasn't here to study language nor ethnicities and religion.

'I'm pretty sure she was given information on what happened with the guy from before, and maybe there's another factor at hand, as if not so she wouldn't have showed up to begin with.' Victor said in his mind, while deciding to cut to the case and not dilly dally with unnecessary small talk that had no importance.

"What do you want to know?" The lady asked. Honestly, it was a bit unusual to be called an informant, like some kind of spy that worked for the government, but whatever. If it brings in money, then put up with anybody… or so the saying goes.

"I would like information on unregistered dungeons, preferably one that are closest." Victor said. He would have opted for one that were a little far off from the city, but then there was no need for now.

"Hmm, that information would cost a bit of money, I assume you know this much?"

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It took no time at all, and under five minutes the negotiations were done, and Victor now knew the location of one unregistered dungeon. But parties didn't ask of the others identify, and apart from the money and information, there was no other transaction between but of them, neither did they try to get each other's identity. Though Victor was sure they people running this information network will try to get some information on him, he wasn't in the least bothered. It was not like they would be able to find any thing anyway. Victor also set a scheduled meet with the lady providing the information some time later a couple days after that one.

Now that he knew where the dungeon was, there was no need to return home, Victor just walked casually towards the side where one of the gates that led out of the city was located, and going over it, he left the city. Going through the gate would only invite trouble as he had no means of identification.

The dungeon in question was just a D rank dungeon, so for now Victor wasn't expecting much out of it, but it was a start. The accuracy of the provided information and what he could end up finding were in question, so Victor just took it for now and headed there.

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To say the least, the preparations Victor did in order to solo this particular D rank dungeon turned out to be over the top, so much so that he just had to leave the actual work to his legion, as doing it himself would have being overkill and in turn too easy for comfort. 'Really, if things continue like this, I might turn into those lazy young masters with plenty of strength and no experience.' Victor said in his mind.

The entire raid ended as soon as it started, and Victor was done with the entire thing in under three hours. He might have done it in less, but as he relegated the process to his legion, it ended up taking some time, and Victor could get a bit of satisfaction from playing the role of a teacher and a master to his legion, not like he got to do much, which in the end led to him not doing much still. Others that came to that dungeon that day couldn't help but be disheartened as they couldn't do a single thing in the end. At least Victor allowed them to take the majority of the loot as he left it behind. Good thing they didn't get to see his legion at work, if not they would have called massive BULLSHIT!

"I can't even leave this part to you now can I?" Victor said, as he looked at Larry standing before him.

After raiding the dungeon, they returned to their house in the city, and there Victor placed the loot they collected in a space at the backyard. What was to be done was to sell the loot, and they also really needed the money too, but now that wasn't possible. Victor didn't want his identity known in the city, not in anyway, as he had an hypothesis he thought could happen, so leaving traces of his presence in the city was not an option. The other option would be to send Larry, but that was also not possible since he would have been proclaimed dead by now, and him walking around would just invite unwanted problems. The only reason why he agreed to meeting with the informant and the other guy who he got the info from was because these two couldn't exactly approach the authorities.

"Next time, we leave the loot behind, it's not useful like this." Victor stated before an idea came to his head. If he could find another person and add them to his legion, then he would have someone who was still 'alive' go around for him. That way they would be able to sell their loot legally without any pro… 'Wait, legally.. Illegally.. There has to be some kind of underground market here for sure, that is something I must find.'

The idea of having someone that could run errands for him openly was a good one still, and Victor really considered it, but as for the loot and stuff like that, it was best for him to leave it for the black market.

Now, he could do the search for a way to the black market himself, but then again he had some money left, and he could just pay for the information, as that would actually be more efficient and safer. 'The next meeting is in two days, so I can just exercise some patience.' Victor thought to himself, as he turned his gaze to his system panel in front of him while unsummoning Larry. Victor had collected some notifications while in the dungeon, but he didn't look at them, but it seemed that his legion had levelled up a bit. 'Not to mention, something is a bit off about me… I think about that after I check this.' Strictly speaking, there wasn't really a way for him to check, as he already for the most part knew what it was..

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Arac: Level â" 59

Konda: Level â" 62

Gurok: Level â" 62

Amadon: Level â" 65

Pyro: Level â" 66

Larry â" 69

Shanok â" 81

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One noticeable thing now was that everyone's level except for Shanok had become within the same level bracket. Shanok being the most powerful wasn't only in level, as after Victor evolved him using the evolution material he got from the other lizard men, Shanok gained an interesting ability to use magic and also fight just like physical oriented monsters. To be honest, this was very unexpected, as Victor never saw the evolution affecting him like that. Maybe it was because of the fact that the evolution material he used were gotten from elite lizard men and other lizard men that were orientated towards that aspect? He wasn't sure, but the development was welcome. Now though, Victor was looking to add a little bit of other reptilians into Shanok as he was a lizard man, he figured there would be compatibility between Shanok and the other creatures not to change his appearance too much towards the weird department.

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Evolution Material:

-Fiery Tailed Wolf â" 1000

-Zombie â" 15,000

-Dungeon Bat â" 5000

-Dark Poisonous Spider â" 200n0𝗏𝑒𝑙𝚞𝑆𝑏.𝑪0𝓂

-Giant Forest Snake â" 200

-White Mountain Tiger â" 500

-Grey Lycan â" 4000

-Ghost Gecko â" 2000

-Mantant â" 10,000

-Fire-Imp â" 2000

-Red Back Salamander â" 30,000

-Poison Frog Colony â" 8,000

-Dark Incarpos â" 10,000

-Ravenger – 500

-Steel Scaled Lizard â" 5,000

– Adamantine Scaled Lizard â" 7,000

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After going through the various available materials, he decided to go with Ghost Gecko, Red Back Salamander and Adamantine Scaled Lizard. From the last dungeon he was in, Victor didn't even care to get the evolution materials from any of the monsters there, so the ones he had access to were still the ones he had from before. After selecting these materials, he left the rest to the system and ordered for all the materials to be used in the process. After holding on to these evolution materials for so long, Victor saw no to keep hoarding them. Maybe it was because he was from a relatively middle class society that leaned towards the side of low income earners, there was always a need to manage what was available. Stocking up on nylon bags and used materials was a norm, and it was a trait that unfortunately became part of him.

The same with Shanok, the same thing happened with Larry and he acquired some skills, or as known in this world, abilities, after Victor used the human evolution materials he had. Due to the fact that the abilities in this world seemed to be a sort of complete version of the skills Victor could get, he wasn't really sure if the ones gained by his legion would be the complete version or an aspect of the complete as in his case. But eventually after seeing for himself, Victor realized it was like the case with him. Any ability one of his legion member possessed before being turned into part of his legion would remain there with them, and they would keep the complete version, but apart for those skills, any other one they acquired from the effects of evolution came like Victor's, incomplete. Apart from the skills, Larry had actually become an Arch Human like the ones he saw before, albeit he must have become an undead one, this Victor could know because of the new perk that came with the increase in the skill level of his Legion of the Dead skill. He could now see the information of his legion, though their stat window was a bit different, actually similar to the format described to him before.

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(A/N: Sorry for the lack of updates, I have exams coming up we are been bombarded with tests these days. I wanted to find we free time and write some chapters, but my laptop has decided to be a bitch.. I really need a new laptop ðŸª)

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A/N: Yeah, I know, I took a long ass break.. but I'm finally done with exams! Thank you for the kind words, I really appreciate. I'm really sorry for the unhealthily long break, it was just necessary. At least now I have some time, like two weeks before I leave for SIWES(or IT, or Internship, or Industrial Attachment, whatever it's called, I think the last one's for engineering students though), so in the next four or five days, I'm going to push myself and write much so that I can try and do a little mass release, it's much needed. After the mass release, updates will continue like 3 – 4 times a week, as the IT will start in 7 days after tomorrow, and I won't have lots of time then too. But, at lest it's not exams, so I can write in my free time.

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Name: Larry

Age: XXXX

Level: 69

Health bar: (Health Bar).

Mana bar: (Mana Bar)

Physical: 130

Ability: Flame Control (B), Fire Armour (C), Reinforce (D)

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The other legion members also had more than one ability at this point, and Victor was quite impressed with the outcome. Though it took more materials from different humans before Larry could gain just these two skills, it was worth it.

As for getting more intelligent subordinates, Victor had a plan for that, and he actually wanted to test it out next time he went out for a raid.

For now, the available money would only be able to get Victor information about the black/underground market, and maybe after he sold what he had, he would have enough to pay for info on the location for another dungeon. Curse Larry for placing too much trust in the banks and stashing everything there. If only the guy left some reasonable amounts of money around the house, things wouldn't be this hard. Really, Victor couldn't thank the heavens enough that he didn't need food and normal necessities.

'Come to think about not needing every day to day necessities, I don't remember myself taking my bath…'

FUCKING SHIT

The mere fact that he had been walking around with an incredible stink coming from his body was just mind shattering, if only he wasn't a zombie. 'I never thought of that. Not like I mind, but it would be better to walk around smelling better.' Victor thought in his mind while checking himself.

Turns out he didn't actually stink the way the thought, figures. With his heightened senses, he would have noticed if he did, stupid. 'You would think I had become more calculative with everything, can't believe I can still make such mistakes. Maybe it isn't rooted in being human?' He thought, but then quickly discarded the thought as more important things clouded that thought.

As a zombie, Victor didn't need sleep, but it didn't mean that he was unable to sleep altogether. Now, when he tried to sleep to pass time, it just felt like slipping into something of an unconscious state while he could still tell a bit of what was going on with him, but not too much about what was happening around him. Surprisingly, it wasn't all bad. It was a good way to pass time as while in that state time seemed to flow faster, as what he thought was just a couple minutes turned out to be something of about a couple hours. Really interesting discovery.

'I guess that would be possible. After all, I can still eat, but, I'm pretty sure I would never be able to shit again.'

Just like that two days came by and Victor left to meet the Informant again. This time before leaving home he made sure to take an extended bath and also use some body spray and perfume to smell good, at least. What he found out was that even though he didn't smell rotten or anything like that, he still had a particular smell around him. He wasn't sure if this was something that came with his race, but he managed to think of a possible theory.

Seeing as he does not sweat, it meant the smell was something that stuck to his very flesh, meaning it would be ever present. He remembered the days he spent on the first floor of his 'birth' dungeon, and he could clearly remember the stench that was ever present. It wasn't much, but it was enough to make one's nose react at least once when they entered. After he evolved and became a Zombie Lord, he reckoned the smell of rot reduced greatly since he was no longer some walking dead body, and this only reduced further after he gained the second Innate Ability, the Infernal body. 'At least now the odour is almost nonexistence, compared to how it was back then..' He said in his mind as he put over his head the hood of his jacket.

From the amount of money Victor had left, he couldn't afford to pay for both information about another dungeon and one for where he could access the underground or black market from, so he went with the market. That way, he would be able to make more money and then the issue of money would be solved.

After the meeting was over, which didn't take long, nothing above five minutes and they were done, Victor was glad he made the choice of getting information on the market. If he was to try and find out about the market himself, he would have actually succeeded in finding one, but that would be the normal one where every thug can access, and it wasn't completely secrete at that. The one he was given information on was one that was at a deeper level, one where the top dogs operated in. It was quite clear that the amount of money he had wasn't worth this level of information, but the informant made an exception. Suspicious of her, but welcomed.

"Since this one is a secrete market that even those in the secrete market don't know about…" It was literally a secrete hidden within another secrete. Victor could tell that even if the informant had other motives when giving him such information, it would be worth the risk for him to go there. 'She could have easily led me to the normal surface secrete market, but then she actually gives me this.. Well, let's see how it goes then.'

Since this particular underground market was a special one where the big dogs trade, it meant these big dogs didn't have time to be there 24/7, so the official market day was on Saturdays 11:00 pm. Of course, that was the date when they would all come to check the stock over the week to pick what they wanted, so Victor didn't have to wait till then before he could sell his stock. If he ever had something he deemed to be very special or precious, then he could wait for the Saturdays to come and try pitching it to the big dogs himself, and this was also when the best goods were released , so-

'Today's Thursday so i have just one day before Saturday reaches.' Victor thought to himself. Not like he had any business with these so called big dogs, at least not for now. There was really no reason for him to wait for the designated market day, so he asked to meet the informant the very next day.

Before the day ran out, he visited the secrete market, accessing it through one of its ports, as it was called.

'And as it would happen, it just had to be inside some random public toilet… Really, movie tropes you think no one would use.' Victor said in his mind as he appeared inside some kind of hallway. Behind him there was no door, just a dead end as a wall stood in place of where a door would normally be. As for how he got here, it wasn't as difficult.

The inform ant did well to provide him with the necessary pass, and so when he got to the designated toilet, all he had to do was place the special piece of paper on the wall facing the door, and it slid sideways to reveal a small room within the same size as the toilet, then from there all he needed to do was step in and alter a specific phrase to activate the teleportation whatever within that brought him to where he was now.

'Does this mean there's something like magic in this world? Something that isn't limited to just the use of specific skills?' Victor thought. Honestly, the teleportation stuff and the pass needed to open the room was kind of above something Victor thought a simple ability would be capable of. Either that or there were abilities that granted people with a very wide range of versatility.

Victor did well to account for the existence of inhumanly strong abilities, after all it would be stupid not to think that after all these years not a single type of such an ability was in existence, but what he didn't account for was that there would be abilities that would offer the user a wide range of versatility. For example if some had the ability to use magic, that would mean they could use fire, ice, wind, teleportation, transformation, etc.. and all from one ability. 'Hmm.. I have to think of this world as something similar to the mutants in the X-men world. I could remember there were people there with quite simple abilities that were not as strong, then there were people with world ending abilities.. right?' He never read the comics so.. the movies were the greatest reference.

"I hope my theory is wrong though, such a world can only head towards oblivion someday soon, and I don't want to be dragged into something like that.. really."n0𝒱𝑒𝗅𝓊𝗌𝗯.𝓬0𝓂

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Victor was truly fortunate to find the secrete market, it had almost everything he could hop to look for in a fantasy world. The things he brought to be sold didn't fetch an insanely high price, not like he focused on collecting loot anyway. There were many different things that looked completely magical to Victor, and he wouldn't mind being in possession of those, but then again his money would be wasted if he was to buy one of these things, not like he needed most of it. From healing potions to potions that gave buffs and those that did a variety of things, these were all available. Many different weapons aand even more cool looking things that Victor knew not the use or value of were present, but then again he didn't need them.

As for the potions, he didn't need healing potions, that might just turn out to be bad news for an undead. He had many different weapons from the ones he took from the people he killed, so he wouldn't be needing any new ones soon, unless there's something special. So Victor just sold his things and left, and as luck would have it, it seemed like he wouldn't be needing to visit the informant. While in the secrete market, Victor overheard some guys talking about raiding a newly discovered dungeon that one of them discovered the previous day.

According to this guy, the dungeon seemed to be a middle rank one at most and should be ok for them to handle. Luckily for Victor they made the mistake of uttering the location of said dungeon, and even though they didn't pinpoint it, it was still enough for Victor. He could just search the vicinity and he would find it quite easily.

Seeing as it was easy for him to get this information, Victor thought of a new way to get such information. All he needed to do was linger about certain places and eavesdrop on people's conversations, if he's lucky and they are talking about something as interesting as an unregistered dungeon, then-.

After getting out of the secrete market, he was actually teleported to a random alley way within the ciy where nobody was, and from there he headed out of the city. There was no need to go home first as he had everything he would need in a dungeon with him. Also, to make things easier for himself, he made sure to mark somewhere outside the city where he could teleport to whenever he needed to. This way, he wouldn't need to go through the trouble of sneaking out every time. Not to mention, with the teleportation skill at max level, there were a lot of things he could do now, and he was no longer restricted by range.

Straight from the alley, Victor teleported outside of the city and began his journey from there.

'The place where those guys mentioned is quite far. They probably have some sort of craft in their possession to make the distance so easily.' After about an hour of travelling and looking around, Victor managed to find the dungeon the people from earlier were talking about. The fact that it was night time made it a bit hard to spot, but even that wouldn't have been too difficult if the location wasn't so well naturally hidden. The place was unlike the vast forest and sand lands that covered most of the environment, as this parts were littered with random mounds of rocks that looked to have grown all around like weed, so the dungeon entrance was hidden well in-between one of these rocks.

Victor made his way in immediately without wasting anytime. The most convenient thing about him was that he had absolutely no need to prepare before things like this, he could enter naked and still come out alive.

Just like he heard, the dungeon really was a mid rank one, and the first monsters Victor encountered were around level 30. Seeing as the strength of the monsters from the very first floor was this high, it was either going to be a mid level dungeon or a high level one, and the matter of how many floors was also there. Now that Victor could just scan the entire place within a certain radius and get the layout of the environment, he didn't need to walk through every path to be able to form a map, and he could also pinpoint the location of living organisms above a certain size with the representation of dots on the map. The only draw back is that these positions are not updated in real time, so the system would have to scan the place again to get an update on the locations.

Victor's main reason for still attacking dungeons was simply because of the experience points he got from it. The loot was useless, and it was completely ineffective for him to try and get more loot to sell now that he was aware of the secrete market, all he needed to do was wait for one of these market days and just pull out something valuable from Ramok's stash, and voila, money in abundance. Of course, there was the risk this brought as many would want to investigate him, but then again that was if they could find him, and even if they could Victor was confident in his ability to protect himself, whether it be fighting or running away.

For the sake of harvesting in full the field of experience points, Victor made sure to hunt down every single monster in this dungeon. He went on like that until he completely finished with the dungeon, and now that he wasn't bound by space, he teleported out of the dungeon after killing the last monster, which was the boss monster that was at level 50. The dungeon only had five floors, so there was nothing spectacular. Also, he didn't find a good monster to add to his legion this time, as all were just mediocre. He could evolve them and make them stronger, but then again he wanted the base monster to be strong not, just in level.

'This process is very slow. I wonder how many dungeons it would take before I reach .. say, level 100.' It was normal that Victor had thought about erasing an entire city and harvest their experience points, but then what kind of world would he be in if there were no humans. He didn't care about them that much, but what was the use of having that much power and being the only one around?..

"I should just head home for now." Victor said to himself just before teleporting. He wasn't even able to carry out the experiment he planned on doing the next time he visited a dungeon. Well, the conditions weren't favourable anyway, perhaps in the next one.

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The next day while Victor was at home doing whatever it was he was doing…

"Hey bro, I thought you said the dungeon entrance was here?.. Well… Where is it?"n0𝗏ℯ𝗅𝓊𝓈𝗯.𝓒0𝓂

"I could have swore that it was right here…"

'Then where the fuck is it?!!' "Know what? Let's look around, maybe we've confused ourselves with another place that looks similar."

"Yeah, that might be possible."

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A/N: Yeah, I know, I took a long ass break.. but I'm finally done with exams! Thank you for the kind words, I really appreciate. I'm really sorry for the unhealthily long break, it was just necessary. At least now I have some time, like two weeks before I leave for SIWES(or IT, or Internship, or Industrial Attachment, whatever it's called, I think the last one's for engineering students though), so in the next four or five days, I'm going to push myself and write much so that I can try and do a little mass release, it's much needed. After the mass release, updates will continue like 3 – 4 times a week, as the IT will start in 7 days after tomorrow, and I won't have lots of time then too. But, at lest it's not exams, so I can write in my free time.

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By now, it had been some weeks after Victor got to the city, and never did he spend one day without finding a dungeon to destroy. During this time, he also found that he could simply raid dungeons and not kill the boss monster, which was somewhat the core of the entire dungeon in a way, and by so doing he would be able to return to the dungeon after some time to harvest experience points. After finding this out, Victor stopped completing raids and used this strategy to the fullest.

It was actually common sense if he stopped to think about it, maybe influence from fantasy novels and manga from when he was on earth had somehow in a way limited some aspect of his creativity, even though it was also his biggest advantage when it came to creativity….

Anyway, he got this idea when he heard of the way the association and other big organisations could make extraction of certain minerals and raw materials possible, as the materials were not available on earth. The materials were a huge factor in the development of the world as it currently was.

During his trip to one of the dungeons he was farming, Victor discovered that the particular dungeon had been found out by one of the awakened organisations, and by so doing branded it as theirs. Good thing he placed his teleportation mark some place away from the dungeon entrance to avoid appearing in the midst of people just like it would have happened that day. The dungeon was somewhat close to the city, so it was only a matter of time really before it was discovered and claimed.

Victor found his way into this dungeon quite easily as he also had a mark within the dungeon, so using it he teleported directly inside. The experiment he had wanted to try was also completed that day as all the conditions for it were met perfectly, and really, it just seemed like a gift.

Now that there were people coming to raid the dungeon, Victor finally had specimens prepared for him for free, just what he had been looking for. The thing now was that he would have to clear the dungeon now as after he does what he planned to do, the entire area might just turn into an investigation area like how the previous one did.

The experiment was simple, Victor wanted to see if it was possible to create intelligent subordinates by combining intelligent species, in this case humans, with the monsters he already had. Of course, this wasn't the first someone had thought of this idea, as this is usually the way any crazy villain scientist or alchemist starts out in any movie, the only difference this time is that Victor had the system and the others didn't. Really, the way this wonderful system cheats life…

Victor could always just throw away the monsters he had right now that are not smart enough for his standards and just raise new ones with more brain, but then again he could also do this, so why not.

As the raid within the dungeon began, Victor got to work without wasting anytime. From what he saw, the team that entered seemed to be a team made up of new recruits and two seniors that led them through the dungeon. Apparently, the dungeon wasn't that high levelled, so it made for a suitable training ground, if not for the super rookies.

The dungeon had at least 10 floors, and Victor was diligent enough to follow quietly until the team reached the second floor where he then acted. He wanted them to at least be out of the first floor so that their screams won't escape outside. Not like it actually would, but then, he had courtesy to be private. Monster with manners.

Victor eventually attacked the team of 9 including the instructors, and unsurprisingly as it would happen, the team quickly realized that putting up a fight was the wrong move. Seriously, when a guy single handily approaches a team of people and you happen to be in that team, don't think it too much, just run. The person has to have something that gave them the confidence to even approach your team.. Alas, this lesson the humans learned in the hardest way possible.

Out of the nine, Victor ate seven and left behind the two instructors as they were the strongest. Using the evolution material he got from the humans, he initiated a simple evolution process with one of his legion.

As for now, the ones Victor can afford to lose without feeling a drop in power are Arac, Konda and Gurok. They were the firsts he got into his legion, and to speak the truth, they really didn't have much going for them when compared to the others, except for their levels. Victor chose Konda for the first test, as he couldn't imagine what a hybrid between spider and human would look like. He might not feel disgust towards such things, but at least he still appreciated beauty. Maybe if he was in some made up fantasy world it would be ok, as spider queens there can even transform into sexy Milfs or cute lolis that certainly satisfy many purposes. But tough luck, he was in reality. There was no anime graphic filter or artstyle design, the combination of such would just be absolute monstrousity, to a certain degree. Something like a Naga was more preferable though.

With the first process done, Victor turned to the two corpses he left intact and raised one. Both were male, and their levels were the same. For the purpose of what he wanted to test, a man would be better, plus there was the fact that he didn't want to combine a female and male together, that would just be weird. Victor turned his attention to the system to make some inquiries, while leaving the newly raised corpse to wonder what the fuck was going on. Like any raised corpse, he immediately felt the bond within him and his master, and for whatever reason he didn't seem to even question this strange bond, as it felt natural and compelling, but apart from that, what wasn't there to question about everything else?

Of course, unlike the bond he felt, he didn't instinctively feel that he had been resurrected, but then he didn't think this was the afterlife, as he could very well see blood everywhere and to his side was the body of his teammate and someone he recognized to be his friend. Though he used to be friends with the dead man, now he had no such emotions towards him, or for any other person or thing for that matter, but even then he was still conscious and aware of his life up until now. Really, the situation with those who have intelligence up to this level.

While Victor left the walking corpse to think while trying to piece in what was happening, he paid him no mind and just questioned the system on a bunch of things through his mind. He wanted to know if it was possible for him to combine his legion members into one organism.. well, as they are no longer living, they can't really be called organisms since they possess no living cells… Whatever, the answer was yes. Though the process would take longer than normal evolution, it was doable. The other thing was that even the system was not sure of the result of such combination, so Victor would just have to wait and see later.

"Ok, let's go then." He said while turning to the newly raised legion.

Really, this guy Victor raised was meant to be a side character, as he got not even the slightest bit of information from Victor or anything like that before he was sucked into the system while disappearing into a black foggy smoke. As for what was going to be the product of the second experiment, as Victor would like to refer to it, he didn't want to bother himself too much with it. Whatever it would be, it would be completely loyal to him, so that works perfectly.

He was wondering though, would it be a beast with human intelligence? Or a man with the intelligence of a beast? Or something in-between?

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Quickly after the dungeon incident where Victor was finally able to achieve the plans of his experiment, though not completely, the day for the underground market auction had come. Really, never did he think he would find himself in one of these auction places where only old, rich, influential men and women gathered, and where the prideful and the unsuspecting young masters both fumble and bring attention to themselves. At this moment, Victor was seated towards the right section towards the middle.

'Thank god, I nearly missed it.' Victor said in his mind. He was still dressed in the normal clothes that covered every part of his body leaving only his face visible, and only from his eyes upwards. Of course Victor appreciated fashion, so he made sure his clothes did not resemble rags or something like what a beggar would wear. After using a bunch of layers to cover himself to get the desired look for many days, Victor decided to buy something that achieved the same effect and was more modest, but still a little bit mysterious in the looks.

Maybe it was because he got the wrong information about how this worked, that's why he nearly missed the auction. According to his previous information about the underground market, there was a general market day every week where the big guys come to buy the best of the best, but that wasn't actually how it worked. In actuality, the market days were just like any other market day where everyone brought their products to the market, just like it was anywhere else in the world, there was no big shot meeting going on there. The meeting Victor was looking for was the auction that only occurred every three months, which was four times a year and luckily for him the next one was just around the corner when he found out.

While walking around the underground market finding his objective, which was to make contact with some high ranking person there, Victor ended up being stopped by guards as his movements were becoming suspicious, and he took that opportunity to make that he ended up meeting someone of some power..

He was taken to the security office, and there he met not just the chief of security of the underground market there, but also someone else was interested in what he had said earlier about having something of value. Of course, for them to bring him there, they had somewhat verified that the thing he had brought was actually of some value. After confirming for real this time, it was safe to say that the other party started letting their greed get the better of them, nothing Victor didn't account for.

The item he brought was a single ring-like bracelet of silver colour that even had the effect of adapting to the size of those who wore it by altering its size. After getting an appraiser to look at it, even the composed appraiser couldn't keep a straight face after seeing what the effects were. Seeing the look on the appraiser's face, that must have been the moment where the other party started becoming greedy too much for his own good, or anyone else really.

The bracelet had the effect of granting automatic healing of any external injury as long as it was not too bad, it gave a boost in magic power by a considerably significant amount enough for high ranking mages to covert it, or anyone whose powers lean towards emitters. In addition to these already good effects, it could also increase the Physical of anyone wearing it by 10-15%. With the last effect, now even enhancers would desire this piece of artefact, as they saw it.

ɴ[0)ᴠᴇʟ For Victor, the last effect increased all his stats by 2%, which was why it wasn't that amazing to him, compared to other things he had found in Ramok's stash, though he could understand why it would be that amazing to them. Really, except for the increase in mana and the regeneration effect, there was nothing else about the bracelet. At the point where Victor could clearly see the greed plastered all over the other party's face, he could only help the man thank his god that he had gotten some control over his powers.

"Well, Crow.. You see, this bracelet you brought is really good, in fact it is magnificent. How about I give you 1 million, and you go away? That's a really good deal there don't you think?" The many wearing suit asked Victor. Victor had also given his identity to be known as Crow. Really, what better name for a dead man than crow? Maybe it was because of the mounts of clothes Victor had on at that moment that made the man think he was just some poor guy that stumbled upon the bracelet by chance in some dungeon, which was why he was being looked down upon.

The man's reasoning was justified as who would find such a treasure and bring it to be sold instead of using it himself, it was only someone who needed money that would dare do such a thing, and with that analysis the man concluded on what he would do.

Victor didn't talk much and just looked at the man without any noticeable emotion, "I refuse. I know the value of that item, and the price you are offering is not enough. Perhaps, if you can't afford it, then I will take my leave?" Victor said, ending with somewhat of a question as his voice ceased.

'This brat is still green.' The man said in his mind. Looking at Victor and through his voice, the man could tell that Victor was still a very young boy, probably just entered his twenties, which would mean that he did not know how these things worked. He was lucky to even be getting any compensation, normally his body would already be taken away to be disposed of. "Look, Crow-" The man said with a bit of contempt in his voice, "-giving you this much is already too much, and is an act of generosity, or do you want something else?" The man said while standing before Victor, looking down at him. Victor didn't give back any response, and to this the man scoffed slightly and turned, "I didn't think so."

"So if you understand, go with the guards and we will get back to you in a few minutes."

In the room where they all were in, there were at that moment five guards, and including the appraiser, the chief of the guards, the man, and Victor himself, they all made up nine people. Victor of course had already gauged the level of everyone inside, and though he did not want to drag the appraiser into this, there was no way to help one so weak. In the end it wasn't his fault. The guards were within the level s of 60 and 67, and the chief of guards was level 77, while the man who had been talking smack the entire time without saying his name was level 80, despite his looks. As for the appraiser, there was nothing to say about his level.

As the man got to where the chief of guards stood, which was closer to the exit, three guards approached Victor to take him out, but then he raised his left hand into the air signalling for them to stop/hold on, which they did.

"What is it? Don't you understand your position in this? You have no choice in the matter, and by the way, thank you for bringing such a gift." The man said with an almost visible smirk. TO this, Victor just replied-

"I didn't come here to give any gifts, I came to do business, and there is a reason why I am called Crow." Victor said while casually standing up, at his own pace. "I give death, I don't receive it." Victor said, and at that exact moment, all the guards and the appraiser dropped to the ground, and the chief of security who was thinking of attacking just slumped and fell on the ground. The man himself almost pissed his pants, but it looked as if the bracelet he had on his wrist had helped him this time.n0𝒱𝔢𝑳𝒰𝔰𝑩.𝑐0𝓂

The man had no idea what had happened, and right now he couldn't even bring himself to stand properly and soon fell to his backside, he was completely drenched in fear, fear for his life, fear of what the man before him would do to him. He felt like he almost died, and to someone who had experienced that feeling before, there was no mistaking it.

'This monster! What have I gotten myself into?'

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'Seems like my control is improving,' thought Victor, as he stopped some inches before the man.

Though the man was wearing a black suit and black inner shirt, in fact everything he wore was black, Victor could swear that he would have been able to see the sweet all over him if the shirt was say white.

The reason the man was still alive even after Undead Aura was activated was simple. Victor could control the undead aura a bit so that it didn't affect the man. The thing was that some time ago, Victor had realised the need for him to find a solution to his passive skills being.. well, passive. Back in the dungeon, he never had the need, or a reason to think about it, as it was purely survival of the fittest. No one was trying to be the other's friend. Outside though, Victor found some of his passive skills to be a bit of a burden most of the times. One of these such skills was his Undead Aura..

When Victor would try to interrogate someone to get information, the person would simply die, and he would end up having to go the harder way. It was becoming annoying, and clearly an enormous burden to him. With that, Victor started looking for a way to fix this. Of course, he asked the system, but that was useless, as the system itself had no useful answer to his question, and he was left with his own brain to figure it out.

After some days went by and Victor had thought about it, he finally came up with a very plausible theory. Maybe the thing holding him back was that he had always thought about his own strength and skills as something related to a game, and because of that followed game mentality to deal with them, and that was why his thinking was so shallow. When it came to doing things independent of the system, the most he had done would be activating skills without the help of the system, and really, that was it. Victor's conclusion was that he needed to be more independent of the system, and just like magic, it turned out to be the answer.

Victor began by changing his perception of how he viewed his skills, and instead of just seeing them as mere skills he could use, he put them as his powers, at the level the others in this world he was in referred to theirs. Just like everyone else, Victor decided to at least for once try to train and learn more about his powers or skills and see the results that would bring. Just like magic, the results were really what he expected.n0𝒱𝑒𝑙𝓊𝚜𝔟.𝒸0𝓶

Instead of just simply activating his skills and deactivating them if needed, Victor took time to study each skill by seeing how they worked, how the energy flow simulated with it, and many more. He was fascinated by what he discovered. The large part of the achievement came from studying his passive skills, which were his aim from the start. Victor found that there was more he could do with these passive skills than just wait for them to activate automatically whenever a trigger was activated by something.

In the end, the result of all that training and experiment to improve gave him more control over his own skills, and since he had yet to focus on his active skills, he didn't know what to expect from them since he felt there was nothing to do when it came to them. With the Undead Aura, he could at least select the target of the aura, so that it doesn't affect others as much, but he still doesn't have full control over the skill so his control over it is limited. AT least now he can choose the target of the skill. For now, the skill still affects those who show fear towards him within a certain range(which happen to be a very wide range), but if he does not make you the target, then the effect is only reduced, and he cannot lower the effect on those he targets. The only thing is that even though the skill is not made to target one person, that person would need to be at least level 75 to survive, and then not everyone is the same, so that is only a requirement.

'Sucks that I have to actively try not to target others for this to work,' Victor said in his mind as he grabbed the man before him by the shoulder and placed him on his feet. "Go inform your boss, and drop my bracelet before you go. I don't want to go find him myself." He said as the two fiery tattoos beneath both of his eyes burned brighter for a bit before he returned to his seat.

The man who immediately ran out of the room couldn't help but curse his terrible sight of not predicting someone with such a look and burning tattoos on the damn face to be powerful. He could only wonder what the guy's level is and how he was going to evaluate him for his boss.

In the end, Victor got to meet the person running the place, and though he wasn't the overall boss, he was the boss of that branch and a couple others. He was also invited to attend the auction by the boss, and he was going to get a whopping 70% share of whatever the bracelet sells for. Victor wasn't a bully, so he went through normal negotiation with the boss, even though he could just force them to agree. At least it led to him getting an invitation.

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That brought Victor to where he was now, sitting amongst the crowd while the auction was about to start.

'Err, I hope I find something good enough here. Not like I think anything is going to be better than what I can find in Ramok's stash.'

Quickly, the auction started, and Victor immediately recognized the host, after all, it was the same person he almost made shit himself earlier that night. 'Did he actually shit himself a little? He's wearing different clothes. Gotta say though, the previous suit looks better than this one a bit,' Victor commented in his mind.

To start the auction, the host thanked everyone for coming and, with a quick introduction saying his name, which Victor now knew to be Bryce Mortem, the auction begun. Surprisingly, the underground market turned out to be some kind of complex family business that was run by many big families. This Victor found out after meeting the boss of this side of the market, Mark Mortem, Bryce's brother.

All this didn't matter to Victor though. Whenever he thought of coming to a fantasy world or a world where superpowers exist, he never thought himself one to sit around with others and play politics, and he would not do that now. For Victor, there is another way to power if he so chooses, and that is absolute power no one can stand against. They can be fifty families if they like, but as long as he possessed the strength, they would have no choice than to fall before his feet.

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'Well, didn't find anything of value, just like expected. At least the auction wasn't all that bad.' Victor said in his mind as he proceeded towards one of the exit places.

Unbeknownst to Victor, a new rumor had begun spreading about him around the underground scene, about the legend of Crow. To him, he was a bit confused why every guard and even others that attended the auction, people who were supposed to be big shots had began giving him some level of respect. Guards guide him towards the paths he already knew, and the big shots gave him the nod of respect when their eyes crossed. Victor couldn't quite put his hand on it, but he chugged it down to Mark's doing. It was all very possible that he had made it known that he was the one who supplied the most priced item that day. 'I'll have to talk to him about it later. He shouldn't have done something like that.' Victor said in his mind as he left through the teleportation mechanism and appeared in a familiar alley.

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A day after the auction was held in the underground scene, the authorities seemed to have become very busy. It was as if they had received some kind of vital information that made their asses hot and unable to sit still.

"Hey you! Come over here and help me with this!"

"Blaize, get that document for me. ASAP.".

"Get ready boys! We…"

The entire place was bustling with many different things going on all at once, unlike normal. The man walking in couldn't help but wonder what exactly was going on. For starters, this was not the place where squads were assembled, there's a different section for that, and what was the old looking thing the other two were carrying? That thing looked like some pandora's box lost in ages. What exactly caused all these? The man asked himself as he slowly walked through the rowdy department space trying to get to the office where his second in command would be.

As the man entered the office, he noticed that the people inside did not even register his presence, "hey! Can someone tell me what the fuck is going on here? Why those the entire place look like a fucking ant colony going to war?"

Hearing the gruff voice, the three people inside the office turned immediately to face the door where a burly man with rough beards and a muscular build stood. Seeing the man before them, they quickly straighten their backs and greet him, all in unison "President Great Sir!" to which he just waved a hand and from his eyes they could tell he wanted answers fast.

Seeing the eyes that threatened to feast on him, the second in command who compared to the president was still a young man in his early thirties spoke swiftly. "Sir, a possible suspect has been found." That was all his second in command needed to say, no further explanation was needed.

"So? Who is it? Show me." The one case that had been troubling the entire Hunter Association for what seemed like an eternity was the one case where many hunters disappeared in some dungeons, and if anything was to cause such commotion, it would be that one. Nothing else.

"Sir." The lady standing a bit behind the second in command spoke, to which the president gave permission to talk. "We got the information from one of our informants, and the suspect's name is Crow, at least that is what he is known as. He is said to be a high levelled hunter and is estimated to be at least S rank. But as of now we don't have any pictures of him, but we were provided with a means to track him." The lady said.

"Good, putting out the 50 million Zen bounty was worth it. I was thinking we would have to increase the amount." The president spoke, with a small smile appearing on his face.

(A/N: I don't know if I've mentioned the currency used in this world yet. If I have, disregard the previous one. The official currency here is Zen, worldwide.)

"But that name…" The expression on the man's face changed slightly into a more serious one.

"Yes sir, We also suspect the same thing" The lady responded with a little frown on her face as everybody in the room now wore an even more serious face than they had a second ago.

The made up name Victor chose on the fly when asked to provide his name had actually turned out to be an infamous one in this world. Of course he didn't know about this, and wasn't even aware of the bounty that the association had placed on his head. At this moment, he was the most wanted man in the entire city. Before, the association had no description of how he looked or what his name was, and just placed a notice here and there for anyone that had any information to report to them and if the suspect reported was the person they were looking for, they that person would become a very rich man or woman over night. Now that they had a description and a name, it was way easier. This time the price tag was one million, and every single low life in the city was out to get Victor.

Mark and his brother had heard about this, but then there was no way for them to contact Victor. Now of all times, he hadn't even appeared in the underground market, which also made them think he had gone into hiding, and that lessened their worries. Honestly, they just knew the guy and had no reason to be all jumpy about the topic, but then after hearing his name, Mark knew that such a legend would not go down so easily, and helping him now in his time of need would greatly help their relationship, which started out on the wrong side of the track.

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It had been days, maybe even approaching a week since Victor left to hunt in more powerful dungeons he had found, and as though destiny, he managed to find one dungeon which was almost at the level of the one he was birth in, and then there was a gate not too far off. He had never been in a gate before, so he could only imagine how different the experience would be. He had also used this time to check the results of his experiment, and to say the least, it went according to plan.

The dungeon Victor found had 30 floors, and from it he got a new subordinate and even collected some evolution materials, something that seemed to have been scarce these days. The gate, which was the most anticipated experience he wanted to have was much more different, just like he expected. Really, if he had a working heart, it would be beating with much excitement the moment he entered the gate. To put it simply, it was a different world entirely.

If he had to describe it, he would say that it was like a small part was cut from another world and was turned into gate. He came to this conclusion after seeing end of the gate where there were boundaries to stop one from going further. It was like facing space at the end of these boundaries as he could very much compare the experience with staring at a game's skybox, something similar.

Unlike the dungeon where he only needed to defeat the final boss for the dungeon to close, in the gate it was different. He had to find the core of the core of gate and destroy it, and after doing that a portal would open where the core was and through it he could leave the gate. Also, the creatures in the gate didn't respawn like in the dungeons, once killed that was it. The only thing was that gates were more unpredictable.

With a dungeon, it was always a cave setting for the most part, and if it changed much it would be like some underground pathway built with stones and all. One could go into a dungeon an be prepared for at least some things he would expect. Now Imagine Victor's surprise when he entered the gate and found himself in a snowy forest.. Thank God he had resistance to cold, if not things would have gotten though; it wasn't like he could live the gate after entering like the dungeons.

He didn't even bother summoning his legion, and just did a one man army through the whole thing. As for his experiment, the first one failed, or at least didn't go exactly how he wanted it to, while the second one was a complete success.

After evolving Konda using Human evolution material, the snake monster gained some level of intelligence, but it was only enough to classify it as an ancient barbaric specie that had just started evolving and developing some sense of basic human civilization. (Perhaps this is how much advanced races like aliens look at humans.. so sad. Well that's for those that believe in aliens.)

The second experiment where Victor fused two of his legion was the bomb! If he had to classify the creature that was birthed from his fusion, he would refer to it as a kind of Weretiger. It had all the animalistic features of Gurok, though it stood on two legs and had more human limbs, but it was just as smart as a human.

The creature was a completely different being from Gurok and the human. If Victor wanted to simplify it, he would call it similar to the fusion that happens in an anime he used to watch when he was still on earth, Dragon Ball. A totally new being was created and he even had to grant it a new name. Victor went with Gurok in the end. To him, there was no need to over simplify things.

The new Gurok had an increased level higher than both of his former selves, but it wasn't too much, just a little. As for his skills, Victor was very much pleased to see that he retained all of them, and some even evolved a little to be stronger.

With this, Victor had developed a foundation for his next experiment, as he liked to call it, and to say the least, he was very eager to try out his idea. As for Konda, Victor was not done yet. He thought of a possible way to make the creature better, so he was also going to be experimenting on her.

Really, there was absolutely no reason for him to be doing all these, but right now there wasn't much he could do to somehow move his dead mind. Doing something like this seemed to create the tiniest bit of excitement deep in his soul, so it was like a fun thing in a way.

Even as his emotions were not as bottled up as they used to be, they were still very much suppressed.

After five days of constant grinding, Victor finally returned to the city. Of course, there was no need for him to walk all the way back, as with his MAX level teleportation skills, appearing right in his own living room from whatever distance was as easy as taking a shit.

If only someone had told him about what was going on in the city…

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Victor, oblivious of what was going on in the city had just teleported into his living room but then was greeted with the presence of strangers waiting for him there. The first thing he saw as he appeared was about four people in his living room who also turned to face him when they noticed his presence.

Asking no questions and taking advantage of the delay in action as everyone confirmed that someone had just appeared in their midst, Victor moved fast and silenced the people in his room. Of course, with his improved senses, he could tell that the entire house was filled with people, and though he could have just killed them all at once, he needed information, so he would need at least one of them alive. Before he could move, however, one of the men above from the next floor had made a call to someone.

Several vehicles were parked outside Victor's house in less than a few minutes. By this time, he had taken care of everyone within the building, but even after trying his best at interrogation, it seemed like the men were trained well, as they didn't let any information slip through. Of course, Victor was sure that if they didn't die earlier than intended, then he would be able to get what he wanted for certain; too bad he couldn't control his skill yet.

Hearing the sound of the vehicles outside, Victor proceeded to walk towards the front of his house and outside. He just couldn't help but look around like a little child as he saw the sight before him. This was his first time seeing so many crafts and other vehicles surrounded and gathered in one place using some kind of formation which made it all look so cool. The fact that these things looked a little sci-fi was the main point. With all the lights glowing around, it really brought that kind of feeling..

The fact that he could kill all these people and even if the need to escape came, he would be able to run away also would make Victor very boldfacing again a platoon of forces who he knew had different powers, powers he wasn't aware of. Being undead and emotionally dead didn't mean he couldn't be confident at times, for it didn't come from his feelings, but from his judgment, and at this point he wasn't judging any threat from them.

"HAHAHAHAHAA!" Heavy laughter covered the entire vicinity as a man came from the cluster of vehicles walking toward Victor slowly.

When he was finally in view, he simply stood for some seconds without uttering a single word while he stared fervently at Victor. It was still kind of dark, but the lighting in the area made it possible to see some features of the man before him. The man couldn't see Victor's face properly, as there was a hood over his head and Victor's head was down. The moment he raised his head to look at the man, Victor noticed a wide smirk on the man's face that was rather telling.

It seemed like the man would say something, as the show of power behind him in the form of different cars and hovering crafts that had still not landed further boosted his powerful look, but he was then interrupted.

A lady ran up to him and said, "Sir! There has been another sighting of Crow in area 21." The lady said as she brought a device before him which he then proceeded to glance at for a second before turning his attention forward towards the man before him. 'No wonder the others aren't here.' The man thought.

'Are these guys stupid? Do they think I'll wait for them to do whatever they like while obediently standing before them?' Victor was starting to think about how other fugitives behaved in this world or were the people before him simply that confident in their strength.

"It's an honour that I get to crush you myself, Crow! After many years of hiding, You have finally come out!" The man yelled. 'He's not making any move. He should have at least tried to catch me off guard by now or even tried to escape.' The man thought to himself. He would say maybe they got the wrong guy, but the glowing lines under the eyes of the man before him were a telling feature of who they were after. 'I can't be mistaken.'n0𝒱𝑒𝑙𝓊𝚜𝔟.𝒸0𝓶

Victor just stood there looking at him without saying anything in return but had managed to get the man's name. 'Pr. Crockman, I wonder what this is all about.' Victor thought. He might have gotten a few ideas as to why this was all happening, but he still couldn't manage to see how he ended up getting this sort of attention. The Crow which he was identified as did make him think, but then he would also love to think of Mark as a smart guy. 'I can't say the same for all the people he told my identity as Crow to though. By the way, what sort of a name is Crockman? Foreigners have some weird names.'

"Surrender yourself this instant! And we will consider sparing your life!" The burly man before him shouted.

At this point, Victor couldn't take the weirdness of the situation any longer. For some reason, he didn't feel like he was being arrested or anything like that. From what he knew, when facing a criminal whose name is enough to make even the government jump from their seats, such baby tactics are not what are employed… Or maybe he was wrong and just being too barbaric and uncivilized? What Victor didn't know was that he wasn't the only one that felt like this, and even the man's subordinates themselves had barely been resisting the urge to facepalm.

With the hovering crafts that showed their lights in conjunction with the vehicles, the entire thing was looking like a dull circus show, and this was a dull show Victor had had enough of. He turned around and walked into his house deciding in his mind how he would leave the city if things had become like this, but then he was stopped before he could make it back to his door by an explosion in the house.

'What was that just now? There was no sound at all.'

From behind Victor, another voice called out, but not to him, "President Crockman! What is the meaning of this nonsense?! Again!!" the voice of a furious man cut through the light show of the crafts, and just at that moment even bigger crafts moved into view, and from them, men in uniform dropped like insects and this time completely surrounded Victor's entire premises.

'Ok? I think this is how it usually goes in the movie.' Victor thought to himself, seeing all the battle-ready figures around.

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Sounds of heavy gunfire

It seemed like the new man to join Victor and Crockman was not as lenient and indecisive as Crockman. With Crockman, Victor had even taken the liberty to walk back to his house after some minutes of stare-down, and Crockman still didn't do anything. Keeping in mind that Victor had just killed plenty of his men inside his house, Crockman's actions could be easily perceived as cowardly. With the new appearance, the response was different.

After Victor's house was surrounded by men in uniform armour, the next step he took forward towards Crockman and the new arrival was the indication for the men in armour to open fire. The men in armour looked to be wearing some kind of exo-skeletal armour that Victor had only seen in video games and movies from his own Earth. To see it in real life really brought back some good memories from the early 2000s..

Unlike Crockman and his men, this was what Victor had expected of such a situation. He was someone they knew had killed more than a hundred hunters already, and also in a short span of time, this response was the most natural.

Facing the men in armour, Victor was confident that could dodge bullets, not because of his speed, as he wasn't fast enough yet to achieve such a feat against standard guns, but his reflexes were more than enough to keep the bullets at bay. Of course, when he is receiving multiple gunshots from multiple angles all at the same time, relying on reflexes alone was not going to save him, so the place quickly became a hunting ground for both sides. The armoured men had come as hunters, but in the end, they might have turned out to be the hunted.

Victor quickly closed the space between the closest armoured man, and before his opponent could respond, his head was blown off by one punch from Victor. Victor's movements were so fast that it looked like a bad animation of just two frames. Seeing that the armour wasn't too resilient, Victor got to work quickly one by one taking down each of the enemies that had just arrived.

There was one thing that baffled him during this exchange with the armoured men. It didn't really bother him as such but was more of something that made him maintain caution even though he was winning. From the time these armoured men arrived till now, he had not picked up even a single sound from them when it came to movements or bodily functions like heartbeat, something he could easily monitor when in close proximity. He was able to still keep track of their position through his sixth sense skill even after they threw a smoke bomb everywhere, so that wasn't the part that got his guard up, it was something else. For these guys to be able to do something as complex as erase their sounds, they couldn't all have the same power, which meant it was the doing of someone else.

If there was one thing Victor had learned about this world, it was that if there was something an awakened could do, then there would be almost no existence of a machine or technology that would be put in place to do it. This world was more developed technologically than his previous world, but it seemed the presence of awakened had also hindered some parts of development, that, or it was the blatant lack of awakened with powers that concerned technology.

Of course, normally Victor would be a little confident in his skills and strength after learning of his advantage in this world over the rest, but he still didn't believe he was the only one, and when it came to sound-based powers, he liked being careful. After all, even though he was more into anime and manga, there was no way Victor hadn't heard of Black Bolt. A guy who could erase a planet if he ever decided to train his voice in soprano. Absolutely terrifying.

There was the point that both powers didn't work the same, as this one could control the sound waves around a person, while the other was a walking sound bomb, so it was better not to underestimate his opponents. After all, he still hadn't confirmed if this was all the person with this power could do. There was also the fact that those wearing the armours didn't seem to be awakened, but seeing as hunters and awakened are not yet superior to bullets and bombs, it is sensible that the normal still has a chance at being a soldier, not to mention, they may also be cheaper to manage.

Throughout the entire process, Victor didn't use any big or flashy skills, so it was mostly physical attacks or those that he could use covertly, like Touch of Death and Negative burst. Actually, those were the only two skills he used. After killing close to 15, the armoured men started pouring more into the smoke in an attempt to kill or subdue him, as he heard their leader bark out orders. 'To think that no one has thought to blow away the smoke yet… They still think it is to their advantage.' Victor thought at that moment as he allowed the enemy to gather themselves within range before using Negative burst.

Five minutes after the first attack began, the area before the leader of the armoured men and Crockman together with his team seemed to just be covered by a wide range of smoke created from the smoke bombs from earlier, and looking at it, both men couldn't help but get the feeling that something very spooky was mixed with it. The reason however not being because they suddenly remembered a scene from their younger days, but it was precisely because it had gotten so quiet all of a sudden, in fact, too quiet. For the number of people he had sent in to deal with the threat, the fact that the gunshots suddenly died down signified something.

It was possible that his men had killed or apprehended the target and were bringing him out, as since they didn't make sounds with their steps, it was justifiable that they who were outside would be unable to hear anyone approaching. But even with that, there was also a possibility that the worse had happened. 'After all, that monster supposedly killed more than 50 high-level hunters on his own.' The leader thought as the shadow of a figure appeared through the smoke.n0𝑽ℯ𝗅𝑢𝓈𝑏.𝚌0𝗆

Seeing this, the thought going through Crockman's mind was one, 'OH SHIT.'

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'OH SHIT.' Crockman thought in his mind, as a shadowy figure showed its form through the body of smoke. At the same moment, however, a man with red hair and a slender body wearing some kind of skin-tight suit appeared before them. He seemed to have come from behind, and before they could even ask what was wrong and why he was there, the man began his report.

"Sir! Our men, they have been all eliminated." The man reported with a bit of a shaking voice.

His report was not responded to afterwards, as those before him did not keep their focus on him for long after he stood before them, they all had their eyes forward, all looking behind him. Following their gazes, he too turned to look behind.

Victor emerged from the smoke and before them, stood unscathed, unlike one who had just engaged in any form of battle or fighting. Everybody couldn't take their eyes off Victor as they examined and marvelled at the sight before them. In actuality, there wasn't much to be so surprised about, as this would not be the first appearance of someone who could kill so many. For some reason, however, there seemed to be something that put a kind of fear in their bodies, also the fact that he did so in such little time was unheard of, unless….

'The Crow… This man is no joke at all. No wonder he is a legend.' The leader of the armoured men said in his mind, and at the same moment, a hard smile formed on his face.

Victor who just stood there for some seconds began with a step forward with a thought in his head, 'I've taken everything I wanted to, so maybe I should leave the city now.' He was about to teleport out of there when suddenly, his body was sent flying back towards his house. Victor managed to direct his gaze just before his body smashed through the walls of his house, and just then saw the red-haired man screaming towards him. If he wasn't a zombie, he was sure to bleed from the ears. Even now, who was to say his ear drums were still intact?

As though it was a signal, the sound attack had prompted the other two that stood idle before to attack. Crockman was just behind the other man as they dashed inside the house to meet Victor and take advantage of the situation and apprehend or kill him, but seconds after they entered the building, their bodies came flying back out. Following this, Victor emerged from the house still unscathed, but yet another present was waiting for him as several big crafts had arrived above that location, and multiple people were dropping from them, both hunters and those in exo-skeletal armours.

"You called for backup?" Crockman asked the other man through his teeth while grunting and holding his stomach.

Same with the other man as he picked himself up slowly, he responded, "Yes…" He no longer had a trace of the previous smirk a while back.n0𝑽ℯ𝗅𝑢𝓈𝑏.𝚌0𝗆

'I could just teleport away, but something tells me I need to take care of that sound guy now before anything else.' Victor thought to himself as he removed his attention from other unnecessary things and focused it on the red hair for that short moment.

Thinking that he could make that sound attack at the speed of sound or faster, seeing as it is sound, after all, Victor knew that going towards him directly wouldn't work, so he did the most annoying thing he learned to do back on earth while playing a multiplayer shooter.

CLOSE THE GAP WHILE RUNNING IN CIRCLES.

Such a simple tactic that always worked. Victor mustered as much strength into his legs and moved, and just as he expected, the red hair began his attack sometime after. His attack may be at the speed of sound, but his reaction speed wasn't, and that gave Victor a head start. Just like it always happened for those that had never been hit with this attack, the red hair kept trying to catch up to Victor, but before long Victor had closed the gap, and with a palm to the chest blasted him away into one of the vehicles parked close by. 'Good.'

The moment the young man raised his head, not wanting to slack off during a fight and ignoring all the pain to do so, Victor was already before him. As though to show improvement, he was a little bit faster this time in screaming at Victor, point blank range, hurling him quite chaotically, but then Victor disappeared mid-way and appeared beside him. The red-haired man tried to turn quickly and release another attack, but he was stopped as Victor placed a hand over his mouth and one on his throat. What followed next was brutal as Victor dug his hand into the red hair's neck and turned the inner parts out.

Everything was done now and he was about to teleport out of the city when he felt a familiar kind of energy, 'holy energy.' Victor was quick enough to avoid a straight blast of attack directed at him, and by doing so threw the body of the red-haired man to the side. The one using the holy energy quickly landed at the spot where he was and rushed towards the man's body. Perhaps it wasn't surprising to see a holy magic user, but to see the informant that he first consulted after getting to the city use holy magic was different. Victor was very sure that he hadn't perceived any holy energy in her last time they met.

'I should kill them both.' He thought, but being alone seemed to be his weakness, as bullets started hurling down from the craft above. Victor managed to dodge a couple, but these bullets were not in any way similar to the ones from a gun, and avoiding them was almost impossible. 'Ok, that's enough, I might need to make a ruckus here, if not I will never be left alone.'

The girl turned to face Victor with tears running down from her eyes before taking off with the man in her arms, she could fly it seemed. Everything was happening in such an uncontrolled and uncoordinated manner that if Victor didn't have his undead mind keeping him level-headed; he would have been easily overwhelmed. Everyone close to him and those that came from the crafts had jumped at Victor or ran towards him, all trying to take him down, even the two he sent flying before, but just before they got to him, Victor only said in his mind before everything went to ashes; 'Inferno Ring.' With this, every single body was engulfed in a pillar of fire, and the entire place looked like something created by a devil.

The girl carrying the body had gotten high enough and had actually escaped certain death, and the man he had in her arms had also managed to survive, thanks to her timely intervention. Though it was possible that he may not be able to produce sound for a while, he was still alive and had a chance to recover fully. Looking at her half-baked healing power, she couldn't help but think, 'If only I had more of this power…' At least she could be together with her lover, was what she thought.

Apparently, Victor had a better plan, as he just out of nowhere appeared mid-air as the girl was flying up towards the craft, and in that brief moment beheaded the man and set the body on fire using Infernal breath after taking an arm, before disappearing again. Before the girl could react, it was already too late, and she had to let go of the body that quickly turned into ashes before it reached the intense pillar of flames hovering above the ground.

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"Something about medicine after death. Shouting like a goat won't change anything." Victor said, as he appeared in one of the several places where he had marked as he wondered around the city. It was an alley way that barely had anyone use it. Looking at his surroundings calmly, with a ripped arm in his hands, Victor was sure that this was not the destination he wanted to go to originally. 'Something is preventing me from leaving the city. Definitely one of those people that can seal off spaces.' Victor thought in his head. He was right to be cautious about the existence of people as strong as him. To seal the entire city off is no small deal.

Seeing that he couldn't leave the city for a while, and the fact that he didn't want to go outside and cause an unnecessary ruckus, Victor remained there for some seconds, in mere moments he devour the arm and threw away the bone. After the arm was taken care of, Victor only had one place in mind where he could go to and probably, through there bypass the skill affecting the space around the city. Since he figured the place was under the city, it was possible that his plan would work.

Victor felt one of his marks immediately, and just like that he faded out of the visual reality around that alley and appeared somewhere familiar, a place where everything seemed to be going on like nothing was happening around. He was in the underground market. As he had gotten there, Victor quickly tried to leave the city this time, but it still didn't work, so he just moved through the place towards where he would be able to get to the overall boss. Luckily, he met guards who knew of him, so it didn't take long for him to get to the office.

While walking around, Victor noticed people he didn't know give him some kind of eye. It wasn't threatening or eyes of fear or anything like that, in fact it was the first time Victor could say he had seen such expressions. It wasn't rocket science, so Victor quickly put one and two together and figured out that the people here must have gotten the news of what is happening above ground..

He was sure they would attack him on sight, all of them. But after hearing the unbelievable feat Victor had achieved, plus his name as Crow, all they could do was look, unable to even bring out malice towards him.

Just as Victor opened the door to the office and stepped in, the first thing he heard was, "Crow! Just in time." Mark Mortem said as Victor entered the office.

Inside was Mark and his brother Bryce, and there seemed to be someone else within the office. This person also stood up following the others as Victor entered the room. To Mark's words, Victor nodded, but he then turned his head towards the other person in the room. Seeing this, Mark quickly began introducing the other person to Victor accordingly.

"Oh right, this is the head of the Beechmon Family, Arnold Beechmon. They are a partner family, not just within business, but out families share a history that goes way back." Mark said.

"Arnold, not a bad name. Good head on you." Victor said as he looked at the man. He didn't really mean anything by his words. He just wasn't going to go through the formalities with the man.

'Good head on my shoulders? Is that a compliment or something else?' The man questioned in his mind. "It is a pleasure to finally meat with a legend like yourself…" the man wasn't done speaking, but he could sense that the Crow wasn't interested in hearing anymore, so he slowly retreated.

"Right. I came here for something else, but you said I came at the right time, and i can sense an extra presence in the place. What's going on?" Victor asked, more authoritatively than asking. Ever since he was labelled as the Crow, the brothers seem to want him to be their boss or something, and would show crazy levels of subservience for the status.

"Yes, seems you noticed their presence already." Mark said, he then went on to explain how the person had appeared out of nowhere and also what the person said.

The person that came didn't introduce himself, he only stated that he wanted to see the Crow and that he would be waiting for him to return. Mark and his people were going to rough him up a bit, but he ended up beating the guards that were with him, and once again, Bryce. Because of this and the show of strength, Mark had no other option than to let him in. Hearing this, Victor had then turned to look at Bryce who he had not paid any attention to, and certainly, there was a bruise on his handsome face.

After hearing the explanation, Victor had only one thing in mind, 'Precognition, or they have the ability to see the future. If not, how would they know that I will come here, something even I didn't initially plan to do.'

ɴ[0ᴠᴇ]ʟ "This person can see the future huh?" Victor asked out loud. The three men in the room were shocked to hear this, but since it came from the bosses mouth, it was a little bit difficult to discredit the possibility. Seeing the reaction from the humans before him, Victor couldn't help but think, 'If someone was told that we only met some days ago and that we haven't even seen much, they would disagree with a 50M bet.'

Interrupting their little meeting, a guard opened the door and before he could say much, a middle aged man walked into the office slowly and at his own pace. The man had a fairly pale skin, and grey hair, and for his age he looked well and healthy. As he walked in, he did with a smile on his face, not showing any form of fear or hesitation, until he stood a few feet away from Victor.n0𝒱𝓮𝓛𝒰𝗌𝔟.𝒸0𝗆

Victor looking at him could tell that something was amiss, like something was different about the man. 'Something's off, he is nor normal.' Victor said in his mind. To confirm his suspicions, Victor used the system, and what came up would shock him quite a bit, if he still had a beating heart that is.

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Victor's gaze lingered on the man for a bit, then he took his eyes off him and walked towards one of the chairs in the office around the meeting table. Seeing as it said vampiric human, Victor could make an educated guess that the man before them wasn't fully a vampire yet.. Maybe he did an experiment with vampires or something? He couldn't say for sure.

'System, can you tell me more about this vampiric human race?' Victor asked in his mind as he made his way to his seat.

[The system does not have any information about this species]

[Host will have to get a sample for analysis first]

'Figures. Was it always like this though?' Victor questioned, but no reply was given.

Seeing Victor's attitude towards the man before them, they couldn't tell whether it was just a show of power, or whether he really didn't care for the presence of the man. Though, as they only knew him as Crow, they were more inclined to think it was the latter.

The man in question didn't say anything and just kept standing at the same position as Victor took his seat. The table within the room was a meeting table with room for ten people to sit, two at both ends, and eight on the sides. Of course, the room was still spacious enough even with such a big piece occupying a lot of space. Victor had taken the last seat on one of the sides with four seats, and just hung his right hand over the chair, while the other was placed on his lap that was slightly elevated since he placed his left leg on a part of the chair that gave some elevation. (A/N: Couldn't quite describe this scene to my satisfaction, but hope you get it. Basically, he is sitting like some gang leader on a chair, that sort of vibe.)

Victor just stayed so while looking at the pale-skinned man, as though ushering him to talk. The others in the room must have felt a bit threatened by the pale-skinned man, as they didn't as much as move a muscle the entire. Though it hadn't even been up to two minutes since the pale-skinned man entered the room, it must have felt like tens of minutes to them. A little time passed with the room being silent, as the tension was building up nicely. It was obvious that any longer than this, and it would reach a point of no return. This was when the pale-skinned man decided to break a little.

"Quite a nice place it is, isn't it?" The man said, causing the focus of the other three to snap fully to him, if they weren't already keeping him in their focus. The man had a bit of a British accent to his speech, but it didn't quite sound like the conc. one spoken by natives.

'Is he trying to fake being British? There should be other European countries that sound similar I guess, no need to jump to conclusions,' Victor said in his mind.

"Excuse the late introduction. Vince Linther is my name."

Receiving no response, the man continued. "I don't enjoy wasting time myself, so I will get to the point. But first…" He strayed off with his words as he walked closer to the table and took the head seat at the table, just in front of Victor, "Why don't I take a seat first?"

'Is this some sort of power play? Taking the seat that is designated for the leader?' This was the thought going through everyone's mind, even Victor. Though it was more laughable for Victor, even though he couldn't really find it funny, for the others, they were taking it more literally. It was also clear that this was not a table where they could sit at the moment, so they still remained standing by the side.n0𝗏𝓮𝗅𝐮𝗌𝗯.𝓬0𝔪

"I have come today by order of my master to recruit you into our order. You see, your exploits have really garnered some attention from all over, and my master would really like to have you to herself." The man said in a calm and relaxed tone while sitting comfortably on the seat. Compared to him, Victor was rather razz and uncultured at that moment, but there was no mistaking it. Both men still emitted quite the oppressive pressure without even trying.

Seeing that Victor did not respond and still wasn't paying him much attention, Vince decided to go a bit further. "You see, you seem not to be the only Crow I know." This statement brought all eyes on him once again, before the eyes slowly shifted towards Victor, and back.

'Really, how did a plan to leave this city turn so…' Victor thought in his mind.

It was obvious he wasn't the actual Crow, so to him it came as no surprise, though he could tell that this would be a problem later if nothing else.

"And, we would like to know more about you, Crow." Vince said. He was also curious himself, and the burning tattoos were also something.

To say the least, this wasn't the best intimidation Victor had seen. Even the movies portrayed it better, or maybe this guy was just used to applying force that talking was a hassle?

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Whatever.

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It seemed like it was time for Victor to use something he had learned by chance when he went grinding recently.

Victor still hadn't turned to look at the man before he spoke, "Where does a half made vampire get the guts to threaten me?" Victor said with a clear calm voice, still not looking at Vince.

The others in the room once again focused their gazes on Vince after hearing Victor call him a vampire. This race was one of the ones that had made a living outside the dungeons after a certain dungeon break, and they were feared by people, so to think one would be in their midst like that. They had completely forgotten that Victor said half somewhere, and the vampire in the sentence caught their attention. To their greatest shock however, what they were witnessing wasn't what they thought a vampire would be like at all.

Unlike his earlier nature portrayed, the current Vince in that moment after Victor spoke was panting, and he was panting hard. Hands on the table and all, a few beads of sweat seemed to have formed on his face, and for a supposed vampire, that was really telling.

'What is this guy exactly? What was that?' Were the questions in Vince's head, but voicing them out would be difficult at that moment. It was like he would be killed that instant or as though he had died somehow, but was still alive. There were no words to describe it, but all Vince could say was, 'Terrifying. I have to be cautious.' He thought. For the man before him to even know he wasn't a fully made vampire, it said more than enough, for this was not something one could just figure out.

It was also at this moment that Bryce noticed the difference in the shape of the pale-skinned man's ear, as his long hair that reached his shoulders covered them earlier.

Victor had discovered that apart from his skill terror, there was something else that he could utilize readily and get similar effects. Maybe it was because it never appeared in his system, so he almost forgot about it and didn't even think along those lines, but killing intent was very useful now that he knew of it.

The fact that he was a zombie didn't help much, either. As zombies didn't really have much intent in their actions, except for wanting to eat brain or whatever it was zombies would be wanting to do, when they do have intent, it's mostly a very strong one to hunt the living and things like that. Things Victor showed no interest in.

It seemed like he would have to show a certain amount of intent before it was possible for others to catch on to it at first, but after practicing and wasting much longer than necessary in the cave partly because of this, Victor was satisfied with the results. Really, thinking about controlling his skills more was an unknown blessing. It also seemed like the higher the level of his skills, the better his control over it, but that came with the territory, so there was no surprise there.

Though Victor had been looking or a way to mix in his killing intent with his skill Terror and couldn't succeed, he was well satisfied by its effects on Vince. What he had done was to direct it solely at Vince so as not to affect the others. Vince was somewhat of a vampire, so he had some level of mental fortitude, unlike normal humans. Victor could have attached the killing intent to his voice and make it more dreadful for the receiver, but that was a AOE move he didn't want to play at the moment.

Well, not that it mattered.

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"Me…" Vince was about to say something, but was cut off.

"Vince, was it?"

"Yes, Sir." He responded, with an unknown level of respect he didn't plan for.

'What? He's now a sir?' Everybody else thought. Seeing as the supposed vampire became so respectful, the earlier worries of the other three reduced. They knew Crow was strong, but against a vampire, they didn't have much confidence that Crow could win. Though, that matter had been alleviated now.

Seeing the sudden respect, Victor just ignored it and continued. "If you have a way to get out of this city, maybe I'll listen to you again." Victor said. "Surely you do, after all, you did enter here by yourself."

"Yes, I can. I can create teleportation circles to take us to, our base?" He asked as though not completely sure he wanted to say the words. Victor had not agreed to follow him yet, so taking him to their base was kind of…

"That's not possible, there is someone or something blocking off the space within the city."

"Yes, but my power works a bit differently, more like from a mystic source, so it is not affected." Vince replied.

"Oh?" 'So that's how he got in? Neat, that'll work.' "Alright, I'll see this boss of yours, and if she has something good to offer, maybe I'll consider it." Victor said.

"That is great." The overbearing middle aged respectable man that sat on the head seat was no where to be found as Vince almost curled himself in the seat and answered diligently the questions Victor asked.

"Also, I will like to meet this other Crow you spoke of." Victor said, as he stood up and motioned for Vince to get along with whatever he needed to do, as he was sure there would be some preparations or something.

Caught a little off guard, Vince stopped before he began doing what he was about to do, "Sir, that might…" Cut off again, he really didn't have much he could do.

"Make it happen. Now be fast." Victor said with finality before turning to the other three. "Well.."

Mark was a bit shaken, maybe because he had been standing still for some time. "Well, Crow. Will we still be seeing you?" He asked.

'That's what he's worried about? Well, I do understand why though.' Having connections with someone as legendary as Crow was not something anyone would want to forego so easily, but then again these guys couldn't do shit either way. 'Maybe if I do need something, they can help. Their relationship is not all that useless.' Victor thought to himself.

"If I do need something in the future, I will definitely remember you guys." Victor said. Of course, he ended up not having much time with the head of the Beechmon family, but that was ok.n0𝓋𝐞𝓛𝑈𝓈𝑏.𝚌0𝓂

As Victor turned, he saw that Vince was already standing within a slightly glowing circle that resembled a magic circle, if it wasn't. He stepped in, and with the words, "Let's go." They disappeared into nothingness together with the circle, before the eyes of the three men.

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"Fuck…" Bryce Exclaimed as he fell on a seat.

The moment Victor and Vince left, the three of them felt like a huge weight had been lifted from their shoulders. The former pressure and tension in the room had disappeared immediately, and they all heaved a sigh of relief. It was quite certain where they stood in the power scale, and they now knew to be more cautious if nothing else. From the man who they had mistaken to be a vampire to the one who was respected by a vampire… they certainly had seen enough for the day.

"I will be taking my leave. After this experience, I think I need to go back and rest." Arnold Beechmon, the head of the Beechmon family said. He had taken a seat himself to maybe help calm himself, and it seemed to have help.

As he stood up to leave, Mark spoke, "remember, word of what happened here should not fall on just any ears." Mark's voice carried a serious undertone as he said this. Fortunately, Arnold need not be told about such a matter. He was never planning to let it fall on unwanted ears. If the Crow came for his and his entire family's heads, they wouldn't be able to do anything and would probably disappear in a single night. Arnold believed Crow to be that capable.

With a nod and words of affirmation, Mark sent him off, "Farewell, go safely. It's a busy night."

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"Here we are, sir." Vince said, as he and Victor appeared in another place entirely different from Mark's office, not unexpectedly.

pᴀɴ-ᴅᴀ-. "Drop the sir." Victor said. Suddenly having such a honorific attached to his name-

"Yes, si- Alright." Vince replied. "We are now outside my master's place, please, follow me inside." Vince said, before Victor gestured for him to take the lead.

They were currently in a very dense forest that seemed to have no openings to let one see the sky. The place was naturally very dark as it was currently night time, but Victor was sure that it wouldn't change much even though it was daytime. Seeing such an environment with such terrain, Victor was curious to see what kind of creature Vince's master was. He had exposed that his master was female, so Victor was led to think along the lines of an Elf-

'No need to overanalyze what I haven't seen. For now, let's just go with the flow.' Victor said in his mind as they approached a dimly lit area. After that section, stood an enormous house. The size of the house was very big indeed, and Victor was sure it was something he had only seen vampire families have. Though it was back on earth that he saw it on television, he had come to know that some of his knowledge about monsters and supernatural creatures from earth were viable here, so at least he now had an idea of what to expect.

'I wonder how vampires are like.' Victor thought.

When they got to the door, Vince went forward and opened the door Victor to enter, as even from outside, Victor could spot a very fashionable and beautiful interior. He might have become a zombie, but that didn't mean he didn't appreciate beauty.

Victor was about to say something, as he felt the beauty of the house brought a good start to his experience in the house, but then, someone had to come spoil the positive mood.

Before the double doors that led into the house could fully swing open, someone from within held them from opening any further, then a man resembling a cow came out of the house through the door before shutting it behind him. It was more appropriate to say that this was a cow person? Or something similar. It reminded Victor of the minotaur he fought in the dungeon, but this one was more human looking.

"Hey Vince, what is this pest you have brought with you. Why do you treat it with such res-" Unfortunately for this cow looking creature, he wouldn't be opportuned to know who Victor was at the moment, as before he finished his sentence, he slumped and collapsed on the ground.

Vince must have panicked a bit, but after seeing that the thing was still breathing and nothing seemed to be wrong, he just wearily looked at Victor before opening the door once again and inviting Victor in. Vince took a glance back at the thing now lying on the floor outside, and as Victor went further in, he signaled for the maids to take care of it.

He must have thought that Victor just put the cow like creature to sleep, and was grateful that Victor showed such mercy.

"Please, allow me to inform my master of your arrival. She must be sleeping by now." Vince said before he disappeared. Victor didn't do much, as he suspected that Vince's master didn't account for him to be able to overpower Vince, so she wouldn't have thought of him as one with much importance. Victor explored the house while waiting for Vince or his master, not afraid to get lost within the castle of a house. If he didn't have the map in his system, he had already placed his teleportation mark on the house, so getting lost wasn't something he would worry about.

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It was taking too long for Vince or his master to come, as Victor began to think. 'For THE CROW, isn't this taking too long for them to get back to me? I mean being such a legend, they should be somewhat afraid of me shouldn't they?'

After some more time passed and Victor was getting bored of walking around the house, he decided to go back to the entrance, may be they were searching for him?

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Elsewhere in the house..

"Master! You shouldn't ignore this like so! Crow really isn't someone you can mess with!" Vince said out loud in frustration. His master had been refusing to do things according to host report of Crow being very dangerous. It was understandable since his mater knew the real Crow and have even met him, so there was no way for there to be another Crow. She had her own conclusions in fact..

"You dare raise your voice at me? Do you want to die prematurely? A mere half wit like you actually has such guts?" The lady said, making Vince shiver under her tone. She turned her head back facing the other side of her bed as she was still lying down not wanting anything to disturb her sleep.

.ᴄO,ᴍ "I know master, but at least, meet him first. Maybe you'll change your mind when you meet him yourself." Vince said again following immediately after the lady spoke.

She was a bit taken aback by Vince's persistence. Normally, he would have shut up after a threat like that, but this person who is impersonating the Crow is actually enough to make Vince who is the most loyal talk back, "Hmph.. Whatever. I've changed my mind, I'll meet this imposter. And… Haven't I warned you not to call me master? Refer to me as mistress.." To the last part however, she got no reply. 'Tut, you're lucky that I still have use for you, if not..' She thought.

While in Vince's mind, he couldn't even imagine himself doing that. He knew he was at her mercy and all, but he could never stoop to such level and become part of those… Anyway, he at least had succeeded in convincing her to meet THE CROW.

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It didn't take long after that before Vince and his master, or mistress, came walking down the flight of stairs that decorated the main hall of the house. Coincidentally, that was also at the same time Victor was coming back from his walk around the house.

'The guts to even go walking around my.. house.' The lady said in her head as she saw Victor. He didn't have his hood on, so his face was completely visible with the boiling lava tattoos running through them like expensive designs.

'What kind of demon is that?' She thought to herself.

"Are you the imposter that pretends to be The Crow?" She asked while coming down the stairs. Hearing this, Vince flinched a bit and rushed before her to the floor where the stairs end.

"Please, forgive my master sir, she is just getting up from sleep and is a bit cranky." Vince tried to explain with a weary smile plastered on his face.

'From sleep? Does she sleep in such a dress? Or what exactly is that?' Victor thought to himself as the lady walked down the stairs herself. She was wearing something Victor could only describe as a dress with extra extra protection. There just wasn't any other way to describe it. With literal metal parts hanging from several places, and the somewhat rigid shape of the dress, there really was no other way he could look at it.

It had come to the point where he needed to act the part of being such a legend, so Victor switched to Crow mode. If he was right, demons only respect power, and even though they are a very intelligent and developed race, they still base their superiority on power.

Knowing this, the moment the lady touched the floor which wasn't part of the stairs, Victor turned and glared at her intently. Just like he infused his killing intent into his voice the previous time, this time it was his eyes. The voice was a bit harder to control not to affect multiple targets, so Victor figured the eyes were better.

The lady had her eyes focused elsewhere as she made her way down the final step, ignoring the man who stood before her. But, that didn't last for long. It wasn't for a brief moment, not at all. She felt like she was tossed before a mighty predator and had nowhere to escape to. Before her eyes could even snap back towards where this intent was coming from, her instincts had kicked in, and she tried to distance herself as much as possible from the threat. When her eyes had set on the one giving out such terrifying intent, she had already jumped back to the top of the stairs.n0𝓋𝐞𝓛𝑈𝓈𝑏.𝚌0𝓂

At that moment, countless thoughts must have been running through her head as she looked at the different options she had. Vince on the other hand was surprised at what was happening, as to his knowledge, nothing had actually happened yet. Before he could speak again, THE CROW spoke.

"Come here." In a dead voice, Victor spoke. As always.

Vince hearing his voice immediately turned to look at his master who was now on guard above the stairs. He was going to intervene, but the reaction that came from his own master shocked him greatly, as he would never have ever imagined it.

In less than two seconds, the lady above the stairs was kneeling before Victor, as Victor stood with his hands held behind his back like the master of the house.

'I need to practice all these things like posture and the rest now.' Victor said in his mind. He had always been a hunter, and the world he had to survive in, how you stand or look didn't really matter, so now he figured it would be a good idea to not just be powerful, but look powerful.

"Speak your name." Victor said. At this point, he was just getting inspiration from a character in an English show he had seen from earth.

"Werzelya.. Werzelya Duragon of the Duragon family…" Before she continued, Victor could tell he wouldn't be needing the extra information, so he just cut her off there.

"Enough."

Seeing the complete change in character of the woman before him now, Victor, not looking at both her and Vince turned towards the path he had come in from;

"Walk with me."

n0𝗏𝓮𝗅𝐮𝗌𝗯.𝓬0𝔪

(HAPPY NEW MONTH EVERYONE!!)

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As it was the lady's house to begin with, Victor naturally left her to lead the way while they talked. Contrary to his earlier attitude, where he showed his dominance and authority, he acted normal for the rest of the time. He did maintain a good posture and rhythm like some noble as they walked, but with his hands in his pockets.

From the discussion they had, Victor got to know that the lady, Werzelya, was indeed a demon. Her family was one of the royal families of the demon race, but that was to be put aside as they were no longer in the world where she came from. Apparently, Werzelya was actually part of an organization. The organization had been in search of Victor for a while at that point, after learning of what he did in the dungeons. They didn't care about his motives as to why he did what he did, but seeing as their organization wasn't for the angels and goodie two shoes, they sorted to invite Victor to become a part of them.

The thing is, they didn't really expect that he would be this powerful. Well, for now, only Werzelya was aware of Victor's strength and the rest of the organization wasn't, but Victor was sure that she would deliver the message. As of what he heard from her, he was going to be used as one of the lackeys and would be a dog of the organization, but really… 'DO they have shit for brains? To come to a conclusion that you will be able to control a man that eradicated what might have been the most difficult dungeon together with a rich amount of rankers…' Honestly, Victor didn't know what to think of them. One thing was for sure though; his evaluation of them had dropped. What was the point of being in an organization with such stupid people?

Putting that aside and the other things he had learned from Werzelya, there was one thing that picked Victor's interest and it was the mention of vampires. He had heard earlier during one of his visits to the underground market about their existence, and he also heard from Mark that they had a settlement somewhere away from the city. Ever since, he had been wanting to pay them a visit.

Vampires were undead creatures, and Victor couldn't help but think what would happen when he integrated them into himself. As they would be a perfect fit, he had to try it by all means. 'As for the demons… I can do that later; let's go in an orderly fashion first.' Victor said in his mind. The thought had crossed his mind at least twice to eat Werzelya and get some evolution materials from the demon, but he didn't. There wouldn't be enough material anyway, so there was no problem.

,c,m Victor got from Werzelya and Vince the location of the vampires after they were done with every other important topic of his interest. He had thought to take Vince with him, as Vince would be looked down upon by the pure-blooded vampires, but there was no need. Killing a few would get him the same results he wants. After all, he wasn't going there to make friends; he would be there to kill their kin, so-

"Hmm, how exactly did you know I would be in the underground market even though I didn't plan to go there originally? You mentioned something about sightseeing?" Victor asked.

'To think it would be referred to as sightseeing…' Vince said in his mind. "I am able to see small glimpses of the near future. It's one of my powers." Vince said, as he explained.

Vince had a great power, but the problem was that he only got vague glimpses of what would happen in the near future. With these visions, it would be incredibly difficult to make out anything, so that's why he normally doesn't rely on it. Though having this weakness, it became quite clear that there must be a way for him to better use his power, as if not he wouldn't have been able to pinpoint everything about Victor. The thing was that to get an accurate and precise vision of what was to come, Vince needed to indulge in sexual intercourse with his master, or mistress in such occasion. He wouldn't enjoy the sex, though, as he would be receiving the divinity the entire time, and his body would be left to move mindlessly. Quickly, Victor could see how the whole thing would go, and why he wasn't using the power. If according to Vince, this was the third time he had used the power in his life, then Victor's assumptions were correct. 'Given the way Demons look at vampires, not to mention halves, Werzelya must have been really desperate. I wonder…'

After their discussion, Victor was provided with a room and also prompted that by the next morning, the house would be moved, so he shouldn't be alert. 'What is this, castlevania?' Victor thought to himself. Since he couldn't sleep, he spent his time on other things.

For now, Victor had set out to do some things. First was to visit the vampires, then after that he would visit the organization that Werzelya was a part of. He heard from her that there were a couple of vampires in the organization that held major positions and roles, so he wanted to finish his business with their kindred before coming to face them. He didn't really see himself staying in such an organization run by foolish leaders, but after learning that they were the most feared and obscure group that every nation was weary of, Victor thought it would be a good experience to visit the place, at least once. After doing those two things, he was really interested in meeting the actual Crow and seeing what he was like. There was no motive behind this thought of his, he simply had nothing better to do at the moment is all.

With these in mind, he just whiled away time as he waited for time to come.

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Elsewhere in the castle of a house owned by Werzelya, she could be seen sitting on her bed in deep thoughts. Only she knew what she was thinking as she allowed herself to lie down and face the ceiling with her eyes. "I still need to warn them. He is calm, but then, it's that calmness that is frightening the most." She said before rolling onto her bed.

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