Hero of Darkness

Chapter 27: Power Boost

Morning arose and Kahn woke up from his fulfilling slumber. Unlike his previous life, he didn't get any dreams about how his life would be different & what kind of love life he wanted. Rather, he would dream about how he rose in strength and sit atop this entire world; beneath no one, not even the Gods.

[System, tell me my current Stats.]

Kahn commanded the system since he ate around 50 monster cores before falling asleep. Thanks to his Ability Absorption divine ability he chose before, all the cores he ate would be directly absorbed in his body without any wastage or adversely affecting his physique.

As per the knowledge he gained from reading books in the city library, people in this world couldn't directly just swallow Mana Ores or Monster Cores to increase their physical or magical strength & capacity. Even the most sensitive beings to magic such as Elves and Angels had to dilute the cores and magical elements in them first and then absorb them over a long time. Even absorbing a high-grade core would take them 2 to 3 weeks; that too if they barely took any breaks.

And that is why, very few people had incredibly stronger physiques or magical abilities as gaining strength in this world needed a lot of resources as well as time. Elves lived around 500 years if they didn't get killed or died because of some disease and Angels lived up to 2 thousand years. Even the most Ancient Dragons couldn't live past 4 to 5 thousand years.

The longer you lived and the more resources you had, the stronger you'll become. That's how the natural law of gaining strength worked here. Even amongst the chosen Heroes, if nobody else picked the Ability Absorption divine ability as Kahn did, then his ability to absorb these monster cores would be the highest among all the living creatures in this world. Naturally, many beings currently surpassed Kahn by a huge margin, but Kahn had far more potential than all of them.

Note : Some low-grade abilities and skills have been merged under high-grade ones the Host currently possesses & some have been discarded as they no longer have any use to the Host.]

7 Levels! Kahn remembered being level 35 just yesterday. Eating 50 high-grade B Rank Cores raised his level by 7 levels. Even his strength had become nearly twice than before.

Kahn realized that as your Levels rose, the attributes would raise by a big margin, more with each level. Like if his stats had 20 points, after his level rose; the increase would be by 30-40 points instead of 20. As his level increases, so will the extra points he'd get.

"Good. This will make the training & my survival a bit easier." said Kahn and went to take a bath.

Kahn left in a hurry in the early morning. Instead of going to adventurer association, Kahn went towards the North gate of the city. This part of the city was mainly known for its Entertainment area like how Earth had Red-light areas in the city known for Pubs, Bars & Strip Clubs.

unoccupied as he drank some herbal tea. Unlike Earth, there was no such thing as coffee in Rakos Empire as per his

one based on it? No complaints though.. This is perfect for the morning.] Kahn said as he sipped the aromatic tea bit by bit in a black clay

under black cloak came towards Kahn's table and

as he glanced at the

tasks. If you're done, let's leave quickly. I have a perfect place to train you." said the cloaked figure and

a little bit surprised to see the person but didn't

similar to a snake and his hands and legs were covered in reptile-like skin. The greenish hue in the skin color gave this person an appearance similar to a forest snake. The person even had a tongue of a snake which came

I'm in a hurry as well. We'll only get today to learn as much as I can." said Kahn and followed after

the houses were basically empty & near to falling in the

used to be one of the most important areas of the city a few decades ago before the war between different powers & gangs destroyed it as collateral damage. And nobody tried to rebuild it as well. So it became the best area for people in our line of work

train me in 2 ways. One where you attack me with your assassin's skills and techniques as I try to defend against them and

the understanding of the surrounding, our target and their weaknesses. We don't do much damage even with high-grade weapons, but rather our hiding skills and the that one final hit when we

planning & agreement. Throughout their entire time during the training, the snakekin taught Kahn how

of the people that came with Illya to kill him, he

& combat

Kahn executing this ability to a level that exceeded normal level Assassins who were in the profession for some time. Compared to them, Kahn not only learned

short time, concealment ability helped one to merge in

no different than Arkham's when he fought Kahn during the assessment test and found his