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.

crowded restaurants in this area called the Golden Crow. He waited on a table that was unoccupied as he drank some herbal tea. Unlike Earth, there was no such thing as coffee in

culture and now residents of this world created a different one based on it? No complaints though.. This is

came towards Kahn's table and sat next to

earlier than expected." said Kahn as he glanced at

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

see the person but didn't show

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 out of his mouth every 5th

as well. We'll only get today to learn as much

they reached a desolate area where the houses were basically empty & near to falling

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

me in 2 ways. One where you attack me with your assassin's skills and techniques as I try to defend against them and other where I make attempts on you using the skills you'll teach me. I want to understand both sides of the battle." said

Assassin. Our job needs 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

professional Assassin and somehow Solomon had managed to have him train Kahn after their yesterday's planning & agreement. Throughout their entire time during the training, the snakekin taught Kahn how to adjust

had already acquired the Stealth ability after killing one of the people that came with Illya to kill him, he was already a step

combat techniques mastery blessings, had already raised his efficiency and

Snakekin was left awestruck after he saw 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 it in just 4 to 5 hours but also improved in it at

the Assassins become invisible for a short time, concealment ability helped one to merge in the

expression was no different than Arkham's when he fought Kahn