Three days later.
The bright, full moon enveloping half the night sky splashed on the pitch-black ground with its illumination. The outlines of the leaves in the Forest of Monsters were clearly visible, but suddenly, a series of monsters' howls broke out throughout the tranquil forest. Countless, startled birds woke up from their slumber, flapped their wings, and soared into the sky fearfully to escape the close-approaching death, as well as the holder of the death aura.
Swoosh! Swoosh!!! Thud !!
Two gigantic silver wolves fell into the ground, sliced in two. Moonlight shined on the death goddess responsible for the death of this couple of Silver wolves; currently, the strongest monster, Rank 7, approaching Rank 8, and yet they couldn't fight at all, even when they ran for their lives, they couldn't outrun the girl.
Sakuya sighed; she was tired yet happy; finally, she had done it, secretly sneaking out every night to hunt down monsters proven not to be fruitless; she had finally achieved her goal, a step closer to her goal.
''Rank 10!"
Sakuya said and pumped her fist into the air.
''Let's check how much stronger I have become.'' Sakuya declared before checking her status.
[Sakuya Hishimiya]
Class: Magic Samurai
Age: 17
Female
Race: High Human
[Rank 10]
Level 93
Experience Value: 300/38600
Magic Power: 3120 (+80) ➤ 3200/3200
Magic: Wind, Dark
Attack: 1440 (+80) ➤ 1520
Defense: 940 (+ 80) ➤ 1020
Agility: 1500
Intelligence: 1140 (+ 80) ➤ 1220
Luck: 1110 (+80) ➤ 1190
BP: 160
SP: 10
Gift: Katana Kaze no Yoroichï
Skills: [Advanced Appraisal Level 8] [Language Comprehension] [Item box Level 6] [Kendo Level Max] [Swordsmanship Level Max] [Wind Slash] [Iaido Level 8] [Wind tornado Level 5] [Gale Slash Level 8] [Flying Slash Level 5] [Presence Detection Level 3] (New)
Special Abilities: [Dimensional Slash] [Shukuchi Level 2] (New) [Sword Intent Level 1] (New)
Titles: [Otherworlder] [Kendo Master] [ Yamato Nadeshiko ] [Kendo Fanatic] [S Queen] [Slayer] [Swordmaster] (New)
''Not bad but compared to those monsters, I still have a long to go.'' Sakuya sighed; although she had achieved considerable progress in those three days, she still felt like she was lacking; it wasn't enough. In reality, Sakuya knew pretty well that no matter what she did, she would not catch up to Alex as he kept on getting stronger and stronger. She knew she couldn't catch up. However, she was not discouraged, not hurts by this truth, she wished for one thing, to be able to stand together with him with them; although she would be unable to surpass him, she could at least watch his back with her abilities.
''Let's raise my skills.''
Sakuya added a hundred points on her ATK stat while the remaining points had been put on her INT stat. As for her SP, she spent them on her Shukuchi, Sword Intent, and presence detection skills.
Suddenly, after raising her presence detection skill to level 4, Sakuya detected an unusual presence coming from behind her; without turning back, she aimed her finger in that direction and fired.
''Who is there?"
Swoosh! Boom!
Small green sword energy fled out of Sakuya's finger and pierced through a tree behind her; a hole of the size of a tennis ball appeared on the tree; however, there was nobody there. Just as Sakuya felt chills down her spine and wanted to unsheath Yoroichï, a cold voice entered her ears.
''Don't move.''
Sakuya froze in place; she felt a cold hand against her neck, she gulped, she couldn't even detect this person until he got close to her, just as she was about to ask Alex what she was doing here, the man in question burst into laughter before giving Sakuya a slap over her toned butt and disappeared.
''You!"
''Hahaha! Sorry I couldn't help myself. Congratulations, by the way.'' Alex said as he sat on a tree branch overlooking Sakuya's figure from the higher point of view.
''Hmph! Thanks. What are you doing here?" Sakuya asked and jumped to sat next to Alex because the tree's branch was sturdy enough; it didn't break.
Staring at the moon in the sky, Alex answered.
''I have been following you since the beginning of your nocturnal adventure. Usually, I will only watch, not interfere but seeing what you have achieved today; I decided to come to cheer you. By the way, although I understand that you want to get stronger, not to fall behind, you must rest, rest is important, and we have decided to rest for few days before departing.''
There was nothing Sakuya could say as she knew she was guilty. That day, after they joined him and noticed that he had become a Saint, after the little episode, the three checked out the forest to see if there were any survivors; fortunately they found nine people, strangely those people had lost memory, even that boy Alex rescued was the same. This couldn't be more convenient as it would be too much hassle explaining everything that happened inside the dungeon, the three decided to lie.
After successfully bringing the survivors back and explained what happened, Alex and the girls decided to take few days of rest. They took this decision especially for Lilith, who told them that she lost the last most important person in her; Alex immediately thought of the old man's figure with butler clothes, Sebastian. So, to accompany Lilith until she calmed down, the group decided to rest, not do anything.
''Sorry, I know it's pretty insensible, but I must get stronger to be able to prevent that kind of tragedy from happening,'' Sakuya said after a long moment of silence.
Flick!
''Ouch! What is that for?" Sakuya glared at Alex, who had just flicked her forehead.
''I understand how you feel, I also don't want to lose anybody ever again, but you should know when to farm like crazy and when not. What would Lilith think if she saw you now? You train until you overdo it. I saw how you managed to acquire that skill, Shukuchi it's called, you tried and failed several times, you almost broke your legs. Please don't overdo it.'' Alex said and flicked Sakuya's forehead once more.
''Ouch! You are enjoying this, aren't you?" Sakuya glared at Alex and held her forehead.
''Hahaha, pretty much. Let's leave tomorrow. We will leave.'' Alex said as he tried to leave; however, Sakuya caught his arm and said.
''Let's stay a bit. I want to watch the moon and daydream.''
Looking at those beautiful dark eyes that could suck one in, Alex gave in and sat back.
''Let's daydream together!"