The monsters were pure black creatures with lizard-like features and glowing red eyes. One of the monsters Laine saw was about two meters long, and that was the smallest size.
Silva took out his sword and then looked at Gabriel. “You stay behind and protect yourself. Amber, you too. You’re strong, but I don’t want you to face danger right now.
Drake and Lily, you guys stay with me. Let’s take out these monsters,” Silva said. He brought out his wings and shot into the air.
He flew towards the horde of monsters at top speed, his sword exploding in abyssal flames.
He came down with so much speed that he caused several sonic booms. He slammed the sword into the ground as he landed, and abyssal flames exploded in all directions. Find exclusive stories on empire
The monsters were tossed in all directions, burned by his flames, but as soon as some were thrown away, more headed his way at full speed.
But Silva wasn’t worried. He had a good feeling about this fight. He might finally be able to level up after so long; it had been a while since he gathered enough EXP.
A monster came at him with full force, its mouth opening wide to bite his head off, but Silva vanished at the last moment and appeared on the monster.
He stabbed through its head and into its brain immediately, killing it. Two monsters tried to trap Silva in the center, but his speed was too much for them.
He leaped out of the way and killed both of them in a slash. The fight spiraled from there, with Silva taking the forefront. His speed was so great that it was hard for the monsters to get through.
And for the ones that got through, Drake and Lily took them out.
After some minutes, Silva got tired because the monsters were way too weak, but then something happened.
[You have Leveled up, 100SP]
[Unknown monsters bonus 1000SP]
He had leveled up and also gotten extra stat points, and he had killed only a few monsters.
“System, how did I level up?” Silva asked. ƒreeωebnovel.ƈom
[The amount of EXP gained from the monsters is high.]
The system gave a simple and straightforward answer, but that gave Silva the gist. These monsters were a gold mine.
Silva cloned himself and went full thrust. He didn’t let a single monster pass, and by the time he was done, he leveled up again.
This was something that had been extremely hard for him to do for a long time. Then all of a sudden, he got the chance to level up twice.
Silva felt the immediate temptation to enter the forest. He could tell that these monsters were the weakest of what the forest had to offer, so how much EXP would he gain if he went into the forest and fought the stronger ones?
“Well, whatever just happened, it was an extremely lousy plan. I expected better,” Silva said. He kicked a body of a monster as he walked.
“I feel this was an attempt on your life, Master,” Drake said.
“Could be me, could be Amber,” Silva said.
“I highly doubt that it was Amber they came for,” Lily said.
“That’s not an issue. Even if they came for me, they gave me the opportunity to level up. Also, I have a feeling that Amber knows who might have caused this attack,” Silva said and pointed at Amber as she was walking away from there.
“We follow her, right?” Lily asked.
“Well, duh. Whoever it is, I want to know, and I want to punish that person,” Silva said.
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Amber arrived at the manor of the mayor. Without saying anything, she entered. The guards didn’t even try to stop her; they could see that she was actually angry.
She barged into the manor and found her way to the office of the mayor.
The mayor, who was seated and working, looked up to see who entered his office, and when he saw Amber, he stood up in fright.
“It’s funny how you would do something so evil and still have the guts to sit down and work.
Didn’t you know that it was easy to figure out who caused that attack at the teleportation circle?
Only you can allow someone to tamper with the circle, so I know that you were the one that caused the attack.
“No, no, no, Amber, princess, I didn’t do anything of that sort! You have to believe me,” Zenit said and walked closer to Amber. Then he suddenly took out a blade and thrust it.
Amber was not expecting such a move, and so there was no way she could block the attack. She would be stabbed here and die.
But his hand stopped moving mid-air. Zenit looked at his hand and saw that someone had grabbed him. He looked up and saw that it was Silva.
“Really ballsy of you, Mayor Zenit. To think you would attack me, and right after that try to kill someone really close to me.
That is a real lot of guts,” Silva said with a smile, but that smile held so much rage that it looked like the smile of the devil.
Silva squeezed the arm of Zenit until all the bones shattered inside it.
“Arghhhhhhhh!” Zenit screamed loudly, but Silva punched his throat, shattering it completely, and threw him to the ground.
“Hell is too fashionable a place to send you to. I want to show you real torment here. Drake, take Amber back to the hotel and report what happened.
Zenit caused the attack, and he ran away after that, fleeing completely,” Silva said.
“Silva, why don’t you let me take him down? I want to be the one to do it,” Amber said.
“Amber, I know you do, but what I and Lily are about to do, even you won’t be able to stomach it,” Silva said.
Drake took her by the hand. They left the room and shut the doors.
“Lily, start by slowly melting his insides. We’ll know what to do after that,” Silva said.
