Even after the two testified, it took the strangers to reveal themselves from beyond the mountain for the rest of the team to enter the same knowing that Yeon-Woo and Raith were in due to their high perception senses.
"They look human?..." It came out like a question because Yujin wasn't sure what to call them, although they had crimson skin almost like the orcs but they were more lithe and human looking with pointed ears and hairs of different colors. Their attires were more developed than that of the orcs and even their weapons too.
"You're right... and they seem to be the ones that attacked us with arrows when we were trying to find our way here," Yeon-Woo stated, narrowing his eyes as he looked at the ones with bows amongst them all.
"Then what do we do? Fight?" Sung Min asked.
"Hell, do we even look like we can fight that number with our state right now?" Chong-Yol immediately threw his reply at him with frustration written all over his heavy gaze.
"Are you seriously worried about numbers?" Ga-Yun turned her head to Raith.
"What?"
"I heard you command a legion of armies, you can summon them or something."
"I can't do that right now."
"Ugh? Why not?!" She yelled out her dissatisfaction with Raith's answer.
"I don't know why too... my energy recovery rate has been kinda low," Raith said looking down.
[Dark Points: 0034/1125]
[Cosmic Points: 3044/5270]
"Ohhh...? Then we are fucked uh?"
"Seems so." Raith ascertained after Ga-Yun.
Whim!
Thud!
One of them jumped from the mountain high into the sky and stomped on the ground in front of them scattering dust around. He gently walked forward with a majestic flair to the way he carried both his feet and hands, he was donned in golden armor with a white tunic, and on the breastplate of the armor was an engraving of a two-headed lion.
"Humans! Surrender yourselves willing now and we can give you a nice torture or decide to be stupid and you will experience an incredible definition of hell." He declared with a nasty expression on his face, one brow and eyes widened than the other with a wide grin as though he was about to enjoy crushing something.
They exchange glances–
The monster can talk! Even though they were so shocked they kept a decorum. They were all tired and didn't need to be told that it would be a very big loss for them should they decide to act stupid according to the humanoid monster.
'Nice torture' coming from this monster that stood in front of them wasn't sounding like it was going to be any nice but 'experiencing the definition of hell' sounded worse so they opted for the initial.
They slowly went on their knees, all of them except Raith who was standing tall like a model, flaunting his incredible body and straightness.
The monster moved closer to him and stood nose to nose with him‐ thanks to that he found out that Raith was taller than him and had to crane his neck up a little bit.
"What do you think you are doing?"
Raith's looked down at the monster, "I surrender, don't get me wrong. It is just that I can't kneel."
"Huh? Are you insane? Who surrenders without kneeling?!"
"Me..." Raith bear down his eyeballs such that it was almost sinking into his lower lids.
"Ah, you have a lot of gut for a human"
"And you have quite the courage for a monster, although I have never seen a monster that can speak human language... so I guess you all must be quite intelligent."
The humanoid frowned, "I will kill you."
"Yes sure, I'm just going to rise again or someth–
Stab!
Raith paused with his hand shaking, he looked down and saw that the humanoid and dug a silver dagger deep into his belly making sure to attack his pressure points.
Blood dripped down his mouth effortlessly and like that he sank to his knee, dragging the tunic that was attached to the humanoid's armor as he went down– like a tragic death scene.
The humanoid monster grabbed his hand forcefully from his tunic and threw it away causing Raith to stagger back as he was a tad away from being on his knees, he fell on his back and lay there while blood streamed out of his belly.
"Hunter Raven-n-n*hiccup*" Ga-Yun cried, crocodile tears.
"We will miss you, man." Sung Min lowered his head in respect to the dead.
"Hunter Raven, to sacrifice your life to protect us, you deserve to be called a hero." Mok Jae-Hwa said, leaving him with a dagger.
"What are you doing?" The monster yelled.
"You have killed him, isn't it too harsh to let him depart with his favorite weapon? The dagger was like a wife to him." Mok Jae-Hwa said.
Thud!
Thud!
Two other humanoid monsters with pointed ears and human features landed and walked over to him, they were so like elves except for the crimson skin and yellow eyes.
"?ta nije uredu(what is wrong?)" They spoke a different language from the first humanoid monster who could speak Korean.
"Ubio sam jednog od njih, bio je buntovan. Ne brini, skupljam ove (I killed one of them, he was rebellious. Don't worry, I'm rounding up these ones )" He replied to the two that just landed who were also cladded in armor like his.
"I think they are talking about us," Yujin mumbled to Ga-Yun who was beside her.
"Of course." She replied with a frown fixated on the monsters before her.
"Do you think they are going to kill us?" Yujin asked again.
"Of course."
The other two stepped closer with large chains and cuffs in their hands, they rounded them together roughly and chained them to one another. Ushered them up rudely and began to pull them away.
"?ta da radimo s njim? (what should we do about him?)" One of them asked.
"Ostavite ga da trune ili da ga divljaci pojedu (Leave him to rot or to be eaten by the wildlings)" The first humanoid monster that jumped down replied and walked away giving Raith one last glance before he trekked forward with his majestic poise.
[You were killed trying to protect your comrades]
[Flipping pages of the Book Of Requiems to: The Good kind(Heroic)]
[Due to the status attribute of 'The Good Kind(Heroic) you will gain a permanent +10 stat increase in all your stats]
[You have died]
[Level Up!]
[Level Up!]
[Level Up!]
[Level Up!]
[Level Up!]
[Level Up!]
[You died from an incredibly high-level opponent]
[This failure will be considered a feat]
[Due to this feat you can exchange two skills for a high-level skill]
[Skills exchangeable]
- Dragon Power(UR)
- Dragon Barrier(SR)
- Expel(S)
- Naming(SSR)
- Commander King Body(UR)
- Moon Protection(SR)
- Blood Mist(SSR)
- Greed(UEX)
[Due to the title 'One who devours death' you will be revived]
Raith's mouth dropped as he opened his eyes to the pile of tabs in his front, six levels from just dying. It was the first time he had gained so much.
Over time, he had gained an understanding of the way leveling up worked, just like in games, it reaches a point when killing the same monster isn't able to make you level up the way it used to, not because they don't give XP but because the user's XP bar had grown larger due to increase in level, so instead of wasting one's energy on low-level monsters it is reasonable that one should go for a monster that will yield the expected XP for next level up– it was that way for Raith too, getting killed by monsters that he could easily handle cannot guarantee him a level up, maybe the first time but it would drastically reduce the next time, even the stats he receives will tremendously reduce.
With monsters that were stronger than him, he would gain massive levels but repeatedly dying in their hands doesn't guarantee that he would keep gaining massive level-ups, in fact, he'd stop leveling up on the third death.
This was huge, six levels in one go, not to say, he leveled up three times from dying in the fire, two times from being killed by the orcs, and another three times from his fight with the red Orc chief.
But what interested him the most was the feat. The feat that was made available to him was because he died from an incredibly strange person.
'...wow, the guy must be pretty strong. I have never seen skill grades like this in my life.'
It was another level entirely. The highest grade of skill Raith was used to was S. But on the tab of skills where he could give two of his skills to receive one of– he could see SR, USR... and even UEX which he knew of only in book thanks to Hallan Lamar.
"Which skills do I give? Which skill do I get?" Raith was met with a dilemma that involved wisdom to get out of. Which he had known of, at least for now.
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