[[[THRILL]]]

Void knew how he would proceed further. He knew they had some maturing to do. Valencia was naive and timid and Cruden was rash and easily led by his emotions. He wanted to create a skill that would change their emotions but was worried about being immoral.

He knew he had his work cut out for him. He had Valencia the flower. He had decided the perfect fate for the flower. It wanted to harm her but he would set it as her protector.

He quickly handed out the upgrades. He watched as his experience points slowly disappeared and were back to zero. This was a huge investment. He had even had to sacrifice bits of his body. He felt weak.

But with the plan, he had set up. The rewards would be bountiful. He smiled thinking about the potential rewards.

Void waved his blurry hands and Valencia and Cruden disappeared from space but in the next moment they left. Notifications popped up

[[[CALCULATING LOAN...]]]

[[[EMERGENCY RESUMMONING]]]

[[INCREASE LOAN RATE+10%]]

[[[NUMBER OF SUMMONS IN DANGER: 1]]

[[INCREASE LOAN RATE +5%]]

[[ CURRENT AMOUNT OF EXP POINTS: 0]]

[[INCREASE LOAN RATE+20%]]

[[[TOTAL INTEREST LOAN...]]]

[[35%]]

[LOAN SHARK ACTIVATED]

Void started to feel pain circulating through his entire body. It was fortunate that the system waited before Valencia and Cruden had left. Bits of his body started to deteriorate. He looked at his notification and saw his experience points decreasing. It jumped from 0% to -13,500.

Luckily it was a small loan. He could not bear it if it was a larger sum. He vowed there and then to never accept a loan from hope. He prayed now more than ever that his plan works.

Back at Wuhan,

Cruden was very displeased. Void had sent an embodiment of light with him. It was Valencia. In the meeting when he heard Valencia would be accompanying him, he wanted to reject but he knew he could not.

In his mind, it spoke volumes of how his lord now regarded him. To make matters worse, He had awoken back into the blood of ice.

He felt the many changes occurring in his body. His entire body was changing. He could feel his muscles getting tighter. He felt his heartbeat becoming stronger. If Valencia was not present he would have moaned.

It took a while for the changes to settle down, so he took the time to view his notification panel.

His whole system had been given an upgrade. He could now see hp and stats. As soon as his eyes went over them. He immediately knew what they represented. Void made sure to give them more information about the different aspects of the system. Every time he felt a wave of energy increase in his body he would see the stats increase.

Name: Cruden Lynch Title: The Reaper Attribute: Darkness (Low Mid-level)

Body: Dark Body

Level:20/40 HP: 500/500 Mana: 250/250 Status: Healthy

Strength +2 Defence +1 Reflex +2 Agility+1

5 Passive Skills 3 Special Skills 4 Active Skills

Life mission: get revenge for family

Main mission: reach level 40

Submissions: 3

He felt much more power and control over the darkness. Before he felt like it was an extension of him but now it was different. He felt like he was in the darkness.

He immediately utilised one of the skills his lord had given him.

DIMENSION: This allows the user to escape confinements once per day. In addition, allows to user to summon a space for battles.

Dimension, this was one of the special skills given by void. He had detached a part of his body. It had two purposes, one was for escaping and the other was for setting up a space. Anything killed in space by Valencia or Cruden would drop a reward. The reward would be based on the personal belongings of the target captured. The reward is based on a random selection. What made the space more special was every enemy killed would be transported to void in the term of EXP.

This was one of Void's many ideas. He wondered if the system in the games did the same thing. Reward the player with a random time and take the rest. He did not care now. He was proud of how great his mind was.

A space tear ripped open in front of Cruden and he quickly jumped into it with Valencia following suit.

The icy woman was still making her way towards Crow and the unconscious girl. Crow was still heavily poisoned and suffering from the Yin Qi. He saw the woman approaching but he was helpless.

The icy woman had no idea what was happening behind her.

A space tear appeared above the ice block then Cruden walked out. Valencia could now see Cruden's body. He was a young child, just like her. She saw the bandage on Cruden's right hand and floated toward encasing it in her light.

Cruden looked on with amazement. His hand had been completely useless but now he felt no pain from it. He quickly unbandaged it and he saw his entire arm had been healed. In addition, the heaviness he felt in his body after being poisoned disappeared. He realized her powers were different than his

He nodded and thanked her but Valencia did not respond but her light twinkled a few times. She was too embarrassed. Cruden looked away and stared at the woman's back.

Upon seeing the woman before him again, Cruden was angered. She had embarrassed him before his lord. He wanted nothing but to prove his worth. He was the only one of the two to be looked down on. He was ready to teach her a lesson.

He activated his invisibility skill and rushed forward to give her a good smack but who would have thought as soon as he made a move. The woman turned around. She had sensed killing intent being targeted towards her but when she turned around and saw nothing but a ball of light. The hairs on her neck stood on end. She reacted instantly and put her guard up, throwing out two talismans.

One talisman flew out and circled around her continuously and the other flew towards the light. The woman was surprised, to say the least. For something to approach her so close without her noticing must be dealt with utmost caution.

Valencia just stood there floating in the air. She saw Cruden disappear and then The woman had suddenly attacked her. Valencia wanted to dodge but the talisman was too fast. Luckily she was in her soul form and the attack phased through her.

She instinctively started to shout out for Cruden. "Brother Help!"

The icy woman was not alarmed that her attack missed. She had numerous ways to attack, she pulled out another weapon from her storage ring, but before she could use it. A loud bang erupted beside her face causing her body to be thrown back.

The talisman she had thrown out early had easily stopped the attack. While the attack did not reach her. The pure force of the attack caused her body to be pushed away.

Her eyes moved and fell on the culprit and it was not who she had anticipated. It was the boy she had trapped in the block of ice. The icy woman did not want to believe her eyes. she dispelled her ice seal and the truth was right before her eyes. She knew at one point the boy was in her grasp. But now he had escaped and had even attacked her.

When Cruden had attacked, the invisibility skill disappeared, his body was completely in the open. He smiled sheepishly as he quickly distanced himself. Valencia had also made her way beside Cruden.

Cruden had activated bangx2. He had imposed two bangs together. He had tried this skill in his last battle with the puppet master and the results were fruitful.

He looked down at his arm. The blood vessels were destroyed and his arm was bleeding but it was not like before. His body could barely manage its destructive might especially with how concentrated his darkness was now. He could tell that bangx2 was stronger than before but it was incapable of damaging the woman.

He was a little apprehensive to use bangx3 because it had destroyed his hand before but with Valencia being here and his new body. He could use it to his heart's extent.

Crow witnessed everything that happened. If he could his head. He would. "Why did he not escape when he had the chance?" He knew Cruden was a fool but he did not know he was a hopeless fool.

It was foolish of you to not escape. More foolish of you to attack me. Now I will not let you go. She acted. Her body floated in the air and she pointed down. An intense blue light flashed from her finger and an ice gale gathered before her. In the next instant, A huge icy finger appeared.

The woman pressed her finger forward and the huge icy finger descended. She wanted to erase their existence.

Cruden and Valencia looked on helplessly. Cruden had tried to dodge the attack but he came to the sad realization that the air around him had been locked down but he did not admit defeat. In fact, a huge smile was plastered on his face, his heart was raising. For some reason, he was getting excited.

This was probably due to the passive skill that void had given him.

BATTLE INTENT LVL1: whenever the user is in a tough situation but refuses to yield, increase the user's thrill of battle. The user is able to increase one skill or stat lvl +1. (unable to be used on special skills).

Valencia wanted to run away but she knew this battle was important for her brother and she would never abandon her brother.

Cruden looked to the special skills tab and focused on one skill in particular. The tyrant skill.

Void had worked real hard on the special skills for Cruden and Valencia. Even more so on Cruden's special skill. Resulting in focusing more attentions so EXP final results of the tyrant skill.

TYRANT LVL 1: user receives 5% of the dark immortal's power. Conditions. Increases all stats +3. 3 minutes/ once per month. (requires 90%of HP and 70% of mana).

He did not waste any time and instantly activated the skill.