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[Level: 2]

[Strength - 12]

[Agility - 16]

[Stamina - 16]

[Magic - 10]

[Active skills: none]

[Passive skills:

Mana Control I]

[Features:

Cruel soul

Soul Collector]

"Wait, you bastards, this time you're all finished" - such were the thoughts Elim had as he looked at the new feature that had appeared.

[Soul Collector]

[Description: You are so calculating and cruel that you do not leave your enemies alone even after death, collecting and storing their souls in your body, you are able to use their power for your own good.]

Memories from the past flooded over him: all those troubles and difficulties that he went through with his friends, and then, when they were all gone, alone. Then he received the power too late, but now, with his knowledge, this will not happen and every creature that sets foot on Earth will become his victim.

- Are you okay? - Jan asked his friend, seeing how much his friend frowned.

A friend's voice pulled Elim out of the stream of memories and he then replied:

- Just fine, now I'm level 2 and got 5 stat points.

- Received? Like, can you distribute it like in an RPG? - Jan was surprised.

- No, they distributed themselves: 2 in magic, 1 in stamina and 2 in agility, - Elim specified.

It was impossible to know exactly how the characteristics were distributed, but the working version believed that the distribution depends on the abilities used: if you used spells, then more points will go into magic, if in battle you focus on speed, then more points will go into agility. There were other ways to increase the characteristics, but they are not available in the near future, so Elim decided not to think about it. - By yourself? Well then, we don't know how yet, let's see what happens to me and compare. And what did you do with this kobold, he kicked like you were burning him alive. - And this ... - Elim did not want to try to absorb souls during the first trip with Jan, but the cobolt who had spent all his mana was too easy a target to give up. - In general, I have a peculiarity, but it is rather unpleasant, as you have already noticed, Elim pointed to the kobold. "Is that why you didn't tell me? - Jan was surprised.

- I can collect the souls of these monsters, as you saw the extraction process is not the most pleasant, and in general it is rather creepy, so I did not tell you, you never know how you will perceive it.

- How do I take it? - Ian paused, - My friend has, most likely, an epic feature, and given the current situation, everything is fine. So you took this kobold's soul now? - Jan was bursting with curiosity. He understood why his friend did not tell him and did not take offense.

- It seems so, - Elim was rather surprised by such a calm attitude of Jan, once again convinced of how good a friend he is.

- And? How does it feel?

- It's quite difficult to describe ... - here Elim spoke the pure truth, he really did not know how to describe his feelings in words, - I can only say that now the soul of this kobold is afraid of me.

- Well, I would also be afraid if I were in his place. Do you know how to use it?

Elim shook his head, now he naturally could not know this, but in his head he had dozens of ways to use the captured souls - from the most obvious to the most terrible.

- Well then, what are we going to do next?

- Of the useful, there can only be books of skills, now we will look a little, you never know we missed in a fit of battle, and then we immediately leave, it is not worth staying here.

After a few minutes of searching, without finding anything, they went back to the main tunnel. When they left, Elim winced, throwing the bag on his shoulder - the blows of the kobold magician just didn't go away, apparently a couple of his ribs were cracked, after that he moved his left hand, it ached, but the bones were intact.

- Are you okay? - Looking at all the manipulations of his friend asked Yang.

I was a little hooked, but I'm fine, let's move on - after that they moved forward in their usual mode.

Elim was in a bit of a hurry, because he knew: you shouldn't linger in places with corpses, there are different creatures in the dungeons and some of them are attracted by the smell of blood and they can smell it from a very long distance.

Ian was in a very high spirits - his first fight went very well, so he was very excited, looking forward to the next one. All of this was the beginning of a huge adventure that Ian had dreamed of for so long during his long years of cramming school subjects. His parents were quite strict and therefore he had to learn things that were far from the most interesting to him for a long time. When he and Elim still communicated normally, each of their meetings was a small adventure and he always had fun, but after his parents passed away, they saw each other only a couple of times. And now Elim reappeared in his life, but only now he involved him not in a small adventure, but in a real adventure, and this made him very happy.

Seeing how his friend's face literally shines, Elim understood everything: now Jan imagined himself as a kind of knight-adventurer conquering unknown worlds. Elim smiled sadly, realizing how cruel the blow to reality would be for his friend, now only Elim was ready for the cloud of problems that awaits their world in a couple of years.

"Okay, let him remain a knight, I still can't prepare him for further, but let him dream later."

- More attentively Jan, we are still in the dungeon, - Elim brought his friend back to reality.

Hearing the remark, Yang, hovering in the clouds, returned to reality and after a while they returned back to the main tunnel, where they stopped for another halt.

Jan sat down and took out the dry rations that Elim bought, each of them took 5 of them with them, they were not heavy, so Jan did not mind. Although he did not understand why they should take military dry rations, if you can take ordinary food, which were also quite expensive, but he understood everything after he ate it. It contained everything: from chicken in pasta, various sauces and biscuits, to real sweets and gummies, and having eaten all this, a person could really recuperate. - Now you understand why I bought them? "Yes," Ian replied promptly, with a full mouth. Elim grinned, finishing his ration, they still had a lot of time before nightfall outside, so he was in no hurry and gave his friend something to eat, and at the same time calm down before they move on. - Well, let's move on? - asked Elim after a couple of minutes, getting up from the floor. Ian nodded and readily stood up,