Resolve

Fatty and Daisy were looking at the Scorpion beast, which was just lying there with no visible wounds. The beast was barely alive and from the looks of it, there was not much time left for it.

Fatty brought out his hammer and smashed it on the beast's head.

*CRACK*

" It's just like that SS class beast in the mountains. Somehow the Aura has left the body. The beast can't sustain its weight and all its body became weaker."

" Do you think it is one of his skills ?" Daisy asked fatty.

Fatty, who witnessed the fight with the users on his first day of meeting August, knew that it was related to his skill. But he never tried to pry further.

" Perhaps" Fatty replied to Daisy.

Fatty took out the beast core from the Scorpion's head. It was a black-colored core with tints of red.

Daisy was really curious about the skills that August had. Somehow he was able to use multiple high ranking skills, and somehow able to incapacitate the high ranking beast by sucking their life energy and aura. If she had to guess, the skill could steal other people's power. She wasn't sure if that was the case, but from her observations, it looked like that might be true.

As she was thinking this, she heard a loud explosion underneath the ruins. The ground started shaking and the whole ruin trembled.

August appeared beside them looking quite serious like something had gone wrong.

" Bro.. what happened ?" Fatty asked August looking at his troubled face.

" There were some interesting things I found inside the ruin. Looks like we will be having some guests." August was thinking about the warning the entity gave him.

" We will go to the guild, for now, this place will soon collapse."

August teleported them to the campsite. The ruin started to crumble and all the sand above started pouring inside the ruins.

*SWOOSH*

They appeared inside the guild office, in the training room. The beast's corpse and the camping equipment were scattered on the floor.

" You two rest for a while, I need to take care of something." After leaving them in the guild, he returned to his home.

He got back to his room and opened his status,

[ Name: Augustus Grey ]

[ Level: 203 ]

[ Strength: 221 ]

[ Agility : 178 ]

[ Vitality: 1088 ]

[ Dexterity: 33 ]

[ Intelligence: 32 ]

[ Wisdom: 30 ]

[ Skills : ??? , Quantum System View(Ex) , Acquire(Ex), Remembrance(Ex), Cosmic Bridge(Ex), Regeneration(SSS), Aura(SS), Enhanced Vision(SS), Flight(S), Dive(S), Gamma Flame Control(S), Authority(S), Quantum force Channel(S), Phase(S), Sonic Scream(S), Sealing Claw(S), Revitalize(A),.....,System Control(F) ]

[ Status: Healthy, Planning ]

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He looked at his stats and level. They have been increased after he absorbed the Aura of the SS class beast. From hunting many beasts and absorbing their aura, August has found that Aura was directly related to the life energy, This gave awakened beasts and users their power. One can use aura in many ways like fatty who can enhance aura only to the things attached to his body. This is just the preliminary Aura channeling. On the other hand, Daisy was able to use her aura to her bullets and freely control her aura at a distance. Her skill showed aura manipulation.

If his conjecture is true, then Aura was the catalyst for the level difference. After coming back to earth, August always wanted to figure out what gave the awakened their powers and levels. After he read the research papers, he found that skills more particularly the use of techniques depended on the type of field they have. But the level was determined by the Aura. That is why higher skills don't equate to a higher level, you have to have that Amount of Aura to reach a level. That also didn't mean a higher level Aura makes someone powerful. It ultimately depends on the user how they use their aura and manipulate it. There were so many factors to calculating someone's strength. It was not clear unless they had a fight. The ones who have overwhelming power or mastery over all their skills are likely to win. The level difference only matters when the opponents have the same level of skill mastery.

The weird thing was that he, as well as other quantum beasts, didn't need Aura for their level. The quantum force field acted like the Aura for them.

' Does Aura and the quantum field have something in common.?'

After finding out that quantum force boosted the skills he compared that to Aura, which was also a skill that boosted the power of the user, and artifacts, but it couldn't be applied to the skills.

' I need to increase my level to find out if Aura and Quantum force correlate or not. Meanwhile, I need to prepare for the other foreign entities.'

He remembered the warning he received from the entity he encountered today. If what she said was true then, he has to prepare for the worst. Even if she was bluffing, it was better to be safe than sorry.

' I need more SS or SSS rank beasts to Absorb their Aura. The foreign entities are not going to stop unless they invade our universe, I need to find out the cracks from which they are corrupting the world.'

He was thinking hard about the next course of action, how he could prepare for the incoming foreign entities.

' I need to expand the guild. If we are attacked, I can take care of some of them, but if there are more of them, they could really wreak havoc in the world. Not to mention the corrupted beasts, if they control so many S and SS rank beasts, That would be a nightmare.'

August knew his powers well, he was powerful, but not enough to take care of everything, at least not yet. He didn't want his world to get invaded by foreign forces, that could mean the end of all consciousness of this universe.

He didn't care about the world that much, nor did he hate it. Regardless, he didn't like some other world to take over them. Life was very unique and scarce in the universe. Consciousness is even more scarce. He didn't know how much it took to recreate life and create consciousness, but the universe took billions of years of cause and effect to generate the living beings we see today.

' Ruler of the dimension.'

He remembered the word the entity said. If he was the so-called ruler, then it meant, he could control the universe, this dimension.

' I just wanted to live a peaceful life doing research, why did they put me in this spot ?'

*sigh*

' I can't let them do as they please, can I? After all, this is my domain.'