A Violent Nurse

"Is this real?"

He's been staring at his new status window for quite a while now. Too many weird things happened in just a day that his head felt like it might explode if he think more about it.

Sigh—

Shifting his gaze back to the status panel, Hans was in a state of confusion and joy. Although he didn't know how did this happen, he's still a little thankful for that unfortunate experience.

'Huh?!'

His potential is written as ??? in which he doesn't know if it is back or not.

'Can I level up now?'

Trying is the only way to confirm.

'My stats is all 10.'

In fact, these stats are not too high for a level one but also not too low. If put in another Awakened perspective, his stats are like the stats of a Level 5 E-Class.

As far he knows, every time an Awakened levels up, he will receive 4 unused stats that he can distribute anytime he wants. Back when he was still an SSS-Class potential Awakened, he leveled up by 5 which gave him 40 unused stats.

It was twice the stats that other Awakened gets.

'Now the skill.'

Since he can move slightly now, he carefully raised his hand and tap the skill button.

First, the innate skill.

'Let's see what you are.'

[Endless Plunder (E)

— Allows the user to Plunder the ability of every living creature he kills.

— ???]

Gulp—

'What a ridiculous skill this is.'

Doesn't that mean that he can plunder the skills of the monster he killed as well?

'If that's the case then…'

Just thinking about it sends shivers down his spine. If he killed a vampire then can he plunder their life stealing skills as well?

'I can only know if I try.'

But for now, let find out the other skills first.

Next, Hans clicked the plundered skill below. Although he can't remember when was the time he plundered skills, it's still better to see how the skill functions.

His heart began to beat faster in anticipation before he was presented with a detailed explanation.

[Body Enhancement (B)

— Increase Strength, Agility, and Stamina by 100%.

— Once used, it has no duration but instead consumes 1 mana every second.

Plundered from: Allan.]

[Minds Eye (E)

— Gives enhanced perception and sense.

Plundered from: Kobold Shaman.]

Hans's eyes went wide in shock. Not because of the skill but because of where the skill was plundered from.

'Allan?!'

Does that mean?

'No that's impossible!'

Allan is a bonafide A-Class Awakened. Even if he gets this skill, it won't help him in that situation. Unless… he received much more.

'There no mysterious man?!'

No rather, why did he think there was a mysterious helper? The dungeon was obviously a red one. Even a C-Class Awakened doesn't have much interest in those.

Sigh—

'Now that I think about it…'

He seems to have heard the system prompted when he blackout. If in that interval, he received a power-up then that's the only way to explain how Allan died.

'And I plundered his skill after that.'

Hans averted his gaze to the ceiling not knowing what he's thinking. There were so many things he couldn't understand as of now. But one thing is for sure.

'I've changed.'

He softly muttered before his eyes closed.

..........

Two days later, Hans's body gradually gets better and he can freely move now though the doctors still remind him to stay in the hospital for a while for further tests. Fortunately, the bill was covered by the association, or else he doesn't know where he will get that large amount of money to pay the fee.

"Mr. Luther, is there anything you have to add?"

Ah, there he goes again.

Hans shifted his gaze back to Felix with a slight hint of irritation.

This guy's been with him for the last 2 days. If not for him being a respected S-Class, Hans probably kicks his ass now.

"How many times do I need to tell you?"

"Ehm… I was just wondering if you might have missed a small detail or—"

"You've been saying that for the last two days. It's the 150th time today."

Felix awkwardly scratched his head in embarrassment.

'Man, this is really a tough job. Should I just quit?'

It's been 18 years since he became an Awakened and 10 years since he started working for the Dungeon Management department. In the past ten years, his job had always been tough but he can still manage them. However, this situation was different from all other works he'd been through.

'And I still have no fucking clue who the culprit is.'

In the past two days, aside from occasionally interrogating Hans, he's been all over the place asking for CCTV footage near where the dungeon is centered in. Unluckily, he got no clue at all as all CCTV's were destroyed after the dungeon destruction.

"Sigh— since that's the case, I wouldn't bother you anymore then."

Felix quickly realized that further investigating Hans would be a waste of time, so he got up from his seat and pulled his collar up. Putting his hand on his pocket, he pulled a small card and handed it to Hans.

"This is my business card. You can give me a call if there is anything you remember."

Hans glanced down at the small card in his hand. Aside from Felix's name and S Class rank, the card is pretty much like a normal business card.

"Alright."

Felix immediately closed his briefcase and put his monopoly hat back in his head. He glanced at Hans before bowing slightly.

"Thank you for your cooperation."

Hans watches as Felix left the room in haste.

'Felix Adams huh.'

Finally, he's gone!

Shifting his gaze to the room window beside, Hans gave out a soft sigh. Even if he know what happened inside the dungeon, he wouldn't report it anymore.

What's more, there is a possibility that he was the one who destroyed the dungeon. He doesn't want endless trouble coming from him every now and then.

'Speaking of me, If I have that power then shouldn't I be the strongest Awakened now?'

Of course, this speculation was not just random but based on facts about the SS-Class Awakeners' strength. Although he had never seen any of them in action, there was news that 3 SS-Class Awakened teamed up to forcefully destroy a red dungeon but in the end, they failed.

Thus forcefully destroying a dungeon was pretty much impossible.

Hans thought as he averted his gaze back to the status window.

'Huh?'

[It's the residual power of the previous user.]

"…?"

He blink his eyes and stared deeply at the status window.

[It's the residual power of the previous user.]

It's still there.

He raised his hand to his chin while he thought of this strange phenomenon.

'Can status window talk?'

Cough—

'Let's try.'

After clearing his voice, Hans began to speak.

"Hello."

[…]

"You there?"

[…]

"Damn, do you need a secret code to activate?"

'Wait.'

"Where did my power come from?"

[It's the residual power of the previous user.]

Hans became speechless.

'So I only need to ask skill-related questions.'

Hans slowly nodded his head in realizations. If that's true then maybe he can ask questions about where his power came from.

"What is the origin of my innate skill?"

[Please rank up.]

"Is my parents the previous user?"

[Please rank up.]

'Is it telling me to level up?'

Wait! Come to think of it.

Hans glanced back to his innate skill.

[Endless Plunder (E)]

It says it's an E-Rank skill. Just like how the Awakened strengths are classified, the skills were differentiated as well from E-Rank to S-Class. As for SS-Rank skill, the world hasn't seen one at all.

'Then can my skill grow?'

They are a very rare skill type that only appeared to a small number of people.

Often called a growth skills, they were skills that evolve as long as conditions are met. Some others grow along with the user's strength but those are just rumors that people made up with.

'And all of them are strong Awakeners.'

SS-Class Awakened, Ryuichi Watanabe. He bears the title of Japan's Strongest Awakened due to his growth skill that deals with swords.

Unfortunately, that's the only information that was publicized, and no further explanation on how his skill work.

Suddenly the door opens which caught Hans's attention. A woman wearing a nurse uniform with a mask on her face while pushing a small cart entered.

"Is this patient Hans Luther's room?"

Hans swept his gaze to the nurse as he nodded his head.

"I'm here to administer the medicine as per the doctor's order."

She strode the bedside before picking the syringe from the cart and pointed it towards Hans's muscles.

When suddenly.

"Wait, what's that for?"

"It's for…"

But before the woman could even finish her words, Hans quickly kicked her in her chest.

Bam—

It was blocked.

The woman raised her head, stared at Hans with an ugly expression before she asked with a polite face.

"What is the meaning of this Mr. Hans?"

"Still playing tricks with me? Fake nurse?"

Hearing Hans's response, the woman frowned. She doesn't know how Hans finds out her true identity. Did someone tell him?

'No, that's impossible.'

She timed her entrance after seeing Felix finally leave. Seizing that chance, he can kill Hans silently.

But what is this situation? She hadn't dropped any hints at all.

"A nurse is not allowed to have long fingernails and a nail gel miss assassin. You should have researched their dress code thoroughly miss."

The woman looks down at her hand and saw what Hans is talking about.

But she chuckled after.

"Haha… it doesn't matter, after all, you're weak."

Swish—

The woman dashed towards Hans not noticing the red mana that covered his body.

.........…..

National Awakened Association Headquarters.

Washington D.C.

A special place where the strongest hunter of the countries gathered. Unlike other countries where most Awakened were under a guild, in the U.S.A, the Association was the one who dominates.

Sitting in a large room, 15 people were gathered in a circle position. The room is quite costly with gold and silver designs on each wall plus the diamond chandelier floating above the fifteen seated circle table.

One of the Awakened stood up and stopped the button of his recording device on the table.

"Thank you for your hard work, Felix."

"Yes, director."

"So even the survivor doesn't know what happened? And you believe that."

"Yes, director."

Sigh—

The very large room felt quite small as it was followed by a long silence.

"Did you notice any change from him?"

"No, director. I haven't. The tester also didn't have any reaction which means he still has no potential."

"Seems like our clue ends here."

The director, whose face is hidden under the shadows closed his eyes before opening them again.

"Stop monitoring him anymore. It's a waste of manpower. We should focus on finding that mysterious person and… prepare for the upcoming tide. This meeting ends here."

The director stood up, fetch his jacket and hang it back to his shoulders as he left the room.

Sigh—

The 14 people left in the room sigh in relief followed by chuckles of freedom.

"Ha, damn that scared me."

"Director is really frightening."

"Hahaha, it felt like when he's here, there are blades attached to our necks."

"Indeed."

If a regular human looks closely, he'll see that all these 14 people were clearly afraid of the association director.

But what he'll question is why these 14 people were afraid of him when all of them are S-Class Awakened.

............

"Damn! Why are you so violent??!!"

Hans angrily said after dodging a blow to his crotch. If it hadn't been for his fast reaction time, his junior Hans would have been crushed.

'Ha, that scared me.'

Sighing in relief, Hans glared at the woman whose mask is now ripped out.

'Eh? A teenager?'