The Ultimate Summoner

Chapter 10: Levelling Up

Chapter 10: Levelling Up

Aldrin considered getting the grandmaster with him to make a move but he knew that would put him in a negotiation disadvantage later on, moreover there was also the mission from his system, he wasn’t sure if it would count as a success or failure if he got someone else to do it for him.

He pulled up his system interface and began to go through it again trying to see if he could find something useful, glancing through it for the second time he noticed something he hadn’t noticed before now, next to his title was a small inverted triangle.

He clicked on the arrow only for a pop-up to appear.

[Basic Title;

Trash: Allows user to diminish his aura to the point where he is actively being ignored by everyone, placing him in a state of psychological invisibility. This state becomes invalid when use makes any drastic action.

Duration: 1hr

Cool-down: 45mins]

Reading through this Aldrin was stunned and didn’t know if he should laugh or cry.

“So being trash actually has such a use.” He mumbled to himself

“Amara you can take a break now.” He said to the lady beside him and almost immediately she slumped down in exhaustion.

He dipped his hands into his robes to check the remaining storage pouches he had on himself, he nodded and activated his title, he didn’t feel any different, he glanced at himself and could still see himself pretty normally, to confirm if it was working he stood in front of Amara but the young lady barely noticed him as she just glanced past his shoulder like he wasn’t even there.

He crouched before her and waved his hand but she didn’t react in the least, seeing this Aldrin nodded with a smile before turning around and dashing towards the fortress.

Getting closer to the battleground he could hear sounds of explosions and battle cries, for a moment he wondered if one could actually consider this a battlefield as it looked more like a slaughterhouse instead as his men kept mowing down the orcs like a giant meat grinder, with the major advantage being the blood dragon which had a prowess almost equal to a grandmaster.

Aldrin had a flash thought of what the resulting effect would be if majority of the army was made up of masters and grandmasters instead of just practitioners and amateurs, the thought alone made him shudder.

He sped past them and soon approached the gates of the fortress, but with the tide of orcs swarming out, entry was quite a daunting task.

By the time he would reach the teleportation hall according to the path he had seen through their surveillance a little over thirty minutes had passed, standing by the entrance he watched as flash after flash of light appeared within the hall with each flash delivering about a hundred orcs each.

Dipping his hand into one of the storage pouches he fished out a sealed scroll.

[Grade 4 Scroll; Raging Inferno: Summons an inferno in a 150*150 yards]

His system announced the type of scroll he held, one of the functions he had come to like about the system, as long as it was an artefact it would appraise it and give him its full details.

Activating his bracelets he injected the stored zen into the scroll to unseal it before tossing it into the hall.

A second later the scroll unfurled midair and a threefold array spanning about 150yards appeared at the top of the hall absorbing world energy frantically, the orcs noticed this and looked upwards an expression of surprise appearing on their features, this delay allowed another batch of orc to appear within the hall before the first batch left to join the fray outside but as soon as they appeared they also noticed the massive amounts of world energy accumulating at the top of the hall, before any one of them could react a pillar of flames descended upon them.

The towering flames burnt with an intensity that made Aldrin take several steps backwards as hot wind blew over him, for ten seconds the flames continued burning, only after the tenth second did the array up in the air vanish alongside the fire, leaving behind scorched corpses and a dilapidated hall.

Almost immediately the mechanical voice of the system began to announce into his ears while small popups appeared in his line of vision.

[Teleportation Circuit Destroyed;

Rewards: 2000 spirit points received]

[Level 30 orc warrior killed, received 3000 spirit fragments]

[Level 23 orc warrior killed, received 2300 spirit fragments]

[Level 27 orc warrior killed, received 2700 spirit fragments]

[Level 30 orc warrior killed, received 3000 spirit fragments]

[Level…….]

The notification for the amount of orcs he killed resounded about two hundred times.

Followed by another round of notification that rang out twenty times

[Acquired grade 3 brute sword]

[Acquired grade 3 warrior’s choice]

[Acquired grade 2 crimson armour set (Shoulder pads)]

[Acquired grade 2 Asura mask]

[Acquired grade 3 phantom bow]

[Acquired grade 2 twins swords]

[Acquired…..]

[Acquired…..]

Immediately the notifications finished sounding another round of notifications began ringing again leaving him stunned.

[You have reached level 2, Strength +10, Agility +10, Stamina +10, Vitality +10, Spirituality +100, Free Points +10]

[You have reached level 3, Strength +10, Agility +10, Stamina +10, Vitality +10, Spirituality +100, Free Points +10]

[You have reached level 4, Strength +10, Agility +10, Stamina +10, Vitality +10, Spirituality +100, Free Points +10]

[You have reached level 5, Strength +10, Agility +10, Stamina +10, Vitality +10, Spirituality +100, Free Points +10]

[You have reached level 6, Strength +10, Agility +10, Stamina +10, Vitality +10, Spirituality +100, Free Points +10]

[You have reached level 7, Strength +10, Agility +10, Stamina +10, Vitality +10, Spirituality +100, Free Points +10]

[You have reached level 8, Strength +10, Agility +10, Stamina +10, Vitality +10, Spirituality +100, Free Points +10]

“I leveled up?” Aldrin found this pretty hard to believe, most zen practitioners ascended their grades mostly by practice and meditation, zen warriors did same by training in treacherous conditions and by using of specific potions, never had he heard of a person who was capable of increasing their power by killing others.

He moved his arms slowly, he could feel an unnatural amount of strength coursing within him, his body felt lighter as well. Without hesitation he pulled up his stat window.

[Profile;

Name: Aldrin Draca

Race: Human

Age: 20

Title: Trash

Class: Spirit Practitioner

Subclass: Summoner

Grade: Mortal

Level: 8

Stats;

Strength: 77

Agility: 78

Stamina: 78

Vitality: 80

Spirituality: 2700

Zen: 0

Free Points: 70

Skills;

{Active}

……]

Indeed he was now level 8, although that was pretty hard to quantify using normal standards it was obvious that his strength has increased, by more than ten times, before now his stats was pretty average, with ten being the maximum a regular human could have in any of the stats he was well above average and pretty close to peak condition but now he totally shattered the barriers, currently his stats was pretty much close to an Amateur ranked zen warrior except for the fact that he lacked zen itself.

While he was still ecstatic over his newfound strength quite a lot of orc had begun retreating into the fortress due to the commotion he caused and this time he was noticed.

Without wasting any time he fished out a pair of futuristic guns from his robes, he had specifically requested these for his own use, unlike his sword which was a grade 3 artefact the guns were just at the peak of grade two but they were long range weapons which allowed him to take care of his targets before they got too close, after all a power at the peak of the practitioner grade was still a force to be reckoned with in small scale combat, the best part of it was that it recharged itself automatically by absorbing ambient energy from the surrounding and converting it into zen based attacks.

Fishing the weapon Aldrin began to fire at the orcs as they approached, his targets majorly their faces, he then began to retreat into the rundown teleportation hall hoping to use the small entrance to his advantage.

But he sorely underestimated the numbers of the orcs, occasionally the system notification symbolizing the death of an orc would ring out but there was so many of them and just one of him.

[You have reached level 9, Strength +10, Agility +10, Stamina +10, Vitality +10, Spirituality +100, Free Points +10]

After the fifth death, he felt another wave of energy wash over him as he heard a level up notification

In no time they reached the entrance.

“Summon fire spirit.” Aldrin suddenly yelled and a blazing red circuit appeared on the ground in front of him and a creature slowly emerged from the circuit.

It had a height of 0.2m, a length of 1.5m, its scale shimmers like molten gold each one etched with intricate patterns and runes that seem to dance when touched by light, its sleek body is sinuous and almost serpentine with two pairs of feet that barely raises its belly above the earth with each limb ending in claws, each talon sharp enough to pierce through stone. Its eyes were the colour of burning coals and with it blinks sparks fly leaving a trail of miniature flames in the air. Staring at it Aldrin could only mutter one word.

“Beautiful”