Chapter 130: Decision and breaking mulitple stats limit?
Aiden caught his big sis in his arms before she could hit the ground, and his mind was in disarray, seeing his big sis collapse suddenly. But he knew what might be the reason for her collapse as he looked at the body of the dead zombie, whose bones were the only thing left for him to see.
He didn't know how she had achieved such a feat with only spending her 8.5 mana. However, right now, he didn't care about all that as he asked the system anxiously in his mind.
'System, is my big sis going to be alright?'
The system answered him quickly without wasting time, as it could see he was very worried about her.
'It is nothing to worry about; it is only a mana depletion, which is why she passed out, and she should be able to wake up in around half an hour.'
'But be careful not to let you or anyone else do this, as it may not hurt you. It will surely leave you vulnerable in a fight, so remember to spare some mana, even if it's only a little.'
Aiden, hearing her words about how she would wake up in half an hour, released a deep sigh of relief knowing this. However, he was not going to let her get away with this easily because of how much worry she had caused him.
Now he focused on all the ladies who had gathered around him after his sister's fall, stopping their work, so he said in a commanding tone, much colder than before.
"All of you go back to your work, and one more thing."
"None of you should spend all your mana using your magic, as you will fall unconscious, like my big sis, so be sure to remember this. She is not hurt, just unconscious. She will wake up after some time, so go back."
All of them felt hesitant about what he had said, as they didn't know how he would know this. However, they still chose to believe him as their leader and followed his orders, getting back to work.
But they still couldn't believe what they had seen, as it was not even possible to destroy the body of a zombie to such a degree even with their bullets. So, they now even started to fear Alicia a little more than before, knowing she was the one who had done this even before using the stones they were collecting.
'I don't think our leader would be able to match her ever. Still, it is good to know we have such a powerful person beside us.'
All of them were having thoughts similar to this as they left.
15 minutes had passed, and now they had collected the colorful stones from the bodies of every zombie they had killed. Surprisingly, they found stones of three different colors.
While most were red, they also found blue and green stones. The total number of stones was 71, consisting of 49 red stones, 16 green stones, and lastly, only 6 blue stones.
They reached the spot where their leader was still holding his sister in his arms, waiting for her to wake up. It felt very romantic for them to look at the scene of such a handsome man holding his beloved, waiting for her to wake.
But they didn't show anything on their faces and started guarding the perimeter. Ava was now moving towards her leader to give him the stones and report whatever she had found.
Aiden heard the footsteps of someone approaching him, and without looking at the person, he said in a cold voice.
"Is the task complete? Give me the report."
Ava, hearing his cold words without any filter, could see how much he had changed after just seeing his sis fall unconscious once. However, she liked how he had changed, as it was the kind of personality needed to become a real leader.
"We have found 71 stones, but only 49 of them are like the ones we found previously. 16 of them are green, and 6 of them are blue. That's all!"
Aiden, hearing her words, was pleased, but he still couldn't feel much happiness after what had happened earlier, so he said to her coldly.
"Okay, give me all of them and go back to guarding. If you find something suspicious, inform me first."
Ava, hearing his concise commands without any flowery words, felt even more fired up now as she handed him the stones in a black leather pouch and left after answering him.
"Okay, Leader!"
Aiden didn't have to use his ability to guess what the green and blue colors might represent.
'Hmm, blue would surely be used to increase mana, and green should be like the red one, able to increase defense, vitality, or intelligence.'
'Well, damn, but the number of blue ones is scarce, considering we've killed 71 zombies.'
Aiden wasn't going to wait to use these, as he opened his status to check how much closer he was to breaking the limit of every stat other than intelligence.
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[Character Information]
[Name: Aiden Cross]
[Age: 16]
[Race: Human???]
[Talent: Celestial (EEE+), Air Affinity (AA+), Lightning Affinity (S+)]
[Potential: No Limit]
[Mana Cultivation: Mortal Realm]
[Bloodline: None]
[Physique: !@#$%@# Physique]
[Health: 82/82]
[Strength: 9.7]
[Agility: 9]
[Stamina: 9.3]
[Mana: 9.5]
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[Vitality: 8.9]
[Intelligence: 10.7]
[Defense: 9]
[Skills: Swordsmanship (B-), Equilibrium Combat Style (B), Knife Mastery (CC), Marksmanship (CC+), Cooking (A-)]
(Stats Limit of Mortal Humans: 10)
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Seeing how his strength was the closest, he decided to start with it. He took out a red core from inside the pouch and absorbed it like before but without closing his eyes.
As the red stone turned into particles of light and entered his body, he decided how much had increased, as he still didn't think he had broken any limitations.
Seeing how pitifully low the increase was, only 0.1 stat, he continued without feeling much, as he didn't compare the zombie with the rabbit, which was clearly much more dangerous.
On the second attempt, his strength increased by 0.2 points, bringing his strength to 10. So, he continued and absorbed one more. Finally, with another increase of 0.2, his strength reached 10.2 in stats.
Aiden felt a clear change in his body as he could now feel he was almost 5 times stronger than when he was at 10 stats, which was enough to break every human world record.
'I think I can even lift 500 kg with one hand easily, without struggle, and even play around with it, as before the evolution, I could lift 300 kg max with full strength without risking any injuries.'
He really wanted to test his strength; however, he decided to wait for his big sis to wake up. Until then, he would max out his other stats.
Next, he decided to increase his stamina. Though some distracting thoughts came to his mind, he focused on increasing his stats for now.
He used the first two red cores, and surprisingly, both of the cores gave him 0.3 stamina each, which increased his stamina from 9.3 to 9.9.
'Wow, they give such a good increase in stamina compared to strength.'
He decided to think about what could be the reason for this, and the conclusion he reached was that they must have had stamina as their highest stat. He had forgotten to check their stats after seeing the first bullet explode into the head of the zombie-like watermelon.
He used one more, which gave him a 0.2 increase in stamina, and he felt his stamina, after reaching 10, which was equally beastly, become 5 times that, which even he thought was monstrous.
'I think it'll be much harder for me to feel satisfied when big sis is just barely making me satisfied considering my stamina.'
Now he knew it would be much harder for him as he thought to himself once again.
'I have to create a harem much faster if I want to satisfy myself fully.'
He knew convincing his big sis would be hard, but he would show her tonight and see how she would react when he brought this topic up.
Even if he gave his sister the red stones to max out her stamina, he knew her stats would stop increasing at 10, so he didn't think he had any other choice.
'If she doesn't reach the first realm of cultivation, her stats would stay at 10, and even I don't know how to help her reach that for now. So I have to bring this topic up later…'
And he wasn't worried about the women or who they would be, as he wasn't clueless enough to realize how Isla was clearly in love with him, and all the others, excluding Ava and Daphne, had feelings for him.
'But I think Isla is the best one, and the cutest one too. I'm not just going to randomly take women into my harem, so if Ava also comes with her sister, it would be perfect for me.'
She was equally beautiful, had her own personality, was very smart, and more importantly, she had the best talent he had seen until now, even above his own Aunt's talent considering her affinity, which was also S rank.
Having decided what he had done he now once again focused on increasing his stats as next he started to increase the agility, which is at 9.
I have taken him 8 red cored to finally reach his agility to 10 stats points and with the last one his agility reached 10.1 making him much faster than before.
Aiden knows he is already beyond what humans would imagine just with his strength, stamina, and agility breaking the limit and he now is fully confident about taking the zombie himself.
'I couldn't wait to fight them myself'