"How much farther?"

At the moment, Micheal was walking through the mud road towards his quest.

"Two miles"

Her usual arrogant witty self was nowhere to be found as she was very silent during his journey.

"Someone's having a bad day, come on, princess, say something"

"Leave me be, human"

Normally she would sound arrogant but now she sounded terrified.

He thought he would like her to be silent but after traveling in silence for a long time, he missed the witty and arrogant princess. However, he knew what would cheer her up

"Alright, your loss, I thought I should give you another pill or two"

"Really?!"

"Only if you stop acting like a crybaby"

"I can do that, human, now give this princess the pills"

"Damn"

He didn't expect she would change her mind so soon but it made him smile.

"Let's finish the job on hand, shall we? After that, I'll give you two pills deal?"

"Deal, let's go and kill some maggots"

"That's my girl"

"NO, I'm NOT!"

He laughed and rushed towards his goal before the drizzle could extinguish the torch in his arm.

Eventually, Micheal came before a crossroads and saw the red mark on the map was not far away from here. On the horizon, he noticed a small village, and near to the crossroad, the forest and thick trees made this area a perfect ambush place for the bandits who could target the traveling merchants and the villagers on their way back to their village from the river town.

"We should have come in the day, human, now the bandits will be in their camp"

"Exactly, now they will be at their camps drinking or sleeping which makes them vulnerable"

"Even if you kill a few of them silently, you won't be able to kill all of them like that"

"I have a plan, Gaya"

Being said, he ventured into the forest where the bandits most likely set a camp and after a few minutes walking into the forest, he sensed a group of fifteen people fifty meters away from him.

"I need a vantage point, lets see what this bad boy can do"

He aimed his grappling hook at the branch above him and like batman, he took off from the ground and landed on the branch.

"Whoa, how did you? What is this thing? Where did you get it?"

"Cool huh? It's called mark 3 grappling hook, stick with me I show you more cool stuff"

"What's mark three? Who named it? I bet it might be those wretched dwarves, whatever give me that later, this princess want to try it"

"Why? Are you going to kill me with that?"

He said and moved to another branch using the hook.

"Damn you, human, I promised I won't, besides didn't you hurt me enough without thinking I'm a girl?"

Each time, he swung his knife, a ding sound appeared in his mind and he was rewarded by the system. Just when the smoke cleared, the last voice in the camp was stopped by him and Gaya was dumbfounded looking at the bandits lying on the ground with their throats slit and a stab wound on their chests.

In a few moments, he was able to do this?

He had killed 13 experienced bandits in a few mere moments and they were all level body refining stage cultivators.

How... How was this possible?

This human was clearly a mere level 7 of the Foundation Stage!

When she saw his reflection in the puddle of rainwater, a cold chill ran through her spine as he was bathed in water and resembled the ancient devils that she used to read about in the books.

But what made her heart skip a beat was that he leveled up, again.

[Congratulations to host 'Michael' for leveling up. The current stage is Foundation stage Level 8]

[Congratulations to host 'Michael' for leveling up. The current stage is Foundation stage Level 9]

"Is he using some ancient evil cultivation technique?"

"Why didn't you assholes have one more bandit?"

He kicked the dead body of a bandit in frustration because he could have reached level 10 if he had killed one more.

"He's dead, human, instead of kicking him, take their badges as the proof of kill"

Hearing Gaya's voice in his mind, he sighed and started to rip their badges. It was surprising to him that they all wore eagle embodied badges on their chests.

"What kind of bandits wear badges?"

"Be glad they wore badges, human, else you would have had to cut off their ears as the proof"

"Shit"

After collecting the badges, he was able to gather another six hundred silver coins from their cache and left the area without skulking around.

"I should take a bath"

He was reeking the smell of blood and his black robes were now almost turned red.

"Gaya, is there any waterfall nearby?"

"If you walk towards the east for three hours, there's a beautiful waterfall I used to travel with my maids "

"Hehehe"

He giggled while turning and walking towards the east

"Did I say something funny, human?"

"No, I just thought you were going to say friends"

"Why is that? Do you think I don't have friends?"

"I don't think, I know you don't have friends"

"Yes I have, I have many friends"

"Quickly name three"

He was waiting for her to speak again but he only heard a 'hmm' sound from her.

"Thought so"

"Well, this princess doesn't need any friends"

She rebuked and said but he could sense a slight sadness in her voice which was a big surprise to him considering her arrogant prideful self.