The reflection of the blue flames devouring all in it's path could be seen in the eyes of Sage as he calmly said without turning to look at the person beside him, "I meant all of them".
These words brought a sudden chill to all present as some went down on their knees, some tried escaping and others actually went into the pit of flames by themselves.
The sound of bones cracking, twisting and breaking apart went on for a few minutes. No one could escape from elder Lei's massacre, a 3 star late grandmaster realm cultivator.
The highest realm among these people was a 2 star late soul realm cultivator and the only two people in this realm were the first to die in the pit, making the rest extremely easy to deal with.
They were added as fuel in pit and elder Lei returned to the side of Sage, who did not move an inch during the massacre.
During this period Sage kept asking the same questions,'How did I get here?' 'What's this screen?' 'What should I do next?' 'Is this my second chance?'….
He kept asking himself until he finally accepted his current life and started to put in plans to survive this world as he literally learnt everything about the game during his eight years of play. Or so he thought.
After making up his mind and familiarizing himself with the new game panel in his line of vision, he instantly regretted for letting his guardian burn the bodies without taking their storage rings and other assets.
He called for his status and a screen popped up over the previous one.
[Player Info]
[Name: Sparo Sage
Clan: Sage family (young master)
Age: 17 years
Titles: Favored
Realm: Early mortal realm (1)
Star rank: 9 stars (Blood devouring sword)
Level: 01(0/50)]
[Active Skills]
[GM: #######.]
[Passive Skills]
[Blessing?: an unknown existence bestowed a blessing on you, hp and soul regeneration are three times faster.
Duration: 47:52:23]
[Attribute]
[HP: 750
Attack: 60
Defense: 90
Agility:30
Soul: 30/30
Stat points:00]
Sage was shocked by the information on the screen. It was quite different to his character's stats when he first logged into the game even though it had the same layout.
His stats per the realm and level is equal to that of a newbie's character from the start of the game. As a newbie, the character has no title and an active skill but there is an active skill with no description to how it is used and the only info obtained from the system was "Not enough authority".
With the title, the system describes it as a title given to people with mysterious personalities and privileges that is beyond the system's comprehension. And it's a hidden title as well.
He was not quite surprised by the description but still thought of these privileges the system mentioned.
What really surprised him were his star rank and his attributes as through out his years of playing this game, the highest star rank that ever appeared was a 5 stars martial artist, an NPC, who is currently the emperor of the great lionheart empire.
He having a 9 ranked star opened his mind to a whole new game world, having thoughts about there been hidden powerhouses with star ranks similar to that of the emperor's or even his, or higher.
As he had these thoughts he also thought of the case when there are no such hidden powerhouses and he was the only one lucky enough to obtain a heaven defying star rank.
What sort of benefits will he gain from the people and the emperor? Will the emperor even allow him to develop? What will other families do when they get to know of my star rank?…
These are some good questions which raised in his heart which greatly reduced the chances of him unveiling his star rank to anyone.
His attributes are three times that of a 5 star ranked player at the same level. The number of experience needed to lvl up were double that of other star ranks.
He was happy to know the system's inventory was still active and a few features like the store, daily login and tasks.
Sage's attention turned to the only skill he had, a passive skill, Blessing. It makes his regeneration of hp and soul points faster but what puzzles him, is the unknown existence. He figured this person might know of his reincarnation and therefore not someone he could offend at the moment.
Putting this issue behind the back of his head, he focus on the green question mark after the skill, Blessing and the content of the screen changed before his eyes.
[Do you want to apply the effect of your title favored on the passive skill blessing]
[yes]
He was settled by this sudden change as to him, titles could only buff attributes but this one is directly been used on the skill it self. He did not want to lose his only skill but still hesitantly chose yes. There was not an option for no either.
[Blessing: an unknown existence bestowed a blessing on you, hp and soul regeneration are ten times faster with the hp and soul points gained during regeneration doubled.
Duration: none]
'F*ck!, this is unbelievable', he cursed in his thoughts as he could not find the right words to use for what just happened.
With this skill he felt invisible in every way.
"Young master", Sage was brought out of his day dreaming moments as he heard a voice behind him. He then released that the fire was out and the bodies were all burnt without traces of their ashes in the pit.
He turned around to find elder Lei's curiously looking at him on his knee. " Please get up elder Lei". He said as he helped him get on his feet.
"Elder Lei, we can go now" Sage said calmly as he chose a random direction and started to walk in that direction.
"Young master Sage, ain't we going back to the family house?" Elder Lei asked as he tilted his head and pointed at the opposite direction.
"No elder Lei" Sage replied without turning around to face him and continued,"I have some hunting to do", and with that he started running.
Elder Lei could only shake his head with a smile as he thought,'Young master want to try his newly found strength, anyway I have to protect these mountains are not safe'.
He also followed him but kept a distance not to unintentionally disturb his young master.