Chapter 6 Critical (1/2)

The Wind Serpents' attacks slowly dwindled. The chaos, anger, screams, and shouting turned into silence. Everyone looked towards Rhode's direction, speechless.

For a moment, almost everyone thought Rhode was dead. Never had they imagined that someone could escape from the Wind Serpents' encirclement. Of course, high-leveled mercenaries or knights with donned with full body armor might be able to withstand it, but Rhode did not look like a veteran at all. Besides his white sword, he did not have any other protective equipment.

He did it.

Lize, Carter and the rest of the crew could not help but stare at the young man unbelievably.

Just who is he?

No one knew if it was because of Rhode's attack or other reasons, but those Wind Serpents who were still trying to attack the floating ship began to scatter and back down. For some time, the whole deck was quiet. Only the sound of the breeze could be heard. The mercenaries were shocked by Rhode's performance, but Rhode did not seem to care what they thought of him. On the contrary, when he looked at those pile of corpses, deep down in his heart, he felt quite good.

Wind Serpents were among the many low-level monsters. Their individual strength was not particularly great since they relied on their huge numbers to win. Rhode's class, the Spirit Swordsman was a solo-oriented class but had a low attack power. The reason why everything went smoothly was because of Star Mark that gave him an additional +3 to all stats. So when he held the sword, the monster's danger level dropped from red to green. Thus, eliminating the entire group of Wing Serpents wasn't some amazing feat.

Still, Rhode felt that something was off; based on his experience, Star Mark shouldn't be that overpowered. According to his original estimation, Blade of Destruction should have just injured the Wind Serpents badly, and he had prepared a backup plan in case things turn awry. He never thought that the Blade of Destruction could kill all the monsters.

Was his stats as a human not calculated properly?

Thinking of this, Rhode subconsciously opened the Character Status window. He didn't know what to check as his race was still unknown, hence, his stats were also hidden. But luckily, he gained 1900 EXP in this battle.

I can gain EXP? Wow, that's surprising...!

While he was checking his gains, the ohers thought that he was just staring at the pile of corpses.

Suddenly, Rhode felt a strange presence. It wasn't a person, but more of a dangerous one.

Where are the Wing Serpents?

This thought flashed through Rhode's mind. He seemed to think about something and then hurriedly turned his head and shouted.

He immediately realized that something was wrong and quickly turned his head to shout.

”Everybody, be careful...!”

And at this time, the floating ship suddenly shook.

The violent shake made a lot of people fall to the ground. There were even two people with bad luck that did not have time to stabilize themselves and they slipped and fell off the ship.

Then, the front deck cracked open, followed by a huge Wind Serpent's head that suddenly appeared.

”Be careful, it is the Wind Serpent Lord!”

At this time, Carter finally appeared. He shouted and rushed towards the huge Wind Serpent. The other mercenaries also quickly stood up. Although they had been injured, they still clenched their teeth and followed their leader to attack the monster.

However, Rhode's action was faster than them…

He lowered his body, a line of system prompts immediately appeared before him.

[EXP 1900/200, Level up! Received 1 Skill Point, Level 2]

[EXP 1700/400, Level up! Received 2 Skill Points, Level 3]

[EXP 1300/600, received 3 Skill Points, Level 4]

[EXP 800/1000, received 4 Skill Points, Level 5]

[Used 1 Skill Point to enhance the moon shadow Swordsmanship 1/3, Rank E]

[Used 1 Skill Point to enhance the moon shadow Swordsmanship 2/3, Rank E]

[Used 1 Skill Point to enhance the moon shadow Swordsmanship 3/3, Rank E]

[Used 1 Skill Point to enhance the moon shadow Swordsmanship 1/4, Rank D. Shadow Flash has been unlocked]

Activate.

Rhode jumped into the sky.

Everyone thought they were hallucinating. They saw the young man who was originally standing on the ground suddenly turn into a black shadow, like a sharp knife thrusting forward, and even the huge Wind Serpent Lord could not react.

Rhode raised his sword and thrust his sword into the Wind Serpent Lord's copper bell-like eyes.