Leaving the city was something that I almost never did, yet right now, I was leaving Starry Night city.

The city was in grave danger, a Dark cave that is only less than 1 Km away was on the verge of reaching an out-break, most recently assigned mercenary and even some expert Cave exterminator teams died or reported back the mission as a failure.

However, as far as essence calculations of the gate gave out, there was only 3 more days until the out-break, the situation was this critical

I, Grace Ernest, as the daughter of the city governor and a practitioner of the light element, one of the three most revered elements in the light domain, was sent out for a last ditch effort of our city to destroy that cave.

As light element was quite effective against the monsters in the Dark cave, all the hope was put on me and the two fire element martial artists that accompanied me to exterminate that cave before it erupts.

Unfortunately, we were only initial 2nd stage practitioners, while we were capable of manifesting elements, we were still amateurs. Especially when levels were mentioned, I was Lv.20 while the Twin brother & sister were Lv.19. We were regarded as the geniuses of the city because of such achievement in both elemental practice and physical practice. Our current capabilities were quite a lot for 17~18 years old youngsters.

As we were considered the strongest and the ones with the most talent, all hope of saving the city fell on our shoulders when reinforcements from the capital got delayed due to an actual outbreak of several dark caves around the capital.

My heart beat harder as we saw the Dark cave's entrance, I had too little combat experience for an estimated Lv.30+ cave, but I still had to do more than my best for the sake of the city's safety.

Thud...Thud!

Suddenly just as we were 5 steps away from the entrance, the cave collapsed!..... And…. there was a boy clad in black that looked close to our age who appeared out of the collapsing cave.

"Excuse me, do you know where the closest city is?"

"?!"

>>>>

The death knight shot back to his throne as soon as my hit made contact, the strike was supported by Thunder vibration and a thin stream of sword energy, which seemed to amplify its might by a great deal.

I didn't leave the death knight any chance to get out as I followed by another strike, this was the second hit of my 'Swordsmanship', the death knight tried to evade but he still received my hit as soon as he stood up causing him to hit the wall.

Finally, I jumped up holding my sword high up, descending upon the knight who collapsed to the wall. The third and final hit of my limited 'Swordsmanship' slashed the death knight into two halves with the momentum from the first two hits.

The way this battle ended made me think that either I was too strong or that the death knight was considered a weak opponent, but I decided not to judge until I found out more.

Unlike before, when I needed to hook the essence into me, clouds of black essence rose from the death knight straight into me

[ You have absorbed the blood essence of a corrupted 'Death Knight', purification in progress….. ]

[ You have received 36,333 EP! ]

[ You have leveled UP! ]

[ You have leveled UP! ]

[ You have leveled UP! ]

[ You have leveled UP! ]

...…..

[ You have reached Level 9! ]

[ • Stats :

Strength: 10.1 -> 10.19

Constitution: 8.7 -> 8.79

Agility: 8 -> 8.09

Dexterity: 2.3 -> 2.39

Perception: 2.5 -> 2.59

Wisdom: 7.5 -> 7.59

Intelligence: ???

Unassigned stat points: 7.4 ]