Ruins Arc Interlude:

Each beast kingdom and monster territory have a portal secretly hidden deeply. Inside of it, one can only wonder what may unfold inside. From time to time beings come out from such places. This persisted for thousands of years. The beings that came out of such portals created their own camps that became bases which turned into kingdoms. The beasts are usually born from a sexual act, but that's not the only way.

Since ancient and dark times when the system wasn't yet implemented, the first creatures appeared from these portals.

The human race was created by the good goddess Aria, also known as the goddess of summons.

The demon race was created by the evil god.

The monsters and the portals were created by the god of chaos.

The beasts and leftover races were created by the goddess of order Luna.

Each god is doing its best to eliminate the other three gods except the god of chaos.

He only wants to cause confusion, and wouldn't mind if the world got destroyed in the process. Due to the hate for goddess Luna, he ended up meddling with the balanced system she and the other two gods created.

If there are good and bad, then a orderly balanced system cannot exist, after all, what kind of fantasy world would this be, if there wasn't a little bit of chaos?

Who knows, what other wonders and tricks did the god of chaos pull to deceive the different opponents and the skills used by them.

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"It'll be a problem inside these ruins Iris since you don't have the night vision skill."

"Yes I can't see a thing, but I'm hoping that persisting through this darkness will make me able to receive the skill."

"It happens when we do something unusual, but if I start detecting too many monsters we'll turn back and run away."

"Yes, sorry for being in the way."

"Can't be helpt you're lacking a skill, and sunlight doesn't reach this deep."

"One of the reasons people don't explore it."

"Yeah, it's too dangerous."

They kept walking through the dark hall while holding hands as Aurora can see the path with her night vision skill.

When they reach the first room a voice appears on Iris's mind.

Notice: The Skill Night Vision has been acquired.

"I got it Aurora, but can only see like a meter far away."

"That'll be good practice for you then, I'll leave the two skeletons in front for you, I'll go for the ones further on the left, stick to mana coating their weak to it."

"Alright sister," I mana coated my mother's sword while fighting with reduced eyesight.

Notice: 300 mana has been deducted.

I see the sword approaching which I sidestep and strike a counter at the arm slicing it in half.

'They feel slow? Aurora said they were annoying, I suppose it has to do with my status being a little high that I get to outmaneuver them,' I slash at the head cutting it in half without giving it much time to do anything other than accepting its end.

Notice: 110 experience has been rewarded from a skeleton.

"The experience truly is amazing," I take a step back outranging the attack from the other skeleton.

'How smart are these things anyway?' I throw my sword at his head piercing it.

Notice: 110 experience has been rewarded from a skeleton.

Notice: 130 experience has been rewarded from a skeleton.

"You need help sister?"

I can see a little deeper but still not far enough to see her, the room is very vast.

I hear a crushing sound and then a voice.

Notice: 90 experience has been rewarded from a skeleton.

"Alright, we've cleared the first room, Iris, however, from my last time here if we advance two more we'll most likely be surrounded by all sides so we should stay in this one near the exit."

"In other words, we fight while protecting the exit."

"So we wait?"

"Let's collect their soul stones, the weapons are too old so don't think anyone would buy them."

"If this was a long time ago, we'd have a harder time."

"Some of the skeletons ate some soul stones on my last time here, so there's a chance that they'll be stronger than these and smarter, so watch out for that Iris."

"I'm detecting 1 from the middle for now," upon hearing Aurora's words I head there and wait for it to come.

Moments after," sister this thing looks different than a skeleton."

She approaches and takes a look at it as it approaches us.

"Let me test it first Iris," she runs at it while mana coating her hands with a dark aura, and then she aims for the head but the monster ducks her hand attempting to bite her torso.

"Ice bind," I freeze his legs and he starts making loud noises.

Notice: 300 mana has been deducted.

Aurora grabs the chance and uses darkness creating a big hole in the monster's head.

The monster falls on the floor causing some noise.

System: The title Zombie Slayer has been received.

Notice: 200 experience has been rewarded from a Zombie.

Notice: Iris has leveled up to 8.

"A monster called zombie, I think mother mentioned it in our conversation, Aurora, for now, you can consume all the soul stones."

"If I do we won't be able to make you the equipment sister."

"In case a monster were to eat them while we fought others getting even stronger then I feel like we'd be in peril, so for that reason please do."

"Alright, I'll use turn them into soul power for now."

"Soul power?"

"Yes, I'm not sure what it does, but I can convert it into points awakening the next grade faster, that's what I did before since we were still missing 23."

"Oh, that makes it faster then, sure go for that."

"I'm detecting a few monsters coming from the right, must've been the screams of the zombie."

"Leave them to me while you consume those."

She takes the soul stone from the zombie and joins it along with the skeleton ones, then transforms into grimoire form and consumes all of them.

'Use status points into wisdom, whenever I get more till I say otherwise automatically use them in wisdom.'

Notice: Affirmative, points successfully spent; Status updated.

"2 skeletons and a zombie, is that a bow?"

The moment I see it, I raise my sword by instinct barely stopping the incoming arrow which ends up grazing at my cheek.

Notice: 10 health has been deducted.

"Ugh," I move towards the wall forcing them to exit the hall into the room and get closer to me.

As I run the zombie in front of me acts differently and rushes to me aggressively, while I feel the blood dripping from my face.

'Is there a chance these things are attracted to blood? Appraise the zombie.'

Notice: 350 mana has been deducted.

[Zombies are created by an extremely rare infectious disease, they can spread it to living beings through biting, creating more zombies or they can also be summoned by a being with the necromancer class.]

"Ice bind," I freeze him on the ground while using him as a shield for the incoming arrows while mana coating my sword with 400 mana.

Notice: 400 mana has been deducted.

"Mana wave!" I slash horizontally so that they get sliced in half the only one who could avoid it was the zombie who is very fast but he's frozen to the floor.

They share the same fate being destroyed by my skill.

Notice: 200 experience has been rewarded from a Zombie.

Notice: 120 experience has been rewarded from a skeleton.

Notice: 130 experience has been rewarded from a skeleton.

Notice: 300 experience has been rewarded from a Zombie.

Notice: Iris has leveled up to 9.

Notice: Points successfully spent; Status updated.

"What!? Was there a zombie hiding behind the skeletons? Leveling up has become a lot easier if we keep this up we'll be able to grow stronger in no time!"

"He even gave a lot more experience than the first one, could he have been hiding behind the skeletons on purpose using them as shields?"

"These zombies are starting to sound very dangerous, especially from appraisal information, if they bite me I'll get infected and become one unless there's a skill resistance for it."

'That was insane Iris,' Aurora speaks in my mind as she approaches finding the soul stones that fell on the floor.

'You're speaking in my mind? What's this!?'

'It's a skill I won after awakening it's called telepathy it only works with the contracted one, since it is a contracted skill.'

'That's very interesting, we can even share thoughts.'

'Like this, I'll be able to know when your skills are brainwashing you, won't be able to do much about it, but I'll know, can you take the soul stone of the zombie?'

'It looks gross a rotten human body.'

'Actually don't touch it, I'll learn a soul stone extraction skill, just in case that thing sickness spreads into us somehow.'

'Alright sister!' A cautious tone through the mind is used by me, as it looks icky and disgusting, not wanting to place my hands in the middle of the decayed meat.

After a few moments,' let's test it out, extraction!' A light exuded from the body of the zombie and a soul stone came out being sucked into the open grimoire.

'That was amazing Aurora!'

She transformed back into a human," I'm getting 100 soul power for each of these stones, I got 50 from the ones outside the ruins, so I now have 900 soul power which if I convert will give me 90 points into my own evolution."

"Amazing, that's a lot faster than everything we've been doing before."

"Exactly, I'll save the skills from these monsters that I received once we leave this place we'll see what we can do with them."

"Sure! Now you made me curious at what skills you got!"

"For now it doesn't really matter as I can't use them or do anything with them so don't worry too much about it, also detecting 2 more monsters behind us and one in the middle tunnel."

"I'll go for the 2 behind, my night vision is better so I won't be surprised by arrows again."

"Alright," we both run in different ways."