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Chapter 107: 6th Evolution

As I recognized the message flowing through my mind, I once again endured the pain and shock of evolution after a long while. I continued to endure it until the strong light overflowing from my body subsided.

I even forgot to breathe. I didn’t know if it was for a few seconds or a few minutes, but even my sense of time became ambiguous. As the pain finally subsided, I confirmed that I had evolved successfully.

「Gah… ha, ha… This time was pretty… rough…」

「Aun-sama! Are you okay!?」

「Yeah… I don’t feel the pain anymore.」

「I was worried…」

「Sorry. The pain that accompanies evolution varies from time to time. The stronger the pain, the greater the change… Has my appearance changed in any way?」

「Bro, your body and horns have gotten bigger!」

「Nn. You look cooler and stronger.」

「Is that so? It does feel like my field of view has gotten a little higher. Well, I still feel uneasy in this place, so let’s check the status after returning to the base.」

I touched the magic circle that appeared after defeating the Lich and teleported out to the garden in front of our base.

Now then, let’s check the changes.

Status

【Name】Doumeki Aun

【Race】Asura

【Condition】

【Level】60 (18 points remaining)

【Attribute】Lightning/Darkness

【HP】6300/6300

【MP】800/1260

【STR】137 (+8)

【VIT】65 (+10)

【DEX】30 (+10)

【INT】139 (+10)

【AGI】125 (+5)

【LUK】35

【Title】Labyrinth Ruler III, Lightning Emperor

【Skill】

・Iron Stomach

・Pain Tolerance

・Martial Arts (Lv.4) → (Lv.6)

・Katana Technique (Lv.4) → (Lv.6)

・Gluttony → Gourmet (Change): Recover HP and MP by predating (Large)

・Expert Appraisal

・Max Thunderclap

・Thunder Drum

・Lightning attribute magic (Lv.5) → (Lv.6)

・Dark attribute magic (Lv.1)

・Air Dance → Sky Dash (change): 5 steps jump, mid-air stop possible

・The Roaring Lightning King (skill)

・Detection

・Festival Music: Can be activated by uplifting the spirit. All stats are doubled for 10 minutes, but all stats are halved for 10 minutes when the effect ends.

As always, the benefits of evolution are quite large. The stat points for evolution are automatically distributed. Just reaching 60 gave me stat points equal to 10 level ups. I have been saving up the remaining stat points since level 54 to distribute them depending on the stats after evolution.

Considering my current combat methods and skills, it seems better to allocate them into STR and AGI. Let’s allocate it before fighting the Arch Chimera.

Skills also often acquire higher levels after evolution. Considering the trend so far, I feel that it is highly dependent on my actions and battles that took place in between the previous evolution and the current evolution.

The biggest change this time is the [Festival Music] skill. The activation condition is “uplifting the spirit”. This must be what grandpa was talking about…

I was indeed fighting with such high spirits… It was during the ranking battles. My spirits were high enough to incite the audiences even.

Well, putting that aside for now, the effect I get is double all stats. Considering the activation conditions and the drawback after the effect ends, it is difficult to activate voluntarily. However, the benefits are exceptionally good in that it is now possible to activate triple buffs at the same time. Especially when I’m dealing with higher-ranked opponents or when there’s an enemy that specializes in defense, this skill alone has the potential to turn the tide in one fell swoop.

Next is [Sky Dash]. Since it has become much easier to fight in the air with this skill, I can even say that I have obtained countermeasures against flying enemies to some extent.

Ideally, I would have wanted a flying skill… When I was young, I often thought about flying freely in the sky, but since I don’t have wings, this may simply be a lofty dream.

And thirdly, [Dark attribute magic] has finally been added to the skill column. But I still don’t know how to use it.

I don’t even have the first idea of how to use it. The quickest way would be to ask someone who can use dark magic to teach me. I think I heard that Mare was good at dark attribute magic. I shall ask her when we return to Foret Noir.

Speaking of Mare, the Nightmare, and Cherry, the Red Ogre, they seem to have risen to B rank adventurer level recently. At first, they didn’t understand human’s sense of values and sometimes got into trouble in the city, but now they seem to have blended in with the city as normal adventurers.

While working as adventurers, those two were investigating the demi-humans and beastmen who had been sold by the slave traders. Therefore, their activities were centered in Miralda.

When Ruzark condemned the nobles and slave traders, he was able to seize the client list, so most of the people who were bought were released through the nobles of Ruzark’s faction, and they have been living in Plainevelt since. Some built good relationships with their masters and did not seek release. With regard to such people, as a result of the discussion, the slave contract was canceled and the issue was settled in the form of having them working as a servant.

All the demi-humans and beastmen who were bought in the past few months have been handled, so Mare and Cherry should have more free time.

Come to think of it, Mare and Cherry also wanted to raise their levels and evolve… Just like us, they can’t raise their levels in the Plainevelt dungeon.

All members of Star Supremacy have a subordinate contract with me and have subordinates in their titles. As a result, they get benefits such as being able to use convenient functions such as teleport and inter-labyrinth teleport, and being able to study under Quereble, but on the other hand, they cannot acquire experience points in the dungeons where I am the dungeon master and have a hard time leveling up. Considering the future, I definitely want them to focus on leveling.

Well, in that case, it might not be a good idea to absorb dungeons as soon as I find them…

Wouldn’t it be better to leave it as a leveling up place instead of absorbing it? Transferring between labyrinths is very easy to use as a means of transportation, but it feels like a waste with just that alone…

Even so, this is my sixth evolution. As a matter of course, it’s a race that isn’t listed in the monster encyclopedia. But considering the number of evolutions, I should be able to acquire status equal to or higher than S-rank monsters. In which case, the Arch Chimera is probably a monster that can be classified as an SS-rank monster.

Let’s try fighting the Arch Chimera in the next round.

This might be a little unreasonable, but I’d like to fight it One-on-One if possible… Let’s discuss this with the others!