Death Mage with an SS-Rank Talent-Chapter 253

There was no imminent attack, but how could the higher-ups know that fact?

With the absence of monsters, they sent scouts to check the surroundings, to see if the absence of them was because an attack would happen soon or for some other reason.

They found almost nothing.

They did find something, but not what they wished for, but that too gave them something about what they wanted to know.

Aaron, though, didn’t make any friends; he was not deaf.

When he first came, he heard rumours about the decrease in the number of higher-level monsters around the fort. At first, most thought someone from their batch might be improving and would certainly reach a high rank, which was said to be almost impossible to reach before graduation, which is Rank-5.

No one has reached that rank before. Many came close to Rank-5, but stopped by the increased EXP requirement or the promotion mission itself.

That was under normal conditions, but now it was different.

Many fourth years have already reached Rank-4 early in their final year. So, the chances of someone eliminating these monsters didn’t feel absurd, at least at the beginning.

As time went on, suspicions among the students rose, as no one was showing much improvement, but still they thought that some higher-ups might be clearing them to make the hunting grounds safer for the students, which worked in the favour of many as they could now peacefully improve their levels.

There were many discussions about these monster disappearances in public, such as the mess hall or merit hall.

Aaron, who heard those rumours, mind-slapped himself. He had been sloppy.

Sure, he went deep into the wild to hunt his monsters, so that no one would be able to see him, but monsters don’t stay in the same place. They move from one place to another in search of food, especially in lands that were not settled as monster territories.

The area is still contested between humans and monsters. So, they can’t just take a piece of land for themselves, as many monsters kept coming from the deep wild.

After learning about his mistakes, Aaron went in deeper, which made it possible to reach level 850 so quickly. Whenever he defeated a monster, he made sure to erase the battlefield, making sure there was no evidence of who fought there, but by doing so, he confirmed something else.

After a battle, he couldn’t stay at that place for long. So, he could only erase the evidence of what had been fought in the area, not the entire fight itself.

Anyone with battle experience can estimate that the fight was between powerful entities and also recognise that at least one party was human.

If it were just monsters, they wouldn’t hide their fights like that. This was something that Aaron forgot to consider. Even if he considered it, it would take too much time to erase every trace of the fight, and he is a death mage, not a nature mage, who can regrow the trees and restore the wild, to make it appear as if nothing happened.

He could do the best he could with his power, but he knew that might not be enough, even though he didn’t know that the higher-ups had come to know that a human or a group were behind the disappearance.

The higher-ups calmed down a bit that the monsters are not planning an attack, but that raised another issue. frёewebηovel.cѳm

Who was behind this?

If the human race were united, then it wouldn’t have raised any issues, but sadly, they were not.

There are many organisations that don’t work for the development of human society, but rather for selfish reasons, even if that causes the total destruction of human society.

So, if these disappearances are caused by those organisations, then it might not be a good thing, which has caused the fort to be on alert.

This was why Aaron felt that it might take two or three months before he could raise his rank to Rank-5. Once he reaches that, he can venture even deeper into the wild, places where scouts wouldn’t venture normally if not specifically assigned.

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Thanks to being a bit afraid of getting found, Aaron ventured a bit deeper into the wild this time around, which made it easy to raise his levels by 150.

With those 150 levels, he got a lot of FSPs and SPs.

He got more than a million FSPs, which he directly dumped into Luck, which increased from 69 points to 93 points, a total of 24 points.

When his luck reached 10 points, he got a trait, and when it reached 50, that trait improved. So, he felt that when it reached 100, it would be improved further. Moreover, he wanted to see if 100 was the highest points in luck.

It was theorised that 100 could be the highest one can have in Luck, and he wanted to see if that is true and what would happen at that point.

Coming to SPs, with the amount he saved beforehand, the total crossed a million. Aaron believed that it would be more than enough. So, he decided to improve one of the gold rank skills to platinum rank, which would increase his grade, but he came short of SPs.

Among the three gold skills, he chose Summon Lich Mage as he decided to improve quality before quantity. When the skill reached Gold Rank 9, there were fewer than 200k SPs that remained on his panel.

The point was that the Gold Rank 8 to Rank 9 cost him 230k of SPs. So, even if he had 300k, he was not sure that it would have been enough, as the skill would not just be jumping through a rank but a realm.

With the increase in the rank, the number of Lich Mages that he can have increased from 29 to 37, an increase of 1 per level as before. Still, he was happy about that.

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