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An hour later (which was mostly spent looking for a fucking iron bar) the bonfire was lit inside of an alleyway located near a local Inn.
It was mostly quiet and if I really got desperate, I could look inside the Inn's trash for food. It was as good as I'd get on such short notice.
BONFIRE LIT.
The small littered place got filled with warm, purifying light.
What could normally be considered a spot primed for getting shanked and who knew what else, was now an absolute safe-zone.
Smiling, I relished the light of my creation, fueled by the Humanity of a dead man I killed myself.
Once that was done with, I extended my hand to it and promptly spent all of my souls on Strength, not even bothering to glance at the stat sheet.
Strength: 9 ⇒ 15
Cost: 4395
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Level: 7
Souls: 532
There, now hopefully that made my punches hit harder than before. Also, now that I was dealing with Undead business, I took out a sprite of humanity out of my backpack and simply crushed it.
The humanity rushed from the sprite directly to me. I could feel how it made me feel instantly more refreshed, and most importantly, I felt more whole.
It was a stark difference existing with and without a single piece of humanity inside.
Now I had 10 Humanities left in my backpack, but I'd save them for later. I never knew when I'd need to restore myself after getting killed.
That part of the upgrading done, I simply left the backpack aside, sat on the ground by the lovely warm bonfire, and closed my eyes. leaning my head against the brick wall.
Sleep quickly overtook me. It was late as shit, after all.
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My eyes opened, finding myself inside the void. An old computer-set awaited me.
There wasn't much to comment, I was getting used to this level-up business. I wasted no more time and sat down on the desk chair in front of the computer.
GREETINGS INCURSOR.
TODAY'S INCURSION HAS ENDED.
INCURSION SUMMARY:
MONEY= $196 USD ⇒ $48 USD
BULLETS = 26x 0.45 Bullets + 10x Light Bullets ⇒ 26x 0.45 Bullets + 40x Light Bullets
EXP COUNT:
6000 [XP] required for LVL.4
Ricochet Shots! [2 Times Hit]: 200xp
Cleaning Up! [Dirty Status Removed]: 100xp
Traveling Incursor [Kyoto]: 200xp
Canon-Relevant Travel [Kyoto]: 500xp
Killed Stray Exorcists [12 - Hobo Execution Squad]: 1200xp
Stealth Kills [12 Kills]: 1200xp
Perfect Ghost [No Alerts / High Risk Area]: 500xp
Compensation [INCURSOR-FUCKER]: 500xp
3500 [XP] ⇒ 7900 [XP]
CONGRATULATIONS, YOU HAVE REACHED LEVEL 4!
+1 SKILL POINT
CHOOSE A NEW SKILL!
On the last level-up, [Coin Flipper] was chosen.
[The Perfectionist]:
TIER 2 SKILLS [Coin Flipper]:
- [Cash-Back]: Killing a target by using [Coin Flipper] will refund 1/4th of funds used for the kill. (ex: Using two 50 USD coins to kill a target will refund 25 USD).
- [Coin Stacker]: For every Coin Ricochet a shot goes through using [Coin Flipper], it will generate 5 [Perfect Stacks]. Increases the number of coins you can generate at a time to 6
- [Money Kills]: Allows [Coin Flipper] to create [Coin Bullets]. These bullets can be of any handgun caliber and their DMG depends on their cost when creating them. (Minimum: 1 USD)
[Pyromancer]:
- [Basic Pyrokinesis]: Grants the ability [Pyrokinesis], making you able to generate a flame in your hand that can be expanded and controlled. It is limited to your hand and upon throwing the flame or dropping it, it will die.
{Gunman / Pyromancer} skill available for unlocking!
- [Actual Finger Gun]: Grants you the ability [Finger Gun], letting you use your hand to shoot fire bullets. The strength of the bullets will depend on the progress of the [Pyromancer] skill tree.
And so ended the page.
I frowned when reading the summary. Why the fuck were TWELVE entire exorcists worth the same as the one from yesterday? That didn't seem to make a single lick of sense, in fact, it made ZERO fucking sense.
100xp per exorcist!? That was NOTHING! One of those assholes gave me the same XP as me just showering!
What fucking bullshit.
Also, I noticed the small Compensation part in the XP summary. What in the nine hells was the INCURSOR-FUCKER?
Well, it gave me 500xp, so… eh, I'd live.
Now came the time for the skills. I instantly dismissed the notion of spending the skill point on a [Pyromancer] one and instead examined my remaining choices.
Honestly, I came here expecting to take [Ricochet Junkie] from yesterday, but it seemed as if that wasn't an available option anymore.
Instead all of my options revolved around [Coin Flipper] which was something I should've probably been told about last level-up.
I frowned as I read the skills' description once more.
As usual, they were all pretty useful in some ways, [Cash-Back] ensuring that I could risk higher value coins and make sure I wasn't absolutely broke by the end of it, [Coin Stacker] exponentially increasing my DMG and [Money Kills] directly solved my bullet problems, guaranteeing that I could always have ammo at the ready.
That last one in particular was incredibly tempting, but I also caught myself in a particular dilemma: Should I pick something I wanted or instead invest in something I could've wanted.
What did I mean? For example, last time I chose [Coin Flipper] and now all the available skills to choose were directly related to that one. What would happen if I were to choose [Cash-Back]?
Maybe next time I leveled up I could get skills that directly refunded all the money spent on coins or just directly increased my funds in some other way. It was something to consider.
…But I decided not to. Not only because it seemed a bit BORING and like I was gambling shit away (which I liked doing but now wasn't the time) but also because as I read the skills, I thought of all the previous encounters I've had since I arrived at this 'DxD' shithole.
I severely lacked DMG.
Sure, I did kill the Stray and the apparent Lord of Exorcists (considering his absurdly high XP payout compared to the regular ones), but the Stray managed to resist a lot of bullets before I hit a critical spot and the Exorcist, although he took a very nasty hit when I used a 12 Stack shot on him, died only when I shot him directly in the head, and that last one was mostly luck.
I needed to be able to kill fuckers without having to actively target the brain or another highly-specific vital organ.
If I came across someone like that angel again, I needed to make sure that my bullets could pierce through and kill her nice and good.
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