Jim was meditating on the rooftop, his stomach growling so much because he hadn’t eaten anything since his battle with Nexa.Doug finally brought a basket full of apples. “Boss, look! I brought you shiny apples!”“Shiny?” Jim opened his eyes and looked at the apples which were so glossy. He remembered his dad once showing him when he was young that apples that looked shiny were probably coated with wax. “Bring a peeler or a blade and peel off the skin.”“Pardon?” Doug looked confused. “The skin is what gives the apple taste, Boss Jim.”“Can’t you see that they’ve been waxed thickly?” Jim anooyedly said. “If I eat them like t his, my stomach will get really upset one day. I can’t risk that when I’m in this dungeon!”“G-Got it, Boss.” Doug then took the basket downstairs and explained the problem to Ace, who then gathered men. And they all quickly peeled off the skin within ten minutes.Doug took the peeled apples back to Jim, whereas Ace lit up a flame torch. “Let’s see if these things
Jim was meditating, and he was learning more about the human body and how its parts were wonderfully proportional to one another. “Even the fingers are in golden ratio…” Jim had his eyes closed, but he was able to feel the life energy releasing from his body, which people called aura. “I can feel it through vivre. The energy goes into the nails and hair and skin and bones… which in turn helps grow them. This is so beautiful.” [It is indeed.] Joe sounded envious. [I wish I had a body, too. It’s full of mysteries and complex processes. The more you dig, the more surprises you’ll get. But the best part of them all is the human DNA, which can amazingly replicate itself.] “You sound like you can’t wait to get a new body for yourself,” Jim commented. [That’s against the rules I’m set up with.] Joe replied. [I cannot have my own body. Ever. I can only accept a human as my master. And I can’t recklessly kill humans, either. I know of some other systems, which are more rationalistic, but I
Hundreds of villains had surrounded Ronny Street. They were all armed with guns, crossbows, swords, and more.A man wearing a white robe came from the Ronny Street, and nobody shot at him, for he was a scout they sent to observe the enemies first.This man in white robe was Venom Scout, a villain ranked 22. He was known to be so poisonous that he’d make people sick just by breathing air in their faces.Naturally, everybody moved away from him as he came to Monmor.“So, how are their forces?” Monmor asked while picking his teeth with a sharp, broken dog bone. “If we all storm in right now, will we have more advantage? Or should we wait until our plants make them fight against each other?”“I think it’s better to make our ‘plants’ to join us in the middle of the fight,” Venom Scout opined. “This can deal a big blow to them mentally. I think we will need that momentum. If we can use that well, our victory will be sealed.”“Huh! Do you think it’ll be that easy?” A bulky bald-headed villai
Just as Smelly Hammer was about to kill one of the men of Ronny Street, a figure came flying down and landed right in between Smelly Hammer and his target. Everybody immediately recognized this person.“Jim the Hero!” Some men belonging to Ronny Street cried out his name in happiness.“Heh, the hero? More like the zero!” Smelly Hammer viciously swung his heavy hammer without a shred of hesitation. “Die, you dog!” The hammer released strong red lightning as it drummed through the air.Smelly Hammer’s intentions were obvious. He wasn’t just trying to defeat Jim but utterly destroy every single cell in his body so that nothing of him remained. Was there a better way for a villain to destroy a hero than to make their very existence completely disappear?“Not even a single blood cell in your body will remain after this! Thor’s Thunder!” Smelly Hammer roared.Jim deflected the hammer with his fist like it was nothing and then grabbed the opponent’s face firmly.Smelly Hammer was a seven-fo
Jim loosened his fist as the villains with swords, clubs, and machetes charged him, roaring like mad men.“In the book, he talked about fighting without tightening the muscles,” Jim uttered. “He said it’d help make vivre move faster and smoother through the body and thus result in a different output.” He started to move nimbly and smoothly and deflected the weapons of the opponents without even touching them and also released smooth bursts of energy through his movements that pushed the opponents away and sent some flying.“What sort of a martial art is this?” Shadow Sage frowned. “It doesn’t look like he’s releasing much vivre, but he’s pushing his opponents away.”“He can’t stop bullets from up close,” Monmor said. “They just have to get close enough and surprise him.”“I’ll do it,” a brown woman wearing a bra and a skirt walked forth. She was Lead Digger ranked 72 among the villain lords. She was holding a briefcase in one hand, and a kitchen knife in the other hand.Lonely Swan ju
When Shadow Sage and Lonely Swan started moving, all the other villains moved away because they didn’t want to get involved in the fight.Shadow Sage was the one in the front. His whole body was covered in tattoos, and they began to come alive, which surprised Jim. They were disgusting-looking beasts of sizes and shapes never seen before by man.“What the hell are those things?” Jim asked. “Are they demons?”“You guessed it right,” Shadow Sage uttered. “They are basically made out of ink, but you cannot cut them. You cannot kill them. However, they can kill you.”“If they are made out of ink, I can just evaporate them, right?” Jim voiced his mind.Shadow Sage blinked a couple of times. “Haha, you think they have any water in them? They don’t. They can’t be melted, too. Nobody has managed to defeat them, yet. Not even Jeremy or the Death Knight! That’s why I’m still undefeated on this floor. Attack him, my little darlings.”All the dozen dark-green ink beasts swarmed onto Jim from the
Jim came straight for Monmor.Shadow Sage’s ink demons had just returned to his body, so he was able to suddenly release them all once again. They formed a defensive shield in front of Shadow Sage and Monmor.Jim punched at the wall. “Heavenly Fist!”BOOM~~!!Everything before him had completely been destroyed in a second. All the people, including Shadow Sage became unrecognizable bits and pieces. For over 1200 ft, everything in sight was leveled.Monmor was nowhere to be seen. Did he also die from that punch?Smiling Son who had taken out a box full of worms found himself rooted to the ground and staring at Jim in disbelief. He knew Jim was strong, but shouldn’t he be tired after his fight with Nexa? How can he just destroy over a hundred people with a single punch?“It wasn’t as destructive as I wanted,” Jim uttered, further astonishing both Smiling son and Lonely Swan. “Is it because I spent most of my vivre into strengthening my organs? I should start absorbing more vivre into my
Jim felt completely helpless against these worms, which were sucking away all the vivre through his bodily pores. From the heated battle, his pores were already open, which made it easier for these skyworms to suck his energy all the more easily.On top of that, Monmor used this chance to launch a grand attack. Over thirty earthen pillars rose out of the ground and came down crashing onto Jim like giant living snakes seeking to devour him alive.Jim had no time to properly defend himself.He was crushed by the thirty pillars from every direction. He was buried alive.After the excessively loud clash, Monmor was laughing very happily.“We’ve done it, Lord Monmor,” Smiling Son excitedly said. “I didn’t think we’d be able to do it, but we really did it. We really took down the hero that defeated Nexa!”“Haha,” Monmor was panting. “Yes, this is what I wanted. He’s crushed under my pillars of earth, and the skyworms will keep sucking his energy until he can’t move anymore. There’s no way h