The next morning.Robin woke up and heard noises from the kitchen. “Is it a cat?” she hurried into the kitchen, only to see Ulmer cooking.“S-Son, why are you cooking?” she tried to grab the ladle, but he didn’t let her.“I’m going to take the SAC exam,” Ulmer said. “I won’t be able to be with you guys for a little, so I want to contribute something before I leave.”After he said those words, Robin couldn’t say anything to get him out of the kitchen.Ulmer took it upon himself to arrange all the dishes on the mat. Robin woke everyone up so that they’d eat the food while it’s still warm.After hearing that Ulmer cooked breakfast, everyone actively brushed their teeth and hurried over.Ayana thought she would be the first to eat, but Suki was already there, sitting next to Ulmer by the time she arrived there.“Hey, did you even brush your teeth?” Ayana asked her.“Eeeee,” Suki grinned and showed her teeth.“Don’t smile! Answer my question!” Ayana said.“You can sit here,” Ulmer tapped t
Later that night.Ulmer was lying down on the bed. “Tomorrow, I’ll be leaving this home. I don’t know how many days I’ll be gone, and it’s making me anxious.”“I’d be more worried if you’re not anxious,” Ayana said. She was sitting on the bed and was massaging his legs. Ulmer’s legs were a little bit hairy, and she liked that. She pulled the hair every now and then to get that jerking reaction from him, and it made her smile. “I know you’re strong, but the capital district is full of them. The average level of people living there is over thirty! If you’re not careful, you could get ganged up and robbed or defeated.”“You think I’d get robbed in the capital?” Ulmer asked. “Serious punishment is given to those who rob, right?’“Yeah, how are you going to catch the robber or prove that they robbed you?” Ayana asked him back. “The nobles control the surveillance in the capital district, so they’ll show only what they want and hide everything else. Though I could have gone to the capital i
The next morning.Ulmer’s family gave him a send off.Suki was crying, telling him to not go. He told her he’d come back and bring her a lot of gifts. Kale was silent and stood in the back.Ulmer waved him goodbye before walking out through the main gate. Dustin and Robin also waved at him.Ayana accompanied him outside. She gave him a long hug and said, “Be careful. I’ll be waiting for you.”“Don’t worry, Ayana. I’m not going to die but to ride all the storms that come my way,” Ulmer told her.And then Ulmer left in a flying car that was personally sent from SAC company, and it had its logo on it.Suki was still shedding tears as she entered the house.“He’s going to come back soon, Suki,” Robin told her. “Don’t cry.”Suki still looked sad, and she ran into Ayana’s room. However, to her utter shock, Ulmer was sitting on the bed.“Brother!” Suki’s face glowed. “You returned already?”“Haha,” Ulmer laughed. “No, I’m Ulmer’s clone.”“C-Clone?” Suki found it hard to believe, but then he
One of the guards took Ulmer into the building.Felix was still standing outside. A few sackers came to talk to him. “Is he the Knight Beater?”“What an exaggerating title to give to such a youngster.”“Is he worth the talk, or is he just a balloon with volatile gas inside?”Felix snorted a little. “That guy… He’s no joke. I’ve met thousands of strong ones over the years, but only a handful of those were utterly unaffected by my poison. We must make him a sacker.”The other sackers were astonished by Felix’s words. Even though Felix was in level sixties, most knights in level eighties would not mess with him because of his poison ability. And Felix would even look down on the knights. So, hearing such praise coming from Felix was a rare thing.SAC exam had many categories. Working jobs including those sitting behind the desk and taking care of administrative work, or going out to the field and keeping peace and order. Or policing and specifically catching criminals or those who would
The chairman of SAC lived on the top floor of the tower inside the fortress. This tower did not have regular cylindrical structure but had many extensions out of it on different floors, giving it the look of a tree instead.The colosseum where Ulmer fought Speedster was on the fifth floor.Currently, Ulmer was taken to the 100th floor which was in the clouds.As they waited outside the chairman’s room, Ulmer looked outside through the glass window. The view from there was magnificent.He could see that many flying beasts were being used for travel. The fountains were also hundreds of feet high with fish dancing about.Ulmer’s heart fluttered. How wonderful would it be to tour this place with Ayana and her family, he thought.As he waited outside, the sackers around him were all talking about the thefts that happened in different parts of the city. They were talking about things that Ulmer didn’t take away, too.Because of these recent incidents, many sackers were dispatched to find th
Ulmer walked out of the chairman’s room.Hessia saw that he did not have a badge. “You were not chosen?” She looked a bit confused.“Yeah, your chairman didn’t want me to be part of SAC,” Ulmer said before walking away.(He looks totally fine. It doesn’t look like his system was taken away from him.) Hessia quickly entered the chairman’s room. “Why didn’t you choose him? He’s definitely going to become one of the top sackers in the country.”“He wouldn’t be staying in this city for long, so he’s not fit to be part of our organization,” Oscar replied.“Then why didn’t you take his system?” Hessia couldn’t help but ask.“I tried, but I couldn’t,” Oscar replied.Hessia blinked a few times. “Huh? What does that even mean? Stop joking.”Oscar smiled. “Arrange a meeting with the emperor.”Hessia’s eyes slightly widened because this meant that Oscar wasn’t lying.“We have a mighty one walking in our midst,” Oscar added. “Whether it is going to be a blessing or will become a disaster…I will k
“The capital of the city…” Ulmer was looking around while traveling on a flying lizardfish that was gelding through the sky right now. “It certainly is very beautiful, clean, and peaceful, but the hearts of the people are not as attractive. Compared to them, the people living outside are living more freely and positively.”Ulmer then told the driver to slow down.From hundreds of meters high, he looked down and observed the old lady he had given the money to. She stopped by at her son’s house and showed him the money. He took the money from her, but waved his hand away, telling her to leave. She asked him to let him into the house, but he kicked her away.Ulmer’s gut twisted upon watching that. “He looks like a wealthy person. Yet, how can he treat his own mother like that? Aren’t the laws here strict? Why isn’t he punished for not taking care of his own mother?”The driver smiled. “The laws sure are strict, but they will only apply to the poor. The rich folks always get away with wha
“I like that hat,” just then, Miranne pointed at the hat Ulmer was holding.The female worker immediately scuttled over to Ulmer and snatched the hat from his hands. “This is already sold.”“What?” Ulmer looked baffled as she went and gave the hat to Mirianne.“I’ll give this to one of the servants in my estate,” Miranne said aloud so that Ulmer would be able to hear.Did she purposely take the hat to annoy him? Ulmer wondered, but he didn’t think too much about it and looked for other things that he could buy.He picked up a diamond bracelet. “I’ll take this,” he said.“I will take that bracelet, too,” Mirianne said.Ulmer frowned. “Is there something wrong with you?”His words startled the female worker. “How dare you question a noble!” she barked at Ulmer. “Get out of the store, or I’ll call a sacker!”Ulmer tossed the diamond bracelet to the female worker. “I’ll be leaving, so have fun buying everything,” he told Mirianne.“It was your fault to begin with,” Miranne replied. “When
THANK YOU::The novel may have come to a climax, but the curtain for Ulmer's grown-up journey has just risen!The last arc made me pretty emotional at times, and it was difficult to write. I hope you enjoyed the novel till the last page. Thank you, to one and all, for reading Ulmer’s story and traveling on his journey of ups and downs in love and life.Thanks to the readers Corazon, Princesamdanking, Wongani Kanyenda, Tommy Wangeline and Gephysun for your votes and support.A special thanks to Mickey Ritch for your singular support, Brother. Do you want me to create a character with your name as a protagonist or as a villain in one of my novels? Please do comment about it.CHARACTERS::I hope you can take away some memorable characters from this novel. If I had to pick a favorite character, it would be Ulmer for me. The poor guy has just been through so much in his life, and the spirit system really changed his life for the better, and you know how. I also like Ayana and would love to
A few months later.Ben and Amelie not only started their business together but also got married, and Ivy as usual caused a lot of noise during the marriage, asking Ross Richard to give her son this and that.Ross had to give in to her demands because of his daughter Amelie.Ivy’s brother took some gold from her and started a restaurant business because Ulmer had commanded him to stop his finance business as he was sucking people’s blood with it. His wife didn’t like it and went back to her home, but she would eventually return to his side a few years later, after her mother would die.Rick Orsini’s right-hand man, Lexor, was sitting alone on the rooftop of a big hotel, reading the online news on his tablet.“Someone called Urban God joined the Underworld Kings competition?” Lexor raised his eyebrows. “If he’s the real deal, no one will be able to stop him.”Underworld Kings was a world-wide martial arts competition where people with all kinds of superpowers competed, with loose rule
“Your wife?!”“That girl who looks younger than Ruth is your wife?” Ivy quickly said. “Are you out of your mind, Ulmer?”“She’s 19,” Ulmer coldly glanced at her. “So, what’s the problem?”“T-That’s…” Ivy found her throat shaking. His gaze felt intimidating. “I-Isn’t there too much age gap between you two?”“What bullshit are you saying, Ivy?” Mollie snorted. “My grandson is not even thirty, and you say there’s an age gap? Can’t you see that they both look nice next to one another? Also, it’s actually nice if there's a five to six year gap between the husband and wife.”Mollie gently held Ayana’s cheeks and lifted up her head.“Where did you hide such a pretty girl all this time from us, Ulmer?” Mollie said. “You will get punished for this later.”“Ulmer always talks greatly about you, Grandmother,” Ayana said. “So, please forgive him this once.”“Hahaha,” Mollie laughed heartily. “Your wife is already defending you so much, Ulmer. She’s not just beautiful but also smart. I think it’s
The news of so many Thorns dying did not get leaked in the underworld, much less to the common public.However, some of the topdogs in the underworld eventually heard of the heart-shaking news that more than half of the thorns died in the hands of someone called the Urban God.And the title Urban God started to be feared by those who have heard about it.Also, a new bounty appeared on the Urban God, whose name and face were kept hidden by the thorns on purpose.His current bounty was a quadrillion dollars, twice as much as the current world’s known wealth.The amount was so ridiculous and crazy that many bounty hunters thought it was just a fake bounty. A scam. A joke.But then there were those who believed that it could be real and started to investigate the name Urban God. However, most of them would give up on their search the more they learned about the recent history of the Urban God.A few weeks after Crimia was buried from the hidden face of the earth.Minerva had woken up, but
At around two in the night, the vibrations stopped, and the people finally were able to breathe freely.Many of them went back into their homes and slept. Some still stayed outside, afraid of the quake happening again.Around three in the night, Dark Monarch arrived at the Bronich city, but he was surprised to find out that the entire Crimia had been buried by mud. All the entrances were sealed off by mud.“What the hell just happened here in the time I was gone? Was he responsible for this?”Just then, he looked up into the sky.Miles high in the sky, Abbie was flying away with her mother’s body in her arms, her expression dark and desolate under moonlight.“Isn’t that…”Suddenly, immense pressure was put on his body.“Gravity Cage…” Ulmer appeared next to him.Dark Monarch’s body was crushed from every angle by pressure he had never experienced before. He screamed at the top of his lungs.“You should have never returned,” Ulmer did not spare even an inkling of mercy on him. “Gravity
“She’s going to live,” the royal healer, Irvi, an old lady with poisonous pimples all over her face, said. She was 120 years old but was still able to stand straight. However, her voice was not steady. She was observing Minerva’s pulse.Minerva was lying on the bed in the medical chambers not far from the royal palace.“However, her system has integrated with her body, so we can’t take it out,” Irvi said. “If we do it right now, she will die.”“Is it not possible to separate the system without killing her?” Ulmer asked.“It is, but that’s only possible when she overcomes the system?” Irvi responded. “The chances of that ever happening are slim.”Ulmer frowned but then said, “Do what you can to heal her.”“I will. That’s my job, after all,” Irvi said. “No matter how wicked a person may be, if they come to my doorstep, I will not turn my back toward them.”Ulmer slightly bowed his head to her and walked out onto the balcony of that building, where Minerva’s dad, Neodus was present.“I t
The vines suddenly dashed at Ulmer from behind.Ulmer didn’t even move an inch and stood unmoving.The vines rushed past him at a terrific speed and pierced Minerva’s body everywhere. She coughed out a lot of blood.“I didn’t want my blood on your hands,” she tried to smile despite the pain coursing through her body. “I’m… really sorry… for everything.”She was collapsing forward.Ulmer let go of the sword and held her shoulders, stopping her from falling to the ground.Minerva’s eyes began to turn completely dark. The vines that pierced her body began to turn direction and then pierced through Ulmer’s body from behind.Blood rushed to Ulmer’s mouth, but kept his mouth shut. Still, blood slowly leaked from a corner of his mouth.He sent a mental message to her. “It’s okay…”He wrapped his arms around her and hugged her.Minerva’s eyes shed more tears, and the blackness in her eyes began to disperse slowly but surely.In a few moments, Minerva’s eyes closed.He could still feel her spi
Minerva thought she could kidnap Ulmer’s family but now realized that she was the one who was tricked by him.He was already well prepared for her.And he wasn’t going to let her harm his family twice.However, now that Ulmer was looking up at her, both sadness and anger filled his eyes.What has become of his ex-girlfriend? Someone with whom he had gone shopping with? Someone who seemed so innocent and lovely when he first met her?Remembering the times when they both went to a jewelry shop, and she studded herself with all kinds of gold and acted like a royal made Ulmer laugh heartily back then.He thought he fell in love with the best girl there was.But look, what has become of her now?She was reduced to someone who would hypnotize a little girl in order to lure Ulmer’s relatives out of the house.Even though Ulmer was just standing, he felt his heart strings playing hard to the point they were hurting because he knew that the time was near.“U-Ulmer…” Minerva could feel his emot
The Drunken Disaster Dionysus, the Wild King Enkidu, the Snake-haired Perseus, the Moon Goddess Artemis, the Sun God Apollo, the War Goddess Ishtar, and the one standing in front of them all and more was the mighty, monstrous King of Heroes Gilgamesh who stood nearly six meters tall.Not one of them could be called anything less than a monster.They were all absolute powerhouses, who made a name for themselves around the world in their times.Some of their powers transcended common sense and logic.“How dare a mere artificial system holder stand in our path? Know your place, vermin!” Ishtar, the war goddess, who looked extremely seductive as well as scary, squinted her eyes, releasing a powerful wave of energy that was supposed to suppress her opponent.Ulmer felt goosebumps all over. “Whooo… that tingles.” He smiled with excitement. (She saw through my system with a glance. I don’t know who she is, but she’s very dangerous. It’s not just her….) His gaze fell on others. (They are all