Chapter 4: This is very cliché.

Walking through the forest, I look at the missions tab.

[Mission Complete]

[Rewards: 10,000 gold coins - 2 skill points - A Book on Demons & Hell - Free Shop Ticket(10,000 gold or less) - Shroud of Cold Darkness - Ring of Magical Fortitude.]

'Expected more to be honest. But I can live with this.' I think to myself, looking at my rewards. They are not that bad.

[Shroud of Cold Darkness: A dark cloak with resistance to cold, 25% resistance to ice magic, and twice the strength added to the element of darkness.]

[Ring of Magical Strengthening: A ring boosting the user's magical strength by 25%.]

Equipping both of them, a dark cloak appears around my shoulders, that has a hood, which is dropped down on my back and a ring on the middle finger of my left hand. The ring is basic, it is made of silver with a small blue crystal in the middle.

Looking at the sky, it is almost getting dark. How wonderful. I use magic to levitate piece of wood sticks and small logs while heading towards a clearing ahead of me.

I find a giant log with a clearing around it. Setting my back on the log. I set the sticks and small logs in front of me. I point my finger at the fire camp and a small wisp of flame shoots towards it, igniting the sticks under the small logs.

Breathing once more, "Ah, such wonder, such fresh air. The smell of the fire and warmth of it. This is very cozy~." I say, smiling. It reminds me of my past life, when I used to go camping.

Getting comfortable in my place, I check the shop tab. And let me say this, unbelievable. It has many categories, ranging from weapons, armors, miscellaneous, potions, alchemical ingredients, blueprints for various things, even a tab for the system, and so much more.

I click the shop system category.

[SHOP]

[Category: System]

[System Guide - 5,000 Gold Coins]

'There is only one available item for purchase.' I think to myself, as it is quite bizarre. I expected there will be more.

[System Guide: The system will aid the user by using the information they have gathered, as well as showing more clear information about certain features of the system and explaining them. The system will store information, as a library where the user can access it later on. The information stored is directly from the user's mind, either consciously or subconsciously. For the subconscious part, it is within acceptable boundaries of the user's terms. Meaning, that whatever the user accepts subconsciously to be seen by the system, it will see it. This upgrade of the system will act as somewhat an AI. It has no will, no feelings, no ambitions, nothing. It is just there to gather, analyze, and explain. Aiding the user of understanding the system and much more.]

'Pretty useful if I think about it clearly. It could aide me in further understanding certain features and this world, or worlds as I understand it.' I think to myself and decide to come back to it later.

Checking the skills tab for the various skills that are available, I come across a skill which I think might be quite useful.

[Analyze - 2,000 Gold Coins]

[Analyze: The user is able to check certain and specific information on things, either living or non. It could be a sentient being, such as humans, elves, dwarves, and etc. to monsters, plants, minerals, weapons, and so much more. The higher the skill the more detailed the information becomes, and the more undetectable it becomes when used on beings of the same level or higher.]

This indeed will be useful. Purchasing it, I check the rest of the skills, they are pretty expensive. Some as much as 100,000 Gold Coins. I even checked the elements tab; the Death Elements is one million gold coins. That is just ridiculous, but understandable because of what a person is capable of doing with the Death Element at their hands.

I ended up purchasing the [Analyze] skill. As well as the system upgrade, the [System Guide].

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It is currently morning, and I am walking aimlessly through the woods, trying to figure how the hell I am going to proceed from here. There is just so much to do, so much to be weary and cautious of. Too much, just too much.

Ending up in a clearing, I sense multiple presences. Coming out the bushes, are at the least two dozen men, wearing ragged leather armor, with irons weapons, some with a shield some not. There are also archers in the back.

"Looky what we have here, a stranded wanderer perhaps~" says a man in an annoying and chuckling voice, he is the closest to me, about 5 meters away from me.

They all start to chuckle. "Come now, perhaps you have something of value, ah… I see the ring, give it to us and we'll let ya go, alrighty?" he says again, irritating me even further.

'This is very fucking cliché…' I think to myself. Looking at what I assume are bandits, I use [Analyze] on each of them separately, as I am unable to use it once on all of them, perhaps later when it reaches a higher level.

[Analyze has reached level 2]

'Speak of the devil.' I think to myself, ironically in a sense. Getting back to the main topic, the groups average level is in the 20s, the lowest is 17, one of the archers in the back. As for the highest, it is the guy who was speaking with that godawful annoying voice, he is level 30.

"Why so quite bastard? Are you so scared you can't speak." He says, laughing in the end.

Raising my right arm, holding my palm upwards, I motion for him to approach with my index finger.

He raises his eyebrows questioningly, smirks and says "It seems this bastard needs to learns some manners. Get em you two."

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Two men from behind him approach me, the right one level 25 and the left level 23. As they approach me, I think of testing my strength.

The right one smirks and says, "Come now bastard.", as he is about to punch me with his right hand, that is hold a sword.

Looking at the approaching punch that is slowly coming to impact my face, I am puzzled to a degree. He is level 25, yet I don't feel much from him, his stats are average of 60.

Dodging to the left casually, I punch his abdomen with my right fist, as he falls down and vomits. His whole face is red, veins looking like they are about to pop.

The left one is aghast and what just happened, using the distraction, I approach him quickly and punch his face, using a little more strength. Breaking his facing, really breaking it and he falls down spasming. Taking his sword I go back to the previous guy, as he turns around, I cleanly cut of his head.

[You have earned 20 gold coins and 100 exp for killing a bandit.]

[You have earned 20 gold coins and 100 exp for killing a bandit.]

'Oh… this is nice, a nice farm.' I think to myself, smirking, whilst laughing inwardly.

Strangely, I feel nothing… nothing at all when killing humans. I feel like I have been cursing and feeling far greater emotions since I have reincarnated. Most definitely it is to be attributed to me being a demon.

Turning back to the group, I see them extremely surprised, some really showing fearful expression. Which makes me… happy seeing it. It makes me exhilarated in a sense.

Looking at them, there is 27 bandits left. Approaching them, who I guess to be the boss starts to back away, motioning with his left hand for the group to what I assume is attack.

"Get this fucking bastard! All of you!" he screams, aware of the situation. It seems he is smarter than what I thought. I mean how dumb can this get, my eyes are fucking red, with reptilian like slits. Usually, people would immediately associate it with being demonic or something of the same.

The 8 archers at the back start to immediately draw their arrows and shoot. I stand still and use the sword to cut all the arrows. 6 men approach me and start swinging at me. I kept dodged the first 5 swings and then started attacking them instead.

The guy in front of me and behind me swings simultaneously, I evade both by titling my body to the right, grabbing the guy's hand who was in front of me, I pull him and slash his body apart. I feel the sword getting duller.

Turning quickly to left, using the momentum, I give a clean deep slash to the upper chest of the one behind me, this will kill him definitely, as the slash is too deep. I then procced to jump three meters high, dodging another two attacks behind me. The two guys fall down clumsily, I then procced to fall down, using my legs strength, I drop on their backs, breaking it completely, they vomit blood and stay still, gasping heavily.

Looking at the two in front of me, I use [Flash Step], approaching the left one fast, cutting from hist left hip towards his right chest and then using them momentum to cut the head of the guy on the left, all in one full swing.

Turning back quickly I start approaching the rest. And oh boy, they are truly shitting themselves now, all that killing was in a span of what I guess to be less than 20 seconds.

"W-what the fuck are you!!!! SHIT SHIT SHIT! KILL HIM! I NEED TO REPORT THIS!" the boss starts screaming erratically, he turns around, trying to run away.

Tilting my left hand, using magic I summon shadow chains around his feet, dropping him down very hard, he starts to gasp for air as more chains start restraining him.

I procced to annihilate the rest of the group, using a variation of magic and sword skills.

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[You have earned a total of 560 gold coins and 2,800 exp for killing 28 bandits.]

[Sword Mastery has leveled up from 5 to 8]

[Mana Regeneration has leveled up from 5 to 6]

[Demonic Magic has leveled up from 9 to 10]

It is not much, but not bad, still useful bunch even though they are trash. Looking backwards at the restrained guy. Throwing the completely dull sword away, I approach him. Standing above him, I crouch down, looking into his eyes I say "You should've just left, but hey, I am not complaining. Your dead buddies over there were useful… and now you will be too." and I grab his head with my right hand.

I use magic, and look through is mind, reading and consuming all he knows, all of his life. His eyes roll backwards as he screams and spasms. Finishing I stand up and dust myself off.

"So… there is more bandits here." I am currently in what is known as the Dettaral Forest. A forest known to be inhabited by a bunch of monsters and more importantly a great number of bandits.

This guy apparently works for a bandit leader, who is under another group, whose leader is a bandit king. Yep, a bandit king. Apparently, there are bandits of high caliber, of great strength and renown, they settle down in areas, build forts and so on, a bandit city you could say. This forest has one, a bandit king.

Looking at the dead bodies, I grin and think of something very great. Lifting both my hands up, palms facing up. I summon necrotic energy, as they swirl around my hand, a smoky dark green color. I then proceed to bring my hands down smashing it on the ground as the necrotic energy spreads everywhere. The dead bodies start to twitch, limbs and heads going back to their original bodies. Placing themselves together.

Slowly, they start to stand up, dark green eyes. Withered and almost skeletal, these are the undead.

"Now, let us have some fun." I say, grinning.

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