AgWorld Chapter 209: Moonclaw Severance (02)
Chapter 209: Moonclaw Severance (02)
Ethan focused his mind, sifting through every bit of information stored in his memory.
It didn’t take much to realize Moonclaw Severance was a powerful ability.
The moment he shaped his intent and channeled his Aura, the snow-covered ground beneath his feet cracked, fine fissures spreading in every direction like frozen webs.
The gold of his aura was swallowed by silver threads, the skill’s lunar affinity bleeding through the energy, and his eyes shone intensely, reflecting the very moonlight that had given the technique its name.
He took a single step forward and executed an upward slash.
He held nothing back, pouring everything he had into the swing, eager to discover the maximum number of claws he could summon at his current level of mastery.
His sword cleaved toward the heavens, dragging a torrent of golden aura that then converged in front of him.
A dull thud echoed across the clearing, and the air trembled under the weight of the unleashed power. The snow parted in a crescent V-shape, a dense cloud of steam billowing outward and swallowing everything in its path.
The thunderous crash of falling trees rolled through the forest, branches snapping, leaves and frozen earth scattering in every direction as the full force of his third-stage power tore through the frozen woods.
Ethan’s arm trembled slightly, and he slowly lowered the sword, feeling his aura reserves dwindle considerably.
When the cloud of steam finally dissipated, he could see the full extent of the damage he’d caused.
Before him, on the frozen ground, two claw-shaped gashes tore through the world side by side, stretching for nearly thirty meters, toppling trees and leaving a trail of destruction in their wake.
If fifty second-stage warriors had been standing in his path, many would have died on the spot, and most of the survivors would have been left with serious injuries.
It was an excellent technique for clearing out numbers, but Ethan still felt it consumed too much Aura compared to a simple aura slash from the lost technique of the crimson blade.
’I wonder how much each claw increases in power compared to the previous one,’ he thought, deciding then and there to find out.
Focusing his mind once more, he carefully restrained his intent and aura to form just a single claw before unleashing the attack.
This time, the power was clearly much weaker.
The slash traveled less than ten meters before dissipating, leaving a considerably smaller scar across the frozen ground.
From that, Ethan could roughly calculate that the power of two claws was about one hundred and seventy percent stronger than that of a single one.
In other words, the aura cost doubled, but the attack’s power nearly tripled.
That left him quite satisfied.
Without a doubt, he would keep training the technique and push his mastery as far as he possibly could.
The seventh claw would cost three thousand five hundred aura points, half of his reserves, but he didn’t care about the price.
In a life-or-death battle, a technique powerful enough to wipe out the enemy in a single decisive blow was essential.
Shaking his head, he glanced at his status screen.
[Name: Ethan GoldenVeil
Level: 74/120 (XP: 23%)
Available Rebirths: 2
Stage: 3 (Advancement Quest available at Level 120.)
Talent: Rank A
Noble Title: High Baron. (Increase your prestige to upgrade your title)
Heroic Title: The incomparable degenerate of Darkwall! (-3 prestige), goblin slayer! (+2 prestige, +30% dread among goblins.) + 2
Prestige: 79/100
Aura: 6210/7296
Attributes.
Strength: 643
Agility: 586
Vitality: 553
Intelligence: 556
Charm: 805
Available attribute points: 12
Wives: 4
Concubines: 5
Monthly prestige gained from wives and concubines: 15]
He was quite satisfied with his attributes.
Even without a proper training area that would let him work his body with enough intensity to push them further, he still felt happy with his progress.
In fact, this was a detail he would pay attention to when building his next mansion.
His current residence was good enough for sword training, but it simply lacked the necessary tools for the physical conditioning of a third-stage warrior.
His body had become so light in relation to the raw strength of his muscles that he could rip through ten thousand push-ups without breaking a sweat.
A little frustrated, he brushed those concerns aside, allocating the free points to vitality before heading back to his mansion.
Once inside, he went straight to his office, sat down at his desk, and retrieved his common gacha tickets first.
As always, there was nothing very interesting besides two character cards that, together, would yield three hundred new citizens.
Ethan considered using them, but in the end, he decided to wait until summer.
More mouths to feed in winter wouldn’t help Goldenveil at all, not now that they were already in the height of the cold.
Soon after, he pulled out the forty-four premium gacha tickets from the system’s inventory.
Honestly, he was still annoyed that he’d managed to get exactly forty-four tickets out of the forty-five he needed.
And to make matters worse, he couldn’t raise any other woman’s opinion and loyalty to one hundred percent.
Mireya and Veronica were the closest, but the next step felt like an endless abyss, one that would almost certainly require a great proof of love to bridge.
And the system didn’t even want to generate a new quest for him.
All he could do was hire new maids, but Elena wanted to wait until summer for that as well.
[If the host is that desperate, I can generate a wonderful mission involving the mother of the original owner of your body!]
"Ah... as if I could complete it now, hahaha." Ethan let out a dry laugh, shaking his head. "And besides, can you stop mentioning her?"
[Why? She isn’t your real mother. You killed her real son when you transmigrated into this body. Even your blood relation to her is questionable, since the body has adapted to the new soul.]
"Yeah, but other people don’t know that. I don’t want to be remembered as the bastard who fucked his own mother!" Ethan exclaimed, and in the end, with a grunt, he simply began opening his gacha tickets.
[Ah... sometimes the host lets me down... face your fate like a man!]
Ignoring the system, the young Lord focused solely on opening tickets.
To his surprise, in the very next moment, the world shook and the light of a thousand suns flooded his room.
An SSS-rank item on the first try??