For Jude, the eight months leading to the academy's yearly assessment had been monotonous.
He focused on one thing only: training.
Stat growth was the least of his concerns. From a certain perspective, so was combat experience. He had a thousand-odd years of fighting stored in his brain, and with his trait [Level Up], he had no reason to worry about either.
But a feeling had been growing — cumbersome and oddly easy to dismiss. Using his trait.
In the long line of his life, it would be an inevitable facet of his existence. He could take a "vegetarian" route, a no-kill lifestyle. But that would be detrimental to himself and outright stupid. And despite how self-important he might sound, the destiny of an entire world rested on his shoulders. Billions of lives, and billions yet to be born, depended on him.
