"Hmm, is that all?" Kaede looked at the Patterned Leopard and smiled. She had roughly figured out the stats of an LV2 Patterned Leopard.
In terms of strength, it should be a little over three times hers, and agility is a little over twice hers. As for durability, Kaede has no interest in wearing it down; after all, stamina and such are not easy to compare. As for magic power, there's even less of a way to compare.
So, Kaede had basically figured out its attributes. LV2, if her estimation was correct, the attributes should be around 200.
Since she knew everything she wanted to know, it was time to send it on its way.
Actually, if this Patterned Leopard had been among previous players, it would have counted as a final boss, but for Kaede, it didn't reach the level of a boss at all.
After all, Kaede could be certain of one thing: after her third blood sacrifice, she was definitely many times stronger than this leopard, just looking at the difference in attributes alone.
Although Kaede didn't have those attributes right now, all her skills and combat experience had been retained.
Moreover, the most important thing was that her momentum was entirely preserved. After all, momentum is concentrated in her spirit and would not change because of the changes in her body.
Thus, the next moment, the Patterned Leopard suddenly felt Kaede change, as if she were a demon crawling up from hell, capable of easily reaping its life. Waves of killing intent directly shattered all its mental defenses.
The Patterned Leopard only wanted to run away now, but even so, it felt its limbs were as heavy as if they had been filled with lead.
It could be said that it could currently exert less than twenty percent of its attributes.
Kaede looked at all this with a smile on her lips; this was her greatest trump card now. Unless it was a being that had experienced slaughter and would not be too greatly affected, all others would be subjected to absolute suppression.
Like this leopard, the reason it was subjected to such suppression was clearly because it was 'pampered'. It was likely that those few players who had lost their lives hadn't posed much of a threat to this leopard, allowing the Patterned Leopard's attributes to reach this level; it could be said it was pampered.
And this kind of pampered existence was the type Kaede liked dealing with the most.
How strong was Kaede's current aura, specifically her killing intent? It could probably scare a person with a weak will to death...
Very easily, Kaede caught up to the front of the fleeing Patterned Leopard and then reached out her hand to press it onto the Patterned Leopard's wound.
"Blood Manipulation!"
Instantly, the Patterned Leopard's eyes widened, and it struggled violently as if suffering immense pain, but it could not shake off the jade-like hand pressed onto its head no matter what.
Next, one could only see the Patterned Leopard's body beginning to shrivel as if shrinking. In the end, the Patterned Leopard's struggles grew weaker and weaker, and finally, only a frame of bones and skin remained.
The LV2 Patterned Leopard had no room to resist at all and was finished off by Kaede, who was LV1. Kaede hadn't even used many of her other abilities.
Like Iaijutsu, Kaede didn't know how much power she could unleash with her current attributes. After all, her Iaijutsu was very simple; it relied on speed and power, an explosive burst in that single instant.
Regarding Blood Manipulation, Kaede felt that this ability had been strengthened after her third blood sacrifice. Actually, Kaede didn't need to press her hand onto the wound to control it.
However, the effect would be much weaker, especially against those with attributes much stronger than hers, where it was weak to the point of being negligible. But if it was a being of similar level, then sorry, if they didn't have resistance in this regard, then they could just wait to be affected.
In akame ga kill, this ability wasn't very useful because by the time its effects started to stand out, Kaede's strength had already reached the peak. Why go to such trouble to kill the opponent? A single slash was enough.
Thinking of this, Kaede felt a bit helpless. Clearly, whether she was weak or strong, she was always a one-hit-kill existence.
Before, she was a pure assassin, and later, when she was powerful, she was a warrior who met things head-on. But now?
Hmm, aura manipulation, and blood manipulation...
According to game terminology, it was applying status buffs to the opponent, specifically negative buffs. It had directly caused an earth-shattering change in her combat style, but it seemed that was all she could do.
Then, having finished off the Patterned Leopard, Kaede became a bit troubled. Although it was a quest, she hadn't received any quest prompts, and naturally, no quest completion prompts either.
In the end, Kaede could only drag this shriveled leopard to the village chief's house.
The village chief stared at Kaede, dumbfounded, and then looked at the corpse on the ground, swallowing a mouthful of saliva. "It's already solved?"
How long has it been? Has it even been an hour? And it's already solved.
"Yes." Kaede nodded. If it weren't to test her LV2 attributes, it probably would have taken even less time.
"..." The village chief was silent for a while before looking at Kaede. He had a feeling that even if he hadn't given her that sword, it would have been fine, but what was the point of saying that now?
In the end, Kaede still got the two magic books as she had wished.
One was the most basic Meditation, and the other was Refinement.
There was nothing much to say about Meditation. As for Refinement, it was to improve the quality of the weapon itself, but the Refinement of a weapon had limits and could not exceed the limitations of the weapon's own materials.
According to what was written on it, even the most perfect weapon in the world would have room for Refinement, because there was no blacksmith in this world who could fully utilize the materials, not even the top-tier blacksmiths.
Hmm, judging from this sentence, Kaede felt that the mage should be quite impressive, after all, he was a being who could come into contact with top-tier blacksmiths.
And this magic was something he had created himself; it was said that it could contribute to creating a supreme weapon.
"By the way, there is one more thing I need to tell you." The village chief suddenly said at this moment.
"Hmm?" Kaede looked at the village chief's expression; it seemed to hide a trace of vengeful satisfaction, and she felt something was a bit off.
"Because you have stayed here for too long, the teleportation array to the nearest city is gone, which means you have to travel to that city on foot."
"..." After hearing this, Kaede was silent.
"There's no help for it. A small village like ours cannot maintain a teleportation array at all. It existed before only to accommodate you players, and it automatically disappeared once the time passed." The village chief said, looking at Kaede a bit strangely. After all, most of those players left within a month, and even the longer ones didn't stay for two months.
Previously, there was a kid who stayed for two months, which already made him feel quite surprised, but now he didn't expect there to be one who stayed for over five months.
Oh, right, what happened to that kid later? He remembered that there shouldn't have been a teleportation array at that time. Forget it, he couldn't think of it; perhaps he died.
"Is there no other way?" Kaede still didn't want to walk there. Not to mention whether she could make it, even if she could, she was too lazy to walk.
"There is." The village chief nodded.
"What?"
"Suicide." The village chief said.
However, just after the village chief finished speaking, he felt a trace of threatening aura land on him. Then, seeing Kaede's darkening expression, the village chief coughed and said: "I'm not lying to you. Because the respawn point in the village is gone, you will automatically respawn in the nearest city after you commit suicide."
"You'd better give me the map." Kaede looked at the village chief, her tone somewhat unfriendly. No matter what, she couldn't choose suicide. Setting aside the consequences, just the fact that she would die once was something she couldn't accept.
"The map..." The village chief looked at Kaede, and seeing her slightly threatening gaze, which seemed to say "if you don't give it to me, I'll tear this place down today," the village chief was directly terrified and, without a word, gave the map to Kaede.
Kaede took the map and looked at it, then blinked. What the hell is this crooked, messy map?
It was a map with only a few lines, but looking at the village chief, it didn't seem like he had given her a fake map. Kaede sighed and decided to just go with it.
Thus, after more than five months, the young girl finally stepped out of the newbie village, heading towards the road to the city. Well, probably.
Although Kaede was confident that she wasn't directionally challenged, the key was that the map was truly too abstract...
Afterwards, Kaede looked at the map in her hand, then looked at the scenery beside her. She sighed. What did she want to say now? Damn it!
Fine, Kaede could only admit now that she was lost. Less than a day after leaving the newbie village, not even half a day, she had successfully been led astray by this map!
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