Undying Warlord

The first meeting of his rather small group ended late at night.

They had many things to talk about, including the main goals of every single subunit.

It was necessary for each of them to focus on something, which meant that each Unit received daily tasks, followed by additional goals they should work toward to keep them occupied.

This made things much easier for everyone as most people were oblivious to what they had to do.

Half of the leaders that took charge of dozens of people were in their early 20s.

Thus, they were rather inexperienced, which was why daily tasks and specific goals were quite helpful.

On the other hand, Dilan had so many things to do that he didn't know if he had enough time to solve all of them in the next few days.

He could only do his best, which was what he always did.

That was also why he kept reading through the list of abilities after the first meeting had ended.

There were a few abilities he was interested in.

Unfortunately, Oliver told him that most Survivors would only trade the said ability crystals Dilan was interested in with equally powerful abilities.

That was more than enough reason for Dilan to focus on the unbound abilities that nobody seemed to want.

"I guess you would be the best, right?" Speaking to himself as he reached his room, Dilan chose to approach the owner of a particular Essence crystal the following day!

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"What? You will help me level up, and gain enough Essences to choose a special ancient path of advancement if I give you my ability crystal?" A woman in her mid-40s asked with a slightly dumbfounded look.

Her voice was loud enough for everyone in the large hall on the second floor to hear.

As such, many Survivors looked over at the brown-haired woman in slight astonishment.

"Wasn't Jacqueline frustrated about the ability crystal she received? If her ability is really that bad, why would the leader offer her to procure enough Essence crystals to advance to Tier-1 using a special path of advancement?"

Not only the middle-aged man, who had voiced out his confusion, show his interest and confusion in Dilan and Jacqueline's conversation but most of the survivors had perked their ears up.

It was still early in the morning, and the hands of the clock had not even reached 8 am, and they heard such astonishing news.

'If her ability is really bad, should we have sold our ability crystal to gain even more benefits?' Some wondered, regretting their earlier decision to have bound their ability.

Little did they know that Dilan was just trying his best to get his hands on the ability Jacqueline possessed!

The said ability was called [Nightvision]. Its use was quite obvious as it was a passive ability, only for its grade to be quite low.

Ungraded ★!

Even if the grade of the ability was low, Dilan was the most bothered about being unable to hunt in the night.

Many great opportunities were blocked off due to the fact that the night was so long.

He wanted to go out hunting, and possibly kill powerful monsters in their sleep as well.

This would accelerate his growth by a lot, which was exactly what Dilan wanted to achieve.

Providing Essence crystals in exchange for receiving an ability that could only show its true potential during the night was a must for him right now.

After all, he wanted to show others that they could gain something from him and his people if they were willing to sell their abilities.

Jacqueline didn't even have to think about his offer. She nodded her head, just for her hand to reach in her pocket, where she took out the ability crystal she received a mere day ago.

She handed it to Dilan without hesitation before smiling faintly.

"When…can I expect to get my Essence crystals?"

It was only obvious for her to ask this question. In fact, under normal circumstances, she would give Dilan her ability crystal only when she received her Essence crystals.

However, considering that Dilan was their leader and that he seemed trustworthy, Jacqueline just handed over the ability crystal to him without thinking much about it.

The ability crystal crumbled in Dilan's hand, and two notifications popped up right in front of him.

[Passive ability [Nightvision] was bound successfully!]

[[Nightvision] Ungraded ★

As the name suggests, it provides the wielder with the ability to see in the darkness.

Slight enhancement in sight during day and night]

After he finished reading through both messages, Dilan smiled before he averted his attention back to Jacqueline.

"I will give you the first batch of Essence crystals today. I'm not sure how many Essences you need so I cannot promise you more than that. But you should receive everything by the end of the week!"

Dilan was not even a Tier-1 himself, and neither was anyone else in his group at that level. As such, promising enough Essences to allow others to become a Tier-1 Existence was quite a big deal.

However, Dilan knew that special paths of advancement didn't require as much Essence as one might think.

It had been quite a while since he had filled the ancient path of advancement for the [Suicidal Warrior] occupation.

As such, filling a rather easy special path of advancement should be easy.

This hadn't been a problem for him as his combat prowess was quite high, to begin with.

Even the [Necromancer] path of advancement had been filled, while [Kirak's Vassal] was merely filled to a quarter.

It clearly showed how much Essence he needed to choose the 'Unknown' Ancient path of advancement.

Dilan's expectations were quite high, so he was eager to figure out more about it.

The passive ability [Nightvision] ought to help him with this.

After everything was completed, he decided to leave the Rian mountainside. Meanwhile, Yvonne wanted to accompany him.

She knew that he would be going out to hunt and search for the most suitable workshop in the vicinity.

However, instead of accepting Yvonne's company, Dilan just shook his head before he dashed away from the hospital.

He had come up with a specific path to inspect the surrounding area.

At first, Dilan revisited the workshops he had already seen before.

This was something he did for an hour or two and carefully inspected each of them, just to start fighting stronger monsters the moment he spotted them.

He hunted Bronze monsters for Jacqueline while absorbing all Silver Essence crystals and ordinary Tier-1 Essence crystals he could procure.

The number of Silver monsters and Tier-1 monsters in his surroundings was less than what he had hoped for.

However, it was quite an advantage for everyone else as the dangers radiating from these powerful monsters decreased drastically.

Dilan killed the few monsters he came across, while the other monsters were not powerful enough to pose a threat to Kathrine, Williams, Yvonne, and the others.

This was something Dilan wanted because the others should focus on protecting Old Jeff while securing the pathway between the Rian mountainside hospital and the workshop.

With weak monsters in the surrounding, this was no problem, which was why they had chosen to clear the surrounding of powerful monsters, while the Elite Combat Unit was tasked with keeping the surroundings 'clean'!

That was something Dilan focused on while paying attention to the workshops that he entered without hesitation.

He was careful while entering unknown places. But once he had seen every nook and cranny in the workshops, Dilan averted his attention to the requirements a workshop had to meet to be suitable for blacksmithing purposes.

And these requirements were what Dilan paid lots of attention to every single time he entered a workshop.

"Is that it?"