Unlimited Power 03: The Sinful Ruler

You obtained 20.000 coins.

Your fame has increased by 2000.

Congratulations! You have become a Level one Knight!

Your strength and health will increase by four points, your stamina, mana, endurance, and willpower will increase by two points whenever you level up your class.

Congratulations! You have learned the skill: Swarm.

Effect: It grants you the power to attack an opponent five times in a row at a fearsome speed. Each attack will cause one-fourth of your strength as physical damage, and each level up will increase that amount by one percent.

Cost: 20 stamina

You obtained 01 status point.

In the end, Jake's sour mood disappeared pretty soon. The new class and the skill were that interesting. Even though he couldn't see anything special in the plain name: knight. As for the girls, not even the new classes made them forget the doubts in their minds a little bit. While Jake wasn't much worried about that, he knew how to solve the problem.

"Rest well tonight because we will depart for another mission tomorrow after breakfast," Jake said and then headed toward his grove.

"I am starting to feel jealous of your I give zero fucks attitude," Lana said and then sighed.

"You should be, I think is one of my best qualities, if do say so myself," Jake said.

After confirming that his herbs were still there, Jake began to prepare the dinner. It was only at that moment that he realized that he had lost the chance to check that planet for herbs and fruits that could come in handy when preparing the meals. Still, he will have other chances.

Planet Solmathea - Mission: kill ten thousand ice slimes and five ice slime bosses. Reward: 20.000 coins, 2000 fame, and a magic item.

Planet Solmathea - Mission: kill ten thousand imps and five imp bosses. Reward: 20.000 coins, 2000 fame, and a tome.

Planet Miamia - Mission: attack the Druids. Reward: 30.000 coins, 3000 fame, and Undead Staff.

Planet Miamia - Mission: defend the Druids. Reward: 30.000 coins, 3000 fame, and Nature Bow.

Planet Rainia: prevent the Walking Beehive's dungeon from breaking in 91 hours. Reward: 17.000 coins, 1700 fame, and 50 small stamina potions.

Aside from the missions they had already cleared, those were the options Jake found while making dinner. He frowned since the difficulty level was probably lower than the anacondas' dungeon and frowned even more, when he saw the name of the monsters. It looked pretty creepy… Fortunately, it was on the same planet, but probably very far away since he didn't find the monsters or even any materials of those creatures in Frederick's base.

Regardless, even though the dinner was as good as usual, everyone ate in silence. Jake felt like he would need Flames of Wrath even more in the next mission, but he made sure to sleep at least six hours that night…

"It seems the next mission is on the same planet," Jake said when they were having their breakfast. "Do you guys want to choose another or the most recent one?"

"Why not go and defeat the frozen slimes?" Lana asked. 'Their rewards are better, after all."

"I want to check the herbs of that planet and gather some, they should come in handy while cooking," Jake replied. "Besides, are you sure you want to a place where we will face frozen slimes? Logic and experience that we had until now says that the place will be hellish cold."

"Before that, shouldn't we stop and think about our next steps?" Louise asked. "I don't think that we should fight monsters while our heads are busy with something else."

"That is true…" Jake rubbed his chin thoughtfully. "Do you want to sit this one out?"

"Are you planning to go alone?" Louise frowned. "Jake… you should act and think more as a group. We are a team and in situations like this we should talk until everything is solved."

"But there is nothing to solve… you guys are so silly," Jake said and then shook his head. "You are thinking that joining Frederick's guild would be some act of betrayal towards me, but you couldn't be more wrong. Don't take this in the wrong way, but from the very beginning we formed this party, I have been planning for the day I would have to act solo."

"Well, we noticed that…" Lana said.

"A wise man once said that people work together when it suits them, and to be honest, you guys managed to hang in there for quite a while considering my personality," Jake said. "I am impressed."

"You are aware that you hard to deal with and yet, you don't want to fix that…" Lana said.

"That is exactly right," Jake said. "Call me egocentric and chaotic, but I do like to act this way. I don't want to mold my behavior and personality to make others like me. I also know that is probably isn't something very nice to do considering how bothersome I might be, but I don't care. I want to be free to be my real self… this world gives me the chance to do that without caring about anything else and as long as I don't cause problem to others, that is fine by my standards."

Going as far as to say that… Jake was really more than bothersome, but in the end, that was something he takes pride in. It was clear that he didn't want to change his opinion on the matter, and the girls were troubled since he almost lost his left arm in the fight against the Elder Salamander. It was almost a miracle that Lana managed to heal him completely. However, until when she will be able to do that?

"Jake, are you aware that someday we will see you die if things continue to become harder in this pace?" Louise asked with a serious tone.

"That is indeed a possibility, but it isn't like I am going to be the first who finished the tutorial and died after coming to this planet," Jake replied.

"I don't want to see a friend dying in front of me… do you understand that?" Louise asked.