Death Mage with an SS-Rank Talent-Chapter 178

"Hey Erika, here to level up?" Aaron asked Erika in a surprised tone when he saw her at the Dungeon Hall early in the morning.

He has met her a few times at the Dungeon Hall. After all, this is the only place for all students in the academy to level up.

Normally, seeing her here shouldn’t be a surprise, but Aaron was surprised because he had never seen her in the hall this early. She never comes this early to level up.

She even confessed to him once that she was not an early bird. She works hard when required but she is a sound sleeper. She would only wake up after she feel that the sleep she had was enough for her, never before.

Erika dragged Aaron away from the crowd.

She looked around to see that no one was paying any attention to them and started to whisper, "The reason I am early is because of the phone call that I received from my father last night".

"Did something bad happen?" Aaron asked with a frown.

He asked her why she was earlier than usual, but the answer she gave was that she received a phone call from her father. The only reason he could think was that something bad had happened or would happen soon.

"Something like that. The cults were actively attacking alliance outposts. Never before had they been so daring. There is a chance that a big crisis is going to hit the entire human society. That’s all my father told me, but I know that he was hiding more", Erika replied.

Aaron nodded his head in understanding. He now knew what made Erika wake up early to come to the dungeon hall.

It was one of the benefits of having someone higher up in the alliance. They would know things that are not available to commoners like his family.

Erika’s father knew what was going on in the alliance and what it could probably lead to. Though he can’t directly warn her, he was able to warn her indirectly. This was a luxury for someone with a rich and powerful background like her.

He, on the other hand, has no idea such things were happening out there.

If he had no friend like Erika, he would have missed out on these things. Being in the academy, he was safe, at least until there appears a time when the academy would mobilise students for the war.

Something like that happened multiple times, but most of the time, the only ones who were involved were the seniors. The higher-ups know that the freshers would just be cannon fodder, and losing so much talent at once might become a burden.

So, unless required due to lack of personnel or due to prolonged war, the freshers would be out of consideration for war, but half a year had already passed. It won’t be long before they are second-year students of the second year, and if war happens, there is a high chance that they would be called, and he knows that a war is inevitable with the planet’s upgradation. freewebnøvel.coɱ

There would be battles even among the members of the alliance for the resource allocation.

Everyone wants to grow higher than they are at the moment. Though they all have been behaving under the alliance, it was because there are no easy ways to earn new resource points at the moment.

Even if they gain, for most, they are just resource points similar to what they have, but with the planet upgradation, that won’t be the case. The resources would not just improve in quantity but also in quality.

The top members may not need an increase in quantity, but they like an increase in quality, which would let them improve beyond what they are at the moment.

Who would say no?

In the chaos that was going to appear, one can’t trust even someone who is in the alliance, much less someone who joined the cults. It would be hectic, and the only way one could survive was if they were strong.

"Thank you for telling me this", Aaron thanked her and went on to call his parents.

He knew that the news Erika had just informed him of should be confidential and couldn’t be leaked. He was thankful that she was his friend.

He stopped and turned around, "Erika, I don’t know if this is real, but I heard some rumours when we were in the capital by chance".

"What’s the rumour about?" Erika asked with interest.

They just talked about a probable crisis coming. So, there is no way he would gossip about some stupid things. Whatever he wanted to tell must be important, and that’s why she was interested in hearing what he had to say.

"I heard that the world would go through an upgrade. When it would be, I didn’t hear, and I don’t think they knew either, but the rumours did say that it would be sooner rather than later. If those rumours were to be believed, then a crisis would rise soon", Aaron said and left the stunned Erika.

He said what he intended to. She gave him a piece of secret information, which could land her in trouble. So, he decided to spill some information about the dangers in the future, though he structured that as if it came from a third party.

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After ending the call to his parents, he entered a dungeon. Erika has already disappeared, which means she was inside one of the dungeons.

"I need to see how my new skill works. I know there was a description and all, I know that it wouldn’t always show everything", Aaron muttered to himself as he appeared in a dungeon.

The newest skill that he got from ranking up was a Rankless skill, but an OP skill.

The skill was Death Touch, and from the name itself, one can understand what use it has. As long as Aaron can touch a being and use the skill, that being can die.

Of course, it was mentioned that there was a slight disadvantage as it only works with Death Energy. Mana or other energies can’t be used.

Though there were no other disadvantages listed, he needed to check them before showing off in front of someone else and failing. It would be embarrassing, and others would know about the skill.

This skill would be a Trump Card, which can only be used in times of Life and Death.

No one can know about it. The only ones who would know would be the ones who would experience the skill and die.