My Level Zero System

Through these signs, Kain quickly realized that the thing had awakened.

However, he did not care, he killed monsters when he met them.

By constantly moving his aspect, Kain dodged the monster's sieges with incredible ease.

Although he was in a hurry, he did not lose his inherent coolness.

He also wouldn't be so foolish as to rush to his death, because Mera still needed him to come back.

For ordinary people, it is only necessary to distinguish four directions: east, west, south, north.

For people who travel a lot, the four basic directions are not enough, so they use a system with eight directions, in addition to the four basic directions, they also use four more combined directions.

But Kain was even more different.

The navigation system he uses is determined by the complexity of the surrounding terrain.

And with the orderly terrain in the lonely fortress, Kain used a system that distinguished 32 different directions.

So, every time he kills a group of monsters, Kain eliminates 24 directions out of the previous 32 directions, which are all possible paths for monsters to come from. Kain then randomly chooses from the remaining eight directions.

Because of this, his location is almost impossible to determine.

Because his position has almost no rules at all.

At the same time, at the center of the lonely fortress.

From the darkness, a pair of eyes looked into the fog.

Even by itself it cannot violate the rules of the mist.

So, it used the massive amount of monsters around it that it could control to take control of the entire lonely fortress, turning it into an impregnable place.

However, this inviolability has been violated.

From the information that the monsters transmitted before they were killed, the opponent seemed to be human, and moreover, a relatively powerful Magus. Although it was unclear how many enemies there were, it was assumed that there were not many, otherwise the enemies would not have been able to hide so perfectly.

Yes, this is the weirdest thing.

At first, it didn't pay much attention to this seemingly strong, yet extremely stupid enemy. But when it started sending troops to destroy it, things changed.

Somehow, the enemy always cleverly avoided the siege it had set up, as if it knew in advance which direction it would send its troops to attack. At the same time, the location where the enemy would appear next was extremely irregular, and was completely impossible to determine.

For a moment, it was incomprehensible.

However, it did not give up because of that.

Unlike those mindless monsters that only know how to kill, it can think, and has a lot, a lot of patience.

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[Level]: 0

[Ability]:

-[Thunder Magic ★★]:

+[Thunder Spear level 2] 0/200

+[Thunder Arrow level 2] 0/200

+[Thunder Descend level 1] 0/150

+[Thunder Flash level 2] 0/250

+[Thunder Control level 3] 0/350

-[Enhancement Magic ★★]:

+[Enhancement Magic level 2] 96/700

-[Fire Magic ★★]:

+[Fire Cannon level 1] 0/150

+[Fire Blade level 1] 0/150

+[Fire Storm level 1] 0/200

+[Fire Burst level 1] 0/200 Continue your journey on My Virtual Library Empire

-[Spirit Magic ★] 383/1500 (+236):

+[Seek level Max]

+[Imitative level Max]

+[Mind Sense level Max]

-[Life Magic ★] 0/1500 :

+[Heal level Max]

Checking the system board, seeing that there were still more than a thousand skill points left to reach the required goal, Kain couldn't help but frown.

Although his hunting method was very safe, he could only cut down the number of monsters little by little, like eating them piece by piece.

Therefore, the speed of collecting skill points was not as fast as he had expected.

While Kain was contemplating whether to take a more risky approach, he came across another group of patrolling monsters.

This group of monsters was not small, there were hundreds of Crawlers, along with two Nightcrawlers leading the way.

Even Kain would need a fair amount of time to destroy them all.

"Change of strategy?"

Because he was in a state of high physical and mental activity, this thought quickly came to Kain's mind.

Previously, each patrolling group of monsters only had a few to a few dozen Crawlers, and Nightcrawlers were almost completely gone, so Kain could completely wipe them out in a short time and move to another place to hunt.

Kain believed that the reason "that thing" used such a thin and evenly spread formation was because it wanted to control the entire vast map of the lonely fortress.

This not only confirms the intelligence level of "that thing", it also shows that it doesn't simply gather a bunch of monsters around itself to blindly protect itself.

So from the moment it switched strategies, Kain immediately grasped what "that thing" intended to do.

It seemed to have determined that Kain was actively hunting monsters, so it gathered the scattered monsters into large groups. It then began to wander around to lure Kain into attacking.

If Kain didn't notice, it could use a small army of monsters to stall for time and hold him in place. From there, it could arrange its forces to successfully surround and kill Kain without giving him time to escape.

If Kain had realized it and only killed a fair amount of monsters and then ran away immediately, it would have gradually probed the level of strategy Kain held, from which it could set up further traps.

Kain was no stranger to this type of probing strategy, as the previous guardian Pythonel had done the same.

"This would work if I were just someone who didn't know about the existence of something like you."

"So, whatever you want, I will give it to you."

Kain's eyes narrowed.

That thing's strategy just happened to suit his goals.

So, the food was brought to his mouth, how could he not enjoy it?

[Thunder Spear].

Almost instantly, Kain charged towards the location where the monster army was moving.

A spear made of lightning appeared in his hand, and with just one strike, it swept away a large group of monsters, and at the same time stabbed into the body of a Nightcrawler.

The spear exploded, creating an electric current that went straight into Nightcrawler's body and roasted everything inside into a pile of porridge, but he didn't stop there, the lightning network spread out everywhere, starting to slaughter monsters without any discrimination.

The remaining Nightcrawler roared and charged, its tough hide withstanding the continuous attack of the lightning network, but just as it was only a few meters away from Kain, a [Fire Cannon] was released by him straight into the monster's head.

[Fire Cannon], like [Fire Storm], is an upgraded version of two low-class magic skills. However, unlike [Fire Storm], [Fire Cannon] focuses firepower in one direction instead of scattering it everywhere, making the power of the concentrated firepower in one area extremely terrifying.

Sure enough, the Nightcrawler was instantly beaten to the point of being deformed and part of its head exploded. Seeing that it was still not dead, the lightning network around him quickly dragged the dying Nightcrawler down to its grave.

Quickly adding skill points to [Spirit Magic], Kain mentally calculated that the time that had passed was not much different from what he expected. Satisfied, he turned around and ran away, hiding in the mist.

[Level]: 0

[Ability]:

-[Thunder Magic ★★]:

+[Thunder Spear level 2] 0/200

+[Thunder Arrow level 2] 0/200

+[Thunder Descend level 1] 0/150

+[Thunder Flash level 2] 0/250

+[Thunder Control level 3] 0/350

-[Enhancement Magic ★★]:

+[Enhancement Magic level 2] 96/700

-[Fire Magic ★★]:

+[Fire Cannon level 1] 0/150

+[Fire Blade level 1] 0/150

+[Fire Storm level 1] 0/200

+[Fire Burst level 1] 0/200

-[Spirit Magic ★] 700/1500 (+347):

+[Seek level Max]

+[Imitative level Max]

+[Mind Sense level Max]

-[Life Magic ★] 0/1500 :

+[Heal level Max]

No sooner had Kain left than the monsters swarmed in again. But he barely escaped.

At the center of the lonely fortress, "that thing" consumed the information it had just gathered and silently calculated.

In its mind, Kain must have failed to notice its trap and rushed in, killing all the monsters before retreating. It was just that the timing was so close that it was a little suspicious.

But since this suspicion had no solid basis, it still decided to follow the old strategy, which was to take advantage of the large number of monsters to stall for time.

From the last time it looked, it thought that it only needed a slightly larger army of decoy monsters and could buy a little more time.

Little did it know, all of this was already within Kain's plans.

Everything that "that thing" thought, Kain had thought.

So, Kain designed another strategy that overlaid the original strategy of "that thing".

The core of this is, Kain will silently calculate the time, so that the other thing has the feeling that it is just a little bit away from being able to capture Kain.

That way, he could make "that thing" continuously grow the decoy army, but it wouldn't grow so big that Kain couldn't handle it, because "that thing" was afraid that such a powerful army would scare Kain away, making it useless.