The next instant, Kiryu only felt his physical strength suddenly surge, as if he had been injected with Captain America’s Super-Soldier Serum.
His blood pressure suddenly climbed.
His eyes instantly turned bloodshot.
His heart pounded as if about to burst.
The blood vessels in his body contracted and expanded very irregularly.
Three seconds later, this discomfort quickly receded like a retreating tide.
Kiryu walked to the floor-to-ceiling window where sunlight fell.
He tried making a fist, then found that as he clenched it, the surrounding air visibly trembled, like ripples spreading across a lake’s surface.
‘Did I just stir the airflow with my physical body alone?’ He was inwardly shocked.
Because of the [Day Walker] trait, as long as it was daytime, his three attributes of Strength, Constitution, and Agility were all enhanced.
Even in a sunless, rainy area, this ability still worked.
It was essentially a permanent daytime buff.
‘In addition, I can also equally divide the attributes and share them with my teammates.’
Kiryu unclenched his fist and took a deep breath, turning his gaze to the three girls still quietly resting beside him.
Giving favors without expecting anything in return was not his style.
He would mention this shared ability another time.
Taking a bottle of mineral water from his storage space to moisten his dry throat, he continued to look at his [Trait Panel].
All 321 white traits were smelted, turning into 3 purple traits, which were successively invested into [Gale Rune], [Hound’s Step], and [Sixth Sense].
The remaining 10 green traits were synthesized into one blue trait, then invested into [Superhuman Strength], which hadn’t been upgraded yet.
[Gale Rune · Blue] → [Storm Rune · Purple]
[Hound’s Step · Blue] → [Mist Hidden Raptor · Purple]
[Sixth Sense · Blue] → [Intuition · Purple]
[Superhuman Strength · Green] → [Thousand Pounds · Blue]
At this point, his personal panel was renewed, showing as follows:
[Character: Kazama Kiryu]
[Current Title: None]
[Strength: 22]
[Agility: 15]
[Intelligence: 6]
[Constitution: 15]
[Perception: 13]
[Charisma: 8]
[Equipment Slots: (Kuji Kanesada · Blue), (Death Delay Aura 1/1) ]
[Inventory Slot: Some survival supplies, Colt Python Revolver, Crouching Dragon Flowing Light Arrow Talisman ]
[Skill Slots: Empty ]
[Game Currency: 1093]
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[Traits]: [Day Walker · Red], [Mist Hidden Raptor · Purple], [Storm Rune · Purple], [Intuition · Purple], [Thousand Pounds · Blue], [Presence Concealment · Purple], [Lockpicking Proficiency · Green]
After the upgrades, Kiryu’s attributes had a significant improvement compared to before.
The two traits [Thousand Pounds] and [Day Walker] in particular had increased his physical strength several times over, and then some.
His “Constitution” and “Speed” attributes had also received corresponding bonus increases.
This was a very normal thing.
Once you mastered immense power beyond ordinary people, your own constitution and speed would inevitably co-evolve as well.
Strength could enhance Constitution.
Constitution could increase Speed.
Speed could, in turn, assist Strength.
The three intertwined, giving Kiryu a faint understanding of the “Death Game’s” unique upgrade mechanism.
‘No wonder the system is so strict about point allocation…
So after one point accumulates, the other points gradually rise accordingly.
Interesting.’
A thoughtful look passed through Kiryu’s eyes.
‘Seven traits seem a bit redundant…
It would be great if they could be combined.’
As Kiryu’s gaze shifted away from the trait panel, he still clicked his tongue, somewhat dissatisfied.
He really wanted it all.
If these skills could be merged, his combat power could rise again.
[After obtaining a Gold trait for the first time, skills can be merged.]
‘Good, good, good.
I was waiting for you to say that.’
Kiryu grinned, very satisfied with the Infinite Trait System’s behavior of offering a pillow just when he felt sleepy.
After defeating the Corpse King Wight, the entire floor returned to silence.
Only a few scattered zombies still lingered on the lower floors.
After resting a while and recovering his strength, Kiryu directly picked up his katana and charged towards the remaining floors, also testing out his newly acquired power.
“Mist Hidden Raptor.”
As the words fell, a pair of ethereal wings, resembling a bird of prey’s, suddenly appeared on Kiryu’s back.
This was a practical combat technique that could lower one’s stance, instantly disappear from sight, and thus achieve short-term flight.
Compared to the original Hound’s Step, it offered greater mobility and defense.
And it didn’t require consuming 10% of his stamina when used.
Whoosh…
The wind howled, startling several wandering zombies who scrambled to surge forward.
Kiryu, riding the ethereal raptor wings, flew into the zombie horde with his katana in hand.
The waterfall-like blade rays were continuous, never stopping.
Wherever it passed, zombies fell like cut wheat, collapsing into clouds of blood mist before they were even touched.
Just then, the Intuition skill, which could predict future scenes, was triggered, causing a vision to appear in his sight: a Cop Zombie suddenly bursting out from a classroom on the right to ambush him.
Kiryu raised a hand.
A fifteen-meters tall wind element giant guardian, with a majestic face, clad in heavy armor, holding a shield in one hand and an axe in the other, suddenly emerged from mid-air.
Thud!
An astonishing booming sound rang out.
This Cop Zombie, before it could even charge out, was cleanly chopped in half by the wind element guardian through the door.
BOOM!!
The corpse explosion suddenly occurred, and the mixed, sickly green toxic gas corroded a huge hole in the surroundings and rapidly spreading.
The wind element guardian’s expression remained calm throughout.
The cyan great shield, engraved with mysterious runes, suddenly dropped down to protect the front.
Shwoop!
The blast of air lifted by the violent explosion was extinguished mid-air.
The blue giant suddenly raised its hand, transforming into several cyan hurricanes that charged towards the nearby zombie horde.
In but a few seconds, the latter returned calmly, covered in crimson.
Such a scene caused Yumiko behind him to be in extreme shock.
Her face shaken, she covered her lips with both hands, her soft, warm body trembling uncontrollably.
‘Why, why, even though everyone came to this apocalypse world for the first time, does Kiryu possess such terrifying strength?’
In the girl’s memory, Kiryu had always been an introverted, solitary person.
Coming to school every day was like going to a battlefield.
Once school was out, he left faster than anyone else.
You’d think he was being forced to attend school.
Who would have thought that such a solitary, eccentric young man, in just one morning, would become such a powerful expert?
Yumiko felt she truly couldn’t understand Kiryu anymore.
‘Had this guy been hiding his abilities all along?’
The blonde girl clenched her small fist, numerous question marks arising in her heart.
“Just as expected of Kiryu-kun.”
Compared to the first-time encounter Yumiko, both Yui and Yukino had gradually gotten used to Kiryu’s occasional displays of inhuman strength.
The pink-haired, dumpling-haired girl clasped her hands over her heart, her moist, beautiful eyes showing deep admiration.
As for Yukino, she stood with her arms crossed, her curiosity about Kiryu growing even stronger.
‘My all-in gamble back then was definitely correct!’
Kiryu’s astonishing strength made the girl’s beautiful eyes frequently flash with wonder.
Back then, the students in the classroom all thought she had lost her mind, taking a risk by teaming up with Kiryu to venture outside.
Yukino still remembered those undisguised taunts and jeers, many people’s deliberate mockery, seeming convinced that she was doomed to die in the jaws of zombies.
But now?
She was still alive.
And those who had mocked her had either turned into zombies or were dead, their bodies not even intact, meeting a tragic end.