Chapter 45: Benefits of the Gloves

Zach came out of the portal and stood in front of the gazebo.

SIGH!

“I changed my secondary class, so now I can’t change it again for the next 24 hours.” Zach sighed and muttered to himself: “Should I stay here and ascend tomorrow?”

After pondering for a while, Zach shook his head and uttered, “No. I am just delaying the inevitable.”

Zach looked at the gloves in his hands and smiled. “Let’s see its benefits,” he chuckled.

Zach wore the gloves on his hands, and much to his surprise, it fit him perfectly.

No, Zach’s hands weren’t girly, nor Xie Lua’s hands were manly. But for some reason, the gloves fit Zach perfectly as though they were made for him.

Zach opened his menu to see the gloves’ benefits, and he was baffled after reading the first benefit.

«1) Multiplies physical stats by 2.»

Zach’s stats, excluding his mental stats, were doubled. However, he wanted to confirm something.

He immediately sat down on the grass in a lotus position and started cultivating. After five minutes, when he checked how much he cultivated in five minutes, instead of cultivating 30 MP, he cultivated 60 MP.

“Even this is doubled…” Zach gazed at the gloves with a shocked expression on his face and muttered, “Their value is certainly too cheap for 1000 royal grade jade runes.”

‘There are two more benefits.’ Zach read the second benefit and raised his brows with a mixed expression on his face.

«2) Gives Heavenly Massage.»

“Let’s read the third one.” Zach read the third benefit, and his face showed visible confusion.

«3) Makes you look cool.»

Zach took a deep breath and face-palmed himself. Then, he rubbed his hands on his face in frustration and uttered, “Is this some kind of joke?”

Zach was frustrated, but the first benefit alone was worth it enough to wear them.

‘They are not that bad…’ Zach thought to himself.

Zach was using gloves as a weapon, so he couldn’t equip another weapon at the same time. However, Zach did not need another weapon.

Zach leveled up to 21 and cleared 50 floors of the dungeon using the default sword, which was useless for players higher than level 5. If he had used another sword, he could have performed better.

In the past few days, Zach had been saving and cultivating his MP as much as possible. He didn’t want to solely rely on his DT skill, but it was the only option for Zach now. It saved him time and unnecessary fights.

Why would he choose to fight when he could simply destroy any living being by touching them? When he was out of MP. He didn’t want to run out of MP, so he has saved 6009 MP.

Zach stood up and activated the portal to ascend to the first realm. He walked closer to the portal and stopped.

‘Never ignore or leave behind the person who loves you, cares for you, and misses you. Because one day, you might wake up from your sleep and realize that you lost the moon of your life while counting the stars.’

Zach remembered something his father had told him when Zach was angry at his mother because she was giving all the attention to Zoe— Zach’s little sister.

At that time, Zach couldn’t understand what his father meant, but now, he does.

“Heh…” Zach scoffed with a painful expression on his face and muttered, “Father always used to say weird things, but in truth, they were life lessons. It’s as though he was telling me the way of life. It’s as though… he knew he was going to die and won’t get a chance to see me grow up.”

Zach let out a deep sigh and muttered, “Why am I having second thoughts again?”

“I want to go tell her, but… it’s too late now. Only if she was standing behind me right now, glaring at me with a furious look and teary eyes. And then say—”

“How dare you leave without telling me?!”

“…” Zach raised his brows with a puzzled look on his face and looked back to see Aurora standing behind him with a furious look on her face and a fierce glare in her teary eyes.

“How… dare… you…” Aurora looked out of breath, and she was gasping for air as though she had run all the way to the garden.

“What… are you doing here?” Zach asked with an anxious look on his face.

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