At that time, Noah had faced a dilemma: in front of him were three human corpses, but he didn’t know what to do about them. Normally in Fortresses there was no standard for how to deal with human corpses. There were cases where the Blessed was a friend or acquaintance of someone from the invasion, and that person took the body of the Blessed to be properly buried; on the other hand there were times when nobody in the Fortress cared about who died and they just left, which was the case with the last Fortress in which Noah participated.

At the time Noah was trying to identify if anyone was interested in the corpses, because if no one showed interest, he would try his luck by burning the bodies. Before, his ability did not allow him to absorb anything from the dead humans, but now if the human he burned carried a large number of sins, it was possible for him to benefit from their disposal.

‘When I burn monsters, my energy is recovered beyond the exp points I gain from the skill, but I don’t know what would happen if I burned humans… Maybe I would get something other than just the points?’ Noah thought. He had countless assumptions in his head as to what could happen, but no way to substantiate those assumptions so far.

Another thing that made Noah very excited was that when he saw his stats, he had noticed that by leveling up he had gained 2 points in each stat. This may seem small, but if one looked at it from another angle, it was as if Noah had become 20% more efficient in everything: both strength, agility, and physical endurance.

Curious to know the reason for all this, Noah used the system option he had learned that showed details about a skill, and that option told him that as he leveled up, he became closer to the power of Lucifer, and that by reaching the maximum level, Noah would have a body as strong as that of the fallen angel himself. Unfortunately, the system did not say what the maximum level was, so he felt like he was running a long marathon but that he didn’t know exactly where it ended up, just following a path.

“That last attack was very good. Your teleportation skill is extremely useful!” Noah heard a voice speaking beside him; it was Jasper, showing a friendly smile.

Hearing that Jasper assumed the ability was teleportation, Noah did not correct him, as it would be more difficult to try to explain what the ability really was, since in the end the functionality of the ability was basically teleportation.

“Thank you, it really is. The only problem with it is that it consumes a lot of energy,” Noah replied to Jasper as he tried to understand what the man wanted by coming up to talk to him. Noah had already met many people in the Fortresses, but strangely just now in the Rank E Fortress was the first time someone came to talk to him so amicably and treated him well. Usually people excluded him; sometimes they kept talking bad; at best, some ignored him.

Jasper noticed Noah’s suspicious look and couldn’t help but sigh; he supposed Noah had been offended until now from what happened outside of the Fortress. Even more, now that Noah had shown such great battle power, it would make perfect sense that he should be offended by being despised. After all, every man has his pride. But little did he know that Noah had actually been used to this sort of thing for a long time, and that his pride didn’t affect him that much anymore.

“I’m glad you didn’t seriously hurt yourself beyond those little scratches. Even though I was on the frontline, I still saw you protecting the life of the backline countless times. I’m sure if it weren’t for you doing this, our casualties in the invasion would have been much greater. This time I came to invite you,” Jasper said to Noah with a serious look.

Raising an eyebrow, Noah already imagined where this conversation would lead him, but not that it was a bad thing; in fact, it would make things easier. “What would it be?”

Seeing Noah’s interest, Jasper smiled and said, “I am part of a Fortress invasion group. Unfortunately, one of our members recently passed away in an invasion without the rest of the group and we are looking for a powerful member to fill her place. As the member who died was the one who protected the backline, I believe you would fit her role perfectly.”

This was exactly what Noah imagined was going to happen. He had never been called to any group before, for obvious reasons, but he was in doubt about something. “But why did you join a random invasion instead of going for invasions with your group?”

Since Jasper already had an invasion group, it would be natural for him to undertake invasions with the known group, since, as everyone already knew each other and had synergy, the chance of someone dying in an invasion group was several times less than when going to Fortresses with strangers.

“Actually, Erick and I are together. The invasion group doesn’t restrict anyone; in fact, we usually schedule Fortress invasions at two or three times a week. The rest of the days the members are free to do whatever they want. For instance, I want to change my car for a better one and Erick is renovating his house. We have been breaking into a few extra Fortresses a week to get some more money.” Jasper replied calmly. He understood the reason for Noah’s doubt, since there are many groups that do not allow members to participate in invasions alone.

Hearing that, Noah was interested. To pay for his sister’s treatment, he would need a lot of money. Even if he broke into eight Rank E Fortresses a month, in the end it would be just $8,000. For a normal family, that money would be considered a lot, but for Noah, who needed to pay for his sister’s treatment in addition to paying off his uncle’s loan, in the end that money was far from enough.

Many people believed that if there were so many Blessed making so much money, then there were many rich Blessed, but this was not even close to reality. The number of people who awakened Blessings was not low, but it was also not high; if it were not for the high remuneration, many with Blessings would not even want to invade Fortresses because many people had died inside them. It can be said that among the Blessed: 45% of them were of Rank F, 28% of Rank E, 15% of Rank D, 8% of Rank C, 3% of Rank B, and 1% of Rank A. The amount of Blessed Rank S was so low that it didn’t even factor into the statistic.

Many had high rank Blessings, but they died long before reaching the strength that the Blessing would allow the Blessed to attain.

Noah didn’t want to be counted among those Blessed ones who died before reaching their potential, but he needed urgent money, so this opportunity was ideal. Being part of an invasion group would guarantee him peaceful Fortresses and a stable source of income, in addition to the benefit of being able to invade Fortresses without the group as well, since he did not want to limit himself to them.

“I’m interested, yes. When we leave the Fortress, I’ll give you my phone number. How about it?” Noah answered Jasper with a smile on his face. He knew that Jasper only reached out to him because he showed that he was strong. If Noah had been weak, Jasper wouldn’t have even cared about him, but what would be the matter with that? If Noah were in Jasper’s position he would do the same thing; the only thing he didn’t accept was discrimination and prejudice, as Abigail had shown before they entered the Fortress.

Speaking of Abigail, looking to the side, Noah saw the woman coming towards him while making a strange expression.

Damn, we reach the goals again? Crap… I’ll have to publish a lot of chapters today then… VOTE FOR NEXT SUNDAY MASS RELEASE!!! YAY :3

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[Chapter edited by Azurtha]