Torvan didn't do much with helping out in restoring the city actually. It seemed he wasn't so cut out for stuff like this.

Maybe he wasn't as strong enough or strong minded enough as the others to help out in helping citizens out of trapped debris, pushing a 'not so damaged car' back up and setting it the way it should be.

Torvan was surely a tech guy, not someone cut out to help in bringing the city back to order.

The rest wasn't bothered though, they let him wait in his Skyblades where he pressed a rectangle shaped device, probably studying something tech that wasn't important to Tatehan and the others.

The ride back to the Red Crest Clan base was quiet. No one spoke. They were too tired, too drained and too wrapped up in their own thoughts to make conversation.

Tatehan stared out the window of the Skyblade, watching the city pass by in a blur of broken buildings and flickering streetlights.

And he thought about what came next.

The Obscuron wasn't going to stop. This mech attack was just another escalation, another demonstration of power. And if Tatehan and the Red Crest Clan didn't find a way to stop him soon, the next attack would be worse.

Much worse.

He suddenly remembered that he didn't probably check his system stats when it had suddenly appeared on his face before.

He was too engrossed in the aftermath of defeating the mech monster. He was too engulfed in the really cool fireworks that the mech monster had been reduced to in the skies and the adrenaline still tingling in his brain from almost dying when the mech monster was about to slice into him.

While his phase shift had been really helpful: it was literally the reason he came out of the Skyblade alive, his heightened perception ability was actually the real reason he had survived that.

If he hadn't been able to see everything in slow motion and process things very quickly to find a good way out of that situation, he would have sustained really severe injuries or probably would have died.

He summoned his stats:

[HOST STATUS]

Name: Tatehan

Level: 11 [NEW!]

Species: Human (Enhanced)

Knowledge: 158/200 [+8]

Repair Points: 57/100

[ABILITIES]

• Gravity Manipulation - Level 12 [+1]

• Regeneration (Partial) - Level 8 [+1]

• Enhanced Durability - Level 3

• Heightened Perception - Level 5 [1]

[INVENTORY:]

[Shadow Goblin Cores: 54 total]

[Tri-Edge Shadow Chakram]

[Serrated Heavy Chakram]

[Backpack]

[Armor]

[Novels]

[Shadow-Forged Blade]

[Kinetic Absorption Armor]

[Devastator Hand Cannon]

[Core from the Destroyed Fortress]

The first thing his eyes landed on was the core from the Destroyed fortress. He had something so powerful it would be a really vital upgrade to his spaceship and yet he was still here, helping out in keeping the city safe.

Keeping some city safe?

Was that the plan? Become battle commander forever?

He had initially hoped to go on with his life after bringing the half fortress being constructed by the obscuron down.

He had agreed to be battle commander to prevent the city from being in chaos. But as it seems, the city was still deep in it. The city was in chaos.

He couldn't just walk up to the Red crest clan Commander and tell her that he wanted to quit? That he wanted to stop being battle commander because he had other things to do even though that was the case: he really needed to repair the spaceship.

'I can't stop now,' he said in his mind.

'The obscuron is still out there, wanting to take control over mars.'

He nodded his head slowly, almost forgetting that his stats were still in front of him.

"I will be Battle commander until the obscuron is dead!" He muttered under his breath.

While you might be thinking that will be a pretty long time and he would be battle commander for long, that wasn't the case.

He hoped to catch the obscuron soon anyways.

And while he did all this 'Good works' he always gained something in return.

Like how he had destroyed the fortress and gained a really valuable core, he would be gaining really valuable items from this mission, ones that will be really helpful for getting the spaceship reallyyy closer to its full potential.

Now he studied his stats.

He was now at Level 11.

'Not bad.'

He also got an increase in level for his Gravity Manipulation ability, partial regeneration ability and his Heightened Perception ability.

He didn't get an increase in his Enhanced Durability ability though.

It seemed that his system was intentionally slowing the growth of that ability.

And that was understandable, noting that it was a really overpowered ability if at full potential.

I mean, imagine what an ability like this would do when at full potential.

He suddenly remembered the description of the ability. It made his bones denser and thick so that it would withhold hits that would have shattered them.

Imagine if someone as strong as some Hulk guy decided to throw him a punch and the ability was really high in level, while he might feel a bit of pain, it wouldn't do so much.

Since he had the enhanced durability ability, his bones would be really thick, Tatehan would feel (when punched) that he was numb or something.

He shrugged.

He wasn't even sure how the system upgraded his abilities or knew when to grant him a new one.

There didn't seem to be a certain merit with this system.

Something like:

(Absorb 30 [weird core] to get a new ability)

Or:

(Absorb 21 (random but really good core) to upgrade ability)

If the system upgraded this way, Tatehan would at least have a sense of direction.

Like when he was still in the wastelands, he would leave the spaceship with the aim to find a certain amount of cores to upgrade his ability or a certain amount of cores to gain a new ability… merging these certain cores would grant you this or that ability.

Like a set down principle for how getting new abilities or upgrading his existing ability should be!

'God! This system is weird as fuck!'

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