Only I know that this world will end – 047 | Sousaku – 創作

Surpassing Death

As he continued to defeat the monsters, dawn broke.
Akira had been fighting monsters without a break ever since he left Nao.

"Haa! "

Akira sighted a Black Wolf at the end of the alley and accelerated at once, putting all his strength into both feet.
The Black Wolf must have immediately noticed Akira's presence as he approached in the blink of an eye. It stopped scavenging through the trash, looked up, and seemed to catch sight of Akira, and then snarled, showing off its sharp fangs.

"Gaw! "

The Black Wolf growled and bared its fangs to bite Akira's throat.
But Akira had already anticipated the attack.

"I already know your attack pattern!! "

He shouted, twisting his body to evade, and slammed his clenched fist into the Black Wolf.
The sensation of piercing flesh and, at the same time, the feeling of the Black Wolf's bones breaking transmitted to Akira's fist.

"――――Ga, a! "

The Black Wolf let out a strange sound as drool dripped from its mouth.
Quickly, Akira twisted at his waist and kicked Black Wolf away.

"Kyan! "

The Black Wolf, which yelped as it was blown away, slammed its body into a block wall in the alley.
It then desperately moved its hind legs as if scratching at the ground, desperate to get up, but its legs were probably not strong enough. Every time it tried to stand up, its legs gave out and its body collapsed to the ground several times.
Akira did not miss that opportunity.

"Ha!! "

Kicking off the ground, Akira jumped up as he approached Black Wolf, using his momentum to his advantage.

"You're done! "

Shouting, Akira swung up and dropped his heel toward Black Wolf's skull.
A cracking, bone-crushing sensation.
The Black Wolf shuddered and eventually, it laid down.
As soon as Akira was sure that Black Wolf was dead, he immediately ran off again, searching for the next monster.
One by one. Akira challenged and defeated every monster he encountered.
And so, as he continued to kill all the monsters he encountered without a moment's rest, he nearly lost all sense of time, until it finally happened.

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Level has been raised.

A point has been awarded.
There are points earned that have not been spent.
Please distribute the points earned.
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Akira stared silently at the projected screen.

(――Good. Now I just need to see if my Magical power is increasing with this level up…………)

Depending on the results, the number of repetitions and the preparations for challenging the Minotaur, will vary.

"Uh……Haa……"

Taking several deep breaths to calm his unconsciously racing heart, Akira swallowed a mouthful of fresh saliva to moisten his dry throat.
Akira then made up his mind and said the words to open that screen.

"Status."

――Ding.
Akira's status opened in response to the call.

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Ichijou Akira 25 years old Male Lv1 (26)
Stamina：３３(＋１Up)
Strength：７３(＋１Up)
Endurance：７２(＋１Up)
Speed：６７(＋１Up)
Magical power：２(＋１Up)
Luck：２７(＋１Up)

Earned points：６
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Unique Skills:
・Return from Hell
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Skills
・Physical strengthening Lv２
・Analysis Lv１
・Magic Circuit Lv１
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Damage bonus
・Goblin races ＋３％
・Wolf races ＋３％
・Plant-based monsters ＋３％
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"...! "

Akira clenched his fists tightly as he looked at the screen.
This was because he confirmed that the Magical power entry had gone up.

(Okay, now all I have to do is keep going...... and raise four more levels.)

Whispering in his mind, Akira exhaled and immediately went back to leveling.
He continued to fight desperately until noon, when the monsters were strengthened.
And then the time came.
Akira Ichijou closed the curtain on his fifteenth life due to the enhanced Minotaur.

――The sixteenth time.
Ichijou Akira continued to level up as usual.
Fortunately, once Return from Hell occurred, all previous wounds and fatigue were healed, and Akira, upon awakening, continued to defeat the monsters with all his might from the onset.
As a result, Akira's overall level reached 27.

――The seventeenth time.
Akira continued to level in that life as well.
However, as expected, his level did not go up each time so.
In that life, Akira ended up without a level-up.

――The eighteenth time.
In that life, he immediately leveled up as soon as he started to level.
Apparently, the experience of defeating monsters for the last life was also carried over.
As a result, Akira's overall level reached 28, and, as one might expect, the minotaur killed him and ended his life.

――The nineteenth, the twentieth time.
It was only after two full lives that he reached an overall level of 29.
As expected, he had to admit that it was getting tougher to level with the monsters in this city.
However, with the gap in status with the Orc, the only option was to level in this city.

――The twenty-first, twenty-second, twenty-third……
After three lives, he still did not reach the overall level of 30.
But there was also a benefit gained.
For the first time in a really long time, Akira had won a trophy.
A bronze trophy named 『The Hunter,』 it was a +5% increase in damage bonus to beast monsters in exchange for a +30 increase in hostility from beast monsters.
Perhaps, Akira thought, it was because he had been hunting monsters like Boars, Grey Wolves, and Black Wolves.

――And then, the twenty-fourth time.
A few minutes before the time limit, when the monster would be strengthened.
Akira's overall level was raised to 30 by a Boar who was killed by his slamming fist.

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