Option 1.
[ Tommy The Reaper ]
Card Quality: 8-star
Effect:
—> Summon a mini Tommy gun on your wrist that automatically shoots anyone within your sight that you mentally target, with a fire rate of 100 bullets per second. You can choose the type of bullet you want to shoot. 10% of your max Prana per round.
—> Death Bullet: Deals 1% of the target's current health as damage per bullet. If 100 bullets strike a single target, you can unleash Death Bloom that deals 50% of the target's maximum health as damage.
—> Doom Bullet: Decreases the target's attack and movement speed by 1% per bullet for 1 second. If 100 bullets strike a single target, your action and attack speed increase by 100% for 1 minute.
—> Despair Bullet: Decreases the target's defense by 1% per bullet for 1 second. If 100 bullets strike a single target, your overall defense increases by 100% of target's defense.
Aeron was dumbfounded. 'What the fuck?'
This was crazy!
100 bullets per second, and the effect came from each bullet!
'Now, the second option.'
Option 2.
[ Death Reaper's Scythe ]
Card Quality: 8-star
Effect:
—> Summon a scythe for you to wield.
—> The scythe can produce three forms, with only one form being able to activate at a time. These forms take shape and manifest power depending on the catalysts you put in their slots. A catalyst can be anything. A material, a resource, a part of a monster, anything.
-First Slot: Death Angel's Feather (Tier-8)
-Second Slot: —
-Third Slot: —
1. Wings of Death: Allows you to fly. While you are flying, all kinds of attacks you release inflict 1x Angelic Despair per hit. Angelic Despair increases the damage the target takes by 10%, and this can stack without limit. If at 10 stacks or higher, you can detonate the stacks to heal equal to the total damage you dealt and increase your movement speed by 100% + 10% per stack detonated.
'What the hell…'
'Infinite damage taken increase. If this pairs with the gun, that would be insane. Tommy The Reaper shoots 100 bullets per second, so that's 1000% damage taken increase per second.'
Alas, Aeron could only sigh in disappointment.
He couldn't choose both cards. He had to choose one!
'If I choose one, is there a chance I'll get the other later?' Aeron wondered.
Looking at the options, Aeron grew a bit frustrated.
"What is he doing?" Dojo Master Wilren rubbed his chin. "He looks frustrated. Perhaps he is looking at his Gift's status and encountered something troubling."
"Wish we could see that, but there's no way to see the details unless he shares it with us in person." Aira wryly smiled. "His Gift showed question marks in the measurement cube. I thought it was too weak, but now I think it was too strong for that cube."
"In that case, that gift must be above S-rank because that cube only measures pulse potency of gifts up to S-rank."
Just as Dojo Master Wilren finished speaking, his eyes flickered, and he took out a card that projected a hologram. A person, not a human, but a wolf beastfolk with white skin and wolf ears.
"I did the digging and got the answer. According to Monarch Venti, one of the two who succeeded in mastering this technique, the Death's Call Egg is something that is sometimes dropped by monsters in the Battlefield of Death. Once infused with a sufficient amount of Stamina and Prana, it calls forth a powerful undead with two options. One, either that undead will protect you for 1 day, or it will attack you for 1 day unless you destroy it."
"What?!" Aira was startled. "That's so bad."
"No wonder it's called Death's Call Egg." Dojo Master ruefully chuckled. "Alright, thanks for the information, Enzo."
Putting away the card, he looked at Aira. "Unfortunately, we can't notify him of anything. Let's just hope the egg gives him an undead that protects him."
Shortly after, they saw Aeron taking a deep breath and then standing up.
He put the egg into the storage ring that Aira gave him and started meditating to recover his spent Stamina and Prana.
Aeron had made his choice.
He picked the first option, Tommy the Reaper.
And right after picking it, he also felt regret.
If he had chosen the other option, he could fly!
Alas, it could not help him kill the monster guarding the cemetery with certainty, so he picked Tommy the Reaper.
Tommy the Reaper would absolutely allow him to butcher that monster.
After ten minutes, Aeron recovered his Stamina and Prana to full.
'I am way stronger than I was yesterday.' Aeron looked at his status. 'Once I defeat the cemetery guardian, I'll get stronger.'
Lifeform Rank: Tier-2
Power Level: 6473
-Physique: 113 | Stamina: 940/940
-Spirit: 117 | Prana: 1010/1010
-Vigor Points: 149 opened
-Spirit Points: 152 opened
'Wait…' Aeron blinked. His Power Level was off the charts!
It was 1.1k before!
And after getting just one card, Tommy the Reaper, it jumped by over five thousand.
'Considering the power of Tommy The Reaper, it makes sense.'
Aeron's eyes glinted. A smile couldn't help but form on his face. 'Alright, time to progress.'
He exited the waterfall cave and jumped, crossing over fifty meters at a height of twenty meters in one leap.
After a day, he was getting better and better at moving his body and acquiring combat sense.
As he was about to land, he grabbed the branch of a tree and did a full swing before shooting off over fifty meters again.
Like a super monkey, he crossed the distance quickly and soon arrived at the cemetery, hiding behind a tree fifty meters away from the cemetery entrance.
The guardian was there.
A three-headed demonic pig. The first head was crowned with blazing flames. The second head was crowned with purple lightning. The third head was crowned with icicle shards.
It was three meters tall, with large curved tusks coming out of each mouth.
[ Three-Headed Trilent Warhog ]
Physique: 314 | Stamina: 3000/3000
Spirit: 185 | Prana: 2000/2000
"He is suddenly raring to go and seems a bit excited." Dojo Master chuckled. "I guess we'll finally see his gift in action."
Aira nodded, her eyes filled with anticipation. "But this is hellish. Tier-1 people have to defeat a monster almost three times as strong as them after the first 24 hours. The prepared heirs of big powers can cross that hurdle, I suppose, but the next one must be even more difficult."
"Indeed."
And then, they saw it.
A card appeared, glowed, and transformed into a strange black gun with a golden pattern, and stuck on his wrist like it was a part of his hand.
Aeron aimed at the three-headed pig, consumed 100 Prana, and selected Despair Bullet.
'Shoot.'
In the next second, like a hundred shooting stars in a narrow cylinder formation, small pale yellow glowing bullets shot out at once and struck the pig.
"Hnnnnn!!"
The pig cried out, but couldn't move a single centimeter.
Aeron walked out with his aim still on the pig and consumed another 100 Prana to load one round of Death Bullets.
The pig cried out again while bleeding from various places. It lost about 65% of its vitality in a second.
And it couldn't move an inch.
The pig suddenly opened its right mouth, its crown glowing.
Aeron's eyes flickered.
Death Bloom!
The pig's bullet wounds suddenly burst out with black blood as if it were forcefully extracted like a fountain.
In a second, it lay in its own pool of black blood, and half a second later, it dispersed into motes.
"Awesome." Aeron was grinning from ear to ear as he walked toward the pig. "This one will make me powerful."
Indeed, the dead monster transformed into dark gold shining particles that entered his body.
POP! POP!
Aeron could feel comfort washing over him.
His chakra points unlocked, and all of his stats increased a bit!
On the other hand, the jaws of Aira and Dojo Master Wilren dropped as they watched Aeron utterly destroy a monster almost three times more powerful than him.
With a single card!
"A single skill of his gift, that card…" Dojo Master Wilren muttered. "How utterly powerful. First, the yellow bullets somehow completely restricted its movement. Then the crimson bullets heavily injured it."
"And then he did something that made its blood burst out from the crimson bullet holes and killed it instantly." He looked at Aira. "What kind of monster did you find?"