Trash in the Apocalypse

Chapter 242: Limit Breaker

After receiving all the collected items, Jun went back to his roomMhiya's room which he took last night. With nothing else to do here, he planned to finally go back to his hometown. His mother left after they briefly met. He didn't even have enough time to talk to her after traveling from far away. Also, Marianne had a firm stance on staying in the city because of her father. Her father was also the reason why she doesn't want to risk running away with Jun.

Jun poured energy onto his Teleport Rune. It began to glow and slowly expand while circling outside his body when a notification appeared in front of him.

Thug Life XP received. +10 XP.

You have leveled up! Lv.14 ] Lv. 15

Jun became surprised and canceled channeling the teleport. He usually ignored the title XP reward since it was of meager amount, but this time, it came as a surprise since it helped him level up. Currently, there is no way to know about an individual's experience points. In the future, he had to look for a way to determine experience points, so everything would become easier.

[Jun Reyes][Profession - Thug][Level - 15]

[Health - 1,200][Energy - 440]

[Title - Thug Life]

[Power - 60][Endurance - 39][Speed - 44][Wits - 33][Cunning - 25][Charm - 27]

[Stat Points - 8]

[Trait]

-[Brave] [Iron Guts] [Strong]

[Skills]

-[Threaten - Lv.5]

-[Rob - Lv.3]

-[Execute - Lv.4]

-[Melee Weapon Mastery - Lv.4]

-[Blueprint - Lv.Max] 

-[Howling Rage Lv.4]

-[Sprint - Lv.Max]

-[Time Perse - Lv.Max]

-[Water Stride - Lv.Max]

-[Enhanced Sight - Lv.Max]

-[Reinforce Lv. Max]

-[Empower Lv. Max]

-[Aura (Death) Lv. Max]

-[Bladestorm - Lv. Max]

-[Detection - Lv. Max]

-[Block - Lv. Max]

Most of the energy stone he looted were immediately used to increase his max energy capacity. The thing was rare and mostly drops on carriers at the brink of evolving, chancing upon them was hard and extremely rare. When he got back home, he needs to pay some special attention at Angono, to establish an energy stone farm due to the strange phenomenon of carriers inside the dungeon becoming real.

Jun didn't touch his stat points and reserved them in case he needed them in the future. For now, killing Destroyers and looting the essence of power from them is enough to raise anyone's power accordingly.

He raised his power to the right amount, so he won't die on facing the level twenty tribulation before stocking up and sending the excess gems for Evo to distribute.

Every essence of speed he looted was kept by him since it didn't help in safely passing the tribulation. He planned to use it when he needed the extra speed stat or as a form of reward to hard-working people.

After becoming a gang leader for years, he knew that rewarding a subordinate with something "rare" always make them loyal and makes them work harder while giving a sense of belonging and expectation to everyone.

Since he stopped hunting people, the side quest he got remained the same. Currently, he doesn't want to do anything related to killing people, but he wouldn't shy away from it. 

With his level up and the extra skill slot that goes with it, he could finally do something that he had been postponing for a long time.

Messing around with his max leveled skills.

The skills that got maxed out even after only learning them once. After surviving for a long time, he realized that maxed out skills were kinda useless. The skill cap given to them prevented him from becoming stronger.

So he planned to change it by relearning the skill. He started increasing energy output on Sprint by 20, the very first skill he learned by himself, then received three shocking notifications.

[Received +1 Wits and +2 Cunning for discerning laws of nature.]

[Sprint skill upgraded! Sprint (Custom) now increases movement speed by 15%(from 10%) for 6 minutes. (former 5minutes.) An additional 12% movement speed when running on flat terrain.]

[Received title "Limit Breaker" for breaking away from the limitations set upon you by the godly craftsman.

Limit Breaker - You have broken free from the limitations imposed upon you by the godly craftsman. Your skills can change their level according to your custom settings. The skills affected by the Limit Breaker would stop accumulating experience and would solely depend on the user's manual changes.]

Jun stared in awe at the series of notifications in front of him. He didn't expect anything like these at all! He only wanted to increase the skill level but the outcome totally shocked him!

The max level tag beside the Sprint skill turned into a custom tag. Now, every time he uses Sprint, it would use 20 energy points and give him the raised movement speed value of 15% and 27% when running on flat terrain! Though it doesn't appear much, when his speed stat goes higher, the additional bonus would go higher!

And what's truly shocking was the Limit Breaker title! Doesn't that mean he could change the skill performance whenever he wanted and whatever suited him? He could raise it to however output and received higher bonuses!

He didn't do that though. Although he currently had 440 max energy, he still felt that it was too little if he wanted to raise most of the skills he had to custom level. He must plan it properly to check the most appropriate skill levels he needed right now. He can't recklessly raise skills since the consumption would ruin his already ingrained fighting style. Practice and training were still needed.

Last but not the least, the extra stats he received for thinking of this whole thing. He gained one additional point on wits and two on cunning.

Based on his experience, wits raise the individual's capacity to control energy while also increasing the mind's power to think more clearly. On the other hand, cunning can be compared to wisdom in other games. It helps with reasoning and somehow helps in detecting lies. There were instances that he could feel whether the person he was talking to were speaking the truth or not, and he could only attribute it to cunning since it was the most probable stat for those kinds of things.

If he could gain free stat points by discovering things, does that mean he could also increase his other stats naturally without using the allotted level up points? If that is true, then he needs to learn how to do so immediately!

He needs to consult Evo about this...

After the realization, Jun chose a few maxed skills he used daily to custom level up. The passive skills Execute and Melee Weapon Mastery doesn't even use energy, so he doesn't know how to use Limit Breaker on them. Blueprint has nothing to change or to improve, so he left it alone. All in all, he adjusted his skills according to his taste.

Jun fixed Rob at 30 energy points, having a 60% chance to take 10 random items. If Daylight Robbery activated, 10 items can be taken from the target's dimensional storage. Threaten costs 50 energy points, reducing 30% of the enemy's overall stats. Howling Rage costs 40 energy points, increasing physical attack by 30% and reducing enemy defense by 20%.

The rest of the maxed skills were left untouched since he doesn't want to increase their energy consumption that much. Empower, Detection, Block was the few examples of that. if he increased their base energy consumption, he would run dry after using them a few times. Time Perse, Water stride, Enhanced Sight, Reinforce, Aura(Death) was another batch of skills he wants to remain the same. There's no use for these skills to level up since they don't give much of a benefit to him.

For example, Water stride and Aura(Death); Water stride would still only allow him to move faster and walk underwater but in essence, it was still the same. Unless he meets something that proves the need for it would he change his mind. Aura(Death) also falls into this category. He already had Detection that can sweep 21meters around him, the only use of the Aura(Death) is when fighting in close range. It already eats 5 energy per second for sensing the two meters around him, so it should be enough for now.

After adjusting everything that he deemed important, Jun took one last look at his character sheet before channeling energy on the Teleport Rune.

[Jun Reyes][Profession - Thug][Level - 15]

[Health - 1,200][Energy - 440]

[Title - Thug Life]

[Power - 60][Endurance - 39][Speed - 44][Wits - 33][Cunning - 25][Charm - 27]

[Stat Points - 8]

[Trait]

-[Brave] [Iron Guts] [Strong]

[Skills]

-[Threaten - (Custom)] Use 50 energy , reducing 30% of the enemy's overall stats.

-[Rob - (Custom)] Use 30 energy, having a 60% chance to take 10 random items. If Daylight Robbery activated, 10 items can be taken from the target's dimensional storage.

-[Execute - Lv.4]

-[Melee Weapon Mastery - Lv.4]

-[Blueprint - Lv.Max]

-[Howling Rage - (Custom)] 40 energy points, increasing physical attack by 30% and reducing enemy defense by 20%.

-[Sprint -(Custom)] Now increases movement speed by 15% for 6 minutes. An additional 12% movement speed when running on flat terrain.

-[Time Perse - Lv.Max]

-[Water Stride - Lv.Max]

-[Enhanced Sight - Lv.Max]

-[Reinforce Lv. Max]

-[Empower Lv. Max]

-[Aura (Death) Lv. Max]

-[Bladestorm - Lv. Max]

-[Detection - Lv. Max]

-[Block - Lv. Max]

The dim light engulfed his body and he disappeared with a flash that scattered around the room.

Jun fumbled his step forward after opening his eyes. He felt bumping into something but instead of falling backward, his body remained in place.

When he opened his eyes, he saw a man donned in fantasy-themed armor on his upper body. He was wearing a metal chest plate while his arms were studded with leather guards. His pants were still casual wear and seemed to not have received an upgrade.

While Jun was trying to absorb every new information on the surrounding, the man turned around and glared at him.

"Are you crazy?! Don't you know who I am!?"