Single Stat System

"Oh? Threatening me now?" Sakim said calmly. He gazed at Julius with a smile giving more exp to the other party's frustrations. "I think it's more likely for you to kill me if I take off the effect of The Fooler."

But then, as Sakim had expected, The Fooler didn't let him down. It really saved him a lot of trouble dealing with this man who appeared to be the leader of their group.

Thankfully as well, this man was greedy. He took the bait right off the bat. The moment he saw the equipment held by Izel and Kristina, his eyes quickly flickered with greed. And it only made it easier for Sakim to trick him.

But even after he succeeded, Sakim didn't jump in joy and remained rather calm. As if such a thing was just within his expectation and supposed to happen. And he would be more surprised if he failed.

So now that he managed to successfully immobilize the target, Sakim intended to feed him the Blood Manipulator Pill so as to control him too and make him his servant. After all, he could tell that these bandits weren't just the three of them. If he guessed it correctly, there were others who were still not around and were somewhere he didn't know.

In any case, if their comrades made an appearance, his Blood Servant flying above that was still serving as a drone would immediately inform him. With that, he could immediately prepare countermeasures against them. And since he would finally have three servants, not to mention this man in front of him who gave off a very strong aura, dealing with the other bandits wouldn't be too difficult anymore.

But he couldn't be careless. What if there were one or two bandits among them who could be as strong as this man? It would really give him a huge deal of trouble if that was the case.

So to confirm, Sakim asked the two women behind him without looking back, "How many of you are there? And where are your other friends?"

"That... They are probably still trapped in the Illusion Forest. Since none of them is a hunter, it will take some time for them to leave that place." Izel replied after a moment of thought. Since she was a hunter with enhanced senses as a specialty for this job class, she could get out of that Illusion Forest with ease. With that said, she brought her friend Kristina out of that place and rushed in search of the vessel.

It was just that, they never expected that the vessel was too capable to even make them as his servants. Or to put it more correctly, they were already aware of the other party's capability but they let their arrogance got ahead of themselves putting them in the situation they were in now.

"Is that so?" Sakim nodded his head. But Illusion Forest? Wasn't that the place where he came from? Could it be that they were already targeting him the moment he arrived in this world? If that was the case, could it be as well that there were also other individuals or forces around the world that were targetting and searching for him now? The more he pondered about it, the more he felt that it was highly likely.

And with the knowledge he received from the people he encountered previously regarding the appearance of the vessels and the forces that wanted to use them, only made him believe even more that he was being targetted now and was in a troublesome situation. Although it might seem safe right now, it had to be known as well that there was always a calm before the storm.

"I really need to become stronger now..." Sakim muttered silently as he fixed his gaze at Julius. To protect himself he really needed to become stronger. But since it was hard to level up, the only way he could think as of now to get stronger or to protect himself, was to control players who were already strong enough and make them his bodyguards.

With that in mind, Sakim stepped forward and came closer to Julius. Since the other party couldn't move right now, he should seize this opportunity to feed him the Blood Manipulator Pill.

"Release me now and I may let you die without knowing it," Seeing that the other party was approaching him, Julius threatened again as he released a killing intent. Just what was this guy up to? Although he couldn't read the other party's mind, he could feel that this guy was up to no good.

But thinking about it now, since this guy was already coming at him, wouldn't it mean that it would only make things a lot easier? Julius suddenly remembered something as he smiled inwardly. Although he'd just learned it recently after becoming an S-rank, and although it was still a bit difficult for him, unleashing a three meters radius Greed Domain was already within his capability. With that being said, as long as the other party was within his Greed Domain, he could make use of his Greed Energy to suppress him or even better, steal the ownership of The Fooler that was causing trouble for him now.

Since the other party was just a new player, his Greed Energy would be naturally weak. And since that was the case, he had no way of retaliation!

Julius already confirmed many times that this guy had only a little amount of Greed Energy and was unlikely to be the vessel. As such, overpowering him through Greed Energy and using the Greed Domain was the best choice to get out of this predicament he was in.

The other party had already caused him enough trouble, it was now time for him to repay it many folds. After all, it was better to give than to receive. It couldn't be that he would always be at the receiving end, right? He wasn't that greedy to receive every trouble with as if open arms!

Julius couldn't help grinning inwardly seeing the approaching Sakim while thinking about his revenge. After he was done with this guy, he would definitely punish as well those two bitches for everything they had done.

Julius was just thankful that those two didn't know about him being capable of using the Greed Domain. Because if so, the two of them might warn this guy as it would be more troublesome to deal with him.