Hitman with a Badass System
chapter-662

For the next eight days, Rowena came to Lane's office to treat Michael like clockwork. As a Holy Maiden, she had no need to help Michael at all. But she was not an ungrateful person. Ghost saved her mother and sister. So Rowena was just returning the favor. Even if she knew Ghost was the Dark Lord, she would have still helped him. On the ninth day after Rowena left Lane's office, Gaya sat on the chair beside Michael, holding his hand as usual.

When Lane asked why she was staying with him, Gaya simply said it was her duty to keep every student alive. She also informed him she wanted to be with Ghost in case he woke up. She wanted to be the first one to know what happened to him, at least that's what she said to Lane. The office was gloomy and dark. Except for Michael, only silence and grief accompanied Gaya. Seconds turned minutes and minutes turned hours.

Gaya gently brushed Michael's forehead, hoping he would wake up. She didn't know how long she could keep Nightmare in control. The dragon may be kinder than many of his kind but when someone hurts the people he loves, he would go to any lengths to destroy them. Ever since Nightmare had known what happened to Ghost, he was shouting at Gaya and Elidyr to let him go outside. He wanted to burn the vampires to the ground. Only if she wasn't weak, Gaya would have done that already.

The night went uneventful until the room suddenly started to become darker and darker. She looked up to see a dark cloud enveloping Michael. Golden lightning bolts appeared out of nowhere, dancing around Michael. Gaya immediately stood up. To her surprise, she saw a movement in his eyes.

"Michael," a sudden joy hit her heart, Her eyes brightened. As though nature itself had sensed Michael's wakening, dark storm clouds blanketed the clear sky in a few moments. Streaks of lightning flashed across the sky, almost splitting the sky into halves. The howling wind informed the world about Michael's awakening. Finally, Michael's eyes slowly opened. To Gaya's shock, his eyes were pitch black.

He slowly rose from the table. There was strange radiation coming from him. Gaya could sense it. The energy radiation was powerful enough to make breathing harder. He cracked his neck, creating a crackling sound.

"Michael," unknowing to her, fear clenched her heart. She slowly, without making any sudden movement, put her hand on Michael's shoulder.

He turned his head,

"I am back," His voice sounded deeper and more demonic than before. Surprisingly, Michael didn't use any voice modulators. His natural voice turned like this. It took Michael a moment to adjust his voice.

"I am back," Michael repeated the words. This time, in his normal human voice. Despite the darkness, the spooky voice, and the strange energy, Gaya jumped at him, hugging him as tight as she could.

"I am so sorry," Gaya sobbed. It was obvious she blamed herself for what happened to Michael. However, Michael solely blamed himself. If he wasn't weak, the blood prince couldn't have hurt him.

"Why? I experience near-death experiences like having breakfast," Michael smiled. In her joy of seeing Michael wake up, Gaya failed to notice the troubled look in his eyes. The blood prince's punch affected him to the point he had to spend three hundred thousand badass points to temporarily heal himself. According to the system, he had to break through to the Half Immortal stage within the next six months. Otherwise, his body would decay and he had to start everything from the beginning. That meant, a new body at the first stage of cultivation. Simply put, everything he worked hard and built would go down the drain. As long as Michael was alive, he wouldn't let that happen. Thanks to Rowena and her cold flames, Michael woke up in just eight days instead of the system's estimation of three months.

His current situation was a blessing in disguise. Plus, it made venturing into the treacherous ocean a high priority. Killing the mutated beasts in the treacherous ocean was the fastest way to reach the Half Immortal Stage. But he must forget to upgrade the system to level 7. Because of his actions on the battlefield, he had six hundred thousand points even after spending three hundred thousand to heal himself.

"We cannot be seen like this here. I'll be here until morning. You make sure Elidys is all set in my room to activate the array," said Michael. After a long moment of thinking, Gaya eventually decided to leave him.

The moment Gaya left the room, Michael willed the system to show how many gold coins he had in the system storage. His total net worth at this point was twenty-five million. He kept eleven million with him in the storage and the rest in the Grandspire bank. The latter was his backup funds. Without a second thought, Michael ordered the system to convert the entire eleven million into badass points.

"I am sick of this slow-paced journey of mine," Michael mumbled. He played too safe and it resulted in him getting his ass kicked. The number of enemies he had grew by the day. To be honest, Michael became sick of it.

It was time to remove some heads and root out some pests in his life.

[Conversion completed…]

[The host has received 440000 badass points]

Michael took almost eight months to upgrade the system from version 5 to 6. In stark contrast, he decided to upgrade the system to version 7 in just two weeks. All because of his actions on the battlefield. He almost wished for more wars in this world so he could earn millions of badass points in a single day.

"System, upgrade yourself,"

[Wow. That's really fast. I wish there are more blood princes out there to knock some sense into you, host] The system ridiculed Michael.

[The system upgrade will take six hours. You won't be able to use the system during the upgrade process]

"I expect a free spell token from you system," said Michael. He was still sitting on the table.

[If you ask nicely, the system might give you one]

Michael jumped to the ground from the table.

"Please,"

To Michael's surprise, the system gave him no response. It began to upgrade itself while Michael laid back on the chair Gaya was sitting on. Since there was nothing else to do until the system finished its upgrade process, Michael closed his eyes to meditate. Six hours flew by in a blink of an eye. Michael opened his eyes when he heard the system's notification in his mind.

[The system upgrade is completed]

[Current System level 7.0]

[The host can now have up to thirty-five subordinates]

[The host has received one free spell token as a gift for upgrading the system]

"I'll take the Silenes spell please," Michael said. He didn't even bother to take a look at the spells in the store.

[Ding, The host has successfully acquired the level 1 Silenes]

[The bubble lasts for five seconds. The area of effect is a 0.5-meter radius]

Michael heaved a sigh of relief. His next task was to get enough experience points. Michael had two plans to raise his level. To get the first plan running, Michael contacted Azazel.

"My Lord,"

"Azazel, initiate plan dark sweep. Start with the heads of the three big sects,"

"Can I coordinate with Lady Kaplan, my lord?" asked Azazel.

"Yes,"

Plan Dark Sweep was Michael's quick way to get experience points. Up to this moment, Azazel watched the feeds in the surveilans room and listed potential targets for the order of death to kill. Now that Azazel had a physical body, Michael was able to send his butler to kill some of the targets, starting with the sect masters of the three big sects. After their deaths, there would be a power vacuum. Hopefully, this power vacuum would destabilize the sects enough for Elder Ella and CLaire to take over the sects entirely or bite a chunk out of these sects.

Once the three heads were dead, Michael could not only receive experience points, but the status of the Sunrise sect would also rise beyond his expectations.

"Use the moltan plague with care," Michael instructed Azazel. Before leaving for MAzeroth, he gave Azazel a few crates of moltan plague, just to use in a situation like this.

"I will, my lord. I received information about a secret meeting between the three heads from Lady Kaplan. It's a good opportunity to kill all the three heads,"

"When is this meeting?"

"In twelve hours," answered Azazel.

"Then I expect the good news in twelve hours. Azazel, don't get caught,"

"I won't, my lord," Azazel calmly answered Michael. Confidence reeked in his voice instead of any uncertainty. After cutting the communication with Azazel, Michael quickly took a glance at his status. Since he had upgraded the system, the experience level cap for level up in the Fusion stage reduced from one million to eight hundred thousand. Killing a Fusion stage cultivator would give him five hundred thousand experience points. He roughly needed three dead Fusion stage cultivators to level up. Lucky for him each sect leader was at the Fusion Stage.

"You're up," Michael heard Lane's voice from behind. Michael slowly turned around to see Professor Lane enter the office with his usual expressionless face.

"Thanks to you, Professor,"

"Sit," Professor Lane pointed at the chair before the oak table before sitton on his chair.

Although Michael had reached Professor Lane's cultivation level and was just a few items away from reaching six star alchemist, he respected the man. His knowledge and experience was a droplet compared to Professor Lane's ocean-like knowledge. Proeffor Lane might be the first man Michael looked upto as a mentor after Spectre.

"Usually, I don't poke my nose into students' business. I simply don't care," said Lane. Judging by his tone, Michael could tell it was indeed the case.

"But your matter is different. You endangered Mazeroth by almost bringing a blood prince to our doorstep. What do you have to say for yourself?"