Chapter 254 – Angry Skeleton.

‘Level four already?’

Roland was surprised by the prompt after a certain sword dinosaur had been defeated. He was standing on the side with his hammer being used as a long ranged weapon. Close to the dead monster was Agni who was still ferociously biting into the dead creature’s neck. While he was still behind in levels the monster’s fighting pattern was already known to everyone here.

Agni had watched Roland and the golems clear up this monster several times and was even here during the first expedition. He only trailed behind by around ten levels now and was strong enough to cause a lot of damage. Together with Roland’s ranged support, there was no way for the sword-tailed monster to win.

The new skill that he attained not so long ago was rapidly leveling up even while going against weaker enemies. Just as he speculated, the range increased by five meters for each level up and it allowed him to control all of his golems at a much faster pace.

Without the need for spoken commands, the magical machines were directly reacting to his input that he implemented with the help of his parallel thinking trait. The two were tailor-made for each other and the more he used both of them the more he felt that his trait was becoming better.

It was as if he was close to actually leveling up this trait which usually didn’t happen. Traits were normally attained by fulfilling hidden achievements like killing special monsters or attaining special classes.

Yet there were things like growth-type traits, ones that could be pushed further by fulfilling the same achievements. Parallel Thinking was gained by pushing himself into a hectic work schedule in which he was trying to multitask. Perhaps controlling golems through the skill would continue to level it up.

“Good boy, yes you can eat the mana stone this time but only if you promise not to eat any more of those divine crystals anymore.”

“Woof!”

While his furry companion started to make a mess by digging out the mana stone from within the monster’s neck, Roland glanced at Agni’s stats. There he could see that he was making quick progress yet not as fast as his master. Some of the experience between them was shared but it seemed that he wasn’t getting as much from the tier 3 monster kills as Roland was.

‘Perhaps he is standing too far away from the kill?’

Roland wasn’t sure but it was worth it to instruct Agni to hang out closer to the cave wall. Yet he still feared that he would toss himself at any monster that tried to get through it.

“Are you done? Let’s go.”

The golems were ordered to cut the tailbone down with the help of their mining tools. With his skill at work, he could manipulate all six of them but he still needed to spread his mind between every single one. At a moment like that the voiced commands were still better.