Rage: By sacrificing Intelligence and Resistance, you can gain the same values in Strength and Endurance. You can sacrifice up to ten points per level.

Berserker: upon suffering damage, you gain an extra of ten points of strength and speed by each ten percent of your health lost. The points will increase by ten with each level up.

Luke ignored the effects of his skills. He was too angry to care about anything else aside from beating the enemy in front of him. Even if he succeeds in that, his anger probably won’t decrease. He hated that... He hated the feeling or the thought that he wasn’t enough for something.

Drork noticed the changes in Luke’s body. While it wasn’t much, they were troublesome. Those skills didn’t level up by using it. They leveled up by being fueled by Luke’s rage. He realized that he had to end that as soon as possible, or things might get complicated. Besides, he has already lost too much time facing someone who is hundreds of levels below him.

Drork began to use Sonic Punch in a fast succession. To the point that even the monsters around began to be sliced apart by the power of his attacks. Still, Luke blocked them with his ax. Much to the enemy’s surprise, he didn’t move a single inch from his spot. The bonus in strength and endurance were already making some effect, even though the ax was suffering a lot of damage.

"Trying to end this from a distance won’t do..." Drork thought.

Drork charged and tried to punch Luke’s head and his left side at the same time. Despite that, Luke didn’t make any motion to block either attack. Instead of that, he swung down his ax while aiming at Drork’s left arm. Drork felt shivers while imagining that Luke decided to get his arm in exchange for letting him pierce his guts. Still, in the end, he turned his body to the side and dodged the ax, while his claws only scratched Luke’s left side.

Drork stopped to assess how much of his mind Luke had lost in order to attempt that kind of trade, but he didn’t give him time and charged. It was a simple direct attack, Luke didn’t even use any skills this time, but the weight was equally troublesome. Drork blocked it without moving an inch, but then Luke Luke Stinger and pushed him backward.

Before he could use it again, Luke used Sonic Blade, and from so up close, Drork was unable to dodge or block it. The projectile bladed on his face and caused quite a bit of damage as well. Still, Luke charged again and used Stinger, Stunning Blow, and heavy strike. Drork blocked that one, but he felt his bones cracking.

"Asshole... You made me thing that you had forgotten your skill," Drork said.

Luke didn’t think or plan anything. He was just acting using his instinct alone. He was doing everything necessary to defeat the foe in front of him, and replying to his words wasn’t necessary.

It annoyed Drork to use something more than his favorite skill against a small fry. Still, he could no longer continue to underestimate Luke. So, before the next attack, he raised his right arm. Luke, who was preparing for his next attack, suddenly stopped. Even in his enraged state, he could tell that Drork was preparing something big that might be too dangerous for him.

While Luke hesitated, Drork touched his wounds and then used Heal. That worsened his mood since he absolutely hated using that skill. It was something that he had gained when his struggle against monsters started, and using it made him remember how many times he got close to death.

Eventually, Drork was completely fine again, and Luke would start from scratch. Still, the enemy didn’t see any frustration in his eyes. The one who got frustrated was Drork himself when he confirmed that Luke’s new skills had reached level four already. Just while he was being careful, he was also waiting for his skills to level up and make him stronger. Also, at that point, the horde suffered massive damage, and Luke gained tons of experience. Enough to level up fifteen times, he put all those points into strength.

Drork let out a long sigh... His allies and he made a mistake thinking that the creature that created that crater was the only one that could oppose them in that world. While as many levels before him in all aspects, Luke was a target that he couldn’t underestimate any longer. After letting out a deep sigh, Drork swung down its arm. Even though Luke was thirty meters away from him, the center of his face got cut and splashed blood, and his armor suffered great damage, to the point that one could see the marks of the attack.

Luke didn’t suffer much, but a direct hit of that will take more than half of his health, and he had no idea what just happened. How the enemy cut him from that distance... He couldn’t even think properly about that. He just knew that he couldn’t let that attack hit him again and that he wanted to defeat the enemy in front of him no matter what.

"Wake up, Luke!" Rina said. "Fighting that guy while your head isn’t thinking properly won’t do it!"

Rina was trying to help Luke without interfering directly. Still, even she didn’t know how the enemy used the previous skill. It was probably the effect of an item since Drork didn’t seem like the type who was supposed to know such a high-level technique. As for Luke, even in his mad state, he managed to come up with a plan to counterattack the enemy. Since Drork didn’t use that skill soon after, then it was clear that he couldn’t use it so often.

In the end, it didn’t take long for Drork to use that skill again, and Luke just waited. Dodging or using Checkpoint to escape wasn’t possible... so when he swung down his arm, Luke dashed toward the enemy.