Thanks to the fact that he had split the dark elves, the overlord skills still were leveling up, but at the same pace as before. Also, he was wondering if he should take the other 25 hundred dark elves to the area where the sahuagin were. However, the ocean was fifteen hundred good kilometers away from their current position. They probably could take the sahuagins, even a massive horde. Still, things would get troublesome if the overlords attacked them from behind. Another problem was the fact that they had three thousand more dark elves on the flying fortress, and they didn’t want to become his followers, and they also wanted to leave. That was fine with him.

"What an ungrateful bunch..." Shalia said. "We are solving this world’s problems for them, and they can only think about themselves..."

"That was within my expectations, so it is fine," Luke said. "Once we deal with the overlords, we will know who we can trust and those who will have to be ignored."

Luke was more or less following Shalia’s plan of becoming the ruler of that world, but he still couldn’t bring himself to force everyone to obey his will. He fought some of the dark elves like that before, but now that his army was increasing and thanks to the Overlord’s skills, he didn’t have to be that radical anymore.

Eventually, Luke landed somewhere and let those three thousand leave the fortress, but he also warned them not to cause him trouble. Otherwise, he won’t treat them differently than he treated Drork. The dark elves didn’t feel pressured to join his side despite that warning. If anything, he respected their willpower to follow their own path despite the fact that they saw Luke’s fight, and not all of them together could take him down.

"Nambra, can you go to earth and help my parents if something happens?" Luke asked.

"I must refuse, master," Nambra replied. "I need to stay by your side, no matter what. I also believe that you are far more in danger than they are.

Luke sighed... Making her follow his command would be easy, but he couldn’t bring himself to give such orders aside from combat. In any case, Luke returned to keep his focus on other problems. The issue of the armor had to be solved later, and there was another issue Luke had to take care of... He needed a finishing move that wasn’t Weapon Augmentation.

Something too complex wasn’t something that Luke was interested in; also, something that required several hits to work wasn’t good. After a while, Luke found something that suited him.

Concentrated Strike

It grants you the power to add more strength to your next attack the longer you charge it. You can add one point of strength per second and per level.

It was a rather simple skill, the cost wasn’t high either, but it was a good weapon to have against careless and over-cautious enemies. The first group would be easy to hit, while the second group would let him charge for longer. The only problem was the fact that it would take a while to charge it. In any case, after doing some tests, Luke realized that he could charge while he was moving, so it was perfect.

Cost: 01 SP per second and level.

LV 373 - 53%

HP: 3844/ 3844

MP: 2584/ 2584

SP: 2044/ 2044

STR: 912 + 15 + 70

SPE: 499 + 40 + 70

INT: 365 + 20 + 40

END: 350 + 20 + 30 + 16 + 20

RES: 350 + 04 + 04

FOC: 600 + 380

Free points:

Gold Coins: 5.025.288

Active Skills: Weapon Augmentation Lv 06 (Rare), Stinger Lv 09, Dash Lv 06, Flying Kick Lv 06 (+ 01 UP), Sonic Blade Lv 09 + 03 (+ 01 UP), Heavy Strike Lv 07 (+ 02 UP), Fury Punches Lv 05 (+ 01 UP), Roar Lv 04, Stunning Blow Lv 05, Rage Lv 07, Berserker Lv 07, Concentrated Strike Lv 01,

Spells: Appraisal Lv 09 (+ 02 UP), Heal Lv 01

Passive: Pain Resistance Lv 01 (Uncommon),, Axemanship Lv 08 (+05 UP), Overlord’s Blessing of Power Lv 02, Overlord’s Blessing of Wisdom (uncommon) Lv 07 (+ 06 UP), Overlord’s Blessing of Tenacity Lv 07 (Uncommon) (+ 06 UP), Overlord’s Blessing of Concentration Lv 01,

After checking his status, Luke realized that he had gotten quite a bit stronger again. He was probably at Nambra’s level already when it came to raw power, but he wasn’t satisfied with it. He needed to keep fighting enemies much stronger than him in order to reach a level where he would be able to evade Aivern’s knowledge of other parallel universes.

In any case, while using Concentrated Strike after a while, Luke began to get his hand getting hot. He ignored it at first, but it didn’t take long for it to begin to emit some steam. Like the time he used Rage and Berserker. Things might get dangerous, so Luke jumped from the flying fortress and punched the ground. He made quite the tremor and opened a crater as well... It was twenty meters in radius and two deep. It had the same power as a half-meter meteorite...

The skill Concentrated Strike has leveled up.

You obtained 05 status points.

I charged for three minutes but only leveled up once... I suppose I need a good target, a powerful monster," Luke thought.

Usually, the cost of the skills doesn’t increase after their rank increases, but Luke knew that it wouldn’t be the case with that still. It would be too weird otherwise. In any case, Luke used the skill again, and his hand got weird after just ninety seconds, probably because the skill also got two times better. That was a problem, though. It wouldn’t make much difference if his limit was two hundred points of strength per attack.

"Your endurance is the problem," Aivern said. "If the rest of your body isn’t on the same level as your strength, then you won’t be able to show your the power of your parameters,"