The gardens, with their lush bushes and engraved woody benches, turned to ashes before the flames touched the ground. His great sun crashed to the mansion's front yard, rendering it anything but that. Arthur stared at the gangsters dying one after the other before no one was left alive or standing.
[Absorb] muttered Arthur as he raised his hand toward the corpses. The golden rune appeared, gravitating everything towards itself. Arthur was then struck by a powerful stream of energy that remolded his body.
[+2 Strength!]
[+2 Agility!]
[+2 Stamina!]
[You obtained a new skill!]
[+2 Agility!]
[+2 Strength!]
[You obtained a memory fragment!]
[+2 Mana!]
[+2 Perception!]
…
His stats started rising so fast that he couldn't see them. The corpses were plenty, and although Arthur started receiving fewer points, he was still harvesting strength at an abnormal rate. It was at that moment that a weird sensation overwhelmed him.
