Leveled 8

Brutus used a rift to go as south as possible, and then he took to flight. Brutus was traveling across the Job System faster than anything else possibly could, and after a little less than a week, he was at a large mass of water. Brutus flew down and went to a small town on the edge of the water. From here, he learned that boats would travel from the Job System to the Foundation every few days and it would take 3 weeks to cross. Brutus looked for people from the Foundation, and he saw a few people that could turn their skin into a weak metal, but not many. A few days after arriving, a ship came that was going to the Foundation. Brutus opted to travel by ship because he did not want to make too much of a commotion if he landed in the wrong place, though with No Reward it might not make a large impact. Brutus paid for a first class ticket on the ship and boarded. The ship was lavishly decorated in the first class section, any there were many servants. Brutus was still in his Death job, and was only at level 29, but hopefully this trip would get him to 100. The death job was much harder to level than the others, but it's power was much greater. When the ship made it to the Foundation, Brutus was amazed at the people there. The people in the Foundation were much different looking than the people of the Job System and the Holy Dominion. They had the general shape of a human, but some would have multiple arms or spikes coming off them, and in the desert, many would be made from a metal. Brutus came upon many people that looked like they had full body steel armor on, but it was actually their skin. Brutus went to buy some food, but it was all dried insects and what looked like worms. It was lucky that Brutus could use Rift Traveling, he did not like to eat insects. Brutus went to find an adventurer's guild, but they did not have one. In the Foundation, they had the Caravan Corps. The CC for short established safe routes of travel in the desert and gave quest to kill monsters. It looked like the Foundation had magical creatures like the Job System and the Holy Dominion, however they were not edible, and they attacked people much more often. Brutus took a quest to kill something called an Alaskan Bull Worm and he went into the desert. The desert was calm for a few hundred feet but then turned into sandstorms. There were no visible markers, so it must be easy to get lost. Brutus was able to use Rift Traveling though, so he would not have a problem getting back to the city. Brutus traveled for a few hours, but he did not see anything. Using his magic, Brutus made a small hut in the sand for himself to sleep in. It would get extremely cold at night, and he did not want to risk this spot being covered in sand the next day which often happened in the desert. It took a combination of spells to get the hut made, but it was made just crude enough to hold him. Once that was done, Brutus summoned some familiars. He decided to go with skeletons so that they would be more or less unaffected by the sand. Brutus made 100 of them and then went to sleep. His mana was drained significantly from so much summoning, but it was still very little compared to his overall MP size. When Brutus woke up, 23 of his skeletons had died and the rest had no news. It looked like whenever they encountered something, they died. Brutus made an army of 1000 skeletons this time to surround him as he traveled the desert. Once in a while Brutus could hear the sound of bones crunching over the sandstorm, but when he looked there was just a huge whole in his ring of skeleton guards. Sometime during this second day, Brutus came upon a huge structure. It was moved on 6 wheels and towered above the ground. If not for the sandstorm it would have been visible for many miles. Brutus made his skeletons wait behind him as he approached. When he came forward, some people came out and greeted him. Or at least he thought they did, because they spoke a strange language he did not recognize, not even the people in the city spoke it. Brutus tried to reason with them for a bit and then he left, but before he could, something grabbed his leg. Brutus looked down and it was just some sand, so he shook it off and kept going, but then more sand grabbed onto him. Brutus looked around and saw the thing he was talking to had it's arms turned into sand. Brutus activated his death ability and the thing exploded into sand. Brutus felt accomplished but soon after the mound of sand reformed at started to attack Brutus. Unlike normal citizens, this thing could change into many pieces of sand and control them all. As he was fighting more of the creatures came from the structure. Brutus tried killing them with his death ability but they kept getting up. Brutus then went to using Fireball on them and it seemed to make them stay down longer, but it was still ineffective. Brutus stepped back and sent his skeletons to attack. As the skeletons attacked, Brutus used his Telekinesis on the sand parts that dropped from the creatures and threw it far away. As 40 of the creatures had been scattered, the sand slowly built back up. Brutus remembered something about glass being made from sand, so Brutus made many fireballs with group casting and then changed them to flame with spell changer, which made the area around the creatures get very hot. Brutus used Simulcast to make a powerful gravity spell in the center of the creatures as they were turned into sand with his death ability, and slowly a huge ball of glass was formed. It was not pretty glass, but it did not turn back into the creatures when he was done. Brutus went inside the structure. It looked like most of the structure held plants and had a system for moving water around from the top to the bottom, and then a system for moving it back up. There were living quarters for at least 100 people, so the group he met must have been a small one, or recently went into a battle were many were killed. With the difficulty he had killing them, Brutus could not think the Foundation could kill them. Brutus left the structure and continued on. Brutus checked his level and was at 30. He had leveled up from killing only 40 creatures. A few hours later set up camp again for the night. He once again set out skeletons, but this time 2000 to search for the Alaskan Bull Worm. Brutus started to fall asleep when he was woken up by one of his familiars telepathically telling him they found it. Brutus had the location of the skeleton, so he used a rift to go to it, but the instant he got there he was being eaten by a huge worm. It was at least twice as large as him, and ate him, 4 skeletons, and the sand under them. Brutus used telekinesis to hold himself just inside the mouth of the creature that seemed to have no teeth as he watched his familiars fall further into the worm's body. Brutus tried to use his death ability on this creature, but it turned to sand and quickly attacked him. Brutus used the same combination of attacks from the creatures of the structure, but the worm was too big to absorb with gravity magic and it would continuously eat more sand to grow back. Brutus spent the majority of the night and some of the morning turning the sand around them into glass orbs as he cycled through his spells. Brutus then used the Blizzard spell and covered the area with snow which he then turned to water to harden the sand, then used the Harden spell to make it solid. Brutus thought that this would stop the worm from taking sand from the ground, so then Brutus used his wind enhancing to stop the sandstorm around him so he could use Fly. Brutus put all of his power into a final Fireball and Gravity spell which he sent into the mouth of the worn as it tried to eat him mid flight. Brutus watched as the worn was sucked into the gravity spell and turned into a tube of glass. Gravity spells are normally stationary, but with Spell Changer he could make a fireball move and change it to gravity, making the gravity spell keep moving. The glass fell to the ground and shattered. As suddenly as the glass shattered, Brutus remembered that he needed proof that he killed the worm. The whole body had been turned to glass and shattered, so there was nothing left to bring back. Brutus went back to the Caravan Corps to report that he had killed it, but because he did not have proof they would have to investigate and if no attacks happened again in a period of time lasting twice the average time between attacks, Brutus would get his reward. Brutus looked at his level and was at level 31. He only killed one thing and got up a level, even if it took half a day to do it. Brutus did not need money though, he had many diamonds in his items and he only wanted to do something before leaving town. Brutus went to a bar and took a seat. He ordered something to drink and skipped getting something to eat. Everything on this side of the sea was horrible tasting. Someone approached Brutus though, asking if he was from the Job System. The person had skin of steel and asked Brutus what his job was. Brutus told him he was a Gray Mage while at the same time he changed it to Gray Mage. The man then asked Brutus for a duel in the arena, and Brutus accepted. Brutus and a small crowd gathered at the arena and waited for the gates to open for Brutus and the challenger to fight. Once the current match ended, Brutus and the man went inside. Just before the match started, the man was told to go into base foundation. He went back to having normal skin. The match started and the man turned his skin to steel and grew several spikes on his body. Brutus used Telekinesis to grab onto the man, but found him to be much heavier than expected. Brutus used Group Casting though and made hundreds of hands push the man to the ground. Brutus had easily overpowered the man. The man gave up after being unable to move for two minutes and Brutus was named the winner. Several other challengers came forth, but they all lost to Brutus's telekinesis. These fights did not bring any money to the challengers or the winner, but were held for fun. Brutus asked about other fights and was told by people that they mostly had slaves fight. Satisfied with this, Brutus went to an inn and spent the rest of the night drinking and then went to sleep. He could use a rift to go back home, but he did not feel like it. The next day, Brutus went further out into the desert. It was difficult to find their way in the desert, so after two weeks of going in random directions and not finding anything, he chose to join up with a caravan from the guild. The caravan would spend a few days in a city and then move on to the next, and they usually had hundreds of people in them. The people in the Foundation did not need to eat or drink very much because they could change their body to metal. Brutus found that he and two other people were the only ones not from the Foundation. One of them was from the Job System like him and the other was from the Holy Dominion. A few years before the way they joined up and went to explore the world. The Job System man was a level 68 swordsman. The man from the Holy Dominion had the lesser blessing of comfortable sitting. Everything he sat on would be comfortable. The caravan came to another city in the desert after a week of traveling and they stopped for a few days to sell their goods and buy sell-able materials. For the next few months Brutus stayed with the caravan visiting cities all over the Foundation. He was using his Death job and trying to get levels, and at this point had achieved level 35. During the middle of day, the caravan came to a ruined city. They did not know what it was so they went inside it. The sandstorm was still blowing but the city looked like it recently had people walking in the streets. Brutus was traveling with some other people exploring the streets looking for residents. They could not find anything so they went back to the camp, but when they got back, everyone was dead. It looked like most of them had been stabbed or slashed with swords. Someone got very scared, or at least more than everyone else. He told the group about the cursed city were the city lord used the lives of all his people to make himself immortal using an ancient ritual, but it failed and only killed all the citizens who then rose from the dead and killed him. Once he finished his story, a hoard of skeletons came running from the sandstorm just beyond their view. Brutus used his sword to kill them for a while, but every time he did they would rejoin. Many people started to scream because the bodies of their comrades were getting up and attacking them too. Soon only Brutus and a few people who could turn their bodies to a very hard metal where left. As they continued on the defense, a huge hand came from the sky and scooped them all up. Brutus did not know what it was, but he activated his death ability. He and the other survivors were dropped from the sky, and while the others were fine, Brutus broke his legs on hitting the ground. Brutus cast healing spells on himself to heal his legs and he got back up. Now only one of his comrades was left. Brutus used his death ability on the sands around him and a sudden gust of sand pushed past him and into the survivor. The metal man began to chip away at the metal and became nothing. Brutus was the last one left and was still fighting skeletons on top of fighting the mysterious sand, so he activated his flame gravity combo. Brutus made dozens of extremely hot fireballs into the air and around the ground that would melt the sand and then sent gravity spells in all directions. Brutus kept casting this combination for several minutes and could hear loud crashes as glass balls fell from the sky. Even though it had been over 10 minutes of gathering the sand in the air, the sandstorm was still raging. Brutus activated his death ability one more time and fired it in all directions. Normally this ability would not be very taxing on Brutus because it did not use mana, but Brutus used it until he got physically tired and had to open a rift to retreat. Brutus opened the rift back to his hometown and stepped in. Brutus came out to a lush grassland bordered by a forest, something he had not seen in several months while in the Foundation. Brutus quickly got something good to eat and visited his family. He gave them a few more diamonds and then went to sleep at an inn. Before he went to sleep Brutus checked his Death level, he was now a level 49 Death. Brutus slept for almost a whole day and then went back to the deserted city. It took a few minutes, so Brutus cast many blizzard spells and turned the snow in water. Because the city was built like a crater the whole city began to fill with water. An amazing amount of water was on the ground covering the whole city before the skeletons attacked again. Brutus let his death ability loose on them until the big sandstorm monster came. To this, Brutus used telekinesis to move the water into the air and keep some of the sand down. At the same time he used his wind enhancing to stop the sandstorm inside the city. Brutus looked up and saw a beast many times larger than anything he had ever seen before. The beast was easily over 300 feet tall. It looked like the mysterious sand coming and grabbing him was just a finger of the beast. With all the sand gone from around it, Brutus cast his gravity spells on it to make it fall apart, but this only barely worked. Brutus used his fireball spells to turn large portions of it to glass as well, which worked well. The sandstorm beast stopped moving because it was now made from glass, but after a few seconds the glass broke and became part of the beast. Brutus used a two part spell, Blizzard on himself and immediately around him, and then he cast thousands of his strongest possible incinerate spells. In the whole city area, all the sand turned into glass and fell to the ground, but not just that, it also continued to melt and fused with the ground. The buildings around him became puddles as everything became cloudy glass. Brutus tried to look at the sandstorm beast, but there was too much fire to see anything. The fire died down and Brutus dispelled the blizzard, and he looked around at molten glass that had hit the water under him. If not for the blizzard, it would have been boiling. Brutus used fly to get out of the water and landed on building that was inside the blizzard and not destroyed. The entire city was wiped out. What could have housed hundreds of thousands of people was now flat. Brutus looked around and did not see a giant sandstorm beast, so he must have killed it. The ground was almost entirely glass now. Skeletons were also gone, so Brutus checked his levels, Level 99 Death. He must have killed over 50,000 skeletons, or the sandstorm monster was worth a huge amount. But now Brutus did not know what to do to get to level 100. He had no more ideas, and he was tired from fighting the sandstorm monster for several hours. It was early morning when he used the rift to come back, and now it was going to be dark soon. Brutus let go of the air with his wind enhancing and the sandstorm filled the city again, but this time it was worse because the ground was flat. Brutus laid down keeping only a few feet around his body free from the sand. A few minutes later, Brutus saw something in the sandstorm. It was the huge monster again. Brutus stood up and directed all of his killing intent into the sandstorm monster. The mass of sand fell and Brutus continued to use his Death ability on the sand as it blew away. Brutus used the ability well into the night and even ignored the chime he could barely hear. Brutus was about to pass out when he opened a rift to being him back to the Job System, but before he could choose a place he collapsed into the rift. When he woke up, Brutus checked his job. Level 100 Death. Then he checked his perks. Permadeath, foes killed by Brutus cannot revive.