Damn, I Awakened With A Horror System!

Chapter 53: Advancing, the Greedy Altar.

Boom!

The thin barrier couldn't resist the attack of mana anymore.

Under the heavy attack of the mana, the barrier issued a crispy cracking sound similar to a breaking thin glass before it finally collapsed with a boom!

Under Leo's watch, the mana breaks free from the barrier before instantly flashing with brilliant pure white light, blinding Leo's senses and illuminating his mind with blinding light.

Followed by breaking through the thin barrier, Leo's consciousness entered a magical state.

The feeling of elation/bliss within him erupted without hindrance.

One by one, the cells on his body began to absorb the Qi that successfully transformed from mana, strengthening every aspect of his body and vitality.

Besides that, Leo's soul began to experience a subtle change, becoming more solid and much darker in the process...

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Boom!

Outside of the building, at the same time when Leo destroyed the barrier between the Mortal and Foundation realms.

A sudden loud booming sound resounded above the sky, followed by a dark looming cloud. Forming a spiral of darkness above the building where Leo was advancing.

Crackle... Boom!

Boom!

Lightning began to flash by above as it illuminated the surrounding building with blue and dark light.

"This..." Roland, Jake, Kristine, and the group raised their head in unison. Greatly shocked by the sudden appearance of the phenomenon above.

Although they already expected that a strange phenomenon would appear if Leo advanced toward the Foundation realm, the occurrence of thick dark clouds that almost swallow the sky is beyond their current understanding.

Since Leo has a class job that leans toward potion, the phenomenon that they expected to appear is related to life, wood, or fire. But who would expect that...

"Why this..." Kristine exclaimed as she stared at the rolling clouds above in fright.

The group still hasn't awakened from their confusion when the ground suddenly quakes, causing a small crack to emerge.

Not long after the earth finished quaking, a strange small flower with a dark color body and a maroon-colored flower similar to a rose began to bloom one by one. Enveloping the surrounding area in the blink of an eye.

"This... Isn't this a Grave Dark Roses!?"

Seeing this, Rosa's eyes constricted slightly. Her head was full of confusion and puzzlement, not understanding the things happening around her.

Grave Dark Roses, a strange flower that consumes a dead aura and little vitality to grow...

They were usually found in graves and places with rich dead aura and slight vitality. Hence they were called Grave Dark Roses.

Although common, however, appearing as a phenomenon in Leo's advancement...

"What is really happening..." Rosa's face showed puzzlement and fright as she stared at the sole building in the distance that was not affected by the phenomenon in the surroundings.

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Inside the building.

Feeling that the advancement of his soul and realm slowed down, Leo exhaled a large mouthful of turbid air as he unhurriedly opened his eyes.

In an instant, after opening his eyes, an altar of unknown origin began to materialize in front of him, causing Leo's expression to turn serious.

"The altar..." Leo mumbled under his breath as he began to take out items and skill scrolls from his inventory one by one.

Tossing the Bronze knuckle toward the altar. Leo instantly saw the knuckle burned with cold blue light before vanishing in his line of sight.

Although somewhat surprised, Leo quickly regained his calm before tossing the items toward the altar one by one...

After minutes of tossing items and skill scrolls toward the altar, Leo showed a slight change in his expression before taking out bottles that contained potion materials that could increase stats permanently.

"For the better future!"

Gritting his teeth, with slight hesitation, Leo began to toss the bottle toward the altar, causing the altar to vibrate slightly.

...

Bang!

Flash!

"Finally."

After sacrificing most of the items in his inventory (other than the soul-strengthening potion) Leo heaves a sigh of relief, ready to finally finish the sacrifice when suddenly, a sound of notification resounded inside his head.

Ding!

[ Detected that the host almost finished sacrificing items to gain a cultivation technique.

Do you want to spend 10,000 horror points as a sacrifice to increase the grade of the cultivation technique? (Yes/No) ]

"..." Leo.

"This..." Leo's eyes almost pop up after reading the notification. He couldn't fathom and understand how horror points could be used as a sacrifice.

However, even if he didn't know how and why it was possible. Since it could increase the grade of the cultivation technique he would get after sacrificing it. Leo didn't dawdle at it for too much...

"Accept!"

Not hesitating at all, Leo immediately accepted.

In an instant, after accepting the deal, a baleful and dark aura, coming from an unknown space began to flow out from Leo's body before flying toward the altar at an alarming speed.

The altar, as if sensing something good began to greedily swallow the baleful and dark aura Leo released.

-1,000 horror points.

-1,000 horror points.

-1,000 horror...

Leo's horror points began to decrease by a huge amount every second as the altar swallowed it whole greedily. Making the surrounding air buzz due to the altar not letting a single horror point to slip under its swallowing.

-1,000 horror points.

Ding!

After a whole ten seconds of swallowing, the altar suddenly halted, causing the surroundings to regain its silence.

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..

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"That's it? Where is my cultivation technique?" Leo stared at the empty altar in doubt and confusion.

After waiting for minutes. As Leo was about to curse toward the altar. The altar which was silent awhile ago suddenly released a weak buzzing sound before booming with intense black light. Quickly swallowing Leo's body.

This!

Caught off guard, Leo could only close his eyes as he patiently waited till the light retracted.

"I already, spend most of my savings... If you don't give me something good, believe it or not, I will do my best to destroy you!"

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