A dark steel Jian sword twisted with a sickening crunch before getting ripped out of the monster's lifeless body.
No more than a second after, a system notification rang clear in Damon's head.
[You have slain a Level 25 Sea Serpent.]
[New Monster Index bonus: +4 Stamina, +4 Dexterity, +6 Vitality]
[You have reached Level 27. You have received 1 Stat Point.]
Standing on top of the massive, crab-like creature, Damon flicked his sword to the side, shaking the blood from the blade before sheathing the weapon and jumping 10 feet down onto the sand below.
A few feet away from him and the slaughtered monster, a large rift core glowed above the sand, its darkness enveloping all the light around it. He didn't linger as he pushed through the desert below and smashed the rift with a single flicker of his mana.
