23 Exploit & Absorption

['Vital Dagger Strike' has reached lv.10]

[You have received the title 'Viper Hunter']

[Achievement 'Hunting 100 Vipers' recorded]

[You have received 1 bonus stat point for your achievement]

I didn't need to be wary of sneak attacks by the poisoned snakes and vipers anymore, as the effect of the title came to be an advantage in this case.

The hunt for snakes didn't take more than 3 days thanks to the latest skills I have acquired, 'Swift steps' hastened the battles to end in seconds.

However, the largest factor of this fast progress was 'Mental Map'.

The skill wasn't like other skills which had an effect of learning acceleration or more control, it was a different type of skill, as described by the system it was a 'special skill'.

It made a hologram before my eyes which used the mental image I already had in mind, which made it less mentally exhausting to view and check the map using imagination.

It was still mentally exhausting to keep the hologram working continuously, but nonetheless, it was much more efficient than normal mental mapping even with the help of my photographic memory.

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It was almost more than half a month since my arrival at the forest, I have already started my hunt for crocs as I still had to master the dismantling technique, while reaching a good enough level of combat abilities through this hunt before heading to the central sector .

But today I had a target other than these entirely.

I wanted to test something….

A black scaled crocodile lied half-dead in front of me, I had targeted this lone croc in this deserted part of the swamp especially for my test.

I finished it of as a much larger wave than the rabbit's red mist started to head towards the orb.

However, I had no intention of letting this happen, I put my other hand inside this mist cloud.

Suddenly, as if it was a fish that got hooked by a fishing rod, the red mist get sucked inside my body in the matter of seconds.

A refreshing wave of renewal hit me as the system alarm sounded in my ear.

[You have absorbed the blood essence of a black scaled alligator, Strength increase by 2, Constitution increases by 3]

[You have absorbed EP under the effect of a level limiter, as such your level doesn't increase]

'Success!'

My gamble didn't result in a loss, which was something to be delighted about, I was able to make use of the level limit.

During my read about hunters and fighters in this game through the books in my house's library, there was a very essential technique that every hunter had to learn, this technique was expectedly 'Essence absorption'.

As their only method of leveling up although it was inferior to player's absorption it was still a not so hidden skill.

Most people knew the way to become stronger, but to do that they needed to be strong enough to kill monsters to begin with, as such this was what they called an open secret.

The problem for us players in using it would be quite sever on the other hand, as a downgraded method not only did it yield less stats points but the distribution of these stat points wouldn't be controlled like the normal way, all of this happened while forcefully increasing the player's level.

As such, especially in the beginner levels where leveling didn't require that much EP, only stupid players would choose to use the inferior method.

However in my case, it was the complete opposite!

As I couldn't level up normally using this method simply allowed me to enjoy the benefit of the inferior leveling method as a level 0 newbie!