Chapter 123: Results Part 1

He wanted to keep his awareness and senses, so didn't want to activate the Blood Berserker extension of his Bloodlust Characteristic, which left him with his other Bloodlust Characteristic extension.

The Blood Burn extension, which would burn his blood, vitality, life force and energy in order to increase his strength, was the only thing he could resort to in his current situation, unless he gave up and restarted Stage 3 from the beginning.

If he used it in reality, he could lose years of life or could even push himself to death, all while damaging his body and cultivation to boost his strength.

But in the dungeon, he didn't have to worry about the physical damage, and he felt that his mental fortitude had increased, so he would be able to handle the mental and spiritual backlash that he would experience.

The momentum that he currently had on Stage 3 would be very hard to recreate and his Numbing Spear had been used massively and would break soon, so he had no regrets when activating the Blood Burn extension of his Bloodlust characteristic.

"Blood Burn" he roared as he activated the extension that instantly caused his heart to start beating rapidly as his eyes began to glow red.

His blood began to boil as adrenaline coursed through his veins, and all of his body's energy and vitality began to churn around his body, burning to provide large amounts of power to Adam's body all at once.

He was struggling to keep his mind calm and was using his Hunter's mind to its fullest as he launched himself into the air, then plummeted downwards with all his force and stabbed the Hippo Boss Beast with the spear that he was wielding.

He had subconsciously used his Internal Energy in the attack to increase its power, and with his increased power from the Blood Burn extension, he managed to imbed the spear deep in the Hippo Boss Beast's head.

However, it didn't manage to complete penetrate through the beast's thick skull and it wasn't enough to kill the Hippo Boss Beast.

Adam roared monstrously as his Bloodlust soared.

Despite the relentless urge and desire to kill, that had taken over his body as it burnt his blood, vitality and energy to increase his strength, Adam still had some awareness and pushed down onto the spear aiming to finish off the Boss Beast.

He felt that he was nearly able to breakthrough the beast's skull, which would allow him to pierce its brain and kill it, however before he could finish it off with his sudden increase in power, seeing that it had no choice, the Hippo Boss Beast submerged itself underwater.

Adam who didn't want to pull back from the golden opportunity to defeat the Boss Beast, held onto the spear tightly and was pulled down into the water with the Hippo Boss Beast.

Taking a deep breath, Adam was confident that with his cultivated body, he could hold his breath underwater for at least 10 minutes, so had to wear down the Hippo Boss Beast as much as he could within those 10 minutes.

His time was limited anyway, as the longer he used the Blood Burn for, the closer he was to death and the more pain he would experience in reality, while he also continued to lose blood through his wounds.

Adam twisted the spear and tried his hardest to push it deeper into the Hippo Boss Beast's head, but it became much more difficult underwater as the Hippo Boss Beast swam as fast as it could, trying to shake Adam off it.

As soon as Adam let go, he knew that it would be over and he would have lost all the progress that he had made on stage 3, as the Hippo Boss Beast would easily be able to kill him underwater

After 15 minutes, Adam's lungs felt as though they were burning and although the Hippo Boss Beast had slowed down, it still hadn't died and it seemed as though it was a failed attempt for him.

His body couldn't sustain the Blood Burn for any longer and its numbing effects had disappeared as his entire body began to feel pain again and was on the verge of shutting down.

However just as he thought everything was over, he realised that he was sinking and it seemed as though the Hippo Beast could no longer keep up the strong front and had died.

After the numbing effect that had piled up and the injuries that it had suffered, the Hippo Beast could no longer move and died with Adam holding onto it with his spear.

At that moment, Adam wanted to jump and scream in joy, but he was deep underwater, running out of air in his lungs, and was on the verge of losing consciousness from all the damage that his Dungeon Form had suffered.

[Get me out of here] screamed Adam within his mind, knowing that he hadn't completed the Floor until the system took him back to reality.

Instantly Adam felt his soul be sucked out of his Dungeon Form and back into his body in reality as he was suddenly overwhelmed with excruciating pain.

He lay in the corner of the dojo, that was opposite to the one that his master lay in, and he suddenly began to writhe in pain as the mental pain sunk in.

After returning to reality, the desensitized and crazed state that he was in, was removed, which then left him to experience the pain that his Dungeon Form had experienced in the dungeon.

However, unlike last time, he was dealing with the mental backlash much better and his master, who was used to seeing Adam's power increase in his sleep, was shocked to see that he had broken through, but was deeply in pain.

Despite seeing Adam was in pain, he didn't involve himself and continued to lie down while using his spiritual sense to monitor Adam's body, in case there was anything serious that he would have to help him with.

Adam's body was drenched in sweat as the veins around his temple bulged from the pain that he was experiencing.

Subconsciously, Adam was able to relay to his body that he wasn't in pain, and after an hour of constant excruciating pain, was able to suppress and overcome most of the pain to a point that it was bearable and would allow him to function properly.

[Time to see the results of my training] thought Adam to himself excitedly.