Awakened Talent: 10,000 Exp Converter! - Chapter 159

Chapter 159: Umbral Rats and Upgrade Requirements
Chapter 159: Umbral Rats and Upgrade Requirements

Wood Corpse Tier 2(1★)

Seeing the incoming primals, Leader Phaker who was standing at the front suddenly summoned a big silver-plated shield and a broadsword.

He then grunt as he smashed the broadsword to his shield, making a metal clashing sound, attracting the Wood Corpses attention.

“Come at me!” Leader Phaker exclaimed.

Suddenly, the humanoid shape of the wood corpses transformed to a wolf-like appearance, they growled and pounced straight at Leader Phaker.

Leader Phaker wasn’t slightly afraid or surprised. With a skilled reaction, he lifted his shield and bashed it forward, pushing away the first Wood Corpse before slashing the other one that had just pounced with his broadsword.

However, another one had jumped at him again. But despite that, Leader Phaker wasn’t worried. Before the Wood Corpse could even touch his skin, a ball of fire suddenly flew over his head and blasted the Wood Corpse away.

“Nice Shot, Aki!” Leader Phaker praised the brown-haired young lady who was quietly standing beside Amy.

Naturally, after a short delay, Jake and Phart also came and helped their leader with their weapons, slashing the Wood Corpse to death, while Amy helped them while buffing their weapons with fire affinity while also shielding them with Origin Barrier.

Soon, they eventually annihilated the group of Wood Corpses.

“Great job, guys!” Leader Phaker praised the group’s reaction.

“Hmph! It wasn’t even worth using my skill!” Phart commented.

“It’s natural. Wait until we reach somewhere deep in the labyrinth and you’ll be wishing that you just stayed back at home,” said Jake, glancing at Phart’s way.

“Alright, that’s enough. Go clear the area, check if those Wood Corpse drop anything.” Leader Phaker ordered before facing Vincent.

“How about you, young man. Do you still want to go on your own? As you’ve witnessed. This place is nothing like a park. You’ll encounter more stronger primals than those Wood Corpse.”

Vincent was determined to go his separate way. If he didn’t do it, they would definitely slow him down a lot.

At this point, with his current strength, he believed he could clear this labyrinth on his own.

Therefore, he simply nodded at the kind-hearted leader.

Leader Phaker, Amy and others had no problem with his decision. However, it was a different matter to Phart. He felt Vincent was too arrogant and full of himself.

How could a mere Tier 2 survive a labyrinth alone?

Even a single Peak Tier 2 Origin Warrior would struggle alone in a Tier 2 Labyrinth, especially if it was an unexplored labyrinth.

Hence, Phart could not hold himself to say, “Hmph. Arrogant. Don’t come looking for us later if you realize how stupid your decision was!”

Vincent simply ignored him. After thanking Leader Phaker and Amy, he went ahead in a different direction.

The group watched as his figure disappeared in the distance.

“Is he going to be fine?” The silent girl Aki couldn’t help but mutter.

Amy, who was beside her overheard her and responded with a hint of disappointment, “Let’s just hope. Anyway, it’s his decision. We can not force him to join us if he doesn’t want to.”

Amy paused for a second before continuing while looking at Aki in the corner of her eyes, “But he’s handsome, right?”

“Yes…” Aki absentmindedly replied, causing Amy to laugh mischievously.

With her laughter, Aki finally realized what she had just said, making her face flushed immediately in embarrassment.

“Hehe, it seems our little girl has been lovestruck.” Amy teased.

While waving her hands, Aki denied it. “N-No, it’s nothing like that!”

Despite her denial, Amy’s laughter continued.

On the other hand, Vincent, who had just separated from Phaker’s party, finally started to wonder about the labyrinth’s environment.

“This is so different from Black Rat Labyrinth…” He muttered to himself.

Unlike Black Rat Labyrinth, which was a huge cave-like space with a ceiling, the Corrupted Jungle Labyrinth was like a different world.

It was a real jungle with several paths and no ceiling but a bright sun hanging over the sky.

With this dense jungle, it would be really difficult for a solo Tier 2 Origin Warrior to survive in this place. Hence, he realized the worry and care of Phaker’s group.

Although the Black Rat Labyrinth had also turned to a Tier 2 Labyrinth, this Corrupted Jungle Labyrinth was a real Tier 2 Labyrinth.

A different world. Although finite.

At this moment, he was currently surrounded by 10 Wood Corpses. Since he had just broken through Tier 2, he wondered if he would get the same experience points whenever he killed a same-level primal.

Albeit curious, he didn’t move to kill them. He instead summoned a group of ten Umbral Rat.

He wondered how his Umbral Rats would compare to these Wood Corpses.

Although they were similar Tier 2(1★) level, the Wood Corpse had a larger build.

“Take each one and kill them as fast as you can.”

Since he wanted to know the difference, he commanded them to have a 1 versus 1 fight.

Upon his command, the Umbral Rats let out a high-pitched squeak as their semi-ethereal form immediately solidified and rushed straight at their opponents with their incisors glowing with purple light.

It was the effect of their offensive skill, Venomous Bite that could do poison damage over 5 seconds and weaken their opponents.

However, despite successfully biting the Wood Corpses, the Venomous Bite had no effect at all.

In response, the wolf-like Wood Corpses counterattacked with a similar bite action.

Vincent didn’t make any command, he was waiting how his Umbral Rats would react with these attacks.

Squeak!

Four of his Umbral Rats were unable to dodge it and were bitten by Wood Corpses, however, the rest had managed to quickly react by turning their form to semi-ethereal form, dodging the sharp and smelly fangs of the Wood Corpses.

Those who had managed to avoid the attacks immediately reacted, slashing, releasing a shadow claw energy that swiftly flashed through the Wood Corpses body.

The Wood Corpses wood physique made a wood cutting noise as his Umbral Rats bite and slashed through their body.

Eventually, Vincent heard the system’s notification.

You have successfully killed Wood Corpse Tier 2(1★) x10!

You have gained +50 Experience Points! x10

Talent Activated!

+500,000 Experience Points! x10

In that instance, Vincent’s experience bar was filled and overflowing. He no longer felt disappointed with the wasted experience points as he could easily farm it after all.

Fortunately, it did not lower the amount of experience points he could get by killing a same-level primal.

And he was quite satisfied with the results of Umbral Rats performance.

With his ten summons, only 4 had died in battle, which was a better result than he had expected.

Unfortunately, he could not further improve the grade of this skill.

He could only hope that perhaps one day he might encounter a special item or special skill that could break a skill’s potential limit.

‘Now, the question is which one should I focus on upgrading? Hmm…’

As far as he remembered, upgrading an epic-grade skill had an absurd amount of requirements.

He checked out one of his Epic-grade skills.

Target: Abyssal Venomlash (Epic)

Quality Upgrade: Possible

Quantity Upgrade: Possible

Vincent immediately chose the first option.

Requirements: 1,500,000 experience points and 3 Epic-grade Skills.

“Right, it didn’t change at all.” He could only let out a sigh of disappointment.

Fortunately, he had more than enough skill books he had got from Towers of Fundamentals. If not, he would truly struggle finding skill books.

Now the question was, if any-type of book would require or must be same or similar-type?

He didn’t know the answer.

He could just worry about that later and focus on upgrading a random book to epic grade.

And that’s for sure would take a huge amount of experience points.

To upgrade a common-grade book to uncommon-grade requires 100,000 experience points and to upgrade uncommon to rare-grade requires 300,000 experience points and 500,000 experience points to upgrade it to epic-grade.

And now, it requires him 1,500,000 and 3 epic-grade skills to upgrade it to Legendary-grade, which despite the absurd amount excites him.

Just imagining him having tens of legendary skills thrilled him to the bone. He might be the only person in the Novice Continent to have a set of legendary skills and items.

So, with his current experience capped, he could upgrade 2 common-grade books to epic-grade.

He set his eyes to normal-grade skill books as he had a fewer amount of uncommon and rare grade skill books. Additionally, a normal-grade skill book was still evidently had a weaker upgraded version despite being a higher grade.

He had realized it with his experience of upgrading series of skills and items..

Hence, without further hesistation, he took out two common-grade skill books and upgraded it directly to epic-grade.

The common-grade book ‘Air Shot’ had transformed to epic-grade ‘Gatling Windstorm’ it sounded powerful but in Vincent’s perspective, it was underwhelming for its grade.

He wasn’t even tempted to learn it, he simply stored them and picked up the drop Origin Crystals on the ground and replenished his Origin Energy and moved forward.

The Corrupted Jungle Labyrinth was vast after all. He could definitely farm a lot of experience points!