ALL NOVEL Chapter 272 269: New region of the forest.
Chapter 272 269: New region of the forest.
It was never a good idea to blindly take something without knowing what it was, so he inspected them.
Two more semi-transparent screens popped up into his view, each containing a description of the items he'd just received.
[System Notification 1: Name: Nebula Pill. Description: It's a mysterious pill that is condensed from the essence of dead stars. This pill can be used to push beyond one's inherent power limits. Once the host consumes it, the host will undergo a subtle but certain change which will elevate the peak power level your body can achieve]
[System Notification 2: Name: Dragon Elixir. Description: A rare and potent concoction brewed from the essence of a newborn dragon's core. Consuming it can amplify the strength of a mid-rank wizard's elemental core.]
Both of these items were great and should be used on the spot to increase his strength.
He didn't waste any time before pulling them out of the system interface, materializing them into his hands.
He began with the Nebula Pill, tossing it into his mouth.
The pill was the size of a rice grain. It smoothly went down his throat.
He swallowed it effortlessly.
Almost instantly, he felt an intense warmth emanating from his stomach, like a starburst, which spread rapidly to every fiber of his being, helping his body undergo an evolution.
A new system notification appeared.
[You've consumed a Nebula Pill. Your stats limit has increased from 100 to 120 points!]
'This is astounding.'
Now if he activated his blood rush skill, his agility go up to 120 points.
He didn't how fast that was as he had never met anyone with such a point in their agility stat, but he thought it might be faster than anyone below advanced-level bloodline users or at least as fast as level 6 bloodline users.
In other words, just by relying on his blood rush skill, no one would be able to catch up to him except for advanced-level level bloodline users and their equivalent!
'Let's take the elixir too, and see what happens.'
Val uncapped the "Dragon Elixir" and downed it in one go.
Almost immediately, he could feel the elixir's warm energy entering his arcane heart and charging into his core, rapidly enhancing its capabilities.
[System Notification: The durability of the host's darkness core has increased significantly. It has doubled.]
This implied that he could inscribe another level 1 rune on his core despite being a level 1 mid-rank wizard!
'It is something unprecedented.'
In the wizard community, there had never appeared a wizard-like Val before who could construct two runes in his core at the first level of the mid-rank wizard stage. He was the first. Essentially, he had defied common sense once more!
'Under the heavens, I am the most unique wizard.'
Besides these rewards, Val also meticulously extracted a few glowing level 4 stat strengthening cores from the Skarnik's body. He tossed them into the pocket dimension of his Void Orb.
Third skill of the Blood Devil Class: Corpse Sacrifice!
Val cast the Corpse Sacrifice skill on the Skarnik's remains.
As a result, the Skarnik's body vanished, devoured and transformed into a sinister energy by the shrine of evil.
The shrine then transmitted it to Val, and he could feel a surge of undead-creating energy filling him.
Sacrificing a beast of this caliber without wringing it dry of its blood really offered an immense amount of undead-creating power, far more than what he'd get from a group of lesser creatures!
Val used it all to summon three level 3 undead warriors of rebellious natures. Almost instantly, he brought them under his absolute control using the Void Force skill.
Now he had several level 3 undead who were absolutely loyal to him!
Val resumed his journey through the vast expanse of the forest.
After some time, he ventured into a new region of the forest where he found himself surrounded by a magnificent sea of trees, each glistening with a unique silver sheen. These silver giants of the forest reached the sky and had trunks thicker than buildings. Their height and size suggested their considerable age and they exuded a sense of weightiness.
Upon examining one with the Detect skill, Val was astounded to discover that these enormous trees weighed in excess of a hundred tons each.
But there was more to these trees than just their weight and unearthly appearance.
The trees' blue hue actually resulted from an abundance of soul power, which they radiated during photosynthesis, causing them to glow!
Trees teeming with soul power were useful to wizards.
While Val was a wizard himself, he refrained from harvesting them.
He was driven by the urgency to reach Oliver, after all. Moreover, he knew what he was capable of and he had no method of harvesting them. The blue trees were so resilient that they would resist any attempt to break them. And even with his immense strength, uprooting them would be impossible, given their roots that plunged deep into the very essence of the dimension.
He was never one to engage in meaningless endeavors. Thus, he didn't waste any time harvesting them.
Instead, he rapidly moved through this part of the forest with his heavenly eye skill activated.
He surveyed the surroundings intently, ensuring he didn't miss any details that could point him to the other side of the lesser dimension.
As he looked around, a vast clearing came into his view.
Beings that seemed a blend of the familiar and the utterly alien densely infested it.
In the clearing stood creatures reminiscent of goblins, but they bore differences that made them stand out distinctly, and not in a good way.
These creatures were tall, towering 2 to 3 meters above the ground, dwarfing the average human.
Their skin was white contrasting strikingly with the blue stripes that adorned their bodies. These stripes gently pulsated with a unique type of power releasing a mesmerizing, sapphire-like glow that illuminated their immediate surroundings in a mesmerizing glow.
'Don't tell me they can use soul power,' Val thought after a moment of silence.