15. Glacial Water Core

He placed the grape like fruit in his mouth and swallowed the core. He expected a sudden pain to hit just as he swallowed the core however even after 10 seconds the pain hadn't hit. He could feel the divine power slowly dissipating and the core becoming more and more frosty.

In the following few minutes the discomfort from the cold in his stomach grew and grew until it wasn't just a discomfort but plain old pain. David knew that normally people wouldn't ingest divine materials at the low levels but he thought it was only because they didn't have the necessary materials, he understood now why he shouldn't use divine materials when he is at such a low level.

David started squirming in the floor after half an hour or so. Even then he wasn't trying to expel the water, he was actually trying to infuse as much of it as he could. As the time hit 2 hour mark the Glacial water was fully released and wreaking havoc inside of him. As the water broke loose fully another jolt of intense pain hit David, this pain was so bad that while he was spasming on the floor, he had made fists with both hands and his nails had dug deep into his own skin bleeding profusely.

Nevertheless those who endure will conquer as the 4 hour mark had hit the glacial water stopped squirming and attacking David's insides and rather it started to slowly merge into his whole body and he could feel his thoughts getting clearer, his movements getting more flexible, his power increasing. David didn't just feel his immediate power increasing he also felt that his body was somehow evolving and becoming more than just a human, this was part of absorbing divine materials, your body would elevate to something higher than a human meaning that stats you would get every level would increase and your potential level in the face of the system would increase.

As this merging process went on for more than 10-15 hours David was basking in all the pleasure and happiness in the world. As the process ended David felt like he was a reborn baby feeling the world for the first time. After trying his moves, running, jumping, punching, kicking he felt his power had risen by a lot. there was only one option of what the situation might be the Divine Material had increased his stats as he wondered how much his stats had elevated he also started becoming restless thinking how he could clear the whole dungeon easily, well he was wrong but still the kid free to speculate .He wanted to look at his stats to see how much of a difference the Divine Material made.

David Poklore

Total Level: 50

Occupation(s): none

Hp : 2780(con*10*2)

Mp: 1350(Int*5*2)

Stats:

Str: 160(20)

Con: 139

Agi: 136

Int: 135

Skills:

Passive:

Blessing of the Universe lvl MAX: All exp requirements -50%, stat point effectiveness +100%, can fuse skills ,gain All Talented.

All Talented lvl17: you gain 340% more exp for all skills except for this skill

Speed Boost lvl230: movement speed increased by 115%.

Slippery lvl 338: 33.8% chance to negate half the damage (hard caps at 80% then you start gaining reflected damage percentage.)

Close Combat lvl 1013: close combat damage +1013%

Faster Regeneration lvl 210: 420% faster regen

Mental Resistance lvl 119: 11.9% mental power negation

Faster reflexes lvl 238: 23.8% faster reflexes

Tough body lvl 99: 9.9% damage resistance

Increased Perception lvl 143: 14.3% increased perception range and detail.

Active:

Sprint lvl 197: 197% increase in movement speed while active

The Punch of Gods lvl330: +1650% damage and can inflict any status effect(s) on command

Sidestep lvl 130: in order to dodge an attack you can move up to 50 meters in a fraction of a second. The cooldown is 3 minutes 40 seconds.

Sneak lvl 88: decreases

"Holy shit, how the hell did all this happen. Dammmn I guess pain is a good way to increase mental resistance, I get 4 times the exp normal people get anyways but still it was a quick way to increase my stats and mental resistance."

With his newfound strength David decided to visit the room with 1 meter long bees and try to see if he could deal with a platoon of 20 bees since 20-22 of bees was the biggest group of bees he could see, using his sneaky tactics David was able to land a hit to one of the bees and to his surprise the bee just died on the spot, as the fight ensued, David realized that these bees were easy to deal with considering with his new spees he could dodge all their attacks and even land a hit in the middle, his previous fright of these bees became abysmally low, however after fighting a few groups he decided to go back to the safe zone and rest. After his initial burst of excitement, he realized that he was spent even though he felt very clearheaded and also physically fine, there was this strange feeling of powerlessness in his body.

Resting for the Day David decided that it was time for him to go back to clearing rooms and extending the safe zone, After a good nights or days sleep David realized that his previous powerless feeling was gone and he started grinding the bees, unlike the previous rooms this room would probably take about two weeks to clear at most.

David kept grinding the same room and after 2 weeks he had cleared out the whole room and even the 5 meter bee boss, the boss bee was a level 99 boss that was not that powerful, it had the ability to call a swarm of bees out of nowhere which shocked David and caused him to get stung and run away once but other than that the monsters physical power was even lower than the monkey boss' power.

As he finished up with the bee room, he saw a really similar corridor leading to a really similar room, this was another challenge room, David was sulking thinking that he would have to solve a stupid puzzle once again. Despite his woe, he entered the room, contrary to his expectations, the room wasn't a puzzle room, it was a survival room, there was a pedestal in the middle of the room, the writing on top of it said.

"After pressing the button, you will have to survive for 60 seconds, the time limit can be changed, 60 seconds is the bare minimum, the more monsters you kill, the better the reward will be, you have a total of 11 chances in this room"

Wanting to test the waters David started the trial with the bare minimum of 60 seconds. After a 5 seconds countdown, various monsters started to spawn, these monsters were only level 50 and were easily killed of by David until the time limit was up and he had killed 38 monsters in this small period of time.

"Cleared the lowest time limit, 38 kills, please take your prize by putting your hand on top of the pedestal."

David reached out and put his hand on the pedestal that reappeared after the trial was over.

"Your prize is 4 stat points"

After placing them one for each, David started asking what is the maximum time, will the monsters get mire powerful as time goes so on and so forth.

He learned that 1 hour was the maximum limit and every 15 minutes monsters would level up by 5. Other than this he learned that just by surviving 15 minutes one could get a better prize than killing 100 monsters in 60 seconds, so the trial was one of survival but killing was surviving would also grant you extra, David considered if he could go for the whole 60 minutes but didn't want to risk it, so he set the timer to 30 minutes and started the fight, after a measly 15 minutes of fighting David realized how taxing fighting was to both his mind and body, he was dodging 2-3 attacks every second and the explosive movements required to act out these scenarios was indeed hurting his body albeit slightly, not just his body but thinking into the future and dodging all these attacks also exhausted his mind too. He was able to barely last half an hour of non-stop fighting.

The last five to ten minutes weren't like the rest of the fight, first 20-25 minutes David was massacring 50-60 monsters every minute but as the minutes passed by that slowed down to 30-40 and after the levels of the monsters increased they became even harder to kill and it went down to 20 a minute and at the last few minutes David was taking a few hits and not landing a whole lot. After this dangerous ordeal of his ended he heard the system notification sound. *ding*