Life and death decision

The month had just started and he already advanced one layer, that was an amazing feeling. Advancing this quickly after being stuck at the first layer for ages, it just felt amazing. He was even suspicious that maybe he was just dreaming, it just felt surreal. He had just done months of cultivation in a day.

Tho he also felt like he lost something, he just couldn't describe it. But somehow he had the feeling that he had lost something very valuable. Still he chose to ignore it, the feeling of advancing quickly like that felt simply to good.

He even thought about how much he would have achieved if he would have been bornas beast. Forget being last place in the sect, if he was born as beast he would probably already been at soul core realm.

He was continuing to have such dangerous thoughts about how inferior humans were and how great it would be to be a beast permanently. Unaware that the system was secretly implanting those thoughts into his mind.

After thinking fir a while, he started to continue hunting he wanted to get stronger way stronger then ever before. He would use this chance as beast to reach realms that he would normally need years to achieve. He was completely addicted to hunting beasts and killed many of them.

Sadly most of them were at the first layer, lucas his cultivation barely increased from eating them. He wanted more, more food, more strength quicker progress. He completely familiarized himself with the body of the spider and learned it's strength and weaknesses.

Deer beasts, boars, even spiders fell victim to him. Soon he was at the 4th layer, he had to hunt beasts off even higher cultivation now to make significant progress. So he started challenging 5th layer and 4th layer beasts. But he often got wounded badly in those fights, but he ignored all those wounds and continued to fight.

5th layer

6th layer

7th layer

At this point it got harder and harder for him to advance his cultivation. 7th layer beasts were way harder to deal with and had incredible survival instincts. You could say that if a first layer beast was basically a child then a a 7th layer beast would almost be a mature beast.

Dealing with them was completely different, after all they actually managed to survive in this forest and were strong enough to hunt other beasts. You could say the beasts that survived that long were only the elites among beasts.

And now lukas was hunting these elites, he constantly failed. It was just to hard to actually kill them. This was the problem between his fighting style and a spiders fighting style. A spider would wait till a beast walked into their web. He was actively attacking beasts, he basically completely wasted the talents of the spider body.

But he had to do this, otherwise his progress wouldn't be this quick. He often ended up really wounded, but he had only 2 weeks left. He had to continue, he wanted to reach gold core realm before the 2 weeks end.

He was searching for another prey, when he suddenly got attacked. One of his legs got immediately bitten off from the Suprise attack. A giant spider had attacked him, it was atleast 2 meters tall and completely towered over lukas.

Lukas his heart sank when he recognized this spider. It was a brawling spider, a rare kind of spider that focuses on strength and defense instead of webs and poison. He felt confident in taking it down if he was the one sneak attacking, but now he was the one being sneak attacked.

Not to mention the spider was at the 8th layer one layer above him. Normally spiders wouldn't attack other spiders, but brawling spiders were very territorial they would attack everything that enters it's territory.

Lukas must have accidentally walked into the territory of this brawling spider. The only lucky thing was that lukas wouldn't need to fear it's poison. The poison of brawling spiders was extremely weak, it might affect other beast but spider beast could completely ignore it.

The brawling spiders resistance to poison was also weaker then that of other spiders. His only chance of winning this fight was by poisoning it and killing it before it would smash his body. He wanted to run but that was impossible, the brawling spider was one of the fastest spider beasts.

The moment he turned his back to the brawling spider he would surely die. He had to fight, and he had to win. He immediately rushed towards the spider and tried to bite it but it was useless, the brawling spider would just simply avoid his bites.

He was in a complete disadvantage in this fight. He was a spider beast that focuses on sneak attacks and was know in close combat with a beast that specializes in close combat. With his current methods he couldn't win this.

The only way to survive was points, he had amassed quite an amount of points over the last 2 weeks. It was actually an amount of 42 points. With the 14 points he already had before that would be 56 points. That was enough to learn a d grade technique, learning a technique that would save him in this situation was his only chance to survive.

But there was one problem, it had to be a technique that his current spider body could use. Otherwise he would just learn a technique that he couldn't use. So what techniques could spider's use the system didn't specify anything about that.

This was an really important decision if he chose the wrong technique he would die. He was hesitantly browsing through the techniques in the system,while trying to keep his distance from the brawling spider. What technique should he choose?