A Girl With A Stick

Arthur took out the monster core in the crocodile's body. It was warm, he could feel the abundant spiritual energy hidden within it.

"You can directly absorb the energy to increase your spiritual essence," said Jean.

"Of course, since spiritual energy is the source of all elements, it can also help improve your understanding of your other attributes as long as you focus on them."

Arthur nodded, he started to use the power of his heart to absorb the energy within the core.

Immediately after that energy flowed out of that core and entered his body.

Within his body, the energy was quickly absorbed into his heart without the slightest bit of trouble.

Each monster core had multiple uses, but no one used it that way. People usually use it as an energy source for things that require energy or be refined into potions. Even after it becomes a potion, it can only be used to recover lost energy. If one wanted to use it to increase spiritual essence, there were more processes required.

Absorbing spiritual energy in nature is even more difficult because everyone has a limit to the area that can be absorbed. Nature was too vast and spiritual energy was scattered everywhere.

Basically, power is expensive.

However, for him who could absorb energy from monster cores, the price of power could be said to be many times cheaper.

The monster's core quickly crumbled to ashes as it ran out of energy.

He looked at the stats again.

[Spiritual Essence: 2.6] +0.3

Warriors:

[Body Attack: 2.4] +0.1

[Body Speed: 2.5] +0.1

Mages:

[Shadow: 2] +0.1

[Wind: 2.4] +0.1

...

"It's not much," Arthur said.

"It's only a level 6 core, the energy is too little for you," replied Jean.

"I see. Erm, it's more comfortable now since my spiritual essence is the highest."

When his spiritual essence is lower than his other attributes, it makes his energy run out faster when he unleashes an attack because he has an attack that exceeds his strength.

"By the way sister Jean, can I keep this crocodile corpse?" Arthur asked.

The crocodile's corpse could still be sold, but he thought of keeping it as a trophy since it was the first monster he had killed.

Only, the space inside the ring was where Jean and the others lived, he naturally couldn't put dirty things down without permission. The room might be very wide, but he felt like it wasn't a big place for Jean and the others.

After he asked that, he saw that Jean was almost laughing.

"You have control of the ring, put whatever you want in it," she said, touching his head and rubbing his hair a few times.

"..."

Arthur laughed sheepishly as he realized he was being too innocent.

After stuffing the crocodile's corpse into the ring, he swam into the tunnel cautiously because Jean had said that he might encounter more monsters later.

Inside that tunnel, the pressure was much heavier, but due to his affinity with water, he didn't feel too bad.

Luckily there were no monsters in the tunnel, maybe because it was still the territory of the swamp.

The further he went into the tunnel, the less water there was.

When there was no more water, he saw ten fairly large eggs.

"Crocodile eggs..." He quickly gathered them and put them in his ring.

One crocodile monster egg can be sold for at least 15 dollars because even though there are many crocodiles, it is not easy to find their eggs.

Moreover, he faintly saw a light in front of him.

He walked towards the light. After walking for about 100 meters, he finally saw the end of the tunnel. There's another crypt there.

He immediately quickened his pace.

'That should be the dungeon's core region and this tunnel is a secret passage to the core region.' He had guessed it when he crossed the tunnel.

There were always secret passages especially in low-level dungeons, but finding one wasn't easy. Those who find it can pass through many dangers and come straight to the place where the main treasure is hidden.

As he arrived at the end of the tunnel, he could finally see the crypt.

It's not very spacious, but it's structure enough.

Several torches hung on the wall, each emitting a very bright light.

There were several other tunnels, but what was more interesting was the large gate that seemed to be tightly locked.

The gate was obviously a normal pathway entrance and it should have been guarded by a boss monster.

He didn't go straight into the crypt because he sensed the monster aura in the tunnels, he continued to observe the dungeon.

In the center, there is a statue of a man.

His right hand held a scroll while his left hand held a pearl. Although it wasn't very big, the light was brighter than the torches.

"This is a spiritual pearl, I heard the lowest price can reach 25,000 dollars." Arthur's eyes shone brightly.

He took a deep breath.

With a knife ready to be slashed in his hand, he leapt into the crypt.

Right after that, he heard the screeching of bats from one of the tunnels. Immediately after that dozens of them slid out of the tunnel.

"Mmm..."

Arthur quickly formed dozens of boomerangs with his wind. With a wave of their hand, they glided toward the bats.

After their bodies were cut off, two snakes that were more than 4 meters long appeared and immediately lunged at him with their mouths wide open.

"Hmm, you guys seem to be only level 4," Arthur said.

The wind that coated his blade became thicker and bigger.

The moment he slashed the blade, two wind blades up to one meter long shot out from the blade.

*Whooss*

They easily cut the bodies of the two snakes, making them die instantly.

As Arthur prepared for his next attack, an extremely loud bang suddenly sounded from the locked gate.

He was surprised, "is someone up against the boss?"

*bang*

*bang*

It echoed again and again, perhaps a huge creature smashed into the gate very hard.

"I have to finish this quickly." Arthur knew that someone strong had entered this dungeon.

Several more monsters appeared, but he ignored them. He immediately ran off the statue at full speed.

With one touch, the statue was sucked into the ring on his finger.

*crack* *crack*

After that, space began to crack very quickly. Every time the main treasure in the dungeon was taken, it would collapse and the people inside would be sent out.

The scenery of the outside world immediately appeared.

Arthur appeared where the dungeon portal was with the others.

He was slightly surprised when he discovered there were about ten times as many people as before. Added up, they probably reached 200 people, each one looking shocked.

"The dungeon has collapsed, who has defeated the boss?" People wonder.

"It's not easy to beat the boss, even me, who is level 10 can only run in front of the boss."

"Looks like someone skilled has stepped into this dungeon."

People started staring at each other, trying to find out who it was.

At this time, a group of men of large stature suddenly came. They were wearing suits, their auras were stronger than everyone else's combined.

"Get out of the way, get out of the way," they shouted to the crowd.

They entered the crowd with hasty steps.

Of course, anyone with eyes knew they were from a strong background, so people quickly went to the side until an empty area opened.

However, there was one person who was still standing on the spot.

It was quite surprising since she was only a young girl.

Arthur thought she was the same age as him, but she wasn't tall, her head probably only reached his shoulders. She has short white hair and wears a hat like a military beret.

There may be a problem with her right leg because her hand is holding a stick to support her body.

"Miss," the big men greeted her respectfully.

One of them said, "Congratulations miss, you have successfully cleared dungeon level 1."