Chapter 14
Eight Hours Later...
Aaron was standing over a beast that his skeletons had just defeated. It is a level-15 Bear, but that's not what's exciting about this beast. It is a mutated beast.
What Aaron and his batchmates are in is an experience dungeon, where there would be no loot but only experience. One can easily level up using these dungeons but no one can live off these.
Without loot, no one can afford armour or weapons or food on their table. So dungeons that give loot are the main ones of importance, unlike these but experience dungeons play an important role during events like the exams.
So, while taking the exam, no matter the level of the beast that the students kill, what they would get would be only the EXP to level up and nothing else but there is an exception and that exception is lying dead in front of Aaron.
Mutated Beasts.
No matter where mutated beasts would give something else in addition to the experience. They don't follow the norms of the dungeons as they themselves are mutants and that means they themselves are not according to the norms of nature.
The EXP that Aaron earned from this kill is also more than what he would have earned from a normal level-15 beast.
The reason why Aaron is waiting by the dead beast is to see what reward would he get from this. It was not the same every time. It changes from beast to beast, kill to kill but what he knew was that he would get a skill, a weapon, a piece of armor or a blueprint.
The drop would be from these four categories and the drop would be something that would be useful directly or indirectly to the hunter. Also, it would be closely related to the mutant beast or the hunter.
Except for the blueprint, he would be content with whatever the category might be. Though it is broadly said to be a blueprint, the drop can also be a recipe for an alchemical product or even a food or something along the category.
He can't use them directly, except to sell them, which means he would be benefited indirectly. He doesn't care about the monetary value. He was more interested in increasing his strength above everything else.
If he has strength, he can easily earn whatever he wants.
After a few seconds, the body disappeared and an item appeared and that was a skill book.
"Fuck yeah", he shouted out loudly.
It was a skill that Aaron wanted most of all things.
Aaron is not a fool. He knew everything he did and does would be under the eyes of others. So if he buys something from shops, it wouldn't take a genius to know about that.
So if he buys a skill, others would know that he has that skill in his arsenal.
Weapons and armour can't be concealed as one has to be worn on the body and the other wielded by hand. One can easily see them and they can never be used as trump cards but skills are not easy to be seen by others.
They are the true trump cards of any awakened.
Now with a skill book in his hands, which no one would know about, he has a trump card. How long that will last, he has no idea but he would make the best use of it.
Since time was running out, he used the skill book.
[You have learned the skill, Death's Disguise.]
Aaron, immediately checked his status to check about the skill. The description would not be out in the open, except for the name when they touch the skill book.\
If it was a common skill, then the description would be on the internet or in books but a rare skill descriptions, no one would be dumb enough to upload them for everyone to see.
"Status"
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Name: Aaron Skyhart
Age: 18
Class/Profession: Death Mage, S-Rank
Rank: 0
Level: 10 >> 15
Talent: Super Growth (SS-Rank) (Unique)
Vitality: 50 >> 60
Strength: 50 >> 60
Stamina: 50 >> 60
Agility: 50 >> 60
Intelligence: 50 >> 65
Wisdom: 50 >> 65
Health: 500 >> 600
Mana: 500 >> 650
Skills/Spells: Summon Undead (40/40) (Rank 5); Death Lash (Rank 3); Sprint (Rank 3); Death's Disguise (Rank 0);
Free Status Points: 312 >> 562 >> 492
Skill Points: 161 >> 261
[Death's Disguise (Rank 0): Become synonymous with death. No life detection skills would be able to track you while the skill is active.
Mana Cost: 50 mana/minute]
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"Wow, just wow", Aaron muttered as he looked at the description of his skill.
Though it was not an attacking nor a defence skill, it is very useful to disappear from anyone's radar.
The skill would essentially make you disappear from almost all tracking skills. Most tracking skills are based on life, one way or another. So, if you are tracking someone and don't want them to know or escape from someone's detection who was tracking you, this skill is very useful.
Though the mana cost is very high, it is worth the cost. Also, the cost can be reduced as long as the rank of the skill increases. Aaron does have a lot of Skill Points. He can easily improve the rank of the skill if he wants to.
Even though that is the case, Aaron wants to make sure he makes the best use of those skill points instead of using them willy-nilly.
There might be some more useful skills that he would get his hands on in the future. So, he would check before making a decision whether to improve skill rank or not.
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Ding!
The timer has struck zero again and it is time to return from the dungeon.
As soon as the time turned zero, a portal appeared in front of Aaron and other students as well. No one can stay any longer in the dungeon.
The test is over.
Aaron retracted all his skeletons before stepping into the portal. he didn't want to alarm others with his skeletons. There are a lot of skeletons in his arsenal, more than what others at his level would usually possess.