Diamond Flesh.
After returning back to the forest, Rune sat down and took stock of his collections of the previous few days.
Evolved Magical beast carcasses numbered in the twenties in his Storage Space. He brought up his system interface.
[Host → Rune Sachem ]
[ Race → human ]
[ Age → 12 ]
[Soul type → Silver ( upgradable)]
[ Soul strength → 97/100 ]
[Innate Attributes →
[ Void Walker→ 10 000 / 100 000 A ],
[Soul Smithing (detecting, purifying, smithing)]
[Runecraft ( Basic 98/100) ]
[System Manifestation Body → Primaeval Rune Dragon (dragonling) ]
[ Pet → Ridgeback Wolf (0/50 000 gold coins)]
[physical attributes]
[ strength → 9 999/ 10 000 Ec ]
[ speed → 9 999/ 10 000 Ec ]
[ agility → 9 999/ 10 000 Ec ]
[ resilience → 7 500/ 10 000 Ec ]
Skill interface
[artificing skill → 100 / 10 000 Ec ]
[sword skill → 7 400/ 10 000 Ec ]
[archery skill →86/100 ]
[Healing Attribute → 5 007/1 000 000 Ag]
[ System Store]
[Storage Space → 64 m³ (almost full)]
[ Points → 9 978 ]
[Wealth → 8 mana cores ]
[Shop → temporarily open ( 166 days left) ]
His physical attributes were about to level up. From the looks of things, his resilience was holding him back.
What should I do if I want to level up as soon as possible? My colleagues will soon surpass me once they join sects and get contracted to magical beasts. Rune anxiously asked the dragon which lay on the ground just a few steps away.
You need a skeleton of a weapon which you can buy from the system. Once you obtain that, the road to higher levels will be much easier. So for now, let's work with what we have against the 166 days left before the shop closes. The best way is to .....
Lenthandra outlined the course of action for him.
Rune converted all the magical beasts carcasses in his Storage Space into gold coins, which he immediately bought points with from the store.
Pop!
[ Points → 17.359 million points.]
Next, he upgraded his physical attributes to diamond level attributes.
He felt his spiritual strength deepening, its pool enlarging and becoming more purer. A dark black foul substances flowed from the pores of his body.
It smelt horrible.
"Ahhhhhhb!!!!"
His bones and teeth were crashed into pulp, leaving his body in a jelly-like state.
The pain was unbreakable. He stubbornly gritted his gums together but the pain never relented. It came on unceasingly until his bones were reformed from the purer spiritual energy. They now looked silvery in colour with a shiny appearance even from his soul sense.
Afterwards, his organs went a tremendous change. Their flesh was restructured, discarding the excess fat surrounding them to form the most efficient and robust of organs. After this was completed, he oozed a layer of porridge-like brown substance from his body.
Before he could feel relief, his flesh tinged and pain seared in brain. He fell unconscious unable to bear the continuous surges of the pain.
When he woke up later, it was already dark. His clothes were matted with all manner of foul substances.
"I have broken through into the Diamond Flesh Cultivation Level!" He shouted into the night sky.
Pop!
[Congratulations to the host for leveling up to the Diamond Flesh Cultivation Level]
Bring up my system physical attributes interface. He promptly instructed.
Pop!
[physical attributes]
[ strength → 0 / 10 000 000 Diamond Level ]
[ speed → 0 / 10 000 000 Diamond Level ]
[ agility → 0 / 10 000 000 Diamond Level ]
[ resilience → 0 / 10 000 000 Diamond Level ]
This system is pretty awesome! To think I was once a slave in another life and world hmmm .
Time to level up my skill set.
Lenthandra: No, first integrate with my body and then add your points where it will be necessary.
That's a good idea, I could be adding my points at the attributes and skills that are already covered by you. Let's do that then big girl.
The dragon snorted and flicked its tail in his direction. When the tail was just a few inches from his head, the whole dragon disappeared as he retrieved it.
He knew he was going to have a hard time after she is out and about. This wasn't over yet, far from it. A dragon's pride is as high as the skies, if not beyond.
[ System integration commencing in five seconds, the host is recommend to sit down]
Rune felt dizzy for a moment after the five seconds had passed. The integration was underway.
[Rebooting system]
[ Integration successful ]
Rune felt the changes as he brought up his interface.
Pop!
[Host → Rune Sachem ]
[ Age → 12 ]
[ Race → human ]
[ Cultivation Level → Diamond Flesh]
[Soul type → Diamond ( upgradable)]
[ Soul strength → 6.7 / 10 M ]
[Innate Attributes →
[ Void Walker→ 3.45 / 10.00 M Fe ],
[Soul Smithing (detecting, purifying, smithing)]
[Runecraft ( Complex 3.21 / 10.00 M) ]
[System Manifestation Body → Primaeval Rune Dragon (dragonling) ]
[ Pet → Ridgeback Wolf (0/50 000 gold coins)]
[physical attributes]
[ strength → 9 999 999 / 10 000 000 Diamond Level ]
[ speed → 9 999 999 / 10 000 000 Diamond Level ]
[ agility → 9 999 999 / 10 000 000 Diamond Level ]
[ resilience → 9 999 999 / 10 000 000 Diamond Level ]
Skill interface
[artificing skill → 100 / 10 000 Ec ]
[sword skill → 7 400/ 10 000 Ec ]
[archery skill →86/100 ]
[Healing Attribute → 5 007/1 000 000 A]
[ System Store]
[Storage Space → 1 024m³]
[ Points → 10 756 497 ]
[Wealth → 8 mana cores]
[Shop → temporarily open ( 166 days left) ]
Rune was elated at the interface before him. Almost everything had undergone some changes.
Now there was a cultivation level slot on his interface, clearly his diamond cultivation stage. He wondered if the system considered cultivation levels below the diamond too low to be granted a slot on the interface.
Rune: hmm my soul strength has also reached diamond, that's nice. I can now use my void Walker attribute for longer periods of time, which coincidentally had leveled up to iron level!
But the most exciting changes for Rune were the physical attributes and the runecraft attribute. Especially the runecraft which was very difficult to upgrade since it didn't follow the normal leveling.
It had been upgraded from basic to elemental, to precompound and then complex magical rune stage. A stage that usually took normal cultivators more than seventy years to master.
His physical attributes were just a brink away from leveling up to the jade body attributes!
If Sigrid was here, she would have been shocked. To even think that she was worried about him staying behind...
The last part was his storage space. It has expanded to more than a thousand cubic metres. That was a lot of space considering his Cultivation Level.
His skill set was falling behind. He didn't want to leave them behind.
Since he had the points, he upgraded his skills.
Pop!
[Skill interface]
[artificing skill → 100 / 10 000 000 Ag ]
[sword skill → 7 400/ 10 000 000 Ag ]
[archery skill →86/10 000 000 Ag ]
[Healing Attribute → 2 005 007/ 10 000 000 Fe]
[ Points → 2 756 497]
This was far much better. He felt a lot stronger than before. Like going into the world and challenge everything and everyone.
His past life experience reigned him in before his thoughts wandered too far. The strong shouldn't take advantage of the weaker, nor the rich of the poor. It was a painful lesson he had learned at the receiving end of that rope in his past life.
If anything, he would rather help the poor and the weak whenever he can!
The reason he didn't level up his cultivation level by adding points to the physical attributes was because of some incomprehensible explanations given by Lenthandra.
All he understood was it wasn't yet time to level up!
It was time to go hunting.