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---------------Jonah's POV--------------
After I woke up and checked my notifications I looked around in the darkness. I wasn't able to see much, and my new skill, Gravitational Perception, wasn't really helpful, because it only picks up movement and not surroundings.
It was dark but not too dark, there were still some Manacrystals distributed through out the walls, which gave just enough light to see around me.
The walls were pretty high and the usual train station tunnel was gone. Is it different after the 50th layer? Eh, doesn't matter... It was some kind of cave with pillars randomly distributed though out the cave. The cave was around 20 meters wide and it seemed like it was just a big ass tunnel system-cave thingy... I just had to go deeper into the tunnel to get to the next layer.
There were no monster around me, but that wouldn't mean there are none around at all. You could never know what abilities the monsters in dungeon have. Some could make themselfes invisible... maybe?
So, I went in front of a high, pillar just around 10 meters high with some kind of pedestal on top of it. I hope I won't fuck it up.
I activated my skill Telekinesis and started to put my mana, for my weight, into the skill and started to push me up. First, I started with 81 kg then slowly made my way up to 90 kg. Luckily I don't fear heights ... not that I would see the bottom anyways.
After some seconds I safely reached the top of the pillar and moved myself on top of the flat pedestal I deactivated the skill and checked my mana. I only used around 2000 Mana, which would have been insane some hours ago, but now I still had more than 13000 left and it was regenerating at an insane rate.
Okay ... what do I do now? I have enough food to stretch for 3 weeks. Luckily I had to carry some of the food for the party. With food I can survive, but I want to survive more than 3 weeks, duh. So, I have to clear the dungeon ... great idea Jonah ... kill level 50 monsters as a level 5 noob ...
After I fully used my new INT and WIL stats to think about ways to survive, I came up with the best plan ever. I just had to kill so many monsters and get items that I could run through this dungeon and survive this shit ...
Nice plan Jonah ... okay let's not talk to myself, not even for fun, I don't want to actually get mental ill. Can I even get mental ill with a WIL stat of over 4500? I mean if you get 5 stat points per level that would have been more than 900 level ...
When I think about it ... why have I never heard of anyone absorbing these pools, to get so many stats?
To get my question answered, before trying to kill some monsters, I constantly checked my surroundings with my Dimensional Perception while scrolling though ALL my notifications. Even multitasking is easy now. Haha, that's great, maybe now I could try to play Piano? Okay, no useless thoughts!
I then checked my notifications and found some interesting stuff. Let's start from when I started absorbing mana...
Critical HEALTH Health below 10
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You are in contact with - Mana Pool (Pure) Do you want to absorb the Mana in the Mana Pool (Pure) ? YES/NO
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To prevent Jonah Bellwood's death -YES- has been selected
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Attention! Some of the absorbed mana was moved to assist your mana regeneration
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Your mana is regenerating so your body's self heal is strengthening
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5000 mana (pure) absorbed
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Your mana is Full so your body's self heal is on maximum strength
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Your HP reached the maximum amount.
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WARNING
Your body is absorbing too much mana and you will lose 1% of your maxmimum HP per 10 seconds
Estimated death in less than 110 seconds!
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5000 mana (pure) absorbed
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WARNING
HP below 50%
Estimated death in less than 60 seconds!
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WARNING
HP below 10%
Estimated death in less than 15 seconds!
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5000 mana (pure) absorbed
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WARNING
HP below 1%
Estimated death in less than 15 seconds!
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Congratulations
By absorbing the Mana Pool (Pure) 1500 INT and 4500 WIL has been added to your attributes.
Congratulations Because you absorbed more than 15000 Mana from a Pure source you got the Unique TRAIT - Mana Beast
Mana Beast
You are one with Mana and are able to change the way it influences your body.
25% of INT added to END (Endurance)
Willpower now not only influences your Mana regeneration, but it also influences your Health- and Stamina regeneration by the same amount.
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Even while reading my notifications, I stated to lightly sweat. Even though, I know I survived this shit, it was still pretty damn scary to read what exactly happened...
So basically... I was lucky? To summarize this shit. I was almost dead, the system started absorbing mana into my body. Some of this mana went into my own mana regeneration. With that, my REGENERATION stats started to rise. After that, I fully healed my body. Then, because I absorbed too much mana I... started to... die? Again...?
But before that could happen, I fully absorbed the mana in the pool and then got the trait Mana beast. Mana beast then healed my body with the new regen-stats? Yeah, I am allowed to sweat here. So that's why no one has ever done that ... no joke intended... anyways, I only survived because my own mana was low so some of the should-be-absorbed-mana was used. Otherwise those extra 100 mana would have killed me...
So that is why the trait is Unique. NO ONE WOULD DO SOMETHING SO STUPID...
After mentally calming down, I then wiped the sweat form my brow and proceeded with my masterplan. I just had to wait for a monster to show up in my surroundings and then I would have to throw something with telekinesis at it, until would die...
Like I said, best survivalplan ever ... not even the Bear Grylls could top that, heh.
I then took one of my, wow-that-stone-looks-nice stones that I randomly picked up on the street and put it into my dimensional storage, out of the stoage and looked at it. The stone was not even that beautiful, it was just smooth. Now I just had to wait for a monster to show up.
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I constantly checked my surroundings with my dimensional perception, so it didn't take long for the first lucky winner to show up. Let me check it's status first.
LUCKY ORC (Level 50) This is a special Orc that only exists once per dungeon. It is a present for the first lucky-or-not person to show up on layer 50. It gives bonus xp for the first person to kill it and is otherwise nothing special. Be careful because it's still an Orc.
Huh, it seems we are both lucky today buddy. I thought grinning like a madman. I will survive this shit even if I have to eat your flesh and drink your blood!