Jade hadn’t noticed how much he was sweating, the moment he heard the IP’s message he knelt down on the floor panting as a he felt a mild headache. He didn’t realize how much concentration it had taken to beat the ape. The fight had lasted 1 hour and 34 minutes.

He looked at his en-code stats and noticed that his encode had decreased at a much greater rate than it ever did before

[En-code state:

Strength: 105, 273,928/1,000,000,000

Agility: 98,708,567/1,000,000,000

Stamina: 99,245,391/1,000,000,000

Durability: 165,263,988/1,000,000,000

Intelligence: 0/100,000,000,000

Senses: 0/1,000,000,000

Energy: 0/100,000,000,000

Unattributed: 459,962,595/205,000,000,000]

Jade thought as he started packing the corpses of the monsters ‘As expected, if I don’t try to break through my limits my en-code won’t be consumed, Rank 7s are perfect for me then. But this really sucks, even after busting my ass I can’t get enough encode for an instant improvement even if I wanted to go that route, I’m in desperate need of training.

My weapons are good but since I can’t use my body to its full potential I’m limited and I really need to find a better use of my energy, I don’t like that I couldn’t find a way to use at least 30% of it in one attack. I would’ve been able to one shot the ape.

The ape could use its aura very well if you compare it to how I use my energy; the only thing going for me is that I can teleport. I wonder how powerful it would be if it could use all colors of aura… No, if it could use 3 colors I wouldn’t have been able easily to beat it’

The IP spoke while Jade was wallowing in self depreciation ‘Congratulations on becoming a Rank 7 (Superior) Primordial Human. You can choose 1 out of the selection of the privileges shown’

[Rank 7 privileges

Hunter’s Perception: shows the user the information of all the creatures within a 70 mile radius. It gives the user information about the creatures such as the Rank, traits, kill en-code, job and the stats of the creatures under the condition that the creatures are not more than 5 Ranks above the user or has a information hiding privilege activated and is the same or higher in Rank than the user.

If the previous conditions aren’t met the user will either get false or partial information. The distance it can scan increase by 10 miles for every Rank increase above Rank 7 and information detail also increases as the user increases Rank.

Hunter’s Camouflage: gives the user the ability to falsify its information from the IP of creatures around it and a user of a inspection privilege that is not more than 3 Ranks above it. The Rank limit reduces by 1 Rank for every Rank increase above Rank 7]

Jade thought ‘Only hunter skills, so humans can’t create spawns… no, is it more like hunters can’t create spawns? IP why do I only have hunter skills as options? Did I just pass the hunter exam?’

The IP responded ‘Your job has been changed to Hunter that is why you have only Hunter privileges as options, if you wish to change your job, change your survival habits and reach Rank 15. The Hunter job is given to creatures that don’t have a fixed territory and have killed more than 22 races of creatures within a month of reaching the required Rank for a job.

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The Rank 7 monster you encountered had the Conqueror job and the Conqueror’s Spawn privilege; it grants it the ability to create devolved versions of itself with its blood, external materials and its unattributed en-code.

The spawns provide double the amount of en-code the monster would get from a kill. Conquerors and their spawn do not gain en-code by killing creatures that are more than 2 Ranks below them; it is a drawback of their job’

‘That explains why ape waited for me to kill a Rank 6 monster before coming out, it was trying to get double profit. DAMN! Why the hell am I not a conqueror?!’ Jade thought ‘Anyway, I have to pick a privilege.

My space mapping ring can give me the location of monsters and a vague idea of their energy constitution, Hunter’s Perception is way better than it… now, in the future my space mapping earring may overtake it as I improve on it.

For Hunter’s Camouflage, I didn’t know that monsters could see my Rank the same way I see theirs, no wonder some of them run away, but if I encountered a monster that was Rank 7 and the IP said it was Rank 6 or less, I would probably underestimate it reflexively and pay dearly for it.

Also, I don’t have a way to falsify my Rank information so if a monster or person has Hunter’s Perception and I have the same and I am not 5 Ranks above that creature, which means there is a possibility the creature is stronger than me and at best it will be as strong as me, it will be able to see a bunch of information about me, even if the creature doesn’t fight me, the information can be given to something or someone that can use it to kill me.

And the best thing about Hunter’s Camouflage is that it will increase the Rank of creatures I can hide from as I increase my Rank, so I will be able to hide my information from creatures that are 4 Ranks above me when I get to Rank 8 which is just lovely. We have a winner, IP I want Hunter’s Camouflage’

‘Acknowledged, you now have the Hunter’s Camouflage privilege, you can now edit the information you want other creatures to receive while hunters privilege is active’

[Rank 7 (Superior) Primordial Human

Traits: (Superior) Primordial Human (homo primum superus) – the primordial human(homo primum) is the unadapted, original form of the human race, before they adapted to their planet, the species possesses physical qualities that are superior to humans but lesser mental qualities compared to them. The species has a much longer life span than humans. The species gives of an aura that scares creatures with low intelligence.

Due to the vast amount of En-code and your previous stats, the traits of the species have been altered to make a superior version of the race: the species now has a far higher mental quality than the human race. The species now has an energy producing and storing organ (unbiased) and an improved anabolism and metabolism.]

[Stats:

Strength: Low (intermediate)

Agility: Low (intermediate)

Stamina: Low (intermediate)

Durability: Low (intermediate)

Intelligence: Low (high)

Senses: Low (high)

Energy: Intermediate (low)

Job: Hunter

Kill en-code: ~25,000,000 en-codes]

Jade’s eyes bulged when he saw his kill en-code ‘What?! My en-code bounty is so low! It’s not even as high as a warlord’s bounty, it’s even lower than the en-code of the monster I just killed… wait, I could only kill the Rank 7 monster because of my spatial devices, so at the end of the day I’m weaker than the Rank 7.’

Jade checked the information of the Ancestral Aura Ape’s stats and found that it had a High (low) strength and agility the maximum encode for its strength and agility was 800 million.

‘Of course, my items don’t count when measuring my en-code, whoever kills me can just take them anyway’. Jade changed his information, this was his new profile:

[Rank 1 Human

Traits: If you can see this section it means you have Hunter’s Perception right? Fuck off before I kick your ass!

Stats

Strength: funny,

Agility: you

Stamina: are

Durability: still

Intelligence: looking.

Senses: you about to get

Energy: really dead.

Job: Serial Killer (I’m not a terrorist, don’t believe what the news said about me)

Kill en-code: Trust me I have an Emperor Class bounty :)]

Jade looked at his new profile and smiled ‘Now monsters will think I’m a pushover, I don’t want them running away from me when they notice I’m a Rank 7.

Judging by the lack of undead and other monsters in the ape’s territory maybe the ape just killed all of them… who knows’

When Jade finished packing the bodies, it was already night time and for the first time ever Jade felt sleepy. He slept in a partially destroyed building a few meters away from the ape’s territory with his auto dodge system kept on.