"Hey, what's up with you, skeleton? Why are you standing still? Go fight the monsters!" A pleasant voice rings in his ears.

Alexander slowly opens his eyes, his vision gradually clearing. He finds himself surrounded by a dense forest filled with towering trees and unknown shrubs. The air carries a blend of plant and soil aromas.

Just then, he looks at his "hand" and freezes. It's a skeletal hand. All the flesh is gone, replaced by complex bone structures. His fingers are now just bones, and the joints are eerily hollow. A quick glance confirms that his entire body has turned into a skeleton.

He touches his cheekbone with his bony hand and feels only a cold, hard surface; no warmth, no softness.

A profound sense of unease and loss engulfs him, as if he has lost his essence and become an empty, soulless shell.

"WTF! Why am I a skeleton?"

Just then, a stream of information flows into his consciousness.

"Congratulations, host. You have successfully traversed to the game world and activated the God-level Evolution System."

"The system aims to help the host evolve infinitely. Beginning to load host data..."

"1% loaded..."

"2% loaded..."

"Data loading complete. Your current identity is a skeleton summoned by the undead player Sofia. Earn evolution points quickly, or you will disappear."

After hearing the system's introduction, he finally understands what has happened to him.

"I've been transported to a game world? I've turned into a skeleton? And I'm an undead skeleton summoned by a player? Plus, there's an evolution system?"

A minute later, Alexander gets past the initial shock and starts to accept his new reality. He sighs.

Before the transition, he was just an ordinary man with good gaming skills, known as a top-tier player. But after an injury at age 20, he had to settle for being a sparring partner at a gaming club. Overworked and sleep-deprived, he died suddenly.

Unbelievably, he's now in a game world, summoned as a skeleton by an undead mage player.

Name: Alexander

Level: 1

Race: Undead Skeleton (Owned by Player: Sofia)

HP: 100

Mana: 0

Attack: 2 (Bone blade +3)

Defense: 1

Weapon: Bone blade

Evolution Points: 0

Enhancement Points: 100

"Note: The host has a super evolution system. Kill monsters to earn evolution points. The direction of evolution is up to the host."

"Enhancement Points: Can be used to enhance equipment. Earned by killing elite-level monsters."

After examining his stats, Alexander quickly adjusts his mindset and starts planning.

The game has just gone public, and Sofia is an undead player whose most basic skill is to summon skeletons. She can summon 10 at a time to fight, which is her advantage over other classes.

But that's Sofia's advantage, not his. The moment skeletons are summoned, they're fodder, expendable beings.

But not for Alexander. If he dies, he might really be gone.

Since he's been given a second chance and owns an evolution system, even if he's a skeleton, he'll strive to be the best.

What he lacks now is attack power. His initial attack is too low.

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He decides to use his enhancement points. Since the system has gifted him with 100, he plans to put them to good use. He can't afford to have a shoddy weapon if he wants to stand out among the 10 skeleton soldiers.

"Upgrade the bone blade."

"Upgrading the bone blade requires 10 Enhancement points."

"Starting the upgrade, upgrade successful, the bone blade is now a Sturdy Bone Blade."

"Weapon: Sturdy Bone Blade (Common)"

"Attack Power +6."

"Description: The bone blade is much sturdier after the upgrade."

"Upgrade it again!"

"Congratulations, you've spent 20 Enhancement points. The Sturdy Bone Blade is successfully upgraded to a Sharp Bone Blade."

"Congratulations, you've spent 50 Enhancement points. The Sharp Bone Blade is successfully upgraded to an Explosive Bone Blade."

"Failed to upgrade again, not enough Enhancement points left."

"Explosive Bone Blade?" Alexander felt elated and quickly checked it out.

"Item: Explosive Bone Blade (Elite)"

"Attack Power: 15."

"Crit Rate Increased by 5%."

"Description: This upgraded bone blade is quite powerful."

"A blue elite quality above the common equipment? Plus, a 5% crit rate, I can now be more ferocious in battle."

Alexander, gripping the somewhat heavy bone blade, couldn't wait to try it out. He shook his head, looked around using his gaming experience; it's a habit he developed as a top player.

The sky was clear, and in front of him, a group of skeletons was attacking a skeletal wolf. Damage numbers floated: -1, -2.

Beside him, a stunning female player named Sophia was curiously staring at him.

"What's wrong with this skeleton? Is it dumb? Why is it moving its jaw? Does it think it can speak? Why is it so fixated on its blade?"

Sophia poked Alexander's bones with her wooden staff, intrigued. She had also been a seasoned player but had never seen anything like this.

Other skeletons, under her command, were fighting the skeletal wolf. Alexander continued to silently inspect his blade, as if contemplating life.

"Skeletons are supposed to be mindless. Why is this one thinking?"

"Maybe it fears death, so it's reluctant to fight?"

Sophia was puzzled. When she followed Alexander's gaze to the blade in his hand, she felt surprised.

"This blade seems different."After hesitating, she shook her head, "Must be my imagination."

The next moment, Alexander moved forward slowly, reached the battlefield of skeletons and the skeletal wolf, and slashed at the wolf's neck.

"Crack!"

"Crit!"

"-57!"

A red crit number appeared.

The Explosive Bone Blade triggered a crit with double damage. A neck attack had double damage, resulting in triple damage!

Killing the skeletal wolf with only 50 HP left, he even exceeded by 7 points.

"Congratulations, you've killed the skeletal wolf and gained 10 experience points."

"Gained 10 evolution points."

"Congratulations, you've leveled up to level 2, HP+10, Attack+1, Defense+1."

"I can actually earn experience and level up like a player?"

Evolution points can evolve himself, upgrade points for his weapon, and experience allows him to level up like players; this is a threefold increase!

The increase may be small now, but it'll multiply as he levels up.As a summoned creature, he has greater growth potential than players.

"Splat!"

With another powerful slash, boosted by the high attack of his explosive bone blade, he deals 20 points of damage, taking away nearly half of one skeleton wolf's health.

Although he didn't score a critical hit or hit a weak point, it's still pretty devastating. The scene leaves Sophia utterly shocked.

"Oh my God, this skeleton is incredible!" Sophia exclaims.

One hit lands a critical strike, dealing 57 points of damage and killing a skeleton wolf instantly. Another ordinary hit, without triggering a critical or hitting a weak point, still deals 20 points of damage.

She looks at the damage dealt by other skeletons she summoned: "-1," "-2," "-1." It's pathetic.

"Is this skeleton a mutant? I've never seen this in all my years gaming. 57 points of damage is ten times higher than the damage from most players at this stage!"

"His blade...is really different," she mutters, logging onto the game forum to find player guides.

Despite the game being new, thousands of posts have appeared in just 10 minutes. Sophia searches for a while but doesn't find the info she needs. The posts only hint that anything is possible in this game world.

Frustrated, she knows this skeleton must be a mutant. Not only is the blade unusual, but its killing technique is also different.

The skeleton intentionally targets the wolves' necks—a weak point for undead creatures. And he's accurate more than half the time.

"-42!"

"Snap!"

"Congratulations, you've gained 10 evolution points,"

"Congratulations, you've gained 10 experience points," "Congratulations, you've leveled up: +10 HP, +1 attack, +1 defense."

Another wolf falls to Alexander's blade. He's killed ten wolves and reached level 3. But he retreats.

The other, weaker skeletons fighting with him are all dead. Some were killed; others vanished as their summon time expired.

He realizes he's no ordinary summon; he didn't vanish after a set period. But that's not why he retreated. He's too slow—aggravatingly slow. Three seconds per attack.

Hiding behind Sophia's weaker summons, he could kill. Now they're gone, and taking on the wolves would be risky due to his low defense.

He checks his attributes, pondering whether he can evolve.