After searching throughout the hall of the tomb, he did not spot another sign of vegetation. He even tried used a piece of the skeleton onto the cloak and anything he could think of, but nothing appeared in front of his vision. He couldn’t even appraise the cloak to see it in more detail to know more about how it works. He assumed that only plants can be used for now. Even though his skill, vibration sense, can be used to scan underneath the rubbles and around the vicinity, he couldn’t find anything. As for the upper walls, he can’t search it, and even if he could, it was tough to climb it anyway.
“I should search somewhere else… suck that my mini map isn’t functioning anymore…,” He casually left the tomb once more. He walked back to where the entrance.
“Alright since the secret passage is nearby, but there is no point in going there unless I’m sure I can get past the snake. I should go through the other way. At least I can find something that can be useful.” After such thought, he decided to go to the standard 3rd floor, where he avoided when he got here instead of the secret hallway. He didn’t know what lays behind the dark tunnel, but he was confident that he could handle anything. The reason so was because after years of playing MINE, he did not think that it will be challenging as long as he was careful.
Heading to the unexplored tunnels, which branches from all direction that lead away from the ruin, Litz moved carefully.
"Vibration sense..." He quietly whispered to himself. His senses expanding towards the darkness. Sensing nothing moving, he paced forward with cautious.
"Vibration sense..." He whispered again after reached the end of the first scan. He repeated this way for sometime as he advanced.
'This skill is expensive, I already used most of my MP searching the hall." Each time he activated vibration sense, it will cost 11 MP as the MP bar decreased. Since starting, he had 100 MP, but now, he dropped to 23 MP.
"I should test that out now." Activating his skill once more to be safe, he sat down with his legs cross in the dark tunnel. The image of the skill, life breathing, was assimilated to his mind when he first received the class change. The V-CON mmo, MINE, used the technology to allow the transfer of data of physical body technique and integrated into the knowledge of the player, unlike equip spell, which can be used by saying it the spell out loud. Since life breathing required to be in a meditation state while breathing a certain way, it is considered a martial technique.
'Breath in'
'Breath out'
Litz's vein glowed bright green as his MP was slowly being restored. After an hour, his MP was at max.
"It is really slow... If I had some mana potions, this would go way faster." Even though it was slow, Litz thought of the pros of recovering it without resources. At such time like this, it was very useful.
He continued through the endless tunnel repeating the tedious task until he noticed something moving in the dark within his scan. He couldn't see the complete detail of it, but he could tell it was something huge. It was the size of a wolf walking towards him without making a sound.
"Shit, it knows!" He was aware of the danger of meeting something in such close space, but he gambled on it, hoping he could find something that was helpful, but he failed. Now his life was in danger.
'Dammit, this skill is not useful at this level. That monster seems to have a keen sense that was already coming and waiting for me to come close...' Litz turned around and ran distancing himself from it.
"Vibration sense!" Litz felt that it was chasing him. He could hear the hungry growl resonating into his ears. It knows that it was spotted and was going on the offensive.
"Fuck. Vibration sense!" He sprinted as he activated his skill. He turned left and right to find anything that can help him get away from it, but so far it was all nothing but endless tunnels one after another.
"Awooooahhhh!" It howled as it chased it preyed. Litz could hear the its paws and claws colliding with the hard ground as it ran closer.
"Vibration Sense!"
"Vibration Sense!"
He ran so much that he could feel the legs burning in pain.
"Vibration Sense!" He shouted to fight off the tiredness he felt. But he sensed something on next turn.
'This... This is it... my only chance.' Rushing towards with newfound might, he activated the skill once more.
"Vibration Sense!" The monster was inches behind him. As it was about to bite on to him. Litz turned his head around to see it's red eyes and bloody teeth. But before it could bite into him, Litz leaped into the pit underneath him. Unlike Litz, who jumped down, the wolf-like monster could see there were spikes everywhere so with great reflex, it jumped on the side wall and bounced off making it to the other side.
'Drrropp' Hearing that its prey had fallen into the pit, without looking back, it moved on forward looking for another prey.
'Pant...Pant...'
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"That was a close one..." Litz laid only on the ground as his body postured looked like an Egyptian dance narrowly avoiding the deadly giant spikes. With his vibration sense, he could see the placement of the spikes. Even though he landed with only some bruises and scratches, it shaved 60% of his hp.
Carefully getting up to avoid the spikes, he leaned on the side wall. Suddenly, his back felt a prick and he activated his vibration sense as it enveloped the area.
It was a flower that gave off a smelly fragrance. And there were enough that around him that the smell was overwhelming the pit.
'I should absorb this... hopefully, this give me a something...' Plucking the plant from the wall, he placed it on his chest for the cloak to absorb. The piece of the cloth of the cloak squirmed out as if it wants to eat it. A message popped in front of him.
[Pit Violet Iris has been obtained. Would you want the Cloak of Sha’ir to Absorb it? [YES/NO]]
Tapping yes, the cloak fully enveloped it until nothing was left.
[Recorded.]
[Equip skill gain, Thorn nail (Lvl. 1)]
“Thorn Nail…” From his tingly hands, purple thorn grew out from the tip of his fingers. “This is not as useful as I thought. Open Character Stats.”
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Name : Litz
Level : 1
Status
Class: False Immortal
HP: 100 MP: 100
STR: 1 INT: 1
DEX: 1 LUK: 10
Attributes
Body of Life essence (Lvl. MAX)
- Inability to gain experience from killing. Gained the ability to absorb life essence from living organism to grow
Skill
Life breathing (Lvl. 1)
- Slowly recover HP and MP.
Equip skill (Cloak of Sha’ir)
D - Vibration sense (MAX)
- Able to detect the surrounding beneath your feet up to 70 meters.
D - Thorn nails (Lvl. 1)
- Able to grow thorns on some parts of the body.
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“Hmm… there has to be more usage to this… what if I absorb more?” Seeing that it was level 1 skill, he picked one more of the Pit Violet Iris to see if anything changes.
[Pit Violet Iris has been obtained. Would you want the Cloak of Sha’ir to Absorb it? [YES/NO]]
Litz quickly tapped yes.
[Experience has been added to [Thorn nails]]
“So it does work!” With Litz new obtain information, he began to pick more of the flower and absorbed it into his cloak.
[Pit Violet Iris has been obtained. Would you want the Cloak of Sha’ir to Absorb it? [YES/NO]]
[Experience has been added to [Thorn nails]]
[Thorn nails has advanced to Lvl. 2]
[Pit Violet Iris has been obtained. Would you want the Cloak of Sha’ir to Absorb it? [YES/NO]]
[Pit Violet Iris has been obtained. Would you want the Cloak of Sha’ir to Absorb it? [YES/NO]]
…
[Thorn nails has advanced to Lvl. 3]
“After picking around 30 flowers, it only got to level 3. It seems to hard level it up unless I found a new batch of it. It is still better than nothing. Open Character Stats.”
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Name : Litz
Level : 1
Status
Class: False Immortal
HP: 100 MP: 100
STR: 1 INT: 1
DEX: 1 LUK: 10
Attributes
Body of Life essence (Lvl. MAX)
- Inability to gain experience from killing. Gained the ability to absorb life essence from living organism to grow
Skill
Life breathing (Lvl. 1)
- Slowly recover HP and MP.
Equip skill (Cloak of Sha’ir)
D - Vibration sense (MAX)
- Able to detect the surrounding beneath your feet up to 70 meters.
D - Thorn nails (Lvl. 3)
- Able to grow thorns from on parts of the body.
o Can grow on more area of the body
o Poison tip
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“Alright, I should get out of here. But first, I should recover my HP and MP.” On a smoothest floor he can find, he sat cross-legged as he began using the skill, life breathing.