The Skeleton Walker was once again introduced to a similar layout to the previous level. With affirmation that simply following the given pathing was enough to reach the stairs that would guide him to new places, the Skeleton Walker moved forward with its spear and shield. It knew how to use the spear, however, the shield was foreign causing it to swing the shield around trying to figure out its use.

As it moved forward, it once again saw a slime a few distance away. The sound of the Skeleton Walker’s movement alerted the slime which immediately focused its attention to the Skeleton Walker. Preparing to stab the slime’s core as it leaped forward, the Skeleton Walker was instead greeted with a quick projectile causing light corrosion damage to the part hit.

Staring at the damaged bone, another attack from the slime came but this time the Skeleton Walker instinctively blocked the attack with the shield. With this action, a new notification popped up.

> “You have discovered Ranged Attack. You have discovered Blocking. You’re understanding of fighting has increased.”

Using its newfound skill, the Skeleton Walker pushed forward blocking a few of the slime’s attacks before reaching the slime and stabbing its core, slaying it. The name of this new slime was Spitting Slime. The Skeleton Walker recalling the first time its legs had dissolved copied its position during that moment, thereby sitting down on the ground to wait for the attacked parts of its body to regenerate.

This short fight gave the Skeleton Walker a new idea in fighting, which it decided to test out on its next encounter. Wary of its experience with multiple slimes, the Skeleton Walker moved forward putting caution on the number of slimes before deciding to attack the first slime it saw.

A few minutes later, the Skeleton Walker came upon a group of three Spitting Slimes. Deciding to test out its new idea, The Skeleton Walker threw its spear toward the slimes completely missing each of them. The thrown spear alerted the Spitting Slimes to the Skeleton Walker's presence, immediately facing their enemy and launching their attack.

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With the spear close to the slimes, the Skeleton Walker pushed forward with its shield blocking whatever projectile it could before reaching the closest slime and bashing it with its shield. Unfortunately, this did no damage to the slime which was highly resistant to blunt force. Without any other option available the Skeleton Walker performed a stab with its hand successfully piercing the slime's body and into its core slaying it.

Having sustained multiple minor damages to its body, the Skeleton Walker hastened itself, performing a sprint for the first time towards the next slime hitting it again with its shield as it had noticed that while the shield strike did no damage, it stopped the slime from attacking. Using this short period of inactivity from one of the slimes, the Skeleton Walker grabbed its spear lying on the ground and stabbed the other slime destroying its core. Quickly it turned around and stabbed the last slime it had bashed ending the fight.

> “You have discovered Advanced Movement.”

Within a short period, the Skeleton Walker had once again discovered a new concept. Making use of this discovery, it ran forward following the path before coming onto a split path. Standing still, the Skeleton Walker thought to itself “Where should I go?”. This question bothered it, causing it to sit down and wait. Waiting for something to guide where it should go.

While waiting, the Skeleton Walker noticed that the spear it was equipping had worn down to the point of nearly crumbling into pieces.

> “You now have an understanding of Equipment Durability.”

With this new understanding, the Skeleton Walker dropped the spear and went back to the previous floor. Reaching the second floor, it picked up spears it had dropped and also replaced the shield by borrowing it again from one of its kind.

Now back to its former location, the Skeleton Walker decided to go towards the left path. With two spears, one held together with the shield, the Skeleton Walker decided to practice throwing on any Spitting Slimes it encountered. Throwing the first spear, and when it missed switching to the other one and rushing the slimes. It continued this process until reaching the stairs that led to the next floor.