“Oh, man. I’m tired.” Adrian said as he stopped dragging the [Archimantis Occisor]’s corpse. As it was a rare monster, he thought of bringing it to the campsite and ask for it once he went to Czecheri. “Arghhh.” Adrian half-grunted half-sighed when he looked at his [Status]. He was close to leveling up, and his sixth sense told him the next level would be special. As a matter of fact, he was just bullshitting in order to ease this task a bit. The thing about dragging corpses is that time perception doesn’t help. “Better be juicy, this reward.”

While Adrian did his tugging shenanigans, he thought of ways to obtain more experience from the Class Advancement Overview. At the moment, he had gained experience from [Ultimum Celeritas] and [Time Dilation II], which both were abilities unlocked after becoming a Time Weaver.

“Motherfucker!” Adrian cried as he noticed something. “Why the hell [Rampage] didn’t give me any experience?” Adrian recalled that the [Skill] was created thanks to one of the spells that were given with [Time Magic]. “Ah, no I’m just a fucking idiot.” And then remembered that [Rampage] was created with [Kill Streak] and [Fast Stab]. “It was [Court of the Broken King] that consumed the other time spell.” Adrian didn’t even remember the name of the spell as it was short-lived. Literally. He hadn’t even used that magic. “I am walking on circles,” Adrian spoke metaphorically as he was dragging the mantis in a straight line. “I need experience to unlock CBK,” He said to abridge the mouthful of [Skill] that it was CBK. “But CBK is one of the three ways I had to gain more exp from the Class Advancement Overview.” Adrian couldn’t help but sigh once again.

Changing time perception to the old gooseplanks lifetimes made things more enjoyable, but Adrian still needed to do the hard work. It was interesting as to his own perspective; he suddenly applied the same force in half the time. Physically speaking, that wasn’t the case. But to Adrian, to seconds passed instead of one. Adrian thought that Einstein’s relativity may take place here but hastily discarded the idea. The only things Adrian knew about light physics were how to calculate the frequency or relative time to lightspeed. There were some things still there, but even if Adrian enjoyed his physics class when he was a student, that was a long time ago.

Even then, he had forgotten a lot of the formulae and he wasn’t exactly a human calculator, so everything he could theorize or compute, wouldn’t be exactly reliable. The old relative time formula wouldn’t apply to its case even if he wanted. That formula used speeds to resolve the time dilation, and Adrian knew [Celeratio], and more specifically [Ultimum Celeritas], didn’t work that way. He could dilate his own time, but there may be any speed to factor if he stayed still. The lesson of the day: Record couldn’t care less about old relativity.

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“Didn’t I pass Physics by the length of a hair?” Adrian recalled his notes at high school. “I may be speaking nonsense here…”

Adrian kept himself from rumbling until he arrived at the campfire. These days at Mundompio had magnified his sense of geolocation greatly. Sure, the river did help him find the way, but it was a little prowess finding the site every time he delved into the sea of trees.

“What the fuck?” Aby asked the man dragging a man-sized insect corpse.

“Oh, hey there. What a welcoming greeting.” Adrian saluted Aby.

“What are you doing?” Aby cried at him.

“Just some jogging, you see.” Adrian trotted a bit to show her.

“I mean with the body!” Even if she knew Adrian was joking, it wasn’t the commonest thing to do so while still grabbing the corpse.

“I killed this bad boy now,” Adrian explained. “It was an epic battle that exuded emotion, anger, angst, and finally, glory…” He liked to be dramatic once in a while. “The glory was mine, obviously.”

“Relax a bit.” Axel told. Adrian didn’t know if he told that to him or to Aby, but both of them chilled out.

“Well,” Adrian started. “This looks like an evolved version of the mantises. It was level 11, so I theorized that mantis evolves at level 10.”

“Like some Pokémon?” Dale asked.

“Perhaps.” Adrian responded.

“Actually,” Mike explained. “Pokémon evolving is a misconception. They suffer a metamorphosis, an individual change, and not evolution. Evolution is a constant process that affects generations.” He lectured with his professor's vibe.

“Right,” Adrian said. “Its name was [Archimantis Occisor]. What can you tell us, walking atlas?”

“Firstly, I am no atlas. I just know some concrete things that casually appeared here.” Mike told Adrian. “And secondly, I don’t know what the name means. I just know some Latin conjugation and vocabulary.”

“Yeaaah,” Adrian elongated greatly the a. “Either way, that monster was powerful. It ambushed me so I couldn’t use my stealth related abilities.”

“Are you okay?” Aby asked him with wariness.

“Now you asked about my wellbeing?” Adrian said as he stared at the woman. “But, yes. I am fine, thank you.”

“Did it fly?” Dale questioned after he saw the wings of the evolved mantis.

“Sort of,” Adrian responded. “It used them to assist in jumps and air control, but not a true flight.”

“Now, the million-dollar question.” Dale started. “How many experience?” He asked as he rubbed his hands like some evil capo.

“Eight-hundred.” Adrian answered blatantly, no jokes whatsoever.

“Holly molly!” Dale said in awe. “That’s eight mantises in one hunt.”

“Oh, yeah the mantises,” Adrian said as he collected the other arms into the sack where he had the four that he had just collected. “Should we get going?” Adrian asked Kayle and Mike.