Chapter 8: A Silent Understanding with the Chimera

Chimera: [He heard his summons to contact his master that night].

Eric: [She saw herself strike out at the other skeletons tonight.]

Chimera: [This skeleton ...]

Eric: [This chimera ...]

Chimera/Eric: [Must die!]

A skeleton and a chimera, highly unified in purpose in this instant.

"Shadow Burst!"

Tris raised her hand, and a sharp black thorn rose from the ground and stabbed Eric.

Eric's legs moved like chimera steps, nimbly dodging the attack of the blackthorns.

"Hmph, Shadow Binding!"

Tris laughed coldly, and then, the hard and sharp blackthorns softened, like a rope, and wrapped around Eric.

"Incinerate."

Eric swung his sword, and flames covered the entire bone sword in an instant.

Because it was a bone sword formed from his ribs, the magic power was transmitted to the entire sword body unhindered.

The bone sword blazed with fire and cut out a rather magnificent blow with a bursting sound.

A pitch-black rope was chopped off.

"Fire magic! How is it possible, aren't you a low-ranked skeleton!"

Tris was shocked.

No one knew the ferocity of the dormant skeleton until he bared his fangs.

Eric stabbed hard at Tris's heart.

Caught off guard, Tris gathered her contempt and lifted her wings to fly high into the air.

So what if she knew fire magic, as long as she was in the air, she was invincible.

She was going to show her true skill and nimbly solve this weird skeleton.

How could Eric give her the chance to fly?

The bone sword in his hand once again wriggled and grew, transforming into a sharp and slender spear.

Then, holding the spear with his left arm, [Giant Power Unleashed].

The flames in his eye sockets burned fiercely, and he threw the spear fiercely.

The spear covered in ghostly blue flames drew an inconspicuous blue line in the air and violently pierced through Tris' pair of bat wings.

Before the chimera could even react, it fell to the ground.

"Swampify!"

Eric's eyes were quick, and with a clap of his hands, he pressed his hands into the ground, as earth and water magic were simultaneously activated.

The ground that Tris fell towards turned into a swamp in an instant, engulfing Tris without making much noise.

At this moment, Tris finally realized the danger, she didn't care about the consequences and opened her mouth, wanting to call out to the other chimeras to get attention.

But she had only just opened her mouth when a stream of sticky mud mixed with water drilled into her open mouth.

 No yelp came out.

Eric stepped forward and grabbed the chimera by the neck, the sharp claws transformed by the end knuckles slicing sharply across the throat.

Blood spurted out.

Eric didn't feel any discomfort, at first until the chimera's body stopped struggling and lost its temperature, Eric let go.

Looking at the chimera's marvelous body soaked in the swamp, without any fear or discomfort Eric couldn't help but think.

Perhaps the moment he was transformed into a skeleton by Pound, he had lost something of what made him human forever.

But soon, Eric's little depression was washed away by the cute numbers jumping on the panel.

[Ding, killed a low-level Chimera, experience +1400]

[Ding, experience value is full, leveling up to lv8.]

[Ding, experience value is full, level up to lv9.]

[Free attribute points +2]

After thwarting the chimera's body, Eric unleashed earth magic and restored the ground that had turned into a swamp to its original state.

Then, cleaned up the scene.

After all, chimeras were an intelligent species, and a missing chimera might not be as easy to deal with as a missing skeleton.

Next, he retrieved his ribbed spear and cauterized it with a flame to get rid of the blood on it.

Then he turned the ribbed spear into the form of a rib, aligned the break, and reattached it.

You can't throw bones around, you'll lack calcium.

Then Eric left the scene and transformed back into the dull mongrel low-ranked skeleton.

He also summarized the shortcomings of tonight's action.

After mastering magic, he became too confident and careless before he was detected by the chimera.

One should know that in the past, he had carefully followed, staked out, and waited for his target to fall asleep before carefully striking.

After possessing the ability to be able to easily solve his target, he became paralyzed and careless.

That had to change or it would happen again sooner or later.

Eric thought about his shortcomings in this area as he wandered.

Tris's disappearance didn't seem to have caused much of a stir.

Perhaps a low-level demon wasn't as important or conspicuous to Pound and Lucia as one might think.

Still hunkering down carefully, Pound and Eric didn't go out hunting other skeletons for several days at a time.

Only after the first week had passed and it was determined that Tris's disappearance didn't cause any concern did he continue to go out hunting.

Eric still wanted to stay dormant for a while longer.

However, time waited for no one.

If Tris's agreement with that master of hers was still in place, it wouldn't be more than a few days before that master of hers' crusade would hit.

That was the time that one's song was waiting for, and once one missed it, one didn't know when there would be another such opportunity.

So, to seize the fleeting opportunity, the necessary adventure was also important.

But to take risks, one had to be more cautious.

Eric carefully scouted for skeletons and hunted them.

Maintaining the amount of two or three skeletons hunted per day, Eric finally, on the third day, raised to lv1.

[Name] Eric-Pound

[Race] Low-level Skeleton

[Level] lv10/lv10 (Low-level skeleton level cap is lv10)

[Profession] None

[Strength] 10/10

[Physique] 13/10

[Spirit] 10/10

[Free Attribute Points].

[Evolutionary Requirements] Racial evolution can be achieved with full points in Strength, Constitution, and Spirit.

[Evolutionary Path] Low-level Earth Skeleton, Skeleton Swordsman, Low-level Ocean Skeleton ...

[Skills] Bone Change lv1, Appraisal lv1, Mega Strength lv1, Swiftness lv1, Footsteps lv1, Swordsmanship lv1, Elemental Endurance lv1, Fire Magic lv1, Water Magic lv1, Earth Magic lv1

[Status] Enslaved, Bone Deterioration

[Experience Value] 1120/1000 (Upgraded after evolving and choosing a profession)

[Description] A low-level skeleton that has mastered magic, possesses low-level elemental patience and has mastered introductory swordsmanship, underestimating him will cost him, he can probably last another 8 years before crumbling and falling apart.

Eric didn't hold a lv2 skill.

According to his observation, only middle-ranked skeletons above lv10 and chimeras held lv2 skills.

Lv2 skills, which were at the same level as first-order magic, could not be grasped by unprofessional low-ranked skeletons below lv10 and below.

Eric wasn't in a hurry to evolve and choose a profession.

Hell knows what will happen to his appearance after evolving.

By then, all fools would know that he had a ghost, who would believe him if he evolved in vain.

Even if they accepted him evolving in the daytime, they suddenly valued him deepened their slavery, and watched over him.

Then there would be no chance of getting rid of it for the rest of his life.

He didn't want to give the bone dragon a lifetime of white labor.