As Cade made his decision to not increase the iron stat too much, he only increased the shield and the body armor the same as the sword.
After this, he decided to not increase more of the iron stat unless he increased his strength. He was afraid that when the equipment became heavier it will affect his fighting performance.
"There are lots of things I lack and everything I do now will effect other things," said Cade and he sighed.
After Cade finished strengthening his linked equipment, he got to thinking about everything that had happened so far.
"The humanoid boar is called boarman by the system. The one I met is certainly intelligent and he is at the level of human. The humanoid toad must be something similar to the boarman. Perhaps the toadman race?" thought Cade.
"Are the two of them perhaps the beastman? They do look like one but beastman is not a monster… according to fantasy comics," thought Cade more.
"And… it does not like that the system like them. They are totally hated by the system and it is totally apparent from the mission given by the system," said Cade while he was scrolling through the cruel missions issued by the system.
"They are certainly different than a common monster. They are totally on a different league compare to monsters I had fought before. Where do they come from?"
"Luckily, the one I killed just now was stupid and someone-" suddenly Cade stopped and he remembered what the boarman said before.
The boarman mentioned that he fought the 'archer monkey' and he kept saying that Cade was a monkey, "That boarman fought a human before! Someone is nearby! I need to look for him… if he was still alive," said Cade as he got happy thinking about that.
However, before he can move, he heard something below the tree. When he looked down, he saw a group of boarman with a complete unscratched full body armor were there looking for him.
Looking at them, Cade felt totally different than meeting the injured boarman earlier. Though he felt like he can still kill one of them in a one on one fight, the boarman did look intimidating.
Cade did not move from his position and he silently watching them from above. The boarman were talking to each other for a while and then, left the area. Cade looked through his map and they disappeared from the detection of the map.
"That was scary," thought Cade. There were about 15 boarman in that group and Cade was not that strong that he will be able to kill 15 of them at the same time.
Thanks to his earlier kill, he managed to appraise their power and they all above level 13 with the highest level being 17. He was level 11 with so many inferior stat. He stood no chance of defeating them.
"I need to find other humans fast," thought Cade but he had no idea where to search for them. In the end, Cade decided to rest for the day because it was getting darker. It will be too dangerous to search for them at night.
Cade opened his storage to take out some food to eat and he saw the corpse of the boarman. "What should I do with this corpse?" thought Cade while his hand touched the slot of the corpse.
[Do you want to extract essence from this boarman corpse?] the system suddenly let out a notification.
Cade stared blankly at it. There was no notification earlier when he took the corpse and now, the system suddenly sent out this notification.
"My luck," thought Cade. His luck must be the reason. He can choose his drop when his luck was at 101 but that only applied to the monsters in the normal dungeon but the World Dungeon was different.
The monster or race inside the World Dungeon did not drop anything (their equipment can be collected from them) and his newly 110 luck must be responsible for what currently happening.
"Essence… There are puzzle pieces for essence and is this he same thing?" thought Cade. Cade said yes to the system and the system suddenly let out another notification.
[Stat essence, Bloodline essence or Skill essence?] asked the system.
"There are three types of essence?" Cade was in deep thought as what he should choose. Cade tried to choose the bloodline essence as it looked like the best one as bloodline related thing was the hardest to find.
[Your bloodline is not compatible with this and it is also not awakened. Do you still want to choose the bloodline essence?] asked the system.
"… My slime bloodline is not awakened?" Cade was shocked when he read the notification from the system. He had no clue that the bloodline can be awakened and he wondered if everyone with bloodline knew about this too.
He was not surprise that he was incompatible with the boarman bloodline as he had slime bloodline in him. However, the awakened bloodline part was the most shocking to him.
Since Cade had no use for the boarman bloodline, he decided to choose other thing. When he chose the skill essence, the same kind of notification came from the system saying that Cade had no skill he can use the essence on.
In the end, he decided to choose the stat essence and he can choose five stat essence. Cade did not know what the essence can do and he decided to choose the strength essence.
A meter bar from the system appeared to show that the essence extraction was in progress. Looking at the meter, Cade knew that it will take a few hours for the extraction to finish.
"If this essence is useful, I wonder how the others can extract this?" thought Cade. He did not know what the essence can do but considering that it needed more luck than item drop to be able to extract it, the essence must be something extremely good.
[Only those with the same bloodline can extract the essence manually. You are special so you can do this. There is someone nearby with boar bloodline. Help him with the essence to awaken his true bloodline and everyone chance of surviving this dungeon will increase tremendously] the system suddenly sent out a notification and that shook Cade to the core.
"I knew it! You have your own will! System, tell me more about this dungeon and the boarman race. What are they?" asked Cade excitedly however, there was no reply from the system.
Cade wait for a while for reply from the system but unfortunately, no matter how long Cade wait, the system did not respond to him.
Cade sighed as he was disappointed that the system did not respond to him. He wondered why the system was like that. Was not it better if it just tells everything to everyone and then, everyone can live a happy life?
Cade had nothing to do and he plucked a few leaves from the trees and poke a hole on it while waiting for the essence extraction to finish. He wanted to play with his geniusphone but the light from the phone might attract unwanted attention and he refrained himself from doing that.
A few hours later, the system sent out a notification saying the extraction was finished. Cade opened his storage and the boarman corpse was gone and in its place was a pill.
Cade took out the pill and the system appraised it.
[E grade Strength essence. With this essence, anyone can gain strength stat with passing time or while training manually] appraised by the system.
"Gain strength stat with passing time or while training manually?" said Cade. "What does that mean?" Cade decided to try it himself and then he will know what it meant.
Cade ate the strength essence pill and he suddenly felt a large amount of mana coursing through his body and the system let out another notification.
[Strength essence consumed. You will gain 1 strength stat for every hour for 3 hours or gained more by training your strength manually during the three hours]
"What!!" Cade was shocked. He was really shocked with what the system told him. He can gain 1 stat point for every hour for 3 hours and that mean he can get 3 strength stat points without doing anything.
He can get more than 3 stat points if he trained his strength manually. Cade did not want to lose this chance but he did not know how he can train his strength.
There was no dumbbell or big boulder around for him to train his strength and he did not know what to do now. This was a great chance for him to gain more strength stat.
[Strength not only affect your ability to carry things (strength), it also affects your ability to destroy things (attack)] said the system.
Cade stared at the new notification sent by the system and he nodded. He knew what the system meant. Since Cade was on a big tree, he looked at the tree trunk and he smiled.