Time kept slipping by.
Before he knew it, ten days had passed.
On this day, in one corner of the forest, Shane, in tattered clothes and wielding a dazzling Holy Sword, faced off against the enemy.
"Roar!"
"Roar!"
A group of demons, wielding clubs and covered in hair, each with a single horn and a sinister appearance like evil ghosts, roared one by one and charged at Shane.
Each one of them was robust in build, resembling gorillas.
Their presence resonated with a ferocious aura, just like the fierce bird with a human face and serpent body Shane encountered before.
By now, Shane knew that the aura was Magic Power.
These demons also possessed Magic Power and could use it not only to enhance their strength but also to increase their resistance to injury. Some demons could even expend it to breathe fire and lightning, akin to using magic. They were extremely dangerous.
During these days, Shane encountered demons that could petrify targets they gazed upon and even demons that could curse and corrode the enemy's flesh.
It could be said that if not for possessing max-level skills like Physical Resistance, Magic Resistance, and Abnormal State Resistance, along with the protection of the Holy Sword, Shane wondered how many times he might have died facing these demons.
Now, in front of these beasts, Shane no longer felt fear.
Seeing the rush of Unihorned Demons, Shane advanced instead of retreating.
"Evolve!"
While running, Shane unhesitatingly used the Extreme Transformation skill.
In that moment, the max-level Extreme Transformation provided Shane with an enormous boost, causing his abilities to rise explosively.
"Whoosh!"
Instantly, Shane's speed increased exponentially, and like a blur, he dashed into the crowd of demons.
"Slash!"
The Holy Sword shone with brilliant light, and in an instant, it sliced through the leading Unihorned Demon, cutting it in half and spilling blood on the ground.
"Roar!"
"Roar!"
The Unihorned Demons roared angrily, each lunging forward with whirling clubs and generating howling gales. The shadows of the clubs were as lethal as deadly weapons, crazily attacking Shane.
In response, Shane seemed to have eyes all over his body, moving like the wind. He constantly shifted, sometimes charging forward, sometimes retreating swiftly, veering left or right, and even ducking low or leaping high, perfectly evading every incoming attack.
With Enemy Detection constantly alerting him to each demon's position, and aided by the Evasion skill, Shane was essentially untouchable.
Coupled with the Military God's skill granting Shane godlike combat capability and intuition, Shane's figure soon became completely invisible. Only a gust of wind continuously blew back and forth, making fools of the demons and filling them with shock and rage.
Simultaneously, the radiant sword light from the Holy Sword flashed unceasingly, sweeping back and forth.
"Slash!" "Slash!" "Slash!" "Slash!" "Slash!"
As the battle progressed, Unihorned Demons perished one after another under the deadly sweep of the Holy Sword, their bodies reduced to remnants in pools of blood.
This kind of fighting power was a world apart from ten days earlier.
All of this was thanks to the series of skills Shane had mastered.
Now Shane had mastered a full thirteen max-level skills.
Including Heaven's Grace and Supreme God's Blessing, Shane possessed fifteen skills in total, a stark contrast to when he first arrived in this world ten days ago.
Especially with the Military God and Extreme Transformation skills, one imbued Shane, who had never fought before, with the combat prowess of a true military god, while the other provided comprehensive amplification and enhancement. Thus, combined with the Holy Sword's power, Shane ascended directly to new heights, almost achieving divine status.
Not to mention, Shane even leveled these two skills to their maximum, making the effects incomparably different from when they were at Level 1.
Even so, Shane still had many skill points left.
After ten days of continuous combat, Shane raised himself to Level 10, acquiring a total of one thousand skill points. Even after maxing out thirteen skills, he had only used one hundred and thirty skill points, leaving eight hundred and seventy skill points unused.
So, based on the progress he had made, Shane could confidently say he had fundamentally transformed from his previous self.
"However, I'm not sure if I should be pleased to be stuck roughing it like this every day."
Shane felt conflicted, not sure when he stopped fighting, wiping off the blood on the Holy Sword and sighing.
All around him, the Unihorned Demons lay in a sea of blood, slaughtered without exception.
As for Shane, he was unharmed and untainted by a single drop of blood.
This was understandably due to the psychological scar from his first day in the Otherworld, making a certain fallen Hero utterly terrified of being close to blood, consciously avoiding splatters and puddles on the ground.
Recalling the past days of dining and spending nights in the open, being frightened awake by demons' attacks in the middle of the night, and sometimes forced to slice off demon meat to eat from hunger, Shane felt an urge to cry.
"When will these days end, Lady Goddess?"
Shane sighed deeply, but his hands didn't slow down, starting to cut up the surrounding Unihorned Demons to select the edible parts.
Ten days were more than enough for Shane to hone some wilderness survival skills, and he didn't mind eating demon meat at all.
After all, with the Abnormal State Resistance skill, not to mention the Holy Sword's negative state immunity and purification effect, there was no fear of upsetting his stomach.
Of course, whether it tasted good or was desirable to eat was another matter entirely.
"This is forcing me to become Master Bear!"
In frustration, Shane sliced a Unihorned Demon in half.
At that moment…
"Screech!"
With a sharp cry, a shadow passed over the sky.
As Enemy Detection reacted, Shane looked up immediately and saw a demon.
"That's…"
Seeing that demon, Shane was first startled, then his eyes lit up.
Because Shane had thought of something.
He thought of a way to escape this forest.