The journey was not as peaceful as Juri had hoped, but it did get Alakos to Level 31.
It turns out that they were attacked by Goblins, Bandits, some greedy Mercenary Groups.
Nothing too significant, the strongest of the enemies was Level 83.
But well, the really important thing was that Alakos reached Level 31, even without Juri spending his 280 Free Points, he grew a lot and gained an intelligence.
Of course, he can't speak, because his intelligence is rudimentary and simple.
But he understands what Juri says and is able to follow orders without problems.
Other members of the group naturally noticed that Juri's horse has become much more muscular and beautiful.
At one point they asked: What happened to your horse?
Juri only said that she used a method she learned to strengthen the vitality of others, so she is slowly strengthening Alakos' muscles and intellect, as she wishes to make him her main mount.
Naturally they asked out of curiosity if she could do this with people, Juri said yes, they asked how much it would cost and she said nothing, she has no interest in losing energy by strengthening them!
In the end, Juri doesn't care about the 20 Bronze and Silver Rank Adventurers, all ugly and muscular men, not to mention stinky.
And because of this mission, even though Juri got a mount and discovered new things of the System, she lost a little over 1 month, since due to the many conflicts, many were injured and had to rest.
So Juri didn't gain any Levels that month, the good thing is that it seems that the Dungeon stopped growing wildly, previously the Level limit of 284, went up to 290.
But that was only for a short while, because waking up the next day, Juri took a look and saw that the Dungeon is now at Level 1~303!
Some bastard upgraded 13 levels in one night!
Juri wonders who it is, he immediately thinks of Priscilla... if she is alive, that explains it, but if not, the Dungeon is becoming even scarier in his eyes.
But what annoys her the most, is that secretly she went back home, where at Luria's request, she created a Level 250 Dungeon, she wanted to go Level 200, but Luria begged that she wanted more challenge and pressure.
So Juri agreed and... Luria is at Level 248 / 223!
Juri was very jealous, even though Luria had practically gone insane and was living in the Dungeon for the last few weeks, it doesn't change the fact that she had gotten much stronger!
The 549 Attribute Points were thrown into her Wisdom which became 2,521+300, meaning she gets a +282.1% amplification on her Physical Attributes, just to have a base, her Agility goes to a whopping 10,293 Points!
Juri is saddened, Luria is again surpassing her and here she is doing a damn mission that will only reward a few lousy coins.
But in the end she wants to get to the Capital and she has the company of her beautiful sorrel.
Juri wonders the requirements to evolve her species and what she will evolve to.
Will it be a [High Horse]? [War Horse]?
Juri is very curious, so she started injecting her [Chi] into Alakos, unclogging his veins, which naturally helped increase his Attribute Levels.
Not to mention that even without doing much, just moving around, Alakos' Attribute Levels increased.
It turns out that he is an animal, there is certainly a different configuration, and with Juri constantly injecting him with [Chi], his Attributes were increasing greatly!
He even popped a few small [Potential Bubbles], increasing by +7 Strength, +5 Agility, +12 Constitution, +4 Intelligence and +8 Wisdom.
But as expected, Alakos still hasn't awakened his [Chi], even after almost 1 month, but it did make his Attributes increase.
In other words, Juri understood that because creatures that carry Chi or similar, are still animals or monsters, they receive in exchange for not having as much intelligence, better instincts and of course, physics that a Martial Artist would hardly match.
Gradually, Alakos is evolving into what the System has named [Spirit Animal].
And as the System decided to cooperate and give information, he spoke that the [Chi] gives birth to [Spiritual Beasts], creatures that connect more to nature and the laws of the world, unlocking a unique potential that guarantees them a greater longevity, many considering them practically immortal, but this is mainly linked to their talent.
For the greater the talent, the more Chi they can generate by absorbing the energy of the environment as they live longer.
And there may come a point when the Chi and this absorbed energy, will be transformed into vitality that will delay aging and death!
So you could say it's a partial immortality.
But the instant it reaches the limits of its talent, and the energy coming in is not enough to transform into vitality, it will age again until it dies.
Alakos is becoming one of these creatures, now about his talent... he doesn't have it!
This is due to the fact that Alakos was an ordinary animal, never that he would have the opportunity to awaken Chi by normal means, nor to feel it.
Juri helped him, changing him entirely.
But that's it, the System!
The System is something above all talent, just get XP and get strong indefinitely!
Even if you're Level 300, you can still level up by killing Level 200 monsters.
Is it Level 500? Level 200~300 enemies still give good XP, even if it takes a while, you can still level up.
Oh, you are at Level 1000? Ok, kill a few thousand Levels 500~600 and go up 1 or 2 Levels.
...
Besides Chi that creates [Spirit Beasts], we have Magic that creates [Magical Beasts] or [Monsters].
Finally we have the Negative Energy, [Paranormal Creatures]!
There are other energies like Demonic Energy, which gives birth to [Demonic Creatures] or [Corrupted Animals].
We also have Death Energy, but this gives birth to the undead.
There are many Energies in the world, but Magic is the most common for obvious reasons.
...
Leaving the animals' talk, not least because this will change in Version 3.0, as the System has informed you that many errors, irregularities and imbalances, will be fixed and improved in the next version.
So you could say that Version 1.0 was simply the base, the system was still virgin and didn't know anything, it just did what it was told.
In Version 2.0, the System started to expand its horizons and resources, generating much more base and knowledge.
Then the Version 3.0 will be the result of the accumulation of knowledge acquired in Version 1.0.
And the Version 4.0, will be the concert of the errors, adding new functions and improvements of others.
One example is that the system will update the generation of items, so the "Strange" factor will appear.
What would this "Weird" factor be?
The System will be able to generate items with strange effects, in a literal sense!
For example... a Chastity Belt, which restores virginity to those who wear it for 24 hours.
A Lamp with a Flame that lights up an area of 100 Meters, but only works when exposed to sunlight, if it gets dark, it doesn't light up!
A Magic Lamp that generates a genie that will distort your desires... the fucking System took this from D&D, Juri didn't like it!
Juri remembered this genie of the lamp, once played a Tabletop RPG in the past, met the genie and thinking she was the smartest made the following request: I wish to possess the knowledge of the most intelligent beings in the world, without having an overload on my mind and that I can access this knowledge without problems.
And the RPG Master thought long and hard before sending a: Okay, you possess knowledge that even the gods envy, that's why you died!
Asking why, it turns out that there were beings who had knowledge that if discovered by unprepared minds, would simply cause their death.
...
"Is that the capital?" - Asked Juri to no one in specific.
Compared to the Winter Kingdom, it didn't look like much.
But that was looking from the outside, when they arrived in the huge line, they had to wait a while before they could pass inspection and enter the city.
And immediately Luria was amazed the deeper she got into the city, for it is colossal!
Asking a question, she learned that the Capital is home to over 400,000 People!
This city is very gigantic, even encompassing 3 Main Rivers, as well as having 2 Dungeons in its territory.
And the city has all kinds of races, life here is harmonious.
Juri has to admit, the King of this country is a great man, the previous kings as well, impossible to create such a prosperous city in a few decades.
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