Nathan possessed 5 days until the time that he was given to complete the mission ended. He wanted to make sure that within those 5 days, he managed to reach the two star rank. For that reason, he put in much more effort during the time that he was in the forest hunting for monsters.
But even then, there was something that he found strange. According to the memories that he possessed, as long as the person just managed to go out of the city, they possessed a great chance of encountering monsters.
But right now, he was actually hunting for monsters, looking for them as if they were currently hiding somewhere. According to the information that he possessed, within the forest that he had entered, there was supposed to be a large number of monsters within it, but right now, he was only encountering a single monster in about every 10 minutes or so.
Additionally, the distribution of the monsters was completely random, with the one star monsters being randomly found within the forest without considering the hierarchy of the monsters that was present before he came over.
In a normal situation, the low level monsters were actually supposed to be found closer to the periphery of the forest, and the deeper one went into the forest, the higher the level of the monsters that they would encounter. But right now, he had just encountered a level eight monster at the periphery of the forest, and the deeper he went in, the strange the situation became.
Nevertheless, Nathan simply became a little more cautious before he continued with his hunting. At the same time, he was paying attention to his surroundings considering that there was a person that had claimed that he was going to be paying attention to his movements for the next few days.
Currently, there was actually nothing suspicious that he had done so far that could sell him out. Additionally, the moves that he was utilizing when dealing with the monsters were all those that had not been utilized during the time that he was doing the assassination.
It was a good thing that during the assassination, the original Nathan had only utilized two skills, and one of them was Shadow council, and the other was the dagger illusion.
For that reason, other than those two attacks, Nathan did not have to hold back by much. Additionally, it was a good thing that most of the skills that he possessed, although they were kind of related to the shadow, they were not something that could link him with the killer of the young master of the family.
But even then, Nathan believed that they would definitely suspect him. And for that reason, he decided that he was going to increase his own strength by a good margin first.
It was a good thing that the city that he was currently in was considered as a low level city. For that reason, the strongest person within the city was only within the second star rank. So, as long as he managed to get a good level within the second star rank, he would definitely be quite safe.
Well, it might be true that the strongest person within the city was already within level six of the second star rank, the head of the family that he had completed the assassination, was only at level 3 of the second star rank.
Additionally, there were actually a few people that possessed strength that ranged between level two of the second star, to level one of the first star.
In any case, he did not believe that the person who had decided to keep an eye on him was actually going to follow him all along, the entire time that he was going to be within the forest.
At most, they would just pay attention to the movements that he would be making, such as entering and exiting the city, and the destination that he would be having.
In any case, we didn't just about 3 hours, Nathan had already killed about 10 monsters. It was just that among the 10 monsters that he had killed, only two of them were actually at level 8 of the first star rank.
But even then, Nathan was naturally not discouraged, and continued moving along the periphery of the forest. Well, although it was called the periphery of the forest, it was not actually somewhere very close to the end of the forest, but instead, it was simply because it was considered as the outer area of the forest where low level monsters were located.
In this area that Nathan was moving around, only monsters that had reached the first star ranking were found. As for those that had reached the second and third star ranking, they could be found within the inner circle. Then finally, for the strongest ones, they could be found in the deepest ends of the forest.
But of course, this forest did not possess that strong monsters. In fact, the strongest monster that was supposed to be found within this forest was only at the third star ranking.
Of course, just like before, Nathan had already consumed the two monster cores in order to increase his strength. But even then, he had not actually managed to reach the next level.
That was something that made him frown a little. Just what kind of energy was required in order to be able to allow him to level up? According to the information that he possessed from the memories, as long as a monster core was processed, a person would only require two of them in order to be able to reach the same level as the level of the monster cores.
But now, he had already consumed three of them, but even then, there was no change that had happened other than a slight increase in his strength. could it be that the reason behind this was simply because they had not been processed first?
[The host has to understand that the system only grants the host the most pure energy in order to make sure that the foundation of the host is not affected. For that reason, the host requires a little more energy than other people in order to be able to level up.]
Nathan was a little surprised considering that this was the first time that a misunderstanding that he was having was actually answered by the system.
But even then, thinking about what the system had said, it seemed to be true. The amount of energy that was possessed within the monster core was actually the accumulation of the strength of the monster.
During the time that a monster was killed, the energy that was in its body would immediately go back into the core. That was the reason why there was quite a huge amount of energy present within the core.
But even then, the energy that was present within the core was definitely not for humans. For that reason, processing was required in order to be able to convert the energy inside there to be usable to the humans.
And during the processing, part of the energy would definitely be lost. That was the reason why people would require two at the same time in order for them to be able to reach the same level as the level of the monster cores.
But of course, had it been that it was just full of advantages to utilize the monster cores in order to improve their strength, humans would have definitely increased the rate at which they were hunting monsters.
The only disadvantage of utilizing the monster cores in order to improve the strength of humans was that those who utilized the cores would definitely possess much weaker combat power as compared to others who had naturally increased their strength.