Luke did not want to take such a huge risk with his mana core because he was currently a Bard not a Mage Class which have a higher control of raw mana above other classes.
Also, he currently did not friends in the high ranks of the priest class and finding a elixir this early is asking the impossible because an elixir is something which even the royal family had to call favours to acquire.
The rankings of the Priest Class are:
Priest --> Head Priest --> Bishop --> Arc Bishop --> Cardinal -->Pope
Luke taking out some jerky, vegetable salad and water from his Inventory and took a short break while eating the rations he bought earlier. He thought" Most of the players will not even consume food or water and will only focusing on the grinding monsters to level up only to get a temporary debuff which stays around a full day which 20% decrease in stats after 3/4th of a day of not consuming anything. Players will be forced to eat because after 2 days of not eating the effect becomes permanent. The temporary debuff will also not be removed after eating the food and will last for a whole day because it is fixed by the AI".
Since the pain sensitivity for every player is adjusted around 20 to 30% at the start which is the demo setting, the players by the time they feel the hunger, they had already reached the state of extreme and got the debuff due to the setting, This kind of debuff and setting reminds the player not only to keep grinding day and night, but also to explore each and every part of the 'status' and take care of their in game character as well as their real body.
Luke after taking the break got up and started walking to the next destination by following the map given by the man at the quest counter, Luke went to the 2nd Undead hunting area. There was a total number of 3 areas marked on the map so he wanted to cover them all to rise his level as much as he can before tackling with the goblins.
The second area hunting area was similar to the first one. There were around 7 to 8 skeleton soldiers roaming with their bony bodies. Luke killed them all following the same hit and run tactic that he used in the first area though this time two of the eight undead dropped some loot. The first one dropped a material called 'Bone Dust' which looked like white powder oftenly used by the alchemist for crafting potions, while the second one dropped a Broken sword.
Upon casting 'Inspect' on the Broken sword it provided with the following details
Broken Sword
Attack: 3-4
Durability: 2/30
Description: A sword once used by a new adventurer while he was both alive and dead.
Keeping away the loot in his Inventory, he went to the third area. The third area was near to the core of forest. Luke did not want to head over directly to the core because there must be a high-level beast who certainly had established a nest and was living with the Title of 'King of Forest' over there.
The difference between monster and beast is that monsters are creations of Abyss who had welcomed and established themselves in this World while Beasts who are roaming in the wild are the kin of beastmen who have lost all their intelligence now only following their primal instincts which is only to hunt and feed themselves.
Though killing the beast will not decrease any friendliness and reputation among the beastmen because they also hunt these beasts. Since the Beast King seeing the state of beasts which was equal to that of monsters had declared that 'the beast who lost their intelligence should be treated as only beast not kin of the beastmen'.
The last undead area was bigger compared to the previous areas not only about 10 skeleton soldiers but also 2 - 3 zombies were roaming around the area.
Luke thought "The undead is not a problem to handle but zombie is hard to deal with without a physical attack type skill or a sharp weapon and unlike undead when touching the forest, they will not lie down peacefully because their body still contains the rotten and dead skin which protects the energy of death from leaving their body and mixing with the energy of life of the forest causing the above reaction, Zombies also have managed to retain their sense of hearing and smelling which his further increased by losing the remaining 3 senses".
"Looks like my mace will lose quite a bit of durability over here". muttered Luke while looking at his mace which was his first melee weapon.
Luke decided to first handle the zombie then afterwards he will deal with the Undead.
Luke took out the Lyre from his Inventory and without using any kind skill, he just played the lyre normally and while playing he also made certain to gaps during the rhythm, because the sound of a continuous play can attract not only all the zombies in the corrupted area but also some beasts who have a sharp hearing compared to others.
Luke wanted to attract one with the music but the hidden stat LUCK became a variable for him and he managed to attract the attention of all the 3 zombies in the area even though he was playing while pausing between the play.
The 3 zombies started chasing after the sound not having another choice except to fight because he did not have enough agility stat to outrun a zombie.
Luke casted as many 'Mana Wave' as he can to lower their health before going for the close combat.
After somehow managing to hit them with 4 'Mana Wave' he took out the mace while keeping the Lyre back in the Inventory and casted Inspect on one of them
Zombie
Level:10
HP: 102/200
MP:0
Luke thanked that in his Mana Wave skill has reached level 3 due to grinding up in the previous areas and with 12 points of Intelligence every wave dealt a damage of 12x2.2 that is 26.4 damage per wave and dealing 4 shots he dealt a total of 106 damage which ate away around half of the Zombie's health.
Luke dodged the first attack of the zombie which was running towards him with his open mouth trying to bite Luke. Luke pushed him to the side from the back and with a firm foot used his mace like a short spear to pierced the mace directly into the mouth of the second zombie causing the zombie to topple and fall down, taking out the broken sword in his Inventory, he went for the head of the third zombie killing him directly while the first zombie took the chance and leaped at Luke striking him with his claws this time directly at Luke's wide open back not having any sufficient Armor, the zombie managed to slash away Luke's back.
"Aaff..''mumbling away the voice that was about to come by biting his lips, Luke managed to save himself from calling more trouble upon oneself by shouting near the core of the forest.
Luke turned around with a look of anger in his eyes not giving zombie a second chance, he went for the zombie legs kicking him directly into the knee caused it to bend over the other side making the Zombie fall on the forest's floor. Luke stood above him and smashed the head of the zombie by stomping on his head as many times as he could before the zombie stopped moving.
He looked at the second zombie which was still struggling trying to remove the mace from his mouth. Luke going over to the struggling zombie and keeping his feet on the protruding handle of the mace looked down at the zombie and said "Now die slowly while being crushed under my mace".
Luke slowly started increasing the force in his feet that was above the mace and the mace start going deeper and deeper into the zombie mouth, At last killing the struggling zombie.