"What's wrong?" Rosa asks curiously after seeing the visible frown on Leo's face.
"My Extraction skill didn't work on this one," Leo replied as he approached the 10th corpse of the feline in the distance. Taking a deep breath, Leo activated his skill toward it.
Unlike the 9th corpse, after activating his skill toward the 10th corpse the familiar feeling of being in control of the internal body/organ of the feline instantly came to him.
"Indeed, there's a problem with the 9th corpse."
Focusing on the marrow of the feline, Leo quickly manipulated it toward the empty bottle in his hand, instantly filling it with liquified marrow.
Ding!
[ Liquified Marrow (Uncommon) (69% pure)...]
Not bothering about the notification Leo quickly put it on his inventory before approaching the rest of the corpses of the feline.
...
Sigh...
"There are problems with the 3 corpses of the feline, my extraction skill didn't work on them."
Leo sighed deeply after finishing his extraction of the materials before telling the problem to the group.
Scanning the corpses in the distance, other than the 12 withered corpses of the feline (due to the extraction of the essence) the group could see that the other 3 corpses of the feline were completely fine. Without any hint of withering.
"There's no need to worry, if I guess correctly, it's the corpses that dropped items and skill scroll..." Roland said.
"Although I have no idea what is the exact reason, I assume that it's probably due to the scroll and items that they dropped."
"I see," Nodding slightly, Leo has no choice but to believe the explanation of the group.
Smiling slightly, with a hint of excitement, Leo took out the 12 bottles filled with white marrow with a hint of red in varying degrees, placing them on the chair they got from the abandoned building.
"This is all the extracted materials..." Leo explained a little before glancing at the eyes-lit-up group.
Clap... Clap...
"Hehehe... Great, great, let's all get one!" Roland said happily as he passed the other bottle toward the group, only each getting one and leaving the rest to Leo.
As for the reason why, Roland said that they could only use it once per week so it's better to give it to Leo. With how long a single week was, the group believed that they would be able to meet and hunt felines by then!
With his action, the eyes of Leo couldn't help but show a slight appreciation before nonchalantly putting the two bottles inside his inventory.
Ding!
[ Liquified Marrow (High - Uncommon) (72% pure) - An extracted marrow from the body of a Foundation-level beast and got tainted by impurities in the process of extraction... Can be used for concocting a Permanent Speed Stats and Speed Boosting Potion...
Note 1 - Safe to Drink directly!
Note 2 - Upon consumption, it could increase the speed stat by 2 permanently!
Note 3 - Due to impurities, you can only consume one per 4 days! ]
Indeed, the higher the purity is, the higher the effect would be!
Of all the marrow he extracted, the one on his hand is the highest purity! While the rest are all under 70% purity.
50% of the purity was equivalent to low-level uncommon materials, 60% is considered at mid-level, while the 70% on his hand is considered high-level materials based on the system analysis!
It could be said that after upgrading his "Potion Knowledge" to level 3 (costing him 6,000 of horror points) Leo's knowledge regarding potion had gotten deeper!
Although not much it is still much better than before! Causing him to be able to know the grading system of every material based on its purity!
Above the high-grade material is 80% (Peak-(Grade) material!) while 90% is almost considered the perfection of any material.
Feeling that the horror point he spent was worth it, Leo stared at the group who was smiling widely after drinking the extracted marrow. Based on their expression, Leo could assume that the marrow effect was successful.
Unscrewing the cap of the bottle, Leo without hesitation drank the liquified marrow, instantly gulping it...
In an instant, after entering his stomach. Leo suddenly felt a strong burning sensation inside his body, quickly and silently spreading around his body before strengthening some part of it in the process...
Ding!
+2 speed.
As he was engrossed about the comfortable feeling that was sweeping inside his body, a sudden sound of notification entered his consciousness followed by the quickly receding feeling of heat inside him.
Sighing regretfully, Leo opened his eyes before looking at his character panel in delight.
Indeed, it increased by two!
"Unfortunately..."
"Unfortunately what?" Kristine who was already done drinking her bottle happened to hear Leo's mumbling. Due to curiosity, she asks.
Hearing Kristine, Leo's eyes curled up as a mischievous thought passed through his head. Quickly hiding his expression Leo revealed a look of disappointment on his face before looking at the empty bottle in his hand.
Sigh...
"Unfortunately zombies have a lot of impurities in their bodies due to their decayed body, or else we might have a few extra uncommon materials that could increase our strength stat permanently... Sigh...
Look, there are still some flesh of them here... I really hate these impurities." Again, Leo shook his head in disappointment before taking out the essence of the zombies he extracted back then.
Unscrewing the bottle, Leo took a whip of air from inside, directly showing it to Kristine beside him.
"Augh... Cough... Are you...cough... joking right?" Kristine asked angrily as she almost puked upon thinking about drinking that bottle of green liquid with some visible flesh of zombie mix within.
Ding!
+1,500 horror points.
Suppressing the smile on his face, Leo shot a confused expression on his face before looking at the angry teenager beside him.
Scratching his cheeks as if confused as to why Kristine was angry with him, he replied weakly.
"Why? Is there something wrong? Is not that good that we can get other uncommon materials that could increase our stat permanently?"
"Cough... are you previously from mental!?" She angrily said, quickly turning around, afraid to see Leo's action of smelling the essence of the zombie. Although she already turned around, she still couldn't help but shiver slightly.
Ding!
+1,000 horror points!
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