Marg worked as fast as he could under the moonlight.
He disembodied the seven Nayhes and transported the chunks of meat to his hideout before covering the pit.
He hoped that the smell of blood would attract more creatures.
Having done with that,he retreated to the hideout,all smiles as he imagined the amount of biomass he would earn from his night catch.
All night and morning long,Marg only had three things to do,eat,rest and check out his pit fall for more food.
Luckily for him,he had caught himself another park of ten Nayhes and three other lone creatures.
One of them being a level seven,rank two creature.
[Congratulations,you have killed a level 3 Camo.]
[Basic Camo profile unlocked....]
[Camo: Common creatures of the first floor,changes skin as to adapt to its surroundings.]
[Congratulations,you have killed a level 4 Lida.]
[Basic Lida profile unlocked....]
[Lida: Common creatures of the first floor,leaves in warm regions or areas with high concentration of mana.]
[Congratulations,you have killed a level 7 rank 2 Geti.]
[Basic Geti profile unlocked....]
[Geti: Common creatures of the first floor, solitary hunter.]
From the three new creatures,he learnt of the existence of ranks and mana.
"If there's mana,then there's magic..."
Marg had deduced as he continued chomping in the pile of carcasses. He had to rest in between meals as to leave room for digestion.
The seven Nayhes had awarded him with thirty-six points of biomas while the second pack had awarded him fifty-eight points of biomass.
The Camo and Lida awarded him fourteen points of biomas while the evolved Geti awarded him fifteen points of biomas.
At the end,he had a hundred and teenty-three biomass point,and had already maxed out his level.
What left him with questions was the fact that after hitting level five,no amount of killing would reward him any experience points.
And so he didn't bother to kill anymore creatures that fell into his pit fall,but rather left the spikes do all the work.
His plan was simple,amass as many biomas points as possible before evolving as to reduce the negative effect of having the biomass he could gain from lower ranked creatures halved.
And so for the next seven days,a foot long green creature was seen moving about the ruined settlement.
He broke sections of the fences and dug pitfalls under them,the broken branches were used to craft spikes.
There were a total of six pitfalls around the fence,all connected underground by a network of tunnels to ease the little goblins movement.
He had also been using his bow and arrows as to train his archery, which resulted to the system recognizing his efforts...
[Congratulations,you have unlocked the Archery Skill.]
[Archery (passive):Equips one with the archer skills.Consecutive use increases the skill's level,range and upgrades...]
And seen that he had been using the skill repeatedly,he had managed to upgrade it to +3.
He had learnt the hard way that not all skills utilized biomass for upgrades, actually,only those skills directly utilizing body parts could be upgraded with biomass,like Screech,Claw and Bite.
Those that used tools or weapons had to be used continuously as for them to upgrade.
From this,he deduced that biomas was probably there to not only help upgrade body related skills but also body parts after evolution.
Something that he had chosen to postpone on doing.
From all the digging, traping and crafting,he had managed to upgrade Claw,Bite,Dig and Trap to +5,and with the extra four skill Points from leveling up,he had purchased a mutated version of each of the four.
[Death Claw: Claw at your opponent increasing damage by a factor of five and inflicting the death curse...(Death curse can not be stacked)....Increasing skill's level increases the damage and unlocks further mutation ]
[Love Bite: Bite at your opponent increasing damage by a factor of five and inflicting the love curse...(Opponents seize all their attack and are mind contrilled for a short duration of time)...Increasing skill's level increases the damage and unlocks further mutation ]
[Superior Trap: Efficiently set offensive and defensive traps.Upgrading skills level unlocks more mutation]
[Excavate (passive):Increase the digging speed by a factor of five.Consecutive digging increases the skill's level unlocking further mutation...]
Aside from the four mutations,his racial skill had risen to +3,it seemed that consecutive crafting of the same item for a long time reduced the amount of experience gained.
He had crafted more than fifty spears and at most three hundred arrows,he had even upgraded his loincloth to leather,crafted from a boars hide and even had a chest piece made of leather...
[Inspect]
Item: Chest Piece (Leather Armor)
Rank: Common
Racial Bonus: +2 Might,+5 Toughness
[Inspect]
Item: Loincloth (Leather)
Rank: Common
Racial Bonus:+2 Toughness
The two pieces had awarded him with +2 points in Might and a +7 points in Toughness.
Coupled with the arrows,he could now pack a +14 in Might, making it easier for him to slay monsters.
He had also upgraded his stone knife to a set of bone knives.
The items were and upgrades were not his greatest gains, rather but the pool of biomass he had gained,a total of two thousand five hundred and teenty-three as well as twelve cores.
He had dug these from the bodies of rank three creatures.
[Inspect]
Item: Core
Rank: Common
Compatible core,used to increase ones mana pool or to reconstitute the creature it came from,can be combined to form a high rank core.
Marg had debated on wether to use these cores but decided on holding on to them until the moment he was ready for evolution,and with all the biomass he had hoarded,he did not have any reason for postponing the evolution.
But first,he had a quick look look at his status panel...
Name:Marg
Race: Goblin (Brood)
Level:5/5
Might:2
Toughness:1
Cunning:30
Racial Skill:Craft Mastery +3
Battle Skills: Siren Screech,Death Claw, Love Bite, Archery +3
Scouting Skills: Scouting, Superior Trap
Crafting Skills: Inspect,Excavate
Skill Points:0
Biomass:2,523
"Time for a change..."
Marg smiled only for a second,as he recalled the pain and itch that came along with mutation.
"I wonder how painful evolution would be compared to mutation..."
"Well,no pain no gain..."
Marg motivated himself as he dug out the twelve common rank cores.