[Congratulations,you have killed a level 1 Camo.]
[You have gained experience points....]
Seeing how the rest of the creature hoard reacted,Marg grinned.
He had already picked up on the idea of not just grinding for his skill levels but also on a firming plan.
Since he didn't care about the experience points and biomass,why not feed both to these creatures.
Only shoot to maim or cripple,and let one of the strongest creature land the killing blow before the hoard fell upon the carcass for the biomass.
This way,the strongest of the creatures would be able to earn enough experience points for evolution,and the moment these creatures evolved,Marg would lay down everything he had on them.
All this was for the sake of cores,as he had noted that tier two creatures were scarce on this floor.
With a plan in mind,the weaker creatures outside the pitfall fell one after another.
It took him a full five minutes and some times upto ten minutes to severy injure a creature.
A single shot imbued with mana,by the help of Mana Manipulation was enough to severely injure these weak creatures,much of the time was taken shooting normal arrows to scare other creatures from landing the killing blow.
Only those at level three and four were let to fight for the killing blow.
An hour into his grinding and firming,Marg was rewarded with two system chimes...
[Congratulations, Archery has upgraded to +4.]
[Congratulations,Mana Manipulation has upgraded to +2.]
Another hour later,he received another system chime...
[Congratulations,Mana Manipulation has upgraded to +3.]
Two hours later,his archery skill had finally hit another level,ready for mutation.
[Congratulations, Archery has upgraded to +5.]
[Congratulations, Archery has been maxed out, continuous use improves efficiency...]
"What the heck!"
"Just a + 5 and am done with..."
Marg felt dejected as he was eagerly waiting to see what would have been available for purchase.
"No need crying over what we can not control..."
Another thirty minutes,the chime he had been waiting for rang in his mind...
[Congratulations,Mana Manipulation has upgraded to +4.]
"Time to go grab some quick biomass..."
Marg halted his grind as he jumped from the tree top and rushed to a nearby shrub,that he had planted there as a disguise for the hole that dropped into the connecting tunnels below.
"Being weak is a disadvantage,a great goblin like I forced to dig tunnels like a damn worm..."
Marg could only lament as he dashed through the connecting tunnels,from one pit to another, clearing the few carcasses he could find of those foolish enough as to drop into the pits,before filling himself up.
"Damn system wasn't lying..."
Marg sighed,as he caculated the amount of biomass he had gained from his meal,what would have gained him at least four hundred biomass points only supplied him with above half the amount.
He also didn't forget to drag two level three carcases to his hideout for his pet the moment it hatched.
Inside his dugout hideout,he felt dejected as he noticed that the stupid egg hadn't hatched.
"How long are you going to take?"
Patting the egg,he took an hour of rest before heading back to his tree.
His previous effort had birthed five tire two creatures,it was time for the reaper harvest his pay.
He didn't want these five fighting for biomass and experience with the rest,they were his biomass, experience and cores.
Moving closer to the edge of the pit fall on his side, thankful that these creatures had no ranged attacks,he shot a few mana imbued arrows towards the five, enraging them.
The five creatures moved closer to the edge of the pit fall, roaring at the tiny creature dealing more damage than its size to them.
About a meter from the pits edge,they saw the little dark green creature open it's mouth,out came a screech that was sharp, irritating as well as erotic,promising them heavenly pleasure.
With renewed vigor, the five prepared to dash over for the promised pleasure,only for their thoughts to be invaded,none knew what assorted them.
The tiny dark green creature watched as the five tore at each, inflicting imaginable damage on each other for half a minute before jumping into the pit fall.l
Apart from the spikes that awaited them at the bottom,there was a mana infused arrow for each of them descending from above.,,
The little creature that had promised them heavenly pleasure had ended up claiming their lives.
[Congratulations,you have killed a level 0 tier 2 Camo×2]
[You have gained experience points....]
[Congratulations,you have killed a level 0 tier 2 Lida.]
[Congratulations,you have gained a level....]
[You have gained one skill point...]
"Finally..."
[Congratulations,you have killed a level 0 rank 2 Geti.×2]
[You have gained experience points....]
"One level down,nine more to go..."
Having depleted the numbers of monsters outside the original settlement entrance,Marg moved on to the other entrances, perfecting his archery as well as grinding his Mana Manipulation and taking his time to clear the pits and check on the egg,that showed no signs of hatching.
Seven days later,Marg silently sat in one of his now improved underground tunnel.
He had his status panel open as he took in his gains.
[Congratulations,Mana Manipulation has upgraded to +10.]
[Mana Affinity Unlocked...]
[Additional Affinities added as a result of having a maxed out rare core.]
"Hahaha...!"
Marg had his moment,he had had to push his mind way past it's limit as to fuse ten special cores into a one fist size rare core,that had not just taken him a full day to absorb,but also had him sweating oceans from the pain he had gone through.
He was happy that the endurance and the pain of fusing sixty common cores to make that one masterpiece of a rare core had paid out.
[Fire Affinity: Get a latent affinity to fire related spells plus an additional fire grand,that converts raw mana into fire mana without tasking your mind. ]
[Skills:Fire Ball,Fire Arrow,Fire Shield]
[Earth Affinity: Get a latent affinity to earth related spells plus an additional earth grand,that converts raw mana into earth mana without tasking your mind. ]
[Skills:Earth Spike,Quake, Earth Wall]
[Water Affinity: Get a latent affinity to water related spells plus an additional water grand,that converts raw mana into water mana without tasking your mind. ]
[Skills:Water Hose,Water Bomb,Water Shield]
[Wood Affinity: Get a latent affinity to wood related spells plus an additional wood grand,that converts raw mana into wood mana without tasking your mind. ]
[Skills:Heal,Wood Spike, Wooden Wall]
[Wind Affinity: Get a latent affinity to wind related spells plus an additional wind grand,that converts raw mana into wind mana without tasking your mind. ]
[Skills:Wind Blade,Wind Boost, Whirlwind]
"Damn me ..."
Marg had to go through the list a couple of time, weighing the benefit of each elemental affinity before moving on to the additional affinities...