The ground where the bandits were killed was filled with the stench of blood and death.
Blood pooled down the grasses, turning their vibrant greenish color, crimson red.
A few minutes after the team left, Miles walked back into the battle field.
Knowing that the thick stench of blood would attract the attention of other dimensional beasts, Miles acted quickly.
He moved towards the leader Mendes body, and immediately activated his absorption ability.
In that instant, a feeling of euphoria jolted through his body.
Miles felt an overwhelming amount of genetic energy saturate his cells quickly, strengthening and multiplying as the genetic nutrients entered his body.
The process of absorbsion was a bit slow this time as it took 3 to 5 seconds to absorb the entire genetic nutrients in the corpse.
[+129 biomass unit]
It was the same as killing beasts of the same level. Miles was a bit disappointed. He thought he would gain more biomass unit when he killed a fellow human. Milss quickly shook his head and told himself. 'Calm down Miles, you're not a physcopath... right?'
Not wasting much time, he went to the other corpse and rapidly absorbed their bioenergy. The corpses tranformed into pure ash as they vanished.
Just as he absorbed the last one, an line information suddenly popped up within his line of sight.
[Genetic Memory found within biomass, please wait to decode.... Decoding successful.]
[Ding! Tier-1 body technique found: Iron Skin body technique successfully inherited]
Miles was stunned when a series of information suddenly flickered in his mind.
In just a few minutes, everything about the Iron-skin body technique had been memorized completely by him.
It was as though it had he had been practicing the technique for more than a 5 years and had become muscle memory to him at this point.
The Iron Skin body technique has a total of three levels to it.
The first level of the Iron-skin body technique is called Ironhide Foundation. In this stage, the warrior skin would hardened significantly, although not completely impervious to blades and swords, it could still reduce the damage of attacks from the same level.
The second stage was called Steel Fortitude.
At this intermediate level, the practitioner's skin undergoes further transformation, turning from iron to tempered steel. They could completely withstand strikes from opponent of same level and even partially withstand attacks from opponent a level higher than the practitioner.
Level three is called theTitanium body.
This is the pinnacle of the Iron Skin Body Technique. The practitioner's skin reaches a near-impervious state, capable of withstanding extreme forces of the same level and even two levels higher!
Although this technique was a simple Tier 1 body technique, it's effect at the highest level was comparable to some Tier 2 technique!
Usually Tier 1 techniques are skills that gives you an edge over those of the same realm and of two opponents possess a Tier 1 technique then the winner would be the one with higher level of comprehension of the technique. Not counting luck or combat iq. And at the highest level of the skill, one would be able to battle one level higher than their strength.
Now, a Tier 2 combat technique at the highest level, enables one to battle to battle 2 levels above their strength. It was the same for Tier 3. But Tier 4 is in another level entirely.
But this Iron-skin body technique is different from other Tier 1 techniques. It was immensely difficult to master. It cook d be said that the bandit used most of his life to reach just level 1 of the skill, only to contribute his knowledge and genetic memory to Miles.
Closing his eyes, Miles suddenly activated the Iron-skin. Suddenly his cells collided with one another as they hardened drastically.
In that moment, a humming sound resounded in the forest and in just a second, Miles skin started vibrating as it turned dark slightly.
"Eh?"
"This is the Iron-skin?"
Miles was surprised it worked. He didn't expect to be able to be able to absorb genetic memories without even reaching level 3 of the system yet.
He opened his combat suit and saw thag although his skin was as smooth and tanned as before, but it had a turned a slight shade of dark. If one didn't look closely, one wouldn't be able to see it.
After testing it, he grabbed his backpack and turned to leave thid part of the first.
The dimension covered about a thousand miles in which lived countless dimenaional beasts.
As far as Miles knew, in the outer range of about one thousand meters, only Iron level beasts were found, the chance of encountering a Silver level beast were really low. That relatively bigger poisonous saw tooth tiger.
However, past the range, was the inner range of about 2000 to 3000 meters, which was labeled as the danger zone, Silver level and even gold level beasts could appear any time, and with Miles's current power level, any one of those beasts could kill him instantly.
Beyond 5000 meters was the forbidden zone. About ten years ago, a large group of soldiers were sent to retrieve some rare valuable materials.
Unfortunately within the forbidden zone, they had encountered the Gold Level beast, and among the hundreds of soldiers that had been gathered, only a few people had escaped. After that incident, no one dared to even step foot past 5000 meters.
Over next ten kilometer, Miles killed three beasts, two Bronze level beast and one level 3 beast. After gathering the valuable parts of the beasts, Miles stopped venturing deeper into the woods and started to walk parallel to the border of the danger zone so that he would not have to face any beast above Iron level.
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It was finally night time. Miles released the fort type 2 battlefield tent given to him by Morgana.
Initially, it looked like a small tool box formed of liquid metal, but when Miles activated activated it, it swelled as if filled with a large amount of gas.