La lame mesure quatre-vingts centimètres de long, trois centimètres de large, et la soie dix centimètres. Son poids avoisine les deux kilogrammes.
La forme générale de l'épée est élancée et esthétique, le tranchant scintillant d'une lumière froide.
Dommage qu'il n'y ait pas de fourreau, sinon sa beauté aurait été encore plus grande.
« Appraise. »
【Traditional Straight Sword】 (Black Iron Grade)
Category: Weapon
Description: A superior short weapon forged through traditional craftsmanship, with materials improved locally, possessing considerable sharpness and corrosion resistance, capable of inflicting significant damage on most E-class variants, except for some species with exceptionally high defense.
Status: Sharpened
Durability: 500/500
Perfectly shaped, astonishingly sharp, corrosion-resistant, and with greatly increased durability.
A divine weapon specifically for killing Larva of Scythe Owls, what more could one ask for?
Gripping the straight sword, Lu Ming performed a series of slashes. Enhanced by the Basic Swordsmanship, he completed the break-in within minutes.
Retracting his stance and returning the sword, Lu Ming's satisfaction with the straight sword rose sharply.
He wondered if it was due to being constantly tensed, or if it took effort to kill the four Larva of Scythe Owls.
After a few minutes of wielding the sword, he felt thirsty.
He looked at the Pure Water lying in his bag.
After some consideration, he decided to endure for now.
Once he decomposed a few larval corpses and accumulated some cristal de spécialisation, he would upgrade the Pure Water into a Sports Drink, allowing him to stay in this shop for longer.
As for why he wanted to stay here, it was naturally because of the shop's unique advantages.
He was familiar with the environment, could utilize every corner, and it served as an excellent gathering point for high-speed hunting of Larva of Scythe Owls.
Pressing his lips into a smile, Lu Ming opened the glass door again, adjusted the gap size, and controlled the force to pull up the rolling gate.
*Clang—*
The sound of metal friction and the rattling of the rolling gate alerted all the larvae within a thirty-meter radius of the shop.
They crawled slowly towards the shop door, but were restricted by the door's size and the rolling gate's height.
In the end, like the first wave of larvae, one squeezed through the glass door's gap, and four followed closely, crowding near the glass door and completely blocking the path for their kin behind.
Lu Ming, on the other hand, no longer needed to stand on a chair for downward attacks.
He only needed to activate his Œil de Vérité, guard one side of the glass door, wait for the maggots to crawl halfway in, then with a swift strike, he'd chop off their heads, followed by another blow to shatter the Noyau Corporel, thus completing the kill quickly.
« Collecter. »
There was no feedback; the corpses remained where they were.
Lu Ming was puzzled, then suddenly realized. He silently repeated the command: « Greed. »
【Successfully decomposed Larva of Scythe Owl corpse, obtained 2 * cristal de spécialisation, 2 * High Purity Heterogeneous Protein】
Well, unlike skill evolution, the command for functional evolution had also changed.
But the effect was remarkably stable, with double the output of cristal de spécialisation. He would worry about those strange lumpy materials later.
The rest was an assembly line process: larvae crawled through the door gap, Lu Ming chopped off their heads, destroyed the Noyau Corporel, and completed the decomposition.
【Successfully decomposed Larva of Scythe Owl corpse, obtained 2 * cristal de spécialisation, 2 * High Purity Heterogeneous Protein】
【Successfully decomposed Larva of Scythe Owl corpse, obtained 2 * cristal de spécialisation, 2 * High Purity Heterogeneous Protein】
【Successfully decomposed Larva of Scythe Owl corpse, obtained...
System prompts followed one after another, and the number of cristal de spécialisation Lu Ming acquired visibly increased to 30.
Now, he needed only 10 to evolve from a soldat de première ligne to a higher level.
However, since he hadn't figured out the evolution process, he played it safe.
What if during evolution, anomalies occurred, rendering him immobile, or accompanied by pain that affected his actions? Wouldn't he just be throwing his life away?
The sword in his hand was fast and accurate. In less than ten minutes, the second wave of Larva of Scythe Owls drawn in was completely annihilated.
In his bag lay 88 cristal de spécialisation and 92 clumps of High Purity Heterogeneous Protein.
In total, 44 larvae had been killed.
Sword status: Durability 478/500.
Calculating, it took only one point of durability to kill an average of two Larva of Scythe Owls, a truly honest quality.
Even being conservative and deducting the 50 points that might be lost to edge damage, the remaining durability would still support hunting over eight hundred larvae.
Shaking his arm to dislodge the green slime from the blade, Lu Ming felt that the future was infinitely bright.
His arms were just a bit sore and swollen.
After all, he was still a normal person. Swinging a sword for ten minutes would show signs of fatigue, let alone killing physical entities like larvae.
He massaged his forearm, closed the gate again, and placed the sword on the display case.
Opening his status panel, he found the niveau de spécialisation and clicked on the text of the soldat de première ligne title.
An upgrade prompt immediately popped up.
【Prompt: Detected sufficient cristal de spécialisation in the sac à dos spatial. Do you wish to consume 10 cristal de spécialisation to upgrade your niveau de spécialisation to Intermediate Soldier?】
« Yes. »
*Whoosh!*
Accompanied by a strange whistling sound, ten cristal de spécialisation flew out of thin air.
As they spun and vibrated in the air, they transformed into ten strands of arc light and starlight, shooting into Lu Ming's body like chasing rainbows, surging into his limbs and bones!
*Thump thump!*
His heart suddenly beat violently!
Blood vessels bulged on the surface of his skin!
A wave of numb stinging pain spread to every corner of his body, and Lu Ming almost cried out.
Fortunately, his masculine spirit was overflowing, and he managed to hold it back.
*Hoo—*
The numb stinging lasted for about ten seconds before a sudden muffled roar erupted within Lu Ming.
Not a growling sound, but an explosion of energy.
Clenching his fist, he felt the almost doubled strength. Lu Ming's eyes were filled with disbelief.
Especially when he saw the muscle of his arm, which had noticeably grown by a size, a sense of joy filled him.
Upgrading the niveau de spécialisation also improved his physical condition. This feeling was incredibly good, wasn't it?
Glancing back at his status panel.
Name: Lu Ming
Gender: Male
Number: 66666
Age: 24
Niveau de spécialisation: Intermediate Soldier
General Functions: 【Greed (Exclusive)】 【World Channel】 【Auction House】 【Spatial Backpack】
Skills: 【Basic Swordsmanship (E-class)】 【Œil de Vérité (Exclusive)】 【Sublimation Ultime (Exclusive)】
Intermediate Soldier, he looked at the description.
His mind was active, and his hands didn't stop. He clicked to view the information for Intermediate Soldier.
【Intermediate Soldier】: Having undergone the baptism of combat, possesses experience in hunting variants, considerably stronger than ordinary people, and takes another step towards becoming a chasseur-guerrier. Consuming cristal de spécialisation can promote to Advanced Soldier, promotion progress (78/100).
For the next level, 100 cristal de spécialisation. Based on his kill speed, reaching Advanced Soldier would be a matter of minutes.
He also mused about the promotion method, glad he played it safe.
If he were to promote during combat, ten seconds would be enough time for him to die three times.
He hoped no one would fall victim to this, or they would die with regrets.
He picked up the Traditional Straight Sword and noticed the weight had significantly reduced. After a couple of swings, he was satisfied.
With his current physique, he could kill larvae for half an hour straight without any problem.
However, towards the end of the rapid larvae farming, the glass door seemed to have shaken a few times. He needed to inspect it to avoid losing this peaceful "cristal de spécialisation production line."