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Original Translation: Blastron
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<Experience has reached the required level. Individual Small Lesser Taratect has increased from LV7 to LV8.>
<All basic attributes have increased.>
<Skill proficiency level-up bonus acquired.>
<Proficiency has reached the required level. Skill [Pain Resistance – LV1] has become [Pain Resistance – LV2]>
<Skill points acquired.>
<Experience has reached the required level. Individual Small Lesser Taratect has increased from LV8 to LV9.>
<All basic attributes have increased.>
<Skill proficiency level-up bonus acquired.>
<Proficiency has reached the required level. Skill [Poison Fang – LV5] has become [Poison Fang – LV6]>
<Proficiency has reached the required level. Skill [Night Vision – LV9] has become [Night Vision – LV10]>
<Condition satisfied. Skill [Vision Expansion – LV1] has been derived from skill [Night Vision – LV10].>
<Skill points acquired.>
Whoa, that’s a huge amount of growth. Looks like beating a foe much stronger than you gives a ton of experience, no matter what world you’re in. In the blink of an eye, my level went up by two.
That snake was certainly quite a formidable opponent. If it had been a full-on fight, there’s not even a sliver of a chance that I would have won. A powerful body. A hide covered in extremely tough scales. Speed that might even eclipse mine, if the few times it lunged at me were any indication. To top it all off, venom. As a snake, there is no doubt that its bite carries a powerful venom.
Even after restraining it, I think my odds were still only about 50/50. Leveling up may have fully healed all of my wounds, but I had taken a tremendous amount of damage before then. My stamina is only just barely still positive. That was seriously dangerous.
But to go with that huge risk, the return was equally huge, you know! When I was tirelessly overhunting those centipedes, I felt like I was on a nice, steady path to eventually becoming level eight. I never thought that jumping all the way up to level nine in one go was even possible!
I’m definitely excited about leveling up, but the skill increases I got were also huge! [Pain Resistance] going up is nice on its own, but [Poison Fang] went up as well! It’s one of my biggest trump cards, second only to [Spider Thread]. As [Poison Fang] grows, so does my offensive capacity. Well, hm, it’s definitely worth remembering that [Poison Fang] is basically my only offensive option, so it would be really awful to face something with a high tolerance for poison.
Next up is probably the most interesting one from this level-up: [Night Vision]. Yeah. Now that it was brought up, it’s really not strange at all that I should have it. The light of the sun doesn’t, of course, reach this deep into the dungeon. In fact, there’s no light at all! Yet I can still see clearly in this inky blackness. I’m actually a little surprised that this is because of a skill, I had honestly thought that it was part of the whole spider package.
So, when [Night Vision] leveled up, my vision seemed to sharpen. What once was murky is now clear and bright. I can clearly and distinctly make out the scenery around me. Skills must max out at level ten. If that weren’t the case, then this could level up even more, and I have no idea how my vision could possibly get any better. Ah, well, maybe it’s just [Night Vision] that has only ten levels.
So, when [Night Vision] leveled up to ten, as a bonus, I acquired the related skill [Vision Expansion] out of nowhere. That’s great and all, but I have no idea what it could possibly do! Judging by the name, I thought that it might increase the physical range of my vision, but it really doesn’t seem like that’s the case. Well, I guess I’ll throw this one onto the piles of skills I know nothing about but their name.
At times like these, I really wish I had the ability to appraise my skills. Unfortunately, the only valid targets for [Appraisal] are things that I can see, and I only know the skill names because the “Voice of Heaven” said them out loud. If it’s not a thing that’s in front of me, I can’t appraise it. The [Appraisal] results, though, feel like they’re being written out in my brain. I can see them with my mind’s eye, which I guess counts enough.
If I can get [Appraisal]’s level up high enough, maybe my skills will start being displayed as part of the results. Then I’d be able to appraise them directly. Well, until that time, I don’t really have much choice but to set these unknown and unusable skills aside.
Well then, let’s take this huge thing that I just barely managed to kill… and eat it! To start, I put up a new simple home so that other monsters wouldn’t want to barge in on me and steal a piece. This thing is absolutely huge, so huge that I probably won’t be able to eat it all in one go. I should stick around here, then, until I’ve finished it all up. I’ll put extra care into making this simple home perfect.
<Proficiency has reached the required level. Skill [Spider Thread – LV6] has become [Spider Thread – LV7]>
Oh, here’s another good thing! The [Spider Thread] skill, which almost never seemed to acquire any experience, finally leveled up. What have I been doing differently? Did this happen because I was using my threads so heavily while fighting the snake? My two primary offensive skills are [Poison Fang] and [Spider Thread], so if I keep fighting, they will of course be going up as well. Seriously, the stat points I get on level-up don’t seem to have anywhere near as strong of an effect on my combat effectiveness as my skills do.
Humming to myself, I get back to eating my lunch. Before that, though, I need to peel all of these scales off. These things are seriously way too damn hard! There’s no way I can eat them. I really have to do this, otherwise I won’t be able to eat at all.
I got them all offffff! Ugggh, I’m beat. That was way more tedious work than I thought. The scales are very tough, and they don’t peel off easily, so it took a very long time. It took off nearly a quarter of the red overall-stamina meter, even after leveling up had raised it back up to full! This was definitely heavy labor.
But now, thanks to that, I can eat as freely as I want! So, let’s dig in.
Ewwh, bitter! Way too bitter! Is this the poison? If it’s this bitter, then this guy must have had a ridiculously powerful venom. Man, it would have been awful if I had gotten bit!
<Proficiency has reached the required level. Skill [Poison Resistance – LV5] has become [Poison Resistance – LV6]>
Yep. The meat may be bitter, but the skill rank sure is sweet.
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