Chapter 56 Ark Humans l

“Before revisiting that guy, I should definitely find more humans first.” Victor said while walking away.

He After that, he spent more time in the 42nd floor, mainly for two reasons. The first was to get more human evolution material, while the second was to find more money, in turn getting more system coins.

He went around killing fire-imps, and even returned towards the beginning of the floor to find the first minotaur.

‘How lucky are those guys, seriously?’ Victor asked in his mind.

The group he came with had passed through the route where the minotaur was, this he was sure of, but not a single corpse was there. Surely the minotaur isn’t the type to eat humans, so it could only mean that they somehow evaded it.

Whatever the case was didn’t matter in the least to Victor. If they were alive, then good for them. He made quick work of the minotaur and gained it’s exp before setting off to the lower floor. There were stronger groups that had reached that deep by the time. Many groups entered the dungeon at the same time, and the stronger ones were able to dominate the lead and leave the rest behind. Of course there were those that just followed close behind and enjoyed a monsterless hunt, but not everyone could. Especially the floors with a lot of water, it slowed many down.

Needless to say, fighting the stronger guys was solely for the reason to gain experience points. That was their major use. Since whatever skill he got was going to be reset to level one anyway, he didn’t mind getting an underdeveloped skill from the less strong people. Even a weak skill can become useful after levelling it up to max.

“Heheheh…” ‘Hmm, something changed.’

Victor had been noticing something different about himself, but now he figured out what was different. He wasn’t as emotionally abstract as he was sometime ago, as the feelings and emotions he felt deep within him locked up seemed to have opened up a bit.

‘It’s probably because of the human form I acquired. I can’t say it downgraded me a bit, since it isn’t getting in the way at all.’

“But then, I would have thought that I would feel some special type of feeling after part of that locked emotion was released, but it feels pretty normal, like it has always been.” Victor said to himself.

Victor’s current goal was to get to the next floor and see what the humans there had to offer, and along the way he ran into another small group of three humans, all within the level of 40 and 50, and of course killed them and gained their evolution material. This group was purely made of fighters, and their skills abilities weren’t anything fantastic either.

Victor had speculated this, but in the end he was right. The abilities humans possess are diverse and are like a cluster of more than one skill. This made them able to execute different skills even though they only possessed a single ability. But whenever Victor attained from their ability, he would only get a skill, and not the full range of the ability possessed by the human.

From the guy who could teleport, during their fight, he couldn’t only teleport to the position of his comrades which would have made his ability the same with the one Victor got, he could also teleport around the place in a way, but after getting the skill teleport, Victor could only use the marking teleportation.

Well, in the end it didn’t matter, since he could just get as much skills as the number that makes up an ability.

Victor reached the path that led to the next floor, and just then the evolution process was complete. Really, since he already had the human from as his second form, any new human evolution material was just added to the pre-existing form he already had. So, clearly speaking, he only incorporated the new evolution material he received into the one he already possessed.

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[Evolution process complete]

[Gained new skill Melee Combat]

[Gained new skill Swordsmanship]

[Gained new skill Sword Control]

[Skills Melee Combat and skill Swordsmanship have been incorporated into skill Art of Combat]

[Received 15 stat points]

[Strength +3, Vitality +3, Intelligence +10]

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After seeing this, Victor was pleased with the results, descended to the next floor. If the skill Art of Combat was absorbing all his fighting related skills, that could only mean that it was a very strong skill, so he sort of happy to see the skill’s effect. The last group he killed, he hadn’t fought with them as he just used his Touch of death on them in order not to prolong the fight.

(A/N: From now on, I will be adding the money section to his status screen)

Reaching the next floor, Victor continued in the same fashion as he had planned, and took care of the salamanders and frogs that appeared. He didn’t need any of their evolution material as he had no need for it, so he made good use of his fire skills on the frogs, and the salamanders he wasted no time with.

Sure enough, on this floor he actually encountered some reasonably strong humans after running into a group of them. He had to go pretty deep into this floor before he even found the first humans. Along the way all he saw were corpses. Though not much, none was alive.

This group of 10 had the average level of 65, but their leader, or the person who he assumed to be the leader had a level of 95, the highest he had seen so far. Being an undead, Victor knew no fear or what that word meant. Even though he regained a sliver of his emotions, he didn’t regain this one, and it was not like the emotions were at all prominent to begin with.

The fight against this group was a bit difficult, since they had impeccable coordination. The problem lied in the fact that he needed their flesh after they died, so he couldn’t scorch them the slightest bit.

The only upside to this battle though, was the attitude of the leader of the group in comparison to the previous one who had the teleportation ability. Unlike the teleporting guy who cared for his comrades and rushed to aid whenever Victor tried to attack, this one just remained where he was and watched his team fight Victor. Victor himself wasn’t sure what the leader was thinking, and so had to also keep a close eye on him just in case he made a move at him at anytime.

The next in strength was also beside the leader, and didn’t come to attack. At times like this, Victor wished he had some type of skill that would allow him peak at his opponent’s stats.

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Earlier on, ‘System, identify those two for me.’ When he encountered this team, the leader and the other person strongest after him stood quite far away, so the system only automatically displayed the level of those that were close and left the two, but as Victor had requested for it now-

[Ark Human Level 95]

[Ark Human Level 90]

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‘Ark human, does that mean they have transcended human limits or some shit like that?’ Victor asked himself. That would be the reason they didn’t care to get involved with the fight before them. Maybe they were the type to view the weaker ones as inferior, so they didn’t care for their life or death. This didn’t bother Victor though, if this was the case, then he needed not to worry himself with them, as they wouldn’t be interfering any time soon.

Though Victor was finding it hard to touch this group, it didn’t mean that he was been pushed back or even threatened by their attacks, the only problem lied in the fact that he couldn’t touch them. Most of his skills needed him to touch the opponent, or be at least that much close to them, which they prevented with the barrier around each person, much like the drake. Then their healer just happened to be someone who used holy energy, so her magic was quite effective against his negative burst, lessening its effect greatly.

‘Alright, that does it.’ Victor said in his mind after seeing no other way forward in this situation. The fight had been going on for at least four minutes or so, and though it wasn’t much time, it was enough for Victor to know whether he was making any progress or not, and the answer was, very little progress.

In this short time, Victor was able to see the effects of the skill Art of combat, as whatever attack the group throw at him, he always easily found a way to evade it, the only problem was the fact that he couldn’t touch them. He could just break their shield with strong physical attacks, but that would take too long. He had already devised a plan in his head.

Victor once again went into their midst, and though he knew he couldn’t really cause them damage, he still tried attacking every single one of them, jumping about the whole place, attacking and evading. When he had made a move on every one, he jumped into the air, almost reaching the cave ceiling which was more than 20 metres high, then as he descended, the markings which were normally just glowing a faint volcanic red lit up like all over…

SIWW… DOM! BOOM!