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“Ding! Congratulations on your successful replication of the C-level skill, Storm Element.”
With crisp sounds in his mind, the black-clothed boy swiftly pulled a distance away from the huge Tier 2 Storm Wolf.
The Tier 2 demon was after his life, not to mention how it was a Storm Wolf with both speed and strength.
Although he had the speed of a Storm Wolf, his strength was still incomparable.
His next goal was to slay the Storm Wolf and obtain the magic core in its body.
Soon after, the blood-covered young man looked down at the Storm Wolf lying in a pool of blood. He used the dagger in his hand to cut open its head and took out a baby’s fist-sized object from the blood stained body.
While wiping off the blood stains on the object with his clothes, a strand of blue light shone from above, making it look extremely beautiful under the sunlight.
A relaxed smile appeared on the young man’s face, and he immediately placed the Tier 2 Storm Wolf’s magic core into the bulging bag around his waist. He glanced down reluctantly at the body of the Storm Wolf and then walked towards the distance.
Being able to slay the Storm Wolf was completely due to the combat experience and skills he had accumulated from desperate struggles with different monsters in the past month. If he continued to stay, it would become dangerous as other demons would be attracted here by the smell.
He now had no extra strength to kill other demons and was no opponent for even a Tier 1 demonic beast.
Thus, leaving quickly before the smell of blood dispersed was the right choice!
He was Li Jiye, who had time-traveled over a hundred years, and who was also a student of Polar Star Academy in Polar Star City.
Including today, he had been in the Demonic Beast Mountain Range for a whole month.
In this month, besides fighting at close quarters with the demons, he was also trying to copy the demonic beasts’ skill.
The bulging bag around his waist was his trophy this month.
Of course, he also had the five other skills copied from various demons. Those wouldn’t disappear, but were too low a level to be worth using.
The reason why he risked his life to come to the Demonic Beast Mountain Range was to improve his strength!
In Polar Star Academy, he was publicly regarded as a waste because he had no innate-skill awakening in the skills test.
After 100 years of changes, the Earth was no longer the same.
Due to the rifts appearing in the world, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth had been revitalized. Various demonic beasts had emerged one after another, destroying the places humans lived in. Many weapons had lost their function, and a large number of humans were then torn apart and eaten by cold-blooded demonic beasts…
At the same time, another race had been born: the Orcs, who were half man, and half beast.
In just the short span of 100 years, the Orcs continued to grow and quickly occupied a lot of territory on Earth.
There were many of them in the cities.
Only when human beings gradually became familiar with the awakening of skills and mastered the cultivation methods did they stabilize the remaining territory.
Becoming a warrior to withstand the demons and the Orcs was of supreme glory and everyone’s lifelong pursuit.
Li Jiye was no exception.
In a week’s time, it would be his last chance to stay in Polar Star Academy.
If he didn’t grasp this opportunity, he would be expelled from school.
His family had spent all their savings getting him into Polar Star Academy, and his sister who was only two years younger had given up the opportunity to go to school for his sake.
He would never accept it if he was expelled like this!
The “replication system” that suddenly appeared a month ago gave him hope.
He could copy the other party’s skills by touching them.
But he was regarded as a waste, and no one wanted to make friends with him. How could he get close to those with skills?
After weighing his choices, he decided to come to the Demonic Beast Mountain Range.
It turned out that he hadn’t come in vain.
The ability to replicate skills could also be used there.
The replication system not only replicated skills, but also martial arts!
However, Li Jiye had yet to use that aspect. He had been circling a bunch of demonic beasts in the Demonic Beast Mountain Range and hadn’t had chance to copy martial arts.
Demonic beasts only had skills and not martial arts, and many of them relied on pure physical strength.
But Li Jiye knew that he had to have physical contact with other humans if he wanted to copy martial arts.
Although the replication system was good, he could only use it once a week.
By copying the Tier 2 Storm Wolf’s skill, he had already used up the replication limit this week.
C-level was a little low, but it was still much stronger than the D-level and E-level skills that he had copied when he first came to the mountain range.
His strength now was limited, and he had already exhausted his energy battling the Tier 2 Storm Wolf. Without martial arts, he had the short end of the stick.
Once he returned to the academy, he would learn martial arts, and then challenge the more powerful demonic beasts to copy their advanced skills.
Among the different levels of skills, this latest C-level skill was only rated middle to lower.
Above the C-level were B-level, A-level, S-level, and even SS-level and the legendary SSS-level.
The skill level affected the height of one’s strength.
The rating for human beings started at the Tier 1 martial artist, then Tier 2, followed by Tiers 3, 4, and 5… and the legendary Tier 9.
Each tier was divided into upper, middle, and lower levels.
The same was true for the monsters. Tier 1 and 2 were of the weakest existences, and they could only walk around the periphery of the monster mountain range. Deeper into the mountains were more powerful demonic beasts, whose degree of danger also rose exponentially.
Legend had it that in the center of the mountain range was a Tier 9 monster!
But these were too far away for Li Jiye, who was still a Tier 1 warrior.
He was already rather satisfied with entering the mountain range and becoming a superior Tier 1 warrior in the span of a month.
But he wasn’t satisfied with the C-level skill.
The C-level’s growth limit was the Tier 4 martial artist. He would have to seek greater opportunities in order to grow further.
With such a unique replication system, how could he be willing to be a Tier 4 warrior?
He wanted to become even stronger than that!
…
Three days later, in Polar Star City.
After arriving, Li Jiye neither rushed to the academy nor back home, and ran directly to Yibao Pavilion instead.
He wanted to sell the magic cores he had gathered these days.
Although there was only one Tier 2 Storm Wolf magic core, he had about forty to fifty Tier 1 cores.
According to the market price of 10 gold coins for each Tier 1 magic core, he would receive 400 to 500 gold coins. Along with 100 gold coins for the Tier 2 magic core, he would get a total of almost 600 coins.
These gold coins could not only solve the problem of his sister’s schooling, but the rest could also buy some liquid medicines to assist in his cultivation. He could strive to improve his strength to a Tier 9 warrior and be more confident in the upgrade test.
As the largest and most comprehensive trading firm in Polar Star City that collected magic cores, medicinal materials, medicinal potions, and various weapons, Yibao Pavilion was naturally his best choice.