Demon King

Where did I go wrong?

[Grunting]

First of all, it was clear that I had completely misunderstood Jinma's intentions on the second floor of the tower.

I believed that hunting the undead down the second floor by distributing my own stamina and magical power without a single blow and pulling them to full efficiency.

But they weren't. When they defeated all the undead, they resurrected as if they were just waiting for it…… No, they were reassembled.

If we defeat them one more time, can we win by destroying them better?

No way. It's impossible to conserve your stamina and magical power more than this, with no guarantee that you will be defeated twice. It may be possible, but I could not save enough energy to wipe out the entire army once more.

How to kill an army that doesn't die. Like Ei said, what's the way to get them back to nothing?

Do I need a special weapon? Or should we sprinkle holy water as is common in movies? But there was no way to get it now, and we couldn't open the inventory, so there was no way to use it unless we had the equipment.

Critically, the Holy Water seemed to work for me if it worked for the Undead.

It is impossible to simply kill them with weapons or skills. Since you said you can't conquer it unless you destroy it with radishes, you shouldn't bury those who dug a trap.

At this point, I had no choice but to bring back the first thought I discarded into my mind. I didn't think so, but it's the first possibility I've ignored, and now it's all I have left.

Eating. I had to eat them.

But it wasn't enough to just eat. The undead were watching as they were being restored from the dust to the skeleton.

They came back in one piece, even though they were burnt to death by Black Mines or Hematitis, and their blood was shattered by a shadow. If I was satisfied with just the level of shredding and swallowing, I would have a horrible experience of the ghoul rising from my stomach eating my organs.

Needed predatory skill.

You cannot defeat them unless you consume them completely and absorb them into your own. It makes sense that Jinma's second floor was originally thought to be prepared for the growth of predatory skills.

[Predatory Lv4]

[Any creature can eat anything. Restores health, health, and injuries by eating. Some degree of toxicity can be ignored. Increases efficiency when absorbing the ability of eaten items. Increases the chance to steal even lower level skills.]

Predatory skills have progressed considerably to date to level 4, but they remain unique.

Any creature can eat anything. In other words, what is not an organism is not an object of predatory skills.

[Your neck bone looks amazing! Can I take it?]

[Fresh flesh, full of vital blood!]

Skeletons with skeletons in their hands in front of them, and giant ghouls in the back, move with minimal body movements to avoid them, and I continue thinking.

It is not possible to predate the undead with a predatory skill of level 4 right now. But we can't conquer the second floor of Jinma's Tower without eating them all.

It's like when Lee Chan Yuk evolved.

Bondi succeeded in taming the impossible Hellhound. As a result, he evolved into a beast commander. How is that possible? Was it just a miracle?

It can't be, because what I believed was impossible was possible.

Lee Chan Yuk believed that he could only harvest lesser wolves with his own skill, but he also had the ability to subdue the Hellhound with his own strength and will, not with his own skill. Just because it's not a pure cane skill, it's the power and possibility of Lee Choon Yoo's nature.

It was just not shown in the kill description.

Skills are always right. I don't lie. I use it as much as I want because I can even use my off-the-shelf skills called Lunatic Trickster. Black mines, flame magic, and ubiquitous detection.

But since when have I been able to do only what is prescribed as a skill? I was able to swing my sword before I learned martial arts and jump before I learned to leap. It's just that it wasn't more efficient than a skill.

Not impossible because you don't have a skill. Skills were only a component that strengthened behaviors related to the skill.

But my skills helped me see my growth and possibilities, and I've been able to understand and move my power with them since some point in time. Skills taught me what I could do well and I followed them.

When did I become attracted to skills, not strengthen myself with them?

I always use my skills, but I wasn't strengthening myself with them, I was tailoring myself to them. This is absurd.

There is no conclusion yet as to what skills ultimately are and what they do. However, it was clear that my skills could never express all of my own strength.

It was too late, but once I realized that, I had to take action.

I had to do something impossible with my predatory skill alone.

Lee Chan Yuk has already done it. However, if you can't do one of these things, you can't raise your head to him.

[Rrrrghhh!]

Fortunately, directionality alone has a sense of what to do. It was not that different from what I had done on the second floor of Jinma's tower.

So far, I've analyzed my attack and movement skills and calculated how I can bring their efficiency closer to the pole. I have perfected my skills by changing my movements, managing Mana, etc.

What you need to analyze this time is predatory skills. I had to fully understand how predatory skills worked. How to take a subject's life, its power. How to replace it with my own strength, why it's impossible against the Undead!

Skill cannot be changed to increase efficiency, so it must be fully analyzed before correction can be applied. I had to use my predatory skills to make it possible by adding other forces to it.

I had to use physical strength, magical strength, other skills than predatory, and anything else I needed.

I can do it. No, we have to. If I don't, I'll be locked up here on the second floor of Jinma's tower forever.

Three things you need.

Predatory Skill.

Undead.

And monsters, not undead.

The Undead are full of them. There are enough specimens.

Monsters other than the undead are also here. There's only one, but there's no shortage of samples.

Even if you die, you can be resurrected as a whole body.

I walked with my cloak and clothes. You sprinkle the surrounding undead monsters, relentlessly pushing your right arm into my mouth.

Although I felt a physiological aversion, my commitment to survival and strength was stronger than anything else. I was confident that I was going to do this, and I couldn't go back.

“I'll eat well. ”

I bit my arm.

Predatory skill is ultimately a tool that aids my strength.

My predatory skills are cleaner and easier to express. And the more I used it, the more my temper rose, the more I developed with my own strength.

It is easy to misunderstand that it is possible because it exists as a skill, but the order is wrong.

Because it is what I can do, it was born as a skill and is bound to me.

This is my power. It is my own power that Auroth possesses, which I have neither the mind to explain nor explain to anyone else.

After understanding the skill, he was able to naturally figure out how he was able to accomplish what he thought was impossible.

I pull up my senses, desperately searching for myself, my arms, my mouth that bites them, and the ferocious force that pulsates within me. Suffer the pain. I forget.

“Grrrgh.”

[You must be starving!]

[Give it to me! Your left arm!]

The energy of life flowing through flesh, bones, blood and muscles, but less than that, Manat's energy beats vividly. There was more energy and less energy, but the energy was divided into two.

It greedily absorbs all of them. It was not so simple to absorb in nature, but I was able to do it so naturally that, as humans walk on two legs, as birds fly, as whales swim.

By eating it, I lock it in myself, classify it, pull it out, and give it back to my own flesh.

However, my health and magical strength never recover because I am old. Rather decrease. Why? Because I still can't make everything I eat completely mine. Lack of ability.

Desperately, controlling the power of predation could slightly increase its efficiency, but the limits of experience, the limits of violence, stood in front of it. This was the only way to sustain the growth of the prey going forward.

After five deaths, I learned a predatory skill. How to eat. I was able to understand all of the process of absorbing energy and adding it to me. Now all that's left is to figure out why it's impossible for the undead.

Now that we've tested predation with organisms, there's some speculation. But in the end, it was impossible to digest it without actually eating it.

[Machine giggles!]

[He's crazy!]

At the age of 50 deaths and fighting them, the pattern of behavior of the middle and lower undead has already been fully understood. You roughly chase them down and grab a skeleton. He tried to pierce my chest with his bare hands, but my cloak was not pierced by the attack.

“I'll eat well. ”

[Grunting! It hurts! It's dark!]

I bit his head off. It was okay to chew on bones now. But as soon as a part of the Undead came inside me, I understood why I couldn't swallow them with my predatory skills.

This food... is harmful.

Undead, things that don't contain the life force at all. Among other things, what did this undead army look like?

The energy of life begins to dissipate from the moment it becomes a corpse. Mana is the same. Well, technically, the energy of life is more like controlling Mana. When the energy of life vanishes, Mana also naturally vanishes.

The moment when all the energy of life is gone is the moment when the body is completely returned to nature. When the ashes were burnt up, the body was no more, weathered or left. At this time, Mana is also restored to nature.

There must be no life force to become the undead, but the dead body is returned to nature.

Thus, the undead artificially extracts all the energy of life and injects it with new energy, or it transforms the energy of life itself. so that we can maintain the body.

A magical energy created mimicking the energy of life. Energy to hold Mana and keep the body moving. It's called the energy of death.

In this way, things that move to death are created, not creatures that have been moved to life.

Four-level predatory skill classifies and absorbs power in two ways. Energy of Life and Mana.

These two can be converted into health and magical power. When an organism is absorbed by Orlot, the energy of life and Mana combine to extract special defects and can be accepted as a skill.

Of course, there seems to be other interventions as well as just the combination of the energy of life and Mana, but we can't figure that out.

However.

However, the energy of death is not included in the target of predation.

It is not an energy that can be absorbed by predatory power. It was actually a simple logic.

The feeling of an unclean energy invading my body was truly terrible. It's hard to get Mana out of there because the energy of death is tightening. However, I could not cast out the energy of death.

Meanwhile, the energy of death tried to corrupt the spirit of my life and put it in my body at will.

because that is the essence of the energy of death. Involving the energy of life and assimilating it with yourself. He wants to make me an undead as well.

The horror it brings was truly terrible. The moment I became the undead, the moment I lost the power of life, what if I believed I would be resurrected again? What if it's not recognized by death?

[Queek. Queek, queek.]

[Funny. Fun!]

I desperately raised Mana, but the aura of death has invaded me, slowly and gradually, destabilizing the aura of life. Moreover, the undead have been aggressively attacking me without leaving me alone.

Is that really possible? Is that how you limit your prey? A creature can only accept a creature?

No, it may be possible to develop You will break the spirit of death, dominate it, and deal with it with my strength. I was sure it would be.

But I'm not strong enough to do that. Not enough predatory skills. Time needed an overwhelming amount of time compared to what I had been through so far.

If so, what should we do? For me to survive, to completely absorb the undead?

The aura of death that penetrates the heart corrupts the dark heart. I want to drown my beating heart with death.

Then I suddenly thought.

Deterioration.

If it is possible to transform the energy of life into the energy of death, is the opposite impossible?

Is it impossible to transform the energy of death into the energy of life?

This is not just an area of predatory skill. If Mana could produce the energy of death, wouldn't the opposite be possible?

Suddenly, I thought about it, and the black heart beat loudly once. The aura of death that struck the heart retreated.

I picked up the detection. I focused and focused and searched for the energy of death. The power, the way it moves, of those who are in my midst!

Time is running out, and I'm an undead. However, as soon as my worries became awkwardly undead, I was revived as an intact Bugbear, and this time I grabbed a zombie and swallowed it.

I scoured the energy of death, the way it controls Mana, and the way it corrupts the energy of life. I found a possible way in it for me. I found a way to resist it with my other powers.

Only after the seventeenth death did I find it.

[Intermediate Regeneration becomes Lv10 and evolves to Advanced Regeneration. Some dead bodies can be brought back to life.]

The power to transform the energy of death into the energy of life. Yeah, there was playback. Until now, the power was so weak that I could not examine it in detail, but I was sure to possess it.

I analyzed it. Focused on sensing enough to lose your head, destroyed the undead, swallowed them, analyzed death, analyzed life and regeneration.

I figured out how to turn death into life.

[Epic Regeneration is Lv3.]

I swallowed the ghoul. I chewed the man who was about to chew me up and stirred up the energy of regeneration against his enormous death.

Not enough to resurrect a part of the dead body. I had to extract only the power of regeneration and intercept the energy of death myself. And all that turned into the energy of life had to be absorbed into a predator.

Impossible with regenerative skills alone. Impossible with predatory skill alone.

I was able to use all my skills, all my body moves, all my Manat domination tricks, and everything.

[Grrrghhhhh!]

When did the terminals come? Where did it come from?

At some point, I realized that I no longer have the energy of death in me.

I realized that my stamina and magic, which had never been recovered, had been consumed since I started fighting on the second floor of Jinma's Tower, had been restored to a great extent.

You raise your head. Hundreds of undead are staring at me.

They were no longer food I could not eat.

Chapter 19. Fifth Evolution 5 End

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