Why Level 200 Reccomended?

The flame became even ferocious. With a keen eye and cold head, Jack changed his position and used his tentacle to latch on the almost broken spear, trying to find the right timing and momentum.

When the handle of the shorter spear began to crack, Jack executed his move.

He swung his own body using the tentacle. The handle broke and he was launched to the air, together with the broken wooden handle of the spear.

The panther stopped spinning when he noticed that his prey wasn't latching on the spear handle anymore. As it faced the sky, it saw a malicious killing intent from the glowing red eyes. The way of the jungle was harsh, but only when two individuals encountered each other in a fight of life and death, they could glimpse the hardship that the other side had gone through.

Moonlight paved its way onto ground through the human as a shadow. As the tentacle swayed against the wind, it replicated the image of a scythe.

And the red eyes within the frame of the panther's vision, was the epitome of immaculate. Frozen, the beast could only wait its death when the maw of the reaper was not on the beast's side.

In a fast motion, Jack slammed the end of the wood onto the beast's head, bringing the fang to stab the ground. With all of the wound and blood loss, the mighty Pomu stopped breathing as it couldn't fight any further.

Jack felt wobbly as he sluggishly moved onto the area near the bonfire, trying to find a good angle to perceive what he had done in trying to survive. Huffing and puffing, he removed the burning leaves on his partially charred apparel.

[Petra Tentacle> Length: 113cm(+10) | Kinetic Strength: 30kg(+5) | Aggressiveness: 52(+20)]

"Hahaha, ahahahah!" Jack backed down and eventually leaned his tired body to the ground, watching the Pomu's flame slowly dissipating. "That son of a gun. If not for Petra, my body would be pushed back to the flame instead of holding my ground."

[If not by the spear impaling through the beast torso and creating a huge wound, it might be able to instantly kill you with a slash right after the lunge_

[Congratulations, Jack. You fought quite well for someone at your age.]

"Hell yeah I did!" Jack beamed the sky with his wide grin. "My first prey, this reminded me of the time I had with the Longcoat Hunter back in the southern woods."

Jack rambled on with the unlocked past memory after the crazy fight with the Level 70 Pomu for a full minute. Sephiroth listened to him quite earnestly as he recorded everything into his new database.

[Petra Tentacle has acquired a new Mutated Ability>>

[Partial Stone Layering{M1}: The capability of creating a strong petrification RNA created by the influence of Rock Mutagen that used physical energy to temporarily and bio-chemically turn an organic body part into stone, allowing the tentacle with the said ability to imbue protection to itself and the host when attached as a body part.]

[ 3 Mutagen {Rock}]

| —> Partial Stone Layering {Mastery:1}

| —> (10%)]

"Finally! I'm saddened that it was late, but it's better than nothing!" Jack wanted to stand but his muscle was aching for a rest, showing an exhausted frown. "I'll experiment on it tomorrow—or maybe now. I need to process the beast into something useful before it gets cold. Wait, I think it's better if it gets cold."

He took five minutes of rest while he impatiently began experimenting on his tentacle ability knowing that it was still attached as a body part.

It took quite a while before he was able to travel the petrification RNA produced from his tentacle, extending his resting time before starting the skinning process of the beast. Currently, he could only harden a single finger and that alone showed how much potential that the Tentacle System had.

As for the toughness, it was rock hard as expected.

Doing his tentacle ability experiment awakened a new side of him. He then rolled himself and gazed at the dead Pomu, drooling on what kind of ability that his tentacle could acquire after he used the body part as a Mutagen.

[You should try to go for the important body part that sparked the flame, Jack.]

"I saw it click its own fangs as an ignitor. I wonder if fire synergizes well with Petra that is building up its rock ability. Huehuehuhue."

After his body wasn't as tense anymore, he got up in gusto, trying to salvage the available material and meat that he could extract from his first prey.

With his unlocked memory of the hunt, Jack was able to skillfully separate everything from the bone, flesh, leather, blades, and the guts. After trying to get more wood to keep his bonfire alive, he created a space for the meat to be placed and cooked.

"Seems like a Level 70 beast is dastardly stronger than a Paratrooper in my world." Jack stared at the fangs with glowing runes on his hands. "Thankfully, it was stupid and it didn't have any defensive capability. It's like a naked barbarian running in a straight line with two heavy greatswords on each hand. Heh."

[We're in a Level 200 recommended area. It seemed like the requirements were heightened because of the fighting difficulty of the dwellers of this forest_

[Meaning that the Universal Level Quotient were actually referring to the raw physical ability and not the combat. Either that or you're lucky and the Level 70 Pumo was actually in the influence of weeds.]

"Or!" Jack added with is forefinger up. "There is an extremely strong top-chain predator that is inflating the danger warning!"

It was quite an eerie and satisfying night. Jack used the scrapped dry blood of the panther to mark his territory, exclaiming to the Galamor Forest that a new predator had set his home. Planning to stay in this location for the meantime, he prepared the leathers to be dried when the morning rose.

"Leather clothing will be nice." Imagining himself with a fancy leather jacket brought hope to his mind. It might be hard to craft but the experience was what mattered.