Stockpiling

After epically bitch slapping the anjanath alex took the opportunity that its struggle to right itself presented and gained enough altitude to be safe from its fire breath. this was a good idea as the anjanath was absolutely livid as it flung fire around it in what alex assumed to be a temper tantrum. besides scorching a bunch of dirt and plants this accomplished nothing but alex wasn't about to go down there to tell it that from the glare it was sending him. the anjanath eventually cut it's losses and stomped back into the forest scorching a poor jagras that didn't run away fast enough.

The reason alex didn't fly away this entire time was because he didn't want to risk the anjanath following him from the ground. now that he was in the clear alex hefted his prey back to astera where the hunters took it apart again for him. he didn't get the meat cooked this time as he just downed it right there on the spot. alex found it interesting how the people of this world used the bones of monsters in all sorts of ways. for example they ground them up and mixed the dust with some kind of epoxy to create sturdy sheets of material that can be shaped with heat.

They also used the bones by themselves with leather as a type of armor thanks to the innate sturdiness of the monsters bones. with the bones are big enough alex had even seen bone weapons that channeled the element of the monster they came from. alex went back to his nest for the day having gained another 50k points for his meal. alex wanted to increase his size to about the size of the deviljho before focusing on his elements.

This meant alex needed to stockpile around a million points which he had already price gauged before he went to sleep. if he only wanted to his nergigante's size he would only need about four hundred and seventy thousand points , still a pretty high amount but much more reasonable. the reason for the drastic price difference was because nergigante was actually pretty small as far as elder dragon were concerned. deviljho however was a fairly large monster and was bigger than most monsters save the super huge ones like zorah magdaros. great jagras had a size of about a thousand cm and nergigante of between twenty six hundred and sixteen hundred cm.

Deviljho on the other hand started at twenty six hundred and went all the way up to three thousand three hundred. to reach the average of nergigante at about eighteen hundred cm meters was a far less expensive option all around and it set him in the big boy club. right now he was only about seven hundred cm total and that had cost him around a hundred and twenty thousand points total. paying almost four times that to grow about two and a half times bigger was totally worth it.

Keep in mind that by having more size alex would also have more power in his body without using system approved steroids. he could also take the route of rajang where all of his stupidly high amount of power was in a small size of eight hundred cm. that was the great thing about the system , alex could choose literally any path he wanted so long as he had the points for it and the imagination , still alex wanted to get as big as a nergigante and then focus on all the other stuff.

It certainly helped that alex didn't need to spend anymore points to grow his thunder element , he just needed time in his nest. alex passed the next two days hunting great jagras before on the night of the third day his horns and spines finished growing out. the change after they were done was instantaneous as alex could now control the thunder element in him like it was one of his claws. an added bonus that he discovered while playing with his spines was that he could pass the energy from one spine to the next starting at his tail condensing the energy each time like godzilla.

He didn't have enough energy to create a beam of it like godzilla but when he eventually did it was gonna be awesome. alex clashed with the same anjanath both times he was hunting great jagras and he could have sworn it was like the damn thing was specifically searching him out. this was actually how he got his first scar in this world as the anjanath got his rear left leg with a fire breath. it deformed the skin slightly under his scales so even after he shed his skin the new scales were slightly warped in that area.