Chapter 22 Spider’s liar

'I am finally out!' Cried out Kyle, who had to straight away check where he was and what he had to do next. The cocoon was made out of some unbelievable strong, silky cobweb. He collected it into his storage space just in case he has a use for it later. There was no artificial light in the cave only some green rocks that barely gave any light out.

Kyle could see that the sharp object that hit his cocoon was a green rock that dropped from the cave ceiling. In fact, many of them dropped as the whole cave was shaking from time to time, 'Must be the goddamn ogre that is wreaking havoc. I hope that they kill each other there.'

Kyle wasn't certain what way was the exit, and so he chose one of the random paths that were leading to the left.

Kyle took out one of the wooden blocks that he bought to make a campfire. The blocks, in fact very easily lighted up and allowed Kyle to place them onto one of the swords that he bought and used it as a torch.

As Kyle kept on moving, it suddenly started to get brighter in the distance, that meant that Kyle was moving in the right direction. There were no spiders which really surprised Kyle, considering that he was in their home.

But once he reached the outside, it all started to make sense. Kyle didn't want to get sucked in the cocoon again, so he had the wolf fang knife in his hand clutched. Even if he gets put inside, he will easily be able to force his way through.

There, on the entrance to the cave, 2 massive figures were lying, motionless. The spider queen was lying next to the ogre, and ogre's hand crashed the spider figure even more. This was as if 2 buildings have collapsed on top of each other. It was an unbelievable sight.

'Wow! This result is something that I didn't even dream of! They both killed each other? This is the lucky opportunity that I needed!'

Kyle making sure that no-one was around, rushed straight at the two bodies.

Once he got close, suddenly 2 notification rang in his mind.

[ Congratulations. You have killed an enemy 3 levels higher than you. ]

[ Achievement has been achieved. ]

[ Would you like to get the rewards now? ]

Kyle chose [ No ]. He was still not in the same place to relax, and anything around him could have potentially killed him. If he wanted to sort through things, he had to find a better place.

The main point why Kyle came back to the battleground so fast, was because of this system question right in front of him.

[ Do you want to absorb? ]

[ Yes / No ]

There were 2 questions, with absorb word having a skull next to them.

[ Yes!]

Kyle pressed on the UI two times and the bodies started disappearing. The energy from them was not grey in colour like before but had a special glow to them. The Spyder's energy was purple in colour and gave the same feeling as this forest.

The ogre's energy was orange, the same colour as the fallen leaves in the forest that he explored before. Those two energies started first slow and then started accelerating towards Kyle dantian. The pearl as it sensed all of that energy coming to it, started rotating and absorbing anything that it could.

The pearl couldn't, no matter how it tried to swallow down all of the energy but was still exerting the swallowing force on everything around. The leftover energy was now swirling around Kyle, trying to force its way into his body. As the energy went frantic, it created a whirlpool around his body. It started spinning faster and faster, creating unbelievable wind around the area.

"Arghaaaaaaaaa" Kyle started screaming, as his body felt like it was being torn apart by an unseen force.

The bodies were only around 10% absorbed when a notification rang out in Kyle's mind.

[ Congratulations! You Reached Level 1! ]

[ Purifying EXP into QI ]

As this rang out, the pearl started sucking even more energy that was coming in, and from the other side of the pearl, an azure pure colour qi started gushing out straight to where his qi lake was.

This has already lasted for at least 5 minutes, and Kyle was on his last breath before losing consciousness. This was truly a torture for Kyle as he couldn't believe that powering up could be so painful.

His qi lake was getting filled, and at one point it started rotating as if the whirlpool that was above his head, transferred into his dantian as well, the qi started pulsating, and the azure colour was become translucent and then going back to azure. This whole process gave Kyle a very soft and sweet feeling, something that started to negate the feeling that the absorption gave him. Then at a sudden moment, his QI broke the beds of the lake that were holding it in space and rolled around the whole dantian. Strengthening and making its own storage for qi. As that happened, even more qi started gushing out of the pearl, slowly building up this lake.

Again, as expected, the notification rang out.

[ Congratulations. You reached Qi Refinement stage ]

Why Kyle didn't expect is next:

[ As you reached both level 1 and Qi Refinement a manual will be provided of the system ]

There was a thud sound and inside his storage space, now was a large blue book that said "The Game" on it.

Kyle didn't have the power to check it yet, as he needed only to focus on the absorption.

After both of the bodies became energy, the whirlpool that was around, Kyle now looked like a hurricane that was pulling out the trees and even making the cave to crack. Everything in the surrounding was basically ruined, and the earth looked like a crater where a meteor just fell. The nucleus of it was Kyle.

After he broke through in both level and cultivation, the whole process became much easier on his body and soul, which lead to him having a faster absorption rate. The harvest was large this time. He sped up through the levels without having to fight those 2 beats. 'I would off never been able to get this energy if not through luck. This is truly a great moment!' Kyle smelled and kept on absorbing.

At the last moment when the last energy has entered his body, he heard the system again:

[ Congratulation! You reacher 75% of Qi Condensation ]

With this finished and all of the energy collected, the qi that was once a lake that was limited in its edges now was like an uncontrollable ocean that was swirling and moving constantly, it has covered now around 75% of his dantian and was giving away cracking azure lighting. The qi gave the feeling of primordial power.

Now as the last drop of energy was absorbed and bodies fully disappeared, countless items started appearing on the floor, there were teeth, bones, eyes and anything that you could imagine, even the necklace that the ogre was wearing was lying in that pile. But as Kyle knew, he would only get what system decided to give him.