Chapter 25 - A forest of magical beasts

After everything was arranged and the contract signed, they agreed to meet in this place in around 3 months. At that point, the forest should be cleaned from any spiders that were left and the ancient road that was passing through it, to be renovated and improved so that carts and wagons can move through.

Kyle asked around the power level of the forests around and got told that every forest that was here belonged to some beast either level 2 or level 3. The further one goes inside the wilderness, to the location where Kyle got summoned to, the stronger beasts appear. Angus even said that there are rumours of level 7 beast living in one of the lakes inside.

This caused Kyle's eye to twitch. He remembered one very symbolic lake that even had a talking beast come out of it. If the ogre and the spider were so deadly to Kyle, then level 7 beast could off killed him with a fart. That was a scary thing to think about. He could off died from just being spawned into such a dangerous location.

At the moment, Kyle had no reason to stay in this camp any longer, and it seemed that something happened to the monsters in the area that let them level up by one or even two levels. This area was too dangerous for Kyle for now. That is why he headed out to one of the forests that always had level 0 beasts before and now might have only level 1 and rarely level 2.

In the world of Game, levels mattered so much. A spider queen of level 3 captured and nearly killed Kyle in less than a second with a single attack.

Plus the sheer size and regeneration powers improved drastically with each level, sometimes the beasts when levelling up would unlock a stored in their genes or bloodline some skill or legacy that would let them boost their strength considerably.

Understanding this, Kyle was very much looking forward to finding what exactly he can do now. Kyle also told that going out of the forest for beats was forbidden by the beast king. It was a pact they made to prevent slaughter between their own species. If someone wanted to get another territory, they would need to expand from sides instead of crossing the green vast land to move for the weakest beasts. If someone broke that pact, every beast would come with war to it. That is why ogre chasing Kyle was an ultimate death for ogre anyways.

As Kyle reached the forest that he was about to explore, he set up a small tent that he got from White wolfs guild and started exploring all of the updates he had.

First, it was the achievement notification when he came close to the spider queen and ogres body.

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

[ Achievement has been achieved. ]

[ Would you like to get the rewards now? ]

Kyle now was safe and could check what it was. He pressed Yes.

[ Increased Luck is upgraded to Lucky Charm ]

[ Congratulations! Lucky Charm is now level 1 ]

Kyle looked at the system disappointed and said to it, "Are you joking? That was an unbelievably hard thing to pull off, and the only thing I get is some stupid lucky charm?!" Kyle was angry and walked outside the tent. It was an evening, and he was about to go to sleep. Kyle was very angry with the system and out of frustration, kicked one of the rocks that were lying around next to him.

The rock out of the sheer power of Kyle's kick flew at least a kilometre until it hit the forest trees that were in front of him. 'Wow! What power! Level 1 and 75% allows me to wield such huge power? At least I got the levels from all of this…' with this another notification popped out.

[ Lucky Charm used ]

Below the rock that he kicked there suddenly appeared a trap door that was leading somewhere below the ground. Kyle was stunned as he was certain that this big trap door was never there, and he would off noticed it. 'Okay, maybe this lucky charm is not as useless as I thought.

He opened the trap door to see what was inside, but after just briefly looking inside, he shut it closed and started panting. There at the bottom of the ladder that was leading down, he saw a red eye that was blinking and looking straight at him. The eye itself was the size of Kyle's whole body, considering that Kyle could only see a bit of what it was. He also smelled a strong scent of sulphurous which was known to be in the areas of burning and in the areas where magma was present.

'That is is way too dangerous… This trap door seemed to be held by some magical force that only I can open, but just to make sure I will hide it somehow." Kyle made sure to hide the trap door and put some barely visible identification stamp for himself. 'I think that it is at least level 5 area, no way I am going for a suicide right now.'

Kyle had too many places to explore right now.

Next to where Kyle currently stationed himself, was a small pond that had clean water in it. This could allow Kyle to wash himself, which is the main problem he had with purifying his impurities with his qi. Kyle went into the pond and closed his eyes, concentrating on his body.

Now he stopped holding back the qi and let it flow freely through his meridians. The feeling of all of his body constantly being struck by needles was very uncomfortable, but the healing effect and the soothing effect of qi balanced it out. The black smudge rolled out of all of Kyle's pores straight into the pond, but Kyle didn't see that he was too absorbed in seeing how his body would change.

Kyle understood that in reality humans body from earth was extremely poor for cultivation. His meridians structure had a lot of edges, and also the meridians were barely visible due to the thousands of years of humans not practising cultivation. This is why this purifying process was heaven's way of accepting him into the cultivators' world.

The process lasted an unknown amount of time for Kyle, but when he opened his eyes, he wasn't in the pond like before, he was in some swamp where black liquid fully surrounded him. It was disgusting, but Kyle was able to leave the swamp easily. As Kyle left the water, his body was now completely different from before. His abs now were perfect, and all of his muscles radiated a truly unmovable feeling. His face has gotten much more attractive with every feature deserving to be a top model of earth. His whole aura that he radiated now has changed from being a no-one to being a strong and wise young man.

Kyle looked inside his body and could see the most perfect structure of his meridians and organs. This was exactly as the book said, even his dantian has moved to be in the perfect place to absorb and distribute qi. The only different thing was that the pearl inside his dantian was positioned and not outside like the book showed.

Now that Kyle was fully baptised, he went back into his tent. He still had more of his power-ups to figure out!