Bab 17: Chapter 17. Treasure
Using the commotion as a distraction, Zen fled as quickly as possible.
Zen returns to where he stores the clothes he bought from the clothing store. He changes clothes before sneaking into a poorer part of the city.
'Phew, I hope they are distracted enough by the commodition!'
Zen was actually very nervous right now.
First, he was shocked by the speed of the cloaked man before.
Zen couldn't even see the man's movements.
The only reason why he was able to win was because his fighting experience was much richer than the robed man, and he had a Innate Skill that could counter the man's speed. The element of surprise also played an important role in his victory.
The robed man thought that Zen was a melee fighter who only relied on his fists, so he believed that his speed could make him win easily.
But surprisingly, Zen had <Magic Sense>, which while unable to help him see the robed man's rapid movements, still allowed Zen to roughly predict the direction of his movements, and the {Darkness Grip} to act as a spider's web to catch the moth off guard.
The rest is very easy. With [Flaming Punch Technique] alone, Zen had advantage in terms of attack power of the cloaked man, so he could defeat him easily.
"Unlike a Weapon Warlord Realm cultivator, that guy seems to be too lame on speed. Is it because he has a speed-boosting Innate skill?"
Zen felt a little happy after he gained more knowledge about this world's power system.
In addition to magic and weapon techniques, this world also has Innate skills as additional power elements that seem to have various types of effects that can be dangerous and unpredictable.
However, other than the parts that are strengthened by Innate skills, Innate skill users are practically not too different from someone who doesn't have Innate skills. Thus, Zen was able to take advantage that gap to defeat his enemies who used Innate skills from now on - just like when he defeated the robed man.
'It looks like Innate skill is also a good research material for me to add to my cultivation path!'
Once again, inspiration blessed Zen's cultivation path.
Zen became even more impatient to immediately go to the Floating City Magnel and accumulate knowledge about magic now!
But before that... This black cloth package, Zen was really curious about what it contained!
Looking for a seemingly inconspicuous spot behind the pile of metal and wood waste, Zen placed the package on the ground and open it.
"W-what... Is this?"
Zen felt drooling just by looking at the thing he found.
"Is this something like... Very delicious VVIP superfood?"
Zen swallowed his saliva and found it very difficult to resist the urge to eat the thing immediately.
Behind the cloth package, a deep black crystal flower bud that had already bloomed could be seen.
It appearance was not very appetizing with a few blood-red veins flowing between the petals. The flowers are also quite large; about the size of an adult's head.
Zen's nose was tickled by the sweet scent emitted by the flower.
He is very confident that this flower bud is definitely a top-notch delicious superfood just by smelling the aroma it emits!
'Damn, I think even the best Immortal Chef cuisine I've been eaten on Earth can't match this deliciousness!'
Wiping away his saliva that began to drip, Zen grasped the flower bud with both hands before finally, he took a single bite.
"Mmmm!!"
As expected, it tasted amazingly delicious.
Zen's Zombie face, which had only slightly looked better after he entered Wuman disguise mode, was now red from ecstasy!
A very unique savory sweetness danced between his tongue and coloring his esophagus with amazing flavors. Even the after-taste of it is no less delicious and makes Zen tempted to sit still and enjoy it for a few moments.
But in front of him at this time there are still many of those delicacies, so... How could he be satisfied with a mere after-taste if he had the true source of the taste!?
Zen began to eat the black flower buds bite after bite.
Since he was born in both of his lives, this moment were probably the best times for Zen.
When Zen managed to finish the last petal, he was still in a state of fascination by the delicious taste left all over his body and could only lean on it with a big smile on his face.
Suddenly, he was attacked by a very strong feeling of drowsiness.
Zen's eyelids felt very heavy and began to close several times.
Can't no longer hold back the drowsiness, Zen fell asleep.
When Zen had fallen into a deep sleep, dark energy suddenly began to grow from his body.
Dark energy enveloped his entire body dan start changing something within Zen's body.
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Evolution.
This is a huge phenomenon that is always awaited by all kinds of monsters - even Undeads.
With Evolution, monsters would rise to higher levels, become much stronger, and sometimes even awaken advanced versions of their existing Innate skills, or simply awaken new Innate skills.
But actually, Evolution is divided into two types of Evolution.
The first is Basic Evolution.
This type of evolution is a widely known evolution. Monsters will become stronger by changing their body structure into a higher version of themselves - or in case if that their evolution is triggered by a strong Monster cores they consume, they will awaken new physical characteristics of the type of Monster that possesses the Monster core.
The second was Class Evolution.
Unlike Basic Evolution, which means improving themselves, Class Evolution focuses on fundamentally changing the behavior and status of a monster in their herd.
The phenomenon of Class Evolution often occurs when a herd of Monsters loses their leader, and among the strongest young Monsters, as if they were chosen by their own herd, they will become the new leader of their herd.
But actually, Class Evolution wasn't that simple.
Although only a few people know about it, Monsters actually have 5 types of classes.
-Alpha Class.
The Monster class that became the leader. Have high leadership skills. Higher growth potential. They figure dominates among their subordinates.
-Royal Class.
Noble Monster Class. Like nobles, they would always be adored by their Monster race wherever they went and often didn't have to fight at all. This kind of monster usually has an important role in their herd. Does not have high fighting ability.
-Pawn Class.
The lowest Monster Class. Average strength and potential. Usually work is tasked with building a herd instead of fighting or defending the herd.
-Knight Class.
Monsters that can fight alongside their Alpha, or protect their Royal. The main combat power of the Monster herd with all the stats was extremely high.
-Lone Class.
The type of Monster who chooses to be alone. Their strength varied and did not follow the rules of other classes at all. They were sometimes so strong that it was almost impossible to defeat, while sometimes, they would be so weak that a blow from an ordinary tree branch could kill them.
The flower that Zen eats is known as the Evil Flower.
It was a special type of flower that could only grow in places with a very high population of monsters.
The reason why this flower was referred to as the Evil Flower was because it had the ability to trigger a monster – even the weakest – to undergo Class Evolution. This flower effect is very evil because the probability of evolution occurring is 100% and it is not uncommon for a Royal or even an Alpha to be born.
In this world right now, Zombie monsters have the highest population level and are centered on Gambross Continent; biggest continent in this world and was former major residences of mankind and their success. There, the entire continent has been completely overrun by Zombies. In fact, it seems, the Zombies on the continent have repeatedly undergone Basic Evolution and Class Evolution; forming their own nation.
As a result, due to their large population, Evil Flowers very often grew on the continent; make even more type of monster undergo Class Evolution and keep become stronger dan stronger every times.
However, that didn't mean that in this continent, the Crumbianc continent, the Evil Flower couldn't grow.
On the western side of the continent, where the population of Zombie monsters is still not as well controlled as other parts of the continent, Evil Flower often thrives.
Even the Evil Flower that Zen consumed came from the western part of this continent.
Then the question is... What kind of class will Zen evolve into?
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