章 420: Reaching a Bottleneck

A couple of hours had passed since Valyr had obtained recognition from the Shadow Plane and gained the [Shadow Energy Mark] skill.

During those past couple of hours, he had been killing Shadow Bears left and right after being told by Noel to focus on improving the quantity of his Shadow Energy first before deciding to condense it and improve its quality.

While doing so, he took note of the many changes having the [Shadow Energy Mark] skill had while in combat and while not in combat, with the most prominent change being the fact that he felt that his stats were slightly higher than they were without Shadow Energy.

Wanting to ascertain this fact, Valyr tested his hypothesis by using a bit of his Shadow Energy in sending a lone Shadow Bear to the afterlife, faintly nodding after sensing that all of his stats had reduced by a point or two.