[Ding, Constitution +1]

  [Gained Skill, Water Magic lv1]

  [Unlocked New Evolution Path] Low-Tier Ocean Skeleton

  [Low-Tier Ocean Skeleton] A skeleton from the ocean, possessing the ability to manipulate water currents.

  It's good to be alive.

  Seeing Li Pound lying on the ground unchanged, Lucia's expression changed from expectation to disappointment.

  She even kicked him, shouting, "Next!"

  Li Pound got up from the ground again and wandered around.

  Actually, he was gloating over the various ways his new batch of colleagues and skill sets were dying.

  It has to be said, watching other skeletons die after escaping danger is not a bad activity.

  Damn it, I've become a pervert.

  I was just transformed into a skeleton, captured and thrown into a skeleton den, afraid to even leave the house when I saw skeletons.

  I never thought I'd become this grotesque.

  Is this what it means to fall?

  After seeing off another batch of colleagues, the succubus's eyes were looking at him strangely.

  In the days that followed, Li Pound no longer needed to patronize succubus; instead, the succubus scrambled to patronize him.

  While patronizing him, they would say things like, "May the lucky skull bless me to advance to a mid-level succubus," "May the lucky skull bless me to attract a cute boy next time I go out," and "May the lucky skull bless me to escape my bad luck and get two gold items in ten pulls."

  Okay, the last one was what Li Pound hoped for.

  These succubus severely hampered Li Pound's progress in farming. He only managed to reach level 6 and gain enough free attribute points to survive by the time Lucia returned.

  Li Pound's [Constitution] had reached 11 points, meeting the evolution requirement, but his [Strength] was only 5 points.

  He was severely unbalanced.

  This was undoubtedly an experiment with the Earth attribute.

  Li Pound's prepared skills were [Earth Resistance], [Resilience], [Hard Bones], and [Self-Healing].

  Lucia once again singled out Li Pound from the pile of skeletons and unleashed her magic.

  "Deterioration." This time, it was the skill most effective against skeletons.

  Using soil to deteriorate and disintegrate bones was a highly effective skill against skeletons that constantly carried the [Bone Deterioration] status.

  But with 11 points in [Constitution] and [Earth Resistance], Li Pound calmly overcame the deterioration.

  This time, the Earth attribute crystal was already the size of a pigeon egg.

  In an instant, Li Pound was enveloped in earthen-yellow flames, his bones crumbling into dust layer by layer.

  At that moment, Li Pound felt as if he had returned to the earth, becoming a slumbering corpse within it.

  His body continued to decay, merging into the earth.

  Not only his body disintegrated, but also his consciousness.

  "That was truly dangerous."

  Li Pound sighed inwardly.

  If it were before, encountering an earth-attribute crystal that countered skeletons would have been dangerous.

  But for Li Pound now, this type of crystal posed no threat.

  He didn't even need to add points to his constitution to survive.

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  He was now a tank-type skeleton!

  [Ding, Constitution +1]

  [Gained skill, Earth Magic lv1]

  [Unlocked new evolution path] Low-tier Earth Skeleton

  [Low-tier Earth Skeleton] A skeleton born from the earth, possessing bones as hard as rock, manipulating the power of soil and rock, level cap lv25. Shaking off the mud, Li Pound ignored Lucia's disappointed gaze and continued wandering.

  What a wonderful demon, giving him a whole set of elemental skills right off the bat, practically an angel investor in his escape journey.

  He'd definitely make her die an easier death later.

  Although the outcome was good, this demon had definitely been plotting to kill him all along.

  Then, one by one, these fourth batch of colleagues died.

  Now only one remained—the sole survivor of all four rounds of experiments, the super skeleton Li Pound.

  Then, Li Pound was released.

  To be honest, Li Pound was a little reluctant to leave.

  Of the four elemental magics, he still hadn't acquired wind magic, which he was actually looking forward to.

  Before leaving, a group of succubus even stole Li Pound's finger bones.

  It's said that each succubus possesses a lucky skull finger bone, granting a luck bonus.

  Under the supervision of Principal Lucia Pound, Li Pound, returning from the Succubus Academy, was brimming with confidence.

  Now, he was confident he could easily crush these foolish fellow skeletons.

  He swiftly donned a complete set of divine gear.

  [Swiftness Lv1] Right Leg, [Stealth Lv1] Left Leg, [Swordsmanship Lv1] Right Arm, [Great Strength Lv1] Left Arm.

  Especially the right arm with [Swordsmanship].

  That was an extremely rare item; Li Pound had only encountered one among Pound's many low-level skeletons.

  After acquiring the [Swordsmanship] skill, he even gained a new evolution path and class.

  [Low-Level Skeleton Swordsman] A skeleton wielding a sword, capable of sword skills, a rather dangerous skeleton, level cap lv20.

  [Swordsman] A warrior class, capable of learning powerful sword techniques.

  Now, he could practically roam freely among the low-level skeletons.

  Lurk, build strength, seize the opportunity.

  Li Pound hadn't forgotten these three points.

  The opportunity had arrived. If all went according to plan, in less than twenty days, a group of enemies would come to attack Pound.

  And he, in these less than twenty days, needed to carefully lay low, raise his level, and gain power.

  Then seize the opportunity.

  A week of hunting had raised Li Pound's level to lv7.

  After all, this was Pound's territory, and now with the addition of intelligent succubus roaming, he dared not kill too many skeletons at once, only managing to kill two or three a day at a time.

  Today, he targeted a level 10 low-tier skeleton.

  After all, the level cap for low-tier skeletons is only 10; the next level up is mid-tier.

  Li Pound had hunted quite a few level 10 skeletons already.

  His bones transformed into claws, gripping the neck. Earth magic rapidly degraded the cervical vertebrae before snapping them.

  Water magic directly poured into the skull, extinguishing the soul fire.

  Fire magic reduced the bones to ashes—a fluid, almost artistic performance.

  If there were judges here, they would undoubtedly give him a perfect 10.

  [Ding, low-tier skeleton killed, experience +100] One step closer to level 8.

  Li Pound activated [Stealth], carefully searching for the next skeleton.

  His luck was good today; he found his first lone skeleton in no time. Maybe he could set a new hunting record tonight.

  He carefully wandered around an area with fewer skeletons.

  Soon, Li Pound found another lone skeleton.

  Extremely lucky.

  Li Pound crept over, not even waiting for the skeleton to fall asleep.

  He was now confident he could kill it without attracting anyone's attention.

  [Stealthily] He approached cautiously.

  The bones at the tips of several fingers on his right hand slowly grew, transforming into sharp claws.

  [Great Strength] erupted, slamming heavily into the back of the skeleton's head.

  The soul fire in its eye sockets trembled, and a "stiff" status appeared in the status bar.

  Without letting the skeleton fall, Li Pound swiftly closed in, his bone claws digging fiercely into the skeleton's eye sockets.

  "Incinerate." A ghostly blue flame burned wildly in the dark night, invading the skeleton's eye sockets and devouring the soul fire.

  [Ding, low-level skeleton killed, experience +90]

  From beginning to end, almost no sound was made.

  Li Pound carefully set the skeleton down, about to cast earth magic to sink it into the ground.

  But the next moment, a petite figure fell from the sky.

  Black bat wings, goat horns, a long, slender tail covered in fine scales.

  It was a succubus.

  [Name] Triss Lucia Pound Hught

  [Race] Low-Rank Demon

  [Level] lv14/lv20

  [Class] Dark Mage

  [Description] A low-rank demon who lurks in the shadows, a dark assassin mage capable of wielding shadowy power. You wouldn't want to be targeted by her, otherwise you wouldn't have a single night of peaceful sleep.

  "It's you." The succubus spoke.

  Li Pound charged without hesitation, a rib writhing and growing, transforming into a sharp bone sword.

  Then, with a swift movement of his right hand, he broke off a rib and stabbed at the succubus.

  "You actually possess intelligence!" Triss felt a chill run down her spine.

  She recognized this skeleton; it was the one who had witnessed her communicating with her master that night.

  He actually possessed intelligence!