Each cycle of absorption hammered Damon’s frame, tearing it down only to rebuild it stronger, denser, and sharper. It looked like absorbing the abyssal essence was in itself a type of forging for his body.
A thick stream of abyssal essence steadily flowed into him while another smaller stream steadily flowed into the egg. At the same time, he could feel his body exploding in strength, his stats gaining another huge leap thanks to all the abyssal monsters he had farmed.
When Damon finally opened his eyes, he saw a few notifications staring at him.
[Ding! You have reached level 100!]
[Ding! You have obtained the achievement First to Break the Shackles.]
First to Break the Shackles: Your body is now able to assimilate more attribute points before reaching the threshold. You can gain 5% extra attribute points for your level
[Ding! Do you wish to announce your achievement to the world and collect more rewards?]
[Yes/ No]
Damon gaped in shock. The wyrm and the tide of abyssal monsters had actually pushed him all the way to level 100, and he even managed to get an achievement to boot.
Damon already knew about the First to Break the Shackles achievement. In his last life, he did not think much of the achievement because gaining extra stat points was a huge pain in the ass. He even thought it was such a waste because it was not giving anything more.
But now this same achievement was a big ass boost for him. His body’s limitations had further been loosened. He can take in more stats now. With his bottomless capacity for devouring essence and converting it into raw stats, this small 5% increase was massive.
This was a weapon. Another player who had clawed their way to Level 100 wouldn’t even be able to scratch him. In fact, these raw stats would undoubtedly help his body’s foundation house his primordial core even more comfortably.
It was probably not enough to completely fix his body, but it was a step in the right direction. His gaze then shifted to the blinking question. Did he want to publicly announce his level 100 achievement? Hell yes!
The next second, a series of world notifications rang out, which Damon ignored and once again shut down the system interface.
He had a lot more important matters to deal with now. He spotted his shadow clone in the distance, who was still meticulously collecting all the drops, mainly from the wyrm.
Loot from a wyrm was no less than several epic-grade treasure chests combined together, and it looked like this time, he had gained a lot.
Damon examined the progress. The last time around, they hadn’t actually managed to grab a lot of things from the wyrm because of the chaotic nature of the battlefield and the fact that he had become unconscious.
But this time things were different. Damon had taken his sweet time to absorb the blood essence from the wyrm, so much so that his clone had plenty of time to do the legwork on extracting some materials from the wyrm’s corpse.
In Earth Online, the corpse almost disappears instantly into motes of light, leaving behind only system-issued drops. One way to circumvent it is to keep the beast from dying completely and carefully strip away as much as possible.
It was very cruel and definitely not something for the light-hearted. However, many players did not care about those things. Items meant money, and money was required for livelihood. Leaving behind a couple of dollars to be kind to monsters was not something many did.
And his clone had no qualms about being as ruthless as it needed to be. It had already taken out the beast core, most of the beast scales, and even some of the beast meat and beast bones while Damon had been absorbing the essence.
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