It did not take long for him to find his first prey, but it seemed the other way round. It was a dark frost wolf probably a 1 star. Sage did not have any probing skill and the system did not assist him on this.
He could check the details of his opponents back then but when he entered this world it is not working anymore. Yes, he needs a skill to do that in the game this time.
Sage thought something was wrong. As a professional gamer he knew almost all the details about the in game characters, territories, sects, families et cetera.
This also includes the behavior of wild beasts. This dark frost wolf is the kind that stay in groups and has a leader which is at least five levels higher and a star higher as well.
Sage looked at the dark frost wolf from a few meters away on a thick tree and decided to get an investigative skill when he gets to the city, after selling the beast corpse, before sprinting towards the beast.
He really did not have any money on him, all he could do now is to hunt a few beasts and sell their corpses to get the money.
After waking up in this world, the sword bestowed him an unparalleled power which consumed a lot of his vitality back then to show off his awakening. Now he is really hungry and only wants to hurry things up.
The dark frost wolf saw him approaching and made a stance for battle.
Sage got very close to the beast and was about to attack with his spirit blood devouring sword when suddenly several wolves leaped from the nearby bushes aiming directly for him.
A grin appeared on sage's face as he said to himself,"as expected". He also jumped towards the right side facing four dark frost wolves which are almost his height.
The giant broad sword in his right hand emitted a blood red light as he slashed it in front of him, immediately splitting the four beasts into four incomplete corpses.
Bold red numbers flew atop of the corpses immediately they got hit.
-220
-200
-150
-180
Sage heard the sound of the system notifications but ignored it for now. At the same time a few wolves had the chance to attack him from behind but the numbers that flew up made the wolves hesitant to attack again.
-1
-1
-1
-1
At this time Sage carefully looked at the number of wolves and his grin grew wider unconsciously, which made these beasts even more afraid of him.
He scanned them and found twelve remaining dark frost wolves and a dark frost wolf king. The king was bigger than the rest and have an height equal to that of an average man.
As the dark frost wolf king, he could not just stand by and watch his subordinates doing nothing to the prey so he made a short howl looking up to the dark sky.
The wolf's king already dark and shiny fur vibrated and gleam under the faint light from the full moon. This was it's skill, darkest nights.
Darkest nights
Grade: spirit(low)
Effect: 1. The attacks and defense of friendly units are doubled under the moon light.
2. Friendly units recover 10 hp and sp(soul points) per second.
Duration: 30 sec
Cooldown: 5 minutes
Under the king's skill, the body of the wolves emitted faint lights before turning normal again.
Sage did not have any idea of the effect of the king's skill but with what just happened, he figured it was a group skill. If he knew the details of the skill he would not have cared either.
It took him less than 2 minutes to finish his business with the wolves. The wolf king dropped a few items including two skill stones.
Looking at the piles of items scattered around him, he took a look at the items dropped by the dark frost wolf king after placing them in the system inventory.
5x fragments of the dark frost(low)
Dark frost fragment (low)
Effect: use to immediately gain comprehension of 0.1% of the dark frost law.
Darkest nights skill stone
Grade: spirit(low)
Effect: use to immediately gain the active skill, gives double attack and defense to all friendly units as well as increase their regeneration by 10hp and 10sp per second.
Duration:30 sec
Cooldown: 5 mins
Consumption: 20sp on activation
Dark slash skill stone
Grade: spirit(low)
Effect: use to immediately gain the active skill, attacks have double effect with melee weapons with a 1% chance to a trigger dark flames burn effect.
Duration: 30 sec
Cooldown: 5 mins
Consumption: 20sp on activation
Sage was surprised to see both skills of the wolf king dropped at the same time. He clearly remember the probability of dropping a single skill of beast kings to be 1%. Was his luck that great.
This means to get a beast king's skill, one has to kill at least 100 beast kings to guarantee the drop of a skill stone.
And that is for the skill, where as the drop rate for special items such as the fragment of the dark frost law is much more rarer. He could attribute this to his new title and directly used the 'dark slash skill stone' and the dark frost fragments.
The skill appeared in his active skills list with a question mark at the end.
[Dark slash?]
He directly used his title on it and checked the details.
Dark slash (active skill)
Grade: spirit(low)
Effect: attacks have double effect with melee weapons with a 100% chance to a trigger dark flames burn effect.
Duration: none
Cooldown: none
Consumption: none
'Great!', he shouted in excitement… in his thoughts, as he knew the old man was watching him from the shadows.
All active skills can be rendered passive as well. With addition to the 100% drop rate from bosses, he had hope to make his clan the greatest in the world. He also saw his level halfway through. It could be said that experience gained from lower star beasts are lesser than that of the same star and increases when above your star rank.
He also gained 5% comprehension from the fragments. Which increases all his dark skills effect by 5%. The king is the only one to drop an item as 1 starred beasts don't have any drops but their body is quite valuable when sold.
He directly placed all the wolves carcasses in his inventory and signaled for the old man to come over. He passed the other skill stone to him and asked him to lead the way to the nearest town where they can sell the beast carcasses.