Nothing strange happened.
Lucas simply crouched down and placed his pale, skeletal right hand over the pile of bones.
At that moment, he clearly felt a warm current flowing from the pile of bones into his body!
The warm current was faint but continuous.
It lasted for a full half-minute.
When the warmth finally subsided, accompanied by a faint cracking sound, the pile of bones turned into a cloud of grayish-white ash, scattering in the wind!
It was as if...
All the valuable essence within the bones had been devoured and absorbed by something!
At the same time, Lucas's skeletal body underwent some subtle changes.
His bones seemed slightly thicker.
The color of his skeletal frame deepened a bit, showing a tendency to shift from pale white to a grayish hue.
Of course.
This wasn't the most significant change.
The biggest change... was on Lucas's attribute panel!
...
[Name]: Lucas
[Race]: Undead - Skeleton
[Level]: Level 1 (10/100)
[Status]: Health 10, Mana 15
[Attributes]: Strength 0.8, Agility 1.2, Constitution 1.0, Spirit 1.5
[Talent]:Erosion(Unique Talent)
[Skills]: None
...
At some point.
His four-dimensional attributes had quietly changed.
Agility remained the same, and Spirit was unchanged. However, his Strength had increased from 0.7 to 0.8, and his Constitution had risen from 0.8 to 1.0!
Looking further down.
Lucas noticed three new lines of information that had refreshed on his attribute panel.
"You have absorbed the essence from the bones. Your body has grown stronger."
"Your Strength has increased by 0.1."
"Your Constitution has increased by 0.2."
The values added in the system prompts exactly matched the increases in his four-dimensional attributes!
"So..."
"This is the effect of my unique talent, Erosion."
His jawbone clicked softly. If he weren't just a skeleton, incapable of making sounds, Lucas would have likely burst into laughter at this sudden revelation.
Unique Talent!
Erosion!
If his guess was correct, the effect of this talent was that after killing an enemy, he could absorb the essence from the enemy's corpse and convert it into attribute points for himself!
'The Second World' was a real world.
But it was also a game.
Because the entire world was governed by game-like rules and data.
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In such a hyper-realistic game, what was the most important thing?
Faction?
Class?
Equipment?
Legacy?
No!
The most important thing was attributes!
The growth of HP and MP required attribute points; equipping better gear required attribute points; advancing class templates required attribute points; even the lost legacies that could propel someone to greatness often had extremely high attribute requirements!
In other words, whether it was NPCs, players, or monsters, attribute points were the foundation of everything!
Moreover.
In such a realistic game world, four-dimensional attributes were the most direct reflection of one's physical capabilities. Even a fool... when their four-dimensional attributes were maxed out, could become a powerful being capable of rivaling gods!
Aside from leveling up and advancing, there were very few opportunities to increase attribute points in 'The Second World'. And the Erosion talent gave Lucas additional four-dimensional attributes beyond leveling and advancement!
Such a talent,
Such a divine skill,
How could it not fill him with ecstatic joy?
However, Lucas didn't let it go to his head.
Even with this unparalleled talent, he hadn't forgotten that he was still just a lowly skeleton at the bottom of the undead hierarchy—and, by extension, at the bottom of the entire game world.
Before transforming his potential into real power and becoming truly strong, playing it safe and developing steadily was the way to go.
Picking up another thigh bone from the bone-littered ground, Lucas moved swiftly toward another skeleton a few meters away.
One step.
Two steps.
Three steps.
Crack!
No surprises.
When the thigh bone in his hand broke into two pieces again, the skeleton before him met the same fate as the first one—its skull shattered, and its grayish-white frame collapsed into a pile of bones.
"You have slain a 'Weak Skeleton.'"
"You have gained 10 experience points."
Ignoring the system's kill notification, Lucas crouched down again and placed his skeletal hand over the pile of bones left behind by the skeleton.
The familiar warm current surged, flowing into Lucas's body.
As the second pile of bones was drained of all its essence and turned into a cloud of ash, new system prompts refreshed on his attribute panel.
"You have absorbed the essence from the bones. Your body has grown stronger."
"Your Strength has increased by 0.1."
"Your Agility has increased by 0.1."
