The ant colony was huge, Klaus took a bottle filled with poison and sprayed it inside the several holes of the soil mound.
After he was done he stepped back and waited. Soon one by one many ants struggled out of the holes and died on the spot.
The people in the park at first waited and looked at what he was doing out of curiosity but after seeing this scene, they simply concluded that he was a maniac and had a hobby of killing insects.
Once the ants were dead he simply brushed their bodies in a bag.
The rest of the soil mound was destroyed by him with a stick and the bodies were collected in the bag.
He had killed such many ants that the bag was filled up to the brim and weighed so 20 kilos.
After he was done with that he proceeded to hunt many insects including cockroaches, beetles, dragonflies, lizards, and even so chaleons with the help of nets and pesticides.
As an alternative to the shapeshifting ability, Klaus had thought maybe he could get sothing from chaleons that he could at least use for stealth.
He then visited other public parks in the locality and repeated the sa procedure. Everywhere he went people gave him weird looks.
When so of them asked him about what he was doing. he said he was collecting insects to brew Chinese dicines.
Well, china wasn’t a country in this world, but Chinese culture was still prevalent since people knew that such a country did exist before the cataclysm hundreds of years ago. Chinese dicines were not very prevalent but people at least knew about them due to their peculiar choice of ingredients.After his explanation, the attitude of people towards him beca much more respectful. Klaus did not mind a thing about what people said, he had only one goal in mind and that was to milk this city of all its insects. He even had plans of how to eradicate a complete species of certain insects.
So may say he genuinely was obsessed with this activity.
He completed every nearby park and returned to the inn he was staying at, he first kept all the bags in his room and ca down to eat.
While he was eating in the dining area he heard people discussing the latest news in town. The main focus of the conversation was the selection of Guardian Academy.
According to his previous mories the Guardian Academy was established to prepare exceptional and genius hunters for defending the blue planet against the invasion of extraterrestrial races.
The Guardian Academy was only of a kind institution and the minimum criteria for joining the academy was having B-rank talent and exceptional genius. However rankers and above were so rare that they were directly admitted into the institution.
According to the chatter, the selection for Guardian Academy was about to start in a month. Klaus did not pay much attention to the news as joining the academy was not in his imdiate plans.
Klaus finished his al and went back to his room, on the floor were sacks filled with insect bodies. He felt safer to absorb in private rather than public so he just carried back all the dead insects and the 2 or three chaleons he had killed.
He started with the ants and tried to absorb the whole sack altogether. Klaus had killed about 3000 ants and the change in the skill panel was quite a lot. Once the 900 count was completed.
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HERCULEAN STRENGTH (C>>B)
Effects: physical stats increase by 200% of the current stat.
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Klaus noticed that the skill had jumped a rank and also only 900 or so ants had been absorbed till now.
The rest of the ants hadn’t been absorbed. He noticed that a saturation point for the skill absorption had been reached.
He still had a feeling that there was more to it even though the skill was saturated so traits or stats should still be attainable through the absorption.
He focused on the bodies of the ants and a panel opened in front of his eyes, even he was surprised by the things he saw.
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Black ant (mortal)
Available Skill - herculean strength (c) (saturated)
Available stats- physical (1000:1)
Available traits - null
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The panel told him what was left to absorb from the ants.
He just had to will it to open such a panel in front of him.
There was also a conversion rate in case he wanted to increase his physical stats.
Since the rest of the ants couldn’t provide sothing useful he decided to convert the ants into stats points and they increased by 2.1
Physical stats - 7 2.9 = 9.9 >>29.7 (200%increase due to the b rank skill)
[Auth note:- so people may think a 200% increase of strength may be too much to give at B rank, but I should make them rember that people of this world don’t really have an active leveling thod to increase their strength and skills are their only way to grow. So a 200% increase will not be a major cause of effect in the huge scale of this world]
Klaus looked at the rest of the insects. At first, he looked at the chaleons and opened the info panel.
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Species - Chaleon
Available traits - Null
Available skills - camouflage (D) (required kills - 100)
Available stats - 1000:1
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His gaze focused on the camouflage skill and information about the skill appeared as well.
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Camouflage (D)
Effect - able to blend into the surroundings and beco almost invisible.
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Klaus had expected the skill to be a bit high-ranked but then he ca to understand a few things, the skill could not hide his heart rate, breath, and heat signature so it did not provide complete stealth.
He could escape humans but predators would still find him with their keen sense.
Also this ti a count did not start at the side of the skill na indicating that it was not upgradable.
So he then proceeded by converting them to stats but since the chaleons he caught were very less in number almost in single digits there was no increase in the stat points.
Next, he looked at a few hundred dragonflies he had caught.
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Auth note -
One thing to clear here, Klaus doesn’t absorb camouflage skill because he can’t complete the requirent.
This portion was edited later as I forgot to add the requirent of 100 kills for this skill. It may have caused so misunderstanding earlier.
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