While resting in the cave, Kei saw this as an opportunity to maximize his potential with the current abilities he’s obtained. While eating a big meal consisting of bats, he activated echolocation. This would prevent any unwanted encounters. Using sound, this skill formed a map of the surrounding area in his mind. Although it’s very blurry, if any enemies appeared within its radius a vivid red mark would show up; giving away the individual’s location.

(A lot has happened so far! I haven’t had much time to think about anything.)

After killing the bat leader and all of his previous enemies, he shot up to level 28. Although he didn’t know of the levels’ importance, he felt that it became more and more difficult to level up the higher he rose. He’d have to discuss this later on with the goblin elder.

(There’s a lot of things that I’m curious about. Also, now that I look back, I wonder how I got “night vision”…)

Kei was able to use this skill once he killed the bats in the cave. However, from his previous knowledge, bats couldn’t see at night unless they used echolocation. It seemed that the ability to see at night using echolocation split off into its own ability; hence the individual skill “night vision”. Kei concluded that abilities with more than one possible function may split up to make more abilities with individualized specific functions.

(Well, who cares!? The more skills, the better!)

He began to think about the uses of his current abilities. If he activated morphing and combined the attributes of a slime and a rabbit he could become quite strong. He considered combining the arm of a goblin into the new form (to also be able to throw spears), however, the claws of a rabbit were a much better weapon than any spear he could currently get his hands on. Adding bat wings would also be pointless because his body was too heavy. Kei tested it out.

(It looks weird… but it’ll be super useful!)

The form looked exactly the same as “rabbit mimicry”, except now he had a blue coating around his body. By adding the slime qualities, Kei could slip through the grasp of any larger enemies. Using the claws, he could activate “Slash” and make quick attacks. To top it off, activating “Venom” would allow Kei to poison enemies while “Hard” would allow for some protection. His two current resistances for fire and poison helped save his life against previous opponents. However, he didn’t know how useful they would be against stronger monsters.

(I’ll have to strategize even more from now on.)

A few hours had passed and Kei felt that his body had mostly recovered. He was also more confident in his new form. Furthermore, by looking over his abilities, he now understood the limits of his own strength. Kei got up. Eager for more skills, he decided that he would move farther into the forest in search of more opponents. It was almost dawn and he wanted to meet up with the elder first thing in the morning. Therefore, he had to hurry up.