42 Blood essence (2/2)

<< Skill: Burning Blood, Rank S, Level 1

Mana cost: 20

Recharge time: 2h

Use up one blood essence crystal to temporarily increase your power by burning the blood essence in it.

The effect depends on the type of crystal you use.

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This skill too depended on the crystal he used which was logical since it would use up the blood essence inside the crystal.

<< Congratulation you have gained your first Blood Essence Crystal: Blood Essence Crystal of the Steelback Bear (F).

You can check out your available Blood Essence Crystals in the new tab of your character screen.

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Thankfully this notification told him that he had a Blood Essence Crystal and where he could check it out. He hurriedly followed the directions and found a list with only one entry which was the mentioned crystal.

It was a small Stellback Bear icon in red with the name besides it. When he concentrated his will on it more information popped up.

<<Item:Blood Essence Crystal of the Steelback Bear, Rank F

Strength +10, Agility +5, Endurance +10

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So a bear like the one he had just slain only gave him a Blood Essence Crystal with 25 stat points and 10 at most for one category which would mean that he would get 0.25 shadow stats altogether, which wasn't much. But even though the amount was low and the cast time as well as the recharge time was high it would still be very useful since it was repetitive and unlike the 'Shadow Stats' skill didn't require him to increase his base stats.

As such he was very happy with his earnings.

He was tempted to instantly try it out but decided that it would be better to do it at a save place since he would be defenseless while channeling the skill.

Since he had finished going through the notifications it was time to take care of the carcass of the Steelback Bear, so he stood up and took his sharp crystal dagger.

He had never before tried to skin and dissect a bear but they had had lessons about it at school and also practiced on some small animals. Besides that he had read up on it a bit more while traveling so he was confident that he would be able to somehow manage.

Sadly reality was cruel as he miserably failed to skin the bear and the hide he finally got was full of holes and worth nothing because of it.

” Damn. If I had known it would be so hard I would have checked out if there were any lessons on skinning a bear.”

”It was only the first time. I'm sure the next time it will be much better.”, he then comforted himself not really believing what he just said.

Taking a deep breath he then went onto dissecting the bear which of course also went awry but at least the paws seemed fine and he got another joint out of it, which he planned to barbecue, since it didn't seem presentable.

After storing his spoils in his inventory he cleaned up the place by burying the left overs. Then he continued on deeper into the forest.