Chapter 26: Brimming with power!
Riley's eyes stayed fixed on the system window hovering before him, his lips curling into a smirk.
He felt a shiver of excitement run down his spine, and he took another glance at the talent details in disbelief.
[By consuming a creature, you can gain 40% of its attributes.]
"Forty percent..." he muttered.
That was almost half of the attributes of whatever monster he consumed!
Merely absorbing twenty percent was more than enough to make him rise faster than any other player in the game.
With that kind of boost, his growth would only accelerate from here. He wouldn't just catch up to the other players. No—he would outpace them entirely.
Riley clenched his fists, the veins along his forearms twitching with power.
"...With this," he whispered to himself, eyes glinting. "I'd be able to defeat it... the Novice Village boss monster."
His gaze shifted upward, toward the distant outline of the forest treetops, his eyes narrowing slightly.
The boss monster. The final hurdle of this starting region.