Evolution of Slime to Peak

I was looking at the glowing ball in my hand. Not an ordinary ball, but a glowing ball called [Skill Ball], albeit the lowest rank without any guarantee.

This [Skill Ball] is like a lottery ticket that only the poor buy. This [Skill Ball] cost 100$, which took my many months' worth of money in one go.

This is the only way that the poor can awaken any skill if they aren't naturally awakened. Rich had no problem. They can buy high-ranking [Skill Book] that can guarantee up to A-rank skill. But that also depends on luck, but those books surely awaken you.

But for us poor, we can only afford this [Skill Ball], which doesn't guarantee any skill. If we have luck, we can awaken any F-rank skill, but if we don't then this 100$ money gone to waste.

We can only cry and blame our luck if that happens. And this happens to most of the people that people literally call this [Skill Ball], a scam. But there are rare, no, way too rare cases of people actually awakening a skill from this ball.

I tightened the grip on the [Skill Ball] and brought it closer to my mouth. I slowly suck the energy off the ball.

As I sucked the energy of the ball, a surge of energy flowed throughout my body. I can feel my body filling with this mysterious energy.

Just as I finished sucking the energy of the ball, my vision turned blurry. I felt dizzy as the darkness suddenly covered my surrounding.

After some seconds, I opened my eyes and felt refreshed. I don't feel that surprised, since I have always heard about this on the internet. So, I had already prepared myself to submit myself to the darkness.

"Waaah!"

I hurriedly closed my eyes and slowly opened them. As my eyes got used to the light, I felt relieved.

And some another second later, I am back to normal without any problem. I checked at the corner of my eyes, and as I have heard you could see an exclamation mark(!) there if you have awakened. And indeed there was something like that symbol in the corner of my eyes that was hard to notice since it was very small.

I focused on that symbol and a big translucent screen appeared.

"!"

It startled me a little, but I closely examined the window, not to let any details escape.

[Alan]

-LifeForce: (8)

-Strength: (10)

-Mana: (6)

-Stamina: (7)

[Skill(s): (F-Summon)]

"Hmm...!"

The words brought me relief and I let out my breath.

"My 100$ DIDN"T GO TO WASTE!! WOHOOO!!!!"

My happiness burst out of my mouth as I couldn't hold it. My eyes filled with joy and my heart filled with relief. This may be the first time I have felt this much happiness in my life.

My months of hard work didn't go to waste.

Looking at the status window, my eyes fell on the skills tab and my only skill [Summon] attracted my attention.

"Is [Summon]... an F rank skill?"

I have heard of skills similar to [Summon]. But they are rare and even the weakest one is at least A rank. From the source, I found out that summoners could summon some magical beast from a portal. The beast is like a monster but they are strong and intelligent.

But I have never heard of any F-rank[Summon] skills. 'Weird'

I clicked on the skill [Summon] to look at the details. As I clicked, a 'Ding' sound followed which made me jump.

'Gosh, this is very embarrassing.'

[Summoner]

-Passive Skill

-Summon any dead being and make them slave

-The dead beings don't have their own will and shall follow any order given to them

-No consumption of mana

-Can summon (-) [#$#!!$ -Bug) Can't find the exact number of beings that can be summoned

"..."

This description brought much confusion to me. I don't really know what this is.

From the released information after the apocalypse that took place three years earlier and was the sole reason that 2 billion people died and 3 continents were destroyed massively.

Portals appeared out of nowhere where monsters started coming out. Those monsters were strong and human weapons didn't do shit to them.

Some days later, 'Awakeners' appeared out of thin air, I mean, no one knew where they came from, and defeated every single monster of the land. And just with that, they disappeared. That event made humans look like a fool. It is still a mystery about their identity.

No one knew who were those people that killed the monsters. But right after that, other awakeners awakened their powers. They killed the monsters and discovered that other human beings could also awaken the power by absorbing the [Skill Ball], [Skill Paper], and [Skill Book] that drops from the monster's body after they are killed.

Well, it cost a fortune to buy one skill from the market though. But it is understandable since awakeners risk their life just to get these skills.

But because of these, many normal or poor people can't hope to awaken their power artificially. But, nowadays it became a general knowledge about skills, monsters, and dungeons.

But awakeners don't have the luxury to stay at home and forget about the dungeon. If the dungeon isn't clear for a certain amount of time, the monster inside it increases in the number and they break the barrier that keeps them inside the dungeon.

And if that happens, no one knows how much life would be lost and how much property will be destroyed.

Because of that, Awakeners risk their life daily to kill the monsters and protect the city. They are like heroes in the eye of general people who can perform amazing feats with their powers.

Hunter's powers aren't constant. Hunters can increase their power by absorbing the core dropped from the monster's body, which is classified into 3 groups; [Strength Core], [Health Core], and [Energy Core].

Like the name, the [Strength Core] increases strength stats, [Health Core] increases life force stats, and the [Energy Core] can increase mana stats. As for stamina stats, it increases randomly on the consumption of any cores. The cores have their own color to differentiate them.

Also, every skill needs mana to be used. I haven't heard of [Summon] skill that doesn't require any mana to be activated.

No, not only summoner, I haven't heard any magic/skill, passive or active that doesn't require any mana. Every magic/skill requires a certain amount of mana, even 0.00001 mana is required.

So, why does this skill doesn't require any mana?

And can I summon the dead to be my slave? The dead will fight in my stead?

What is even with this skill? I don't understand anything.

'Well, I guess, I can summon dead beings to fight for me... So, I do need to find prey to use my skills on.'

If I don't understand my skill now, it will be harder for me to understand it at the dungeon. I will be dead before I even get to use this skill if I went there unplanned. No monster will wait for me to learn about my skill, and no monster will voluntarily die for me.

"Where can I even find a corpse?!!!"

My shoulder slumped as I thought deeply. But the god hadn't forsaken me!

Buzz! Buzz!

I saw three flies casually flying in my small room, sitting at any place they wanted. My eyes lit as my mouth curved to form a smile.

And I slowly and cautiously walked toward that fly...

He sighed.

(Don't go further)

*******************

The week went comfortably.

There was no one to visit. He had no friends, no family, and not even relatives. He only met with the nurse and doctor.

He exercised daily in the small room.

As the week had ended, he was also discharged from the hospital.

The first thing he went was to the guild. He decided to see what the guild would teach the newbies. On the way, he found a huge tower in the middle of the city.

"So, the Trial Tower is still here."

The Trail tower as its name suggests gave a trial to the explorers. It consists of 100 floors and every 10 floors are considered a rank. Like, floor 1-10 is the F-rank floor for F-rank explorers, and 10-20 is for E.

This tower is usually used for training purposes and no incident of the tower bursting with monsters has been recorded. But that doesn't mean it is safe, when you die here, you die permanently. But there is called revival point, as long as you buy revive card, you could revive to that place.

But if you didn't buy the card and die, then you will reach heaven.

This place is safe as in a dungeon you will die the moment you die, no revival no compromise. You get one revival card as a reward for the first entry when you enter the tower for the first time.

Ren glanced at the tower and left the place. He remembered the whole tower bursting and thousands of monsters appearing from the tower.

He reached the guild after some minutes of walking, it wasn't that far.

Ren passed the business card to the receptionist girl and registered himself as the dungeon explorer and gained his official explorer card.

Afterward, he was led inside a room where more than 50 people were sitting at a desk. A huge white curtain was placed in front.

He walked inside and sat right beside a guy.