Evolution of Slime to Peak

I was looking at a glistering book on the table, a [Skil Book], albeit a mysterious one at that. It only costs some hundred dollars but I finally purchased one.

An old man sitting in the street with a very suspicious outfit sold me his one and only [Skill Book], I can't be less happy than I am.

I always wanted to buy a skill book but only one skill with the lowest rank cost at least 1000 dollars. So, buying a skill book at this cheap rate is very much satisfying.

Well, I am very poor and that hundered dollar is still 90% of my saving. I have enough funds to last me at least a few days.

Skill book is very important as it is the only way to awaken if you didn't awaken naturally. The rich had no problem awaking themselves, their children ad their children's children. But us poor are the only one who has to work hellishly for some months just to buy one skill book to awaken.

I look at the skill book again before steeling my resolve and picking it up. [Necromancy] was the word written in the book. I don't know what Necromancy skill is as there are many names with different meanings.

I brought the book near my head and touched the forehead and close my eyes. I see a flash of lights even though my eyes are closed. Opening them, the book in my hands had disappeared, and at the corner of my eyes, something else had appeared.

[Lucifer]

[Vitality: 10]

[Energy: 10]

[Strength: 9]

[Skill(s): Summon]

Shining with blue light, the words brought confusion more than relief to me. What the hell is this skill [Summon]

I have only heard some summon skills that could summon some minions to fight with us or a blood pact spirit pet. Is this one of those skills?

While I wrack my brains to figure out what skill is this [Summon] is, a window appeared in front of me, giving the answer.

[Summon: This skill lets you summon any deads. As long as the dead body is visible to you and you can touch it, it will be your servant. (No mana needed.) (Number of Summon: - )]

"What?" Reading the description brought me more confusion than knowledge. " What is this skill? I haven't heard this type of skill anywhere? And also, why is the summon is blank? God damn!!"

From the released knowledge, ever since the apocalyptic event that killed more than a billion people occurred, a new magical yet dangerous world took its place. People that are termed as Awakened, Hunters, or Players appeared and others could also become awakened through learning [SKill Book] that can be dropped from killed monsters or through treasure chests in dungeons.

Yes, monsters. Magical, Ancient, and spirit beings that most commonly reside either in dungeons and Monster Areas and occasionally come out from dungeons whenever dungeon break occurs.

Since more than 2 years have passed, it became common knowledge that those who are awakened are able to use skills, whether gained naturally or from skills books, to perform amazing feats and eliminate monsters.

These awakened beings can increase their strength by killing more monsters and absorbing the [Power Stones] they drop, which add to the three attributes: [Vitality] [ Energy] and [Strength]

And I also felt that my body has become slightly stronger, and can instinctively cast the skill I just learned. But the problem is that how can I use this skill.

"I am not powerful enough to hunt monsters and I can't just randomly go to dungeons and find dead monsters lying everywhere. So, how will I summon deads?!!" I said to myself as I put my hands on my chin and thought deeply.

"I can summon any dead, so I can also summon dead dogs...right?" I murmured to myself and head outside, looking for dead animals or any living being that is dead.

Step! Step!

Walking on the street, bustling with people I barely even see any animals forget about dead ones. I walked from one alley to another alley, looking for anything that I could use my skill on.

One hour later-

I didn't find anything that I could test my skill on. Sighing, I returned to my room and took some cash from my saves and head to the hunter association to obtain a hunter license.

Two years ago, when the apocalypse began, my parents gave their lives to save me. I was stuck on the corner of the house surrounded by monsters. But my parents awakened their power and attacked head-on the monster.

If it was only 10 to 20 then my parents would have survived but more than 100 monsters ganged up on my parents who barely even knew how to control their power and killed them. Later, other awakened appeared and killed the remaining monster and control the havoc.

I cried looking at my messed up parents' corpse and filled my heart with hatred toward the monster.

Looking at the present, I still hate the monster and want to kill them. So that's why I bought this skill and take the most dangerous job of this world being a hunter whose life could end anytime in the real world and in dungeons.

"What am I thinking?" I murmured to myself as I walked outside. This time, instead of walking toward the alley, I joined the bustling people and arrived at a huge building that had a "Hunter Association" sign carved on the building.

"Time to start my hellish life." I said to myself and smiled as I head inside the building.

Hunter License is the license that allows any hunter to go inside the dungeon. The machine in front of the dungeon which is kept to check the dungeon as well as keeping ordinary people will check your id and automatically decide whether to let you go inside or not.

Getting a hunter license is easy as the most requirement is awaking and getting examined by the nanorobots who will check my status. I was itching to get started as soon as possible, so I rushed inside the building,

While going inside, I saw many muscular men, sullen faces, and occasional awakened individuals walking. I ignored them as I step inside the building and got greeted by the long lines of people visiting the shops that were inside the building.

Some were selling [Skills], some were selling equipment and some were also selling [Power Stones]. My eyes lit with excitement as I imagine myself buying a million dollars worth of items. A creepy smile formed on my smile.

Well, hunter association is mostly handling dungeon and don't let dungeon break happen. When a dungeon break is caused the overwhelming amount of monsters that couldn't find food inside or are bothered by the energy breakthrough to the dungeon defense and leave the dungeon just to attack everything indiscriminately and kill many people.

Because of that, many cities were destroyed and the people scattered into 10 cities that are now heavily protected from monsters. Outside the protected city, many monsters roam free and those areas are called the monster areas. But the monster area isn't that dangerous as no monster attack the city. So, the only fear people have is about dungeon break.

But never fear, when Awakened people are here. With power equipment, skill, and items dungeon break are rare nowadays. Only A to S-ranked dungeons is the most risked to have dungeon break and that dungeon is also the most dangerous dungeon break.

Well enough about the dungeon, I quickly walked toward the reception desk. I stood behind a man who is selling cores to the association.

Many people chose to consume [Cores] and get stronger themselves but many poor and unsettled hunters, as well as powerful hunters, sold them to the association and other markets as they went for high prices.

[Vitility Core] and [Strength Core] went for around $2000 to $3000 depending on their quality while [Energy Cores] were almost double that price because of their demand.

As I thought about that, the man in front of me took his card and left the desk. I walked ahead and a beautiful woman greeted me while smiling. She was very welcoming, asking my name, date of birth, address, blood group, and some other information.

Bank or money information isn't needed as a hunter card automatically stores money without an account and is protected by the hunter lock. Without the owner's fingerprint and their energy aura, the lock won't open and the person can't take out the money.

So this is very useful. As I looked around thinking many things, the receptionist wrote the details on the paper and guide me inside the examination room.

The room wasn't that big as it was only 20m square long and 15m wide. 2 people wearing white coats observed me behind the glass.

I stood there aimlessly as 2 to 3 small drones flew around and emitted blue light. After a moment, the drone flew near me and injected small nanochips into my body.

1 minute later, the drone retrieve the nanochips and the scientist looked at my result.

"Wow..." (Scientist 1)

"He is at rank E huh..." (Scientist 2)

Well, using a skill isn't necessary as there are many skills that can't be shown to others. For example; Elemental eyes, that ability could detect elements on the surface but they can't show that to others.

So, that's why they check hunters through nanochips which get injected into our body and study our body and give the details to the scientist.

Ding!

The door opened and I left the room. The receptionist smiled at me and handed me a bronze card that had the hunter association logo on the back and small codes written everywhere on the card which can't be seen through normal eyes.

My name, rank, and money were written in big letters on the front of the card.

"So, I have 0$ for now," I murmured to myself as I head outside. I remember the surprised face of the scientist, They were surprised because awaking E rank is much more amazing than it is. Only some people could be E rank when they awaken in these small cities.

And high awakened are extremely rare in these areas as the strongest awakened in this area is a peak C-rank. There are only a few tens of C-rank, a few hundreds of D ranks, and a few five to six hundreds of E ranks, and the other majority are F-rank.

It is also suitable in this area as there are many F-rank and only a little high-ranking dungeon. E-rank is a good starting point as we can be slightly stronger than some F-rank monsters but not much.

One could raise their ranks by absorbing cores and learning higher skills. But unless you are a high-ranking hunter supported by the government or organization or born in a rich family, you would rise very slowly at the speed of turtle on land.

As I head outside, my panel suddenly appeared out of nowhere scaring the shit out of me.

[Lucifer] [Profression: Hunter] [ Rank: E] [Money: 0$]

[Vitality: 10]

[Energy: 10]

[Strength: 9]

[Skill(s): Summon]

"Oh... At least don't appear suddenly or expect of monster, I will die from a heart attack." I breathe a sigh of relief. "So, some information got added in the panel huh..." I murmured to myself and head to the dungeon [Wolf Territory]