Death of an Arrogant Prick; I Reincarnated as a Skeleton?

Chapter 7: New Passive Skill- Vampire

Beep!

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{You have killed a level 2 Undead Tree!}

{The residual holy energy of the Holy Knight has been wiped off!}

{Congratulations! You have killed a level 2 Undead as a level 0 Undead!}

{You have leveled up!}

{You are now a level 1 low-tier Skeleton!}

{HP regeneration has been recovered!}

>You naturally regenerate +0.1 HP every 15 minutes<

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‘I-I did it!’

At this moment, Clinton felt like doing a happy dance.

Of course, doing a happy dance in a human body vs in a skeleton body was entirely different. In a skeleton body, it would only look creepy.

He didn’t care about all that at this moment though, he was just happy.

With 0.2 HP remaining, he only had 20 minutes to live in this world but all of a sudden, he managed to drag himself back from the deepest depths of hell, so why won’t he be happy?

At this moment, he felt on top of the world.

‘I did it!’

Just a minute later as he celebrated though, the 2^nd Undead Tree finally fell down dead as it was consumed by the fire.

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{You have killed a level 2 Undead Tree!}

{For killing two level 2 Undead Trees in quick succession as a level 0 Skeleton and due to the ingenious means that you used, you have received a reward!}

{You have received a new Passive Skill: Vampire!}

…

{NEW! Vampire!}

>By killing any enemy, both creatures of light or darkness, you are now able to take part of your victim’s health points to replenish your own<

…

{By killing a level 2 Undead, you have received part of your victim’s health points to replenish your own!}

{HP: 3/3}

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All of a sudden, from the brink of death with only 0.2 HP, Clinton was suddenly back in peak condition again.

And this was all due to the decision to use his head.

Fire did the magic against opponents that were far stronger than him.

‘Hehe, I never thought using your head would be so exciting’. He thought with a big skeleton grin on his skull face. ‘I should use my head more or since I’m a skeleton now, should I say skull?’

Not only did Clinton level up to finally become a level 1 Skeleton due to the stunt that he just pulled, he gained a new passive skill and at the same time got his HP back to peak condition.

In his books, this was more than a win, this was a landslide win.

He was ecstatic.

Not letting this little victory to get to his head though, immediately after, Clinton sought another decaying tree before disassembling his skeleton body again to burrow under its roots to hide under the safety of its canopy.

There, he finally decided to check his system status again.

~__________~

{Welcome to the Miserable Undead System!}

{Host: Donald Clinton}

{Special System Abilities: Corrupted- Locked}

>You only have access to the basic identification abilities of the cursed Miserable Undead System<

{Host Status:}

Race: Low-tier Skeleton

Level: 1

Class: Classless

Attributes:

STR- 0.3

VIT- 1.2

SPE- 0.4

MIN- 0.3

{NOTE: STR for Strength; VIT for Vitality; SPE for Speed; MIN for Mind}

Health Points (HP): 3/3

{Skills: Bone Assembling}

{Passive Skills: Calma; Vampire}

{Special Skills: None}

{Magic Skills: None}

…

{Remark: A befitting form for a miserable womanizer and arrogant prick! You will die the final death soon enough!}

~________~

Clinton paid attention to two things.

First was his level that finally changed, now reflected as level 1 and the second was his strength attribute.

After leveling up the first time, Clinton expected some form of growth. He was disappointed though since out of all his attributes, only his strength growth experienced a growth of +0.1 by becoming level 1.

‘I truly am miserable,’ he thought mirthfully but still, he was satisfied.

After getting his first taste of being a predator for the first time since reincarnating into this world, Clinton could not lie to himself, it felt exhilarating.

He kind of loved it.

He wanted to experience that feeling again but first, Clinton paid attention to something else. ‘How does the level up thing even work?’ He thought.

By killing a level 2 monster as a level 0 skeleton, he was able to level up to level 1. But despite killing another level 2 monster as a level 1 skeleton then already, there was no difference, he remained stuck at level 1.

This brought the question, how does the level up process of this dungeon work?

To get his answer, Clinton needed to become a scientist and use the observation, experiment, and analysis method.

And well, to do that, he had to kill more.

That was exactly what Clinton did.

For the next few hours, stuck inside his new hideout under the roots of a decaying tree, Clinton stalked more monsters in this level of the dungeon and when he was confident of his chances, he attacked.

With his new skill, Vampire, he became even bolder and more emboldened.

By knowing 2 weaknesses of the Undead Trees already, their deafness and weakness to fire, he was able to isolate and kill another one.

***

{You have killed a level 2 Undead Tree!}

{You have leveled up!}

{You have become a level 2 low-tier Skeleton!}

***

A few dozen minutes later, Clinton had his first skirmish against a pack of the club-wielding Green Goblins.

Against 3 Green Goblins, one of them being level 2 while the other two were level 1, Clinton had the most intense fight of his new life since reincarnation.

They were weaker than the Undead Trees but unlike the trees who had such obvious weaknesses that could be taken advantage of, the Goblins didn’t have the same weaknesses, making them a much more formidable adversary for Clinton.

In the end, he had to cough a sizeable amount of blood and effort before he managed to kill the two level 1 Goblins.

***

{You have killed a level 1 Green Goblin!}

{You gained 0 XP!}

…

{You have killed a level 1 Green Goblin!}

{You gained 0 XP!}

***

From that battle, Clinton was able to learn a new thing.

He learned that there was no real value to killing monsters that were lower leveled than you because the dungeon programmed them to give 0 XP points to the killer who was higher-leveled than them.

Probably, killing only same-leveled or higher leveled monsters gave XP.

For the next few hours, Clinton experimented more to test his theory and after killing a few more monsters, he managed to confirm it.

By now, Clinton was even more experienced in the ways of this world.

‘I’m good at this thing, combating and killing monsters’.

Yes, he was good, really good.

Afterall, he was an athlete who once aspired to enter the UFC before he became the king of the track.

***

{You have leveled up!}

{You are now a level 3 mid-tier Skeleton!}

{HP regeneration has been upgraded!}

>You naturally regenerate +0.1 HP every 12 minutes<

***

By now, Clinton was able to learn a few more things about the leveling up system of this dungeon.

To level up, the process was simple, it was linear.

He was able to simplify it using a level 0 monster as an analogy.

As a level 0 monster, killing a monster 2 levels higher than you would enable you to level up immediately to level 1.

As a level 0 monster, to level up by killing a monster 1 level higher than you, you would need to kill two level 1 monsters to level up to level 1.

And as a level 0 monster, to level up by killing a monster on the same level as you, you would need to kill five level 0 monsters to level up to level 1.

This was the leveling up system of this dungeon.

After getting a result for his experiments, satisfied with his first day’s work after reincarnation, Clinton finally decided to rest properly in the roots of his hideout under the protective cover of the decaying tree.

The level 3 skeleton fell asleep.