Death Mage with an SS-Rank Talent-Chapter 96

Three hours later...

For the next three hours, Aaron and his small army of undead started to clear every monster in sight. All the monsters that he faced were weak. There are various monsters, but the highest that he faced were monsters that crossed to Rank-2 recently.

Clearing them out was very easy, and it also made Aaron very happy. Though the level-up speed is not very high, he collected a lot of resources. Some of them he can use and some he can’t, which can be sold for credits at the academy.

Though he gets 1,000 credits every month, his increased appetite and the requirement to enter higher rank dungeons make those 1,000 almost non-existent. There is also the need to buy books from the library to increase his knowledge.

Without sufficient knowledge, he wouldn’t be able to progress correctly. At this time, he has no need to buy books as most low-level books were already supplied to him by the academy, but once he was done with them, he had to depend on himself to get more knowledge, and that means he needs a lot of credits.

High-level books don’t come cheap. The knowledge inside them wasn’t something that was obtained easily. So, the academy can’t give that away freely. If you want to know what knowledge is there inside those books, then you have to work for it.

It was not just these that Aaron was in need of. He was in need of skills, particularly Death Skills. Though he is a Death Mage, the number of skills related to his profession is fewer. He can’t just depend on Ranking Up to get a new skill.

That would take him a long time to get a decent number of Death Skills in his arsenal. He can only search for them and buy them when available.

The Dusk Academy was mainly focused on Dark and Death elements. So, the chances of him finding Death Skills in the academy are very high, but they would need credits to buy, and they are not cheap.

Though they cost a lot, buying in the academy is way cheaper than outside. That was a fact. Moreover, here he can just go to the student resource center and find the skills he needs from the provided list.

Outside, he has to search for them, which is definitely not an easy endeavour. The chances of him coming across Death Skills would be very low.

The best chance lies with the academy, which should have its own routes to collect resources. So, even though Aaron was just collecting what appeared to be ordinary resources, he was happy, as many of these are in demand and would be sold for a good amount of credits, which would enable him to get what he wanted easily.

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Aaron continued his hunt. No matter what the monster’s level was, he didn’t let it go.

Normally, every trial has an exit condition to leave the trial area. It is to either complete the trial or fail the trial. Only this way could he leave the area, but he doesn’t know what the conditions are to be fulfilled to consider that the trial was completed. ƒrēenovelkiss.com

So, he decided to hunt every monster present in the area. This was because the condition to exit would most probably be to kill the boss of the area or every monster in the area. So, as long as he kills all the monsters, he should be able to leave the area.

That’s what he has been doing and continued to do.

As he continued, Aaron came across a lake. The area around the lake looked peaceful. It was quite beautiful and serene. If anyone sees this, they would want to settle down here and would never want to leave, but Aaron knows that anything that looks peaceful might not actually be peaceful.

Unless checked and confirmed, it’s better to be on guard.

Aaron observed that there was a monster nearby, only a single monster, which was drinking water from the lake. This monster looked very peculiar, as he couldn’t immediately recognise the monster.

It was a deer monster that he was sure of. Its coat was pure white, with no other colour blemishing its coat. He has never seen such White in his life and thinks that he never would.

The horns are made of crystal, perfectly see-through crystal. There are no impurities in that at all.

"A Silvermoon Crystal Deer", Aaron recognised the monster after a few seconds.

It was a rare monster, said to be extinct or probably about to be. At least, that’s what he read in the book about rare and extinct monsters.

Though it can be said that he read the book, it was more like glancing over the book. He didn’t memorise it like other books.

The monsters mentioned there are either rare or extinct ones.

Rare ones are ones that are only seen a few times. The chances of meeting such monsters are indeed very rare, and the extinct ones are monsters are dead and gone forever. He wouldn’t meet any such monster, no matter what. So there was no need to read about them at this point, as he was quite busy improving himself.

He can’t waste his time on things like that.

What he remembers was that Silvermoon Crystal Deer was not like other monsters. It was a herbivorous one. It won’t initiate battle with others, but once others do, they have to be prepared for their deaths.

These deer won’t let go of their attackers, which was not only bad for the attackers but also for the deer. It was a proven fact.

The resources collected from these deer were in high demand, which caused many to attack them, but also caused a lot of deaths.

Later, hunters found a way to trap them and kill them easily. As long as they were provoked, the deer would follow you to kill you and wouldn’t let go of you until you were dead. Using that trait, humans led them into traps and were killed.

A huge number of these deer monsters died like that.

The last Silvermoon Crystal Deer was seen almost four decades ago. It was now classified as extinct, if not almost extinct.

The sudden extinction caused a lot of market fluctuations and a lot of damage to the economy. It was not the first time that it happened, but unlike before, they learned from this.

The demand was so much so that almost all Silvermoon crystal deer monsters were killed. Now that demand remains, but with no supply at all.

So, the alliance brought a few restrictions on hunting monsters.

Sure, monsters are our enemies, but they are also what sustains us. Completely eliminating the monsters appears good on paper, but it is not. They are the source of meat for the people. So, certain restrictions were placed on hunting.

Anyoen who doesn’t follow the regulations would be punished.

Of course, these restrictions were not to benefit monsters but to benefit humans. If there appears to be a case where humans are in danger due to monster activity, these regulations won’t be applicable.