'Didn't expect that.'
'No wonder I could never find the diamond treasure chest in the poisonous mist area.'
'So it was inside the monster's stomach.'
Even though it was kind of disgusting, for the sake of the diamond treasure chest, Ethan steeled himself and plunged headfirst into the gastric fluid.
[Poison Resistance +1]
[Poison Resistance +1]
[Poison Resistance +0.5]
The moment Ethan dove into the gastric fluid, his poison resistance surged once again.
It was probably because some parts of his body hadn't been soaked by the stomach acid before. Now that the liquid had submerged his head, it naturally strengthened all the skin that hadn't been enhanced yet, so his resistance shot up another round.
[System Notification: Poison resistance overflowing, title obtained, Marinated Poison Man]
[Hidden new skill unlocked: Releasing Poison 0/10]
'What the hell?'
'What kind of nonsense title is "Marinated Poison Man"?'
Ethan felt a bit panicked, 'Could it be that from now on I'll become some kind of poison king?'
'Then will I still be able to get a wife, still have kids?'
'Would it be that if I get intimate with my wife, she'll just get poisoned and die?'
'That's terrifying!'
[Releasing Poison: Your blood is filled with toxicity. When you wish to poison a target, you can force toxic blood to the surface of your skin and inject it into the target's body. After the skill reaches level 5, you gain full control over releasing and retracting it. At that time, you can conceal the poison anywhere in your body, forming a poison sac effect.]
'Alright! Alright!'
After reading the description of the Releasing Poison skill, Ethan finally let out a long breath.
Fortunately, once this skill reaches a certain level, he'll be able to control his toxicity freely. That's not bad.
So before it levels up, he just needs to keep living like a monk.
'That's a lot more acceptable.'
If becoming stronger meant having to live like a monk for the rest of his life, Ethan really wouldn't be willing.
After all, he's still young.
[System Notification: Because your eyes have been soaked in toxic liquid for a long time, you have awakened the skill, Poison Eye Golden Pupils.]
[Poison Eye Golden Pupils: Allows vision underwater, enables you to shoot poison from your eyes, and grants immunity to poison and acid damage to the eyes.]
The instant Ethan received the system notification, he suddenly felt his vision brighten. Even his slight nearsightedness seemed to improve. Not only that, he realized he could actually see through the murky gastric fluid, spotting a square object one or two meters away at the bottom.
"Treasure chest!"
Ethan's eyes lit up, and he quickly swam toward it.
When he touched the cold, rigid surface of the chest, he finally confirmed that this was indeed the diamond treasure chest he had been searching for.
[Diamond treasure chest discovered. Collect?]
'Collect!'
[Diamond +100]
[Spirit Stone +1000]
[Any Attribute Double Voucher +1]
[God-Slaying Sword Blueprint +1]
[Skill Book · Eight Forms of God-Slaying +1]
Not many items, but just from the names alone, you could tell they were all good stuff.
Especially the Any Attribute Double Voucher. He couldn't even remember how long it had been since he last saw one of these. Back when he became the number one lord in the entire region, the mastermind of the Mist World had rewarded him with an All Attribute Double Voucher.
Now, even though this one couldn't double all attributes, being able to double any single attribute was already more than good enough.
And there was also a weapon that sounded incredibly powerful just from its name.
'This should be a swordsman's weapon, right?'
'And this skill book…'
'Eight Forms of God-Slaying.'
'Just the name alone sounds insanely arrogant.'
However, just as Ethan was about to close his inventory and planned to study these items later, he noticed a small line of countdown text next to the Any Attribute Double Voucher.
[Remaining usage time: 59 seconds!]
[Remaining usage time: 58 seconds!]
[Remaining usage time…]
'Damn it!'
This voucher had to be used immediately.
Ethan quickly opened his attribute panel, planning to use it directly on elemental perception.
After all, he was at least a level 1 mage now. If he doubled his elemental perception, he'd probably reach the level of a level 2 mage right away.
But the moment he was about to use it, he paused.
If he put everything into elemental perception, that would mean he could only become a mage in the future.
But the monsters in this Mist World came in all kinds. Especially something like the Giant Demon Spider he encountered today, which had extremely high magic resistance. Magic couldn't even damage it. If not for the Shadow Guard, Ethan would've had no way to deal with that thing.
And then there was the poisonous mist area he had just been in, where magic couldn't be used at all.
Because the entire place was filled with poison.
Using a Great Fireball would just cause an explosion. That was a huge problem.
But if he used physical attacks instead, like a warrior or an archer, he might not have these issues.
And… he had just obtained a God-Slaying Sword from the diamond treasure chest and a warrior skill book.
Judging by the behavior of this Mist World, it usually gave him whatever he lacked, 'Could it be that even the world thinks I lack combat power, so it is deliberately giving things to boost it?'
'Maybe I should put it into strength, so I can become a dual user of magic and martial arts.'
The more Ethan thought about it, the more reasonable it seemed.
[Remaining usage time: 3 seconds!]
[Remaining usage time: 2 seconds!]
'No time to think!'
Ethan immediately tore open the Any Attribute Double Voucher and used it directly on strength.
In an instant…
[Strength: 55 → 110]
Ethan immediately felt his entire body filled with power.
And strangely, he noticed, as his strength attribute increased, his defense and agility also rose by 25% each.
[Agility: 50 —> 75]
[Defense: 48 —> 74]
'Damn!'
'Could it be because of attribute balance?'
With just one Any Attribute Double Voucher, Ethan had effectively gained an extra 50 attribute points for free.
'This is a huge profit!'
BOOM!
Ethan felt power surging through his whole body.
He immediately took out the Dragon-Slaying Saber from his tail ring, ready to go all out and slice this monster apart.
But what he didn't expect was, the moment he took out the Dragon-Slaying Saber, it started corroding.
The originally smooth blade, gleaming with metallic luster, began to turn black the instant it came into contact with the gastric fluid. Black bubbles started forming on it. When Ethan wiped at the bubbles with his hand, he realized those black bubbles were the result of the stomach acid corroding the blade, causing it to melt.
Before Ethan could even swing the blade to cut open the monster's stomach, the edge of the Dragon-Slaying Saber had already been completely corroded away.
'FACK!'
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