Talent Swallowing Hero

‘Swoosh’

In a flaming lion den, a young man placed his hand on a floating metal-clawed vulture’s corpse.

An eerie death aura was currently surrounding him and the floating corpse.

‘Leo, you can do it.’

From time to time, Leo encouraged himself as he was fully focused on the corpse that started twitching.

‘Kacha’

‘Puchi’

Soon, the sounds from the corpse became louder, and the corpse’s movements became violent.

‘It is working.’

However, Leo was not anxious; instead, he was satisfied because he knew the process was on track.

Leo had turned so many corpses into undead beings in the past. So, he could tell whether the process was going smoothly or not?

‘I used to take only ten minutes to convert a rank 9 beast corpse into an undead beast; however, it’s been nearly one and half hours since I started, but I am still far from completing it.’

Leo had already expected it would take more time to convert a supreme-ranked corpse into an undead being; however, he didn’t expect it would be more than ten times._-.

Nevertheless, for Leo, time was not an issue, and the only thing he wanted right now was a successful conversion of a corpse into an undead being.

‘The movements are becoming less violent, which means the conversion is about to end.’

Leo became extra attentive because the final part of the process would be dropping his blood on the corpse to awaken its consciousness that would be connected to him successfully.

‘Please be successful.’

Leo’s one hand was on the floating corpse as he bit a finger from the other hand.

‘Boom’

‘Ding,

The host failed to turn a corpse into an undead being.

However, before his blood could drop on the corpse, it was blasted into nothingness.

‘Damn it…I was so close.’

Leo gritted his teeth and shook his head in disappointment.

‘However, I am getting better at this.’

After returning to the Emberfields, Leo stayed in his den while attempting to turn the level 1 supreme-ranked metal-clawed vulture’ corpses into undead beings.

However, he was failing each time, and every time he failed, he would take a break for one or two hours before attempting it again.

Adding to his latest failure, it was his tenth failure and destroyed 10 corpses, leaving him with three more level 1 supreme-ranked beast corpses signifying he could still refine the corpses three more times without going out.

If he failed the remaining three times, he would have no choice but to enter the wilderness to kill more level 1 supreme-ranked beasts or monsters.

‘However, if my guess is right, I will surely succeed in the next two or three attempts.’

Nevertheless, Leo was analyzing his progress in refining the corpses into undead beings. Therefore he was confident.

‘Knock’

“Sir Leo, the Flaming Lion King is calling you.”

As Leo was taking his one-hour break after he failed in the refining process, he heard a knock followed by a rank 9 flaming lion’s respectful words.

During the past few days, the lion cub, who was not permitted out of the territory, roamed around the Emberfields and made Leo famous.

Lionel said how Leo killed so many rank 9 water spiders and spider captains in front of the spider generals and how he escaped right in front of Spider Queen’s eyes.

The lion cub didn’t miss anything he had witnessed while he stayed outside with Leo, and he even added a few more things to his stories to spice it up, and the result was their admiration towards Leo.

‘These flaming lions respect me more than before I fought with meta-clawed vultures. It looks like these flaming lions hate metal-clawed vultures to the core.’

Leo was completely oblivious of Lionel’s actions and thought the reason behind their respect was because he killed the metal-clawed vultures.

‘I wonder why he is calling me now. Is he going to reward me with something else now?’

It’s been a day since he cooped inside his den to refine the corpses into undead beings. So, he decided to take a walkout.

At the same time, he was curious about why the Flaming Lion King was calling him suddenly and expected to get rewarded again.

….

“Sir Fury, you called me?”

Leo was respectful as he asked the Flaming Lion King.

“Yes. I have two reasons for calling you today. One is to thank you for protecting my son properly.”

For the last few days, the Flaming Lion King was busy taking care of the aftermath of Minister Ren’s actions.

Finally, he completed those things and decided to thank Leo properly.

“Thank you very much for protecting my son. I hope you accept this reward.”

While thanking Leo, a bright-red coloured fruit appeared on Fury’s paw as he gave it to Leo.

‘An innate fire elemental fruit?’

Leo instantly recognized the fruit because it was not his first time seeing it.

Previously, he bought the same fruit in the [Treasure Land], and after consuming it, his normal talent [Combustion] turned into a special talent [Mighty Combustion].

Leo didn’t reject it; instead, he directly accepted it.

“It is not a normal innate fire elemental fruit but a Supreme innate fire elemental fruit.”

Leo’s reaction was within Fury’s expectations. So, he corrected Leo and informed the correct name of the fruit.

‘What?’

Leo was surprised and hurriedly checked the information.

‘Ding,

Item Name: Innate Fire Elemental Fruit.

Item Grade: Supreme Grade.

Use: Consuming this fruit will help the consumer’s fire talent, whether it is a normal or a special talent, reach its full potential in level 9.

Special Effect: There is a 50 percent chance of mutation for that talent.

More Information: One of the four fruits that are available in Beastnet.

‘What? A supreme grade fruit?’

Leo was pleasantly surprised with such a valuable gift and thought, ‘As expected of the King of the Beastnet, he is very generous with the rewards.’

At the same time, he noted down the ‘More information on the holographic screen.

“Thank you, Sir Fury.”

Soon, Leo thanked the flaming lion king and asked, “What is the other reason for calling me here, Sir Fury?”

“It is about your fellow humans.”

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