The Absolute: Humanity's Second Chance

[ TING!!! ]

[ Your partner killed the Lvl 3 Earthborne Spirit, Barrd. You have obtained 18,15 units of Life Essece ]

[ Due to being two levels lower than the opponent, your Life Essence obtained has increased by 20% ]

[ Bonus effect has been applied. You have individually obtained 44,53 (45) units of Life Essence. Your partner has obtained 36,3 (36) units of Life Essence ]

"..."

Damien was now more than surprised. Due to believing that the Void borne spirit was the final trial, he did not focus on the time. Three minutes was long gone...

It was useless anyway. Who would have known that three minutes had long gone by, and the Earth borne spirit was sneaking towards Juliette?

Fortunately for them, it was swept under the explosion worth 1 point of magic damage value. And these opponents have yet to even gain this high leveled defenses.

Even for an Earth Spirit, at level 3, it did not have such defense values. After all, that was damage equivalent for some powerful Apprentice Mages and above.

How could newbies compare?

"Amazing. Really, you've impressed me more than enough in the last lifetime, who knew it would still be the same in this one too." Damien chuckled to himself, looking forward to this timeline's Sage of Beginnings.

~~~

Within David's Trial.

A giant of around 7 meters tall could be seen walking through the forest vigilantly. It held a giant stone hammer, seemingly made primitively.

It was a five meter long log, tied together with a powerful pure white stone, using strange tendon-like vines to connect the top part of the log, with the stone.

Overall, it was a descent hammer, with a descent damage. It's large size made it more threatening.

The giant wore only a loincloth, and was mostly bare. It continued to vigilantly search for its prey, as it moved right besides a hill.

As it cluelessly moved past the hill, a black shadow speedily rushed towards the giant, from the hill. The shadow was quite fast, and easily jumped towards the giant.

The giant was still unaware of this, and was vigilantly minding its business. Until it felt something grab onto its head.

...!!!

It hurriedly tried to send its free hand to the back of its head to remove whatever nuisance was there, but was unfortunately too late.

The black shadow, or rather, David, immediately punched out consecutively the moment he held onto the giant's hair.

As a second generational human, his damage value was high, then him having the genes of the Grays made him more monstrous, being innately ten tons.

Then him killing the first opponent, a black bear, earned him more stats. He had a 30% multiplier to his stats with every level, unlike Damien and Juliette.

And he leveled up twice.

So each fist, was now like a hammer weighing almost twenty tons striking the head of the giant... consecutively at that.

"RaaaaAAA!!!"

The giant roared out in anger, and could not help but fall over, face flat. It was not dead, yet the pain it felt on it's head was too intense.

David did not pause with his actions, as instead, with his eyes flashing a gray light, and his hair wild and messy, he continued to punch out with all of his might.

The sadistic smile of pure joy and ecstacy on his face made him resemble a fiend. And that was what he truly looked like at this moment.

In no time at all, before the giant could do anything, nor stand back up, David had punched its head to nothingness.

He smashed and bashed, until blood sprayed everywhere. Upon his face, upon his clothes, or all over the ground.

"Hahaha!!!"

And all he did was punch, for even then, he still punched out until what flew out was not only blood, but flesh as well.

"Hahaha, hahaha!!!"

And either than the splashing sound of fist digging deeper into flesh and blood, dreary laughter left the mouth of the man who... resembled a beast, more than a man.

~~~

It took quite a while for David to dig quite the large hole over the giant's head, which also signified the end of madness parade.

He paused his actions, his body cloaked completely in blood, and stood up. He moved towards the hammer, and took hold of it.

At this moment, notifications rang out within his head, which once again caught his attention.

[ Congratulations on killing the lvl 2 stone giant, Gig. You have obtained 33 units of Life Essence ]

[ Bonus effects have been applied, you have obtained 57,75 (58) Life Essence ]

[ Congratulations. You've obtained the following resources: Giant's Bone Marrow(Impure/Tier 1), Gig's Hammer(Superior) ]

[ For defeating a trial opponent, you have obtained the following rewards: Extra Ability(×1), Tier 1 Random Treasure Chest(×1), Giant's Blood Droplet(1/4) ]

"..."

David sighed in relief when he saw the notification. He knew that he had once again survived a calamity, thanks to the experience of killing the black bear.

He willed the Primordial Source to show him his Template. While also telling it to Level him up once again.

As for why he knew such information without Damien explaining them, it was because The Primordial Source never shies away from telling people instructions during the trials.

Damien just never bothered asking. Hence, David not only knew how to open up his Template, he also knew how to Level up, as well as how to treasure the abilities he had.

Of course, he already had the ability of the bear, [Thick Skin], which increased his Endurance by ten times. At that point, he was unaware that Abilities could be kept.

Now, he was just hoping he still had more opponents to fight, because if that was the case, he might still have a chance to obtain higher quality abilities.

[ Name: David Gray ]

[ Epithet: None ]

[ Class: Lvl 4 Classless ]

[ Sub-Class: None ]

[ Life Essence: 11 ]

[Alignment: None ]

[ Stats: STR - 5,8 || AGI - 0,29 || END - 28,0 ]

[ Ability(1): [Thick Skin(E)] ]

[ Equipment(2): Gig's Hammer(Superior), Bear Coat(Superior) ]

[ Resources: Tier 1 Beast Core(×1), Giant's Bone Marrow(×1), Giant's Blood Droplet(×1), Tier 1 Treasure Chest(×2) ]

His status finally manifested before him, and David wasted no time checking out the information of his newly obtained treasures. As well as the old ones.

[ Gig's Hammer (Superior) - A Hammer treasured by the giant, Gig. It is of superior quality, and enhances strength by 30%. Has a very high chance of stunning the opponent ]

"Not bad." David thought, as he watched the oversized hammer shrink to accommodate his size. Treasures within the trials will automatically fit their user's needs.

[ Bear Coat (Superior) - A coat made out of the Black Bur's thick fair, capable of defending sword thrusts. It increases physical defense value (END) by 50% when worn ]

"Great as well." David thought. The current him already wore the black, fury cloak. No, to be more precise, it was hanged over his shoulders and made him look neat.

The hammer was bolstered over his shoulder. He then moved on to the resources that he had.

[ Beast Core (Tier 1) - Core of a beast capable of creating Tier 1 remedies, portions, poisons, artifacts or the likes. It can also be used to create Tier 1 arrays or formations. Has a lot of energy ]

[ Giant's Bone Marrow (Tier 1) - The liquefied bone Marrow of a giant found within Gig's pouch. It has no use for it, but can increase the strength of other racial beings by 10% ]

[ Giant's Blood Droplet (Tier 1) - Blood Essence of the giant, Gig. Once drunk, can increase the overall physical condition of a person by 5%. Applies to all beings below the First League ]

[ Treasure Chest (Tier 1) - A treasure chest containing random Tier 1 resources that are exclusive to the growth of the user. Once used outside, the resources within are no longer exclusive ]

David stared at the definition of the resources he had. And without any hesitation, he drank both the <Giant's Bone Marrow> and the <Giant's Blood Droplet>.

He felt his his strength increase by 10%, followed by yet another 5%. Then his speed and defense also increased by 5% as well.

He was becoming more and more monstrous, and was slowly, ever so slowly, becoming obsessed with this thing his son introduced to him...

"..."

He then stared at the treasure chests floating within his Template's resource tab, and then immediately canceled the thought of using it.

He would open them up once he was completely done with this whole thing.

Because right now, another opponent of his just made its entry. It was a gigantic lizard, stretching for five meters long, and being two meters tall.

It had orange scales, and golden eyes. Sharp black claws, seemingly capable of easily piecing through a human with minimal efforts.

"Lizards..." David thought to himself, watching the lizard carefully. He did not have a good review on Lizards, especially fire breathing Lizards like this one.

"Hiss~"

The Lizards flickered its tongue towards him, while blowing out flames out of its mouth. The fire was not too strong, as it was just a puff of breathe.