Chapter 19: Acquaintance and Spiritual Essence

After a brief chat and self-introduction, the relationship between the three became much more harmonious.

Luke guided the two men to the place where the battle had just taken place. Although the two human-faced dogs had been beaten to pieces by bullets, their general appearance could still be seen.

"No wonder two human-faced dogs appeared at the same time." Rudy squatted down to study them for a while, then turned to explain to Luke: "Human-faced dogs are not social dark creatures, so this rarely happens."

"These two are a male and a female. They probably swallowed a couple who were in a good relationship. They were affected by the remaining consciousness in their brains, so they hunt together."

Milton picked up his cell phone and took a frontal photo of the two human-faced dogs. Then he took off a small leather bag from his waist, took out a few scalpel-like tools from it, and quickly took out the eyeballs from the faces of the two corpses.

"The dark energy of the human-faced dog is usually concentrated in the eyeball. The eyeball needs to be soaked in formalin to preserve it. It is considered a basic material and can be used to trade with wizards."

After saying that, Milton gently wiped the four eyeballs, put them into a glass test tube that was mostly filled with solution, plugged the bottle mouth, and handed it to Luke.

"The preservation effect can last about half a year. If you haven't used it or traded it out after half a year, you can throw it away."

These two people are pretty nice.

Luke took the test tube and placed it together with the grenade on the side of the gun bag, where there was a fixing device to prevent swinging and collision.

"Let's go," Milton stood up, "a special cleaner will come to deal with the scene in a while, our mission is over."

The newbie Luke followed the steps of the two veteran demon hunters and walked out.

As night fell, the three of them walked side by side on the deserted street.

Rudy asked, "Who is your teacher? Why didn't he teach you even the most basic loot collection?"

teacher?

Does Moore count? No, Old Deng has only seen him once.

Luke glanced at the fat man and said helplessly: "I don't have a teacher. I accidentally experienced a monster attack, and then I embarked on this path."

After hearing what Luke said, Milton secretly winked at Rudy to shut up.

In their several years of career as demon hunters, they have heard of and even encountered many such cases among their colleagues. Basically, they were attacked by monsters by accident, or their loved ones died, or their families were broken up. After that, they joined the ranks of demon hunters with hatred for monsters.

"I'm sorry for bringing up bad memories."

After saying that, a black, junked Ford slowly slid up to the three of them.

Rudy changed the subject and said, "It's not easy to exorcise demons alone. If you don't mind, please leave your contact information. We can communicate more. Intelligence is the biggest guarantee for the success of exorcism."

After exchanging phone numbers, email addresses, and WhatsApp with Luke, Rudy and Milton waved and got into the car.

"We have some other things to do. See you later. Chat online."

After seeing the two off, Luke was almost at the pier by the river. Nothing else happened during the short journey, so he quickened his pace, got on the boat, and returned home.

A week is not enough to allay people's fears, but if coupled with high subsidies, it is enough.

Now the family has returned to its usual peace, the only difference is that there are more armed bodyguards at home.

Philemon paid a high price to let Jellal leave Black Earth Company with his Imperial Barrier Team, and asked him to expand his troops and stockpile weapons. Now Luke's family has high-definition cameras installed everywhere, and the security team has expanded to 14 people, and they are basically equipped with weapons of mass destruction. There are even rocket launchers and other good things hidden in the security room. Luke's guns and grenades are also taken from them.

Because the target of defense changed to extraordinary creatures, the security team even installed sonar underwater to specifically monitor the invasion of aquatic monsters.

Luke parked the yacht and passed by the backyard, just in time to see Gerard lecturing the newly hired security guards.

"They are all back from the battlefield. If they have any other abilities, they won't come to eat this meal."

"I won't say anything more, just one sentence, you have to do the work for the person whose money you take!"

"In the military, we were paid by the Pentagon and killed people on the orders of generals. Now, we are paid by Mr. Philemon and we have to ensure the safety of his family!"

After taking a look from a distance, Luke did not approach and returned to his room.

He took out the test tube containing four eyeballs from his backpack, looked at the four white, round beads floating up and down in the formalin solution, thought for a moment, and then stuffed the test tube deep into the desk.

There are still many things to deal with today, the most important of which is to check the panel properties.

I killed two "human-faced dogs" today and obtained a total of 135 points of something called "Spiritual Essence", which I need to study its function.

Luke sat at the desk, drawing absentmindedly with his hands, most of his attention was on the panel.

"Spiritual Essence", as the name suggests, is the essence emitted by spiritual creatures after death. These essences condense together to form the skills acquired by Luke, but if they cannot be successfully condensed into skill fragments, they will be absorbed by the panel in this original essence form.

Their effects are also obvious - they are used to add points to skills and improve skill levels.

But it is limited to external skills obtained from the panel.

Luke glanced at the current skills on the panel, proficient level rifle, expert level painting. In addition, there is also the extraordinary skill toothache technique. Even in Luke's perception, he can also put these spiritual essences into the "Miracle Seed" to enhance the connection with the extraordinary seed and speed up the progress of entering the first level.

It takes 10 points of spiritual essence to reach proficiency from entry level, and 100 points of spiritual essence to reach mastery from proficiency.

The next level after mastery is expert, which requires 1000 spiritual essence points. The next level is master, but there is no prompt on the panel.

However, according to this routine, Luke felt very uneasy.

It takes 13 points to improve [Miracle Seed - Fang] (87%). Each point of spiritual essence can increase the progress of establishing a connection with [Fang] by one percentage point.

There are only more than 100 points of spiritual essence. Given the limited quantity, the priority should be options to increase combat effectiveness or improve life level.

The corresponding ones are [Gun Mastery (Rifle)] and [Miracle Seed - Fang] (13%).

However, to advance to the extraordinary level, one not only needs to establish a complete connection with the extraordinary seed, but also needs to complete the ritual transmitted from the seed after the connection. It cannot bring a significant improvement to Luke in a short period of time.

Relatively speaking, [Gun Mastery (Rifle)] is much simpler. It only requires 100 points, and it can be upgraded when it is fully maxed out. The remaining 35 points can also speed up Luke's upgrade progress.

And it should be noted that in terms of combat capabilities in the material world alone, a level 1 transcendent may not necessarily be able to beat a US military veteran.

Of course, it’s a different matter if you’re facing a ghost or something like that.

(End of this chapter)