Nothing strange happened.
Su Mu simply crouched down and placed his pale skeletal right hand over the pile of bones.
At that moment, he clearly felt a stream of heat emanate from the bones and flow into his body!
The heat was faint, yet continuous.
It lasted for a full thirty seconds.
When it ended, accompanied by a faint cracking sound, the pile of bones turned into a puff of ash-gray dust and scattered in the wind!
It was as if...
All valuable essence within the bones had been devoured and absorbed by something!
At the same time, Su Mu's bone body began to change slightly.
His bones seemed to grow sturdier.
The color of his bone body darkened a little as well, shifting from a pale white toward a grayer hue.
Of course, that wasn't the biggest change.
The most significant change... was on Su Mu's attribute panel!
...
[Name]: Su Mu
[Race]: Undead - Skeleton
[Level]: 1 (10/100)
[Status]: HP 10, MP 15
[Attributes]: Strength 0.8, Agility 1.2, Constitution 1.0, Spirit 1.5
[Talent]: Erosion (Unique Talent)
[Skills]: None
...
At some point, his Four Attributes had subtly changed.
Agility remained the same, as did Spirit. But his Strength had increased from 0.7 to 0.8, and Constitution had risen from 0.8 to 1.0!
Looking further down, Su Mu saw three new lines of system messages on his panel.
"You have absorbed the essence within the bones. Your body grows stronger."
"Your Strength has increased by 0.1."
"Your Constitution has increased by 0.2."
The increased values in the message matched the exact changes in his Four Attributes!
"So that's..."
"So that's the effect of the Unique Talent [Erosion]."
His jaw clicked with rattling sounds. If he weren't currently just a Skeleton, unable to make any real noise, Su Mu would probably be laughing maniacally with joy at this unexpected surprise.
Unique Talent!
Erosion!
If his guess was correct, this Talent allowed him to absorb the essence from a slain enemy's corpse and convert it into his own Attribute Values!
Second World was a real world.
And also a game.
Because the entire world had been gamified by system rules.
In such a hyperreal game world, what was most important?
Factions?
Classes?
Equipment?
Inheritance?
No!
What mattered most was attributes!
Increasing HP and MP required Attribute Values; equipping better gear required Attribute Values; advancing Class Templates required Attribute Values; even the legendary inheritances that could launch one to greatness often had extremely high attribute requirements!
In other words, whether NPC, player, or monster, Attribute Values were the foundation of everything!
Moreover, in such a real game world, the Four Attributes directly affected the body. Even a dumb pig... if it could stack its Four Attributes to the limit, it would become a pig god strong enough to challenge the divine!
Outside of Level Up and Class Advancement, there were very few ways to increase Attribute Values in Second World. And the [Erosion] Talent gave Su Mu additional Four Attributes beyond what those paths provided!
Such a Talent, such a divine skill, how could he not be ecstatic?
However, Su Mu did not become arrogant.
Even with an unrivaled Talent, he had not forgotten—he was currently just a Little Skeleton, the lowest of the Undead, and arguably the lowest existence in the entire game world.
Before he could turn potential into true power and become genuinely strong, low-profile development was the only way.
Picking up another leg bone from the bone-littered ground, Su Mu lightly stepped toward another Skeleton several meters away.
One step.
Two steps.
Three steps.
Crack!
As expected.
When the leg bone in his hand broke again, the Skeleton before him—like the previous one—had its skull shattered. Its pale bones trembled slightly, then scattered across the ground.
"You have slain 'Weak Skeleton.'"
"You gained 10 Experience Points."
Ignoring the system kill notification, Su Mu crouched once more and placed his skeletal palm over the pile of bones left behind by the Skeleton.
That familiar warm current surged again, flowing into Su Mu's body.
When this second pile of bones had also been fully drained of its essence and turned to floating ash, new system messages appeared on his attribute panel.
"You have absorbed the essence within the bones. Your body grows stronger."
"Your Strength has increased by 0.1."
"Your Agility has increased by 0.1."
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