After understanding the features of the trait, Klaus moved onto the next section about enhancement, but due to the requirements being a huge number of 100000 dragon flies he could not proceed. wings were useful, but he had other priorities right now.
he proceeded with the last insects that were beetles and cockroaches both had similar enhancements and no skills and traits.
Klaus looked at their enhancements. one was an exoskeleton from the cockroach and the other was body amour from beetles and both demanded millions of sacrifices even more than dragon fly wings.
Klaus converted the wasted insects into stats and hardly gained one physical start point.
In just one day he had quite useful gains, a C ranked trait and a B ranked skill.
Klaus now had at least some defensive ability. His body had gone to some significant change and his face had also transformed quite a bit due to loss of face fat. He even felt that his height had increased.
Looking in a mirror Klaus felt that hardly anyone would relate him to Vance if he chose to hide it.
But he still insisted that making up a story was more useful since the track could be traced by secret agencies.
And the money he was spending was also given as a compensation so he could be tracked down with the card's transactions.
Klaus decided to go on for the evaluation at the association building today. he would require an identity as soon as possible to live. even at the inn he had to pay an extra bribe to the manager to live since he had no awakening ID.
Klaus again chose to walk towards the association building. Once he reached the facility he walked towards the receptionist. the lady's eyes lit up seeing Klaus's handsome visage.
"welcome sir, what can I do for you" the lady spoke in a professional tone.
"I would like to register as an awakened" Klaus replied, he was very familiar with the process.
to be evaluated and given a rank a person had to fight virtual monsters, the highest rank of monster that could be defeated by the hunter would be the rank that will be given to the person.
although the method was very crude it was still much better, earlier in the beginning of apocalypse the rank was divided by the highest ranked skill one possessed. but over the years people realised that a higher skill could be overpowered by stacking effects of multiple low ranked skills. Although for S rank and above this was barely the case but for lower levels which were in majority.
moreover there were different types of hunters namely support hunters, battle hunters and many other types each one should have a different criterion of evaluation, thus after the emergence of the guardian academy, studies began on the topic and finally a new criterion which was much more apt was developed.
Since Klaus wanted to register as a battle type hunter. he was brought to an underground facility which was very crowded. the lady led him to a small room where a VR capsule was installed. VR tech was quite famous among people, but it was still not usable for common populace. the association had put strict restrictions on its use.
only the association had the tech and know how on how to operate a VR capsule.
Klaus was made to enter the capsule. then after the lady pressed a few buttons she looked at Klaus and smiled.
"are you ready"
Klaus returned her smile and simply replied yes. he knew the lady was interested in him, but he was not so he did not bother much and just focussed on the task ahead.
earlier when he was evaluated he was given an F ration because he could not even last against one monster even though he tried it out he only delayed his death.
while the evaluation goes on, every move of the hunter is judged so that the hunter is given a fair evaluation. The evaluation is given in terms of battle power which is a score given by artificial intelligence developed by the association.
Klaus closed his eyes as the beep of the several machines rang in his ears. A moment passed, and he was standing on a grassy plain land with dense forest a few hundred meters ahead. from his memories he k new that the monsters would start approaching from the forest.
soon a panel appeared in front of him asking for the choice of weapons. earlier Klaus had chosen a sword as his weapon but overtime he realised that sword was too heavy for him, he needed a lighter weapon.
"let's see with natural hunter trait, all the skills under it are advantageous for an agile and small weapon...something like a bow....nope"
"a crossbow?....nope"
"a gun?...nope"
"letss seeeee....a dagger? ....yup a dagger it is"
daggers were relatively easy to use, Klaus wanted a basic weapon that he could adapt to really fast and daggers were a really good choice. as soon as the daggers were selected a countdown started in front of him.
it was a three-second countdown and as soon as the countdown got to 0, Klaus readied himself. with his superior vision, Klaus could see a few trees shaking in the forest Klaus thought that it was a terrestrial beast or monster and his guess was right, last time he had faced a boar. This time it was a goblin.
In the test, although the strength of the monster were kept similar to each other for every respective level the type of monster was changed to prevent participants from familiarising and strategising.
the association wanted to test purely strength and battle ability in this test.
a goblin rushed towards Klaus with a short sword in its hand thinking that Klaus was an easy prey.
Savagely it lunged towards the human in front of him as soon as it got closer. Klaus used his hunter's reflexes to dodge the goblin's strike by a milimeter and struck its back with the dagger in his right hand. Klaus's physical stats had been enhanced a total of 29.7 points of force tore through the goblin's back and reached its organs reaping its life in an instant.
Ding!! target detected.
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species - green goblin
available traits - Horny (E)
available skills -- slash (F)
available enhancements - green skin(F) (0/10000)
physical stat conversion - 1:100
magic stat conversion - 1:1000
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Klaus could not process what he saw
"I am in a virtual reality right?? how the heck does this skill work here??"
Klaus's mind churned with a certain possibility. In the virtual reality programme a hunter doesn't die for obvious reasons, but at the same time logically speaking the divine absorption skill should not work inside a virtual world.
if by chance the skill works inside the virtual world that would mean he could grow without worrying about his safety inside the VR world.
Klaus was over the moon, this news changed everything, his priorities immediately changed he now had a new mission, but before that he had to complete his evaluation.
he looked at the virtual screen that asked for his confirmation to proceed, and then he looked at the goblin corpse. Klaus acted as if he was checking it out trying to come up with an idea about how to deceive the Lady outside looking at his evaluation.