While Others Cultivate, I LVL UP In My Sleep Using The Dungeon System

Chapter 119 - Floor 3 Part 1

Adam had progressed massively and would spend around half the day in the dungeon each day, which would equate to an entire day within the dungeon.

His master found how much Adam slept unusual, but he realised that it seemed to be increasing his strength and he had assumed that Adam had some sort of cultivation method that would allow him to cultivate in his sleep.

Floor 3 had a desert-like environment, that was very hot and dry and was probably the hardest environment that Adam had to fight in up until that point, on par with Floor 1 that was a very cold environment.

With the Ethereal Reocery Skill he could more or less recover his body to a peak state, but that didn't mean he didn't feel pain, thirst and hunger while he was in his Dungeon Form, and it was still very hard to deal with.

There were 3 stages just like all the other floors that Adam had completed up until that point, but each time he moved up to a new floor, they were becoming larger and larger as he also became faster and capable of covering and navigating around a larger area.

He was surprised to find that the first beast that he had to hunt on stage 1 were kangaroos, and the combat experience that he gained from fighting against his master and battling against Chase, was very useful when fighting against kangaroos with their humanoid nature and attack style.

Adam hunted on Stage 1 for a few days and gained a Macropodidae Summon from hunting a kangaroo for the first time, and made sure to use all of his summons interchangeably while hunting, so that they could all gain combat experience.

What he did find interesting was the special trait of the Macropodidae Summon, which was Boxing Style and he could see that the summon continued to improve and practise its skills as it fought against more beasts.

Adam realised just how valuable the experience and memories that his summons gained were, as without them, even if they were powerful, they weren't of much use to him.

Knowing the value of the experience that the summons had, Adam decided that it was too risky for him to completely deactivate the auto-recovery feature of the Unique Collector Skill, as there was the risk of his summons dying and losing all their experience.

Instead, Adam had made it so that after the summon's health had fallen to 30%, the auto-recovery feature would be activated and he would be alerted of that.

This way he would be able to avoid his summons being killed and losing all the experience that they gained, and he would be alerted when their health was low, so that he could retract the summon.

Adam hunted the kangaroo beasts using all his summons interchangeably and all of his summons were becoming accustomed to fighting with Adam and each other.

It took Adam a few days, but after he reached LVL 23, he moved onto stage 2 and stopped hunting the kangaroo beasts. Adam found it easier to kill them after he had learnt their fighting patterns and with their Boxing Style Special Trait, he was able to practise his hand-to-hand combat.

On Stage 2, Adam faced lizards had a brown-yellow colour and camouflaged well with the sand. Camouflaging well with the environment didn't make them a threat to Adam and apart from that they seemed quite ordinary.

But Adam knew better than to underestimate any beast in the dungeon no matter how weak they appeared.

Although their size was quite small and their resistance and health was very low, along with most of their other stats, their speed and the damage that they could deal was very dangerous.

Their strength, resistance and health were comparable to that of an ordinary human, which was very low compared to Adam currently, but their speed was very high, while their intelligence was also quite high.

However for the first time, it wasn't their physical body and stats that Adam needing to be wary of, but it was their special trait, which was Decaying Poison.

Each time he would be bitten and poisoned by one of the lizards, he would lose 5 HP every minute.

At that rate, if he was stung by multiple lizards at once, he would die very quickly and he wouldn't be able to counter its effects with his Ethereal Recovery Skill.

After learning how to and removing impurities from his body, Adam was quite confident that he would be able to remove poison from his body, but with their fast speed and high numbers, he didn't have the time to do so.

There was also nowhere to hide in a mostly open and quite flat desert, making the seemingly frail and small lizard beasts, a massive threat in that enviroment.

Adam found that out the hard way, after being stung by many of the lizards at once when he was unprepared and not ready to battle against such large numbers of fast beasts.

However after he experienced death for a third time in the dungeon, Adam felt that it was not something that he was willing to allow to happen again even though there would be no physical effects on his actual body.

Dying in the dungeon felt the same as when one would die in reality, and although the pain and damage wouldn't be passed over, the experience and trauma from it stuck with Adam.

Even though he could suppress the trauma, emotions and the emptiness that it made him feel with his Hunter's mind, it was still something that he didn't ever want to experience again.

Because of that, he always wanted to be prepared and able to escape with his life in any situation, so poured all his additional stat points into speed, and made the Speed his main focus until he was confident enough in his speed to increase his other stats with his additional stat points. 

But unlike other cultivators, all his stats would increase each time his LVL increased anyway, so he didn't have to worry about being unbalanced, and was merely focusing on a single stat, like most cultivators would do.