Reincarnated as a bamboo rat, it begins its extreme survival struggle.

He didn't try to cover up the traces of the battle, so Amat easily deduced the general battle scene. Bell only dealt with the traces of him leaving the place after he and Edu separated.

These actions caused a huge deviation in Amat's subsequent deductions. After all, Amat could not have imagined that the perpetrator would split in two and instantly become a weak boy.

"Take the body and leave. There's nothing more to see here."

Holding the two corpses in his hands, he hung them on a bag behind the saddle and fastened it tightly. Amat showed no intention of investigating the case.

After all, feuds and murders among adventurers are not uncommon. As long as they don't happen in Cangxing City and the killers don't bury the bodies indiscriminately, they will most likely not pursue these killings.

Compared to the minor matter of a few deaths, the loss of an untreated body is far more unacceptable.

It's fine if a corpse becomes a living remnant, but if it transforms into something even more indescribable, then things are in serious trouble.

Carrying the bodies back into the city, Amat placed the Shadow Thief's corpses on the ground in front of the City Guard office next to the Professional Guild Square. It would be best if someone came to claim the bodies; otherwise, the cost of disposing of the bodies would have to be covered by public funds.

In any case, after bringing the bodies back, an old priest stationed at the city guard office should have taken action to deal with them, calm their remaining thoughts, and send their souls into the sea of ​​depravity.

This is a necessary procedure; all bodies collected by the city guards are handled in this way.

But the handover process, which usually takes only a moment, has stalled today.

After examining the bodies, the old pastor in charge of handling them solemnly said:

"The souls of these corpses have vanished, and they can no longer be buried in the Sea of ​​Oblivion."

Chapter 147 Ancient Giant Beast Bamboo Rat

Bell's dream world remains unchanged, with a river flowing through the empty floating island, and the courtyard representing Bell's spiritual world is still unfinished.

However, compared to when Bell last came to Dreamland, there are now a few more vines lying on the ground on the floating island.

The pumpkin seeds sown earlier have not only sprouted, but are also growing vigorously. Numerous pumpkin vines have spread across the farmland, and they will soon be flowering and bearing fruit.

The tenacious pumpkin vine

Growth progress:

Pumpkins are a much more tangible crop than tulips.

Whether it's a sturdy old pumpkin or a newly grown tender pumpkin, both are delicious foods.

"I'm just curious, what are the effects of eating crops grown in dreams?"

However, the pumpkin vines haven't started bearing pumpkins yet, so Bell's curiosity can't be verified in the short term.

After fiddling with the sprawling pumpkin vines, Bell turned his attention back to himself.

Bear Grylls

Race: Bamboo Rat (small animal template offset)

Level: lv.12 (465/200)

Bell gained a massive amount of experience after his adventure in the bamboo forest and after defeating four shadow thieves.

The four Shadow Thieves, in particular, are the main contributors to experience gain, with each Shadow Thief providing an average of eighty experience points.

After reaping so much experience, Bell gradually grew stronger and also came to understand the source of that experience.

There are many ways to gain experience, whether it's deepening your understanding of your profession or gaining insights from nature.

Just like how Bell leveled up his Bard job and his state when he saw the purple bamboo under the bright moon in the bamboo forest, both brought Bell a considerable amount of experience.

But compared to these ways of gaining experience, killing enemies is always the simplest and most efficient way.

"The souls of enemies killed by me, whether directly or indirectly, will be dragged into a dream world and decomposed into experience."

After becoming the King of the Bamboo Forest, Bell gained a deeper understanding of the Sea of ​​Oblivion. The Dream Realm, a realm that is highly related to but distinct from the Sea of ​​Oblivion, provided Bell with a variety of unimaginable abilities.

Bell's ability to convert illusions into experience ensured his rapid growth.

Under his deliberate guidance, the experience points stored in Bell's body were rapidly transformed into a highly malleable energy, quickly enhancing Bell's physical and mental abilities.

But before the experience points took effect, the floating island representing Bell's physical body began to expand rapidly.

"The ancient dragon blood we prepared earlier has taken effect."

Feeling the changes in his body, Bell murmured to himself.

Before entering the dreamlike slumber, he dug a half-meter-deep square pit in the underground base and filled it with a high-energy solution made from the thumb-sized ancient dragon blood and some basic materials. The magic circle that Bell inscribed around the pit ensured that the medicinal power of the ancient dragon blood would not leak out.

This ancient dragon blood solution is extremely potent. After all, in order to ensure the effectiveness of the ancient dragon blood, Bell did not use the moonlight energy from the Star Unicorn horn to neutralize some of its special energies. This step was to reduce energy loss, but it also preserved the domineering aura of the dragon in the ancient dragon blood.

Cleanse and cleanse the marrow of Edu

At that time, Bell only scraped a few strands of dust off the ancient dragon's blood, which was enough for him to solve the demi-human bloodline problem.

To achieve a complete transformation, Bell used an entire piece of ancient dragon blood the size of his little finger.

If Edu were to fall into this pit of ancient dragon blood solution, the powerful medicinal properties would kill him.

Bell, immersed in it, didn't need to use magic to maintain his physical vitality; the enormous energy in the solution would push his physical condition to its peak.

To withstand this power, Bear Grylls even needs to enter a "gluttonous" state.

Of course, everything Bell did was worthwhile.

In his dream, Bell could see his floating island expanding at an astonishing rate, faster than ever before.

When the expansion stopped, Bell's body underwent unimaginable changes.

Bear Grylls

Race: Bamboo Rat (Ancient Behemoth Template)

Level: lv.14 (15/300)

Health: 115 (+15)

Mental strength:

magic:

Luck: 4 (+1)

Skills: [Information Insight], [Pyrophilic Wisdom], [Living Shadow], [Gluttony]

Classes: Intermediate Bard, Intermediate Lancer, Beastmaster

During the process of absorbing the ancient dragon's blood, Bell's experience points for leveling up actually became a lubricant. Compared to the significant improvement in his physical body, the steady growth of his mental strength seemed like a mere backdrop.

The ancient dragon blood caused Bell's normal physical strength to exceed 100, and if he entered the gluttonous state, it could double again.

This level of improvement has already exceeded the upper limit of the bamboo rat species.

If a bamboo rat in this world could truly grow to level fourteen by chance, its physical strength would be hard to break one hundred, let alone possess such extraordinary mental power.

The current Bell is a monster bearing the title of a bamboo rat species.

The suffix following his race name is no longer the small animal template without any extra bonuses, but the Ancient Behemoth template.

[Ancient Behemoth Template]

Template description: In the distant ancient past, creatures could grow to enormous sizes and possessed extraordinary physical strength even without using any magic.

Template effects: [Extremely Large], [Growth-based Damage Relief]

I saw the Ancient Behemoth template when Bell was choosing a template before his reincarnation. There were quite a few life forms to choose from, including giant elephants, dinosaurs, and deep-sea behemoths...

Creatures with ancient behemoth templates are basically drawn in a Jurassic Park style.

The [Super Giant] template effect allows them to obtain an exceptionally large size without using any supernatural power. This exceptionally large size is generally over 20 meters, and monsters that are 50 or 60 meters tall are not uncommon. Some can even reach the level of 100 to 100 meters.

This terrifying size is beyond what magical beasts can grow to, since the strength of magical beasts lies in the various magical effects within their bodies, not in their enormous size.

Even the elemental giants, known for their physical strength, are generally only about twenty meters tall.

This enormous size endowed the ancient behemoths with terrifying physical strength, enabling them to wrestle with mountains using brute force.

The template effect of [Growth-based damage immunity] grants ancient behemoths the ability to avoid being killed by ants.

Their physical bodies are very strong. As their size increases, attacks that are less than the saving throw will not be able to penetrate the ancient behemoth's defenses. Whether it is a physical attack, magical damage, or even an attack like a curse, as long as it does not exceed the saving throw, it will not be able to penetrate the ancient behemoth's defenses.

Chapter 148 Research on Spoon Twenty-Four

Why did it evolve into an ancient behemoth?

Undoubtedly, template promotion is the most important aspect of Bell's upgrade.

The ancient dragon blood, which served as the primary energy source for template advancement, did not cause Bell's growth to veer towards the dragon template; instead, it further strengthened Bell's physical body.

Unlike the [Small Animal Template], which offers no bonuses, the newly acquired [Ancient Behemoth Template] has two very powerful effects.

[Super Giant] allows Bell to break through the growth limit of bamboo rats, becoming larger and larger over time, and the larger size will bring greater physical strength.

[Growth-based damage immunity] allows Bell to have damage reduction abilities that are adapted to his size; the larger the size, the stronger the damage reduction effect.

Both of these effects are related to Bell's size. Previously, Bell's growth ability was limited by the small animal template. Without the bamboo rat body that had broken free from the small animal template, no matter how much it was strengthened, it could not exceed a certain limit.

But in the Ancient Behemoth template, Bell broke free from the shackles of his physical body.

From then on, Bell gained extremely high physical strength every time he leveled up.