Chapter 88: Chapter 88The next morning, Aaron continued his hunt.

    This time, he dared to venture a little bit into what was classified as the Inner Area. With the small army he has, even if he faces a level 70 monster, he can defeat it. If he can’t defeat them, he can at least survive the encounter by escaping.

    That he was sure about, so he became a bit bold and started to hunt monsters that were a few levels above him.

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    "What the hell is this?" Aaron muttered as he saw what would become his latest victim.

    It was an undead drake, but it didn’t look like any undead drake that he had encountered before. When Aaron started to hunt higher-level monsters, he stumbled upon what once was a drake’s nest.

    Now, all the drakes that lived here were turned into undead.

    He killed quite a few since waking up in the morning, but this one appeared to be different from the others. Moreover, Aaron found that there was something besides that undead drake.

    He didn’t recognise it, but he was sure that it was a treasure. With how the undead drake is guarding it, he was sure about that.

    "I need to get my hands on that", Aaron muttered.

    This was the first treasure that he came upon, and since this is an undead realm, this treasure should be useful for the undead, and he has a lot of them. So, in his mind, this was a treasure that he couldn’t pass on, no matter what.

    This was why he dared to come to the inner area this early.

    If he had stayed in the outer area, he could have earned a lot of tokens, but by coming here, he didn’t. S~ea??h the NovelFire.net* website on Google to access chapters of novels early and in the highest quality.

    The Black tokens were connected to monsters above level 50, but no monster above level 65 had one. The academy didn’t have any reason to believe that there was someone who could kill monsters above level 65.

    The academy didn’t believe that there was a student in the batch who was strong enough to kill a monster above level 50, much less a monster above level 65. So, most black tokens were tied to monsters that were around level 50 to 55, as per his estimation.

    Even though that was the case, he didn’t care as he was more interested in the treasures that he could gain from the ruins than the tokens.

    "Okay, everyone starts attacking at my command. Ghosts, you are first...", he started to give basic instructions for the attack.

    This undead appeared abnormal, and the reason why he was able to see that there was a treasure near it. Since the undead monster appeared abnormal, he was not going to act similarly to how he did with the other undead monsters.

    He planned it perfectly before initiating the attack.

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    The plan went without a hitch. Without losing any skeletons or ghosts, the undead monster was defeated, and the treasure that it was guarding became his.

    After collecting the materials that were useful from the undead monster, Aaron’s attention turned to the treasure that he had just obtained.

    He kept looking at it for a long time, with a deep frown on his face.

    "What the hell is this thing?" he muttered as he tried to discern it, which frustrated him to no end as he couldn’t identify the treasure.

    "I don’t remember any item like this one from any of the books that I was able to browse. Maybe information regarding this one might be in ones that I have yet to read from the library", Aaron muttered in a bit of frustration.

    The most annoying thing in the world is not being able to get something that you wanted, but having something precious and having no idea how to use it or being unable to use it.

    Aaron knew that he now possessed a treasure, something that he was sure about, especially with how that undead acted. What frustrated him was that he didn’t know what kind of treasure it was and how to make good use of it.

    "It’s annoying having a treasure but not knowing how to use it. After returning, I should get a skill that can at least identify an item and tell me what it is useful for", Aaron muttered in frustration.

    There are a lot of general skills that can identify an item or even give a full analysis of the item, which means when the skill is used, it would not just provide the name of the item and how it can be used.

    These skills are very useful for professionals like Alchemists, Cooks, etc... who need to understand the ingredients that they are going to use to create their products, whether that might be an alchemical product or food.

    The more a professional understands an item, the better they can make use of that item.

    "Hmm, I remember seeing a skill like that at the Student Resource Center, and if I get another chance of selecting a free skill, I should get one that could help me identify items easily, without going through books".

    "The academy didn’t specify what the rewards would be for the top from this competition. There is a chance that a free skill was one of the rewards. I mean, skills rarely drop, and the reason why they are always in demand".

    "The academy has a lot of skills. So, offering a skill as the reward for the top seems plausible. Even if there was no such reward, I would find a way to buy a skill that can help me identify items. It would make life easier", Aaron thought.

    Whether there was a reward or not, he decided to get an identifying skill when possible. Most of the items that exist should already have been recorded and should be available in the academy’s library, but what about the ones not recorded or ones that one has yet to read about?

    There is a high chance that one could miss out on many precious things without such a skill, and actually did. Many awakeners, who didn’t have access to such skills or knowledge, ignored many treasures as useless.

    This was not something that Aaron was keen on repeating.

    He could have already missed out on some of those treasures, as not all treasures appear as treasures. They sometimes appear as everyday items, which is why many miss out on them.

    There was nothing that could be done about what he missed, but he decided to get a skill so that it wouldn’t happen again.

    Deciding that, he continued to hunt monsters. Though there are less chances of getting tokens or treasures, there is still expereince that he could gain, levlling him faster than usual.