For example using this method I discovered that I teo leave my back exposed quite often and as a result had been slowly correg that fw through trial and error. For anyone else this method of patg fws would be suicidal as the injuries would start adding up until they'd drop from blood loss. In my case however I sealed the shallow wounds almost before they had a ce to bleed and adjusted my movements and focus to correct the discovered fw. Despite this however I wasn't feeling challe all fighting these level two monsters.

  It was all because of my fmes, no matter how much pressure these level two monsters put oh their numbers I khat if it ever became too much I had something I could use to trivialize the fight. It would be oh so easy to just send the fmes out and sit back while they did all the work because of their nature. I knew however that this was a fw in and of itself as if I relied on my fmes to handle all my issues what would happen when I couldn't for whatever reason?-

  The answer was simple and clear as day, I'd die. If I relied on my fmes to handle all my ehen I'd just be leaving myself vulnerable in the case they didn't work. Uanding this I relegated my fmes to a st resort or something I used when I didn't want to waste time fighting something or someohis caused me no small amount of suffering but that was where the falna and cursed energy excelled the most so my gains outweighed the cost. Perhaps my stats weren't growing rapidly but my skill in bat was improving by leaps and bounds.-

  I had even started being able to react to the way the monsters moved to attad ter before they finished or even interrupt them sometimes. There were patterns in how they moved and after fully immersing myself itles I started these patterns a preemptively. It retty clear to me however that no level two should attempt to learn this triihe speed betweeion of the monster , your brain reizing what's happening and you moving to react to that reition was so tight that it created an ungodly amount of fug strain on me.-

  It was an advanced cept that probably only became really viable at higher levels, maybe four or beyond. Despite figuring this out I still tried to master this new way of fighting because I also khat the falna teo reward effort with the harder something was the better the reward for putting in the effort. So while this way of fighting was more suited for a higher level adve was still possible to pull off at my level in exge for a sharp increase in difficulty.-

  "Are you sure that you o go so far?" Hestia asked worriedly when I came home once again covered in my own blood with more new scars ad my skin.

  "Believe me I wish I didn't but if I am to grow the fastest only by going to such lengths is it possible." I said feelially drained.

  "And what about these scars? Why do you insist on keeping them when all they do is remind you of pain?" She asked unhappily while trag my scars with her fiip.

  "I'll remove them when I remove the fw in my bat style that created them in the first pce. Think of them like progress markers rather than reminders of pain. Eae I take away means I e just that little bit closer to my goal. And when the day eventually es that my skin holds no scars you'll know all this pain and effort was worth it." I said with a smile as I imagihat future.

  "I worry you know? That you'll go too far and never e back. That one day you'll lose something you 't just fix with that power of yours." she said softly and I just pat her oop of the head.

  "I'm harder to kill than a cockroach so don't you worry your pretty little head about it. I might e home a little worse for wear but make no mistake I will ALWAYS e home." I said fidently.

  After that short but heartfelt chat it was time to work on my ission that was taking a while due to how energy inte was. I had already fused all the crystal together and removed all the impurity from it leaving it as pure shiny crystal. I activated my teique and began to shape this mass of crystal into a very vague lioness body if the lioness was ying down.-

  The ned chest area however was left raw and unformed sihose were going to be turned into the woman's torso. Despite this however I was burning through cursed energy at an arming rate simply due to the sheer size of the material and how much it was resisting transformation. Yes my teique could be resisted though if I paid enough energy I could overe that resista least that was the case for nonalive things like metals and crystals such as this.-

  Transf a living material like a monsters anatomy cost an excessive amount of cursed energy as their resistance was way more intense and in level two monsters I even risked mind zero from the sheer amount of resistance I felt. Thanks to this I was able to uand or at least theorize how my teique would improve as I grew stronger. Right now my teiques was barely strong enough to work on dead level four materials or alive level two materials and by growing strohis limit would also increase.-

  In theory my teique might even be able to overe the dungeoance by the time I hit level seven ht. Anyway this dungeon crystal was a dead material at around level two or three judging from the resistance I felt from it which meant I spent a very rge amount of energy just shaping the general form of the crystal statue. Ptah was already aware that this was not a project that could be done in a short amount of time and was fine waiting a month or so for me to finish it.-

  I had already decided that I wouldn't update my falna again until I fihis statue or something happehat forced me to need a power up for some reason. The reason for this was simply that only at that point would I see a growth in my stats. There was just something about my numbers jumping forward that was highly satisfying.