After killing the Green-Patterned Round-Eyebrowed Python,
Tsukasa once again heard the Goddess's melodious voice.
Just for this once,
she was willing to offer her faith to this Goddess!
With absolute sincerity.
<#Fire Magic lv1→lv3>
<#Danger Perception lv1→lv2>
A faint white light flashed over the girl's body.
The original life-threatening injuries on the girl's body instantly vanished.
HP, MP, SP, all fully restored.
"I'm saved..."
Tsukasa breathed a sigh of relief.
She had gambled correctly.
This world was full of eerie settings everywhere.
She even suspected whether the Goddess of this world was also a Transmigrator; otherwise, this system was simply too similar to game settings, even including the recovery effect from leveling up.
She didn't feel that this was a logical setting.
But whether it was logical or not...
Since this setting actually existed,
Then... she should make use of it.
After all, the setting where leveling up clears all negative effects and restores one to full status, combined with gaining experience through killing, was practically tempting her to walk the path of a Great Demon King of Slaughter.
And she was the type of person who could least resist such temptation.
Just kidding~
But in her current situation, she truly had no other choice.
This place had high-level monsters like the White-Eyed Tiger.
Suddenly, she became alert.
There had never been any factual proof telling her that the White-Eyed Tiger was a high-level monster.
All of this was just her own assumption.
In reality, she had no idea what the truth was.
If that White-Eyed Tiger was actually a very weak monster, then her situation would be even more perilous than she previously thought; she had to be on guard against this possibility.
Therefore, she had to speed up the improvement of her strength.
In this environment, the only choice was to rely on the system's mechanics to constantly improve herself, sustaining war through war. Even if this was a Shura Path where one false step could lead to total destruction, there was no better way; she could only follow this path to the end.
"What a headache."
Si looked at the skill points she had just obtained from leveling up.
She hesitated over whether to use them.
Adding in the remaining skill points from before, she could use them to raise Appraisal to Level 6, which would allow her to obtain more information. However, she was also debating whether she should use the skill points in a more cost-effective way by continuing to learn entirely new magic.
The importance of Appraisal went without saying.
Level 5 Appraisal could already provide a significant amount of information.
For example, the habits of that Green-Patterned Round-Browed Python from earlier.
She also learned that the White-Eyed Tiger was the overlord of this area.
But if she continued to upgrade it,
Perhaps she could obtain information on monster levels.
From that, she could infer the upper limits of this world.
However, she was worried that Level 6 Appraisal might not necessarily provide that information—it was an unknown. Whereas if she learned magic, the boost to her strength would be almost immediate.
After all, magic had many effects.
"It's probably better to be cautious here..."
Ultimately,
Si still couldn't bring herself to gamble on that unknown.
She learned new magic.
〈# Shadow Magic lv1—Shadow Step〉 acquired.
〈# Earth Magic lv1—Rock Armor〉 acquired.
She tried out the new spells.
She was quite satisfied with their effects.
Shadow Step could be described as a fairly broken skill.
Its effect was to put the user into a state where physical attacks were nullified.
The description said the user moves within a shadow space, thus allowing them to ignore physical-level attacks. However, the drawbacks were also obvious: it didn't grant immunity to magical attacks, and the skill consumed a lot of mana.
Still, it was the most broken skill in her skill list.
Spells like Space-type or Time-type magic, which sound broken just by their names,
Were not in her skill list.
Rock Armor was for life-saving.
Because this skill could give her 100 defense and a 50 HP shield.
In other words, as long as this skill was active,
Skills with less than 100 damage could not deal effective damage to her.
Furthermore, her HP would be augmented by an additional 50 HP shield.
These two skills were a huge boost for her.
The former ensured she could escape when she couldn't win.
The latter ensured she wouldn't be instantly killed upon contact.
After experiencing the skill effects,
She was very satisfied with her decision.
Even if upgrading the Appraisal skill might have met her needs,
She wouldn't regret learning these two skills.
"Well then, next is slaughter time!"
Si couldn't help but recite a line full of chuunibyou energy.
Then, after checking that no one was around to see this embarrassing scene, she left with feigned composure.
She had basically finished exploring most of this area.
And she had left marks everywhere.
A circle mark meant there was no danger here.
The monsters' levels were all below lv5.
A checkmark meant this area was rich in resources.
An 'X' mark meant this area was dangerous.
At the same time, some marks overlapped.
After all, some dangerous areas contained extremely abundant resources.
And near places where fruit trees grew, there were generally ferocious monsters.
Of course, none of those monsters were as strong as the White-Eyed Tiger.
She had once even seen a Red-Chain Snake guarding a fruit tree.
That snake was as high as lv15, yet it didn't have attributes as exaggerated as that White-Eyed Tiger.
This also made her realize one thing.
Level does not represent strength.
Attributes are the foundation of all power.
Could a lv1 Giant Dragon be compared to a lv10 snake?
The attribute bonuses brought by racial talent provided a huge advantage.
And her human heritage didn't seem to give her much of a bonus.
She didn't return to the base.
There was no point in going back right now.
That White-Eyed Tiger was the overlord of this area.
If she didn't quickly gain strength exceeding the White-Eyed Tiger's and deal with that big cat, she would be at risk of being attacked at any time as long as she stayed in this area.
Judging by the sounds she heard earlier,
It seemed there wasn't just one White-Eyed Tiger.
However, they seemed to be in trouble right now.
This period of time was her opportunity.
Her previous efforts had finally reached the time for harvest.
Because she had consciously used marks to barely complete a map, she knew exactly where to start—from weak to strong, she would harvest all the experience in this area clean.
As for wasting food or disrupting the forest's ecological balance,
She couldn't care less about such things at this point.
She was about to die.
How could she still worry about those things?
Si held two magic circles in her hands.
Charging up through casting time first—this was the basic of basics in games.
Si didn't know that mages in this world couldn't easily do such a thing. If it were that easy, magic items for storing skills wouldn't have appeared.
Si didn't know this yet.
She didn't see anything extraordinary about herself from the skill list.
So she still felt like a newbie,
Thinking that her actions were extremely ordinary things.