The Dungeon System
106. Basic defense techniques part 1

With his Hunter mind, Adam's perception and focus were enhanced and superior to others at the same cultivation level as him. Using it, in just 9 hours after practicing his energy usage, he felt as if he could use his energy easily and focus it on a certain area of his body.

He made sure to take the time to do that exercise because without it he would not have the opportunity to use Basic Defense Techniques that required great energy control and skills to use.

"It's time to really try to use and learn basic defense techniques" Adam murmured to himself as he felt ready to do so.

Adam discovers that he uses a lot of mental power to control his large energy storage and he realizes that he must ensure that his Intelligence and Energy Statistics are the same to make it easier for him to use his energy storage.

Fortunately his Intelligence Stat was only 1 point lower than his Energy Storage and with his Hunter mind, which helped him increase his focus, he could still control his energy storage.

Her aunt has recovered and appears happy as she begins to put her life back on track, allowing Adam to focus almost entirely on himself and his future. After his cultivation and strength were revealed to him, there was nothing else that interested him and right now was the only thing he was aiming for.

She also aims towards full independence and does not want to rely on others as she is considering forming her own organization after the tracker Elizabeth placed on her motorcycle left a sour taste in her mouth.

It really reminded her not to trust anyone and she did not plan on leaving her training for anything other than visiting her aunt and Chase once in a while.

While increasing his strength from hunting, he also obtained gold, which made it through hunting in the dungeon, all his problems were solved and made him not have to worry about anything else while doing so. 

Blocking all thoughts from his mind, Adam allowed the Hunters mind to take complete control as he blocked his own emotions and thoughts that bothered him.

He didn't want to spend too much time practicing Basic Defense Techniques because training despite giving him EXP, wouldn't give him the gold he could earn through hunting.

Adam knew that the system gave him an edge over others and the extraordinary Mastery Feature would allow him to increase his mastery over anything by spending stat points on him.

What Adam planned was to learn and understand the basic concepts of both skills until he gained 1% mastery of both, then spend stat points to increase his skill mastery.

Starting with the External Hardening Technique used by the External Cultivators, which Adam thought was an easier choice, he began to spread his External Energy to every part of his body.

Ensuring to cover his entire body and coat it with External Energy, Adam fit his master's brief description of the skill, trying to harden his body's cells.

However, he realized how vague and meaningless his master's description of the skill was after several tries to use the technique but to no avail.

He did not know how to harden his cell and had tried to compress it with energy to increase his endurance, which he could not do, and he was also trying to increase his size and density with energy, but he also can't do it. .

He struggles to change, strengthen or affect his cells in any way and he is not sure what his master actually means by his cells. Thinking about his master, he had no idea how old he was or how developed his knowledge of the modern world and human anatomy was, so what he called a cell might not be what he believed to be a cell.

No matter how many times he tried, he could not even detect his cells that were on such a small microscopic scale, he had no chance to sense them with his current level of sensory ability.

[Perhaps what he meant by cells was the basic definition, small compartments in larger structures, which could be that you could harden different parts. Or maybe I misinterpreted the explanation and interpreted it as an individual cell, when I should have interpreted it as a large group of cells] Adam thought to himself.

[The best and most useful part of hardening my body to harden is my skin, which is the first part of my body to be exposed. But ideally, I should aim to be able to harden my muscles, bones and Inner Organs as well in order for me to become immune to all attacks].

He tried to get too precise with the process, which was just exhausting his mental strength and wasting time, instead, instead, he should aim to harden the whole part and not a single cell of his body that he could not even feel.

He wasn't sure how capable his cells were of hardening and how exactly to harden them, but the only thing he could think of was storing energy in the specific area he planned to harden.

However, after doing so he did not feel his skin becoming hard and in order to test it, he called out to Leporidae Summon and ordered him to slash his arm gently.

His body was the same as before and the energy he scattered and stored within his skin had no effect on his body.

He could sense that his energy was not being used by his skin and was only being stored, so instead of pumping energy into his skin, Adam tried to do something strange.

It took hours of practice, but he finally managed to complete his strange idea, which was to absorb the energy from within his body and surroundings into his skin.

He wanted to use his skin as a beacon, then when the energy reached his skin, instead of absorbing it through his pouring into his energy storage, he absorbed it into his skin. 

After many failed attempts, Adam finally managed to do so and he was surprised to see that his skin burned all the energy he gave off from his own body and the energy around them to improve himself.

[As I thought, instead of giving away the part I wanted to harden the External Energy, which would be stored by a certain part of my body, I need to pull it out of that part and get it out using the part I want. hardened] Adam thought inwardly happily.

Calling his Leporidae Summon again, he ordered him to slash his arm again and he was surprised by the result.

The Leporidae Summoning Claw cut through his skin, though, but his skin was much more resistant to attacks that massively lowered the damage and depth of the wound because even the Summoning Leporidae themselves were startled by the increased resistance shown by Adam's skin.

{Ding, 1% Mastery of External Hardening Technique has been reached} announced the system.

Adam could not help but jump for joy despite the pain he felt in his arm as he opened the System Mastery Feature.

[The system explained to me what the technique was, its effects, and its limitations] ordered Adam who only had a basic idea of how it worked and wanted to know everything about it and its capabilities.

{External Hardening Techniques allow hosts to harden their external bodies using External energy and are limited by the energy storage capacity of the user's cells and the amount of energy they have. The host is not limited by anything with your unique constitution and as long as you spend enough system points to improve your mastery of skills, you increase your strength, the System says.

{Currently, with Your 1% Technique Mastery, you can only increase Your Resistance by 1 point using 1 EESP every minute and as your technique mastery increases, so does its power} resume system.

{Various stages of skill mastery are:

A Beginner's level was equivalent to thirty percent of the skill's maximum strength.

Low Levels that are equivalent to fifty percent.

High Levels that are equivalent to seventy percent.

Peak Rate equal to ninety percent or higher.

Perfection rate which is equivalent to ninety-nine percent and it can be said that it could not be better} told him the system.

"Interesting" Adam murmured to himself as he prepared to spend system points on mastering his skills and began studying the Energy Arm Technique.