BXBX NOVEL Chapter 120 - Floor 3 Part 2
The experience of being focused mainly on training had opened Adam\'s mind massively and he was becoming more and more adept in the use of the Hunter\'s mind.
Although it was integrated into his mind, he had control of whether it would influence his mind or not and it was as though there was a scale within his mind that had his desires, emotions and normal self on one side, with the Hunter\'s mind on the other.
Adam being more careful and using his summons efficiently, hunted the lizard beasts and had bought a low ranked spear from the system in order to deal with them.
It would allow him to deal with them with ease, while keeping his distance from them so that they wouldn\'t be able to poison him.
However, he needed the beasts to be split apart, which was what he used his summons for, and making sure that they weren\'t attacked by the poison, they caught the attention of the beasts and caused them to spread around and split up from the large groups that they moved in.
The first lizard beast that Adam killed, became the base beast of his Agamidae Summon and he was overjoyed with it. It was the perfect beast summon for assassinations, poisoning enemies, and most of all, looked like an ordinary animal.
Adam spent another few days of hunting Stage 2 of Floor 3 until he had reached LVL 26 and was confident enough in his strength to move on.
Stage 3 of Floor 3 was an unusual one and it was similar to how it was on Floor 2 but slightly different.
As soon as he entered stage 3, there was a sudden and unexpected sandstorm that swept up Adam along with the sand and carried it to a specific area.
After reaching that area, the sandstorm reached an abrupt halt and he fell right down onto the ground.
However, it wasn\'t the ground he had expected and it was the ground of an Underground Cove that was deep and large.
He couldn\'t get up to the surface, but it wasn\'t a Sub-Dungeon either and it was where the third stage of the floor began.
That marked the checkpoint for where Floor 3 started, and although Adam wasn\'t sure how the ground from the surface was being held above him, he was quite sure that it wouldn\'t collapse and that it was the system that had made it like that.
It was quite dark and not much light was able to make it through, however, with his quite high intelligence and his practise with his spiritual sense, Adam didn\'t find it hard to navigate in the Underground Cove that he had fallen into.
The beasts that he found on stage 3 were scorpion beasts and they were very similar to the lizards in the fact that they were quite small, numerous and fast, but weren\'t particularly strong.
Although the scorpion beasts had a weaker poison that only had a numbing effect on the body, Adam was shocked to find after being stung by it multiple times, it was almost as if it was paralysing his body as it began to make his body feel sluggish and hard to move.
But with his unique Collector Skill, he could summon his summons to protect him while he used his Ethereal Recovery Skill to recover his body and reduce the effects of the numbing.
The scorpion beasts also had a very hard shell and a high resistance, and the biggest weakness of the status feature was that even though the overall status of the opponent was revealed, some traits and skills weren\'t shown.
Those traits and skills could compensate for an enemy\'s low stats or boost their power even more, which made it so that it was hard to predict the true power that an enemy had without knowing all their capabilities.
Adam had learnt not to underestimate anyone and anything and fought hard and carefully against the scorpions until he was confident enough in his strength to fight the boss beast.
After experiencing the slow, but potent, effects of the numbing poison from the scorpion beasts, Adam collected it as the base beast for his Scorpionoidea Summon. With it, he had gained another summon that he could use for tasks that would require strength and would require him not to leave any evidence.
It took him almost a week before he was confident enough in his own power and his capability to deal with the scorpion beasts, but after he was, he was LVL 29 and was extremely powerful.
With the training that he was doing in reality and the hunting in the dungeon during his sleep, his cultivation progress was fast and steady as he made sure not only to increase his stats, but also his skill.
Just like on Floor 2, the boss beast was a beast that was the leader of the stage 3 beasts and it was a large jet-black scorpion that was much larger than the others.
It was a Pandinus Scorpion and its poison could cause instant paralysis, which would last for a few seconds before one\'s body was able to fight against it
A few seconds were enough to kill somebody many times over and Adam was very wary of its poison as he fought carefully and in a reserved manner, using his summons to make up for the gap in numbers and had managed to win in his first attempt against it.
Using his Gorilla Gauntlets, which he had used sparingly and only when he needed to, he was able to deal damage to the same area of the Pandinus Boss Beast\'s body and break past its tough scales.
With that, it was easy for him to finish off the Pandinus Boss Beast and he had managed to gain an item in the process.
Items were becoming increasingly rare as he continued hunting against stronger beasts in the dungeon, and because of that, he was using his weapons sparingly, not wanting to reduce their durability unnecessarily.
He had gained a few items up until that point, but most of them were small pieces of equipment that had small buffs on his stats and he had them all equipped already.
After he gained the Pandinus Boss Beast as one of the types of scorpion beasts integrated with his Scorpionoidea Summon, he had realised another feature about the Collector Skill that he was yet to use and experiment with.