Level 1 to Apex: My Monster Templates Defy Reality!
Chapter 52: Rewards

Chapter 52: Rewards

Something like that caught him unprepared. Before he could think more, more notifications popped up in front of him.

Ding! Ding!

[You have successfully survived the Monster Cycle with all three of the forms.

Monster reward: Gain 1 stat point for each form you survive.]

Ding!

[You have gained 3 extra stat points.]

[The Golden Ancient Mark reacts.

Special reward: It has snatched power from every creature you have killed.

Players killed: 37

Monsters killed: 692 (Common Monsters)

Total killed: 729

Dark stat points gained: 71 unassigned dark points.

(Dark Stats Points: Special stat points that you can assign to your template. They will activate during the Monster Cycle.)

Note: All players you kill will lose one random stat point permanently.]

Forsyx smiled at this familiar notification.

At least there was no problem with the dark points. These points were very important for his survival in the future.

But another notification popped up in front of him.

[The Crimson Bloodline has managed to snatch one drop of core blood from each monster you have killed.

The creation of the Blood Gem is in process.

The number of blood gains:

– 37 Human Blood Drops

– 4 Small Snake Blood Drops

– 6 Small Bird Blood Drops

– 320 Dog Blood Drops

– 194 Fox Blood Drops

– 168 Wolf Blood Drops

Converting each blood drop to Blood Gems:

– Human Blood Gems: 1 Stage 1

– Dog Blood Gems: 2 Stage 1, 3 Stage 2

– Fox Blood Gems: 9 Stage 1, 1 Stage 2

– Wolf Blood Gems: 6 Stage 1, 1 Stage 2

(Blood Crystal: A special genetic crystal created from the purification of bloodlines. Using the Blood Crystal results in the creation of a permanent skill equal in potential to the Blood Crystal’s rank.)

*Restriction: Limited to the species from which the crystal is made. The Blood Gem will invoke the hidden power within the creature’s bloodline.

Warning: Dying during the Monster Cycle will result in the loss of 70% of all unused Blood Crystals. The largest crystal from each species will be the first to drop.]

Forsyx stared at the notification with his mouth wide open.

He opened his inventory and saw a bunch of differently shaped and sized red crystals.

He took out a Stage 1 Human Blood Gem. The gem was flat and had a red hue around it.

He saw it redirect sunlight in such a way that no matter how much light fell on it, it still maintained that faint red glow.

Now, to test the Blood Gem, he gently pressed it, and a notification popped up in front of him.

[Human Stage 1 Blood Gem. Upon use, you will gain a skill suitable for your class and species.]

Forsyx stared at the Blood Gem with wide eyes.

In Apex Online, there were different methods for players to gain skills.

The easiest one was to form a skill yourself. You could do this by repeating an action multiple times so that the system recognizes it as a skill.

Many people used this method, but only those with real-world specialization got excellent results from it.

It was especially a big thing for lifestyle classes like cooking, blacksmithing, and such.

Some warriors also used it to learn basic skills. He relied on this method to learn moves like slash, stab, parry, and other basic swordsman skills when he was a guild master.

It was a revolutionary method, but for most players, it was limited. Unless you were a real-world prodigy, you wouldn’t be able to create any major skills and would have to rely on skill tokens instead.

But skill tokens had their own limitations—players could only use tokens that matched their class. The more specialized a class, the harder it was to find suitable skill tokens.

These Blood Gems kind of bypassed that barrier. Kind of interesting, but not broken. After all, you couldn’t see what kind of skill you’d get. Skill tokens were still better in that sense. But if he combined these with his template creation...

Forsyx shook his head and placed the Blood Gem back in his inventory.

He’d need to run some experiments before reaching any conclusions.

Though he found the part about invoking the hidden power in a creature’s bloodline super interesting.

As he read it, he thought about Drakim. With that guy’s hybrid class, these gems might suit him even better than skill tokens. After all, dragon bloodlines held many mysteries.

After playing the game for so long, Forsyx understood that what made Apex super interesting was its multi-dimensional ways to gain power.

First, the most common one: levels. It determined your base stats, but only a rare few relied solely on them.

Then came Class-based Power. This depended on class skills—the more you progressed in your class, the more powerful you became.

Many players, including him, relied on their super-powerful class skills. Especially his Temple Shift skill—that single skill alone put him on the same stage as the top 10 powerhouses.

But the downside to powerful classes was massive.

He remembered a player from his past life who had the Sword Saint class.

That guy was so powerful that he dominated the second server for months.

From what Forsyx understood, the class relied on sword duels.

Every time the player won, he’d steal his opponent’s power—and the scariest part? No one could refuse this challenge.

That sword saint terrorized many big guilds until he made one mistake.

In his arrogance, he challenged a mid-size guild. The problem? The fencing world champion was a member of that guild.

No one knew what happened in that match, but from that day on, the Sword Saint disappeared.

It caused mayhem in Forsyx’s last life.

After all, Sword Saint was one of the pinnacle sword-warrior classes.

Later, someone revealed the hidden weakness in the Sword Saint class.

If you defeat the sword saint in a sword duel, the sword saint would lose the Sword Saint class permanently, including all the extra stats he gained from that class.

Some guilds leaked this info. After that, no one dared use the class.

Eventually, getting the Sword Saint class became a death sentence for your character.

That was just one incident. There were many others where a powerful player’s class weakness got exposed, and it ended their career.