Alex Hale Book 4 by Spielar

Chapter 5

I ended up grinding more and more levels and got some specialty classes I had gotten single blow to level 5 and martial master to level 10 for my basic combat style and I got Doppelganger to level 15 and Greater Doppelganger to level 10 for my racial classes. I could copy anyone and use all of their tier 80 or below skills and even when I wasn't copying them I was super tanky and could deal ridiculous amounts of damage. The only drawback to my build was that I couldn't use magic or magic tools without having something that would let me do so or being transformed into someone who could.

I also found out that if I died while transformed I would not only have that saved form deleted I would also receive the same amount of damage as the transformations hp. This was fine if I was hit with something that was going to be an instant kill since that would mean that I would survive it, but it was crap when I lost a form I liked. Magic casters were unfortunately glass cannons and I could go through them very fast if I wasn't careful.

I did find out something which had prompted me to change my play style a bit. I usually would go around in dungeons and grind as much as I could, but I had found out on accident a secret skill that I could abuse.

The skill was called cannibalize. It was both the most useful skill and the most time intensive. I had found this skill when I had hunted down a dragon and had gotten some truly terrible drops. It was mostly stuff like broken scales or cracked horns. The only thing that I had gotten that was useable was a slab of dragon meat. I was so mad since I had wasted a ton of time and items in order to solo a dragon and had gotten complete crap for my efforts. So I bit into the steak in anger and ate it raw just to spite the bastard.

That was when I got the skill cannibalize and the title kin eater. The skill let me absorb 1% of the dragons skills when I ate its meat raw. I was of course beyond excited. Dragons had immunities to their respective elements and had attacks that were specialized to them. For example an ice dragon was immune to cold damage and could shrug off an ice attack like it was nothing. It also had the ability to cause a cold field around itself that would cause DOT and could even cause freezing damage by imbuing it's attacks with ice elements.

I was in the land of the dead and was only finding dragons related to death such as zombie and poison dragons. There was a few more rare dragons such as the corpse and the vampire dragons. I didn't really consider the bone dragon since it didn't have meat, but I gave it a try anyways. The last dragon that could be found in Helheim and was the rarest dragon was the midnight bell dragon. It was apparently a dragon that only showed up at midnight to lead the dead to their next lives. I had to hunt that dragon for a hundred days in a row to complete it.

I spent the next few years hunting down dragons and eating them. I was called the cannibal dragon slayer and was treated respectfully by most players. Even the human players had been respectful of me since I treated everyone fairly and was strong enough to back it up. It also helped that I sold dragon goods if I felt like being generous.

I did take time off from hunting dragons to attend a few things I thought would be fun. I became the world champion of Helheim and got the class for it. There was only 5 levels I could get in it and I would have to win the Helheim tournament 5 times in order to gain all the levels.

The tournament was held once a year on the anniversary of the games release and was a giant festival and tournament all mixed into one. I shocked everyone when I had transformed into my enemies and used their own skills against them. I had then proceeded to transform into the thing they are worst against. If they were weak to magic I would become a wizard, weak to close combat, I became myself, I would turn into whatever and I was very skilled in using what I did.