He vaguely remembered the succubus's whisper in his ear.

  But it didn't matter anymore.

  Now he had to find a way to defeat this Aiolos Wind.

  He suppressed his inner unease, controlling his bones to become even flatter.

  [Resilience] and [Hard Bones] continuously strengthened his bones, his arms protecting his chest cavity to prevent the soul fire within from being blown out.

  [Self-Healing] continuously healed the small cracks weathered into the surface of his bones.

  The soul fire within his body was constantly compressed, making the flames incredibly solid, so as not to be blown out by the wind.

  But even so, the surface of his bones looked as if it had been gnawed by countless ants, pitted and uneven.

  Around him, white bone dust mixed with the wind, constantly impacting his body.

  Li Pound realized the importance of endurance skills.

  Last time, if it weren't for [Fire Resistance], he probably wouldn't have been able to withstand the burning of [Lava].

  This time, he was truly screwed…

  The wind stopped.

  Only a tattered skeleton remained standing, the tiny blue flame burning within its chest cavity seemingly about to extinguish.

  Lucia even thought for a moment that the skeleton was dead.

  But the next second, the eerie blue flame within its chest cavity flickered, then blazed fiercely again.

  The empty eye sockets, as if ignited, also burst into flame.

  It was alive.

  Li Pound swayed, barely managing to stand.

  But Lucia clearly had no intention of letting him go.

  She waved her hand, and two succubus stepped forward to support Li Pound's swaying body.

  Then, she walked up to Li Pound.

  A pale blue crystal, different from the last one, appeared in her palm.

  It was smaller than before.

  This confirmed Li Pound's suspicion: Lucia had chosen the size of the crystal for the second round based on the skeleton's performance in the first round.

  This amount was just enough to kill the skeleton.

  As expected, she was testing the performance of various attribute crystals in killing skeletons.

  “Try this.” Without hesitation, she shoved the crystal into the burning flames within Li Pound's chest.

  The moment the crystal touched the flames, they ignited violently, as if fueled by an accelerant.

  The flames changed from a deep blue to a pale blue, engulfing his body like a pale blue whirlwind.

  Like a hurricane tornado, they ravaged his body.

  In just a few breaths, all of Li Pound's bones became noticeably thinner.

  White bone dust rose.

  This was probably retribution for grinding his colleague to ashes a few nights ago, Li Pound thought with a bittersweet amusement.

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  Soon, Li Pound's teeth fell out of his bones one by one, and his skull was reduced to a thin layer, then riddled with holes of varying sizes.

  Within these holes, the deep blue flames flickered, stubbornly refusing to go out.

  Ribs were blown off one by one, detaching from his body.

  Arm and leg bones were reduced to the thickness of a little finger, finger bones falling away one by one.

  His entire body was on the verge of collapse.

  But Li Pound remained conscious.

  Only when his body reached the point of collapse did Li Pound control the system, allocating his free attribute points to Constitution.

  Self-healing and the self-healing power from the Constitution points simultaneously sounded the horn of counterattack.

  His bones seemed to radiate light, continuously healing the broken bones.

  Lucia, standing beside him, stared wide-eyed at Li Pound's self-healing skeleton.

  "Same as last time."

  "Is this skeleton's special talent, an incredibly strong self-healing ability?" Lucia muttered, stroking her smooth chin.

  Then she looked away; she was certain that the remaining power wouldn't destroy the skeleton, so she stopped paying attention.

  This skeleton has strong regenerative abilities, but it's not worth her much attention.

  "Next." Li Pound finally defeated Feng Chui, collapsing to the ground and staring at the panel floating in front of her.

  [Ding, Constitution +1]

  [Gained skill, Wind Resistance lv1] She waited for a long time, but still didn't see the [Wind Magic lv1] she had been longing for.

  Damn it, Wind Magic! Where's his huge Wind Magic spell?!

  Although Li Pound was dissatisfied, he roughly guessed the reason.

  It was probably because Lucia had placed too small a wind crystal.

  But if she had placed a larger one, he would probably be dead by now.

  Damn it, this is a disaster.

  If he had [Wind Resistance], he definitely wouldn't be in such a sorry state.

  Li Pound got up from the ground and wandered around pretending to be oblivious.

  Elemental attributes are divided into four types.

  They are fire, water, earth, and wind.

  Lucia has already experimented with fire and wind; the next experiment will probably be with earth and water.

  Just in case, should he collect all the [Earth Resistance] and [Water Resistance] to prevent a complete failure?

  After the experiment ended, only Li Pound was left.

  Having worked with them for so long, Li Pound silently mourned for his lovely colleagues.

  They were all qualified skill sets; Li Pound was honored to know them.

  The succubus's gazes swept over Li Pound, probably marveling at his incredible luck, managing to evade two rounds of skeletons.

  Well, he was just incredibly resilient.

  The third round of skeletons was quickly replenished.

  This time, Li Pound was even more skilled.

  He expertly found a skeleton with the [Stealth] ability and switched [Resilience] to Stealth.

  Then, under the cover of night, he stealthily tapped his lovely colleague.

  Two a night, sometimes three, he got better and better at it.

  The succubus who had been scattering ashes were flying less, seemingly sensing the particulate pollution at high altitudes.

  Li Pound's level had also risen to lv5, almost lv6.

  But tonight, he didn't plan to make a move.

  Because he'd been too arrogant lately. While hanging around with the succubus during the day, he'd overheard them saying there seemed to be fewer skeletons than last time, and the plaza was quite empty.

  The succubus had no suspicion that some skeletons had attacked other skeletons.

  Li Pound felt a sense of pride at the succubus's trust; it was surprising that his enemy trusted him so much.

  The next day, Lucia returned again.

  Li Pound's skills had been changed to [Earth Resistance], [Water Resistance], [Resilience], and [Self-Healing].

  After all, he didn't really trust the succubus's intelligence anymore.

  Lucia once again had the succubus pull Li Pound out of the pile of skeletons.

  Damn it, this demon was really eager to kill him.

  He'd actually wanted his colleagues to experience this firsthand.

  "This time it's water-based, you'd better get through it."

  "Water Prison." Lucia looked at the skeleton in front of her and said with a smile.

  Although her tone was gentle, she didn't hesitate to unleash a skill capable of killing him.

  Streams of water condensed from the void, enveloping Li Pound and forming a spherical water prison floating in the air.

  The water pressure continued to increase, and the water flowed over his body.

  Under the water pressure, the bones bent one by one.

  However, with the boost from [Resilience], Li Pound managed to survive the water prison with relative ease.

  He had 9 points of Constitution left.

  Lucia showed an excited expression, then took out a deep blue crystal, even larger than the previous fire-attribute crystal, and stuffed it into the flames inside the skeleton's chest cavity.

  Another wave of excruciating pain washed over him, but he managed to endure it thanks to the increased Constitution.