[Experience points reached the limit. You have ranked up!]


    As soon as he read the logs, Lucas felt that his body began to freshen up. The fatigue he had been feeling gradually lessened as his heart and brain calmed down while feeling the soothing energy that was coursing through his body at this moment.


    The increase in strength after ranking up was not substantial. Still, as an Iron Star 5 summoner, it still made Lucas'' body considerably stronger and more resilient than before.


    Not only that, he also felt his minor wounds healing fully, while the deeper ones had already begun to close up once more. Lucas reckoned that it would not take long before they fully healed.n/?/vel/b//in dot c//om


    Unfortunately, the soothing sensation that came from the feedback of the grimoire for ranking up did notst long; otherwise, it would have surely healed his injuries considerably, and there was even a high chance that they would fully heal.


    After the soothing sensation disappeared, Lucas shifted his focus to his profile or status page.


    [Name: Lucas Valen


    Age: 17


    Grimoire Grade: Unranked


    Rank: Iron Star 5 (17.9/759)


    Spiritual Energy: 59/72


    Beasts: Gentle Dog]


    Aside from the rank, the amount of experience points he needed to reach Iron Star 6 had increased once more. His maximum Spiritual Energy limit had also increased substantiallypared to before.


    Although he did not receive another nk grimoire page, Lucas was still smiling from ear to ear as he closed his grimoire.


    The appearance of his grimoire was still the same as before—aside from the fact that there were now five iron-colored stars shining in the cover.


    Storing the grimoire, Lucas finally had the time to inspect the body of the beast, ck Winged Hare.


    Rxing his body, Lucas went forward and crouched in front of the beast. At this moment, Spot, who had reverted to his Gentle Dog form, was already staring at him while using the Gentle Gaze skill, as if asking for his permission to eat the hare.


    "Don''t worry, I''ll let you eat grilled hareter. Just let me harvest the materials of this beast first, alright?"


    Woof!


    Spot responded with glee. He then began to lick his bloody paws and fur while Lucas began to dissect the beast using the tusk he was holding after he tied it upside down to let the blood flow down.


    "Be on the lookout and notify if there''s any beast," he said to Spot, who yet again responded with a bark.


    After a hasty inspection, Lucas determined that the only notable parts of it that he could harvest as materials were the eyes, ears, as well as the ws.


    Since he did not know how to preserve the eye, he just let it be and focused on taking out the giant ears and the ws of the ck Winged Hare.


    For the ws, he directly cut the carpal and the tarsal joints in the hind legs as he was unable to pull the ws out with his strength. Lucas harvested a total of 18 ws, but out of all of them, only 8 were extremely sharp, while the rest appeared to be normal ws of mundane hares. The eight sharp ws were precisely the front ws that it used to attack him earlier.


    The eight ws were also longerpared to the others. Their length varies depending on their position in the paw, with the center being longer with around fifteen centimeters in length, while the shortest was around ten centimeters. They also appeared like little curved knives, with a sharp point and sharp edge on one side.


    They could be good cutting tools, and if utilized well, could be good weapons as well.


    In fact, Lucas had already imagined using them as knivester on.


    For now, though, he shifted his focus to the massive ears.


    It could be said that in all of the beast''s body parts, the wing-like ears of the ck Winged Hare were what interested him the most.


    As he touched the ears, he realized that his first impression of it being smooth and fluid to be used as wings was actually true.


    As his hands pressed on it, he could tell that it was soft and didn''t appear to have any bones or anything hard that could warrant the defensive capabilities shown earlier.


    The ear was quite curious, much like the mane of the me-Mane Lion they had faced before.


    Feeling the softness of the ears, Lucas decided to punch it as an experiment.


    As he knocked on with slight force, though, a resounding ''dong'' was heard as Lucas felt as if he was punching a hard wall.


    Unknowingly, the moment his fist came in contact with the ears, they had automatically hardened as if it were part of their defense mechanism.


    ted that this ability was retained, Lucas knocked a few more times, receiving the same result. He also used the sharp tusk to try cutting it, and it produced the same result. And unlike Spot, who was able to damage the ears with his ws, the sharp tusk could actually not leave even a single mark on the ears aside from scraping some ck fur out of it.


    Fortunately, Lucas does not need to cut it in the center to harvest the ear. All he needed to do was cut the muscles that connected the ears to the head of the hare. Fortunately, that part was soft and did not have the same abilities as the ears themselves; otherwise, Lucas was already prepared to cut it on the neck just to harvest the ears.


    The magical defensive capabilities of the ears were not something he would pass on.


    After he was done with the ear, Lucas proceeded to take its guts out. Blood had already puddled beneath it and the smell had already wafted in the surroundings.


    Recalling that Spot liked to eat the guts, Lucas threw them all toward him for him to consume it.


    Spot epted it gratefully and began devouring the guts while Lucas himself continued with his job.