"so 100 kilograms of bones, 900 kilograms of hide and about 3 tons of meat huh... as i eat 10 kilograms of meat a day that is some 300 days of food a.s.suming i can persevere it somehow"

after moving the meat further into the cave Mars wondered what he should do with the rest of the materials

"i could use the hide for making a somewhat proper bed... after that i guess i can use the rest to practice making some better clothes and some armor"

quickly folding and moving the hide into the cave Mars looked at the pile of bones and the even bigger pile failed bone swords

"...i wasted so many bones making a sword, but i might be able to use the best of them as knifes and recycle the rest for something else"

still feeling a little down from the waste of top quality bones Mars looked over the pitiful amount of whole bones he had left

"i can use the small bones to make some needles to sew with, the medium size ones to make a hatchet and some of the bigger ones to make a lumber ax and i guess there is no harm in storing the rest for now"

after moving the bones and the failed bone swords Mars picked one of the larger bones and after transforming his hand started to slowly shape it into a hatchet with his claws, while he was working Mars felt like his experience with shaping bones had reached a tipping point, almost like his experience was water that had slowly dripped down and finely flied a bucket up completely

"...what is this?"

after feeling puzzled for a moment Mars suddenly felt like it got easier and faster to shape the bone as he pleased

"did i just gain a skill?"

deciding to wait on cheeking his status until he was done with the bone hatchet witch he shaped to have a 30 centimeter wide triangle blade and 50 centimeter long handle, after admiring his work Mars opened his status

"status"

Name: Mars

Age: 0 (vessel 5220)

Race: Half-dragon human

t.i.tles: [Living G.o.d of energy] [Conquer of Salen] [Tyrant King] [5000 year prisoner] [Man that fell form the sky]

Cla.s.s: [Energy]

Cla.s.s level: 4

Status points:

Strength [7/1000] Const.i.tution [4/2000] Dexterity [5/1500]

Intelligence [3/600] Wisdom [3/900] Charisma [1/10]

Active skills: [Dragon-flame magic lv 5] [Swordsmans.h.i.+p lv 4]

Cla.s.s skills: [Energy: absorption] [Energy storage: 380/400] [Energy: discharge]

[Energy: upgrade shop]

Pa.s.sive skills: [Fire resist lv 15] [Commanding lv 3] [Mental reinforcement lv 5] [Pain resist lv 5]

[Bone crafting lv 1]

"bone crafting huh, so it is a pa.s.sive skill for crafting with bones... well i did use a lot of bones making swords"

deciding to try out his new skill Mars started to work on the lumber ax and picked up a large bone suitable for the task, as he was sharpening it with his claws Mars felt that working with the bone was

both easier and faster, it took him only half the time took to make the hatchet

"so this is the effect of a skill..."

looking over the lumber ax that had a 1,5 meter long handle and a 60 centimeter wide triangular blade Mars was more then a little amazed

"so now i can chop up some lumber for some furniture... wait... can i maybe absorb the energy from a fire made by burning wood?"

as soon as the thought pa.s.sed Mars ran out to find some fire wood, and as he was in a forest find some dry wood was an easy task as he found a dry piece of lumber lying on the forest floor he quickly chopped it into smaller pieces and brought it back to the entrance of his cave where he made a fireplace by gathering some rocks

"now to light it... there"

Mars lit the wood with his own flame before he put out his own flame and waited for a sign that he was absorbing energy from the flame, after waiting for a little while he felt like he had started to absorb a little energy from the fire

"this is kinda slow..."

feeling that this would not be an effective source of energy Mars was about to give up when he got an idea, quickly sticking his arm into the fire

"... this feels faster"

as he looked at his arm that common sense said should be roasting but was completely fine thanks to his [Fire resist] skill as well as his race Mars got an even crazier idea

"well i do have the [Fire resist] skill anyway, so lets scale this up... a lot, later"

after watching his [Energy: storage] skill fill up by 5 points before the fire burned out Mars was very satisfied by the firewood to energy ratio that was about 1 kilogram of firewood to 1 point of energy with a small fire Mars decided to go big as he started to clear the area around the cave for trees and other flammable materials while processing the trees by cutting of the branches and trunks into smaller more manageable sections and neatly stacking them in his cave

"this should do for now"

looking at the now clear 15 by 15 meter area around the cave Mars was nodding to himself for the good work and after a quirk midday meal he started to gather all the firewood he could find in a 3 kilometer area around his cave, and by sundown he was looking at a small mountain of firewood pilled up in the middle of the newly created fire safe area in front of his cave

"hmm that should be 2500 kilograms of firewood so even a.s.suming the firewood to energy ratio drops by 50% that is still 1200 units of energy... if the ratio even drops at all"

feeling excited by the prospect of getting stronger Mars striped and jumped on top of the big pile of firewood and sat down

"...as they say: go big or go home"

lighting the fire with his own flame Mars opened his status to keep an eye on his [Energy: storage] skill while he felt the heat go up as the fire was starting and less then 30 seconds later the value started to climb rapidly

"388...390...394..."

a minute later the value reached 399 and Mars quickly jumped off the fire fearing that he would overshoot the cap on his [Energy: storage] skill and opened his [Energy: upgrade shop] skill while still close to the fire, and as soon as his [energy: storage] skill hit the energy cap he commanded

"level up my cla.s.s"

while feeling the warmth of leveling up his cla.s.s up Mars jumped back on the fire and cheeked his status

"status"

Name: Mars

Age: 0 (vessel 5220)

Race: Half-dragon human

t.i.tles: [Living G.o.d of energy] [Conquer of Salen] [Tyrant King] [5000 year prisoner] [Man that fell form the sky]

Cla.s.s: [Energy]

Cla.s.s level: 5

Status points:

Strength [12/1000] Const.i.tution [9/2000] Dexterity [10/1500]

Intelligence [8/600] Wisdom [8/900] Charisma [6/10]

Active skills: [Dragon-flame magic lv 5] [Swordsmans.h.i.+p lv 4]

Cla.s.s skills: [Energy: absorption] [Energy storage: 1/500] [Energy: discharge]

[Energy: upgrade shop]

Pa.s.sive skills: [Fire resist lv 15] [Commanding lv 3] [Mental reinforcement lv 5] [Pain resist lv 5]

[Bone crafting lv 1]

"all my status points went up by 5... is this for reaching cla.s.s level 5?"

feeling more happy then confused by his increase in stats Mars quickly pulled himself together to watch the cap on his [Energy: storage] and jumping off the fire to breathe when he felt like he was suffocating he power leveled until sunrise the next day when the fire finally burned out

"status"

Name: Mars

Age: 0 (vessel 5220)

Race: Half-dragon human

t.i.tles: [Living G.o.d of energy] [Conquer of Salen] [Tyrant King] [5000 year prisoner] [Man that fell form the sky]

Cla.s.s: [Energy]

Cla.s.s level: 7

Status points:

Strength [11/1000] Const.i.tution [8/2000] Dexterity [10/1500]

Intelligence [8/600] Wisdom [8/900] Charisma [6/10]

Active skills: [Dragon-flame magic lv 5] [Swordsmans.h.i.+p lv 4]

Cla.s.s skills: [Energy: absorption] [Energy storage: 354/700] [Energy: discharge]

[Energy: upgrade shop]

Pa.s.sive skills: [Fire resist lv 15] [Commanding lv 3] [Mental reinforcement lv 5] [Pain resist lv 5]

[Bone crafting lv 1]

"so 1549 units of energy in total from 2500 kilograms of firewood that is an firewood to energy ratio close to 62%... not bad at all ha haha AHAHAH--"

Mars was currently standing on a big pile of ash b.u.t.t naked and completely black from sot laughing like a maniac looking a little funny, but an arrogant dragon-like pride could still be felt from him even as he was slightly high from a nice mix of slight Carbon monoxide poisoning, lack of sleep and the pleasure dragons-like races gets form bathing in flames all night

"...lets go to the river and wash up"

calming down slightly Mars picked up his wolf skin shorts from the ground and went down to the river to wash the sot off his body