SSS Evolution: Upgrading My Trash Grade Skeleton to Godhood-Chapter 54: Farming points

Noticing Lukas looking in her direction, Ambrose tilted her blood-soaked head to the side and asked in a hesitant voice, "How was it?"

Her question sounded genuine. Her eyes twinkled with uncertain light as she waited for an answer.

For a moment, Lukas was confused. His gaze moved between the large crater and her bloodied figure, and he suddenly had the urge to facepalm.

He also wanted to curse out loud, but he didn’t. Maybe his assessment of her technique wasn’t perfect enough.

Teaching her had to be patient. After all, she was the one paying him.

Still, he needed to give some feedback, so with a calm voice he simply said:

"Not bad. You are not hopeless. There is still room for improvement."

Lukas decided to lie with a straight face. Someone who was just starting to learn something new was similar to a child. He could hardly tell her how bad it was, or she would simply quit.

There was a need to nurture confidence first.

When Ambrose heard his words, her face immediately lit up with excitement. She knew just how harsh Lukas could be. If he was praising her, that only meant she had done well.

"Nice! Now I am finally on the path to becoming a sword master! Just you wait, father! I will return one day and beat the shit out of that living son of yours!

I don’t have any talent to learn the path of the sword, my foot! It’s not that I don’t have talent in swordsmanship, it was you who didn’t know how to teach..."

Ambrose’s grip on the sword hilt tightened unconsciously, and without realizing it, she was using so much force that the sturdy metal started to bend at an unnatural angle.

On the other hand, Lukas saw her excited expression and let out an internal sigh.

It seems my plan is working.

While she was lost in her thoughts, he moved to collect the skulls of the two slain monsters.

Coming out of her excited state, Ambrose noticed his strange action and asked, "Why are you collecting the skulls? Could it be you are one of those battle warriors who like to collect their enemy heads as trophies? Tell me honestly, I won’t judge you..."

However, if one were to look at her eyes, it would become clear she would judge him ruthlessly.

Lukas didn’t react to her words and simply said, "Once we have hunted enough monsters, we will take out the beast core in one go."

"Wouldn’t that take too much time then? It would just be better to extract the core now."

Lukas almost nodded his head at her sensible suggestion, but instead said, "What do you know? Extracting cores now kills the battle flow. Hmph, no wonder you are making no progress on the sword path."

"Really?" Ambrose suspiciously looked at him, not buying into that excuse.

However, before Lukas could answer her, a small horde of bloodthirsty boars came running in their direction.

Lukas immediately jumped up, grabbing his sword. Although he didn’t speak anything, his meaning was clear: now was not the time for useless questions.

Ambrose also didn’t pursue the issue seeing him engage in battle.

The two fought nonstop. Lukas made use of his many passives to take advantage of the sudden shock that the creatures felt to execute them in one fluid strike. Each strike was clean and elegant. On the other hand, Ambrose moved like a towering force of nature. Each strike she unleashed caused the air to seethe and the earth to tremble.

All the poor star-eater beasts that dared to obstruct her were beaten to smithereens.

Time continued to pass like this, and in the blink of an eye, half an hour had passed.

In this short span of time, the two working together had managed to kill more than twenty monsters, a significant amount. Considering each of these twenty monsters was worth twenty battle points, just eighty more and they could buy a ticket to the Roaring Dragon Guild. Thankfully, however, neither Lukas nor Ambrose had any intention of joining the guild.

Although she didn’t say these words directly, he could infer this much from her body language.

After all, the twenty severed heads—half of them looked beyond recognition, turning into meat paste. Although the sight was disgusting, it was easier to extract the beast cores out of them.

So in another five minutes, Lukas held twenty beast cores wrapped together in bloodthirsty boar hide.

"Here, take all of these beast cores and exchange them for battle points..."

While saying these words, he intensely looked at Ambrose’s figure, waiting for her to protest. However, he had already prepared a plan to send her away.

Thankfully, she didn’t say anything and simply nodded.

Just as he let out a sigh of relief, Ambrose suddenly asked, "Hmm... I heard battle points can only be issued under a squad name..."

She didn’t finish, but looked at Lukas with clear intent. Lukas was merely silent for a moment before he simply answered, "Just register these points under the Last One Standing Squad."

The name wasn’t grand, but it carried Lukas’s philosophy. No matter the danger, he would fight till the end for himself. 𝑓𝘳𝘦𝑒𝑤𝑒𝘣𝘯ℴ𝘷𝘦𝓁.𝑐𝑜𝑚

Some might ask why he even bothered fighting here. Why not just leave the Roaring Dragon Settlement and move somewhere else? After all, the star dimension was vast.

Yes, it was vast—but also filled with danger at every step. There was a reason why the Roaring Dragon Settlement was established here. One reason was teleportation, but the second was because it was one of the safest places after the hunting grounds.

Finding a second chance that could help him return to the real world was like searching for a needle in a haystack. So because of all these reasons, he could not leave and simply fight.

"Last One Standing, huh? Nice name..."

Ambrose muttered, feeling a strange sensation rise in her chest. It appeared this young master wasn’t as simple as he looked on the surface.

After that, Ambrose said no more and simply left carrying all the beast cores.

Lukas watched her leave with an indifferent look in his eyes. It was only when she had completely disappeared from his sight that he let out a sigh of relief.

Now I can finally relax...

Although it might look as if they were perfectly cooperating, all this time Lukas had been on edge, trying his best to suppress his passives and not letting any of them affect Ambrose. He didn’t want anyone to realize that he had multiple talents.

There was no need to explain why—because of obvious reasons.

Then Lukas scanned his surroundings, and only when he confirmed there was no immediate threat did his attention shift to over a dozen skulls piled up into a small mountain.

Although there was a risk of Ambrose running away with the battle points, chances were low, given how she had already handed over one thousand star crystals to him. Money wasn’t an issue for her.

With that out of mind, he summoned Tommy. The space rippled, and Tommy’s gigantic figure, glowing with star light, walked out.

No wonder they said the epic-grade Astral Bone Vanguard moved toward monsters and started assimilating one by one.

Lukas focused on the flashing window in front of his eyes.

[Ding! Astral Bone Vanguard has assimilated the skull of a Rare grade Bloodthirsty Boar.]

Lukas had no intention of learning the talent. Once he learned it, he would practically be saying goodbye to the retention of sacrifice points forever. After all, farming sacrifice points from Bloodthirsty Boars was the easiest.

Once Lukas chose sacrifice, two sacrificial points were added to his total. The process repeated itself over and over. Each time, he had to choose between learning and sacrificing; the choice was easy given his position.

In no time, sacrifice points surged to a total of thirty points.

Enough for him to upgrade any of his existing techniques to a higher grade.

Lukas had multiple techniques in mind that he wanted to upgrade.

Upgrading Phantom Void Steps to legendary grade was essential to ensure his survival. He also could not overlook the Star Eater Body Refining Method. After that, he had to find a way to get rid of the impurities.

Upgrading the Cycle of Slaughter was also necessary. Maybe once it was upgraded, the battle points it granted would also increase, as the skill was practically useless at its current level.

After thinking for a moment, Lukas finally made his decision, choosing to increase his survival even further.

Epic grade Phantom Void Steps it is.

Once this decision made, Lukas turned toward Tommy and said in a plain voice, make sure no gets near me.."

Although saying the obvious not necessary, Lukas still aksed Tommy to stay alert.

As if reacting to his words, the soul fire in Tommy hollow eyes sockets surged wildly.

Lukas’ focus also shifted, without wasting any time he clicked on the plus symbol behind Phantom void step.

Immediately the text rippled.

Traceless Steps, starting the evolution.

[-30 sacrifice points, remaining points: 0]

[Analyzing strengths and weaknesses of First Sequence Epic‑grade talent: Phantom Void steps...]

[Checking all feasible evolution paths for the talent. Listing suitable Legendary‑grade evolution paths.]

[Please select one of the paths listed below:]