“Yeah, but it can't be helped. Besides, there are some aspects to it which are great.”
Zyrus had a lot of things to do in the coming days. Create new skills, build ships, study Oroszlan’s journal and work on the troops. While Numen was a great authority, he had to work on his original plan of using his summons on something like a totem.
And these were just on the surface. Finding materials to complete the bloodspine spear’s evolution, reading the manual in his source of origin, and triggering the cube’s second mission were more important tasks on the list.
‘I’ll have to think about Earth as well…’
Zyrus shook his head and stored the Mutated Papyrus plants and Cursed iron nails. They were among his foremost projects.
“You can dump your burden on others as well,” Franken advised as he pointed at Zyrus’s pocket. A topic that Zyrus didn’t want to talk about. Attest not now.
“I’ll consider it after we’re done organizing the current players,” Zyrus muttered more so to firm his decision and opened his status screens.
One of the many things in his mind was the crown’s authority. Apart from Crown’s fealty and radiance, he had selected the 'Appoint knights'.
- Appoint knights
A knight's honor is an unbreakable bond that shall not be tarnished. The wielder of the crown can appoint knights who will live and die by his side.
-Number of knights = 10 x user’s level
-Only those who are willing can be appointed as knights.
-The knights will get their special class upon advancement, and they will also gain a portion of the user’s traits, bloodline, and skills.
‘It’s good, but it’d be better if I use this after using blood fusion one more time.’
The better his traits and bloodline, the stronger the appointed knights would be. Of all the things he was planning on doing, he decided to start with his skills.
Status:
[Name: Zyrus Wymar]
[Race: Sylvarix]
[Class: Balaur Summoner]
[Rank: Onyx Crown]
[Level: 23]
Exp: 375/1688
[Title: The last Apostle (Temporary)(Locked)]
[Achievement: Call of the kin (A), Slayer of Camazotz (C+)]
[Talent: Blood fusion (S rank)]
[Trait: Earth Movement]
[Strength: 46]
[Agility: 41 (+5)]
[Vitality: 60]
[Intelligence: 30]
[Mana: 41 (+2)]
[SP: 33]
[EP: 2]
HP: 3500
Combat stats:
MP: 391
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Recovery Rate: 50% (+20%) (Per hour)
Stamina: 488
Recovery Rate: 30% (Per hour)
Crit rate: 15%
Crit damage: 120%
Penetration Bonus: 10%
Final damage Bonus: 20%
Health Regeneration: 10% (+30%) (Per hour), +20 HP/sec in Boss fights
Resistances: Void (?), Abyss (?), Poison (150%), Earth (50%), Blood (35%), Penetration (30%), Slash (30%), Blunt (30%), Critical (10%),
Elemental Affinity: Void (?), Abyss (SS), Poison (S), Earth (C), Blood (F)
[Eye of Annihilation], [Poison breath], [Vector Throw], [Arcane Lance], [Master of Sojutsu], [Spear aura], [Malediction]
[Lorica Squamata (Unique) (Evolvable)]
[Zubry Solleret (Rare)]
[Bone necklace Totem (Common)]
[Ring of command (Sealed)]
Currency: 0 S
Items:
[Bloodspine spear (Evolving)]
[Ore of Kothar (Fragment)]
[Fang of Nidraxis (Unique)]
[Vitality recovery potion x 6]
[Mana recovery potion x 3]
[C rank Skill Tome x 1]
[C rank Skill creation scroll x 1]
[Weapon Enhancement Potion (Rare) x 1]
[Oroszlan’s journal]
[Drake’s bones x 10]
[Drakes’s tendons x 10]
[Drake’s mutated heart x 1]
[200 HP recovery potion x 3]
[Night’s blessing (Rare)]
Nothing much had changed except his inventory. Half of it was filled with materials he planned to use on the spear, but still, it wasn’t enough to meet his standards.
Zyrus closed the tab after taking out three items from his inventory. In the next second, A black ring, a leather book, and a scroll appeared on his lap.
[Night’s blessing (Rare)]
A ring forged with the power of darkness.
Durability: 100/100
Effects: Shrouds the user in a mist of dark mana.
It was a pretty useless ability for a rare-grade item. Unless someone had a class related to darkness or an affinity with the dark attribute, the ‘Shroud’ effect was nothing more than cosmetic. Sure, being able to summon a mana shroud had its uses, but they didn’t warrant the ring having a ‘rare’ classification.
The system wasn’t mistaken though, as things were different when thousands of players had acquired Night’s blessing. The lack of effect became the item’s greatest strength since it didn’t mention anything except shrouding the user in a mist of dark mana.
‘The ‘mist’ created by thousands of players at the same time more than deserves the Rare attribution.’
Zyrus added a bit of his mana to check the inner workings of the equipment. Dark mana was naturally good at concealment and lethal damage. It didn’t matter if someone didn’t have an affinity towards it. In an environment shrouded with potent dark mana, any magic used would carry some traces of it.
Nonetheless, Zyrus felt like it wasn’t the best way of using it. Rather than players, wouldn’t it be better if his ships were ‘Equipped’ with Night’s blessings?
Setting aside his unconventional ideas, Zyrus finally focused on the main task. He had his hands full with creating a skill with conjurer’s magic. Which meant that the only way he could get more skills in a short time was via external means.
And the Skill Tome and Skill creation scroll in his hands were perfect for that. Without wasting any time, Zyrus flipped the leather book open and looked inside. Similar to any card or rpg games, various skills were listed on each page with a portrait.
A giant smashing down a halberd, A firebird dancing in the sky, A swarm of poison arrows…
He turned over dozens of pages after a glance. He didn’t have any particular weakness as far as his current level was concerned. With his expertise in magic coupled with void and abyssal powers, he wasn’t lacking in offensive magic. On the defensive side, things were complicated since he either didn’t need it at all or needed so much that it was impractical. This was the result of him almost always going after foes who were stronger than him.
Zyrus looked for some good supportive skills for both him individually and for his summons, but unfortunately there was no such thing in the book.
‘Makes sense I suppose since a good supportive skill is too valuable to just give out, even as a first rank reward.’
Thus, he had only one goal in mind for this particular reward: he wanted to make use of his tail!
As strong as he may have been, Zyrus didn’t know how to fight with a tail. It seemed too much of a waste to not use the extra limb? he had. He hadn’t thought of any other uses for his tail apart from swimming and running faster, so using some external assistance wasn’t a bad idea.
‘Still nothing…maybe I’ll go back to the giant one…’
Just as Zyrus was getting disappointed, he found a rather interesting skill in the last pages. On that leather page was a portrait split in two parts. On one side, a one-handed swordsman was fighting against hordes of monsters. And on the other side, a new arm emerged from his shoulder and blasted a gigantic ape.
While it looked random at a glance, Zyrus could gauge the second arm's power since these portraits were drawn with mana. It was like looking at the scene from a bird’s eye view.
‘It’s not what I expected, but it looks rather interesting.’
[Xisheng Arts (B-): The flesh is fleeting, but power is eternal]
[Sacrifice any part of your body to store mana and vitality. The designated part will be disabled until you release the seal]
Effects: Depends on the sacrificed part and duration.
CD: None
It was among the highest-ranked skills in the tome. The vague description and penalty were troublesome for most humanoid races, but Zyrus just happened to have a limb that he wasn’t sure how to make the best use of.
The choice was obvious.
Zyrus tore apart the page without hesitation, and in the next instance, the ripped page and the entire book turned into motes of light and seeped into his head.
[Congratulations! You have learned Xisheng Arts (B-)]
A flood of information about meridian channels and mana circuits flowed into his mind. Zyrus was no stranger to mana circuits, but the former knowledge was an unexpected surprise. Just this information was worth him picking this skill.
Due to the lack of a suitable environment, Physical cultivation wasn’t very popular in the sanctuary. Even berserker and barbarian class players primarily relied on mana to enhance their muscles and blood vessels.
‘I’m sure this’ll help me later when I read that manual.’
Zyrus once again recalled the martial artist he saw on the source of origin. The knowledge contained in that man’s source of origin should be far richer than all skills combined in the tome.
Setting aside his curiosity, he once again focused on the matters at hand. It was obvious that the Skill creation scroll was much more useful than the Skill Tome. All the more so for a regressor like Zyrus.