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> Congratulations on reaching level 30. You may Select a core skill from the list below:
> > Curse
> >> Aura of Decay
> > Identity
> >> Skeletal Transmogrification
> > Soul
> >> Creator's Descent
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Levi immedietly frowned as he saw the choices, the system seems to have removed 'Creation' and 'Reanimation' concepts then added 'Soul' and 'Identity'. Since skills between 10 levels are guided based on the players actions and current skill set, it would have been atleast nice if the system left the choices present just so he could reference some of the skills and even recreate them once he or someone in the village has the capability to do so.
With a shrug, Levi proceeded to the first option.
Aura of Decay, judging from it's description. The skill was strong. So strong in fact, a bit similar to [Hemorage], a skill presented to him earlier, but instead of triggering per 'hit', [Aura of Decay] was an area damage per second, stacking based on both duration and quantity of the units holding the same aura.
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Basically the more the summons, the more potent the damage will get. Though the skill felt like a trap. Unlike the usual Disease Aura type skills that Undead were immune to, 'Decay' felt impartial to all things. That means his Skeletal Creations would take damage in the process as well.
Though with [Deny Life. Deny Death], a skill to create unlimited number of corpses, plus a skill that makes skeletals explode upon death, he could make a decent grinding build.
But that wasn't going to cut it. Players and bosses later on in the game won't fall for such petty tricks much less get slowly ticked to death by DOT + Explosions.
And there's the mana consumption required to pull all of those:
Skill to create corpses + Skill to reanimate/Summon + Bone Telekinesis to get close + Aura of Decay + Skill to transfer mana and imbue an explosion skill that triggers upon death
Also he was pretty sure that Explosion skills require a LOT of mana.
All in all it wasn't too bad for a temporary and possibly scalable skill and concept. A must have for necromancers, but not something that Levi would use on their children.
'Oh yeah... Anri did call them that as well.'
Levi couldn't help but smile as he recalled his adorable wife.
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