Chapter 84
“The human kingdom.” Part 5.
The arrow number one hundred and sixty-five also disintegrated. As did the one hundred and sixty-sixth.
“Now I understand why almost no one chooses or advances in this profession..." she let out a long sigh before drinking a revitalization potion after three hours of hard work. “If it wasn’t for the information given by the system and what Artemis said along with the huge amount of items I was given beforehand to practice with, I would have been discouraged too,” then she took out a thel and ate it, while leaving out one of the mana potions given to her by Caranthir during the battle. “That and the sheer amount of potions and damaged stuff it takes to level it up.”
[Enchantments. Level 1. Allows enchanting items to add basic stats or ?????. The chance that the enchanted item will be destroyed during the casting of the enchantment is 70%. The success rate is 30%. It is required to raise at least 3 skills of this profession to the next level for the profession to go up a level.]
“It is really too much work and the chances of success are very low, even with all the aids. The only good thing is that the other skills have leveled up," she muttered, as she read and closed the windows that had opened in the last few hours.
[The skill Replica has leveled up to level 3!]
[The skill Replication has leveled up to level 4!]
[The skill Replica has leveled up to level 5!]
[The skill Ice Creation has leveled up to level 4!]
[The skill Ice creation has leveled up to level 5!]
[The Ice Creation skill has leveled up to level 6!]
[Blessing skill has leveled up to level 13!]
Then, she blessed herself before continuing.
“Replica!” she said, holding the last arrow of this group in her hands and put the original arrow back into the inventory as she had done with the previous ones, leaving out the replica. “Blessing! Ice creation! Health enchantment!”
This time, the arrow did not disintegrate.
And a smile broke out on Kalysto’s face as a series of windows opened to her left.
[The skill Blessing has leveled to level 14!]
[The skill Health Enchantment has leveled up to level 2!]
“Finally!” she whispered, full of excitement. She immediately opened her skill window to check the new information about this level.
[Health Enchantment. Level: 2. Allows the user to enchant objects that will increase the HP of the wearer of the object by 2 points. Chances that the enchanted object will be destroyed during the casting of the enchantment are 70%. The success rate is 30%. Spends 10 MP per-use. (This skill must be raised to level 5 in order to unlock the next skill.) (Enchanted items needed to raise to the next level: 100.)]
“What? A hundred items? Are you out of your mind?” She complained. But as she reviewed the information on enchantments, she noted with discouragement that nothing had changed. “That’s why there are no specialists in this profession. It’s too demanding!” And she immediately began to do the math. “If my probability of success is only thirty percent... that’s three hundred and thirty-three point thirty-three, isn’t it?” She took out her backpack from her violet inventory, then her cell phone, then she did the calculations. “Yes, that’s right. I need three hundred and thirty-four arrows this time. No wonder they gave me twenty thousand stones to practice with!”
She raised her hands and stretched her body. Then she got up from the bed, feeling the numbness in her legs from sitting for hours in the same position.
“I need a break," she muttered and ate another thel, remaining seated on the edge of the bed, enjoying the feel of the cold floor under her bare feet as the discomfort in her legs passed. “Status window!”
Two windows appeared before her, but Kalysto concentrated on the violet one.
[Status window]
Name: Kalysto Luna
Age: 21 years old
Race: -
Level: 20
Fatigue: 59
Class: Saintess (Heroic)
Professions: Enchantments
Title: Champion of the fairies (?????? of ?????) (?????? of the ??????)
Affiliation: Kingdom of Bahram
HP: 1120/1120
MP: 550/1146
DMP: 2800
Strength: 54
Vitality: 59+10
Agility: 63
Resistance: 61 +40
Intelligence: 67
Charisma: 2
Luck: 3
???: 50
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State: tired, curious.
Available points: 42]
Isn’t it strangely ironic that I have more dark mana than mana when I don’t have any skills I can use it with? She thought with some annoyance. Now that I remember, I got a warning from the system that I needed to create myself a circle of dark mana before I passed out. And she bit her lip as she thought. Is two thousand eight hundred my limit? And if it is for dark mana is it also for normal mana? Or are they different limits?
“Too many questions and too few answers," she muttered reluctantly. Then she pulled out the skill crystals the queen gave her as a reward for the mission with the elves, along with the rewards the elf king gave her in advance.
And she felt uncomfortable having the latter.
Technically, he swindled me. She reminded herself, trying to mitigate her discomfort. If what the queen said is true, and what I heard from the guards, creating a barrier to protect a city is something not only difficult to achieve but very expensive as well. She recalled. And seeing how little profit she got from that deal, she agreed. Good thing I added the clause as a precaution in the contract with Caranthir that he would teach me potions as well as magic. And though she was relieved about it, there was still a weight on her heart at the thought of keeping the four stat crystals and the four mana fruits without paying a price for them. The fifth was a last-minute gift, so that one doesn’t count.
And after looking at the rewards again, she sighed.
I’ll give him a small bottle of holy water as payment. She decided. Pulling out an empty bottle from the ones she had looted from the invading army. But I won’t give it to him personally. I’ll ask Caranthir to deliver it to him.
Immediately, the pressure on her chest disappeared.
“Good!” Then she took the first strength crystal and a violet sign appeared before her.
[Does the user wish to absorb this stats crystal?]
[YES/NO]
Yes. She thought, wanting to practice the mental use of the system, but nothing happened. So it only lets me use basic commands for now... Is it because it’s an innate skill that even the blue system isn’t able to register? Is it because I lack practice, or is it also something that is level up?
But again, she had no way to get an answer to that, not without asking the queen. And that’s not an option at the moment.
“Yes," she said and immediately the crystal in her hands turned to dust.
She did the same procedure with the rest of the strength crystals. And as soon as she finished, she also absorbed the four crystals given to her by the king of the elves.
Excited that her vitality and stamina had increased by seventy points, her fingertips began to itch at the desire to absorb at least one of the fruits of the sacred tree, but she restrained herself.
[Status window]
Name: Kalysto Luna
Age: 21 years old
Race: -
Level: 20
Fatigue: 49
Class: Saintess (Heroic)
Professions: Enchantments
Title: Champion of the fairies (?????? of ?????) (?????? of the ??????)
Affiliation: Kingdom of Bahram
HP: 1120/2520
MP: 800/1146
DMP: 2800
Strength: 54+50
Vitality: 59+80
Agility: 63
Resistance: 61 +110
Intelligence: 67
Charisma: 2
Luck: 3
???: 50
State: tired, curious.
Available points: 42]
Maybe now I can finally spend a couple of points on luck or maybe charisma, to see what it does. She thought, however, she picked up one of the intelligence crystals.
[Does the user wish to absorb this stat crystal?]
[YES/NO]
Curious, why does it not allow to absorb them per quantity but per unit?
“Yes," she whispered. And less than a second later, the beautiful crystal turned to dust in the palm of her hand. She then performed the same process with the other nine after taking out a bottle of holy water from the ones she had looted from the merchant. Nervous about the possibility of something happening, as Milo had said. So each time she absorbed a crystal, she waited a minute or two with one hand on the holy water bottle, ready in case something happened.
But contrary to her fears, nothing happened.
A long sigh of relief left her lips as soon as the whole process was over.
State window! she thought. And both windows appeared before her.
[Status Window]
Name: Kalysto Luna
Age: 21 years old
Race: ---
Level: 20
Fatigue: 49
Class: Saintess (Heroic)
Professions: Enchantments
Title: Champion of the fairies (?????? from ?????) (?????? from ??????)
Affiliation: Kingdom of Bahram
HP: 1120/2520
MP: 800/2546
DMP: 2800
Strength: 54+50
Vitality: 59+80
Agility: 63
Resistance: 61 +110
Intelligence: 67 +100
Charisma: 2
Luck: 3
???: 50
State: tired, curious.
Available points: 42]
Excited to see how much her mana capacity had increased without anything bad happening, she was tempted to absorb one of the fruits.
I’d better wait a couple of days, and if all goes well, I’ll eat just one. Depending on what happens, I’ll try another... but for now I’m too close to the limit set by the dark mana. She sighed in defeat. It’s not worth the risk when I don’t have enough holy water on hand.
And to make sure all was well, she raised her luck to ten, as well as her charisma.
Then she bit her lower lip.
Should I raise my luck even higher? She questioned herself, but now she only had twenty-seven points available. Better not to spend them for now, I might need them later... I shouldn’t have spent so many points on charisma.
She then drank a grade II revitalizing potion, seeing her fatigue reduce to zero instead of showing minus one, as the potion reduced fifty points of fatigue.
How curious. She thought, and pulled out the quiver Ardrach gave her.
Curiously, as she positioned the quiver between her thighs and her hands on the sides of the cylindrical object, she was reminded of the feeling of having her hands and feet bound. And her skin began to itch.
She had to leave the quiver on the bed, and walk barefoot around the room for about ten minutes until she could shake off the unpleasant feeling of being trapped and helpless again.
I need to find a way to prevent something like this from happening again. She thought. If someone puts those handcuffs on me again, I’ll have no way to protect myself... but how can I avoid it?
It was when her little toe bumped against one of the legs of the two chairs in her small living room that an idea occurred to her.
After cursing a couple of times because of the pain and running over the chairs and table where the couch had been before, she sat down on the bed with her legs crossed and the quiver between her thighs.
She took several deep breaths and began injecting mana into it.
“Let’s see if this idea really works.”