Chapter 90
“A lot of work to do.”
“All right! It’s time to focus and prioritize!” She said and took out the plate of food that Alynn had left for her on the nightstand in her room in the fairy territory. As soon as she finished eating, she put away the dirty dishes, went into the bathroom, filled the bathtub with water and, after washing off all the sweat and blood crusts, then used Ezhil purification to clean her clothes.
As soon as she got out of the bathroom, she dressed in another change of the clothes she had been given, which kept the same colors and design as the one she had taken off before.
“I need to get that book or find Alice. There were too many variables she couldn’t remember.” And while she couldn’t wait to experiment with her new healing skill, if she followed Jhuliana’s advice, it meant she didn’t need to waste her time leveling up to ‘basic healing’. She just needed to focus on raising water and mana manipulation to level 10, and she would awaken the intermediate healing skill, which was much better. “The problem is that even with it, holy water is still a better resource. And I’m too close to reaching level 20 in ‘blessing’ to stop now... It’s better to leave the regeneration skill as a second choice and then the healing skill as a backup.”
Once the decision was made, she pulled out five thousand of the river rocks she had been given to enchant and placed them in rectangular clusters, leaving a wide enough space for her to walk between them. She even put some rocks on the bathroom floor and on top of her bed.
“Ezhil Purification!” Then she blessed herself before sitting down on the floor and touching the first stone. “Blessing! Enchantment of health!” As expected, the first stone disintegrated, as did the second and third.
Good thing I’m not doing this in my clothes. She thought. But as soon as I manage to level it up without the enchanted objects disintegrating, I’m sure I’ll cast it even on my underwear.
And she spent the next hour repeating the same process while eating a thel every now and then and freezing a stone and replicating it every couple of minutes.
[The skill Blessing has been leveled up to 15!]
[The skill Blessing has been leveled to level 16!]
[The skill Replica has leveled up to level 6!]
[The skill Health Enchantment has leveled up to level 3!]
[The skill Health Enchantment has leveled up to level 4!]
As expected, seventy percent of the first thousand rocks disintegrated, and only three hundred survived.
“What a waste of materials," she whispered, glad that she hadn’t wasted anything of value, like the precious stones she had been given. It was then that she remembered that within the loot she had looted from the merchant was a skill crystal.
So, she pulled the crystal out of her inventory as she took a bite of another thel. And she was tempted to also absorb the core she took from the two-headed monster, but restrained herself when she saw its size, remembering that she had fainted after absorbing the elves’ holy fruit.
That one I’d better leave for later.
[Does the user wish to absorb this skill crystal?]
[YES/NO]
She selected ‘yes’.
And a violet window appeared to her left.
[Congratulations! The user has acquired a new skill: Duplication. Level 1!]
Kalysto frowned.
Isn’t that the same as ‘Replica’? Then she opened the skill window.
[Skills.]
Active skills:
Inspect: level 4.
Mana detection: level 1
Mana sense: level 7
Mana Control: level 10
Mana manipulation: level 10
Dispel: level 11
Ezhil Dispel: level 6
Sleep well: level 5
Purification: level 10
Ezhil Purification: level 13
Jhil: level 10
Jhil Ezhil: level 11
Blessing: level 16
Ezhil Blessing. Level 1
Water manipulation. Level 1
Water creation. Level 1
Ice manipulation. Level 9
Ice creation. Level 9
Water blades. Level 1
Ice blades. Level 1
Ice daggers. Level 1
Water arrows. Level 1
Ice arrows. Level 1
Eagle eyes. Level 1
Replica. Level 6
Earth creation. Level 1
Earth manipulation. Level 1
Basic healing. Level 1
Duplication. Level 1
Passive skills:
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Languages: : legendary level (User can understand, read, speak and write any language that has been used or is still used in Elinor’s world. This is a bonus given by admin.) (The skill has been upgraded by admin so that the user can also understand the native fairy language).
Regeneration: 0.614% of the skill acquired. (Incomplete).
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Profession skills:
Health enchantment: level 4.
Innate skills:
Focus: level 5
Empathy: level 3
Mental Defense: level 70
Pain resistance: level 30
Absorb: level 6]
She selected ‘Duplication’. And a violet window opened.
[Duplication: Duplicate all characteristics of an item, including magic and additional stats. Spends 10 MP per-use]
Kalysto blinked in surprise as she realized that like her saintess skills, this new skill had no reuse time.
Just to be sure, she decided to check the ‘Replica’ one to compare them.
[Replica: Duplicate the physical characteristics of any object, even if it is magical. Spends 12 MP per-use. Reuse time: 1 minute. As you raise this skill in level, you can increase the amount of duplicate items and every ten levels you reduce the reuse time and MP expenditure by half.]
And just to be sure, she took one of the rocks on which the enchantment had worked well.
“Duplication! Inspection!”
[River rock. Class: common.
Health +3.]
“I’ll stop wasting my time with ‘Replica’. It’s a pity there isn’t a way to get rid of skills I don’t want to use again” then she selected the one she was most interested in at the moment.
[Health Enchantment. Level: 4. Allows the user to enchant objects that will increase the HP of the wearer of the object by 4 points. Chances of the enchanted object being destroyed during the casting of the enchantment are 70%. The success rate is 30%. Spends 10 MP per-use. (This skill must be leveled up to level 5 in order to unlock the next skill.) (Enchanted items needed to raise to the next level: 300.)]
This is going to be much slower than I thought.
After letting out a long sigh, she took a drink of holy water, feeling her head begin to itch, as did her chest, due to the damage to her body caused by excessive mana usage. And she spent the next hour blessing, duplicating and enchanting the next thousand river stones.
And after drinking one of the revitalizing potions left for her by Jhuliana, she checked the notification windows she had received.
[The skill Blessing has been leveled to level 17!]
[The skill Blessing has been leveled up to level 18!]
“Yes! Just two more levels and I can start creating holy water!” She got excited.
[The skill Duplication has leveled up to level 2!]....
[The skill Duplication has leveled up to level 10!]
[The skill Duplication has leveled to level 11!]
[The skill Health Enchantment has been leveled up to level 5!]
[Congratulations, the user has unlocked a new skill: Mana Enchantment. Level 1!]
“Another one I’ll need to level up to enchant even my underwear!” She sighed, but upon checking, her enchantment profession didn’t go up a level.
[Health Enchantment. Level: 5. Allows the user to enchant objects that will increase the HP of the wearer of the object by 5 points. The chance that the enchanted object will be destroyed during the casting of the enchantment is 70%. The success rate is 30%. Spends 10 MP per-use. (Enchanted items needed to go to the next level: 500.)]
“And it’s because of things like this that almost no one chooses you as a profession," she reproached it as if it could answer her. So, trying to cheer herself up, she checked her new skills.
[Mana Enchantment. Level: 1. Allows the user to enchant objects that will increase the MP of the wearer of the object by 1 point. The chance that the enchanted object will be destroyed during the casting of the enchantment is 70%. The success rate is 30%. Spends 10 MP per-use. (You must raise this skill to level 5 to unlock the next skill.) (Enchanted items needed to raise to the next level: 50.)]
Then she took another look at the Sajhun’s core.
“Very well, as soon as I level up this one up to level five, I’ll celebrate by absorbing you!” She assured it. “If I need 50 items to go up to level two, 100 to get to level 3, 200 for level 4, and 300 for level 5, that’s 650 items in total, with a 30% success rate, that would be about 2167 rocks?” Then she set out to save 833 of the 3000 she had left from the ones she had taken out at the start.
She took one of Caranthir’s potions, recovering almost three thousand MP from less than a minute and immediately blessed herself, and started the whole process all over again, this time intending to level up the mana enchantment.
Two and a half hours later, she had succeeded.
[The skill Blessing has been leveled up to level 19!]
[The skill Blessing has been leveled up to level 20!]
“Yes!" She got excited and immediately took out a liter bottle of water she had bought when she was still on Earth and uncorked it. “Purification!” But she was disappointed to see that only the bottle, and not the water, glowed with the characteristic golden hue of the skill. She immediately locked herself in the bathroom and conjured again. “Ezhil Purification! Ezhil Purification! Blessing! Inspection!”
[Plastic bottle blessed and purified. Class: rare. It is the only plastic bottle in all of Elinor that has been blessed and purified, plus it contains purified water.]
Kalysto frowned in annoyance.
“I hate you," she said, then stuck the tip of her finger into the mouth of the bottle and conjured: “Blessing! Blessing! Blessing! Inspection!”
You’d better get it right this time! She thought. Almost ready to throw the bottle out the window.
[Plastic bottle blessed and purified. Class: rare. It’s the only plastic bottle in all of Elinor that has been blessed and purified, plus it contains low-level holy water.]
“Yes! Yes!” she celebrated and drank half of it right away, feeling the itch in her body that warned her that she had done a job well done as the holy water took effect. “Yes! I can finally create holy water!”
After taking out her empty potion bottles and purifying them, she summoned water, washed and filled them, then purified them again and blessed the water.
And a smile came to her face as she saw the six small bottles of blessed water, along with the first one her boss had given her and the other two-liter bottle of mana that had already run out.
“Not bad,” she congratulated herself.
Only then did she set about checking the rest of the notifications.
[The skill Duplication has leveled up to level 12!]....
[The skill Duplication has been leveled up to level 15!]
[The skill Mana Enchantment has leveled to level 2!]
[The skill Mana enchantment has leveled up to level 3!]
[The skill Mana enchantment skill has leveled up to level 4!]
[The skill Mana Enchantment has leveled up to level 5!]
[Congratulations, the user has unlocked a new skill: Strength Enchantment. Level 1!]
But Kalysto was too excited about finally being able to create holy water to continue worrying about raising enchantments. So as soon as she turned around and saw the empty bathtub, a crazy idea crossed her mind.
“Ezhil purification, water creation!” She squeezed, filling the bathtub completely.
A pair of notifications, one blue and one violet, opened to her right, taking her by surprise.
[The skill Water Creation has leveled up to level 2!]
Kalysto ignored the notifications, concentrating on the bathtub.
“Blessing, blessing, blessing!” she said, touching the water. ”Inspection!”
[Low-level holy water.]
“Yes!”
It was after the excitement over her successful experiment subsided a bit that she realized she didn’t dare drink water from a bathtub.
And she grimaced.
It’s too unhygienic, even after using Ezhil purification. She complained.
“I need a container where I can keep it," she sighed. And then she remembered what she had told herself and pulled out the core. Absorb!
[Does the user wish to absorb this core from Sajhun?]
[YES/NO]
Kalysto selected ‘yes’.
[Congratulations, the user has acquired a new skill: Fire breath. Level 1!]
She remembered seeing one of the heads using it, and seeing the bathtub ready and full of water. She thought it was as good a time as any to enjoy a nice bath with hot water. And with a shrug of her shoulders, she decided to experiment. Wishing she could feel the warm water on her skin and release some pent-up tension.
“Fire breath!” She exclaimed but immediately regretted it.
Her chest heated up and a fire pile formed in her throat, burning her from the inside as it advanced all the way to the inside of her mouth. Her eyes filled with tears that fell freely on her cheeks as she felt the suffocating heat gnawing at her from within.
Shit! Shit! Cancel ability! Cancel summon! She thought in desperation, but nothing seemed to stop it.
[The passive ability Pain Resistance has been activated.]
[The passive skill Pain Resistance has leveled up to level 31!]
A couple of knocks echoed at the door, but she ignored them. Kalysto began to cough as with one hand, she pulled out a bottle of holy water, the first she had ever created, and drank half of the contents. The smell of burning plastic flooded her nose, but she ignored it as she inwardly prayed that the ten minutes between potions would pass quickly.
The pounding against the door increased in intensity, driving her out of her mind.
And she almost sighed with relief when the ability was finally canceled. And she stuffed the remains of the bottle, half melted, into her inventory and exited the bathroom.
“Wait a minute!” She growled hoarsely at the insistent unwanted guest as she coughed, as the itching of the holy water concentrated on her burning lips and in her throat.
She pulled the couch away from the door and took a deep breath once, taking her time before finally opening the door to find Jhuliana holding the tray with her dinner.
“Miss Luna, what in God’s name had happened to you?” And just then, Kalysto fainted.