Everything went as expected but after 10 level-ups I haven’t found anything of use. The offered skills or abilities just didn't excite me, so I kept taking the stat points every time I levelled. My training plan required me to just take energy storage stat points so now every point that I was gaining went into energy storage.
For this level-up milestone from 20 to 40, I was able to get 12 energy storage stat points whenever I chose to take the stat points. I could have gotten a lot more start points overall but I chose to follow my training plan.
At level 34 I finally had a decision to make. I was offered an ability called sensory link. If it did what I thought that it did it meant that I would be able to see through Goose's eyes which will be incredibly useful. After a few minutes of thinking I decided to pick up the ability. The next choice came at level 38. The ability was called fractal vision. I had no idea what it could be but it had vision in its name, so I needed to have it.
Two more level-ups and I was finally at the end of this milestone and was once again given a choice of skills or abilities from a huge list. I had already finished my three skill set of body, mind and soul. What came next, I had no idea. That meant I didn’t have any plans and the huge list seemed intimidating. The list was huge but there was nothing I could find that interested me. Mana-based spells pages of them. Abilities that improved scale flexibility. All useless to me. What am I missing, what could make me better?
After searching for almost an hour something finally caught my eye. It was a skill called contortion. This could be a game-changing skill that will not allow me to dominate instantly but it should allow me to gain abilities that will help me be a lot more flexible.
This time I was not going to wait to level up my adventurer class, so I continued to level up past 40 and I was able to get my adventure class to level 45. I was able to put 24 stat points into every level up. No interesting skills or abilities were given so five level-ups all went into stat points. Once again, every stat point went into energy storage.
I also added all my free points from my achievement into energy storage bringing me up to 972 close to three times more than I had just a few hours ago. This also took me way past another milestone giving me a new trait.
When I saw what it was, I jumped from the floor and started to excitedly walk around. “I fucking knew it. Whoever thought that putting so many points into energy storage was a stupid idea was a complete moron.” I wanted to continue screaming but I calmed myself down.
The trait that I got was mana resistance. Now I don’t know how effective it is but even a little bit more resistance against mana intrusion or any other mana spell must be powerful. Usually, any mana user close to my level should be able to completely destroy me but now that I had so much energy storage and my energy was resistant to mana it should mean that I will be able to fight and possibly win against mana users. My biggest weakness should now be lessened or even completely gone.
I was so happy that I wanted to go and tell everyone but that wasn’t a good idea. This being a secret was a lot more important. I had to test how resistant I was but for that, I can use the mana orb that the goblins gave me long ago. Tomorrow I will also need to notify everyone about the dungeon. I would have done it during last night’s meeting but that was just an internal information meeting, and it wasn’t meant for this kind of information.
I was once again able to sleep thanks to everything that had happened and when I woke up, I felt incredible. With so many points in energy storage my energy recovery rate was also improved but the higher the stat points went the longer I needed to reach a full tank. There might be a need to do some research to see if there is an energy recovery stat or something like that.
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After eating breakfast, I went into the morning meeting and listened in until finally the time came when someone asked if anyone had something new to reveal. No one else spoke up so I cleared my throat. “I have something to report.” Before I continued, I heard groans of dismay, and I took a moment to look at those people until they settled back down. “As I was saying I have something to report.”
“I needed to go and level which took me past the goblin’s lands into the swamp towards the northeast. The situation there was quite bad, which was lucky for me. The place was overrun by a new invasive species of fire salamanders. It was a plentiful hunting ground. Throughout my hunting trip, I ran across a beast type first rank breeder.” When I finished saying that there were gasps around the room and I could see a few people’s hands start to shake.
Before people started to make plans, I interrupted them. “There’s no need to panic I was able to kill the beast. While the situation is still quite bad the population should go down steadily, and we will also have a good hunting ground for the meanwhile. From the goblins a while back, I learned that there was a dungeon in the swamp and that was my end destination. When I finally made it there, I was glad that I reached it before it broke from overpopulation.”
“I was expecting it to be a dungeon of only a few floors, but it turned out it had 27 and a large portion of the floors were at first-rank challenges.” The moment I finished saying the first-rank assassin came out of the shadows and started to speak.
“I have some contacts that we can use to put together a proper first-rank team and quickly clear the dungeon before it breaks. The payment that they would require would be access to the dungeon to run it and I don’t think it would be too bad of a deal.” When he finished saying that another person spoke up.
“Wait Rich do you mean that there were some first-rank opponents or that the encounters were first-rank? I don’t know if you know this but there is a difference in classification. Dungeons that don't qualify as first rank can still have some first rank opponents.” I quickly raised my hands. “Woah woah woah I think you all misunderstood something.”
“I cleared the dungeon so that’s not the problem. It won’t break anytime soon so we have time and I can just go and clear it again if it is necessary. Yes, I know the difference between dungeon ranks and after a few floors it becomes a fully first-rank dungeon. The first floors are very easy but. Well, perhaps that might be my opinion we will need to check.” There was a moment of pause when all hell broke loose.
People started to talk over one another, and a few people quickly ran to bring in more maps of the area so I could show them exactly where it was. When I mentioned the storyline in the dungeon and how I thought that it was almost finished, well things got even more hectic. I did warrant them about the last floor boss which took a bit of wind out of their sails. Quite quickly two different approaches started to form on what we should do next.
The longer and harder plan to pull off was for us to expand our territory even more east and then build north through the forest making multiple smaller logging villages along the way until we reached the dungeon where another village would need to be built. Even with our population boom, it will take a while to reach the numbers needed, not to mention road building and forest clearing.
The other plan was to use the goblins’ lands to get a lot closer to the dungeon but that brought other problems. While the goblins were our trading partners having to rely on them for access to the dungeon was a bit difficult for a nation to accept. We would need to transport a lot of people and materials through their land which no ruler would like. The current discussion didn’t progress much, and everyone agreed to continue brainstorming until next month’s meeting with the goblins.
I subtly tried to nudge some people to think that perhaps goblins being a part of our nation wouldn’t be a bad idea, but I didn’t hold up hope. Even if I could convince some of the council members and they somehow convinced others who was to say that the goblins would want this?
Either way, I tried to stay away from the conversation as much as possible. there was no need for my input and they need to start making decisions without me that way in the future I can just stay at my farm enjoying life.
When we broke for lunch, I didn’t go back. I went into the jobs building to find out if anyone had accepted some of my job offers. As it turns out all of them had been accepted, which was quite a surprise. Although the person that accepted my potion-making jobs did leave a message that he might not be able to make all of them but that was okay at least someone was trying. The most important job and the one that I needed the most was the food-making job that had the proper nutrition for me.