The next day, I took the same quest again. But for some reason even after I had collected 15 fruits I didn't find any
Blatta Spider which was a higher level than me. So I just started killing them all until I got the notification.
{Killed a Level 8 Blatta Spider: 3200Exp(320Exp × 10) acquired}
{Level Up}
{Level 10 Reached: New Class Skills Acquired}
Well, that was it for the notifications but I did find new skills in my Class Skills section.
Class Skills : Mage(Space) [6 Element Basic Magic(Tier II )] [6 Element AOE Magic] [Spacial Flux (Tier II )] [Spacial Torment] [Magic Sense (Tier II)] [Magic Barrier] [Increased Mana Pool (Low)] [Increased Mana Recovery Rate (Low)] Demon King [Demon Eye (Paralysis & Petrifaction)] [Appraisal(Level 5)] [Dominance] [Ready For War(Tier II)] [Miasma Absorption] [Increased Defence (High)] [Monster Taming(Level 3)] [Summon Familiar] [Last Trick]
This was how it looked now.
In the Mage(Space) section 6 Element Basic Magic was the combination of the previous 4 basic magics and 2 new basic magics from Light and Dark elements.
Thus it included Fireball, Water Blade, Wind Arrow, Stone Bullet, Dark Beam, and Light Heal as for Dark Beam it shoots a beam that's dark and Light Heal is my first ever healing magic which I'm quite grateful for. As for the Tier II that just made all spells more powerful but of course, the mana cost also doubled.
Now the 6 Element AOE Magic also has 6 different spells. Which are Firestorm, Wave, Tornado, Quake, Darkness, and Blessing. Most are self-explanatory as for Darkness it put Blindness Status Effect on the enemies for some time, Blessing healed all allies in 1 m radius. The Healing was less powerful but it was okay for AOI skill. Darkness was quite great since regardless of Level and everything else it simply put a Status Condition on enemies. Spacial Torment disturbed the space so much that where it was done it'd be extremely hard to move from there and it did a lot of damage as well. The bad thing was it cost 1200 MP which was a lot. Magic Barrier created a transparent Barrier that could black some magic. I didn't know how much but I'll have to test it out later. Increased Mana Pool (Low) increased my mana by 50%.
As for the Demon King side Demon Eye now also had Petrifaction. Appraisal leveled up. I'll have to see Flora again and find out how powerful is it now. Ready For War at Tier II could increase all stats of all allies by 15%. Monster Taming was a skill to tame monsters also it started at Level 3. While in a lot of games I loved to become a Tamer, I'm kinda afraid of Taming a monster in real life. Let's see if I get a monster that I want to tame. Summon Familiar is just a skill to summon allies which would include Tamed monsters and party members among other things. Last Trick was a skill that had consequences thus I had not tested it. In the description, it said that If your HP is Below 10% you can use this skill and get full HP and MP however it would only last for 1 minute. After that, your HP will become 1% and MP will become 0%.
It was a skill that if used in the wrong situation would lead to death.
Of course, now was the time to test my skills. It takes 12100Exp to get to level 11, while I wasn't in hurry for level 11 it was always good to level up.
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What was my goal to level up and become strong? To fulfill all things I couldn't in my previous life. And to become a famous legend or something. You know like in those games we played. Of course, I wasn't a Hero or something, I even had a Demon King class, but that didn't mean I couldn't become powerful, travel the whole world, and have beauties all around me. Of course from people's perspective, it'd just seem like an average teenager's desire more than anything. But unlike those average teenagers, I actually had the potential to do it.
In the previous world, I was really ugly looking, to tell the truth. Of course, I didn't become extremely handsome here but even with an ugly face if you've got a good body it'll at least average out somewhere.
Still immersed in my thinking I moved forward in the forest. Trying to find something I can use my skills fully.
As I was moving through the forest my magic sense started telling me someone is using magic nearby, a powerful one at that. I started moving in that direction, ready to use Teleport if there was any danger. As I moved further, a small opening appeared in front of me, still hidden in the bushes I saw a skeleton.
He looked quite tall at least 8 feet had his back facing me and was chanting.
You see, unlike the magic that you get in the skill section. To perform anything else you need spells that can help you perform all different kinds of magic.
Spells were like reading computer code, consisting of rules and written in a different language than the people spoke here. Of course, with my Language Comprehension, I was able to understand spells but only enough like when you know English and try to understand computer codes.
But when I heard him, I guessed he was trying to summon undead something.
I used Appraisal on him
{Lich
Level: 35
Skills: [Summon Undead] [Dark Magic(Tier III)] [Lesser Aura of Despair] [Soul Bind] [Increased Resistance of Dark Magic (High)] [False Death] }
As soon as I used Appraisal he turned around, I panicked and used Spacial Torment instantly and as soon as it was released I used Magic Barrier however I saw an attack coming at me at that time. And as soon as I saw it, I knew I wouldn't be able to survive it so I used Teleport without thinking and moved about 100 m away from him. I already tested the skill and that was the furthest I could go with it. However, my magic sense told me another Magic was coming my way.
How could he use magic 100 m away from me? That's just cheating, I can use another Teleport since it didn't cost me any Mana. But the problem was active skills that didn't cost Mana used your Stamina, as after using them you will get extremely tired. Some books even suggested that there might be more stats other than the 10 that you see in Appraisal.
But now if I used Teleport and another attack came? I'd be too tired to do anything, thus I instead used Magic Barrier, of course, I knew it wouldn't last so put on another and then another. Then I saw the Lich coming towards me, the attack was blocked but the enemy was still there. The Gate would take a few seconds and I have to close the Gate as well.
How the hell did such a powerful monster come to the out edge of the forest. I was still in the newbie haunting area after all while I had confidence in my skills but I also wanted to complete my quest of getting Dale fruits.
The only way to survive now was Last Trick I used it without hesitation. After all, I'd die if I don't use it now. Instantly I felt completely healed and full of Mana but even if I use 3 Barriers I'd still get hurt so the best way was to interrupt him before he uses dark Magic again. I used Spacial Torment again and used Gate and jumped in it instantly reaching the outer edge of the forest and closed the gate behind.
{Killed Level 35 Lich: 70000Exp (7000×10) acquired}
{Due to the efforts of [False Death] The Subjected Lich has revived}
{Experience reduced by half }
{Level Up}
{Level Up}
With these two-level up I recovered some of my MP and HP, thus did not faint due to MP reaching 0.
But still to think he would just revive when killed. What are the rules of that? How many times can it do that? Does the skill have cooldown time?
I don't want to meet one again until I'm at least Level 20 or something.
After some time I recovered enough stamina to be able to cast Light Heal from 6 Element Basic Magic on myself.
I also reminded myself to buy a sleeping bag as I was just resting in the dirt here.
After recovering enough I started walking toward the city.