It wasn't exactly a completely isolated area, but at this time and in this part surrounded by trees, it was unlikely anyone would come.
Honestly, he felt a bit scared being in such a place alone at this hour, but strangely, the fear he felt disappeared after he tried to calm himself. It was odd, but he decided not to think too much about it now.
Confirming for the umpteenth time, not noticing the presence of any living being nearby, Adam opened the inventory and pulled the backpack outside.
It was quite magical. It was as if he were pulling something out of clear water, causing slight ripples.
When he pulled it out, the slot that was initially filled became empty.
Without closing it, he grabbed the hilt of one of the swords. While holding it, he saw that in the equipment profile, the sword icon changed to the hilt of the sword he was holding.
'Can I consider this as equipping this sword?' he asked rhetorically in his mind.
While holding the hilt of the sword, which was a bit large, about 30 cm long, he tried to evaluate it.
No matter how much he looked, it only said it was an Imbueable Sword Hilt.
Adam searched for something like a button or even tried to imbue his MP into the sword hilt, but without success. Before he could get depressed, something happened.
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[A skill has been created through a special action!]
[The skill that uses MP: [Observe] has been created.]
[[Observe] (Active) Lv1 EXP: 0.0%]
[A skill to discover target information to a certain extent.]
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'This...' Adam was in shock. It was the first time this had happened. Although it had only been two days counting today since he acquired this mysterious system, only now had something like creating a skill occurred.
Taking a deep breath, he looked once more with the intent to use 'observe.'
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Imbueable Sword Hilt – Rank: A
Made by the Blacksmith Shekp who lives underground.
A sword hilt made of a dark, polished metal, with faint veins of shimmering energy running through its interior. Its ergonomic shape fits perfectly in the hand, providing a secure and comfortable grip. The hilt is wrapped in a layer of thin, durable leather.
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Depending on the amount of energy imbued per second into the sword hilt, different levels of damage and colors will be assigned:
Level 1 (green): 10 damage. Level 2 (blue): 50 damage. Level 3 (yellow): 100 damage. Level 4 (purple): 550 damage. Level 5 (red): 1,500 damage.
Increases attack by 50% for each Imbued Sword used simultaneously.
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'So that four-armed monster had an additional 150% or 200% damage increase?' he wondered but soon set it aside, as he still found himself unable to imbue MP into the sword hilt to manifest it.
However, he didn't give up until finally, something happened.
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[A skill has been created through a special action!]
[The skill that uses MP: [MP Imbuement] has been created.]
[[MP Imbuement] (Active) Lv1 EXP: 0.0%]
[Increases magical damage by 50%]
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[A skill has been created through a special action!]
[The skill that uses MP freely: [MP Control] has been created.]
[[MP Control] (Passive) Lv1 EXP: 0.0%]
Allows the user to freely use MP from 1 to 10 MP per second.
[Increases magical damage by 10%]
[Increases the speed of using a skill that uses MP by 10%]
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"Haha, finally luck is smiling on me!" Involuntarily, he laughed out loud as he said, clenching his free hand into a fist.
With the hand holding the sword hilt, he used MP Control and MP Imbuement at the same time.
In the next instant, a "ZzzzzzZzzzzz~!" sound echoed as a blade resembling a green lightsaber appeared.
In his status, Adam saw his MP draining at a visibly noticeable rate.
'I'm losing 2-3 MP per second...' he thought as he saw the sword's damage displayed: 16 damage.
Facing a tree, before exhausting all his MP, he swung vertically towards the tree, using all his body's strength.
"Whoosh!"
A clean cutting sound echoed in the air. As the green light left a trail with the speed the sword was swung, the sword managed to cut almost 1/4 of the tree.
It might seem little, but considering the tree's thickness was at least three times the width of Adam's waist, it was actually a great feat for a normal person to achieve.
Canceling the MP imbue, the green luminous blade disappeared.
The branches of the large tree still swayed from the impact while some leaves fell.
[MP:[33/70]]
"Urgh... This pitiful amount of MP is useless." He murmured softly as he realized more than half of his MP was gone.
Clicking on MP, an additional information appeared:
[MP Recovery: 1 MP per Minute.]
'It's only 1 per minute...' Adam thought, considering a way to increase the MP recovery rate.
Even if he used only 1 MP per second, it was just over 1 minute of using the sword in exchange for having to wait 70 minutes to fully recover his MP.
Clicking on HP immediately after, he saw that his HP recovered at 2 every minute.
Grabbing another sword and holding the hilt of each, Adam imbued MP simultaneously and saw two green blades being created. After noticing that the damage increased from 16 to 24 on each sword and the shield slot changed to an equipped sword, he got the answer to his previous question: Only the complementary swords would attribute an additional 50% more damage.
However, this was already incredible. Especially since it was 50% more than the initial damage of the first sword.
Wasting no time, he struck at different spots on the tree, leaving visible traces of damage.
"Whoosh!"
"Bang!"
"Whoosh!"
"Bang!"
"Errr..."
He groaned in frustration upon realizing he was out of MP, and naturally, the green blades disappeared. However, his eyes soon gleamed as he saw a new page appear before him.
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[A skill has been created through a special action!]
[A skill to deliver a double strike with swords: [Double Strike] has been created.]
[[Double Strike] (Active) Lv1 EXP: 0.0% / 5MP]
[Strikes the target with dual swords to deal more damage.]
[Increases speed by 15%.]
[Increases critical chance by 15%.]
[Increases damage by 60%.]
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[A skill has been created through a special action!]
[A skill to use swords freely: [Sword Mastery] has been created.]
[[Sword Mastery] (Passive) Lv1 EXP: 0.0%]
[Increases sword damage by 15%.]
[Increases attack speed with swords by 10%.]
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"Huff... huff... gasp..."
Sitting on the ground, while catching his breath, Adam slid his finger over the page that appeared, reading all the information. He laughed and murmured, "Haha, I'm starting to understand better how this works."
It was simply overpowered to create a new skill whenever he performed a specific action.
Of course, even though it says 'whenever,' from what he analyzed, it depends heavily on luck and perseverance to repeat an action multiple times and, with luck, manage to recreate an action that creates a new skill.
While Adam was sitting, resting for a few minutes, waiting for his MP to recover, something happened...
"Chang!"
"Well, well. Kekeke, what kind of idiot goes to such an isolated place in a city full of monsters?"