“So essentially I have an insane regeneration, I don’t think there are really any problems with my stats,” Darius says as he looks between guild master Kat and Jannet. “Well, no not with your stats, but could you explain some of your skills and spells? How in the world did you get Spell Creation?” Kat says as she looks back at the tablet.

“That was part of my time in the dungeon, basically I got lucky, figured out how to manipulate mana, and made Arcane Tendrils,” Darius says as he looks towards the tablet. “And what even is Arcane Tendrils? That’s not a spell I’ve heard of.” Kat says with a frown.

“Then I must be the first to make it I guess, but basically it uses arcane energy and creates a bunch of tendrils that reach out, grabbing onto things, and pulls them back towards the center point. It’s quite effective at killing dumb animals. Though when overcharged it can be quite destructive in general,” Darius says with a nod, looking down towards his hands, turning on his mana vision, seeing the blue of mana flowing under his skin. “Spaking of that, what is overcharging? How do you do it?” Kat says while squinting at Darius.

“I don’t entirely understand how it works, but its basically forcing mana into a spell until it cracks, and then holding it together as it absorbs a lot more mana. In return, the spell becomes a lot more powerful.” Darius says as he looks towards Jannet and Kat, seeing small amounts of mana flowing through Jannet, but being nearly blinded by Kat he quickly turns off mana vision.

“So, what you are telling me is that you have the ability to push your spells into the next tier?” Kat says with a frown. “I don’t know what you mean by tier,” Darius says as he shakes his head. “Well, the easiest example is your Minor Blink spell, once it gets to level 100 it moves up a tier and will probably become Blink, resetting to level 1, but being slightly more powerful. I suspect your Overcharging actually breaks the level limit and pushes spells to the next tier.” Kat says, seeming to think.

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“So, for example, the next tier of Ice Shard would be a huge shard of ice, large enough to be compared to a man?” Darius asks. “That does sound like Ice Javelin yes,” Kat says with a nod.

“So, I’d guess that by levelling up mana overcharge I can push my spells to even higher tiers then?” Darius asks, shaking his head a little. “That sounds about right I think,” Kat says as she looks at the tablet, scrolling through the information.

“So, one question, just how many tiers are there?” Darius asks as he looks at Kat. “Well, with skills there are three tiers for normal skills, at which point they have to be combined with other skills to advance. The combined skills then have three tiers before they have to be combined again. No one has gotten to ninth tier skills so no one knows if those need to be combined as well.” Kat says, clearly going into lecture mode.

“As for magic, no one really knows how many tiers there are, some spells stop at tier three, others keep going, most of the elemental spells you have will stop at tier three, I’m unsure about Arcane Tendrils, or Minor Blink, however,” Kat says with a shrug

“So, basically my spells could keep getting stronger for as long as I keep using them? That’s pretty awesome.” Darius says nodding. “Right, well, with what you are able to do, I’d say you are at least a bronze rank adventurer, so I hereby declare that you are from this day forth an iron rank adventurer,” Kat says, causing Jannets jaw to drop.

“I’m guessing such a large jump doesn’t happen often?” Darius asks as he looks towards Jannet. “Oh, the last time it happened was about 3 centuries ago. Around the last time, Chosen appeared here.” Kats says as she stands from the chair.

“Jannet, make sure he gets his badge please,” Kat says as she walks towards the door, while Jannet nods quickly reaching into the pouch on her belt. She pulls out a badge made of iron “Okay, right, Darius for higher-level badges we ask that you put your mana into them, in order to bind them to you, and show you are the owner of the badge.” Jannet explains as she puts the badge on the table.

Darius nods as he reaches out and grabs it “Right, that makes sense.” before he turns on his mana vision again, carefully pushing a small amount of his mana into the badge, which lights up before dimming. Darius nods as he puts the badge into his backpack, taking out the old one and giving it to Jannet.

“Now uh, do you know who I might talk to about a getting a new kingdom recognized?” Darius says as he looks at Jannet, causing her to look at him with surprise.