Alexia

Silence fills the strange mausoleum I’m sitting in as I contemplate my skills. Meanwhile some skeletons can be heard banging on the door, but I ignore them since I’m inside of a Safe Zone. So they can’t enter regardless of how hard they try.

My current list of active skills include Quantum Reversal, Quantum Displacement, Quantum Bolt, Quantum Paradox Blast, Quantum Resonance, and Wave-Particle Cascade. Meanwhile my passive skills include Quantum Attunement, Quantum Infusion, Quantum Adaptation, Quantum Aura, and Quantum Effect Observation. And I haven’t had the chance to slot a sixth passive skill yet since I only got that slot unlocked after killing the dragon.

To have a good setup, I need a healing skill, a movement skill, single-target damage skill, multi-target damage skill, and a powerful finishing skill. The rest can vary so long as I have those.

Quantum Displacement fits for the movement skill, so I am absolutely keeping that one. And I’m also keeping Quantum Infusion and Quantum Adaptation, since those are pretty much necessary as well.

As for the rest… I think I’ll replace Quantum Paradox Blast with Quantum Breath, which is basically just a breath attack using quantum energy instead of fire or something else. Basically just spews out a flame-like form of quantum energy that makes everything glitch out and break apart in reality that it touches.

It makes for a good multi-target damage skill. Much better than Quantum Paradox Blast, which only had a single level of output. This one I can determine the amount of quantum flames that I shoot out. And I can spread it out over a wide area as well.

I’ll keep Quantum Bolt as my single target damage skill since there isn’t too much to replace it with, and I already have the skill at Tier 2. So it’d be a waste of a core if I replaced it.

Which leaves me with Quantum Displacement, Quantum Breath, and Quantum Bolt as three of my six active skills now.

I purse my lips before deciding that Wave-Particle Cascade is still very useful since it gives me versability in my fighting. Which makes four of my six actives.

As for the healing skill, I replace Quantum Reversal with Quantum Stasis Copy. A skill that is a lot more soul intensive than Quantum Reversal, but is instant in its effects and doesn’t cause me pain, unlike Quantum Reversal.

The skill itself works by apparently taking a copy of my body in the past and overlaying it with my body in the present, setting my physical body back to the health it was then. This doesn’t revert levels or EXP, or any skill benefits I’ve gotten either, since it’s only my physical body that is reverted.

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Overall, it’s a powerful skill. But it costs a lot of soul to use, and the further back I copy from, the more soul it costs to use. To the point that at my level I can only copy half an hour or so into the past, and even just that takes a tenth or so of my soul to do. With the cost growing exponentially from there.

So that’s five out of the six.

What should I do for the last one… I guess I’ll just use that one.

Quantum Singularity Implosion.

A skill that creates a quantum singularity that draws everything near it towards itself before causing everything drawn inside to implode in a massive explosion.

It’s far stronger than my other skills, has a rather large soul expenditure, and is also a multi-target finisher just as much as it’s a single-target one.

Moving on to the passive skills, I have Quantum Infusion, Quantum Adaptation, and I don’t particularly have any types of skills that I need. So I can just pick what helps.

I already have my racial skills for defense, but I could always use another…

Energy Absorption could work. It absorbs a small amount of energy from every magical attack I take, using it to refill my soul instead of dealing damage.

That makes three passives. So Quantum Regeneration works for the fourth.

A rather simple and straightforward skill that increases the rate of my soul regeneration.

I think I’ll keep Quantum Observation Effect, simply because having a powerful attack that doesn’t cost any soul that I can release after charging it up is very helpful. Even if it’s unreliable to rely on, since I have to charge it up in the first place.

And the last one I’ll make Quantum Synergy. Which basically just enhances all of the quantum magic I use a little bit.

Every little bit counts after all.

I smile, finally confirming all of the changes to my skills. Then I get up from the floor and stretch a little bit.

A much better setup now, even if I’m going to have to train a bunch of skills from level one again.

It’s too bad skills don’t just automatically start at the Tier of the owner of said skills. Because that would be too convenient for us users.

I sigh at that thought before glancing up at Luna, who is now flying down from the ceiling, the little bat having been roosting there while I worked on my skills.

“You have a good nap?” I ask her with a smile, and she squeaks once before purring and rubbing her head against my neck after landing on my shoulder. So I chuckle, “That’s good.”

That took a bit longer than I expected it would. But now I’m done with that.

Next up on the bucket list of things to do is try out my new skill set, get used to it, level it up a bit along with myself, and then leave the dungeon to go check out who that Dimensional Champion is.

I reach into my pocket before pulling out an item that Astrid had given me.

The thing is linked to one that she has, and if it is destroyed, then that means the holder of the other one in the linked pair is in danger. So the fact that this isn’t destroyed means that she’s at least safe.

But going out to deal with the problem without my skills leveled is a bad idea. And so was going out without changing them to a better setup, since I’m still a bit under leveled right now compared to the other Class S species. I’m only now starting to inch back into the top ten again after all.

The Ancestral Dragon is over thirty levels above me at this point for example.

I frown at the thought.

Not something I’m particularly happy or proud of.

I shake my head before turning around and beginning to leave the mausoleum.

Time to train my skills. Then leave the dungeon to check on Astrid.

Because she’s more important right now than a leaderboard.