Once again opening the [System shop], he directly clicked on the field for [Skills] and promptly were the most suitable skills for his cultivation level, affinity and current amount of available [System points] shown to him.
[System Shop] -- [2095 points]
[Search category: Skill]
[Student realm skills]
[…..]
[450 points]
[Shadow Thorns
Description: generates several thorns made of shadows in an area of 7 meters around you, that will shoot up from the ground or sides depending on the fighting environment, also the more energy is inputted, the more powerful the thorns will become.
Major Weakness: If the enemy's defence is too strong, the spikes will break and have no use.]
[520 points]
[Poisonous Black Mist
Description: A domain with a radius of 10 meters is surrounded by a black mist that causes vision loss, confusion, poisoning, and slowing of movements to the enemy. The mist is created in a combination between dark and poisonous force.
Major Weakness: Wind elemental skills can drive away the fog and the skill immediately loses its effectiveness]
[300 points]
[Shadow binding]
Description: Use your dark force and transform it into numerous chains that bind the enemy and affect his movements.
Major Weakness: This skill does only work if the enemy is not much stronger than you]
[…..]
Looking through the long list of skills, three of them caught his eye at the first moment namely the ones displayed above.
He immediately thought that they were exactly what he needed at the moment because the only fighting skills he had at the moment were the Basic animalistic ones, which were not that effective to be honest.
These three skills on the other hand perfectly incorporated what he needed at the moment.
So being decisive as he was, he directly selected all three skills [Poisonous Black Mist; Shadow Thorns; Shadow binding] and straight away a window appeared.
[Are you sure you want to spend 1270 System points to learn the selected skills?]
[Yes] - -[No]
Clicking on [Yes] with his mind, three new pop-up messages appeared that indicated his learning of these skills.
[Congratulation! You have learned < Shadow binding >]
[Congratulation! You have learned < Poisonous Black Mist >]
[Congratulation! You have learned < Shadow Thorns >]
Immediately the knowledge of these three skills appeared in his mind and he felt as if he had had practiced them for years already.
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Coming back to his senses, he was feeling rather great, now that he had these new skills, but it occurred to him that he still needed a type of investigation skill, or technique for various purposes like recognizing plants materials and other important things.
Thinking like that he immediately reopened the just closed [System Shop] and searched for investigation type of skills in the [Search bar]. Just before he could feel an ounce of happiness by seeing so many skills lined up one after another, the price of even the cheapest skill was not something he could consider at the moment.
"Damn, what the hell? Why is even this basic ocular technique so expensive!" Thiago cursed while looking at the sky-high price of 1400 [System points] noted above said technique.
What he did not know was, that ocular and pupil techniques were rather rare in the outside world and a price of just 1400 [System points] could not be considered high at all. Well thinking like this, nothing could be said to be expensive for Thiago, because already having the ability to buy everything no matter what just with a virtual and illusory currency like [System points], was heaven defying.
Anyways, realizing that buying an investigation type of Skill could only be postponed for now, he was just about top close the [System shop] for the nth time today, when he suddenly remembered having read about a certain technique in a novel on Earth before. This technique was called in many different ways in different novels for example Divine sense, spiritual awareness, soul sense, divine consciousness, spiritual sense and many more, but in the essence they all worked on the same principle and had the same functions most of the time.
The technique was used for the sensing of a person's surroundings and in many cases also to move objects just with your thoughts, so it was an extremely useful technique.
Just thinking about it, made Thiago full of Vigor and he really hoped that such a technique existed in the [System Shop].
Not delaying any time, he thought of searching for techniques to cultivate the above-mentioned sense, which immediately and to his delight offered numerous results in the [System Shop].
[System Shop] -- [1270 points]
[Search category: Cultivation techniques]
[Realm independent]
[500 points]
[Novice realm]
[Basic divine consciousness training manual
Allows you to achieve a basic and commonly strong divine consciousness
Good for beginners]
[600 points]
[Novice realm]
[Celestial divine sense art (Incomplete)
Allows you to achieve a very strong divine sense with a heavenly aura imbued in your will.
You will only be able to cultivate this manual up to the superior student realm, since the full technique is too complicated and way too large to be learned at once and you would not be able to bear it with a lower realm. After reaching the superior student realm you have to pay for the next part of the manual to be able to further cultivate this art.]
[1250 points]
[Student realm]
[Heavenly Demon soul transmogrifying Art (Incomplete)
This art allows you to temper your soul and also create a terrifying oppressive soul pressure, which can be used to intimidate your enemies or directly make them unable to fight you.
Using this art has many benefits like a faster cultivation of the soul, but in return you have to endure excruciating pain due to the tempering of your soul with condensed demons in your soul. You will only be able to cultivate this manual up to the superior student realm, since the full technique is too complicated and too large to be learned at once and you would not be able to bear it. After reaching the superior student realm you have to pay for the next part of the manual to be able to further cultivate this art.]
[…...]
Scanning through the skills he directly found that he was attracted to one especially, namely by the [Heavenly Demon transmogrifying Art].
One may think at an early juncture that he is a masochist and likes the thought of having to endure incredible amounts, and levels, of pain, but Thiago is obviously no masochist and just likes the idea of being able to quickly improve his soul's power and thereby also getting a soul sense in return.
Another important reason for his decision was naturally the extremely badass name, because who wouldn't like to have a technique with a really cool sounding name in his possession and would rather take one with a boring name, he obviously wouldn't do such a thing. Although he was a little afraid of the pain that would be coming ion hands with him cultivating this art, he waited no longer and selected this art to be bought.
[Are you sure you want to spend 1250 System points to learn
[Yes] - -[No]
The moment this already familiar question popped up, he clicked on [Yes], obviously, and the same already to the nth time seen congratulatory text appear next to it.
[Congratulation! You have learned
Once again feeling the influx of information in his head, he was already used to this feeling at this point and only regarded it as a nice indicator of having one new skill or whatever was being imparted to him.
A few seconds later the feeling disappeared again and Thiago focused on the information in his mind and decided to immediately try out this technique because it was one of his favourites when he had read them in novels before, because there was so much potential in such a technique. Just being able to sense your surroundings and to lift things with just your thoughts were incredible methods in his opinion and could significantly alter the course of a battle if one side had this technique and the other did not have it in its possession.
This time after receiving the technique he finally closed the [System Shop] for today, as he originally wanted to do before.
Looking around the cave after averting his gaze from the system panel he noticed that it was still bright inside which in return indicated that not much time had passed at all while he was being engrossed inside his [System Shop] and buying various new skills and important key information about his surroundings and Red Star in general.
This made him exultant because it also meant that he still had lots of time to test a few of his new skills in broad daylight, because even though he did not fear the dark, he still liked it more to fight while it was daytime. Not that it made much difference in the lighting inside the forest because the trees were too dense and not much light could enter at all, so it was rather dim at all times.
Standing up he stretched his sore legs a little and then sauntered towards the exit of the cave, where he forthwith saw Faye lying boredly on the cave floor, looking as if she did not know what to do with her life.
Regarding her, Thiago actually had no idea yet what to do with her in the long term, because he was sure that he would be leaving the forest as soon as he had cultivated his human form, and travel the human territory. He couldn't just take her with him, could he?
A few minutes later we could see him in a clearing of the forest....