The bunch got excited immediately.
“Thank you boss, if you ever need anything else, please let us know. “
Max didn't respond, and with a flap of his wings, he took to the air, heading straight for the closest hotel.
It was time to actually learn the skills he got and see if that simulation world had any use.
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Soon enough, Max was inside a luxury room he had just booked at some random hotel.
He opened his pet space, and all his pets appeared in front of him.
Max was expecting them to start boiling immediately after they get out, since they were inside for some time now.
But surprisingly, they were strangely obedient, all of them stood around Max looking up at him with innocent puppy-like expressions. Even Lucy was the same.
Max looked at them suspiciously. He even had the thought that they broke his pet space.
But that was impossible and even if they had done it somehow, he would have felt it.
But on a second thought, Max figured it out.
they were probably watching when he bought the skills.
Max didn't know whether to laugh or cry. His pets were somewhat like him as in they didn't move unless they saw benefits.
Or in their case, they wouldn't be obedient unless benefits were on the table.
“stop acting like lost Lambs. I didn't find suitable skills for all of you, but at least everyone will get a share. “
Craw! Craw! Craw! mi mi mimi
“oy stop protesting or none of you would be getting any skills. “
The place went quiet again immediately.
“I didn't find any for now, and we are out of money.
But still I got a thing that can help you learn skills by yourself, so for those of you who won't get much skills.
have some patience. “
After he made sure that his pets understood the situation, he distributed the skills.
He did this to make his pets satisfied before learning them, since they were looking forward to it.
For a moment, everyone was happy, but then Lucy noticed that all the crows had more skills than her. Mirror crow mraia had a wapping 6 skills.
Annoyed, the little one started mumbling under her mouth ‘mimimo’.
Still, Max noticed her. “Huh? are you not satisfied?”
Max took the telekinesis skill scroll from her. “This skill is the most expensive in the room. To explain it to you.
The price of this skill is enough to let this entire city enter the best psychiatric hospital, and we'd still have some money left. “
Lucy was stunned on the spot in excitement, but her excitement turned into despair as Max pocketed the skill.
“since you're not satisfied, then forget about this one. I won't give it to you unless you learn the other one successfully. “
Lucy responded with silence. She was afraid that Max would increase her punishment if she said anything more.
Max didn't want to bully Lucy for the sake of it. He couldn't let her learn two blue skills at the same time.
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“alright, let's start with mraia. “
Craw!.
Max took out the T-37 serum and fed it to her.
Although he didn't know how strong the mirror skills were, he had to use the T-37 because of their rarity.
After, he immediately used all three mirror skills, one after the other, as blue glassy light filled the room.
He also took the chance to use the other white skills.
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[Ding, your pet mirror crow mraia learned green grade skill (mirror prison)].
[Ding, your pet mirror crow mraia learned the green grade skill (mirror image)].
[Ding, your pet mirror crow mraia learned the blue grade skill (world of mirrors)].
[Ding, your pet mirror crow mraia learned the white grade passive skill (wind flight) .
[Ding, your pet mirror crow mraia, learned the white grade passive skill (enhanced feathers).]
[Ding, your pet mirror crow mraia learned the white grade skill (air strike)].
By the end, mraia passed out from mental exertion, while Max felt his body changing slightly.
Accompanying it was agonizing pain, Max wanted to get this over with as quickly as possible, so he didn't stop to check his new skills and kept using skill items on the other crows.
Since he had to go through the pain anyway, it’s better to do it all at once.
But before that he had mok drink the T-37.
It can't be helped telekinesis was just too expensive, and now that he bought two, the third one is priced at 10 million.
[Ding, your pet psychic crow mok, learned the skill (Telekinesis).]
Ding...
Ding…
Ding…
Ding…
Ding…
Ding…
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Soon enough, Max was done with all the crows.
But his body was bleeding from multiple spots, his wings being the most intense as he lost all of his feathers and then grew them back.
Max took out a glass bottle filled with emerald water and drank it.
This thing can be used as a healing potion.
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“oh, that was something.” looking around, most of the crows passed out, with only Lucy left looking at him worriedly.
“little Lu, go back with the crows for now. You can learn [fairy escape] after I test my new skills. “
Lucy didn't argue because she was still worried about Max, so she just nodded.
Max moved all of them to his pet space.
As his pets disappeared, and he was left alone, an excited smile crept on his face as he threw the glass bottle in the air.
However, the glass bottle didn't fall, but stayed suspended mid-air.
It was hard controlling his new found telekinesis, but pointing with his hand as if he was grabbing it helped a lot.
The bottle started rotating and flying around under Max's control.
Woosh!..
Max let go of the bottle as it fell to the ground.
Dng!
He spread his arms wide, and suddenly everything not anchored to the floor began to float.
“now that's a superpower. “
Max stopped playing around and checked his stats, since he didn't have a complete understanding of all the skills he got.
After all, he was like a child stuffed with college grade knowledge. Obviously, he would be confused.
“stats”.
Name: Max.
Strength: E++
Agility: C
Vitality: D+
Spirituality: D+
Overall evaluation: D+ .
Talents :
[Hive-Link]. [Crimson brilliance]. [Bound by Blood].
Skills & abilities :
1-[Mystic eye]
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2-[Telekinesis] :
Skill rank: Blue .
Proficiency: initiation
-gain telekinetic powers comparable to your spirituality stat.
Starts with 1 kg at the F-rank and gets multiplied by 10 for every subsequent rank.
Current limit :150 kg
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“ as expected of telekinesis.
Simple raw power, even though it's just at initiation and my spirituality is just at D+, I can reach 150 kg. “
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3-[wind flight] (passive) : {X10}
Grade : white
Applies a slight amount of wind element to the wings, increasing agility by 100 points and flight speed by 100 %
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Looking at the mind-boggling stats that this white skill gave, Max smirked. The original buff is just 15 points and 15% flight speed, but it was stacked 10 times because he received the skill from all the crows.
Although there was some significant loss in that process but it doesn't matter much.
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4-[enhanced feathers] (passive) : {x10}
Grade : white
Enhance feather defense based on your Vitality by a multiplier of 7.
Current wings defense : C-rank.
[Air strike] : inactive. (You do not meet the requirements for this skill.)
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“well I have neither claws nor beak, so it was expected. “
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5-[Mirror image] :
Skill rank: green. (limit breaker)
Proficiency: initiation.
Use a mirror to create a copy of yourself. You can either fully commit to controlling the copy, leaving your body unattended, or split your focus to control it.
This copy's stats will be equivalent to 5% of your own + the mirror's base stats.
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“huh? A limit breaker skill! Not bad, not bad at all. “
Limit breaker skills are the ones that can go beyond their original grade based on certain factors.
For ( mirror image) it was obviously the type of mirror used to create the image.
If Max used some mirror type equipment, the image created will definitely be much stronger.
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6-[Mirror prison] :
Skill rank: green.
Proficiency: initiation.
On contact, seal an object or a living creature within a mirror.
The strength of the seal is based on your (vitality+spirituality).
In a sealed state, the target cannot use any of their powers.
if the seal strength overpowers the target, then both mental and bodily activities would be sealed.
Duration: 30 minutes.
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7-[World of mirrors] :
Skill rank: blue.
Proficiency: initiation.
- temporarily lock a part of your spirituality stat to create a 500m radius separate mirror space that belongs to you.
Current spirituality locked : 70%. you can actively increase this percentage to increase the range and duration of the skill.
Duration : 1h
Cooldown : 5h
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Max ignored (mirror prison) for now and focused on (world of mirrors)
the skill still looks confusing even after he learned it.
First was the fact that it locked spirituality. Max never heard of that before.
Normally, skills or abilities are fueled by three different ways.
Stamina produced by the Vitality stat.
Pure Energy produced by the spirituality stat.
Mental power produced by the combination of vitality and spirituality.
Based on what kind of skill it is, it would use one or a mixture of the three.
Even though Max and most other pet master doesn't have a special organ to store any of those three energies, but the amount their bodies can carry is enough for them since it's their pets doing the heavy lifting.
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Max started looking in the simulator and soon found his answer.
Some complicated skills will lock a certain stat in order to function. It was a rare case and usually exclusive to golems.
“whatever let's give it a try and see. “
Without hesitation, Max used (world of mirrors).
Immediately after Max was hit by the strongest headache he ever had as he knelt down, taking deep breaths.
“fk..”
...
Soon, the headache subsided a little enough for Max to stand up.
Looking around, Max was confused.
He could feel a space connected to himself, but the problem was that he didn't know how to go in.
For a moment, Max had a guess that it was a space to store items like a space ring.
But he dismissed the thought because he couldn't even put things inside, or at least he didn't know how.
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After some thinking, Max decided to check a mirror. It was either that or he was lacking some key word or item.
In the bathroom, Max inspected his reflection, finding nothing unusual. But as he extended his hand towards the mirror, it shimmered silver and allowed his hand to pass through.
At the same time. It was as if a vacuum was opened as the air rushed towards the mirror.
“huh?” Max was intrigued as he kept pushing his hand, and slowly his entire body went inside through that small mirror.
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Inside, Max found himself standing on a blue surface.
It was a flat, light blue rock, five meters wide, shrouded by a hazy, silver fog.
Multiple mirrors, each with a unique size and shape, floated around.
Standing on the blue floor, Max had the illusion that this place was floating, but the fog made it impossible to confirm.
Max tried to touch the fog, and it actually gave the feeling of a solid wall.
“huh? Is this piece of land all there's to it? It's barely 5 meters in diameter.”
Max was confused. This skill was still giving him a strong headache, plus he is in a weaken state because of his locked spirituality.
After all that, Max refuse to accept that this skill was so weak.
Next, Max went to check the floating mirrors, just to be stunned right after.
Once he gets close to a mirror, it loses its reflection and starts showing something else.
“Isn't that the room next door? And that's the shop next street? “
Max closed his eyes for a moment and started sensing, trying to understand the skill a bit more, then he waved his hand, and all mirrors lost their reflection and started showing different sceneries.
“so that's the case!!”
Max felt excitement rushing to his head, as can he finally understood how this skill works.
This space is linked to every mirror within a half-kilometer circle around the casting spot.
“now things are getting interesting. “
With a thought, the mirrors started rotating around Max as he started looking for a target.
Soon a mirror that shows a somewhat dark warehouse stopped in front of Max.
Looking closely, far away from the mirror, he could see a skinny shop owner reprimanding two workers.
After confirming that there were no cameras around, Max touched the mirror, causing it to distort and letting his hand go right through.
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Two streets away from Max's room, a business owner by the name of Harry was reprimanding his lazy workers.
“seriously you two, when I was younger I could of delt with these boxes in an hour but you.….. C”
The workers just had their heads down. They were used to Harry's grumpy attitude.
Thankfully, he finally stopped, but for some reason, he stopped nagging earlier than usual today.
The two lifted their heads, but were immediately stunned because their boss was floating.
The scene looked like he was being choked by something invisible.
“ahg.”
The two didn't have the time to react before their boss was pulled to the dark wear house.
Woosh!
“hellllp...... “
... The two were frozen for a moment.
“is that a ghost?”
“within the city? Impossible!”
“you're right. It's probably one of that old fool's usual tests. Let's go and see. “
The two went to the warehouse and found nothing.
“this? Was that guy kidnapped by a ghost or something?. “
“bro this seems to real, am out of here.”
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As the two workers were panicking, Max was looking at the unconscious Harry with amazement.
Earlier, he just let his hand pass through and used telekinesis to pull the guy in.
“huh? Guess am gonna buy a lot of mirrors later . “
Max ignored the unconscious fellow and picked another mirror.
And after checking that there were no cameras on the other side, he went through.
Max felt like he went through a layer of water as he found himself bathing with a couple.
The couple were stunned, looking at a stranger coming out of the side mirror.
The two just entered the bathroom and were undressing before Max appeared.
“huh? I didn't see you two when I looked through?.
No matter why don't you help me test a skill. “
With lightning-fast movements, Max choked the two, one in each hand.
With C-rank agility, they didn't have a chance to begin with.
Next, Max put them in contact with the side mirror as he used [Mirror prison].
The two of them melted into the mirror, unlike when he went through it or when he pulled Harry.
Soon enough, Max was looking at the couple stuck inside the mirror.
They were trying to speak to him, maybe curse at him or beg to be released, but while he could see their mouths moving, he couldn't hear them
“wow.”
Max tried to go back to the mirror space through this specific mirror to see what would happen.
But to his disappointment, he couldn't use this mirror to move to the mirror space.
“it seems that using mirror prison will also seal the mirror away from the mirror space.
Oh well, next experiment, what would happen if I break this mirror?”
The couple seem to have heard him because the fear in their eyes turned into horror.
Max didn't care and punch lightly.
Thud!
“huh? It didn't break?”
This was by no means some special mirror. It was normal glass and even though Max didn't use much of his strength, it should've broken.
But looking at the pain filled expression of the couple, Max understood.
“to explain it in game terms, the mirror now has the hp of the couple.
I also felt that the seal was somewhat shaken. One more light punch wouldn't kill them, but free them instead. Interesting! “
Max punched again but this time he used much greater strength.
Shatter!!…
The mirror broke, and Max's skills were lifted, but the couple weren't freed. Instead, some of the mirror fragments were leaking blood, but other than that, nothing happened.
“hmm.”
Max used telekinesis to lift all the blood and mirror fragments as he walked to the tub’s mirror.
This mirror was small, too small.
But the size of the mirror didn't matter and Max jumped in easily, like jumping in a lake, the mirror fragments flying inside right behind him.
Back inside the mirror space, Max looked around, as he couldn't help but smirk.
“isn't this the best assassination skill? No, this skill is some game changing sh*t. “
Max kept experimenting. A noteworthy discovery was the fact that he could use Mystic eye through the mirrors.
Since this space is connected to every mirror within its range, so when Max is inside the mirror space, he is technically close to every mirror.
This effectively extended the range of Mystic eye by 500m.
Soon enough, the duration of the skill was about to end and Max left the space, going back to his room.
But before that, he left a Mystic eye mark on Harry, wanting to see what would happen to this space after the skill ends, and what would happen to a living creature inside of it at that time.
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Author note :
Hello everyone.
Recently my schedule is back to full, so we'd be going back to 1k or 1.5k words a day.
Wish you all the best.