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The undead who yearned for life
14-The result of the training

14-The result of the training

So, in the end, I was rewarded, punished and left without even a roof on top on my head, I don't know if I must cry or laugh... let's find out.

"Show status, skills and magic proficiencies"

NameJackRaceLesser GhoulAge0GenderMaleTitles-Class-Level37 (52%)Fame-100Health Points500/500HP regen0.5/sMana Points267/833MP regen1.33/sStamina Points490/1000SP regen13.88/hEnergy Points53/53EP regen1.76/sRage Points0/185RP generation?Vitality50Soul100Strength50Intelligence50Agility59Wisdom50Charisma-100Leadership12Luck0Comprehension13,33Phisical resistance0.02%Magical resistance0.02%Movement speed44.66 Km/hStat points available0

INNATE SKILLSEndless memory: thanks to your out of the norm soul, you can now store your memories inside it, no matter if good or bad, from now on you'll never forget anything you experience (this includes all the senses you have or gain; other perks will appear as you discover them)Severed by fate: strange skill that enables your soul to directly alter some of your statsFate vision (sorry, can't have you alter other people's fate, you're not me *Goddess of fate*): enables you to see other people fates, which includes their trials and their life expectancySteady hands: gives a 50% accuracy bonus and 10% critical chance; it's immensely useful in many different jobsBlessing of the Goddess of Fate: strange blessing given by the the goddess, those who posses it are said to not have bindings and be able to go against the flowRACIAL SKILLSInstinct of the beast: in a range of 50 meters, allow you to detect any life form (at max 15 levels higher than you) that are not using stealth related abilities, also gives you a rough estimate of the other party strength by means of fearGlutton: by eating any living (or fresh killed) life forms, you're able to heal fasterImmunity system: because you're dead, not many viruses can affect you, and because you're an undead, every other kind of viruses, bacteria, exc. are killed offCOMBACT SKILLSCharge+ (novice lv8): when you're at more than ten meters from your target, this skill gives you a large boost of speed, if you manage to hit your target, you deal +23% of damage and inflict the to the target for 2.8 seconds. If you gather speed before using this skill, the effect will vary depending on the speed achieved.

Consumes: 18 EP each useInstinctual combat (novice lv4): when your health is lower than 14% and your rage gauge is full, you obtain a boost in stats equal to the max amount of the rage gauge, and your instict will help your decision/execution makings. This state will end after the RP goes back to 0, leaving you weak afterwards for some time.UTILITY SKILLSClimb (beginner lv1): this skill shows you the best path in order to reach the top during climbing; it also decrease the use of stamina during the climbAutomatic mapping (intermediate lv1): this ability allows you to keep track of where you are while also compiling a mental map of your surroundings through the skill Instinct of the beast or special actions. You also gain the ability of sensing the north.Attunement meditation (novice lv5): this skill allows you to enter a deep state of meditation after concentrating for two minutes (in this state you're very vulnerable), this state grants you a boost of 200% in the MP recovery rate. What's more, by attuning yourself to the different elements; depending on your undestanding, how much time you passed in meditation and your race, you're able to gain the respective magic profiency or increase an already existing oneMagic construction (master lv10): by using the elements, you're able to create nearly anything you can think of (given that you know the theory behind)

Reduce the needed mana during constructions by 60%

Trap mastery (master lv10): the combination of the skills Trap making, Disarm trap and Trap discovery; no need to explain it to you, right? I pity the ones who'll try to rob your home.

Reduce the probability of your traps being discovered, let you discover enemy traps at first look and gives you the ability to disarm traps 60% faster

House summon: every building you make that has the word engraved on them can be transported to an infinite empty space. When you want to take one of them back in your plane of existence, you need to collect the necessary amount of mana

Mana reserve: 0/∞MAGICAL SKILLSShadow claws (novice lv5): by cladding your claws in dark magic, you gain a boost of 25% in attack and 11% in armor penetration. It also gives you the ability to damage magical beings.

Consumes: 10 MP/sKi reinforcement (novice lv6): by letting mana run through your body, you gain a 16% on your physical stats. Repeated use of this skill will cause your body to produce a defensive aura even when not in use.

Consumes: 65 MP/s, 8 EP/s, 7SP/s

Lightning magic proficiency0%Lightning magic resistance0%Fire magic proficiency17%Fire magic resistance5.6%Earth magic proficiency43%Earth magic resistance14.33%Air magic proficiency0%Air magic resistance0%Water magic proficiency0%Water magic resistance0%Nature magic proficiency0%Nature magic resistance0%Light magic proficiency0%Light magic resistance-89%Dark magic proficiency24%Dark magic resistance23%Neutral magic proficiency0%Neutral magic resistance0%Ki proficiency20%Ki defence6.6%

Well, even if it's me who says it, I'm pretty impressive; just by randomly killing some undead I actually reached level 37, not only that, I also gained quite the boost in magic proficiencies.

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What's more, I also discovered why I wandered for twelve years in the 8th layer and how to reach the next layer without being roasted: it seems that ghouls should spawn in this layer and we're the bottom of the food chain; probably because of this, they are not friendly even if we are of the same race.

Another thing that i found out is that I don't need to eat, and when out of curiosity I tried to use the skill Glutton, it didn't work, the reason being that undeads, even when just killed, aren't exactly , the expiration date already passed a long, looooong time ago; and let me say this: even if it worked, I wouldn't use it anyway, in novels the peoples reincarnated as monsters change the way they taste things, the problem is... someone forgot to give me that patch.

That or the skill Endless memory reminds me of what normal food taste, so even with a human cuisine is thousands of times better... you don't realize how bad monsters have it until you become one of them, after that experience I understand why undead eat everything living, for us they must be delicious.

Well, enough about how human must taste, the only way I found in order to go to the 8th and probably even the next layers is to continuously train my light resistance, every layer the effect of the light magic probably rise by around 10%, and if your resistance is too low... you start to burn, and every time you die, the light resistance is reset, so I'll need to avoid being killed from now, or the possibility of passing another one hundred years wandering may not be too far fetched.

I also found by messing with my stats that is definitely better to keep the stamina, strength, agility and wisdom stat even, or at least they must be not too far behind between each other; if you don't do this, the penality vary from bones too brittle to support the muscles to various kind of malformations of the body. 

Wisdom is needed in order to understand what you're doing at high speed; try to run at 40 Km/h while your mind can at most keep up with half that speed... fortunately I tried it in the plains, or I would've become a stain in one of the tombstones.

The final thing that I found out is that lesser ghouls can't use magic, while I have a big mana pool; the only reason tha I could think of is that my soul must have had some kind of effect in order to give me an abnormal mana pool; when I thought about it, I understood that my mana pool is not the only abnormal thing in my status, but also the speed at which I learn new skill is too much (because in this world everything seems to go by the law of cause and effect).

I'm not saying that I'm not smart enough (even though I noted that by raising intelligence and wisdom the comprehension stat rise), but even in my previous life I needed more than simply hours or days to learn new jobs (mainly because my sister wanted everything done by me, from cooking to sewing).

The last strange thing is my luck; because I gave all of my karma to Elise, it should have sent me in negative (which is shown in fame, if I'm not wrong it doesn't matter if you're famous or not, it changes how the other peoples look at you, it raises if you do good deeds, it goes down if you do evil things and remains the same if what you're doing doesn't matter to anyone), so I who have -100 fame should have negative luck (karma always gets back at you), but that's not the case, my soul seems to interfere with that.

Congratulation, you understood just how much of an abnormality your soul is (elite humans have only 25 points in that stat, though there are some jobs which increases it, no one ever passed the 75 points; normal monsters start with 5 points in it and increase it by evolving). You also understood which stats the soul influence (the last one who did it lived ten thousand years ago, it normally doesn't even shows in the stat window).

+5 intelligence, +5 wisdom

Now that this is confirmed, let's try to understand how the skill House summon works; I made a simple hut using the stone from a nearby tombstone, then I engraved the characters for on it.

Do you want to store this building?

"yes" I said in my mind, after that I needed to pour enough magic in the skill in order to make my hut reappear... let's first try with one hundred mana.

Thanks to the you obtained the function

Mmm... "show house management window"

Mana reserve 

(needed to summon the house)

0/∞Mana reserve

(needed for upgrades)

0/∞Hut

(upgrades available)

0/5000Castle of the King of Hell

(replica 100:1, upgrades available)

0/50.000.000

When I read that I have a 100:1 replica of my... of the King of Hell castle I wished to see it, and just like that I entered another dimension.

You can enter in this dimension only when you're not in combat (similary, you can summon the house only if you're not engaged in a fight), here you can manually make upgrades to your houses, but be careful, time here is stopped, and so are all your recovery rates (in exchange you have infinite mana). Staying/working here will not affect your body in any way (it means no matter how much you work, you will not gain mastery over your skills and if you were injuried you remain injured)

And with this I gained a cheat ability, quite generous for a God of the Underworld... ah, I forgot, the castle size is the same as when I made it, so the King of Hell must have enlarged it quite a few times; befitting for a God size and power I'd say