191 The Awakening Of A New Power!
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While I was sleeping, I ended entering Aquarina’s soul scape, where we ended hatching an adorable little dragon egg where an ice-attribute spirit came out, resembling a lot the appearance of Leviathan but in baby form, which I assumed might had been he or her child. Somehow laying an egg as a soul that hatched into a spirit… is that even possible? Can souls even lay eggs?
But that didn’t matter for the moment, as I had decided to leave Aquarina’s side for the moment, as it would be a hard to control little creature which I didn’t wanted to go through the annoyance of seeing for a bit more, I ended going back to my soul to rest there.
However, what I found there, aside from the usual group of spirits, was the System, or Alice, as I had renamed her now. She really likes that name.
She told me something quite important, that might mean big things for me in the future. Due to her being Glitched, she is not capable of giving me the full abilities of a System, but because it ended being frozen, the HP and MP never run out, which ended giving me some very strange abilities, the biggest one being endless Mana.
The bad part is that Mana cannot infinitely flow inside the body of a person, and it will eventually make it burst into pieces, just like it might happen to me eventually! And I really didn’t wanted that fate to strike me, so of course, I cannot abuse it and had decided to slowly get used to larger quantities of Mana while forging my Magic Circle, quite the arduous task, and it has taken a long time, but I am already able to use a lot of mana more freely than before.
Nonetheless, this is not what’s important, what’s important is what she told to me. She had specifically told me that she had accumulated enough power and energy in the form of EXP to finally unlock a single part of the System’s true capabilities!
Amazing, that’s better than nothing at all, and it seems that it doesn’t have anything to do with the Stats, or the numbers, those things, so it won’t interrupt my endless supply of Mana.
And the function in specific was the ability to… level up? A Skill… Instead of leveling up myself, I can Level Up a Skill through the consecutive usage of it, which will increase its power.
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Over time, after reaching certain levels, it will unlock more Skills in what she calls “Skill Trees” or something. I really didn’t knew it could evolve in such a way.
So now I had the choice between the Skills that I could pick, of course, I can only choose one.
“So which one will you pick?” asked Alice.
“Erm, Alice… This is very hard… C-Can you give me advice? I really don’t know… What do I even need? Strength, more ability to see? What about growing more trees? Eh… I am getting more and more inclined into choosing Ember.” I said.
“It is indeed a hard decision to make, I am sorry for not telling you this before… I suppose you could pick whatever you think it is better for your current situation. I think I might be able to open up another slot so you can pick a new Skill in the future, but I am not sure how long that might take. After all, my growth had been accelerated because of the stronger beings you’ve drained EXP from…” said Alice.
“I-I understand… I guess I shouldn’t count on another one any time soon, I get it. Well, relying on magic is always the best in these situations… So I choose… Ah, Ember or Agriculture? Which one has the best potential?” I asked.
“Hmm… Both are good and well, you could get some good results either way with both elements as you train their magic… Heavenly Sight is actually unique, Mana Control is just manipulation of Mana, but that is already easy for you, so I don’t recommend it…” she said.
“Heavenly Sight, huh? What does it offer after evolving over time? I remember it gave me three little abilities that were somewhat good, Appraisal, Hawk Eye, and Future Sight?” I wondered.
“Yes, although they don’t offer a direct fighting power, they can evolve to become more precise and extend their power…” said Alice.
“Hmm… This is very hard to choose…” I sighed.
“You’re really indecisive, Sylphy…” said Alice.
“I am sorry! Don’t get mad… Okay… Erm, well, I will pick something I want to do personally, and that’s growing closer to Nature… Compared to my fire magic, my Nature magic is still not as crazy, so I am picking Agriculture.” I said.
“Oh, a bold choice, but it might evolve into something great over time, good choice.” Said Alice.
FLASH!
In front of my eyes, a sudden flash of green light came out spontaneously. A sudden system message emerged before me, a very glitchy one that was constantly changing in colors and showing weird letters, and in there, there was the symbol of a leaf inside a small green circle saying “Agriculture”.
Ding!
[The Synapsis has been broken! Hacking in process…]
[Bah2847$$52]
[Reconstructing Program]
[The 239G has 239AG89!]
[Error]
[Congratulations, the [Agriculture] Skill has Leveled from Level Y# to Level 1!] freewёbnoνel.com
And it was done, all the system messages quickly disappeared. I looked at Alice, she seemed tired, her small little flame-like body was gasping for air.
“Phew… It is done… I actually did it! I am… I am useful…” she sighed, dropping over the floor.
“A-Alice! Are you okay? Why did you force yourself to do something that exhausts you so much?” I asked.
“Ahh… No, no, it is fine, I am just a bit tired. I will get better in a few days from now, don’t worry about me… Sylphy… I just want to help you… However I can… T-This is just my duty, as your System- I mean, as your friend,” she said.
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