219 The Great Benefits Of Leveling Skills
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After that initial ritual with Ninhursag, we decided to move out to other things, such as eating with our parents and then we decided to take it easy for the rest of the day, mostly by practicing magic conjuration for me, while Zack went to hack a tree with his axe and Aquarina was practicing magic with her new spirit. Due to that, I was left all by myself in the tent and I was able to begin my operation “gain more skill proficiency”!
How do I do it? Well, I just stealthily walk outside using the Stealth Spell that I transferred from my previous life to this one and improved with new rune conjuration, which makes me more… well, stealthy, and then I walked into the nearby forest. With the help of Naturia at my side, we began to conjure the Agriculture Skill constantly, making all plants around us grow bigger and then taking out that life and slowly making them grow drier. It was the same process of giving and taking! And now that the Skill was at Level 5, it was very strong.
The effects of Agriculture at Level 5 were enhanced by +50%, it was a flat +10% with each level, and now at Level 5, it was enhanced by half as much as its original effects, making plants grow even healthier, but also dry even faster when I take away the life, I gave to them. Of course, it cannot let me take the energy that they originally had, but when I infuse so much life to them and then take it away, it become deadlier. Of course, I cannot use it on animals or mushrooms, only plants. This is a specific skill so unless I fight some plant monster, I won’t have an advantage using this.
Of course, I can use it to enhance the plants of my surroundings to help me out, or even grow plants out of seeds into plant monsters, but those are still generally weak and don’t last long, of course, their strength and duration has been extended now that I got the skill to level 5 and it has a +50% enhancement to its effects, so there is something nice to that.
I have discovered it didn’t worked on animals or mushrooms long ago. Some people in this world still associate mushrooms with just some type of plant, but they’re their own clade of living beings after all, they’re just their own thing, mushrooms. They come in various forms, and I remember some of them doing symbiosis with certain types of algae and plants too, but I don’t know if I can control those, and I also have to find them yet.
I continued doing this same thing over and over again, making plants grow and then taking away the life I infused into them, I did this moderately with short breaks of around ten minutes to relax and not get myself too stressed or tired either, my body can only take as much mana before it gets too exhausted to even move.
I continued doing this while I sat down in the forest with the help of Naturia, and without realizing it all the exhaustion of the day hit me and I fell asleep while sitting near a tree, Naturia continued conjuring the Skill for me through our soul connection which allowed her to do this, but I ended falling asleep and she wasn’t able to continue without me being conscious…
…And when I woke up, I found myself inside of the tent, sleeping over a bed.
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“Eh? Ah, someone must have carried me here…” I sighed, as Alice suddenly spoke to me.
“Your father found you and carried you back to the tent to sleep, he said that you were working too hard.” Said Alice. “You shouldn’t overexert yourself to the point you fall asleep, Sylphy!”
“Ahh… My father was the one… Oh well…” I sighed. “It is not like I got any option, right? I might as well train until I drop half dead rather than lazing around, it is just not my style, and sleeping after working so hard always feels extra nice…”
“I see, you’re just a workaholic…” Sighed Alice. “You’re really quite hopeless, aren’t you?”
“Not even the dragons trained this hard back then, you’re really an insane girl, Sylphy…” Sighed Ignatius. “But I guess that was rewarded.”
“Rewarded?”
Ding!
[The Level of [Agriculture: Lv5] has increased to Level 6!]
“Oohh, it increased in level again, nice! Maybe at the end of the week it can reach Level 10? It only needs three more levels…” I said. “I should start gaining some proficiency right now!”
“Wait a bit! Hold on right there, since I gave you this damn power, you’re working way harder than usual, come on, go to eat and then you’re going to sleep until tomorrow.” Said Alice. “And no buts!”
Alice had grown attached to me a lot more, and she was also naturally worried about my health, that was fine, I understood her, but I hate wasting time! I wanted to train more… And it is just very easy so I should still do it while I can… But maybe this is a bit too much, perhaps I should take a break until tomorrow. It is already night by now, probably around 8 PM? So I should just go to eat something and enjoy the rest of the night sleeping leisurely.
“Okay, you’re right, maybe I should take it easy…” I said, as I jumped out of the bed and walked towards the dining room, which was just a big tent, so I guess dining tent. On the way there, I began to think about how good the Agriculture Skill could get if I reached Level 10. And what other Skills could emerge after it reached Level 10 too? There should be something else that would show up afterwards, right? But what could it be? I wonder… Well, there’s no point wondering this so much, time to eat.
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