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Chapter 37: Chapter 37

Darius raised his head and inspected the Troll's remaining health as well as his own.

[Blue Troll - Level 8 Monster

HP: 22/89 MP: 10/12]

[Darius Stone - Level 3 Itemancer

HP: 65/70 MP: 73/75]

So he had only suffered slight damage from that rebound. The Troll was far worse off than him, but when it turned to face him with its club in hand while Darius was still cringing over his bleeding and trembling hands, their circumstances seemed to be the reverse.

Darius sighed and suppressed the pain. His first mistake had been being arrogant enough to believe himself to be a master of close combat after learning one skill with the term 'Basic' in it.

What were his classes? Itemancer and Magus. As a Magus, what was he doing swinging a spear in close combat against a Troll which was a monster that excelled in close combat?

Darius removed a Common Health Potion and drank it. Its effect of recovering 25 HP was definitely overkill, but he no longer had anything weaker than that at the moment.

His hands were immediately healed by a small reddish light and he felt all his pain bleed away. The Troll, noticing Darius' actions, roared in anger and activated another one of its skills, which was Mad Charge.

As if it had used a drug to enhance its velocity, it moved from where it stood to where Darius did at a speed a normal person would not be able to follow. Luckily, Darius' heightened Intellect allowed his mind to react faster than his body.

The moment the Troll had braced its legs, he had foreseen what it was trying to do. As such, he quickly stabbed the butt of his spear into the ground at an inclined angle to create a makeshift trap and rolled out of the way.

The Troll noticed the spear too late and could not dodge even if it wanted to at this current speed. Its torso collided with the spear where it was easily pierced through from one end to the other.

The monster groaned in agony and crashed against a tree heavily, further exacerbating its critical state. It tried many times to rise but could not muster the strength to do so as it bled profusely over the earth.

Darius panted slightly and observed the battlefield quietly. Many trees were ruined and the area looked like… well, it looked like a Troll had gone on a rampage.

Minus the corpse of the unfortunate lioness, the area was seemingly clear. Darius understood that the battle with this Troll had been noisy and was bound to attract attention.

There might be predators or third parties waiting in the shadows to profit off their conflict. Of course Darius would account for such a thing as he had usually been the very same third party back on Earth.

However, Darius had overlooked the fact that beasts and monsters were less sapient than humans. They took territory and trespassing very seriously, and no monster or beast would dare intrude upon the known territory of a Blue Troll for fear of ending up just as the lioness had.

As such, Darius focused on the struggling monster whose HP was down to the single digits now. He wished to extract more data to fill his Bestiary so he placed his spear into his Inventory and cast Ember.

The fiery expulsion lanced the torso of the weakened Blue Troll, making it scream in agony as it reacted quite strongly. The fear in its eyes shifted from one of death to one of fire.

Darius touched his chin lightly. 'So from this, it's clear that such monsters are weak to fire and fear it greatly. But is it spells in general or fire in particular?'

Darius cast Sparks on the monster and watched it become electrocuted. After shuddering greatly, it lay there, unmoving and on the brink of death. Darius was sure it had about 1 HP at this point.

However, its eyes showed the fear of death and not of electricity, despite the trauma it had been put through earlier. This pleased Darius as he had found a possible racial weakness of the Blue Trolls.

He then withdrew his iron dagger and slid it lightly across the Blue Troll's hide. He noticed that unlike his iron spear, his dagger was unable to cut too deeply into its skin when slashed.

Darius then tried to pierce it but was only able to get a surface wound despite his Strength. It was not because the iron dagger was of poor quality, but because the Troll itself seemed resistant to slashing and piercing from small weapons.

That was another important fact to learn. Had Darius chosen the path of a rogue of sorts, he would have been put six feet under for sure. Quite the chilling thought.

With a sigh, the fellow struck the Blue Troll dead by ramming his dagger into its eye, and it twitched its last before becoming limp. Darius then stood over it and pondered how to deal with this carcass.

It was as obvious as day that the carcass of a monster was much more valuable than that of a beast. A hunter could kill a beast, but a monster could only be killed by an adventurer.

Even most soldiers of Andrato Kingdom likely could not face monsters. Even he himself had been sorely unequipped to deal with a monster head-on. Darius had no illusions about how he had won this fight, it was all through his initial surprise attack.

He had maximized his early battle damage as much as he could and that ended up saving his life. Had he encountered this beast while it was strutting about leisurely, he would have been forced to run or turned into meat paste.

With a sigh, he passed a hand through his hair and just kept the entire carcass into his Inventory. When he reached a town, he could find a way to deal with its existence.

Darius ignored the body of the lioness as it was not valuable to him in any realistic way and left the forest. He maintained his trajectory towards the river he had crossed yesternight, but took time to check his spoils of war after his adrenaline cooled off from the intense battle.


Chapter 38: Chapter 38

[You have gained 5,140 EXP, 1 Berserk Potion, and 3 House Portal Scrolls.]

Darius was not excited per se. He had already calculated as much before he battled the Troll. Its level had been 8 and his had been 3. So far, the theme with experience gain had been that for every level higher than the user, the base experience would be multiplied by four.

Killing something on the same level as himself was 5 EXP, 1 level higher was 20 EXP, 2 levels higher was 80 EXP, 3 levels higher was 320 EXP, 4 levels higher was 1,280 EXP whereas 5 levels higher was 5,120 EXP. The reason the notification had an extra 20 was due to the death of the level 4 Plains Lioness through his Sparks spell.

Darius then scrolled past his level up notices.

[You have leveled up! You are now level 4. You have gained 5 Ability Points and 3 Skill Points to spend as you wish!]

[You have leveled up! You are now level 5. You have gained 5 Ability Points and 3 Skill Points to spend as you wish!]

[You have leveled up! You are now level 6. You have gained 5 Ability Points and 3 Skill Points to spend as you wish!]

[You have leveled up! You are now level 7. You have gained 5 Ability Points and 3 Skill Points to spend as you wish!]

[You have leveled up! You are now level 8. You have gained 5 Ability Points and 3 Skill Points to spend as you wish!]

[You have leveled up! You are now level 9. You have gained 5 Ability Points and 3 Skill Points to spend as you wish!]

[You have leveled up! You are now level 10. You have gained 5 Ability Points and 3 Skill Points to spend as you wish!]

[You have leveled up! You are now level 11. You have gained 5 Ability Points and 3 Skill Points to spend as you wish!]

Straight up to level 11, wow! Darius was now more excited as he got a wealth of Ability and Skill Points to spend. However, what excited him more was the level increase, as he had been banking on that to enact the next phase of his plan.

Without personal strength, trying to act out phase 3 would be tantamount to suicide, especially given his lack of information. With this though, he needn't worry as much once he was done allocating all his points.

As such, Darius opened his Character menu and gazed at it solemnly. He fiddled with the modifiers for a bit before confirming his point allocation.

[Name: Darius Stone

Race: Human

Class: Itemancer

Sub-class: Magus

HP: 150/150

MP: 550/550

Level: 11

Experience: 60/1100

Strength: 15

Agility: 12

Endurance: 10

Intellect: 50

Charisma: 15

Luck: 20

AP: 0

SP: 0

Skills: Analyze - Lv.6, Skinning - Lv.1, Butchery - Lv.1, Cooking - Lv.1, Washing - Lv.1, Basic Lancer Arts - Lv.4

Spells: Sparks - Lv.20, Ember - Lv.4]

Darius allocated everything without holding back at all. 40 Ability Points and 24 Skill Points were spread out amongst his stats and skills, greatly increasing their values.

The first thing he noticed was his progressively higher EXP requirement to level up. It was now 1,100 for level 11, it seemed the trend was to add two zeroes behind his current level.

Seemed simple enough until he considered that it compiled on itself per level. Another question Darius had to ask himself was if he could kill a level 16 monster as easily as he had done with the Blue Troll?

That was a troublesome question, which directly reflected his choices in point allocation all around. Darius had learned what his strengths and weakness were in combat as well as what he had to focus on.

He had brought up his Strength from 7 points to 15, practically doubling it. Now that he was above the average threshold, he should be able to do some respectable damage next time he decided to wield a spear again.

Darius felt as if his body had been suddenly packed with muscles, but no visible changes had occurred to his body. He felt like he had just performed the workout of his life and was feeling supremely pumped as a result.

Darius had also increased his Agility by 2 points. The fight with the Troll had proven that it was not an unimportant stat, so he had used the leftover from his other choices.

Like before, he felt the difference immediately. It was always as if some gravitational force was trying to crush him into the planet, yet the pressure on him lightened slightly with each point.

His Endurance was left untouched, but his Intellect received the majority of his Ability points, doubling from 25 to 50 in one go!

He fell to his knees as he clutched his head. There was no pain, just intensity. It felt as if his mind had previously been like a dirty corridor full of debris that was cleaned up by a professional company.

With so much space and new passageways, things were able to move faster and more efficiently. Things he had struggled to recollect even with eidetic memory were becoming clearer and clearer.

He even felt the inkling of his mind power reaching out to the world around him, trying to establish a connection to things outside his brain. Unfortunately, it was weak and short, unable to make a firm connection, but at least it was there.

Darius guessed that 50 was an important threshold for stats like 10 had been. The change in his mind was more than just a simply strengthening, as it experienced an overall qualitative leap.

The system seemed to agree with him on this, as it produced what Darius felt was the hardest evidence to back his assumptions.

[Congratulations! You have reached 50 points in Intellect and have acquired the ability: Mind Power.]

[Mind Power - Basic Ability

Cost: 10 mana per second

Description: You are a budding psychic, able to gather the sheer power of your mental faculties in focus and lead it outward to affect the world around you. However, it takes a great toll on your mind and mana at this current stage. ]


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