Kapitel 190: Increased difficulty (1)
Two weeks have passed since Valeria had that little confrontation during work. And from what I heard from Navi there was another escalation a couple of days ago.
I personally didn't even notice since I was in a dungeon at the time. Since I don't have any real customers at the moment I'm not even affected. I can just continue to level up by killing adventurers in dungeons.
The past two weeks have been very beneficial for me.
Status Jade Lv. 30 sanguine snake
Mp 10+39+195
Strength 3+39+10
Constitution 3+39+4
Speed 6+39+9
Magic ability 5+39+10
Skills:
universal humanoid language, universal monster language, dungeon map, thermal detection
Sanguine bite lv. 5; blood-stealing constriction lv. 3; weak sanguine venom lv. 8; enhanced stamina lv. 5; sanguine boost lv. 3; stealth lv.4; energy fang lv.7; hardened scales lv.4; tail whip lv.3; heat resistance lv.3; blood magic lv.4; group fight tactics lv.1; digestion of the great serpent lv.1; venom spray lv.1
Spending so much time fighting and killing in the dungeons my level has hit its peak and I'm ready to evolve. Most of my skills have also experienced a tremendous rise especially once I figured out more optimal ways to use them.
Let's take weak sanguine venom that is currently my highest level skill. I managed to raise it all the way from level 3 to 8 by changing the way I attacked.
Before I attacked a single adventurer and killed them by relying on blood-stealing constriction to outlast them. And while that did work it was first of all painful and second of all inefficient.
Subsequently, I found out that my weak sanguine venom was most potent when given time to work. A wound touched by it would keep bleeding for extended periods of time. On a side note, I learned to spray my venom into the air and also apply the effect to wounds made by others or those I made using my energy fangs.
With the unstoppable bleeding in effect, I can just keep chipping away at the enemies until they all lose strength and die of either blood loss or my fatal attacks that they fail to defend against.
To increase my array of mid-ranged and controlling abilities I also managed to create another spell for my blood magic.
I call it blood copy. The spell allows me to create a similarly shaped copy of myself out of blood and have it perform basic movements.
The copy's offensive capabilities are laughable but in darker dungeons, the adventurers have trouble distinguishing between me and a blood copy. That makes it possible for me to launch sneak attacks and bait adventurers into showing openings for me to exploit.
My fighting style has become a bit more insidious particularly considering my heavy use of my venom.
I'm hoping that through my evolution I will be capable of amassing even more power putting me in the perfect position to get my revenge.
<Considering what you just said I have good news and potentially upsetting news.>
Give me the bad news then.
<Don't call them bad news! That's so pessimistic.>
I prefer to call it realistic. After all, you are phrasing it that way on purpose, aren't you?
<Have it your way if you must. Your targets for revenge hadn't entered dungeons for a while now so I looked into them. They got quite the fortune and seem to have all become stronger along with better classes.>
How much stronger and what are their classes?
<I'm afraid I don't have an answer for you yet. They are part of a bigger adventuring party now and their information isn't made public. I asked a member of our branch store to look into their statuses but that will take some time.>
How did they even get to enter such a party? And what is that fortune you were talking about? They should have barely escaped that armored lizard and lost most of their gear.
<That's pretty accurate. However, there is one part you didn't consider. This is the part I would label as potentially upsetting.>
Hit me with it.
<Your father got wind of what happened and to "avoid dishonor from your, as he calls it, ignoble death" he had the three change the story.>
That bastard!
<Don't be upset. At least you now died buying time for your companions by facing a shadow drake. An epic tale of sacrifice and honor befitting of a former member of the kings family.>
Shut up Navi! Being made into something I am not, pisses me off much more than dying the way I did.
<How about we continue to the good news. Maybe they will cheer you right back up?>
Unless it's something that can raise my level to match those pricks I don't think so.
<It can't directly raise your level but it will allow you to grow stronger.>
Stop baiting me! Tell me or don't.
<One of the monsters we employ here has gained a new skill just yesterday. I don't think you've met yet. Ptormiea is a monolith shaman born in the halls of determination.>
Spare me the introductions and get to the part that benefits me. What's the skill... she got?
<Her new skill allows her to show you what options of evolution you have and then you can even choose it. Like in a game.>
How much can the skill tell me about my evolution choices?
<About that. The skill is only level one so it does is show the names of any potential evolutions you have access to. Not to worry though, we have a large database to help you... guess.>
Just guess?
Humans turned monsters tend to divert from the known path of evolution pretty quickly. You did so the moment you started your second life by mutating.
And while we are trying to run some experiments on your species these things take time.
Wöchentlicher Energiestatus
-- Power-
Rangliste 
-- Power-
Stein