章 20: Chapter 19: Rewards...

[Ding!]

[Two Cultivation manuals, Black furred battle cloak, Jur'l(Great sword)]

Seeing the items that now laid before him, Alex felt his blood boiling like crazy.

He had been fretting on how to get a cultivation Manual, a way to increase his power rating more effectively besides evolving. Back in the Novel 'Heaven's Fall', this cultivation techniques were treated like National treasures, family heirlooms and so on, depending on its grade. Nations wedged war against each other for this same reason.

This things were graded from 1-star cultivation technique to 8-stars, with 8-star techniques being the best. Unfortunately, an 8-star technique was only vaguely mentioned in the novel a few times and there were no named users.

Even the protagonist only managed to luckily get his hands on 7-star technique, when he had lead an army against the Umbra House of shadows, and even that had been at latter part of the Novel.

'It's just unfortunate that I couldn't finish the book...haaa' Alex sighed, his joy was that he was close to the ending of the book at least.

he then inspected the manuals.

The first one was [HEART MANTRA 3-star],

Opening the book, Alex read its description out loud,

"Using sacred utterances to first build up ones heart with mana, only then can the body be sound..."

when he was done reading, he couldn't help smiling,

From what he could get here, There are a total of 7 levels in the 'HEART MANTRA]. Successfully practicing the first level adds 1000 points to your power rating. The following level adds 2000 points and the next being 3000 etc, so by the time you complete the full Mantra, you would have 28,000 points added to your base stats.

This was why cultivation were highly sort after, Having even the simplest ones placed you on a different league!.

For example, if one were to complete this mantra at the order of the first circle, you could hold your own against a normal third circle evolved who has no cultivation technique, although it might not guarantee your win, it at least you could guarantee your escape.

And this was only a three star manual.

Completing this in a short time was easier said than done though, So it's best to practice cultivation along side evolution.

While all this was going through Alex's mind, he inspected the second one with a tinge of excitement in his eyes and couldn't help frowning in confusion.

For some reason, the system specifically wrote 'Bound to Alexander Radwell', which was the name of his former self. So Alex observed this manual carefully, but he then found something else that was weird!,

He couldn't see a thing on this book!!!.

'System, could it be that you're trying to play a prank here?' Alex asked in shock but got no answer in return, so he rephrased his question.

'why is the book blank with nothing but <Bound to Alexander Radwell>?'

[Any manual above the level of 5-stars would be bound to the host's soul...]

[It is Blank due to your Evolution Circle being too low to perceive what is written on it].

"T..this" Alex suddenly had mixed feelings, He felt happy to know the manual was above 5-star but aggrieved that he couldn't use it yet.

"So what circle of evolution do I need to be to perceive it's content"

[Minimum Level required- Order of the third circle.]

'hmm...how come this wasn't a problem when Davis found the 7-star technique?' Alex could only wonder but then he came to a conclusion,"Could this be an 8-star manual?!".

But then he shot down that idea as well, 'No!...perhaps,it was because he was already at a high level then.'

"Haaa...I can only keep it aside for now." with that thought, he turned towards the Black furred cloak.

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[Black furred Tyrant Cloak]

Defense rating: C+

+500 power rating.

+5% charm.

Intimidation(Passive skill): Releases an aura that reduces the basic stats of your enemies by 3%.

Reduces basic stats by additional 20% If the Opponent is in a shocked state.

Reduces basic stats by additional 13% if the Opponent is in a 'Fear state'.

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When Alex saw this details he put it on immediately, as he began to make calculations on the Cloak would be useful while looking at his personal stats, now he was wearing the cloak.

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Name:Torug BlackMoon(Alex Radwell)

Race: Great Orc

Level: 14(Order of the First circle)

Power rating: 4130

Alignment: Chaotic Evil

Titles: Savage, Orhani(Unknown Soul)

Equipment: Yol'n(Battle Axe), Black furred Tyrant Cloak(Cloak)

Skills:

[Leap(Uncommon)Lv1 - Apply force to ones legs and Jump through the distance of 16 meters.(2/2) uses before cool down

Cast time: Instant.

Cool down: 6 secs

Orc's Charge(Common)Lv1- charge forward with the strength of a battering Ram for a 4 meter distance, causing 150% damage based on strength stats.

Cast time: 2secs

Cool down: 5 minutes.

Racial skills:

Sigil(Unique) Lv1 - A tattoo allowed to only those of the Great Orc path. Stands as It's Identity and a way to know his followers.(Passive)

Effect:

Personal: Adds 5% bonus to ones stats at level one

Horde: Adds 2% bonus to their base stats.]

Intimidation(-): A natural Suppressive aura against creatures of a lower evolution realm. (Passive)

Savage(Title skill): grants a temporary 2 minutes sanity debuff for 15% damage when activated.

Side effects- Lowers intelligence by 50% when active

70% weakness after use for 13 hours.]

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He noticed his power rating actually went up by 500, this made him really happy as he was now sure that not just stats and manuals increased power rating, equipment too had the possibility to do so as well.

'I should see if this was the same for the others too,perhaps gift this sword to Urim'. With that thought, Alex eyed the Black great sword before him...

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[Jur'l(Great sword)]

Weapon type: Damaged Magic Weapon.

Damage: 18-22

+200 power rating

Effect 1: Due to the amount of Ice mana Crystals used during it's forging period, it developed a freezing effect that slows down opponents by 1% each successful strike.

Effect can be stacked up to six times.

Effect 2: When Effect has been stacked for up to two times, Opponent becomes affected by the Swords Frigid aura.

Interrupts Opponents actions for 0.9 seconds after every 6 second for a duration of 18 seconds before it's reset once again.

This Sword was a failed copy of the original Jur'l, Made by Coltan The God of crafting in a bid to gain favour from the ruler of Seas, Goddess Milen but ultimately failed.

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"Hiss....Good sword!!" Alex drew cold breath as he looked at it's effects, "and this was even a failed product!, I wonder what the Original is like...must be a Legendary weapon, Haa I can almost feel sorry for the Crafting God"

"But I still feel, the Axe would be better as long as I unlock it's seal further... luckily the sword adds to Ones power rating, I'll just test my theory now...Urim's the best candidate" He got up from the Bamboo bed while heading outside.

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"Once again Brother surprises me!" Urim thought with a toothy grin while admiring the village under the moonlight.

"So much...I think he called it 'wonders?'"

The moon shined down on Black moon village as though it was setting up a stage for a play, torches were lit across the houses even though it wasn't really needed. Dabok said it would make the village look great, Urim couldn't help but agree with him right now.

Everyone was still up an about, Indistinct chatter could be heard from across the village as they all seemed happy, especially the new clan members.

"It's better than when Olog was Chieftain..." Urim murmured with a frown as he thought of the chubby Orc. While he was busy with his own thoughts, He suddenly felt an intimidating aura from behind...