บท 338: Skills
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The group traveled outside the town, searching for magical beasts or demons to slay and level up. Soon, they ran into a group of giant toads.
"Perfect," said Filius before rushing to a nearby tree and jumping in one of the branches. Despite his short stature, he was pretty nimble. He took out his bow and arrow:
"Snipe."
The arrow streaked across the sky before penetrating the head of the frog. The ground shook slightly as the enormous beast dropped to the ground.
"Weird. I really do not need to aim; it's all based on luck."
Filius aimed in a direction without any frogs. But to his surprise, one suddenly jumped from afar and landed in front of his arrow. Not convinced, Filius shot on the opposite side of the frogs.
However, the wind blew, changing the direction of his arrow a full 180 degrees before hitting another frog.
"Is this the power of luck? It could be an interesting form of magic."
While Filius lamented the strangeness of his job class, the others also began their hunt for the frogs. With her knight armor, Lily rushed to the nearest frog and sliced it into two parts. Then, she ran toward another one, jumped into the frog's head to avoid its weird tongue attack, and pierced its brain.
Hermione was the same as her. The adventurer class had no skills at the beginning, so she had to rely on her previous skills. She had two thin swords designed for speed and agility, so she rushed to the nearest toad.
Swoosh!
The frog looked at her in puzzlement. Then, an x-shaped mark appeared on his body before he was divided into four pieces. She was about to kill another frog when she felt light covering her body, and her strength suddenly increased.
She looked at Fleur and smiled."Is this the Powered Spell? Not bad." Then, she continued her rampage of slaughtering the frogs.
Meanwhile, Fleur had a frown. She received a small amount of XP since she did not kill any frogs, heal anyone, or even help in the battle. After all, her teammate did not need her boost.
Priests only have a few ways they can fight, and most of their leveling up and Skill Point acquisition came from fighting undead; she did not want to wait nor use the barbaric way of close combat. So, Fleur skimmed through the list of skills she could learn.
This world focused heavily on talent. Based on a person's natural talent, they will get more Skill Points when hunting, learning skills require fewer points, and leveling up is easier. Some people will not even get a list of all their classes' skills or spells after changing their job classes.
Only the talented ones will. The others must wait until they reach a certain level before these skills appear in their adventure cards.
Fortunately, the group's talent was the pinnacle of this world, if not more. So, Fleur used her meager point to learn the spell [Reflect]. Then, she said to Hermione:
"Can you use a sword slash toward me?"
Although puzzled, Hermione agreed. She concentrated on her newly acquired skill [Aura] and slashed with her sword. A green sword slash traveled toward Fleur, who immediately used the Reflect Spell.
However, she did not deflect the attack toward Hermione but controlled it toward the nearest toads, dividing it into two. She looked at her adventure card and realized she had acquired a lot more XP and skill points.
So, using this method, she acquired enough points to purchase the skill called [Puppet]. She used it to control the action of one of the frogs, forcing it to hunt its own kind.
Snape looked at the frog and front of him and said: "Tinder."
A small flame appeared in his hand, and he frowned. No matter how much mana he input into the spell, the fire did not get bigger than an egg. And even Fleur's buff did not seem to increase the power of the flame, but Snape guessed it might boost the damage it could cause upon impact.
'This world's magic system is easy to use and become stronger, but there are too many restrictions. The basic magic is mostly useless.'
While in thought, he moved his head slightly to dodge the tongue of the frog before three small tinders appeared in front of him. Two of them entered the frog's eyes and the other into his mouth, burning it from the outside and inside.
He looked at another frog and chanted: "Create Water."
Water appeared from his wand, and bathed the frog. "Freeze." The water turned into ice, turning the frog into a popsicle.
"I can't remember the last time I had to chant for spell casting. How embarrassing," muttered Snape before focusing on his next target. He used the tinder spell once again. However, he did not use it to burn his opponent. Instead, he controlled the flame to flight at a breakneck speed, essentially using the flame as a bullet.
If any caster were here, they would be shocked at how versatile Snape used basic spells. After killing a few more frogs, he had enough Skill Points to learn a few intermediate spells, so he chose [Fireball] and [Paralyze].
"Fireball," chanted Snape as he looked at a flame the size of a tennis ball. He increased his mana input, and the size increased to that of a basketball.
"Well, at least intermediate spells are more malleable, but there seems to be a limit still."
Then, he would make the frogs unable to move before burning them with the Fireball Spell. However, after realizing this method took longer than his previous tactic, he focused on using tinder to kill more frogs.
After a few more tries, he no longer needed to chant to cast the spells, as his proficiency in the spells had risen on its own. Suddenly, he had an idea, and a wicked idea came to his mind.
He looked in the direction of his wife, who was having fun slashing frogs with her sword. He watched her from the corner of his eyes to prevent her senses from detecting him.
When she rushed toward another frog, Snape used the Double Casting Skills he had recently developed. He instantly created a pool of water and froze it. And the frozen pool was located on Lily's exact footing, making her slip and fall.
Things went so fast and unexpected that she did not have time to react. What's worse is that she fell right in front of the frog. Then, the enormous beast swallowed her.
Swish! She cut her away from inside the beast's body. Unfortunately, she was now completely covered in slime from the frog's mucous. She looked at Snape in anger, but the latter was on laughing.
Furthermore, he took out an old fashion camera and started to take pictures. Looking at his wife in armor, covered in slime, Snape could only say one of his fantasies was fulfilled today.
At first, Lily was angry, but after seeing Snape's pure smile and laughter, she also began to laugh at herself. Then, she began to pose for him, not even minding the disgusting slime.
"Hem, can you two love birds leave your kinky activities for your private time," said Fleur. Immediately, Snape returned to his stoic face, pretending nothing had occurred.
"Your highness, there is no need to be jealous. The Emperor will arrive soon so that you won't be lonely for long," Lily replied before spinning around like a tornado to send away all the slime on her body.
"Do you want to fight?"
"Are you sure?"
Then, fleur remembered the situation she was in. With her Arc Priestess Class, she could barely fight. And she doubted her Succubus's Bloodline would affect Lily with its restraint in this dimension.
So, she snorted before ignoring her.
Meanwhile, Hermione slashed another frog with a weird look on her face. She would never imagine in her life she would see Professor Snape, of all people, acting in such a manner.
And considering that Lily was the mother of one of his closest friends back in Hogwarts…She shook his head to ignore the absurdity of the entire situation.
"The frogs are completely gone. Let's hunt other creatures. We have three days to earn enough points to learn all the skills in our classes."
So, they rushed to exterminate all life in the surrounding few kilometers. The group targeted them, whether it was lizard runners, giant worms, unicorn bunnies, or undead.
With their stamina and Aura skill, they could run faster than most carriages and not be tired. So, they covered quite the distance in a short time. In the end, they had to stop because something had occurred.
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บท 339: Undead Empress
"Oh, blackness shrouded in light,
Frenzied blaze clad in the night,
In the name of the crimson demons,
let the collapse of thine origin manifest.
Summon before me the root of thy power hidden within the lands
of the kingdom of demise!
Explosion!"
Boom!
A terrifying explosion like a nuclear bomb devastated the area, killing all the unicorn rabbits and destroying the forest they habited. The shockwave of the attack created a powerful wind, making the group's hair and robes float.
With a bashing red face, Snape turned to look at his wife holding a camera. "Are you happy now?"
"Yes, seeing you do chuunibyou things brings great joy to me."
Snape rolled his eyes before embracing her and walking toward the other.
"Has Filius not come back?" asked Lily.
"No, he just sent news to leave him alone to his adventure," Hermione replied, looking at Fleur, who squatted in front of a corpse.
"Did you find something?"
"A few things, actually," she replied before pointing her hand at the half-mutilated corpse and saying: "Revive." Then, the body of the unicorn rabbit rapidly regenerated. Its bones, organs, and skin regrew at speed visible to the naked eye. Lastly, its soul was summoned from the afterlife and fused with its body.
"Back home, reviving someone is a long and arduous process. Whether it is to heal the body, summon the soul and fuse it with the body. All these actions are separate steps that require much effort and a lot of resources.
"However, this [Revive Spell] combined all these steps into one and drastically reduced the resources needed. The question is whether it will work for Arcanists of a certain Tier?"
She looked at everyone, "Who wants to die?"
"There is no point in us trying. We will get a Tier 6 clone and try it," said Hermione. "The real issue is whether the laws of our universe will allow such constant messing of life and death."
"Our Solar System has its own underworld; without Herpo's control, there should be no issue," replied Fleur. "The problem is beyond our star system."
"We also must consider the chaos that will ensue if the Empire has thousands if not more Arch Priests with the Revive Spell," added Lily.
"Indeed, we have to take preventive measures," said Hermione. "What about the other thing?"
"As Edward expected, the Arc Priest's spell [Purification] can indeed purify mana. But, the rate of conversation is atrocious."
"That goddess Aqua can use Sacred Purification, so she could be essential to helping us purify our mana and reach Tier 7."
"I can probably make a Mana Purification Potion with her spell as the ingredient," added Snape, who has been trying to come up with this potion for some time now.
"That's a good idea. Any other discoveries?" asked Hermione.
"We can translate some of the Arcane Runes Spells into skills with Skill Points, but there is a limit to the number of spells translated," said Snape.
"Speaking of limits, I discovered that all the job classes are a form of bloodline, and the limit of all the bloodlines is Tier 3, or level 60 in this world's level system.
"If we can recreate the magic system and how the entire dimension operates, the Empire will have a quick way to manufacture Tier 3 Arcanists."
The way this dimension operates is that as long as you kill any creature, you can level up and acquire higher stats, including mana.
"Lily, how did your experiment go?"
"It went well. The foreign magical beasts I summoned from the Floating City seemed to have been assimilated by the laws of this dimension. I killed one before assimilation and one after assimilation. And as you can guess, the one after assimilation gave me a lot of XP and allowed me to level up.
"However, I have no idea how the assimilation process works. Any idea?"
Everyone shook their heads, then Hermione said: "Edward theorized this dimension was based on the ability System Manipulation: its subcategory, Law Manipulation, to be precise."
A person with Law Manipulation ability could establish rules in a selected area. For example, they could make it that all battles are fought with sticks and stones. If someone tried other methods like guns or magic, they would not work or be punished.
Or that person could make a rule that you can only kill a person if you touch the back of their neck. Then, no matter how powerful that person or what Tier he is, he will die–unless the person with Law Manipulation is weak or their power has limitations.
"So, the rules are if you kill monsters, you can level up and acquire higher stats," said Snape. "This should be another form of Causality Manipulation. Well, System Manipulation and Law Manipulation are subcategories of Causality Manipulation anyway."
"We can use this direction to investigate this dimension and discover its mystery and try to replicate it," said Hermione before looking in a direction. Someone was coming.
Soon, Luna showed up, accompanied by two other adventurers that looked like bodyguards.
"Luna? What are you doing here?"
"I'm sorry, but I'm here on the order of the Guild Master."
"Is something wrong?"
"The Guild Master asked your party to please stop hunting."
"Why? Isn't it a good thing to clean these dangerous creatures?"
Luna smiled in embarrassment. "Normally, that would be the case. However, your party has hunted too many magical beasts to the point of disrupting the ecosystem in the surrounding towns.
"Furthermore, the guild relied on these creatures to give quests and ensure adventures have a somewhat stable income. Your actions have disrupted this, making countless people unable to make a living."
Hermione pondered briefly, "If you put it this way, we are indeed at fault. Do you want us to help you fix the problem?"
"No need. People from the headquarters will come to deal with the issue."
"One last question: Can we still take other quests?"
"As long as it is the high-level ones, the guild has no problem."
"Very well. Severus, let's go."
Snape nodded his head before using the spell [Teleport]. A flash of light enveloped the group, and they disappeared, leaving a shock Luna.
"They could have offered me a ride home; I've come all the way here."
The group had bought an enormous castle outside of Axel Town to serve as their base. So, they teleported there to rest. For the next few days, they set up a laboratory with equipment from the Floating City. Luckily, 95% of these pieces of equipment worked with no problem, while the rest needed a few recalibrations, and only a minority stopped working altogether.
Then, the team visited a few places throughout the city. Hermione needed to learn a few skills from other classes, Like the Thief Skills, Assassin Skills, Magic Crafting Skills, Blacksmith Skills, and skills with job classes his group did not have.
Snape needed to learn how to make potions. He bought all the potion recipes available in Axel using a lot of money. Then, Fleur and Hermione headed to Wiz Magic Shop while Lily and Snape returned home to focus on the potions.
"Welcome, customers. How can I help you?" asked the Wiz with a smile. Fleur looked up and down at her.
"Besides the slightly pale complexion, she does not look like a Lich."
"W-w-what are you talking about? I'm not a Lich."
"There is no need to fluster," Hermione appeased her. "We are here just to learn some undead skills from you."
"Forget about that for now," suddenly said Fleur. "I just had a great idea. She would be a great addition to the harem."
Hermione nudged her, "What are you talking about?"
"We are trying to incorporate undead as citizens to the Empire. What a better way to show our position by making one of the Empress an undead."
"...You are right, but…."
"You should have noticed Edward's tone when he talked about her; it's obvious he is attracted to her. So, it's better to be proactive in the selection process."
Hermione sighed, "Alright."
Fleur smiled before taking out a photo.
"This is our husband. Handsome, isn't he? How would you like to become sisters with us?"
Wiz felt her head spinning as she could not understand what these people were talking about.
"Excuse me, I–"
"There is no need to answer immediately. We will tell you all about him. Then, you can decide."
The more Fleur looked at her, the more satisfied she was. Wiz was a peak Tier 3 Archwizard and a very talented one too. So, once she returned to the Empire, she would make a fine Arcanist.
"In terms of look, talent, and strength, you are a qualified Empress. The only issue I can notice is you're a little too soft and kind-hearted. Plus, your vulnerability to Holy Aura or Magic is a significant problem.
"However, we should be able to find a way to fix your problems in due time," said Hermione.
"I-I-I have not accepted yet," said Wiz in a low voice.
"You will," said Fleur.
While the two were chatting, the doorbell rang, and a few people walked in.
"Just in time; we planned to visit your group afterward."
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