Gamer Reborn Novel Chapter 51

Chapter 51

Explaining to Hatchet all that had happened with the dragon went a lot soother than he expected. He just listened to everything without once interrupting. He did give a rather interesting glance at the gloves once he explained what they were, how they worked and that he totaled the area by trying so of his weaker moves.

“So you're telling

that you saved a disguised dragonling while in the city and as thanks for that its mother made you a pair of enchanted gloves?” his tone sounded exasperated.

“Yeah, pretty much” I answered.

“I think it’s a good thing you are going to beco an adventurer once you decide to spend your stat points, don’t think the village will survive you staying.” he mumbled under his breath. “ On the upside these will at least let you be sowhat safe around here without always having a minder.”

With that explanation out of the way he told

to move a little further away from the village and continue my “demolition” so that other hunters wouldn’t stumble upon . They had beco rather jealous of us since with Hatchet's high level we tended to venture out further and actually find sothing to hunt, they would be quick to share news of my magic for a reward.

Getting used to the gloves was not all that difficult, I did learn that so of my tricks were best not put through the glove. The first ti I tried to speed myself up by using the earth to give

a boost I launched myself into a tree. Right now with the values of my physical stats any enhancent that affected

directly was best used without the gloves amplification.

The impact from the tree was mitigated by the shield, it was the big bruise on my left leg that let

know that my magic still followed so of the rules of physics. Any push that launched

forward had to be withstood by my own legs.

After a week of playing around with my new boost in power Hatchet decided that I was finally ready to go by myself for a little while. This didn’t an that I would go all by myself out in the forest, simply that we could now split up to cover more ground while staying in range to call for help. Though if he was calling for help it ant either he needed so healing after a bad fight or I should go start the evacuation.

On the third ti we split up I found myself a small group of kobolds. They must have survived the raid on their camp and retreated towards the caves before being scared back in this direction by the salamanders that forced them out in the first place. There were only three of them which made this a good change for

to fight sothing that could give

a challenge.

I took aim and infused a shadow arrow to start and fired at the one holding a staff. I wasn’t ready for a fight including magic coming at

so I had to take that one out first. The arrow was fully covered in a thin dark mbrane and flew silently right on target. My adage of [Piercing Shot] ant that the headshot was an instant kill.

Unlike any of the other pack creatures I had hunted before kobolds were at least sowhat intelligent and proficient in tool use. This ant that while they had no way of noticing the arrow approaching, once it landed they could figure out where it ca from by the angle it hit their companion.

This quick thinking was the first thing that made

realize that these kobolds were different from the ones I had seen the past year. Their size was a bit bigger and bulkier, but a quick [Judge Threat] on them told

they were a lot stronger than the mage I had just taken out. These were the elites that had tried to retreat when the army took out their base.

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The armored one of the two charged towards . It not only used mana to speed itself very similarly to what I did, I could also feel his mana core infuse his whole body with mana. While this seed a bit costly to do, the effect was sothing that I had been searching for. Mana strengthening, I had been trying for a while to figure out how I could use mana to boost my physical strength and I finally had an example.

I pulled as much mana as I could through the glove into the sword and launched a quick wind slice towards the kobolds neck. My use of mana clearly caught it by surprise, as did the power boost from the gauntlet as the strike took its head clean off its shoulders.

The down side for

was that I hadn’t thought through everything when I launched my attack. Sure my opponent was dead the mont I took his head off, the problem was that a clean cut with a wind slice provided no stopping power. All the montum the kobold used to launch himself at

was still pushing his corpse forwards and the headless body slamd

into the tree at my back.

Quite a bit of blood got on

at this point when I saw the last kobold pick up the staff of its fallen comrade. I hadn’t thought of the possibility of there being two caster, even worse [Judge Threat] marked this one as being the strongest of the two. I didn’t want to give it a chance to launch a spell so I tried to copy the mana enhancent.

As mana filled my body so did the most excruciating pain I have felt. The only thing that could compare to it was when the vampire ripped my arm off. Luckily I had started with only a small amount of mana so that I would be in control of my body depending on the boost. The pain dissipated as quickly as it ca, I sagged down and breathed a sigh of relief. Sothing had definitely gone wrong there.

I felt the earth shift under

as it wrapped around my feet. This kobold clearly knew what it was doing. Instead of going for a big attack it first went to snare

in place. Funnily enough my own stupidity did the sa thing, so had it gone for an attack it would have most likely landed it.

I tried using my own earth manipulation to free myself but for the first ti my attempts did nothing. Even with the boost from the gauntlet I couldn’t overpower the kobold with the boost from his own staff. I was also running out of ti as I saw a ball of fire blaze to life in front of the staff.

Feeling out of options I went to the last thing I could try. I used [Mana Syphon] to remove the mana keeping the earth strong around my legs. The feeling that ca with it was surprising, not only did I manage to break myself free from the earth but I also rolled completely out of the way of the fireball. A quick look at my own body with [Mana Sense] told

that I was in a similar state to the second kobold for a quick mont there. I had sohow enhanced my body using mana.

The annoyed snarl coming from the kobold broke

out of my reverie, I could go about pondering and testing things after I dealt with him and I was no longer in danger. I drew a second arrow in my bow and infused it with air. I didn’t need the stealth provided by shadow so I went for penetration.

The arrow made quick work of the kobold much like the first. At the sa ti I felt the earth grip

again. The kobold had gone for a repeat of the first attack, hoping to pin

in place for a second fireball most likely. One that he will never get to launch now.

Instead of quickly freeing myself I instead tried to enhance my body with my own mana once more. This ti I focused the enhancent only on one arm just in case it had the sa outco. That proved to be a wise choice as I felt the agony shoot up my arm. Despite using the sa thod as the kobold mana enhancent didn’t seem to work like this for .

My second test consisted of using [Mana Syphon] to free myself once more. This ti however I not only syphoned the mana at a much slower rate but I also looked carefully at the process with [Mana Sense]. I could clearly see the mana in the earth change as it got absorbed into . Once there I felt myself enhanced once again.

The enhancent was also weaker than it was the first ti, it did however last through the syphoning process and an instant more after it finished. This was an odd discovery, could I only enhance myself in a fight against another mage?

As a test I used [Expel Mana] to release a small amount of my mana into the area around . I then used [Mana Syphon] to draw it all back in. I could see my mana change as it got sucked back into my body. I’m not sure how my legendary skill works but it clearly doesn’t take the mana to top up my own reserves. As the new mana drew into my body I felt myself grow stronger and faster once more.

This was a great discovery, though the fact that it took quite a bit of my focus just to use [Mana Syphon] ant that I was not ready to use this in combat on my own mana, it was a starting point. Hopefully in the future I would be able to subconsciously use both [Expel Mana] and [Mana Syphon] together to keep myself enhanced.

The excitent filling

up spent

along to loot the kobolds and continue my patrol. Starting tomorrow my training is going to change once more.