Leif was halfway through constructing a hog pyramid when Sieg erged from the partially wrecked house. The spriggan had periodically checked on both sleeping humans every other hour.
Both n should be in peak physical condition, from what he could tell from their lack of wounds and restored lifeforce. But there was more to soone's well being than physical wounds.
Leif could still feel the ache in his very soul from the overuse of his skills. Speaking of skills… As Sieg sat down on a fallen log Leif looked through his current list in search of his next fusion.
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[Amber Blight Spriggan]
Gold Iron Physique / Amber Awareness / Blight’s Bounty / The Well Within II / Settle
[Noble]
Aura of Nobility I / Court Empath / Grand Action / Under My Protection / Legacy
[Brawler]
Grounded Stance I
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“What on earth are you doing?” Sieg asked.
“Looking at options for my next skill fusion.” He replied, still reading over the descriptions of each ability in turn. He noticed sothing odd about [Aura of Nobility] but chose to ignore it for now.
I don’t know what a note is, or how it got there, but it doesn’t seem important at the mont.
Sieg glanced at the orderly pile of sleeping hogs. “Right… listen, I owe you a whole lot. and Marcus both. If you need help with anything I promise to keep it between us.”
Leif closed his skill list. “What do you an?”
“People are usually very secretive with their attributes, classes and skills. Even at the Academy only the most basic information is freely available.”
The spriggan nodded, it made sense. If soone knew the ins and outs of your abilities they had a major advantage if it ca to a fight. “What about you, how can I help?”
“You’ve helped more than enough. I owe you more than you could know. Even if we lost most of the mana shards we still have a small fortune. I can finally promote my [Frost Slayer] class, I gained three whole levels from the craziness of the past few days. I’m almost level fifty now.
He took a deep breath, as if bringing himself back to reality. “I can barely believe it. I’m still shocked that we lived at all.” The two lapsed into silence, there was a lot to say, but very few words worth using.
“We survived.” Leif said simply.
“Fuck yeah we did.” Sieg snorted. “But again, it was thanks to you.”
“How about you tell how you chose what skills to fuse?” Leif asked, his golden eyes twinkling with amusent.
“Sure, no problem. Let's see… My latest fusion was the skills [Enlightened Reader] and [Encyclopedic Mind] into a skill called [Repository of Knowledge]. They were reading and mory enhancent skills respectively. Very useful to have at the Academy.”
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“What classes did they originate from?”
“That’s an easy question. Both were from my [Scholar] class. You wouldn’t believe how much class experience you get for [Scribe] in just a year at that place. I know that I didn’t, not until I saw the levels co flooding in. The class isn’t a requirent to attend, but pretty much everyone is offered it at so point if they do. Sothing about being in an academic environnt.”
“Is there a reason to not pick a class?” Leif inquired, genuinely curious.
“Many.” Sieg said. “Everyone has a class limit, it starts at two, then increases by one after the level twenty five bottleneck, and again at fifty. If you’ve filled your class slots with classes you can’t level, or have no synergy, you’re in trouble.”
He continued. “There are plenty of stories of young people picking two combat classes then realising they have to fight to gain levels. The opposite is sotis true, soone picking two technical classes and then realising they need to spend decades just levelling them to reach twenty five.”
“How many do you have?”
“Three total; [Frost Slayer], [Scholar] and [Sworn]. [Sworn] is an auxiliary class, inheritant, like your [Noble] class. But auxiliary classes don’t have slots like normal classes, instead you can only ever gain one of each type.”
This made Leif pause. So I can’t get another inheritant class because I have [Noble]? “Can you… Remove classes?”
“Technically, but it takes months, years if you have more than a few levels. The process is apparently incredibly painful and usually kills the person attempting it. You’re better off removing skills instead, but even that might cripple you for life.”
“Removing skills? To get below the advancent threshold?” Leif asked.
Sieg nodded. “Its grim work, the thod was discovered a few centuries back. Discovered in the Academy no less. I know it's sothing related to how enchanters can imprint skills onto items, but I don’t know the specifics.”
I still need to lower my total skill count by one before I attempt the advancent trial. But if I could remove a useless skill like [Legacy]? Leif contemplated, several ideas filling his mind. He shook them away, from what Sieg had said the process sounded dangerous.
“Anyway there are lots of theories and ideas behind the best way to fuse skills. Pretty much everyone will disagree and I’ve witnessed two duels over debates that got too heated. Both and Marcus did roughly the sa thing though. We picked a skill we wanted to focus on and used it as the base for two separate fusions.”
“His gauntlet?”
“Mhmm.” The man picked up his axe, ice began to build on the weapon's head. “For it's a skill called [Frigid Edge]. It worked for us, but it isn’t easy. Don’t forget that each fusion increases the difficulty and cost of the next. Fuse like with like, avoid fusing things that are too different. For skills with ranks like aura, comprehension and cultivation you should try to consolidate them.”
The spriggan reread the skills again. Reevaluating his choices.
“But don’t take my word for it. I’m only an Academy second year. There are surely things I don’t know.
Leif nodded and had one final look through his skills. What could he do? And what did he need? There were a myriad of options, but only a few he could clearly picture the potential outco of.
Initiate a skill fusion?
Primary skill: [Amber Awareness]
Secondary skill: [Court Empath]
Fusion success rate: Major
Warning! Skills used in this process are lost after a successful fusion!
Warning! Newly fused skill will belong to the class of the primary skill!
You may only attempt a single fusion at a ti!
Comnce skill fusion? Y/N
In his ti under Pherin, Leif had truly begun to understand the sheer usefulness of [Amber Awareness]. The ability to clearly see his mistakes from another perspective had been invaluable.
Would the fusion allow to see the present and past in greater clarity? He pictured a skill that could observe his surroundings, then replay them with ever increasing detail.
Like my personal window into the past.
He accepted the fusion and picked up another hog.
Comncing skill fusion!
Fusion of skills [Amber Awareness] and [Court Empath] 1/100%
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