I was on my way to Michelle's office when a more important notification appeared which made change my direction from her office to my training room.
[Your party mber Laura Ravenknight is now level 150]
At last, Laura leveled up which also ant that she had broken through to C rank. Her progress was extrely slow not to ntion that it took almost a month for her to break through. This just showed how low her talent was. Using darkness to increase her strength was a good decision. Fantastic even.
Even if she can't break through to S rank, she will be able to beco strong enough to contend against Divine-ranked beings on her own this way.
I opened the door to my training room and found her and Alicia chatting. "Feeling okay?" I asked. As soon as she saw , she threw herself at . I caught her in my embrace and she replied, "Great now that you are here."
After a while of hugging and under the narrowed stare of Alicia, we had to end our hug. She let go of and said, "Alicia tells it has been almost a month since I went for my breakthrough."
"Yes, it is." I simply replied, keeping my observation of her talent to myself. "For now, eat sothing," I said as I pulled all sorts of things from my inventory. She was happy to see everything and began eating. Alicia joined her since what I pulled out was enough for ten people.
Rose didn't leave the array but from a single glance, I could see that it was ti to level up the intensity of the array. The lightning wasn't even making her frown anymore let alone wince in pain.
I made a ntal note of everything to do and left the training room to go to my original destination, Michelle's office. I also had a favor to ask her.
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"You want to do what?" She incredulously asked as my favor was almost unreasonable. "Is it not possible?" Still, I didn't give her a chance. If I agree that my favor was too demanding, I wouldn't be getting anything out of this.
"No, it's not." She replied in a little louder than usual voice. "Is that so?" I still remained oblivious, never giving her a chance.
"You are asking to pardon you a leave for that long ti even when you don't have an impending breakthrough or anything important?" She asked loudly, frowning at .
"It isn't for no reason at all. It's to train and beco strong. Isn't that what the academy is for?" I argued.
"Yes, that is what the academy is precisely for. But what you are asking for has nothing to do with the academy." She replied with annoyance laced in her every word.
[She has a point]
'Whose side are you on?'
"Please do this favor. I would be eternally grateful to you." I shalessly replied. In the first place what I was asking for was only unreasonable, not impossible. It could be done with a head professor's authority and Michelle could easily grant one. She just needed a little persuasion.
I let her cook for a while until she ca to a decision, "Fine. But know this. You will majorly owe one."
"I will majorly owe you one," I replied, totally agreeing with her.
"Which ans the next ti a mission or several co, you will do them for free." She elaborated.
"Very well," I replied.
That reminds , 'Don't I have a reward pending from this quest?'
[You dismissed it]
'Oh yeah. I was kinda disheartened by the whole level-up thing.'
[Want to receive it now?]
'Let's first get out of here.'
Michelle wrote , Rose, Alicia, and Laura a leave of absence which stated that for the two remaining weeks, we could take the off ti from classes before the test. She also made sure to get across that she won't be granting another favor next ti. Not like this one anyway.
I thanked her and left. Just as I ca out, I checked the quest reward even though it was kinda late.
[Quest complete]
[The will of the dead]
[You have obtained 50 APs]
[You have obtained 100,000 coins]
[You have obtained the dagger of Desaant]
Stat points and coins aside, the dagger was sothing I was curious about so I checked its description.
[Dagger of Desaant
Rank: B
The dagger that was left behind by the assassin of the middle era who crafted it himself from a fire wyvern's tooth he himself hunted and then sharpened with the bones of his victims.
Effects:
100 attack
30 Agility
10% chance of a critical hit
There is a random chance of the 'Burn' effect applying
Limitations: Can only be used by the user]
Wow. The effects are sothing for a B rank item. I an, Rose's dagger doesn't have that many options even though it is of the sa rank. It is a bumr it is only limited to otherwise I would have sold it after using it for so ti.
Also, the other thing I was interested in was, 'What's my current critical hit rate?' I had never delivered a critical hit before so I was a little curious about that.
[Without the dagger, 0%]
'Why? My luck is high enough.'
[Not enough]
'How high does it need to be?'
[At least three hundred]
My current luck was at 193 so even if I invest all the APs into it, it won't get up to that point so I discarded it for later.
I pulled the dagger out which I would have to say was masterfully crafted so I doubted the description by the system that it was sharpened with the bones of people was true.
Its hilt was of dark black tal that I couldn't identify. There was a perfect lted attachnt holding the hilt of the blade and the dagger part together. The dagger itself was of blood red color. There were inscriptions on the sharpened side indicating the inscription related to the burn effect. Other than that, the dagger wasn't that special.
I did feel lighter while holding it so that was a good increase in my agility as well.
Storing it back inside the inventory, I headed for the training room to resu my training with the girls. No doubt they will be in a lot of pain for the coming two weeks but they will turn out to be better after that than they are right now.
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"Listen up," I said to gain the attention of the girls. They stood in a line to hear the announcent I brought them today, "From today onwards until the test, almost two weeks, we will be training with all our might."
They didn't say anything but their expressions beca a bit wary at the ntion of training. Well except for Rose. She was looking forward to this.
"We will only sleep for four hours. One hour for eating, twenty minutes for each al. A personal ti of one hour for bath and bathroom stuff." I relayed the regi of our training for the next two weeks.
"That leaves us with eighteen hours of training. Out of which, for one hour, I will train with Laura, who will then train on her own like how I will tell her." Laura nodded at my plan and said nothing in return.
"Alicia and I will train for seven hours. Six hours for elent integration and one hour for physical training." I detailed Alicia's plan who also nodded and said nothing in return. Laura made a face that relayed, 'Why does she get more ti than ?'
I didn't bother to explain because she would soon understand.
"As for Rose, she will mostly train on her own but for two hours, we will do dagger practice. Any objections?" Once I was done relaying all of my plans, I asked just to make sure.
There were no voices of complaints even though Laura looked like she had many but said nothing.
That will leave with eight hours for which I will solely train all of my skills. My leveling was out of the question since the C rank dungeons don't do it for anymore. I need to hunt at least B- rank monsters.
Focusing on my skills was the best choice for now.
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Can't say I am satisfied with the grilling of these two weeks.
[Your party mber Laura Ravenknight is now level 159]
[Your party mber Alicia Mon Grante is now level 172]
[Your party mber Rose Roosevelt is now level 234]
Laura's progress wasn't very satisfying. An increase of only nine levels out of which mostly was because of integration. A clear testant of her low talent.
As for Alicia, I would say it was just all right. She was mostly focused on fighting techniques than elent integration so the resultant progress wasn't that much apparent.
As for Rose, I took it slow myself. I needed her to be at most level 249 before the third test. There was still quite a bit of ti before that. Considering her talent, she would easily level up to that point before the test so I took it slow and taught her the most basic dagger art of my master.
Of course, for this world, that basic part was more than enough but even then, if she didn't have the appropriate power to back it up, that was useless so I stopped after the basic techniques and let her focus on elent integration.
As for myself, well, I wasn't satisfied in my case either.
[High Heal LV: 5 (0\\10,000)]
[Celestial guard LV: 5 (0\\10,000)]
[Magic cannon LV: 5 (0\\100,000)]
[Sacred blessing LV: 5 (0\\10,000)]
[Congratulations]
[Skill 'Decay' has evolved to the next stage 'Eclipse']
[Skill 'Regeneration' has evolved to the next stage 'Moon Shift Vitality']
[Eclipse LV: 1 (0\\100)]
[Moon Shift Vitality LV: 1 (0\\100)]
The EXP requirent for the life branch skills wasn't as uniform as I had first thought but increased drastically. I needed to use all of them at least ten thousand tis more to increase their level each and for magic canon, well, I won't even say anything about that.
That's why I didn't level them up anymore and stopped at five for each. Leveling up the skills would now take specialized timing. I would need to focus on them separately. As for Decay and regeneration, they evolved to the next stage so I stopped with them as well.
Nevertheless, the amount of coins I spent on MP recovery potions was quite a bit significant. Almost a quarter of my current revenue was gone and my revenue of current coins was in billions.
Anyway, What I needed now was to level myself up because other than stats, my MP was too low for my skills as well. After this test, I will be attempting the third level of the Penta enhancent array. The good news was that, unlike the second step, I didn't need enormous wealth for this one because I already had the pri ingredient for this step.
The bad news was that I didn't have the necessary amount of death elent required to purify that ingredient. The dark mana crystal I obtained with the help of Allison from Monica. The problem was that it wasn't dark elent but there was also mana in it. To separate mana and dark elent, I need a specific amount of death elent to hold on to the dark elent and push out the mana.
I could do it easily if I had mana but I'm not hardwired that way.
I can't at the current level of death because even though I have taken almost a million lives, the single strand of death elent hasn't doubled yet.
So either I will have to sohow arrange a dark crystal on my own, multiply my death strand, or ask soone for help to whom I already owe two favors and that wasn't a great thing. The good thing was, she also owed a favor but I was hoping to save it for sothing more important. Sothing that doesn't have another option, unlike this problem, that already has other solutions.
[Why don't you rack your brain on it later?]
[You're going to be late]
'Sure thing.'
"Co on. Let's go." I asked the girls who were raring to go right now.
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Today's chapter is a little early because I have a class in the evening.
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