13: Hidden dungeon of Thark forest (4)
{Many hours later}
Kalki opened his eyes and found himself lying on the ground inside the boss room.
As he tried to get himself up with his hands, the immense pain in his muscles made him fall once more. Kalki's Both hands muscles were sore and even a little touch would make the pain lively again.
With a little difficulty, Kalki finally got himself and saw the gruesome scene of three giant monsters lying dead.
A few months earlier he would have never expected to see this type of scene.
Realizing the benefits of the reality at front, Kalki smiled brightly.
He first moved toward the end of the room where the second part of the treasure was stored.
Similar to the first room, in the second room too was a slab with runes surrounding it, and an orb with black colored liquid was stored in the middle.
Kalki removed the orb from the slab and the shining runes died down. In response tremors and few rocks fall here and there in the cave while mana adjusted in vicinity.
However no one got a hit this time .
Kalki waited for things to normalize and then finally held both orbs in his both hands.
[ EX-rank Bounding Artifact "forgebound" is detected ]
[ Do you want to be bound with the artifact? ]
[ Yes / No ]
Kalki immediately pushed the yes button. Both orbs shined brightly and their liquid wrapped his hands in the form of gloves.
The gloves soon disappeared just like orbs and on the back of each hand a star symbol was now engraved as a remanent.
The gloves can be put on and off just by Kalki's will and the star symbol acted as the storage space for the liquid that forms his gloves.
The gloves had pure black color and a few runes written in a quite designed way with white colors, adding an exquisite look to it.
"Finally, I stole two of the opposite fractions power up.
It does not look like much but I am feeling very proud for no reason.....
*sigh*
it doesn't look like i will be able to make it back today"
Kalki spoke to himself while looking at the monster corps.
Kalki was glad that the dungeon he was in was a hidden dungeon whose entrance gets closed when someone enters and only opens when either the person who entered before dies or closes it.
Because Kalki killed the boss monsters the dungeon would get permanently closed once he got outside.
He didn't want to let his loot which he worked hard for get lost. Thus, he decides to stay in the dungeon until he mines all of the mana stones and packs the boss monster's corpses.
But before that Kalki opened his Status screen to check it.
From the moment he was awake he was feeling quite powerful then before and he got the answer why after looking at his status screen.
'Status'
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Name - Kalki Hertz
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Age - 13 years
Core - Silver
Rank - E-
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Strength - F+
Dexterity - E-
constitution - F+
Mana - E+
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Generis - unawakened
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Art :- Void [ 5 stars ]
~Percivoid
~{unawakened}
~{unawakened}
~{unawakened}
~{unawakened}
Skills :- 1• Swordsmanship {novice}
2• Archery {novice}
Artifact :- 1• Forgebound (EX)
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Looking at his status the smile on Kalki's face became much more radiant than ever.
It was his first time when he saw his this many stats go up simultaneously.
But it doesn't mean that he was now really as strong as someone from E-rank.
After all It will require months and years of training to stablize and control the mana after a major rank up.
Understanding capabilities of your own and the way to use you power most efficiently took time.
While he was grossing through his status screen he finally noticed something that he wasn't looking for good knows how many hours.
He rubbed his eyes a little and once again looked at it clearly but the result was still the same.
"What the hell?
Wasn't this Art initially 4 star in the novel so how the hell it became 5 star ?
*confused*
Is it because of the mana cycle that I did ?
Hehehehe..."
Kalki laughed creepily.
It went way too good then what he had planned and thus he wasn't able to control his happiness.
There were only a few percent of chances for any hidden dungeon to be cleared successfully without any major losses, but for him it went way too smoothly.
Having a 5 stars mana art was the best anybody could ask for.
Mana art, also the prominent reason behind big families in power, are classified by the number of stars they possess.
The higher number of stars one mana art have, an equivalent number of skills were unlocked by the user of that power.
Thus, fundamentally the Mana art of higher stars are more powerful than lower ones.
On the classification scale, the highest rank any mana art can have was 7 stars and the lowest being 2 stars. Below it all were considered as skills and not Mana art.
The main difference between mana art and skill was that mana art skills has the potential of growth whereas normal skills didn't.
On contrary skills were classified in the way of the user's understanding and mastery over it.
With high spirit Kalki sat in lotus position and began his attempt to connect with his artifact in order to understand its functionality.