Two Tomoe Sharingan
After dealing with the monster party, Alex paid attention to the system notifications.
"Skill points?"
Alex questioned as he wondered what this could do. He had seen this as a reward from the quest earlier but didn't wonder as he had no idea what this is.
As he was wondering what it is, a system panel appeared in front of him.
[Skill Point]
[Used to increase the level of a specified skill by 100%.]
"Um. So it increases the levels of skills."
Raise the level of any skill?
It would be nice to raise the level of powerful skills like his [Flying Thunder God]. Having the basic understanding of it, Alex immediately looked at the skill in his status to upgrade.
[Flying Thunder God Lv.1]
Rating: Legendary
[* User must first mark a target with the "skill formula". The formula is applied after the merest touch and cannot be removed; it will remain in place even after the user has died.
* By entering a dimensional void, user can instantly teleport to a technique formula's location whenever he please, regardless of distance.
Type: Active
Skill Proficiency: 12.7%
Cooldown Time: None.]
Alex then pressed the button to upgrade the skill but left disappointed as a notification appeared.
[Legendary skills required 20 skill points and 1,000,000 points to upgrade.]
"What!?"
Alex exclaimed loudly unable to believe the ridiculousness of the system. Alex clearly remembered that the quest reward was just a single skill point and he knew that he would not receive the bunos ten skill points again as it was just for the first achievement reward.
Also he didn't have that amount of points at the moment.
Alex had the urge to cry but he held himself back as that would be very pathetic of him. He then proceeded to upgrade his other skill however he was met by another notification that surprised him.
[The skill was judged as a complete skill and had no more room for further development.]
"Eh?"
Pressing the skill, Alex wanted to know why.
[Limit Breaker Lv.Max]
Rating: Hero
[* Removes the limit of every aspect of the user's ability and skills. Greatly increases excelia gain from every action.]
Type: Passive
Skill Proficiency: 100%
Cooldown Time: None.]
Alex immediately tried at his other skill but the result was just the same.
[Adversity Breaker Lv.Max]
Rating: Hero
[* The moment you are unable to fight or your health reaches the minimum, all of your skills and capability levels are boosted twice for the duration of one minute.
* Massively increases excelia gain when fighting stronger opponents in a challenging way.
* Winning impossible battles, increases the rewards gain.
* As long as you're weaker than your opponent, all types of increase in growth are doubled.
Type: Passive
Skill Proficiency: 100%
Cooldown Time: None.]
"So it seems like I can't upgrade the two either."
Alex murmured to himself. He then proceeded to a skill that the fragmented soul of Itachi was very familiar with.
[Sharingan Lv.1]
Rating: Epic
[* During activation, the user is granted an increase of perception by 110%, enabling the user to read or mimic movements which allows to see fast-moving objects.
* The user is able to copy almost any skills they see, memorising skills or magic with near-perfect accuracy.
* The user is able to cast illusion on a target through eye contact.
Type: Active
Skill Proficiency: 3.2%
Cooldown Time: 30 Minutes.]
Reading the skill description, Alex decided in choosing this skill.
[Epic skills required 5 skill points and 80,000 points to upgrade.]
Seeing that he had enough points, Alex proceeded despite feeling his heart was aching as the skill points required was still high and the points needed were still very expensive.
[The level of Sharingan has risen. The effect and the number of consecutive uses has increased and the cooldown time for reuse is reduced.]
As soon as the notifications appeared, Alex didn't noticed that within his eyes, another comma like pattern appeared and rotated within. If before it was just a sharingan with a single tomoe, now it had become a sharingan with two tomoe in it.
[Sharingan Lv.2]
Rating: Epic
[* During activation, the user is granted an increase of perception by 220%, enabling the user to read or mimic movements which allows to see fast-moving objects.
* The user is able to copy almost any skills they see, memorising skills or magic with near-perfect accuracy.
* The user is able to cast illusion on a target through eye contact.
Type: Active
Skill Proficiency: 0%
Cooldown Time: 20 Minutes.]
As Alex was about to rejoice, he suddenly felt a shiver behind his back. Sweat trickled down his cheek as his instinct was telling him that there was something behind his back. Slightly turning around, Alex saw several attacking figures behind him.
Left.
Kwajak!
Right.
Kwajajak!
Left again.
Kwa kwang!
With the increase in his perception because of the newly upgraded sharingan, Alex moved so fast that only afterimages were left behind. High speed that couldn't be controlled was akin to having a pearl necklace around a pig's neck. But Alex was in complete control of the speed that transcended common sense with the help of the sharingan.
Susuk. Sususuk.
The afterimages increased. While Alex's speed increased, the newly spawned monsters looking at him were starting to feel dizzy.
Daggers flew one after another hitting precisely every targets in front without missing a single one. The monsters screeched in misery and immediately attacked and aimed for Alex. As they had a fast speed, the attacks struck his body.
However, it was a misunderstanding for the monsters. Their attacks had hit an afterimage, not Alex's body. Alex's condition was relatively fine.
In an instant, a crimson flash appeared behind a killer ant while a sharp dagger aimed towards and struck the neck.
[Due to a certain action, the skill, 'Vital Strike' has been learned.]
[Vital Strike Lv.1]
Rating: Normal
[* Causes additional 5% damage, inflicting the target with a damage debuff by attacking an enemy's vitals.
Type: Active
Skill Proficiency: 0%
Cooldown Time: 30 Seconds.]
Ignoring the notifications, Alex continued his onslaught because of his sharingan that allows him see through the monsters movements that was much more slower than before he upgraded the sharingan.
He was overcome by a peculiar sensation. It seemed like his perception had increased further than before. He could easily track every monster within his surroundings, and could even see a small shadow forecasting where they would move next.
It was at that moment Alex realized his strength had increased to an almost super-human level compared to his previous self. Combined with the increased perception, he could almost predict the movements of monsters in his surroundings.
Remembering the fighting style of the Sword Princess that he had seen when she was beating or training Bell, he tried various different fighting methods together from the glimpses of fighting styles that he had seen in Minato and Itachi's blurry memories, even incorporating complicated punches and kicks into his combinations. He was especially surprised when his back-fist had caught a purple moth that had evaded his sword strike.
['Basic Sword Mastery' skill proficiency has increased by 0.5%]
['Basic Dagger Mastery' skill proficiency has increased by 0.5%]
['Basic Sword Mastery' skill proficiency has increased by 0.3%]
['Basic Sword Mastery' skill proficiency has increased by 0.2%]
['Basic...]
[...]
[...]
In every attacks he landed, Alex could feel that he was being proficient in fighting than before. It might be slowly but the improvements was surely rising in real time.
Alex began to understand the principles behind of the [Sharingan Lv.2] somewhat. Though it didn't seem to offer an increase to his numerical stats, it most certainly enhanced his speed, strength, and perception to monstrous levels while active. There was a distinct difference between his capabilities with and without the skill.
Also, he had grown stronger than before because of the effects of his [Dragon Heart]. If Alex didn't have the sharingan that allows him to see things slowly, it might took long for him to control this kind of speed before.
Turning into a crimson flash, appearing to a dagger he had thrown behind a Blue Papilio, Alex stabbed the butterfly monster turning it to dust.
[Due to a certain action, the skill, 'Assasinate' has been learned.]
[Assasinate Lv.1]
Rating: Normal
[* Hitting a target's vitals adds an additional 7% attack damage.
Type: Active
Skill Proficiency: 0%
Cooldown Time: 30 Seconds.]
Alex continued slaying one monster after another with no intention of stopping until he exterminated them all. Forming several hand seals, Alex spit out a gigantic orb of flames towards the remaining monsters in the vicinity.
"Fire Style: Grand Fireball."
[Due to a certain action, the spell, 'Grand Fireball' has been learned.]
[Fireball Lv.1]
Rating: Rare
[Cast a large ball of fire targeting the target. The damage dealt to the enemy is 55% to the caster's magic.
Type: Active
Skill Proficiency: 7.1%
Cooldown Time: 50 Seconds.]
Seeing that he had slayed them all, Alex was about to lower his guard but suddenly he had detected an incoming attack. Turning into a flash, Alex instantly appeared where a dagger was stabbed in a wall.
Staring at his attackers, he saw that it were several rabbit monster that has a horn on the head. Because of him instantly disappearing, it lead to the hilarious sight of rabbits smashing head-first into walls, even getting their horns stuck on.
Alex gulped seeing that the walls were smashed upon contact. If he failed to evade an attack and being impaled through the ribcage by a needle rabbit. The impact would not only broken several ribs, but also collapsed one of his lungs.
"Damn this dungeon. It doesn't want me to take a break."
Alex cursed inwardly as the Needle Rabbits really attacked him by the time he was about to lower his guard.