Chapter 4 - Strengthening and Preparedness

When I woke up, I did my daily exercise and gained 1 point in strength and 5 in endurance. I went to the guild looking for new quests available. I saw on my way, fixed to a tree, an announcement of slime removal, I smiled thinking about my past exploits and continued my way. I stopped at the potion shop, I had bought a sleeping potion to practice preparing it, it was easy to get the ingredients.

I was selling 5 sleeping potions that I made for 100 pieces of gold. I decided to continue my purchases at the witchcraft store, I had managed to master the mana so I could now learn spells, In addition, the investment of my points in wisdom had greatly helped me to understand the alchemical and magical processes contained in the magic book. I can do it again if it happens again. Ice Magic", "Wind Magic", was I reading in the elementary magic books when a book entered my field of vision: "Elementary Spirit Invocation". This book could help me create an elementary spirit that will hunt with me. When an idea came to me. I bought the book and hurried home to open the book. And as I expected, I struggled greatly to read and decipher the complicated symbols.

So I decided to invest points in wisdom, I had 15 available. I awarded those 15 points. "Notification! -Wisdom > 30, you can now accelerate your mana regeneration for 1 minute, Understanding the World lvl3, Intense Gaze lvl2, Magic Regeneration lvl3.

Satisfied with my new acceleration skill, I resumed reading the book which, as I expected, became easier and lucid. Four hours later, I had finished reading the whole book. I grabbed my jacket and went out into the plains to try to create an elementary spirit. I gathered my mana in my palms and breathed into the surrounding air my altered mana. Thus, a spirit of fire took shape. Fire was the element I had best mastered since I had created my fiery fireball.

The spirit had pointed ears and had red hair crackling in the air. The spirit came to touch my palm and asked me for his task.

"Assist me in my training," I said, confident.

And so began the physical training that changed me, making me stronger. I had not forgotten the new attribute I possessed: "Reinforcement by defense", and I intended to use it well. I dictated my orders to the spirit of fire that caught a mass of wood. I sat there and suddenly he sent the mass so strong behind my back that I thought my spine had broken.

"- Is everything all right?"

"It's okay, let's keep going," I replied.

"Notification! - Hit received +15 exp, ... Hit received + 15 exp" "Damage resistance +10%"

And as I continued training, the blows seemed to get weaker and weaker, or did I get stronger? So the training lasted until the next day. I was still sitting there taking the blows without flinching, which was now just a scratch. I had built up so much resistance! + 50% resistance to damage which was colossal.

I also gained 2 additional levels. I invested my 10 points in strength. The strength also made it possible to better absorb harder and more resistant muscles. I am a real tank now, my skin is as hard as steel and my 38 points of strength were felt. Well, the magic bullets and sharpened steel could easily pierce me but the blows would be much more sustainable. After this hard training, I went home. I had two well-deserved beers and sat in the sofa to think about the key I had received, I had strengthened myself greatly recently, maybe I could make the dungeon?

With this idea in mind I doze off on the couch.

The next day, I took the lead and forged a weapon more suited to my skills, I was very strong and rather agile. So I forged an E+ range dagger. Pretty good, the dagger was sharp and ready for use. I remembered that it was possible to add enchantments to weapons, I went to the witchcraft shop and undertook to acquire a spell book of novice level.

The mana had to infuse the weapon through runes written on the weapon. So, I trained on my weapon, I aimed for an enchantment of flames. After many unsuccessful attempts, I managed to enchant my weapon, when I infused it with mana, it caught fire and managed to slice through the metal with ease. Satisfied with my hard work, I prepared my leather armor, it was light and supple and provided a suitable defense for its level. I put away in my purse some weak-healing potions I had bought at the store.

It was time to leave for "The City of Wolves", I was ready, my weapon in hand wore red runes on the blade, my mana was at its maximum. I activated the key, confident of success.

I suspected that the boss would be at least as strong as the purple slime so I armed myself with courage when I teleported to the unknown.