Chapter 5

"*sigh* For a second I thought I failed again."

Ron's eyes sparkled with excitement as he stared at the screen in front of him.

Although he had no idea how this spell works, he had a hunch that this is a blood spell either it needs someone's blood to be used, or it needs to be used on something that has blood.

Ron continued to stare at the place where the light flashed, then looked away, remembering the sound of the system that rang in his ear. He evoked the achievement system.

Returning to the Career System interface, Ron found, beside the wind rune, a new line of text.

[Magic: Spell of Descarnate - 1st Level: In order to use this spell you must start staring at the person you would want to affect. After facing her, the victim's flesh started to burn and shatter in a very painful and fast way.]

"There should be a second level. But how could this second level be obtained? Do I need to get enough achievement points to extract it? "

Just as Ron was brooding, he suddenly noticed that there was a small "question mark" on the side of the first level Magic Descarnate.

In the blink of an eye, while Ron was fully focused on the question mark, the screen in front of him flashed for a moment, and a new window full of text appeared.

[You have mastered the first level of basic magic blood]

[Blood-based magic is one of the branches of common elemental magic (water magic), with a total of five levels, of which the first-level magic is released by a single rune meditation, the second-level magic must be formed by a combination of 3 runes, third Level magic is a combination of 9 runes, fourth level magic needs 27 runes, and finally fifth level magic requires a perfect magic circle of 81 runes to be released.]

[In addition to the basic runes, the blood runes also have 8 derived runes, which are slightly different from the basic ones.]

[Derived runes need to be explored by the host]

After reading these lines, Ron nodded slightly as a sign that he gradually understood the magical system.

So, in conclusion, in addition to the basic runes, there were 8 derived runes. There were only nine in total, including the base runes.

To master second-level magic, Ron needed to build 3 specific magic runes at the same time and make a perfect match.

But the problem was that the system didn't give him any hints, nor did it tell him if three identical base runes could surely be combined in second-level magic. In short, there were many types of combinations. He feared that only a few could form the desired second-level magic. Other unadjusted combinations would simply collapse.

"Derivative runes..."

Ron pondered it for a while, then put aside his obsession with second-level magic and derived runes.

There was no reason for that. He didn't even fully master the most basic, the wind blade technique. If he released it once, almost a third of his spiritual power would be drained, let alone second-level or even third-level magic.

At that moment, he didn't have the energy to study or consider the use of derived runes or second-level magic. First, he needed to master Descarnate's current skill and then use the conquest points as well as his meditation practice to continually improve his spiritual attributes. That was the right order to do it!

The power of his Descarnate was not tremendous, but neither was it so weak.

Besides the Arlong fishman, the biggest bounty on the East Blue, so far, if common pirates of three to five million berries were hit without defending themselves, Ron was sure his blood would burn! On site!

Even if they were prepared and tried to resist, they would not be able to stop the chima of their own blood, because of its great speed, in addition to its destructive power. It could literally strip a person, how could an ordinary person defend against such power!?

Of course, none.

In its current state, the disadvantage of his Descarnate was just as obvious; It was the time needed for the launch, it was too long.

Ron could release his Descarnate technique after nearly ten seconds, necessary to build a complete rune in his spirit world, not to mention that he had to close his eyes during this process, otherwise anything around him could affect his spiritual concentration.

So the most urgent thing for Ron now was to really test and master Descarnate. It was essential that he could trigger this without closing his eyes and meditating. He needed to condense and release the magic directly in a second or two.

Ron had to devote his time to the purpose of mastering this movement.

With that in mind, he decided to go into a small nearby forest in search of some small animal to test his magic.

After 30 minutes he managed to capture 2 rabbits, so they didn't run away while he cast his spell he took a shovel at Nami's house and made a hole in the ground to hold the rabbits, with that done he started to cast his spell.

He saw after using his magic the rabbit's flesh began to burn and fall apart in front of him, while the small animal made desperate sounds as it died in agony.

Ron finally understood how to use his power.

One time…

Double…

3 times…

* He managed to use the magic more than 2 times because he used it on his corpses who still had flesh and blood but not long after all these Descarnate *

Every three casts, Ron's spiritual power runs out, and then meditation was needed to restore his mental power so he could draw the runes and release his magic again.

As the process continued, Ron found that not only did the time needed to condense the runes decrease, but the amount of spiritual energy drained also decreased.

Not that his spiritual attributes improved, but thanks to his back-to-back training, he became faster in rune meditation. His abilities approached perfection, resulting in a higher and more efficient transformation of spiritual power.

In the beginning, a third of the mind power could release a blade of wind. In fact, most of the drained mind power was spent on the rough construction of Runes

And with the increasing number of attempts and practice, Ron also gradually discovered that the order of construction of the rune lines would also affect the magical power released and the loss of spiritual power.

"Do the details determine success or failure?" '

Ron had that kind of thought in his mind.

But also,

Magic was different from swordplay and physical strength. He uses spirit and knowledge. Naturally, it was necessary to pay attention to the smallest details, rather than being violent and aggressive like simply fighting using Haki weaponry as full body armor.

The morning passed quickly, during which Nami left twice. The first time, she took a white paper to her room, probably drawing her graphics. The second time, she went to the kitchen to cook, also prepared a meal for Ron.

Of course, there were a thousand Berries fees for lunch! (HAHA!)

But after finishing his meal, Ron was very determined to make the next meal.

It was not because of the huge extortion of a thousand wild berries, but Nami's food was not so good, he could only classify it as "edible". He himself knew that her craft wasn't as good as Chef Yamaguchi's, but at least her common dishes were still very good.

He couldn't let the nutritional problem become an obstacle to Nami's development (T/N: Oppai-wise HAHA!), not to mention that he also needed good nutrition to practice.