15. Skills

"Finally level 30."

Indra levels up 2 levels to Level 30 after clearing the E-Rank dungeon. He is still quite low-level, so clearing an E-Rank dungeon still gives him a decent amount of XP.

[Name: Indra Smith

Level: 30

XP: 200/60,000

Job: -

Title: Reincarnator

HP: 34,000/34,000

MP: 37,500/37,500

Fatigue: 0

Strength: 55

Agility: 50

Sense: 55

Vitality: 50

Intelligence: 75

Free Points: 3]

Indra adds 5 points to his strength & sense, and adds 15 points to his intelligence. He needs to increase his mana, reduce skills' mana cost, and increase his magic skills' power & duration by increasing his intelligence stat. Especially now after he gets new magic skills.

[Congratulations, you receive new skills.]

[Golden Eyes (Level 1), Blessing of Speed (Level 1), Curse of Slowness (Level 1)]

[Golden Eyes: Passive & Active. Passive: Improving the user's eyesight. Active: Giving the user night vision, mana cost: 100 MP per minute. As the skill level increases, more functions will be unlocked.]

[Blessing of Speed: Increase the target's movement speed by 10% for every skill level. Mana cost: 1000 MP per target. Duration: 1 minute.]

[Curse of Slowness: Reduce target's movement speed by 10% for every skill level. Mana cost: 1000 MP per target. Duration: 1 minute.]

'Huh? Golden Eyes? Wait! It doesn't turn my eye color into a gold color, right?'

It will be really bad if his eye color suddenly changes when he needs to hide his awakening. Luckily, although his eye color really turns golden, it only happens when he uses it as an active skill because it's both a passive & active skill.

'Cool, I can see much better now. I can even see something very far clearly. I wonder what other functions I'll get when this skill's level increases.'

The speed buff skill can be stacked with his Sprint skill, but unlike sprint, it can be used on others. Both the buff and debuff skills will be very useful for his future raids. But now, he needs to pick up his brother in Grade school and go home.

Nothing unusual happens after that and he safely goes home with his brother. His school still doesn't allow the students to come for the next 3 days. The authority is still investigating the sudden disappearance of the Gate, so they close the school, but they don't get any information.

Indra doesn't find any new Gate near his home and he doesn't want to go too far because he will be too exhausted to fight. So he just stays at home and trains himself. He trains his body, his Muay Thai techniques, and magic skills until he runs out of mana.

Every time his mana recovers, he will train again so he can increase his skill levels. Even if he can't hunt monsters, he needs to be productive. Most of his skills are still low levels, so he needs to increase their levels by using them as often as he can.

Days pass by and Indra's activities are quite repetitive. School, Muay Thai training, looking for Gates, hunting monsters if he finds a Gate, and training his skills if he can't find any Gates he can raid. He just raids D & E-Rank dungeons for a few months because not only C-Rank Gates are still hard to find, but they are also still too dangerous for him to raid alone.

6 months after the first Gates' appearance, Indra finally hits Level 50 after raiding many D & E-Rank Gates. His skills' levels also increase a lot because he keeps using them when he hunts or even when he's not hunting. Skills are very important, after all, so he needs to increase their levels.

[Name: Indra Smith

Level: 50

XP: 100/150,000

Job: Battle Healer

Title: Reincarnator

HP: 56,500/56,500

MP: 62,000/62,000

Fatigue: 0

Strength: 80

Agility: 70

Sense: 80

Vitality: 75

Intelligence: 120

Free Points: 3]

His stats increased significantly and he also has assigned some free points to his stats. He puts more into intelligence because most of his skills need a lot of mana. With a high intelligence stat, he increased his skills' power & duration while also reducing their mana cost.

But gaining XP from D & E-Rank dungeons keeps getting harder as his level goes up because he needs a lot more XP and the monsters there don't give him a lot of XP. He knew he needed to start raiding C-Rank dungeons, but he kept raiding D & E-Rank dungeons.

He wanted to use the monsters to train his skills and weak monsters are easier to handle if things go wrong. By using those weak monsters, he increased his understanding of his skills. This isn't a game, after all, so increasing his skill level isn't just about using and putting points, but he needs to understand how they work, and that's where intelligence stat becomes very helpful.

Intelligence stat actually increases his IQ a little, so he becomes better academically. But its real value is for understanding magic. As his intelligence stat gets higher, it becomes easier for him to understand how his magic skills work, which then increases their power and reduces their mana cost.

When he reached Level 50, he suddenly got a job, Battle Healer. There is no Job test like Jin Woo because his system can't create an instant dungeon to do that. His system is just a support for him to get power from the monsters he defeated, after all, unlike Jin Woo's system that was controlled by the Architect using the Shadow Monarch's power.

Anyway, he got the Battle Healer job because of his skills that lean towards being a Healer & support, yet he also has great combat skills. After getting his job, his title as Reincarnator finally gives an effect, which is +50% XP. It increases the XP he can get from killing monsters, which is very good for him.

Aside from that, he also got some new skills when he was level 40 & 50. At level 40, he got Bloodlust, Poison Shot, and Cure. At level 50, he got Magic Barrier, Curse of Blindness, and Blessing of Courage.

[Bloodlust (Level 1): Intimidating and inflicting fear on enemies. Reducing enemies' stats by 5%. Mana cost: 500 MP.]

[Poison Shot (Level 1): Creating & shooting poisonous liquid that reduces enemies' HP by 10 per second. Only works when the poison enters the target's body. Mana cost: 100 MP. Effect duration: 1 minute, unless targets have high resistance or poison getting expelled.]

[Cure (Level 1): Curing damage aside from injuries like poison, petrification, paralysis, mental attack, or other status effects. Can't cure diseases caused by bacteria or viruses. Mana cost: 1000 MP per target.]

[Magic Barrier (Level 1): Creating barrier to block physical or magical attacks. Durability & size depend on levels. Mana cost: 800 MP.]

[Curse of Blindness (Level 1): Causing status effect, blind on targets for 1 minute. Mana cost: 500 MP per target.]

[Blessing of Courage (Level 1): Increasing physical & mental defense by 10%. Mana cost: 500 MP per target.]

Those skills don't look so good at Level 1, but they get better as he grinds their levels. He also gets a Battle Healer exclusive skill because he unlocks his job, Battle Healer Domain.

[Battle Healer Domain (Level 1): Allies in the domain will receive +10 HP healing every 5 seconds and +5% increase in strength, agility, and vitality. Range: 10 meters. Mana cost: 2000 MP per minute.]

'Ugh, I think I have too many skills, and more are still waiting.'

Indra never specifically asked for all the skills he got so far. He only told Jin Woo & Odin he wanted to be a fighter who could also use support skills like a healer. So he never thought they would give him all of these skills.

Now he needs to remember every skill he has and increase their levels diligently. It is troublesome, but Indra needs to do it because he isn't inheriting the power of a Godly being like Jin Woo. He needs to work very hard if he wants to be as strong as those Godly beings.

'All the active skills I got until I was level 30 have been maxed because I kept using them on those E & D-Rank monsters. They are good targets to grind my skills' levels, but I already hit the limit of leveling myself up using them. It will take a lot of time to level up by raiding D & E-Rank dungeons. It's time to raid C-Rank Dungeons and use C-Rank monsters as test subjects.'

Indra grins as he is planning his 1st C-Rank dungeon raid.

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