Chapter 96 : : Upgradation

Kale looked in his Origin Chasm, there was only one ‹Magic Star Constellation› there this time, the constellation had both the green enigma of Wood Spells and the brown enigma of Earth Spells, but all the links connecting them had become bluish-green.

The other most noticeable thing was the core spell enigma at the centre of the constellation, it was giving out bluish-green radiance instead of just green or brown.

The spell enigma was neither of Wood element or Earth element, it belonged to Plant element category!

Kale fused two spells of a different type to create a new one and balance his ‹Magic Star Constellation› using it, this was something others would never believe until he showed them the proof.

Especially when fusing the spell formula of two lower-tier spells successfully doesn't mean that the result would always be of a higher tier.

The spell enigma of ‹Life Sense› and ‹Earth Sense› was still there in the constellation, linking directly to the only Plant Spell to show their parent role, but they were no longer shining brightly, because they didn't have the boost anymore, and lost the status of core spells.

There are practitioners at the higher tier who do it but even they do it only when they already know about the result of fusion like they could check out the result of a ready-made Tier 2 spell fused by someone else then use the same input and logic by fusing two input Tier 1 spell, it's like Cut and Paste.

'As the records of Sanae said, fusing spells with higher compatibility have a high success rate, the fusion has 6 known results, and the one I should have gotten is…' Kale thought, he slowly closed his eyes and prepared to check the results of his hard work.

Kale was not the first to try that fusion, moreover, a fusion of the same spell can bring different results depending on the ways of host fusing it, the notes he got from Sanae Rosary described all the important points and her experience she had when advancing to Plant Mage.

‹Life Sense› and ‹Earth Sense› were common spells in her eyes, and because she knew Kale already had ‹Life Sense›, she included ‹Earth Sense› in her inheritance and even described its use so that he can try fusing them for experience in future.

She, of course, would never expect him to try such a risky move during advancement because failure can result in a terrible backlash, but someone who had been a Martial Venerable and created a legend as WitchCraft Practitioner behind the scenes, Kale would never back off because of such risk, other things aside, in big rituals he used in WitchCraft the failure can directly destroy soul, compared to those, a backlash such as this had no big threat in his eyes.

Kale took his time to feel the existence of his first Plant Spell enigma which was experiencing three boosts as the only core spell in his Tier 2 ‹Plant Star Constellation›. He took a deep breath and activated the spell.

'Plant Sense'

As soon as the spell was activated, the world turned silent for him, the walls and furniture of the room disappeared, everything became black for a moment, but then Kale saw an emerald green leaf blade, it looked like grass made of green light.

Numerous other green blade became visible after it, it was not the only thing, plants of different shape made of a different shade of green light started to appear in his vision, even their routes below the surface were clearly visible.

There were verdant flower vines, pale green shrubs, emerald trees, lime herbs.., etc.

There was all kind of plants surrounding him, but not a single living creature or obstacle, even an insect or stone wasn't present.

Kale felt a deep excitement hidden in his heart surfacing as he saw all this in his vision.

'As its description said, ‹Plant Sense› allows me to sense all the plants in my surrounding and their life presence too to check their tiers, this way no special plants can escape my vision when I am gathering them. The distance it could cover at Ethereal level should have been around 1 km, but mine was at least 1.4 km, so this is the advantage of three-layered boost, the good part is it's barely a Tier 2 constellation, it would become stronger when I learn the other Tier 2 spells which would increase the boost,' Kale thought to himself.

In a way, ‹Plant Sense› was a useless spell in battle, because it would ignore the presence of anything but plants, it was a spell created with the only purpose of plant gathering in mind, the creator of this spell researched it because it was not an easy task to find target herbs in the wilderness easily because of the places they grow in, when the gatherer has to also keep an eye for hidden dangers.

There were also issues of many plants having similar appearance and were hard to differentiate, that's why the true importance of ‹Plant Sense› can only be felt by a gatherer than a fighter.

'With this, I am now a Tier 2 Plant Mage, it should not be at the level of the evildoer to come this far at the age of 15, right?' Kale pondered, thinking of Tanya who was able to use her mutant trait to convert her whole body into the metal which was clearly not a Rookie-level mastery, but then he shook his head to not waste his time on useless thoughts and started to check the items in his «Space Ring».

Kale flickered his fingers and numerous things appeared out of nowhere on the ground.

He first eyed the silver pendant with a green gem in the shape of a tear on the ground, and the three glass bottles filled with ten red pills each.

These were the items given by Enan as compensation.

'The «Hydra's Tear» is just Tier 2 item that can boost my base regeneration by five to fifteen times randomly for ten minutes when used, but the drawback is it can only be used three times in a day at most with a cooldown of one hour and effect, truly an item made for gamblers.

Fortunately, he presented Tier 2 «Troll

Regeneration Pills», capable of also increasing my base healing to two times for 24 hours, although the effect cannot be stacked by ingesting more pills, it still goes well with «Hydra's Tear».

With these two, and Health Potions, I can make use of my mutant trait in the battle to some extent, the question is should I try absorbing the poison bones of that Boss Monster from The Poison Crypt,' Kale thought.

Health Potions can heal the wound faster, but as the level of Practitioner increases, the lower grade potions becomes less effective and they need to buy higher-grade potions of better quality, but high-grade potions are several time more expensive even when they are Common, not everyone could afford it, moreover, when there is more than one enemy it is hard to find a chance in the middle of the battle to drink one.

Ajin, Mikol and even Kale themselves didn't use any potion when they were battling in the dungeon.

Kale decided to leave the matter of absorbing bones at rest until he reaches the next stage in ‹Nether Venom Body›. He then looked at the Bone Knife h had obtained when fighting with the assassin group.

The knife didn't have any flashy design or decorations on it, it was almost long a shot sworn and sharp enough to leave marks on the stone when falling on them.

'The knife cannot be used for defence and don't block well either but its attack power and penetration ability to be exact is remarkable, if my guess is right it's only around Tier 2 but its grade should be at least Epic, or else it's status won't be so broken. The good thing is that it's made from just bone, I can feel it way better than other knives, I wonder who made such a knife, hmmm… I can request an appraisal on it in Fallen Unicorn City to know more about it,' Kale thought.

Appraisal of a thing can be done in many ways, it's just analyzing things and matching with the database when done with machines, or handling it to an expert who has good knowledge in the field.

There were many things Kale never used for appraisal, like his staff and robe he got in the Time Mage inheritance, the only place of appraisal in Carran Town was Adventure Guild and he didn't want them to show those things, moreover, that equipment was somewhat broken because of no maintenance for years, as a result, their effect wasn't that satisfactory to Kale.

After looking through all those things, Kale took out a pouch filled with «Ghost Beads» and picked up three «Ghost Beads» from it, all having a tattoo of lizard on them, he then also took out the «Ghost Bead» of Ghost Lady hanging around his neck with a thread.

'It's time I upgrade these too,' Kale thought.

When compared to the normal measuring system of this world, normal Ghost Spirits are Tier 1 Ghosts, once they are advanced to Tier 2, they become Ghost Soldier, then Ghost Elites, Ghost General and so on.

In WitchCraft, almost all rituals ask for a sacrifice, even the up-gradation of «Ghost Beads».

There are mainly two things that affect the up-gradation of Ghost Spirits, one was the proficiency of the user doing the upgradation, and the other was the input presented, meaning the amount and quality of sacrifice.

In terms of Proficiency, Kale could do it with closed eyes for Tier 1.

As for input, if the user uses one Tier 1 Ghost Spirit to upgrade a Tier 2 Ghost Spirit the chances of success would be 33% according to the second factor affecting the upgradation.

If the user uses two Tier 1 Ghost Spirit to upgrade one Tier 1 Ghost Spirit, the chances would increase to 66%.

If the user directly uses three Tier 1 Ghost Spirit for upgrading a single Tier 1 Ghost Spirit, the chances of success would rise to 99%.

But that was it, there was nothing above 99% whether if someone uses a 4 Tier 1 Ghost Spirit or even a Tier 2 Ghost Spirit instead. No WitchCraft ritual can be guaranteed to have a 100% success rate by any WitchCraft Practitioner out there.

Because according to their belief, there was nothing truly 100% in the Universe.

If the up-gradation process fails, both the user and Ghost Spirits would suffer damage as a backlash, in the worst-case scenario the «Ghost Bead» would be destroyed together with the Ghost Spirit and the soul of the user would be injured.

Kale held the three «Ghost Beads» containing the Lizard Ghost Spirits in his left hand and the «Ghost Bead» of Ghost Lady in his right. Kale took a deep breath then with a jolt, he crushed the three «Ghost Beads» in his left hand.

There was no technique used or a complex ritual, in his eyes, Tier 2 advancement process didn't worth so much of his efforts.

The air around his left clenched fist turned cold, but Kale paid it no head, his lips moved as he muttered something in a language that seemed more like an echoed scream in a dark night, Kale slowly opened his fist, a puddle of jelly-like red liquid was moving at the centre of his palm.

Kale snapped open his right hand and the «Ghost Bead» of the Ghost Lady, was thrown into the puddle, as soon as the bead fell in his palm, the red liquid clung to it and spread all over it, fully covering its surface, giving a whole new coating.

Once the coating was complete, a thin shining ring appeared around the bead, as the ring shined the cold feeling emitted by it since earlier finally calmed down, the radiance of the ring dimmed down slowly, the radiance then disappeared but a black ring was now present on the «Ghost Bead».

'Come out,' Kale said softly.

The newly upgraded «Ghost Bead» trembled then the silhouette of the Ghost Lady came out of it.

The size and shape of Ghost Lady were the same as before, the difference was in appearance and presence.

Unlike before when she looked like a lifeless transparent woman with little unnoticeable emotions, her figure was now more solidified, she looked like a hologram, her face had an expression of faint curiosity as she locked her eyes onto Kale.

The Ghost Lady this time was wearing a long white gown covering her body, her long black hair was now tied behind her back, her body was colder than ice while her eyes seemed deeper than the abyss, to those who love cold beauty, she was like a royal.

Even as a Ghost Spirit her magnificence was undeniable, after becoming a Ghost Soldier her features because more distinct and less vague, but it was only for her passive state, only when she attacks someone would she show the true horror of a Ghost Soldier.

Except for appearance, the change in her temperament was the real thing, she now had the most control over herself, compared to the first time, when she tried to attack Kale as soon she came out from «Ghost Bead» for the first time.

Although Kale succeeded in advancing her, as the one who used himself as the modifier, the process put quite some stress on his soul, because of that he can not use other WitchCraft Technique at their 100% for a while, and the best way to recover from that is by sleeping.

Kale didn't try to advance Ghost Lady before because he was not at the right place and right time, when his level was high enough to do that, he realized that Mikol was keeping a watch on him, for a vigilant person like Kale he would never tire himself out at such a time.

'Her growth is truly not bad, good good,' Kale thought as he looked at the Ghost Lady, he was just inspecting the newly advanced Ghost Lady when he sensed something and spoke "Come in,"