Amazing New Skills! Equipment Upgrade Once More!

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[Sanguine Sword (C)]

Unleash the fury of the vengeful Black Knight, coating your weapon with your innermost darkness and your furious and wrathful boiling blood, spending Vitality to enhance your weapon and shape it as a large black blade that deals large amounts of damage to anything it touches, up to a 50% damage increase, while also draining 50% of damage dealt.

[Unholy Sacrifice (C)]

Harness the darkness within your heart and unleash an Unholy Sacrifice, sacrificing 30% of your total Vitality to enhance your Strength and Magic by 30% for five minutes. In this form, any attack you deal with will drain the vitality of your enemy, and you are blinded by berserk-like fury.

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Well, those descriptions are pretty amazing… quite edgy, but I will let it slide because they're pretty fitting of a Black Knight. With these Skills and Ervas constantly healing me behind… wouldn't I be able to spam this all the time? That's quite insane...

After checking these Skills, I was already eager to use them in battle, the exhilaration that it brought to me to fight so many enemies and see as I gained loot, leveled up, and progressed made me almost addicted to it…

I know I have to calm myself, but this was quite an eye-opening experience.

But for now, I should really check my Status Panel.

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[Name: [Gustav]

[Race: [Dhampir (Human)]

[Element: [Null]

[Weapon Type: [Any]

[Orbs: 47]

[Gold: 63.198]

[Hero Feathers: 16.834]

[Hero Fragments: 200]

[Job: [Black Knight]

[Job History: [Summoner], [Sorcerer], [Magic Knight]

[Skill Points: 19.527]

[Existence Rank: C-Rank++]

[System Rank: 1]

[Level: [30/40]

[Vitality: [3100/3100] [Growth Per Level: 450]

[Mana: [16000/16000] [Growth Per Level: 1600]

[Strength: [2200] [Growth Per Level: 350]

[Magic: [7000] [Growth Per Level: 800]

[Dexterity: [2300] [Growth Per Level 250]

[Skills: [Summon (-)], [Appraisal (-)], [Experienced Sorcerer (C)], [Continuous Mana Bullet Blast (C)], [Blazing Wind Jewel (C)], [Black Knight's Magic Weapon and Armor Technique (C)], [Danger Perception (C)], [Dhampir (C)], [Vampiric Eyes of Paralysis (D)], [Curse Caster (D)], [Sanguine Sword (C)], [Unholy Sacrifice (C)]

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A smile emerged on my lips as I saw my progress, my Stats had once more increased exponentially, each level had its own growth and amount of stats it would distribute, and now it appeared in each Attribute, it seems that when I acquired Appraisal things became more detailed and not only outside but the System itself did so as well.

Every time I change Jobs, my stat growths per level increase, and now I can finally see them in detail, which will be of great insight in the future.

And as of Stats, they're pretty amazing, my Mana has reached 16000 after the Job change, which is just crazy, and my magic is 7000! It seems that using it with the magic knight skills is the best way to combine both my strength and magic in battle.

And just as I thought, I am already C-Rank! And not plain C-Rank, but C-Rank++!

I suppose there are these "+" which might mean intermediate stages in between each Rank? It seems that it can only go up to three "+", so is suppose I just need one more and then I can become B-Rank already, sweet.

After all of that, I had also absorbed the Soul Spheres that we found, so my stats increasing so much was thanks to those little items.

As I was resting over the couch while seeing Kireina cook what seemed to be fried chicken in the Japanese style named Karaage, Anna came rushing towards me, bringing me my new set of upgraded and fused equipment, I already saw how it used up a lot of gold, but I had to spare, and she also used the one in the treasure chest, so that seemed to be enough!

"Master, I am done! I did the best I could," said Anna with a reassuring nod, as she put the equipment over the table one by one.

"Amazing work, Anna. Thanks a lot," I said.

I glanced at the items one by one, they were amazing, and they were just as she said, they fused the effects of the items they were made up of.

[Cursed Spectral Staff of Phantom Flames and Cold Winds (C-Grade+++)]

[Durability: 2000/2000]

[Attack Power: 1500]

[Magic Conductivity: 2700]

[Weapon Speed: 1400]

[Traits: [Cursed Weapon (C)], [Evolving Weapon (C)], [Automatic Repair (C)], [Slaughter Healing (C)], [Mana Conductivity (C)], [Evil-Slaying Smash (C)], [Phantasmal Fireball (C)], [Dark Winds (C)], [Spectral Touch (C)] (New!)

My Cane had "evolved" into a long and slim staff, although the tip of it had a sharp black jewel, which seemed to be the fire and wind jewels that merged into the evolution alongside the essence of the Black Onyx Ingot, giving the fire and wind they produced new properties.

The fireballs are now phantom fireballs, and are blue-colored, being able to burn through things even more easily, and having greater explosive power. Meanwhile, the green winds became Dark Winds, having black colors and possessing a stronger force.

[Malicious Dark Warlock of Shadows Set (C-Grade+++)]

[Durability: 4000/4000]

[Physical Defense: 2500]

[Magical Defense: 3500]

[Traits: [Cursed Equipment (C)], [Evolving Equipment (C)], [Automatic Repair (C)], [Greater Status Effect Resistance (C)], [Mana Conductivity (C)], [Dark Fire enhancement (C)], [Icy Winds Enhancement (C)], [Shadow Ward (C)] (New!)

The equipment set I always wear had also "evolved", getting some way better and long design, with black decorations resembling skulls, and even shoulder pads made of black metal. A dark design, but it goes well with the Staff.

Similar to the staff, Anna fused this with the other warlock equipment I got, making this amazing equipment up, it has all of its previous skills enhanced, and the enhancements it gives also changed, becoming dark-themed, while also having greater effects.

[Crimson-Hearted Ring of Fortuitous Malice (C-Grade+++)]

[Durability: 1200/1200]

[Magic Conductivity: 2200]

[Bonus Dexterity: 1100]

[Traits: [Evolving Accessory (C)], [Automatic Repair (C)], [Ice Fairy Blessing (C)], [Super Magic Conductivity (C)] (New!), [Venom Secretion (C)] (New!), [Shadow Bullet (C)] (New!), [Fortune (C)] (New!)

And then there's the beautiful dark-purple-colored ring in front of me, which was made by fusing the ice heart ring, the spider ring, and the fortune pendant all into a single accessory of amazing capabilities, overall, it is amazing work.

I can now secret venom from it (which I am immune to), fire shadow bullets, and it also comes with the Fortune Trait, which was the one enhancing item drop.

With such amazing prizes in front of me, I decided to quickly equip everything through the System, which made the items disappear and then reappear over my body, as I petted Anna's head.

"Good work, now let's eat and relax a bit, even in the Apocalypse, we need to rest a bit," I said.

"M-Master petting?!" said Anna, as she began to feel new sensations as I petted her silky brown hair.

"You have very silky hair," I said, as Anna suddenly blushed a bit.

"What a killer, you're going for another one already, huh?" asked Ervas while rubbing his chin.

"Eh? No, wait, you're misunderstanding… I was just petting her because-"

"Masteeeeeeer~ The food. Is. Ready." Said Kireina, her eyes flashing with crimson light.

"What with that look?" I asked in surprise, as Kireina suddenly changed.

"Haha… Nothing! Come eat with me, my dear~!" she said.

Is Kireina a bit jealous? Huh…

Well, I had never considered going the harem route, my mind is always busy with other thoughts.

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