This round of level up brought with it some interesting changes in the form of skills for the entire group. yang got the pugilist skill that made all of her punches have a penetrating effect along with a flat increased damage increase. tsunade got the healer skill which was to be expected with her knowledge of medicine and healing arts. weiss got the fencer skill which was fairly common for sword users and gave a flat damage buff and innate sturdiness for blocking. blake got the substitution skill that was frankly broken in alex's opinion since she could literally switch places with her clone passing on all of her injuries and fatigue once per day.
This meant blake basically had a free full restore once per day so long as she had a clone active. ruby got the eyes of silver skill that literally no one knew what it did besides increase her vision passively. they tried all sorts of idea's in case it worked like dojutsu but nothing seemed to work causing ruby to drop it for the moment. alex was surprised to receive two skills with his level up , mystery and seal master.
Apparently the mystery skill was only held by three people throughout history and worked as an boosting skill for other skills and even magic by letting them be used beyond their usual limitations. an example of this was one of the current wielder of the skill aermid the current best healer in the world. her mystery skill in addition to the three healing skills she had let her save basically anyone so long as they aren't dead yet. tsunade grudgingly admitted that she couldn't have claimed the same even at her peak. alex wasn't sure how the skill would affect the seal master skill but was sure he would find out eventually.
The seal master skill let alex make his seals stronger as well as increased his calculation ability passively since most seal required it. alex had cut his normal dungeon time so he had some free time during the day to increase his proficiency with seals. this had proven to be a good idea when alex accidentally figured out that he could add living properties to his seals changing them from static functioning to dynamic. miach said that this was probably a result of his mystery skill and congratulated alex for overcoming the biggest problem with seals causing his skill to skyrocket in value.
It took a month for the group to max out their stats once again but since the fastest recorded level up to three was two and a half months after leveling up to two they held back again. word of alex's living seals had spread during the denatus meeting of the gods since as level two adventurers miach was required to get them titles and needed to show off a bit to get good ones. ruby ended up getting silver eye because of her skill.
Blake got switcher while yang got yellow fist , tsunade got checker and weiss got ice sword and literally all of the girls minus ruby hated how uncreative the titles were. alex's title was apparently a hot topic of contention in the meeting since he was the only person known to have gotten the seal master skill as well as the mystery skill. there were some rather boring titles thrown out like mystery sealer or just sealed mystery. the title that ended up sticking however was from freya herself and most of the gods agreed on since it sounded fitting , black writer.
Alex himself thought it was a fitting title since despite how basic it was it got to the heart of his sealing ability. he got quite a few commissions during the next month to create seals for various familia. yang dived in the dungeon alone while he fulfilled those jobs earning a frankly crazy amount of valis for them. some of the jobs were just for novelty seals like the one that set of a magical fireworks display when activated. some of these jobs required alex to push his skill to the limit such as the gravity room that the loki familia wanted.
To make the gravity room alex needed to create a series of seals for controlling the level of gravity along with safety mechanisms all tied to the gravity seal that covered the entire room including the ceiling. it certainly didn't help the difficult job when loki herself kept harassing him and flirting while trying to cop a feel only to be dragged off by the leader of her familia who apologized repeatedly. ganesha himself wanted alex to add a massive ridiculously complex set of seals on his arena with close to a dozen different large scale effects , but alex had to flat out tell the god he was nowhere near the level required to create something like that and that he would probably need to be level four at minimum to even consider such a thing.