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[Experience Points have reached the required level!]
[Individual 'Rank' has increased from level 15 to level 100!]
[Furthermore, the Individual's 'Job' has increased from level 15 to level 100!]
[The Levels of the [Phantom Form; level 2], [Physical Damage Resistance; Level 2], [Absorption Healing (Mineral, Materials, Armor); Level 2], [Throwing; Level 2], [Shield Technique; Level 2], [Phantom Materialization; Level 1], [Armor Technique; Level 2], [Mana Control; Level 2], [Cursed Wounds; Level 2], and [Tame; Level 1] Skills have increased!]
[You acquired the [Body Form Manipulation; Level 1], [Thread Reeling Technique; Level 1], [Projectile Fire; Level 1], [Artillery Technique; Level 1], [Long-Distance Control; Level 1] and [Soul Break; Level 1] Skills!]
[The [Projectile Fire; Level 1], and [Throwing; Level 3] Skills has been integrated into the [Artillery Technique; Level 1] Skill!]
[The Level of the [Artillery Technique; Level 1] Skill has increased!]
If Veronica had eyeballs, she would be trying to clean them to make sure that what she was looking at on the system screen was true.
"The level up does not surprise me as much, but a lot of skills leveled up as well. I have always wondered if the Experience Learned through Skill Using gets a boost when the skills are used while fighting and killing a strong monster. It seems that it is true. I also got five… no, six new skills, and the last two have remarkably interesting names, mind you" said Veronica.
"Projectile Fire got integrated into Artillery Technique… it must be because they're kind of similar Skills in a way," thought Veronica.
'Projectile Fire' was a skill present only in monsters capable of launching parts of their own bodies, or certain secretions from their own bodies as projectiles. As the level increased, its power and precision would do so as well.
Meanwhile, 'Artillery Technique' was… Veronica did not have much idea, it was a skill that she had never studied or read about in the Skill Encyclopedia Books that she studied in her previous life.
She assumed that it was the ability to fire bullets made out of her own body that made this skill possible… She assumed that it might have also been related to her knowledge in Earth about artillery, though it was dim, she had a general idea on how they worked. And fought using that as a reference on her mind.
'Throwing' was the skill that she mainly used to launch her own body as bullets, which probably explains why it was also integrated into 'Artillery Technique'.
"You got a lot of skills?" asked Shade, waking Veronica from her daze.
"Ah! Yes, I did get an impressive boost in everything pretty much…"
"Gubo!" said Aqua, bouncing around while digesting spiders inside of her expanded body.
"Aqua? You didn't get max level?" asked Veronica.
"Guu? Gu!"
Flash!
Just as Veronica asked for it, Aqua ranked up!
Her liquid body began to shine brightly, crystalline light and colors flashed outside of her slimy and formless shape.
Her size increased once again by a few centimeters, and her dark blue, spherical cores became a bit larger and clearer in color, becoming almost translucent.
Aqua seemed charged in energy, her entire existence exuded a relaxing aura.
[Tamed Monster; Rank 4 River Slime has evolved into Rank 5 Deep River Water Slime!]
"Bloob!" said Aqua, bouncing around while firing large projectiles of water, testing her strength.
"A Deep River Water Slime? So, she didn't become a Lake Slime as we thought" said Veronica.
"Nonetheless, it is a good achievement, congratulations, Aqua," said Shade.
"Gu!" said Aqua, jumping.
"Good girl," said Veronica, patting Aqua's 'head', the red ribbon had stayed over her body even after evolution, and it did not seem to have been affected.
"Now that I have reached Level 2 in the Tame Skill, I should get Aqua a new friend. I never expected that I would end up becoming a tamer of all things… But first things all, I will absorb the exoskeleton of the Spider Queen, I suppose you can eat the rest, Aqua," said Veronica, doing as she said, she used 'Absorption Healing' in the shattered Spider Queen's exoskeleton.
The silver materials became liquid as they merged within Veronica's Living Armor body.
[Grand Armored Spider Queen Reinforced Silver Exoskeleton] Material Successfully Absorbed; Health Points Restored]
[Please choose equipment to discard or synthesize into]
"I will just fuse it into my main armor" decided Veronica.
[The material [Grand Armored Spider Queen Reinforced Silver Exoskeleton] and the [Obsidian Semi-Liquid Thread Crimson Dusk Living Armor] equipment have been synthesized into the [Grand Scarlet Spider Queen's Dusk Living Armor] equipment!]
[You gained +30 Health Points and +20 Agility!]
Veronica's dark armor slightly changed its decorations, now having eight spider-like eyes at the top of her helmet, and long spider legs resembling claws over her gloves, sharp ends which were capable of slicing meat as if it were a hot knife going through butter.
"My armor became more refined… and… are these some feminine features? Though there isn't a breast armor yet… why is it? It was always the standard armor design, why has the design become so slim?" wondered Veronica.
"Well, your soul is that of a woman, or originally was. And your phantom is as well. It probably means that your Phantom Form is slowly shaping itself as the image that you can perceive of you" said Shade.
"My image? Oh well… time to evolve and change Jobs, so we can get out of here at last" said Veronica, opening the 'Job Change' tab in her Samsara System.
[Jobs Available]
[Apprentice Warrior], [Armored Thrower], [Cursed Armor Brawler], [Apprentice No-Attribute Mage], [Apprentice Spirit Caster], [Slime User], [Phantasmal Armored Shield User], [Armored Shapeshifter Fighter] (New!), [Armored Artillery User] (New!), [Soul Breaker] (New!), [Metallic Thread User] (New!)
"Oh? Four new Jobs! What should I choose? There are already so many options…" muttered Veronica.
"Well, now that we are traveling to the outside, there might be even more dangerous monsters or different types of dangers that we haven't expected… we will also be traveling through different types of terrain…" said Shade.
"You're right… though with my abilities I am confident that I should be able to run away with Charge… Hm, well, long-distance attacks are very useful… I know it is quite ironic coming from a close fighter like me, but I've adapted to that fighting style because it was the only thing I could use and I was in a dire situation. Now that I can calmy choose, it would not be so bad to increase the strength of my Artillery Technique, magic could be beneficial as well…" said Veronica, inspecting the skills she was most interested in now.
"You want to go for an all-rounder type of fighter?" asked Shade.
"Well, that would be ideal��� Also, my Spirit Magic skill is still stuck at level 2, and I might be able to recruit another Spirit in the outside" said Veronica.
[You changed Jobs to [Apprentice Spirit Caster]!]
[The Level of the [Spirit Magic; Level 2] Skill has increased!]
"This Job should level up faster than the newest ones, as it is an Apprentice Job," said Veronica.
"Oh? I feel like our connection became stronger… even I feel a bit more vigorous" said Shade.
"It must be the Spirit Magic Skill at level 3, now I can also conjure the 'Spirit Bond' Spell, so let's make a bond for real," said Veronica, patting Shade with her hands (gloves) and chanting the spell.
"A bond…? Oh" said Shade, sensing a thin thread of mana connecting him to Veronica.
"This is a bond; we share our mana now. This should let you draw my mana more easily. You can also feel my emotions much more, but don't go asking me why I feel like this or that all the time, you hear me?" said Veronica.
"Ah… yes�� it feels, very warm," said Shade, a bit emotional.
"Warm? Well, you are more connected to my Soul now, so that warmness must be that" said Veronica.
"I see… I've never felt like this before, I feel… complete?" analyzed Shade.
"Complete? Are you not saying that we are like two halves of orange now? Do not go romantic with this old woman, I am too old for that! Your flirting won't work as easy," said Veronica, teasing Shade.
"H-Hey! I didn't mean… that!" shouted Shade, embarrassed.
"Alright, alright, you got all tsundere now" laughed Veronica.
"Bloob…?"
Aqua was confused over the conversation going on. However, she decided to ignore it and eat more of the Spider Queen's flesh, its flavor seemed enticing and rich.
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