10 seconds later, the gust of wind slowly dissipate. All the stuff in Kal's room was disoriented. After [Whirlwind]'s duration was done, a window panel appeared from Kal's view.
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Tips: Skills can be activated via voice command. It can be activated by speaking the name of the skill or verbally thinking the skill inside your head.
"Oh! That's a lot better! I should try it after the cool down, for now I wanna check this one out." Kal opened his inventory and pulled out the monster core of the kobold champion.
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MANA CORE
Rank: D+
Purity: A
Element: Wind
Effects:
+6 STRENGTH
+10 AGILITY
Elemental effects:
+2 WIND ATTRIBUTE
DO YOU WISH TO ABSORB THE MANA CORE? (Y/N)
"Yes." The monster core in his hand trembled slightly. The mana essence inside the core spiraled and was released from the core. It entered through the spores of Kal's palm and flowed along his mana stream. The process felt tingly yet comforting. After all the mana essence went inside to his mana core, the monster core turned into an empty vessel of crystallized chunk of glass.
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MANA CORE SUCCESSFULLY ABSORBED!
YOU HAVE GAINED 6 POINTS IN STRENGTH!
YOU HAVE GAINED 10 POINTS IN AGILITY!
YOU HAVE GAINED 2 POINTS IN WIND!
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SYSTEM HAS BEEN UPDATED!
FEATURED UNLOCK: Elemental Attributes
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NAME: KAL NIETES
RACE: HUMAN
JOB:
TITLE:
LEVEL: 13 (6%)
HEALTH: 350/350 (+20)
MANA: 580/580 (+20)
STRENGTH: 64 (+2) (+6)
AGILITY: 62 (+2) (+10)
INTELLIGENCE: 58 (+2)
STAMINA: 30 (+2)
STATUS POINTS: 0 (+20)
WIND: (+2)
FIRE:
WATER:
TERRA:
"Wow! I feel a bit lighter now! I may guess that Elemental attributes are just the same as status attributes except it comprises more in magical elements. I can't seem to add status points in it so do I have to find monster cores that contains an Elemental attribute for it to increase or do is there another procedure? I dunno about it but wait! I think the system gave me a reward after killing the kobold." Kal opendd his inventory tab to check his rewards and there he saw a skill scroll containing the same skill [Whirlwind]. He pulled it out and check his contents and he was surprised to see that both of it had the same description except that it was in a form of paper that had ancient inscriptions in it.
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Skillscroll: Whirlwind
Rank: E+
Type: DMG/DEF/BUFF
- A gust of wind will surround the caster that can block projectiles excluding magic damage. If an opponent deals a physical melee attack to the caster, it will be counterattacked with double the damage absorbed.
Mana cost: 100
Duration: 10 seconds
Cooldown: 10 minutes
WOULD YOU LIKE TO LEARN THE SKILL? (Y/N)
Note: Since you have already learned the skill, learning this will increase the level of the skill by 1.
"Oh! If I learn it means the skill will become stronger! Okay then, Yes!" Kal exclaimed in excitement. As he accepted the skill, the paper in his hand turned in nothing but ashes that vanished in the air leaving a ball of floating essence. The floating ball went through straight to his mana core and the window panel appeared right after it entered.
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[WHIRLWIND] HAS EVOLVED TO [WIND BARRIER]
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WIND BARRIER
Rank: D
Tyep: DMG/DEF/BUFF/AOE
-a wall of wind will generate from the caster into a small circular area pushing away any target deemed by the caster as enemy dealing 90(+30% INTELLIGENCE) magical damage.
-Any allies inside the barrier of wind will be protected by any projectiles including magical attacks that are lower than the skill's rank.
-opponents who enters the barrier will be blasted away dealing 100 (+30% INTELLIGENCE) magical damage and the collision will deal 80 (+30% STRENGTH) physical damage. Opponents will also be slowed down by 25% (+30% AGILITY).
Mana cost: 150
Duration: 20 seconds
Cooldown: 13 minutes
"It was enhanced by this much!?" Kal was astounded in disbelief after reading the description of the evolved skill. There where new effects from the skill including, area effect, sturdier defense, higher damage and longer duration. Though the mana cost and cooldown increased by a margin, Kal overall was still satisfied. After the skill evolved to [Wind Barrier], the cooldown of the skill was refreshed so Kal was very eager to try and activate it.
"Let's go to the training room, I'm also raid I might destroy my room." Kal said. He immediately went to the training which was located in the basement of his apartment. The training room was half the size of Dante's training room but still it was bigger than he expected. The room was designed solely for training so it didn't have the aesthetic theme that Dante had. The walls in the room was constructed to absorb a C-rank hunter's power. The practice weapons were placed in a concealed cabinet sticking in the side of the wall. And there were also some hidden rooms filled with specific items needed for training like treadmills, dumbells, ropes, and all the equipments you could find in a gym. There's also food, water and supplements inside the hidden rooms and also dummies and a power tracker to record and track the hunter's improvements. Lastly was a combat system that let's hunters do combat training with their own preferences.
"[Wind Barrier]" Kal activated the skill. A Heavy wind then burst out around Kal that blasted everything in its way, it moved like wave and stopp it's motion 2 meters away from Kal. The wind coiled around Kal's surrounding forming a dome that protected him from outside danger.
Shaaaaaa!!
"Let's try this." Kal pressed the remote in his hand that controlled the entire training system and activated the combat mode. The tiles on the sides of the walls opened itself revealing metallic crossbows that shot multiple arrows at once. The powers of the arrows was enough to damage an elite E-rank hunter and Kal wanted to test it out to his [Wind Barrier]'s defense.
Pang! Pang! Pang!...
The arrows shot itself simultaneously piercing the barrier. Surprisingly, the arrows stuck itself of the barrier and the wind surrounding the dome spiraled around the tip of the arrows which in an instant shot the a rows back to where it had been shot at.
Peng! Peng!.....
The rebounded arrows flew like a bullet and shot right at the metallic crossbows causing the crossbows to make circuit sparks. The crossbows immediately retracted and the tile returned to its place. The crossbows had malfunctioned as a result it was repairing itself back.
"Damn, how about physical attacks." Kal then pressed anther button in the remote. From the hidden room where the dummies where stored, they began to activate and walk out of the room and scatter around Kal with their melee weapons like swords, spears, knives, axes etc. With each one having the power of a D-rank hunter.
Bang!
As the dummies attacked in unison, they were quickly blown away from the barrier and crash from the reinforced walls of the training room. They were unable to move as their health fell down to zero.
"So the barrier counteracts by doubling the damage it absorbs back to the dealer and the knock back after-effect deals as much damage as the rebound so the damage would stack up to quadruple the damage! Now that's a lot of damage!" Kal exclaimed in joy. After the duration of the skill ended Kal was satisfied with his experiment and went back to the shelter hall to meet Dante.
Kal entered Dante's office. Dante was busy on his computer dealing with the documents. His eyes grew dark circles around it and his sullen expression showed how tired he was. When he saw Kal right at the door he just gestured his hand to come inside. Kal sat right at the sofa in front of him and waited silently. 30 minutes passed, Dante closed his computer and spoke.
"Why are you here? Shouldn't you be resting at your home?" Dante said to Kal.
"I'm perfectly fine now, I'm here because I'm planning to go in the sanctum." Kal said.
"You can't, there are eyes watching." Dante denied Kal's request.
"I know that but what if I go out with a fake identity?" Kal said.
"You can't just wear a wig outside and change differently, there are witnesses who already know that someone with your built is an archer but unless..." Dante said peeking at Kal.
"Unless what?" Kal asked,
"Here.." Dante pulled out a chip and a martial fluid in his drawer and threw it at Kal.
"What's this for?" Kal asked curiously.
"That's a dagger art called "Blade Dancer", there's various types of Blade dancer but I chose the most difficult one for you. That's an A-rank martial art that needs to be practiced for 3 years before you can fully master it but with your intellect and fast learning, I'm sure you can master that for a year. If you can perform just a fragment of the techniques in that dagger art in a single day, I'll make you a fake identity." Dante said to Kal with a smirk in his face.
"You better stick to your words!" Kal said in excitement and got out of the office to immediately train the martial art.
"I'm a man of my word." Dante replied showing a light smile.
'I was just saying that so you can take some time and rest but in reality, you'd need approximately 5 years to master that since that's a standard high-grade A-rank martial art. You'll be crawling back to me hoping I'll teach you and I'll make sure to put you in a rigorous training!' Dante said in thought. He watch Kal left merrily from the shelter hall and revealed a grin in his face.
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"So what's this about.." Kal opened the chip and watch the footage in his training room. The tutor was a naked vuluptous woman who held two daggers in her hand. As she talked with her alluring voice, she began to demonstrate a beautiful dance. She weave the daggers in her hand like a coiling snake and began wriggling like silk as she move her body elegantly. Her movements looked very complex and hard to imitate and she continued to dance with her daggers, Kal felt like being bewitched by her. Not because she was beautiful but the motion of her body that held the daggers made Kal wish to go nearer the woman even though going near her was waking right to death.
The footage was a whole 15 hours and Kal was too induced to it that after the footage ended, Kal was still staring at the black screen. He was only returned back to his senses when the window panel popped up right on his view.
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+890 EXPERIENCE HAVE BEEN GAINED FOR ANALYSIS (16.9%)
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ANALYSIS COMPLETE
"I gained that much experience from the video that my analysis percentage went up by almost 3%! Now that I've analyzed it completely, I should be able to perform the blade art." Kal exclaimed. He brought out two practice daggers in his hands and drank the martial fluid, thus he began training the blade dance. His mind recalled the movements and his body moved along with it. He was readjusting to the complex training regime and started slow and not even minutes passed, his body perfectly copied the blade art. A couple hours passed and it was already midnight. The practice daggers' extra status benefits had been all used up thus giving 29 status points (Note: Although he is using two daggers, the benefits will not stack and only each type can activate the effect.), as he finish his training, a window panel appeared right in front of his view.
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WEAPON MASTERY: DAGGER HAS REACHED ADVANCED!
"Phew... now that I've mastered the technique, I should tell Dante tomorrow so I can go to the sanctum." Kal said as he wipe the sweat in his body with a towel. Kal had now raised his mastery over his bow and dagger to Advanced. His fundamental knowledge of these weapons were something of the extraordinary for someone his age but Kal didn't knew of this, he always had the thought in his mind that his skills are inferior compared to the likes of real geniuses like Dontrelle, Dante or Jennifer when in reality, he had already surpassed them.
"I should rest for now, it has been a tiresome night." Kal said and went to sleep.
The next day, Kal immediately went to the shelter hall to tell Dante the news. As soon as he arrived at the hall, he saw Dante talking to beautiful woman.
'Who is he talking to? Is that his girlfriend?' Kal wondered in thought as he continue to watch them from a distance. Dante noticed Kal and immediately called for him.
"Oh, Kal you're here!" Dante called out to Kal. Kal walked towards to meet Dante and when Kal was able to look at the woman's face, Kal was stunned at her beauty.
"Are you Kal?" The woman greeted Kal with her sweet voice. The woman had black long hair, milky white skin, she had a small face, sharp nose, small mouth, pink lips, she had cat-like eyes and her body was slim and fit. She was not as vuluptous and alluring as Jennifer but her fitness showed the curves in her body.
"Uh-mm yes!!" Kal couldn't help but stutter.
"Kal, this is Lin Wei, she's my colleague and she will be your personal trainer for your martial arts training. She's a B-rank hunter who specializes in daggers and she's a master in blade dancing." Dante said as he greeted Lin Wei to Kal.
"Nice to meet you Kal, I'll be your teacher from now on." Lin Wei said to Kal as he show her delicate hands to exchange greetings. Kal who completely love struck by her beauty couldn't help but blush.
"Arigatou!" Kal exclaimed and bowed down in a 90 degree angle.
"She's Chinese dumbass!" Dante hit Kal's head and made him stood up straight. Kal felt ashamed of what he had said but Lin Wei just chuckled in response.
"So tell me Kal, did you learn something after watching the dagger art? It's okay if it's just a bit, just tell what you might have learned." Lin Wei ask Kal softly.
"Uhmm...I've already learned it." Kal responded with a calm voice.
"Hmm?" Lin Wei showed a questioned look and rose her eyebrows.
"What do you mean you learned it?" Dante asked in curiosity.
"I mastered the dagger art "Blade Dancer" last night after you told me I should learn it." Kal responded.