Some time later back in the army's tent. Zaikar and Quliv were present in the tent going through daily reports. As they were doing that a person fully dressed in black entered the tent. Even his face was covered with a plain black mask rendering it unable to identify who the person was.
Both of them looked up seeing the person entering.
"How did it go?" Zaikar asked.
"Yes sir! We were unable to assassinate the pope. He has a very strong guard accompanying him all the time. But we succeed in acquiring few vials of holy blood, and also destroyed one of their storage facility. Sadly we lost 2 members." The person answered while putting a few cylindrical glass vials on the table.
"You guys did good, what about further plan?" Zaikar asked again.
" we were successful in that. Now we just need to wait." He replied
"Ok u can leave now" Zaikar ordered and the person swiftly left the tent.
"So this is the thing that's been causing us all the problems. What do you plan on further doing with it" Quliv said picking up one of the vials and taking a closer look at it.
"Well the researchers in capital are already working on a antidote, but we should also try our best. I'll be keeping three of the vials here while sending the remaining to lord's mansion." He replied
"What are gonna do with them over here?" Quliv asked
"Doctor Kinoses is coming here to help during war, and Liyan will also be arriving soon. We will need the vials for them to research on. After all those two are our best in the field." Zaikar replied calling one of the soldiers outside to take the remaining vials.
"Liyan has returned?" She asked
"Yes a message from her arrived just some time ago. She will be here before morning." Zaikar said
"Let's go full on and end the battle then." Quliv said excitedly.
"I've already asked the lord to come out to help, as soon as he gets here we will launch a full on attack and destroy the enemy forces altogether. Dragging this war out will be bad, we have already lost many soldiers and the enemy is also our own people. That's twice the loss for us." Zaikar said showing concerns to the lives lost.
Near the army camp, Rahen was sitting on a tree looking excitedly at the transparent screen in front of him.
[ LEVEL UP 16~20 ]
[ +4 TO ALL STATS ]
[ +10000 CREDITS ]
[ RECEIVED SKILL
STEEL BODY: INCREASES PHYSICAL
DEFENCE BY 20
COST: 4 STAMINA/ MIN ]
[ UNLOCKED SHOP ]
Rahen had wanted a defence skill that could help him survive dangerous duration, and recieving the skill for exactly that made him happy. Even though it's usage cost was heavy it could prove very useful.
But the thing he was even happier about was the second reward he got. Ever since he bought his Qi technique from shop he has been curious about what else he might find there. Since that day he had been waiting for this function to unlock.
After checking out the skill he excitedly opened the shop. Opening the shop he was greeted with a screen having different options for him to choose from.
There was a search bar on the top. Lower portion than that was divided into two parts. The left side lined with different categories like skills, techniques, materials, equipments, ancient artifact and few others, occupied about 30% of the space.
The right side was filled with recommendations that were a mix from all these categories most of what Rahen could afford at the time. while there were also a few that were too expensive for him to buy but had really good specs. It was like an online store.
Rahen continued browsing for some time and found 2 thing that he thought would help him the most and were also in his budget range.
Ist one was an equipment , while the other was a skill. He checked both of their descriptions.
[ Elemental feather (equipment):
Grants the user access to switch between the given five basic elemental magic spells. Each spell costs 10 energy per use.
Wind bullet( lvl 5)
Fire ball( lvl 5)
Water ball ( lvl 5)
Stone bullet ( lvl 5)
Lighting bolt (lvl 5) ]
[ Size manipulation (skill):
Allows the user to increase or decrease size based on skill level and amount of energy used]
Rahen equally liked both of the options and was having difficulty choosing between the two.
"System what kind of energy is it mentioning here?" Rahen asked
[ DIFFERENT KINDS OF ENERGIES CAN BE USED TO EXECUTE DIFFERENT SKILLS. HOST CAN CHECK OUT SPECIFIC ENERGY FOR THAT SKILL BY FOCUSING ON THE WORD ENERGY IN DESCRIPTION ]
Following system's advice Rahen checked out the description further. Upon focusing on the work many options appeared in front of him. But other than one 'mental energy' all other were backed out, he could not even read them.
But he finally decided which one he wanted to buy, and went ahead to buy the skill 'size manipulation'. Feeling excited he decided to check the skills effects.
He just had to think about using the skill and his body started enlarging. Under the bare eyes he grew to thrice his original size. The thin branch he was sitting on broke due to his increased weight.
Feeling dizzy and exhausted though, he stopped growing further and returned to his original size. Coming back to original size he checked his status window to see all the changes that had occurred
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STATUS
Name: Rahen (30% mutation)
Level: 20 (12%)
Race: Vulture
Age: 16
HP: 2000/2000
Credit points:1300
STATS
Strength: 22~32
Agility: 10~19
Stamina: 14~25
Physics defence: 9~16
Mental strength: 47~60
Qi: 12300
Special ability: Training dimension, Inventory
Passive skills: passive heal (lvl 4), Mua language (lvl 10)
Active skills: Inspect (lvl 5), Thermal sight (lvl 5), Energy leech (lvl 6), Talon attack (lvl 7), Qi search (lvl 4), Steel body (lvl 1), Size manipulation (lvl 1)
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He was happy to see that he had progressed a lot in the past few days, his strength had almost doubled