The C-rank dungeon, Lizards Nest.
Rio was walking in a dark corridor, ignoring all traps easily.
It was as if he was just taking a stroll around here. After half an hour of walking, he was already in front of a small room.
Rio walked in without hesitation; this small room had several books in it. It is like a small library that has not been cleaned for a long time. Even the books have become so old that nothing can be deciphered from them.
Without wasting any time, Rio walked towards the table in the middle and picked up the book named Black Records. He took the book and placed it in the table drawer.
As if a mechanism got triggered, a magic circle covered the library.
After a few seconds, the magic circle disappeared, and a beautiful flask appeared on the table from thin air.
Rio picked up this beautiful flask, observed it for a few seconds, and threw it on the floor with all his strength. The flask broke, and its broken pieces are scattered everywhere.
After a while, all the pieces turned into white light photons and rushed towards Rio's body. A warm feeling started to envelop Rio.
Once all the photons entered Rio's body, the warm feeling disappeared, snapping him out of his daze.
[Acquired a passive skill, True Immunity!]
"Hmm, good, I got it. Let's leave this place now."
Rio immediately left this place and headed back to the dormitories.
True immunity is a passive skill that can render you impervious to any unconventional skill, such as an appraisal.
Although an appraisal is not an attack skill, it's very stealthy and can use others' brains to get information about them. But true immunity can block such skills.
Not only can it block appraisal, other unusual skills can also be nullified using it.
For example, spirit attacks, mental attacks, and curse-type skills can all be blocked by it. It isn't useful against physical and magic attacks.
'Its true worth will show when fighting the boss of SSS rank gate, actually.'
That monster has a skill called atomic disintegration; it can cause every single atom of your body to disintegrate and will instantly reduce you to nothingness. But true immunity can block this skill.
'Isn't this skill overpowered? Yeah, it is. And Fade gets it with sheer luck. But now that I have taken it, he will have no choice but to buy it from the shop. No free things for you, buddy.'
...
After a few hours.
Rio had already left the dungeon gate; on the way to his room, he heard about Fade's duel.
'That guy must be spending his time with Kira now. Well, she will become his greatest support in the future.'
Not to mention, when Fade becomes an SS rank, he will marry Kira. Thinking about this, a sudden thought came to his mind:
'Should I look for a girlfriend too? I mean, it's not banned to get into relationships in this academy.'
Due to the increase in the percentage of appearing to have better potential in the next generation, love marriages are very famous in this world.
Everyone wants to marry only the one they love. It strengthens the potential of your children. (The maximum rank potential of the parents is also important, and there are many other factors to consider.)
Thinking this far, Rio shook his head and threw this thought in the back of his mind:
'I will think about it later; there's still a long road left in front of me.'
After Rio came to his room, he directly entered his private training room and prepared for the breakthrough.
Yeah, the fight with that Lizard boss caused him to reach the peak of D+ rank as he got a lot of combat experience and insights in that battle.
Now he can break through and become C rank anytime he wants. (Don't forget his sword aptitude is insanely high; just one battle is enough to teach him a lot...)
After resolving everything in the dungeon, Rio hurried back to his academy dorm room.
...
Boys dormitory, Great Freya Academy.
Rio suppressed his breakthrough until he reached the academy.
'Now that it's time, let's start.'
He sat cross-legged, released his suppression, and immediately started to concentrate on breaking through.
This time, the breakthrough is particularly important because, after reaching rank C, you can finally project mana outside your body.
He was previously only able to strengthen his body from the inside. But after entering Rank C, he can even use mana to defend by covering his body with it.
Even the sword can be covered with mana, due to which its damage will increase by many times. It is said that entering Rank C makes you a real warrior.
After a few minutes of concentration, Rio finally broke through and became a C-rank swordsman.
[The advancement has been completed; you have been promoted to Rank C- successfully!]
[The rank of all the techniques and skills has increased!]
[Due to your 'Basic Swordsmanship' becoming Rank C, you have acquired a new skill, Sword Energy!]
[Due to your high talent in swordsmanship, your skill Sword Energy has evolved to a high rank and has become Sword aura!]
[Your 'Elemental Sword Art' has reached Rank C]
[You have acquired a new skill, Handling!]
[You have acquired the ability to control your aura freely now!]
After a while, the notifications finally stopped and snapped Rio out of his daze. He was extremely shocked by all these notifications.
'I knew it would cause me to become strong, but I didn't expect it to be this amazing!' (Rio)
After calming himself for a while, Rio checked his status, which he hadn't checked in a while now:
[Name: Rio Flash]
[Class: Swordsman]
[Rank: C-] [Max Rank Potential: No limit(X)]
[HP: 1800/1800] [MP: 1200/1200]
[STR: 50/100] [SPE: 50/100] [AGI: 50/ 100] [DEF: 50/100] [INT: 50/100]
[Talent: Limitless(X), Sword Aptitude(X)]
[Techniques: Basic Swordsmanship(C-), Elemental Sword Art(C-)]
[Skills: Body Strengthening(D+), Lightening Sword(D+), Sword Aura(G-), Handling(G-)]
[Passive Sills: True Immunity(X)]
[Evaluation: You are an absolute anomaly; your growth rate is terrifying, and you have unlimited potential!]