[congratulations on clearing the dungeon [Hell's paradise (S-grade)] please choose 1 of the 5 chests in front of you as your reward.]
[congratulations on finishing this planet's hidden mission [one man against hell] as a reward you will be given the skill [mana domain (S-grade)].]
Before looking at the skill he picked up the sword and coins the King had dropped, after that he picked a chest with a [S-grade] neckless inside.
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[neckless of protection (S-grade)]
+ 100 dexterities.
+ 25% physical damage protection
Additional effect: makes a shield around you that can absorb 1 attack with a cooldown time of 1 hour.
Description: a necklace made by a great blacksmith to protect nobility.
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Oliver was extremely happy with the necklace because it was his first defensive item, it also had an extremely powerful life saving skill. Normally Oliver, not having much HP, fights on thin ice but thanks to this necklace he had an extra safety net.
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[mana domain (S-grade) (1)]
Description: creates a domain 100 meters around you where every enemy gets suppressed 10% for every 100 mana you have more then them, if you have more than 500 mana more than them, they get suppressed and take damage according to (the amount of mana over 500 you have more than them)/100 every second.
Cost: 200 mana per second.
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The mana domain skill was incredible, especial since it said mana not intelligence, with the [meditate] skill Oliver could have as much mana as he wanted, granted that he had time.
After getting the mana domain skill Oliver's clear time went from 5 to 4 hours, not that much of a difference but you got to remember that he was already killing the monsters with close to perfect efficiencies before.
After this Oliver spends the next 2 days strait running the dungeon 10 more times.
"Hm, I don't have enough time to run the dungeon again, I might as well go back and wash up before going to collect my prize I won anyway."
While walking he examined his status screen.
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[Oliver Smith]
Age: 17
Rase: [ancient human (S-grade)]
Class: [archmage (S-grade)]
Titles: [victor of the obelisk (A-grade)]
LVL: [9]
EXP: [30.554.905/100.000.000] (exp needed per level up goes up by 5X)
Health [1560/1560]
Mana [14032/14032]
Strength: 168 (growth:12)
Agility: 241 (growth:17)
Intelligence: 1351 (growth:17)
Dexterity: 268 (growth:12)
Stamina: 168 (growth:12)
Defense: 135
Luck: 10
free attribute points: 0 (growth:10)
Magic affinity: 166
Elemental affinity: [Lightning- 87%] [Space- 83%]
Talent: [genius of magic (SSS-grade)]
SKILLS:
-Passive: [silent cast (S-grade)] [multicast (S-grade)] [meditate (S-grade)] [eyes of truth (S-grade)] [strength enhancement (A-grade)] [intelligence enhancement (A-grade)] [dexterity enhancement (A-grade)] [agility enhancement (A-grade)] [stamina enhancement (A-grade)]
-Active: [magic missile (F-grade) (10)] [lightning bolt (D-grade) (15)] [blink (B-grade) (7)] [lighting field (B-grade) (15)] [mana domain (S-grade) (6)]
Equipment: [Ring of storage (A-grade)] [sapphire wand (A-grade)] [speedster boots (B-grade)] [elemental robes (B-grade)] [neckless of protection (S-grade)] [pendant of luck (S-grade)]
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Not only did he level up his [mana domain] also leveled up to level 6.
The only item that was of use to him was a pendant.
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[pendant of luck (S-grade)]
+ 5 luck
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From this pendant alone you could see how difficult it is to increase luck, hell, an [S-grade] item gave you only 5 of it.
While grinding he also changed his plans a bit, after he got his prize from the competition he was originally planning on spending the rest of the time in phase 1 on leveling up, but seeing that he would be level 13 only 2 levels away before he would have to do a test to go to [tier 1] and also the cap of the tutorial, he decided against it and plant to meditate for the remaining 1,5 months.
After washing up, he was still a little early but decided to go to the shop anyway.
Waiting at the same counter he waited at the last time he was here, he decided to look at the score, he had to kill some time.
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[Dungeon completion event]
Your points: 550
Placement: 1st
Time remaining: 0:02:15
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[Monster slayer event]
Your points: 5.511.000
Placement: 1st
Time remaining: 0:02:15
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It seamed that the [SS-grade] boss monsters he killed counted for 1000 a piece even though they weren't listed in the description of the competition.
After another 2 minutes of waiting 2 notifications popped up.
[the event [Dungeon completion event] has ended, the winner is Oliver Smith.]
[the event [Monster slayer event] has ended, the winner is Oliver Smith.]
Accompanied by these 2 notifications where 2 massive score boards that showed up in every shop around the world.
Immediately after the notifications Oliver went to the desk and asked for his rewards.
Immediately after he heard 2 more notifications pop up.
[you have leveled up to level 13]
[you have been given [upgrade stone]x2]
After getting his rewards Oliver left the shop, trying to prevent the chaos that comes with an unknown man winning the world's 2 biggest events.
When he was back in the hotel room Oliver looked at the stones in his hand with trembling excitement.
"Finally, I'm going to find out what lies beyond SSS-grade"
After taking a final breath he said as clearly as he could.
"System please use an upgrade stone on my talent genius of magic SSS-grade"
[confirming, would you like the item [upgrade stone] on [genius of magic (SSS-grade)]]
"yes"
[[genius of magic (SSS-grade)] has been upgraded to [genius of magic (EX-grade)]]
"EX-grade is it, let's see wats beyond that."
"System please use an upgrade stone on my talent genius of magic EX-grade"
[confirming, would you like the item [upgrade stone] on [genius of magic (SSS-grade)]]
"Yes yes, just do it."
[[genius of magic (EX-grade)] has been upgraded to [genius of magic (DIVINE-grade)]]
"Divine, sound about right, let's take a look how good it is."
Filled with excitement Oliver focused on the talent in his status to see it in more detail.
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[genius of magic (DIVINE-grade)]
-Increases growth of magic related stats by 20
-Decreases cast time by 100%
-Decreases mana needed for casting by 30%
-Gives the passive skills [silent cast (S-grade)], [multicast (SSS-grade)], [meditate (SSS-grade)]
-magic affinity +300%
-player has the right to choose 2 magic affinity's that will be EXTREMELY increased
-gives the player a chance to absorb 1 core magic array that isn't more powerful than the one of this talent from any being once every 30 days, also protects the magic arrays of the user from anything of the talents grade or less.
Description: A talent that can bring even the worst magician to the status of deity of magic.
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Calming himself down after looking at the talent he first decided to look at the new skills.
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[silent cast (S-grade)]
Description: The caster will gain the ability to perform any spell without having to say the name out loud.
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[multicast (SSS-grade)]
Description: With this skill you can cast +5 spells at the same time.
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[meditate (SSS-grade)]
Description: gives you an extra (1+3*magic affinity %) to your max mana for every 30 minutes you circulate your mana in your body. While doing so your body has no need for sleeping and eating.
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After looking at everything he couldn't be more amazed, but the one thing that stood out most was the new effect, steal someone else's magic array.
"That's insane."
A magic array is the core of someone's magical abilities aka skills and talent.
There were a lot of other awesome things like instant casting, an extreme increase in his affinities, which stands for 90-100%.
But after his excitement dwindled down a light fear struck his heart.
"Is this the power that people in the main game have, or perhaps even beyond this."
He was a little scared because he knew 2 thing for sure, this isn't the last grade, and he is far from the strongest.
"let's not think about it for now and focus on growing stronger, the first thing I need to do is steal a strong talent."
He wasn't planning on stealing any human's talent, not because he would feel bad but because he needs them to hold out in the second phase of the tutorial against the other planets for as long as possible so he could have the most time possible to get as strong as possible in the tutorial.
After thinking about it for a while he chose to steal the only [SS-grade] talent on earth for the [King of hell], mainly because of its rank but also because fire is a verry common and destructive element, so a lot of pure DPS mages use it, having a big resistance against that kind of element is always welcome.
Oliver wanted to get to meditating as soon as possible so he went straight to [hells paradise] to absorb the kings trait.
After arriving in the boss room, he wasted no time.
"Absorb the magic array [fire immunity (SS-grade)] from [King of hell (SS-grade)]."
[are you sure you want to absorb the talent [fire immunity (SS-grade)]]
"yes"
[you have gained the talent [fire immunity (SS-grade)]]
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[fire immunity (SS-grade)]
-you do not feel discomfort or pain in extreme heat
-fire damage done to you decreases by 85%
-you feel more attuned with the fire element, fire affinity gets a decent increase
Description: brings the user closer to the element of fire itself.
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Oliver was a little surprised that a simple resistance talent could have so many effects, but after some consideration he found it reasonable, it is [SS-grade] after all.
After his first run was done, he did a second to confirm his suspicion, and he was right, the newly spawned King still had his talent even though the last one was taken away.
Now that he had completed his goal he went into meditation for the next 30 days, until he could copy another talent or skill.