Ray went to the training grounds and asked the instructors to duel him.
All the instructors in the training ground were powerful knights who had made a name in the battlefield, and when Ray entered, there were seven instructors moving around.
Each instructor trained new soldiers on their own field. One of them was a swordsman, while one used a spear; the third instructor used two handed swords, and the fourth one battled with heavy weapons like clubs and hammers. The fifth instructor was an elf, and used a bow while the last two used bare handed martial arts, but both had a different style. One was more defensive, while the other was more offensive.
The instructors for the other weapons like the saber, halberd, daggers were assigned to other days.
Ray dueled each of them in their own profession and defeated them pretty easily.
After all, he had already defeated them lots of times in the past.
The people in the palace who had dueled Ray in the past knew that he was an absolute monster and proficient in every weapon and even magic, while the ones who didn't know him well thought he was just a handsome prince.
As such, whenever he asked them to duel him, it was them that learned more than him.
Instructors getting defeated in front of the trainees by a young lad? Shouldn't that cause embarrassment?
None of them even thought of that. One couldn't reach greater heights with such a petty personality and even then, they considered being able to duel the future emperor and learning from him a boon.
As such, Ray generated 7 side quests. Since these people were weaker compared to him, there were no skills as rewards. Just points. 50 points each for a total of 350 points.
Next, he went to the mage organization again and did a magic duel with fifteen people, again generating side quests from the pride system, getting 50 points from each.
By the time he finished dueling everyone, it was evening.
He looked at the black screen in front of him with a satisfied grin.
[Current Balance: 1100]
'The Pride System could be used to easily farm points. But I can generate one side quest from one person only. If I challenge the same person to a duel again, no quest will be generated…'
Next he went around a few more places, challenging a lot of people in random things like chess, magic control, potion making and even smithing.
Though he only challenged low level potion makers and blacksmiths, because he wasn't really proficient in those areas he kept raking points until it was almost night when he returned to his room.
[Current Balance: 3200]
'Alright, first of all buy 5 Rank Up Cards!'
[Obtained 'Skill Rank Up Card' x5]
[Remaining Balance: 2600]
Then he focused on his skills before making a decision.
[Skill: Dreamscape (Passive)
Rank: B
Description: Can control and remember your dreams
Restriction: Dream world is extremely small]
['Skill Rank Up Card' x1 used]
[Dreamscape (B) has been upgraded to Dreamspace (A)]
[Skill: Dreamspace (Passive)
Rank: A
Description: Can build a world in your dreams every time you sleep, control everything in your dream world, and remember everything even after waking up.
Restriction: Dream world is destroyed after you wake up]
['Skill Rank Up Card' x2 used]
[Dreamspace (A) has been upgraded to Dream World (S)]
[Skill: Dream World (Passive)
Rank: S
Description: Make your own dream world. Go on. Do it. Everything is under your control. If you unlock space skills, you can send your mind to the dream realm.
Restriction: The world you make is illusionary; it exists only in your mind and dreams]
'Finally! I just have to unlock space skills now and I can visit the dream realm!'
Ray decided to think about the dream realm at a later date, and continued what he was doing.
This time he focused on a different skill.
[Skill: Dream Control (Active)
Rank: A
Description: Can view and control dreams of slaves under host
Restriction: Slaves do not completely remember the dreams.]
['Skill Rank Up Card' x1 used]
[Skill: Dream Weaver (Active)
Rank: S
Description: Can view and control dreams of people with a weaker mind than host.
Restriction: Since it's a dream, no one can feel anything physically]
'Alright now… Synthesis! Combine Dream World and Dream Weaver!'
[Similar skills have selected. Skills will be synthesized!]
[Synthesis successful!]
[Skill: Dream Lord
Rank: SS
Description: People are sleeping? It's your territory. Can build a dream world, can pull others into dream world and show then things you want. Lots more, it's a dream world after all. Everything depends on your creativity.
Restriction: Cannot affect people physically. People can leave the dream if they wake up.]
'Perfect… I still have 1 rank up card… upgrade suggestion!'
['Skill Rank Up Card' x1 used]
[Skill: Suggestion
Rank: SS
Description: You can remotely control the speed and growth of a thought planted in someone.
Restriction: Cannot plant thoughts that completely clash with the target's will]
'Preparations for mission Isis complete!'
Ray looked at the magic timer hanging in his wall and knew that the conference would end after probably another half an hour and Isis would return to her room.
Since he had about half an hour of free time and quite a lot of points to spend, he decided to make preparations to his visit East and North beforehand.
'I won't do anything drastic in the East this time, so I don't need anything really… but for the North…'
The Northern Duke Ono Kazuo was a feared military general while his system made him stronger the more blood he spilled.
He was a middle aged man with three wives and was pretty loyal to the empire. The only thing he cared about was his family. And in his second life someone had done something to his family, he didn't know the complete details, but that had caused this duke to join the conspiracy in killing him.
And right now, his most loved second wife, who he made the duchess, was suffering from an illness?
Only a buffoon would believe this was a coincidence.
Appraisers could appraise a person and tell their system and at most a few stats or a few skills if he was the very best of the best. But they couldn't tell any weird condition afflicting them.
At least normal people couldn't.
Ray opened the shop and found out the divine system special functions and after scrolling through a long list clicked on something.
[Dive System Support Skill: Appraisal (Divine) additional view option: Status ailment
Price: 300 points]
'Buy!'
[A special function has been added to system innate skill Appraisal (Divine)]
[Remaining Balance: 2300]
Ray decided he would keep the remaining points in case of emergency, and looked at the time again.
After a few more minutes of idling around, when he thought Isis would have returned, he decided to make his first move.