Link, who just came out of the station, saw a barren plain stretched till horizon.
Sky in this realm wasn't blue but gray, and the air smelled a little rotten. Link didn't like this kind of environment.
But he still tried to adapt to this environment, After taking a deep breath Link started to move ahead.
While moving, Link opened his panel. After thinking about it a bit he made the decision to use his amplification module on his f-level spell small fireball.
Link was very excited to see the effect of using his module.
Link dragged the spell to the module and pressed on it, An invisible brilliance flashed, and the next moment the mechanical voice prompt sounded in Link's mind.
"Ding, F- level skill little fireball has been amplified by fivefold, becoming E-level skill Blast."
Link's breathing stagnated in excitement. Skill level went straight from F-level to E-level. If he didn't remember wrong, doesn't this upgrade make him as strong as a first level wizard.
Link clicked on skill to read the description in the panel.
[Blast: Summons a huge fireball while causing fire damage in the targeted area, targeted area depends on intelligence attribute.
Damage: 50+magic attack.
Cost: 20 mana.
Cooldown: 2 sec.]
Link remembered that small fireball's damage was (10+0.5*magical attack).
Link's magical attack is at 20 so that would make small fireball's damage around 20.
But now Blast has damage of 70, that is more than thrice of previous spell. If he compared both of them on the basis of damage, it would be the same as comparing a rifle with mortar.
This will make his hunting life very smooth. If we talk about first level monsters, then most of them have 60-70 hp on average except elite and boss monsters.
Second level monsters have hp in 100s. So Link was looking forward to the upcoming hunt.
After walking for some time, Link bypassed many lonely skeleton monsters, zombies, Skeleton dogs. Soon Link found a skeleton camp in the distance.
Link used rocks as cover and tried to scout the camp. The skeleton camp's size was about 20m by 10m. There were a lot of skeleton warriors and one skeleton mage in the camp.
Link was about 30m away from the skeleton camp. Link started to cast Blast spell. Fire elements started to gather near him, they were expanding rapidly. Just in while a fireball the size of football condensed in front of him.
Link pointed his staff towards the skeleton camp and fireball started moving towards camp rapidly and landed on the skeleton group.
BOOM!!!
After the fireball landed in the camp, it exploded while making an ear-shattering sound. Explosion covered a radius of ten meters. Link, who was standing far away from the camp, could feel heat waves coming from the explosion.
As fireball landed on the group of the skeletons, damage started appearing over the group of skeletons as bone fragments of skeletons were blown away.
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"Ding killed a level-1 skeleton warrior to gain 1 experience point."
"Ding killed a level-1 skeleton warrior to gain 1 experience point."
"Ding killed a level-1 skeleton Dog to gain 1 experience point."
"Ding killed a level-1 zombie to gain 1 experience point"
"..."
As skeleton monsters were being killed in the spells, system panel started to show prompt related to the kills.
Link wasn't standing in vain, he started to cast the second round of the Blast spell soon after countdown.
After Link attacked one more time, the system panel also started updating kill feed.
"Ding killed a level-2 skeleton mage to gain 2 experience point."
"Ding killed a level-2 skeleton warrior to gain 2 experience point."
"..."
All the remaining skeleton warriors and mages died in the camp. Link also nodded after seeing his kill feed. He was very cautious when hunting these monsters, it was real life after all.
Link's experience also skyrocketed after a while. Link looked at all the skeleton fragments that were blown by the explosion. A pit was formed in the place of the camp.
It will be hard to capture such a camp by a level 2 or 3 adventurers, but Link's two blast can decimate such a camp in short time.
E-level spells in the hand of an apprentice mage are too powerful. After getting used to this feeling, Link also found out why people admired rare professionals. They are also capable of doing this kind of damage.
Link went towards the camp and started collecting all the fallen materials and items.
Link picked up 10 Skeleton Bones, 6 Bone Dust, and an undead orb dropped by the skeleton mage. They are all F-level materials.
Just as Link was picking up all the loot, a bone fragment came into his sight, he almost missed it. Bone fragment was different from other fragments, it didn't lose its luster after being damaged by Blast.
Link went over and picked it up. It was a small bone amulet. Link was surprised to find out that the skeleton mage also dropped this amulet. Link was very happy with his luck.
[Necromancer's Bone(f)
Type: Amulet
Mana recovery speed: +1
No level requirements]
Link was very happy to find out this amulet, although mana recovery speed wasn't good but don't forget that Link can use his unique module to boost its power.
Link thought about it and decided to amplify the amulet, Link repeated the same process as before. Just as the link pressed for upgrade, 50 experience points were deducted automatically.
After a while a white light flashed in front of him with a prompt.
"Ding Necromancer's Bone(f) is amplified by five fold and upgraded to Necromancer's Refined Bone (e)."
[Necromancer's Refined Bone (e)
Amulet
Intelligence +5
Mana recovery speed +2
No level requirement.]
Link was excited after seeing the description of the upgraded amulet.
Damn it!
"Is it that easy to get E-level equipment?" Link thought to himself.
After enjoying the benefits that came with his unique module, Link's imagination ran wild. He thought of using this module to upgrade a lot of items and sell them in the market while enjoying a rich life. But after a while Link came back to his senses.
Link knew that he could never expose his unique ability to the others and this world is not a peace loving world. Power is most important in this world. If you own something way out of your strength then you will only cause a disaster for yourself and your loved ones.
So Link decided not to use this ability to make money except in emergencies. If he is strong enough then money will come to him by itself.
Link shook his head and stopped thinking about it. But not using this ability to make money doesn't mean that he will not use it for himself, like right now.
Newly upgraded amulet can provide additional 5 intelligence to him. That will increase his magic attack by 10 points, making it 30. And his mana capacity will increase by 50. Now he has 150 mana.
Now he can use Blast spell two more times. With mana recovery speed of +2, he can recover 2 mana points per second.
The most insane thing about this equipment is that it has no level requirement. For an apprentice having this kind of equipment is too overpowered. Even first level mages will fight for this kind of equipment.
Putting the amulet on his back, Link started upgrading his robe and staff.
"Ding, F-level apprentice staff has been upgraded to E-level staff "Inferno staff"."
Just as staff was upgraded, Link's experience decreased to single digit.
[ Inferno Staff(e)
Type: Staff
Physical attack: +5
Magic attack: +10
Intelligence: +5 ]
After equipping the Inferno staff, Link opened his profile from the panel.
Name: Link
Occupation: Apprentice Mage
Level: lv1 (9/100)
Life: 100
Mana: 100+50+50
Physical Attack: 16
Magic Attack: 20+10+10
Strength: 8
Stamina: 7
Agility: 6
Intelligence: 10+5+5
Equipment: Necromancer's Refined Bone(e), Inferno staff(e), Apprentice robe(f)
Skill: Blast(e)
Module (Unique): Amplification.