"Atlan, you coming?" Neumann and the rest of them walked up the stairs of the HeadQuarters. Atlan stayed at the bottom of the stairs, still looking at the words in front of him.
He slowly caught up to them as he tried to understand everything.
[You have the two same LifeSkills. Do you want to fuse?]
[Upgrade Points required: 1,000]
First of all, he unexpectedly gained another LifeSkill from killing the Pseudo Canzer. This proved that getting that kind of benefit was luck-based.
Is a Genus rarer than a LifeSkill?
It must have also been the reason why he didn't get a Genus this time.
He also gained the exact same LifeSkill as before. When he looked at his Soul System, he saw the same two brown, transparent planets beside each other.
—Mage: (F) Mucus Spray
———1st stage Student Realm
————(0 / 1000)
—Mage: (F) Mucus Spray
———1st stage Student Realm
————(0 / 1000)
According to the words, he was able to merge these two LifeSkills into one. As for what the effect would be, he didn't know.
The only way he was going to know was to find out. And even if fusing the two LifeSkills were somehow adverse to his progress, then he wouldn't feel that regretful.
These two LifeSkills were only F class. He wouldn't be wasting much.
The problem was that merging these two required something called Upgrade Points.
Wait a minute…
Atlan massaged his head and tried to recall his memories from the day before.
Aside from getting 10,000 Experience from reaping the extinction of the Angels, Atlan seemed to have remembered gaining something else.
Because he passed out before seeing the words, his memory had been all messed up since.
It was only now that he remembered it.
[You have gained 1,000,000 Upgrade Points]
All this time, he obtained a million Upgrade Points from reaping the extinction of Angels! He just forgot about it.
He looked down at his Soul System and saw geometrical objects: triangles, squares, and polygons gathered together into a giant fuzzy ball.
The blue wisps represented his current Experience Points.
The red geometrical objects represented his Upgrade Points.
And even though his Experience points were much fewer than his Upgrade points, both of them had roughly the same volume sphere like an asteroid.
This was only possible because the red shapes of his Upgrade Points were much smaller than the blue wisps, almost microscopical.
When he decided to fuse the two F class LifeSkills, a thousand of the red shapes suddenly shot out into a string towards the two LifeSkill planets.
The string of Upgrade Points then wove the two planets together tightly. The mysterious force from the glowing red shapes pushed the two LifeSkills together until they overlapped.
And as the planets got pushed further into each other, an opposite force from the planets tried to resist the union of the LifeSkills.
Fortunately, the strength of the red shapes was enough to finally push the two together.
The union resulted in a large shockwave that destroyed the string of red shapes. It disintegrated into nothing after completing its job.
[You have fused the two LifeSkills]
—Mage: (D) Mucus Spray
———1st stage Student Realm
————(0 / 1000)
The result ended up changing the LifeSkill's class from (F) class to (D) class!
This was a feat that would leave the entire world in an uproar if they found out.
As far as Atlan knew, there was no way for a Savior to change their LifeSkill's class. If someone got drafted with a (C) class LifeSkill, then that would be their class forever.
The class of a LifeSkill either made or broke a person's dream of entering a God's Territory.
Those in the Unclaimed Lands who got drafted with an (F) class LifeSkill had no chance to ever step foot into a City or a Town.
They would die in the Unclaimed Lands.
But somehow, Atlan could do it. He successfully turned a worthless LifeSkill into something that could get accepted into a small village. That could be the difference between living for ten years or living a hundred.
The implications of this burned a fire in Atlan's imagination.
Can I keep upgrading LifeSkills till they all turn into S class? SS class? Or maybe even SSS class?
"Woah! That was close!" Neumann grabbed Atlan's shoulders before he bumped into someone who was in a hurry.
Atlan looked around and noticed he was back at the reception area of the HeadQuarters. Not only that, his surroundings returned to their normal color. The walls and flooring turned back into the pure white marble that he saw the first time.
Unknowingly, he already left the Remedium and was back in the real world.
He was so absorbed in looking at the Soul System that he didn't notice it at all!
And he almost bumped into someone by the looks of it.
"Sorry." He quickly apologized.
He looked up and saw that the man he almost bumped into looked a little bit older than a middle-aged man, with side-shaven gray and pepper hair.
The man also wore the same green battle suit that Atlan was wearing, but it had more modifications as well as medals and ribbons adorned around his chest.
"It's fine, hahaha! The young man was clearly too absorbed in his Soul System. I was like you once. What's your name, young'un?"
"Atlan…sir."
"My name is Garuun. I hope to see you defending the City in the future. But for now, I'll have to carry the burden. So, you'll have to excuse me as I go do my job."
Garuun, without a second word, left the HeadQuarters with the rest of his team.
As they opened the doors, Atlan was able to see a glimpse of the City and its outskirts. A large billowing cloud of smoke enveloped one of the districts in the distance.
Garuun and his team all mounted their horses and took off in that direction.
"Hmmm…the symptoms must be serious. They're bringing out the big guns," commented Wemby.
"Who was that?"
"That's Garuun and his team. They're all in the Specialist Realm. That's three realms above us.
He's also like you. He's a Porter."