Chapter 132: Guilt and Pride (1/2)

Even though leveling up has always been Arthur's fastest way to raise his mana, unrestricted by the tier or species of the monster he killed, it still couldn't compare to his Absorb rune in terms of efficacy. However, with Legacy Points added to the equation, leveling up became more important.

He spent the night going through his Legacy Inheritance. Studying each category and learning what he can buy from them. There were six things he currently had access to.

[Artifacts.]

[Potions.]

[Knowledge.]

[Arts.]

[Skills.]

[Runes.]

Artifacts were as their names implied, physical items that were engraved with runes. Arthur didn't need to understand the runes to use them and can simply purchase them to help him like the Dome's Key.

Potions were cheaper than Artifact and had mainly a one-time use buff on his body or others. For example, he found that he could use a regeneration potion even though he didn't have enough points to get the same artifacts.

Runes that worked on the body to increase its effect were unheard of in the world with Arthur being the sole person to use it. That's why potions existed, providing altered chemicals and mana to the body by digestion to achieve similar results.

This also posed the question of runic cards and how uncommon they were in the past. It was true that these cards were manufactured using modern technology and it would be very time-inefficient to create them by hand instead of creating potions.

Arthur remembered how Vihan, the drunk healer from Mistletoe, had used chemicals alongside his ability to heal Arthur's ribs at that time. So even though some runes didn't require a chemical catalyst, others did like the regeneration potion.

After opening Knowledge, Arthur was amazed at the wide array it contained. Potion brewing, blacksmithing, magic circles, soul structure, mana properties, essences, painting, calligraphy, etc. They were so diverse yet Arthur's eyes were grabbed by things like Runes Decoding and Runes Arrays that he almost bought them.

However, he stopped himself. His points were precious and the cheapest of these fields of knowledge were 3 Legacy Points. Furthermore, the legacy explained that this knowledge didn't appear instantaneously in his mind, but inscribed on magic tomes that he could read. Of course, reading from magic tomes was similar to imprinting it directly into your mind.

When he opened Arts, Arthur was greeted with a few items. He already knew what these were. They were techniques of mana manipulation that would generate greater effect than the crude use of mana. For example, if you use your mana through your blood vessels, they would get delivered fast enough without needing to guide them. However, it would give a simple amplification and mana attribute to your attacks at best.

There were certain pathways and quantities of mana that can be used to achieve certain effects. For example, there was an art that Arthur could learn right now that would allow him to achieve instant acceleration.

It was best to start learning these after one becomes a rei-ranker with more abundant reserves of mana. Thus, Arthur didn't feel the urgency of getting them.

Skills and runes were obvious, but Arthur failed to understand why Skills were there. However, after a quick through them, he understood Jizo's intentions. They were there as precautions. If Arthur ever faced an emergency, he could buy a skill instead of a rune for a cheaper price. Even though it would need more mana while providing less effect, some of them were useful in certain situations. Most of them were priced at 1 point for D-rank skills.

Even the simplest runes were priced at 5 points, so Arthur needed to level up faster. Many would allow him to generate unimaginable wealth, like Cure.

After checking the inheritance, Arthur turned to the ring he got from the prince. He smiled with anticipation as he started to decode the storage artifact.

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In a mansion overseeing the ocean from a cliff far away from Kera, all the way across the Great Blood Ocean, Yuran knocked on a room's door. There was no answer, but he waited a bit before opening the door.