145 Level (1/2)

When Ivan woke up again, it was already the next day and the sun shone softly inside the room.

Unlike yesterday, his body now felt a lot better. Although he still felt powerless, it wasn't to the point that he was unable to move. Even the pain had gone down and was now only a slight sting throughout his whole body.

He carefully lifted up his upper body into a sitting position. When he was able to do this without the pain getting worse or feeling exhausted, he was relieved and delighted.

”Seems like the short term problems aren't bad. As for the long term problems...”, he didn't continue but instead checked his character info.

Before the character screen opened another message popped up.

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This info solved some questions Ivan had. Now that his stats were capped at 50, his combat strength would be much higher than that, since all his shadow stats, which weren't influenced had at least the same value, if not twice as much. Having level 50 would make all dungeons that had a difficulty, that was level based, very easy to him.

And then there was the question with the training dungeon. If his level fell, then wouldn't they be unable to do it in nightmare mode. Not that he knew whether he was still able to do it, now that he was weaker than before.

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After he had finished reading his character screen, it was as he expected. Although his attributes were now at 50 his shadow stats were still there and with their value and his skills pulled up his level to 200. Although it was lower, it was still quite high.

The question was how he could get stronger now. The shadow stat gain from 'Shadow Stats' ' required him to increase his attributes first. Then he would usually reduce them again with 'Reincarnation'.

And this was something that would work if the attributes weren't capped at 50. 50 was a threshold, which meant that he couldn't reduce them further. Although he hadn't run into this situation before, since he never had 50 in all attributes, from what he had read it wasn't possible to go back to 49 if an attribute was at 50 before. This meant that he was unable to reduce them and then regain them in order to get shadow stats.

This left him with only 'Blood is Power' as a means of increasing his shadow stats. But he felt that this was even harder since it not only required him to get Blood Essence Crystal, but it had a channeling time of five hours and a cooldown of 24 hours, which made it hard to use it productively.

It would only be worth it if he could get his hands on some high-level Blood Essence Crystals. He would need a 100 stat points in Blood Essence Crystals to gain one shadow stat.

All that wouldn't be that much of a problem if he could get the crystals in dungeons, but that was impossible. And to make matters worse: These crystals couldn't be traded with others. He could only use the ones he had gotten himself directly from his foes.

”I guess I'll have to ask Carl then.”, he decided, when he was unable to come up with a good solution. At least his mentor should know where he could find monsters of an appropriate level out in the wilderness.

Ivan slowly stood up completely. He then left the room and went over to his own.

After a long shower, he then chose something comfortable to wear and went downstairs. Not unexpectedly, Celine was sitting on the sofa and was reading something. When she heard his footsteps, she looked up from her book and turned towards the stairs.

When she saw him slowly making his way downwards, she smiled at him.

”Morning.”, she then greeted him and looked him up and down carefully.