Chapter 163: Enerias World (2/2)

”Should we move our camp, since he knows where we are?” [Wild Tycoon]

”No. It would be a waste of time and energy. He won't go after us yet, as he had invited me to get to him as soon as possible. He probably will monitor us or learn about us if we face other people like Nivlek. I doubt she was the only one.” [Shingi]

He didn't get the chance to ask her if there were more like her, and at floors, they would be, but he would recognize them easily, as they would have the burn mark most likely.

”Let's rest. This forest has some mutated beasts, but their INT is low, so the Repellents would keep them away. As for the Boss, we should face it to weaken the Tower's energy and be certain it won't evolve in the future. It is a Beast-Type Monster itself, so its INT is Low, and its chance to evolve is also low, but these types are dangerous if they evolve. We won't have any problem with it as long as we clear some lairs of the other beasts, as it can call them as reinforcement. Each one will not be an enormous challenge, but facing them together it will be.” [Shingi]

This was one of the few floors that the Boss was a random one. There were different types of lairs, each one with only one type of beasts. One representative from each lair would take part in a battle to the death of all the representatives. The last survivor would be the Boss of the floor, and its kind would get further mutated during his leadership.

The other beasts normally followed the Boss's orders, but it wasn't uncommon for some to attack it to take over the 'throne,' but only if they found the chance. Their INT was still low but was over normal beasts.

The beasts not killed after the Boss died kept those further mutations; that's why Ameanum tried to kill all of them back then. If the mutations stacked, they would be problematic for next time, especially if one of them became the Boss.

Since they were in a forest, he enabled his Earth Element and disabled Light this time. He would need Light Element to use his CAMOUFLAGE or his INVISIBILITY, but most of the beasts here had a pretty good nose, so those Spells would be useless against them.

”So she was supposed to be your mother? That's a crazy family you have here.” [Syra]

”To tell the truth, nothing about my family makes sense. I think I have more questions than answers at this point, and the only one who seems to have those answers is Mikhail. It seems like he wants to speak with me, but I don't know why. He has an agenda, but I am not sure what part I take to it.” [Shingi]

”I have met many families, and I can tell you something that all of them had in common. They were problematic. Some may hide it, some it was open for everyone to see and didn't care, and others don't even know that they had one. But this is what families are for, getting together to face those problems. Or at least that is my opinion.” [Syra]

Shingi seemed to be in deep thoughts after hearing those words.

His family from his father's side was part of an unknown sub-race of humans, his mother used to be a Blessed One, his sister was born with a Mana Pool, and they may be related to a crazy Old Man who thinks there is a great conspiracy that may or may not be true. Mikhail's eyes were gray when Shingi had met him, but those could be his special eyes if he were actually like him.

He didn't know about the eyes or could detect their energy back then, so there was no way to know. But with the discussion he had with Nivlek, he got the feeling that this assumption was correct.

Shingi had some small talk with Syra and trained a bit on his Spirit Mana control since now he could use it.

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SPELL LEARNED

The spell MINOR HEAL (Base Grade) has been learned.

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This was the first healing spell his party had access to, as none of his students were interested in the healing arts, and they had Hineko's potions in case they needed any. But during combat, the regeneration potions wouldn't be as useful. Especially if facing a mighty enemy.

Still, if this was had the word MINOR, it was almost as potent as any of the top Base Grade Healing Spells Shingi had encountered in the game. This was the power of the true Element of healing. He couldn't overuse it, but his limit was quite high because of his eyes, but still, he needed to be careful. If he kept reaching that limit, even if he was lucky enough not to get Spirit Madness, his resistance would get lower, which probably would also decrease his limit.

But the strain of using the Spirit mana didn't take too long to pass, as long as he didn't reach very close to his limit.

Syra explained many of those to him since he didn't have time to do so many tests. The symptoms of overusing Spirit Mana were the same as in her world, which helped with his training, even if drawing their mana from their Mana Pool was different.

He didn't learn any other spells and rested before they started their way around the lairs.

They planned to take them all out, as it would be a superb source of exp for all of them, as the monsters were getting closer to their level.