Chapter 222: In the way joining the party (1/2)

Shingi and White Biscuit quickly made through the floors, especially since they didn't try to clear them all. Shingi primarily tested the new sword after the Spirit Child was awake, taking two days to awake.

Sinhunter didn't seem to like the 'new kid' since it could use more Elements than it. On the other hand, Shingi could use its runes, which allowed him to do different things.

He could use it similarly to his staff to boost his mana and purify it to empower his spell. He could also make it produce its mana to be used to spell-like attacks, that even a non-arcane user could use them, as far as they became familiar with how those attacks worked.

It was harder to use because of its size, and his STR was too low to use a greatsword efficiently, and he had a mage class. However, he could still use its rune effectively. Even if the extra effect of special attacks was beneficial, it was almost useless without swinging the sword efficiently.

It was still quite helpful to use and was faster to change between the Elemental Boosting Runes than with his staff because of the help of the Spirit Child.

'Maybe we should try to make a staff version next instead.' [Shingi]

Shingi made it to level 60 and couldn't earn another level unless he evolved his Class, or more precisely, he didn't want to earn another level. He could keep leveling up, but if he went over level 60, he couldn't evolve his Class no matter what and would lose lots of benefits.

He wasn't aware how exactly he could evolve his Class or what benefits he would get, but he had a few clues. By checking his inner skill houses, he had found that his MANA SENSE, MANA MANIPULATION, and VISUALIZATION were still requirements. His inner selves at those places had the special tattoo, and all three were of different colors and not black as they were before.

Shingi had thought that the tattoo could mean that those Skills had passed the required proficiency, but it seemed he was wrong, meaning that the level 58, he had to have them in a higher Rank. That meant he would need to have MANA SENSE and MANA MANIPULATION to Grandmaster Rank and VISUALIZATION to Divine Rank, which for the latter was impossible to do so.

Or at least that was what Shingi thought to be the case.

'There can be only one person alive with VISUALIZATION at Divine Rank, and most people who reached a Skill at that Rank is a God or Goddess. But I don't think I had heard of one with that high VISUALIZATION.'[Shingi]

He didn't know of all the Gods, and not every God and Goddess became to be like that by getting a Skill to Divine Rank. Still, he wondered if indeed there was nobody who had reached the Divine Rank on that Skill.

He didn't have to worry about it now, though.

He rechecked the tattoos and noticed that they changed, and he seemed to miss only one piece since each was of a similar size to the final pic. He checked all his inner houses of skills and spells, but no sign of his other inner selves having the missing tattoo.

This could mean that he missed the Skill or Spell, or the requirement was something else entirely.

Shingi kept working on increasing his proficiency with both Water and Dark Element, even if he wouldn't try to earn those missing Elements yet for his Mana Tree. He wanted to increase his Mana Pool even more, which he hoped would be the case when his Class would get evolved. He had more MP than one with his stats should have because of the Blessing of Nyhm, but if he had to have split his Mana Tree to let multiple Elements in it, he needed much more than ordinary people.

Shingi wasn't the only one who improved by going through the floors, but White Biscuit learned more than just a handful of new tricks. Shingi gave him two rings with Elemental Daggers, like the ones he had made for Hineko. He had made improved versions for Hineko, kept the older versions, and gave White Biscuit the latest one he had taken from Hineko.

White Biscuit was a quick learner and could also reach the point of evolving his Class if they cleared a few of the floors. But they were in a hurry, as his students waited for him for some time. So he wanted to meet with them as soon as possible.

Shingi couldn't speak with them through chat, as only the party chat worked while in the Tower, and only for those on the same floor. Still, he could communicate with Marcy, who could communicate with them, but he didn't want to use it this way unless he had something important to say.