83 The Effects of the Realms Essence (1/2)

A youth and a little wolf appeared from nowhere on the top of a small hill. They were Yale and Wyba who had just left the special realm.

Yale had changed a lot due to the realm's essence effects, he had grown a lot, and currently, he had the appearance of a fourteen years old youth, but he had used less than a year to absorb the essence. Thus, Yale was only eleven and two months when he appeared at the hill's top even if he looked older.

It wasn't that Yale's body had aged more quickly, it was that his body had developed more quickly due to the essence he absorbed.

That wasn't that strange as some noble kids also appeared to be older than their real age due having absorbed natural treasures that nourished their bodies.

However, they mostly appeared one or two years older, not three, the quality of the essence was far higher than those natural treasures.

As the nobles used to reach the rank 1 quickly compared with commoners, if their bodies weren't more grown due to the natural treasures, they would look like kids for a lot of time, and to melee battles having a small body was a huge disadvantage unless the battle style was purely focused on speed and dodging.

Yale was happy that his body had grown, he didn't think about reaching Rank 1 soon, but as he liked to battle in short range with the sword, his body after absorbing the essence was better than his previous one.

Yale's appearance wasn't the only change he had because he had already reached the 6-star mortal rank. Even he himself was surprised by how quick he advanced.

”Name: Yale | Age: 11 | Origin Level: 6 |Origin Points: 57/57”

”Vitality: 58 | Strength: 60 | Agility: 60 | Intelligence: 58 | Wisdom: 58 | Dexterity: 56”

He wasn't merely at the 6-star mortal realm; he was near the 7-star with already two stats maxed. If he had managed to absorb the realm's essence before it started to self-destruct, his realm would have increased even more.

The system had said to him that he should reach the 7-star mortal rank before turning thirteen, but given his current stats and age, that wouldn't be a problem.

Yale's talents and skills had also improved due to the essence effects. Yale's time affinity reached the perfect grade, and his space affinity reached the high grade.

Time Healing had reached the twentieth level and thanks to the combination of the level up plus the increase in time affinity decreased by half the cost by second. After leaving the special realm every second of Yale's Time Healing only needed ten Origin Points.

Auto-regeneration, as was also based in the time element, had leveled up until the thirtieth level, making Yale's regeneration speed increase a lot.

However, the most valuable upgrade to Yale was in Absolute Protection as the range and duration had doubled. Furthermore, Yale turned able to use it once every three days instead of once in a week like before.

Yale had also received the Appraisal function thanks to completing the sub-quest. Before leaving the realm, he had used it on his own sword.

”Space-time Judgment Sword: Divine weapon created by the user's past life and Great Forgemaster Tofesh. Affiliated with the Laws of Time, Space, Life and Death. The sword curses the wicked opponents torturing them until their souls become completely dissipated. Those who weren't wicked would be forcefully reincarnated after being killed with the sword.”

Yale didn't find anything new in that information besides the name of the sword, but that appraisal triggered the last hidden essence from the special realm which after being absorbed, granted Yale with a new passive skill.

However, the special realm had increased the self-destruction speed just after that as it had lost all the essence. Thus, Yale quickly picked all the possessions of the nobles he had killed before and left the realm without checking the skill he had obtained.

After Yale appeared in the top of the hill, he finally went to check his new Passive Skill

”Smith Mastery: Apprentice Level 1. Increase the chances of successfully forging a weapon. The skill can be leveled up by practicing the art of forging.”

Yale looked at the sky from the top of the hill and smiled as he understood why the most hidden essence of the realm gave him such skill after appraising the sword. That was Tofesh last gift to him before the realm disappeared forever.

Yale guessed that in his past life he shouldn't have any talent to improve in the art of forging as he had needed to rely upon an external source to make the sword. It made sense that Tofesh knew that and wanted to help his friend's next life.