Chapter 38 (1/2)

After meditating back up to full health, mana, and stamina, Randidly distributed his PP, finishing the Potion Making I Path. As he had suspected, he earned a skill: Refine, which let him use mana to refine materials to more purified versions of themselves.

Immediately Randidly tried it, making more concentrated versions of the potion ingredients, and producing a mana potion that would restore 130 mana in a single drink. Over the course of it, Refine increased by 2 levels, and Potion making by 1.

Now he was really looking forward to obtaining more containers to hold potions.

Randidly then started on The Monster Slayer Path, which would take 100 PP. He was leery about it, but the fact that the previous rewards were regeneration rates made him commit to it.

He put the rest of his PP in, but was pleasantly surprised to find he also got 1 stat every 10 pp.

Even more pleasantly surprising was the gains from Spear of Rot Mastery. Like Green Spear Mastery, it gave out benefits every 5. But the rotation had changed, to 10 mana, +1 Vitality and Control, +10 Stamina, +2 stats. Basically the only thing that hadn’t changed was the 2 stats; everything else had doubled in effectiveness. Randidly once more pulled up his status screen, and this time focused on his stats.

Randidly Ghosthound

Class: ---

Level: N/A

Health(/R per hour): 206/283 [+6] (120 [+9])

Mana(/R per hour): 139/291 (54.25)

Stam(/R per min): 105/267 (43.5 [+3])

Vit: 35 [+3]

End: 30

Str: 18

Agi: 42 [+3]

Perception: 22

Reaction: 24

Resistance: 9

Willpower: 52

Inteligence: 60

Wisdom: 30

Control: 37

Focus: 19

His current stat total was now at 378, which put him very close to gaining access to the Apprentice Path, and the related skills. What he needed to do now was focus, or at least make a decision in regards to how he wanted to distribute his stats from now on.

Recently he had been putting points into Intelligence, to keep the power of his spells high and to raise his mana pool. In addition, Spear of Rot Mastery would passively give him an acceptable amount of Vitality and Control. What was increasingly becoming clear was that the benefits of not having a class would become more and more evident, as he gained more and more skills, and could accomplish more paths.

It was frustrating that it seemed like most of the higher level paths gave out fewer rewards. In addition, unlike an individual with a few skills that they would polish repeatedly, Randidly spread his attention across a wide variety of things. His skills would be weaker, even if his bag of tricks was larger.

Sighing, Randidly settled back, leaning against a tree. That probably wouldn’t be true until the end game, but it was good to be aware of the drawback now. He needed to choose his direction.

Randidly spent a few minutes reorganizing his skills, sorting them into categories. Then he examined them again.

Skills (Soul Skill):  Spear of Rot Mastery Lvl 35