Chapter 209 (1/2)
The trembling swiftly became spasms, and Randidly was rolling on the floor of his dark room, his mouth twisted in a grimace. So much for resting before the second half of the preliminary…
Examining Soul Skill…. Adjusting search parameters…Expanding search scope…
Warning! Examination failed. Contacting the user’s Village Spirit…
Warning! No village spirit detected. System guidance insufficient. Recalculating…
Randidly was starting to grow annoyed at these messages. Yes, what he was doing was extremely strange, but that didn’t mean that the System had to make him sit here, waiting for a response, every fucking time he attempted anything. If it would just get its shit together and do a proper search… what he did couldn’t be THAT crazy, right?
Warning! No alternatives could be located. System guidance is impossible. Continue with assimilation anyway? We recommend you proceed to the nearest village-
Randidly ignored the rest of the message and clicked yes.
The trembling increased, and he could feel in his chest, as the tiny world, brimming with life, he had assembled shook. And then the clockwork core began to spin, and the energy it produced began to change and shift. He felt the cool rain energy, the murderous cold, the ash, and the rot, spinning and twining.
It was flowing slowly, those energies, like mercury, running through his veins as the world began to turn. The creatures came alive and began to move and interact. They were still very primitive, but cultures began to form through their interactions.
Assimilation success! Calculating effects…
Congratulations! Your Soul Skill “Cycle of Rot and Ash” has been upgraded to the Soul Skill “Four-Shaded Clockwork World”. All benefits obtained through the previous Soul Skill have been retained. Soul Skill level has been reset to 1.
Congratulations! Due to your Soul Skill “Four-Shaded Clockwork World” you have gained the skills “Hammer of the Dawn Lvl 1” and “Burning Footsteps Lvl 1”. Your Skill Phantom Half Step has been upgraded to “The White Phantom’s Half Step (Un)”. Your Skill Edge of Decay has been upgraded to “Flesh Eating Virus (Un)”.
Hammer of the Dawn: Empower your strike with the light of the dawn, striking from the sky with great force. Costs 250 mana. Size of hammer and damage improves with skill level and Intelligence. Area of Effect improves with Wisdom.
Burning Footsteps: Leave of trail of burning footsteps in your wake, causing mild damage to those who pass over the affected area. Mildly increases speed. Damage Boost and speed boost increase with Skill Level.
Randidly’s eyes widened as he looked at his new skills. Then he looked at his upgraded skills. Basically, the White Phantom’s Half Step cost a sliver more stamina, but was much quicker to activate, and subsequent activations within a short period of time would cost a sliver less than its current cost. So its utility increased, and it became more realistic to use it a lot in quick succession.
The Flesh Eating Virus was very similar to Edge of Decay, but it was faster acting, and it would cause a larger amount of damage if left untreated. The two new skills looked especially interesting, but that would have to wait until he had mana once more to use them, as both were spells.
His chest was still burning, as the strange energies from the Soul Skill circulated through him, but Randidly slowly sat up. All in all… he felt fine. It seemed that the assimilation had gone well enough that there would be no problems for now.