Chapter 760 (1/2)

After glancing over his gains, Randidly had to chuckle. It was easy for him now to appreciate what the incubation time in that prison had given him, but at the time… Randidly had truly sweated his future somewhat. Initially, suspended in the darkness without the benefit of the ability to move…

If not for Randidly touching lightly on the ability to conjure Skills without actually using them in his fight with Helen, he would have been a loss.

Still, it had been a stressful time. And that stress was the finest fertilizer for improving Skill Levels.

Assuming you survive of course.

Randidly had gained a smattering of Skill Levels, less than five, in quite a few ancillary Skills. The beneficiaries of this small growth were Combat Proficiency, the Glittering Leaves of Yggdrasil, Physical Fitness, Heavy Blow, Dodge, Idiosyncratic Cut, Stalemate Breaker, Counter, Sharpness, Spriggit’s Tinkering, Volatile Ash, the Inevitable Phantom Arrives, Breath of the Spear Phantom, Ignition Bolt, Eruption of the Blazing Leyline, Pain Resistance, and Engineering Savvy.

Meanwhile, Randidly had much larger gains, some as high as ten Skill Levels, in Spear Mastery, Fighting Experience, Embrace of the Wild Phantom, Spear Advances Ash Trails, Yyrwood Body of Yggdrasil, Golden Roots of Yggdrasil, Talon Strike, Chosen of Ash, Aether Detection, Absolute Timing, Crown of Cataclysm and Gloom, and When a Shadow Departs Fireflies Dance.

Just the PP from all those gains combined, plus the leftover Randidly had after the Helen fight, totaled at 202. But that didn’t include the big winners from the experience.

Frigid Ash, Extinguishing Storm, which was created in the Helen fight, might not see as much use as the other Skills, but its image had been constantly refined during his initial time in the darkness and then when Randidly had traveled through his own Soulskill. For that, he had gained 27 Skill Levels.

Grasp of the World Seed was slightly less impressive but was still an integral part of Randidly’s escape plan. Although most of the time Randidly was struggling to find a way around the downsides of the image, he was still intimately familiar with the image. More so than he had ever been in the past. Therefore, Randidly had earned 18 Levels in that Skill.

Ignition of the Emerald Essence only gained 12 Skill Levels, but Randidly knew that that would rise quickly as he used his fire Skills more often. Of all the Skills Randidly had made, he was most proud of this one. Perhaps not due to its power, but simply due to the raw determination it had taken for him to reach the point where he had made the connection to create it.

All is Ash had gained 18 Skill Levels. It had settled as one of his core Skills both for mobility, defense, and destructive power. His usage against the Propagator and Darke had been less than impressive, but Randidly wished dearly for another chance.

He would make those two regret capturing him.

Aether Manipulation jumped but by 14 Skill Levels. So much of Randidly’s escape would have been much more tedious if he wasn’t able to use Aether as freely as he was. In a similar vein, Mana Engraving had increased by 22 Levels. Randidly suspected that a lot of this was due to the method he had used; without a Skill, he had managed to conjure extremely weak Mana Engraving on a large scale.

Such an ability had relatively few applications. But Randidly had a few ideas that he would like to try when he returned to Earth. He and Sam would undoubtedly be able to make something of the Skills that he had.

Of course, there was one main beneficiary of Randidly’s time in the underground prison. Visualization had increased by a grand total of 41 Skill Levels. Making the total amount of Randidly’s gains a little over 350 PP.

There was a brief moment where Randidly considered waiting until he remade his Soulskill to spend his PP, but he honestly had no idea when the shifting forces in his Soulskill would settle enough for him to make the change. 350 PP was not a small amount. It usually took him almost six months to earn that much. Especially considering Randidly’s goal of stepping onto the world stage and finding out about the Second Calamity, it did not seem wise to wait.

So Randidly finished off his Mana Ghoul Path, using a little less than 150.