Chapter 972 (2/2)
Acri flashed outward and diced a nearby golem to pieces in a flash, but the sensation from the cuts was enough to give Randidly pause. It was faint, but there was a slight resistance in the golems bodies. While he was pausing to examine the corpses, a few more golems noticed Randidly’s calamitous arrival in rumbled in fury.
Casually, Randidly reached down and touched the monster’s remains, heedless of the dozen or so golems charging toward him. Huh… they aren’t just stone. There is quite a bit of metal content in here… killing these will be much faster than just finding some random mine to harvest while I’m in the Dungeon…
Huhuhu, is this the world telling me that forging is the right Path? Well, I suppose that it won’t matter either way if I help myself to these corpses...
Randidly looked up sharply. Roots ripped upward with enough of an edge to pierce through the firm bodies of the golems. As the monster struggled to crush Randidly with their heavy fists, Randidly simply buried them underneath waves of thorny vines.
As monsters fell, they screamed, calling out to more of the kindred. Soon, hundreds of golems were rumbling out of the nearby mountainside caves to attack Randidly. As they poured toward him and were killed by his Skills and not Acri, Randidly got his first long overdue Level.
Congratulations! You have reached Level 45! +8 Stats distributed between Vitality, Perception, Resist, Intelligence, and Control, +20 Free Stats! +1 Stat to a Mental Stat. +1 to a Physical Defense Stat. +1 to a Mental Support Stat. +2 Control. +36 Health, +40 Mana, +40 Stamina, +3.5 to all Regenerations! +1 to Health and Stamina Regeneration!
Due to Guidance of the Wraith Adder, +4 Agility and +2 Bonus Stats!
Congratulations! You have learned the Skill Sigil of an Approaching Fate (A) Lvl 1!
Sigil of an Approaching Fate (A): Mark an opponent with a mysterious ancient curse, allowing you to track the opponent’s position across distance, no matter how large. When a Skill or attack his an opponent marked with your curse, the curse activates to deal a slight amount of damage. Mana cost decreases with Skill Level. Specificity of tracking increases with Skill Level. Damage increases with Skill Level. Number of active Sigils possible increases with Skill Level. Current Number: 1.
While Randidly continued casually killing the attack golems, he considered this new Skill. Interesting… but it looks like it's the sort that is designed for strong opponents. If I kill things too quickly, I won’t have much of a chance to Level up its abilities. But on the other hand…
Randidly’s eyes flashed. If I Level it up enough, I can have more Sigils active. It probably isn’t too difficult to remove for those who understand Aether, but it might be easier to agree to Lyra’s request if I can place one of these Sigils on her to keep tabs on her…
In order to see the effect, Randidly used the Skill a few times on some of the tougher golems that rushed over to be harvested by him.
Certainly the first thing Randidly noticed was that the Mana cost was not small. To activate it took about 500 Mana, and then it required about one Mana a second to keep the sigil active. In terms of tracking, even at the low Level it gave Randidly two pieces of information. When he saw the monster he had marked, he recognized it immediately. And he also possessed an internal compass that pointed toward it.
Because his the amount of damage he inflicted was already too high for even these defensive monsters to handle, Randidly couldn't really draw any conclusions from the offensive portion of the Skill. But based on the Mana cost, Randidly assumed it wasn’t small. Or at least he hoped he would receive a large amount of damage based on the amount of Mana he pumped into the Skill.
Besides the actual details of the Skill, Randidly was fascinated by the actual formation of the Skill. When he used it, glowing golden light gathered in his hand until a sigil formed there, ready to be thrown out toward an enemy. But if Randidly didn’t throw out the Skill, it stayed on his hand and continued to marginally shift.
By the end of five minutes of observation, it had completely changed. But Randidly was endlessly fascinated by the form it took.
It isn’t exactly engraving, but it's also not exactly just a simple construct of Aether. Randidly thought as he narrowed his eyes and considered the sigil. I’ve always sorta assumed that the difference between Engraving and Aether constructs was just the underlying energy, but I’ve never been able to truly connect the two. But as I look at this…
ROAAAAAR!!!!
A towering Level 62 Golem showed up, almost double as tall as its fellows. It immediately began to stride toward its own doom.
Randidly shook his head sadly. “If you really want to be harvested me so badly, don’t mind if I do~”