Chapter 1283 (2/2)

During the process, Randidly could even feel the Skill almost trying to resist his capability to Level it and normalizing the Leveling speed. But as he understood the essence and focus of the Skill, he could push past those limits. In a way, it was similar to the limits in understanding imposed by Leveling his Fates. But with normal Skill you could make up for understanding with hard work.

But since understanding helped… Randidly wasn’t going to miss out on the chance to earn some more PP.

Especially because he received a new Skill along with reaching Level 60.

Congratulations! You have learned the Skill Ray of the Desolate Dawn (R)!

Ray of the Desolate Dawn (R): Shoot a blast of light toward either a friend or foe. When hitting an ally, the ally’s Health, Mana, and Stamina regeneration will be greatly increased for a short amount of time. When hitting an enemy, Ray will burn and blind the target. The effect increases the longer the ray is on the target. The length of effect increases with Skill Level. Magnitude of effect increases with Skill Level. Damage to foes increases with Skill Level.

With a fresh Skill at Level 1, Randidly intended to really test the limits of how quickly he could push a Skill’s Level upward. But before he did that, he had another unfortunate task to accomplish. After returning to his floating island in the sky, he descended to Kharon and went to one of the more private bathhouses reserved for the Order Ducis. His rinsed away the blood and sweat that stained his knuckles and then quickly dried off.

When he was dressed, he used one of his nicer casual outfits; a pair of leather pants combined with a deep green shirt. Then he went to find Tatiana.

Finding Tatiana was quite easy, but it was more difficult for Randidly to approach her without causing a scene. Because of the Ogre Lord Wolfram’s larger size, he couldn’t comfortably fit into any of the buildings in Kharon. And because he had apparently made himself quite indispensable to Tatiana’s project of helping the ogres relocate, they had commandeered one of the nearby parks and set up a mobile office underneath a large tent.

But the area was teeming with ogres and merchants that were patiently waiting for the opportunity to walk in and talk with Tatiana. Each meeting perhaps only took five to ten minutes, but there were almost two dozen people patiently waiting for their turn. Apparently the situation in the park was well known, because several enterprising, floating food-platforms floated down and began to sell snacks and drinks to the assembled crowd.

Obviously, Randidly could cut in front of everyone, but that felt a little bit…

It took thirty minutes, during which time the crowd perhaps doubled in size as more people seemed to need Tattiana’s guidance, for Randidly to over come his unwillingness to take advantage of his influence.

He used Grim Intuition to monitor the situation within the tent and when the applicant was leaving, Randidly made his move. He moved quickly to the back of the crowd and then strode purposefully through everyone with a little bit of the pressure from his Nether Might leaking out into the air.

Human and ogre alike instantly fell silent and craned their neck to stare at him as Randidly imperiously stalked by. The only noise was the sizzle of frying foods on the floating food platforms.

Although Randidly had spent some time associating with the people of Kharon during the party thrown a week ago, the population of Kharon was too large for everyone to have even caught sight of him or talked to him. So for many, this was probably their first time seeing Randidly Ghosthound in the flesh.

And for the ogres, they looked intently at the man who had subdued their Ogre Lord and now held sway over their people in the foreseeable future. Their gazes were intense. Randidly wondered what they saw when they looked at him.

Because he had moved quickly, Randidly reached the from of the tent before the person within had reached the exit. So the person inside was surprised when the tent flap was pulled open just as she was reaching for it.

She was a human merchant, and she froze like a rat caught stealing a piece of trash when she saw Randidly. Her eyes went very round.

“I… It’s nice… my name….!”

Her whole body was trembling as she struggled to find the words after recognizing Randidly. But Randidly gave her a meaningful look.

Instantly, the woman jumped out of the tent. “I’m so sorry!”

Randidly touched her shoulder lightly as he walked briskly past her. “Thanks for the hard work.”

Then he allowed the tent flap to close behind him.