Chapter 13
Nine years had passed since Nick started learning magic from Miss Alice. Nick now looked like someone from the cover of a martial arts magazine. His body was heavily trained and hardened by various sword exercises. Over the course of nine years, he had been able to develop many skills to a higher rank, and had achieved the skill level to become a [Rare] Arcane Mage and [Rare] Phantom Sword Adept. Everything was going well. He looked at his status again.
Name: Dylan Ghostblade (Nick Miller) 14 years old
Race: Evolved Human [Rare] Lvl 22
Class: Blocked
Class: Blocked
Health 1310 HP 1.965 HP/hour
Mana 1470 MP 1.12 MP/hour
Endurance 1400 ST 21 ST/hour
Statistics:
Strength 120
Dexterity 135
Stamina 140
Vitality 131
Constitution 127
Intelligence 146
Wisdom 135
Mental Control 150
Willpower 172
Perception 131
Charisma 40
Mana output 112
Mana 147
Mana Regeneration 112
Luck 32
126 free attribute points
Titles: Otherworldly Reincarnator [Legendary+], Rare Skill Holder [Rare].
Racial Skills:
Fast Recovery [Rare+]
Quick Learning [Uncommon]
Low adaptability of characteristics [Common]
Minor Adaptation [Common]
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Lesser Mana Core [Common]
Low Mental Resistance [Common] Lvl 40
Low Poison Resistance [Common] Lvl 18
High Pain Resistance [Uncommon] Lvl 105
Skills:
Great Identification [Special] Lvl 401
Fake Status [Special] Lvl 401
Meditation [Uncommon] Lvl 180
Mana Sense [Uncommon] Lvl 156
Language Proficiency (Ramiast) [Uncommon] Lvl 143
Manipulation of Mana [Uncommon] Lvl 178
Phantom Sword Mastery [Uncommon+] Lvl 144
Casting Spells [Uncommon] Lvl 154
Arcane Magic [Uncommon] Lvl 120
Magic of Predictions [Uncommon] Lvl 102
Magic of Stone [Uncommon] Lvl 115
Awakening of the Ghost [Uncommon+] Lvl 101
Ghost Flicker [Uncommon+] Lvl 102
Rough Calculation [Common] Lvl 36
Lesser Stamina Manipulation [Common] Lvl 25
Lesser Life Force Manipulation [Common] Lvl 11
Nick was now a monster. Thanks to feeding on all sorts of alchemical preparations, he had at least 80 stats in each stat besides luck and charisma. He had somehow managed to develop a skill in his race like his father''s. Only his father and he, out of the entire Ghost Blade Clan, had this skill. It was the skill Rapid Recovery [Rare+], it increased the recovery of vitality and stamina by 50%. Which was too overpowered in his opinion. This skill could not be developed by an ordinary human, only by an Evolved Human. This skill could also be obtained by other races, but it was unachievable for an ordinary human. His pure stats were now roughly equivalent to a human with [Uncommon] Lv 70 class. The way he developed his skills was controversial to his relatives. If he focused on one future class, he would be able to develop some basic skill to [Rare], but he believed that in the long run he would be stronger with two classes. The only thing he didn''t do to obtain the mage class was to cast a tier 4 spell. But he believed that if he distributed the remaining stats, he could do it. Tier 4 spells cost around 1000 MP, and his main problem was that he couldn''t cast the spell accurately enough. His willpower was enough to accurately use 1000 MP, but his lack of mental control and wisdom prevented him from casting it.
He was able to develop several ghost sword techniques, which eventually allowed him to combine swordsmanship with knife throwing into the best Mastery skill. With the clan''s techniques that were passed down through generations, he obtained the skills Awakening of the Ghost [Uncommon+] and Ghost Flicker [Uncommon+].
Awakening of the Ghost [Uncommon+] 101 Lvl - the skill allows you to use a technique that increases strength, agility, constitution, perception and intelligence by 10-25%. The technique for its work consumes stamina and greatly burdens the constitution. Cost 30 ST/m.
Ghost Flicker [Uncommon+] 102 Lvl - the skill allows you to use a technique that dramatically increases your movement speed. The technique for its work consumes stamina and greatly burdens the constitution. Cost 20 ST/s.
Nick decided to take only these two techniques for his skills. Nick could have taken any other technique as his skill, which would have allowed him to perform it with greater ease. But his father warned him not to rely on skills to use all the Phantom Sword techniques. He was given a few more techniques to choose from. For example, the Phantom Strike, a technique that allowed him to move quickly and deliver an instant sword strike at short distances, or a rapid attack technique that uses a large number of sword strikes. But he decided to perform all the other techniques manually, that is, to independently manipulate the stamina inside his body for the Phantom Sword techniques. Contrary to misconceptions, when he uses a skill that manipulates stamina, he himself has to do it, but thanks to the skill, it becomes much easier. Therefore, using the skill Awakening of the Ghost [Uncommon+], he can use the same Phantom Strike at the same time as the skill, which makes this combination incredibly deadly at his stat level.
As a mage, he decided to use three schools of magic for now: Arcane Magic, Divination Magic, and Stone Magic. The Arcane Magic skill, although relatively weak, helped him with all spells that used pure mana. The Divination Magic skill was needed for faster and more accurate spell casting. For example, he learned to cast the 3rd level spell "Life Detection", without the skill of this spell school, his success in casting dropped sharply, as did his speed, and considering that the Arcane Magic skill helped with better casting of this spell school, since it used mostly pure mana, his mastery in this school of magic was significantly higher than that of an ordinary mage. The last skill he decided to choose was Stone Magic, for long-range attacks and good defense against something powerful. He planned to use the 3rd level spell "Stone Wall" for defense, along with the 3rd level spell "Arcane Fortification". The two spells cost around 1000 MP in total, and he needed to spend at least 10 seconds to cast them together, but thanks to this, he could defend against most tier 4 spells. The stone wall, which was already made of strong stone, was further strengthened by another arcane spell. This combination was something that very few spells could penetrate. Overall, he was very satisfied with his build as a mage and a warrior.
The last significant upgrade to his status were two "gifted skills" - Great Identification [Special] Lvl 401 and Fake Status [Special] Lvl 401. The first skill allowed him to identify anyone who did not have the [Special] status hide skill or an epic class. The second skill allowed him to customize how his status would appear to the person who rated him. Only someone who had [Epic] Identification could break through his disguised skill, which his father assured him would be very, very rare.
In this regard, he agreed with Liam to register with the Adventurers Guild in the city where his father rules and go on his first mission. It will happen very soon and he could not wait for it at all. Nick was simply praying to the gods for something interesting to happen.