Chapter Fifty


    “I promise I’ll talk later, okay?” Noelle nodded at him, and he brought up her stats, pleasantly surprised to see she had changed significantly.


    [Name: Noelle


    Race: Nekomi (C-Grade) (Mythic Item-Soulbound)


    Attributes: Shared With Ambrose Severen


    Traits: Soul-Bound: Strength, skills, and level based on soul-bound partner. Grants +20 to all of Ambrose’s stats.


    Skills: [Lightning Manipulation (Legendary)], [Arcane Shift-Legendary]]


    It was a simple sheet, and it looked like the lightning manipulation had been upgraded. He pulled up more details on it, scanning it, then nodding. It made her immune to lightning, and allowed her to do practically anything with lightning like he could with [Hellfire Manipulation].


    Plus, now that she was C-Grade she boosted his own stats up by twenty. Finally, he pulled out Merlin’s Grimoire. For a long time the book had just sat in his inventory, doing nothing. He gained benefits from it, the book granting him a trait that completely shaped his path thus far.


    The book had changed. Black with crimson veins, a slight golden light suffused the pages. Heat radiated from the book, a subtle power thrummed within it like the beat of a heart.


    [Merlins Grimoire-Mythic]: This grimoire is a mythical item that contains all of Merlin’s power. Bonding to this item will grant you the [Infernal-Mythic] Trait. This trait will alter class selection and skills upon advancement to any grade. It passively grants +50 to all attributes and strengthens your mana core. These effects will increase at A-Grade.]


    It was a good item. In a moment he was going to look at his updated character sheet, but before that, he looked at his evolved skill.


    [Hellfire Manipulation-Mythic has changed to Hellfire Portal Manipulation-Mythic]: All previous affects of this skill have been retained. Using this skill in conjunction with this class, you may now freely manipulate portals you create. Edges of portals can cut through nearly everything at the same grade or below.]


    It was an amazing skill. He allowed his mind to race with possibilities. Maybe he could portal an entire mountain of rocks over his opponents? Open portals inside of them? He could set them spinning like shurikens maybe.


    Pushing the combat potentials aside, he pulled up his character sheet one more time.


    Name: Ambrose Severen


    Level: 225


    Race: Human (C-Grade)


    Traits: Ruthless(Uncommon), Giant Slayer(Uncommon), Reforged-Legendary, Infernal(Mythic)


    Class: Infernal Crusader-Legendary (Sage)


    Profession: Knight Of Avalon (Level 35)


    Skills: [Hellfire Portal Manipulation-Mythic], [Retributions Gaze-Epic], [Infernal Sanctuary-Legendary], [Infernal Aegis-Legendary(Spiritual Skill)], [Infernal Recall-Rare], [Infernal Dimension-Epic]


    Constitution: 429


    Strength: 429


    Intellect: 429


    Wisdom: 429


    Willpower: 443


    SC: 0


    Attribute Points:


    Noelle was opening her mouth, attempting to sound out words. She crossed her arms, pouting when she failed. Ambrose laughed, You might be reading a stolen copy. Visit Royal Road for the authentic version.


    “Don''t be too hard on yourself. You spent most of your life as a tiger, and you spend even apart of that as a cloak. I promise, we’ll work on it.”


    “I could teach her, if you like, sir Knight.”


    Ambrose turned to Vivienne, raising an eyebrow.


    “Didn’t take you for a teacher, Viv.”


    Vivienne waved a hand,


    “I am not. But I know the theory.”


    Ambrose nodded.


    “Okay, well, I still have a Word of Power I have to select. Why don’t you two get started on that?”


    Noelle skipped over to Vivienne, ears twitching, tail swishing as she beamed, eyes wide. She and Vivienne went around the tree for some privacy. He willed the System to bring up his Word of Power choices.


    [Break]: As with all words of power, the intention you put behind the Word is important. However, meaning is as well. This Word is designed to do one thing-break. Trying to use the Word outside of its established meaning will likely fail.]


    He liked this word, he could see a lot of potential uses for it. For example, he could likely break a skills affects with it. Or wards and enchantments. Hell, he could probably use it to straight up break enemies.


    He brought up another word.


    [Enforce]:As with all words of power, the intention you put behind the Word is important. However, meaning is as well. This Word is designed to do one thing-enforce. Trying to use the Word outside of its established meaning will likely fail.]


    Like with break, Ambrose imagined a lot of options with this word. He likely wasn’t going to pick it, though. He had defense fairly well covered, and he was always able to empower his skills further with more mana. He wanted something more…active.


    Enforce would be good for defense, maybe even for adding more oomph to his skills. But that wasn’t what he wanted.


    He moved on to the next word.


    [Empty]: As with all words of power, the intention you put behind the Word is important. However, meaning is as well. This Word is designed to do one thing-empty. Trying to use the Word outside of its established meaning will likely fail.]


    This word felt a little more vague. A few ways to use it came to mind, but there were lots of ways he could ‘Empty’ something. This was the last word he could pick, and ultimately he dismissed it as a choice. It was simply to vague, and he didn’t want to try and use it in a fight only to have it fail.


    With that in mind, he picked [Break]. It was straight forward in its meaning, and he felt like it was just versatile enough to give him an array of tactical options.


    Standing up, he stretched. After a moment he regarded his armor. It wasn’t bad armor, but at this point it felt more like he was wearing it for fashion rather than actually protecting him. His skills did that.


    He added new armor to the list of things he wanted to get.


    But more important than that was moving on. It was time to go after Eric. He produced the stone, rolling it between his fingers. It was take him to a different world.


    Midgard.


    He didn’t know much about it, but there was a way to learn more. An information packet. He could buy one from Troy. Part of him wanted to just disregard the thought and jump right into the world.


    Except he would be doing so with next to no information about it. That was a bad idea. Every time he had rushed himself, things hadn’t gone as well as they could have. No, it would be better to gather information, to think about what he wanted to do, to have some idea of what to expect.


    With a wave of his hand, he opened a portal to Troy’s shop and stepped through it.


    The shop keeper looked up, put his book on the counter, then sighed.


    “I thought you were going to a different world? Here to beat me up one last time?”


    Ambrose ignored him.


    “I need an information packet on Midgard.”


    Troy pursed his lips, and his eyes glazed over as he looked at options only he could see.


    “If it will get you out of here quicker, I can sell it for twenty thousand EC.”


    It was a steep price, but Ambrose had it.


    “Let’s have it, then.”


    A small book popped into existence, Ambrose transfered over the EC and picked it up.


    Ambrose went back to the tree.


    He was going to educate himself on Midgard, and then he was going to pursue Eric.


    When he found him, he would kill him.


    Nothing more than that needed to be said.