Chapter 186: The Second Request
The entire body of the Boss Crawler turned to dust and vanished, and along with it disappeared the two swords.
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You have killed Boss - ''Undefeated King'' El Cid
ExP obtained: 0
Warning: Because of the continuous vitions, Dreamer is subjected to a 100% penalty
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Sigh!
Aldrich let out a helpless sigh, seeing no amount of Experience Points and the warning. He already had an idea that this could happen to him, but it wasn''t all that he wanted out of the Boss. He already had the required amount of the ExP. The only thing hecked was 7 Skill Points to Max upgrade his ss-Specific Skill, Metacreativity.
Even though the Hidden Quest could certainly have given him either many Skill Points or powerful Item or Skill, Aldrich hadn''t lost all hope. The reward from one of the Quests had yet toe, and Aldrich could only wait with bated breath for the notifications.
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Hidden Quest time limit is over
Hidden Quest''s Status: Failed
Quest 1 has beenpleted
Rewards:
1. Skill Points: +8
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"Yeyyyy"
There was a big smile on Aldrich''s face. Inside his mind, Sha kept jumping up and down with her hands raised high. Aldrich didn''t mind theck of over one reward, and the number 8 never felt so beautiful to him before.
Houuu!
A bluish portal opened up nearby which looked like a bright rotating body of water. Aldrich knew what the existence of the portal meant. There were no rewards for killing the Boss, not even a single one. This was truly disappointing. But this trip had brought him knowledge and gifts that even hundreds of years felt too short to understand their secrets.
Aldrich didn''t outright go into the portal. He liked this silence within the za after killing a Boss. In this ce, under the Authority of RECORD and the eyes of Mana, at least he was sure that there couldn''t be anyone else to watch him from the shadows. Yes, he didn''t trust the RECORD or even the Mana, but up to this point, none of them had shown any outright animosity towards him.
All these facts made this space a perfect ce for the thing that could make him vulnerable for a short amount of time. This thing was the ss update.
Aldrich poured all the Skill Points into the Metacreativity and brought its stats in front of him.
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Skill: Metacreativity (Baron)
Nature: Active, Upgradable
Lvl: Max (upgraded)
Cooldown: 15 hrs
Description: Dreamer can create Items and Skills of Baron ss upon sacrificing Experience Points.
Warning: Items must be equipped upon creation. Unequipped items would be destroyed.
Warning: Only ''Active Skills'' can be created. The Skills created can''t be upgraded using Skill Points.
Warning: Dreamer will permanently lose the ExPs once used. There is a high chance of dropping to the previous Level.
Warning: The number of ExPs will be calcted based on the description provided by the Dreamer
You are eligible for ss Update
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Aldrich took the Devil''s Oldest Change off his face. His deep white eyes stared at the single-horned mask. The red stripes running down from the eyes to the jawline were still the same, and so was the red circle on the middle of its forehead. But Aldrich knew it had been heavily tampered with, as per his first request to the Devourer of Dreams. As the mask was part of Sha, and thus, was his equipped Item, he could see its Stats.
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Item (Sealed): Devil''s Oldest Change (Transformed Shadow Homunculus)
Type: Mask
Rank: Baron
Durability: 12000/12000 (NA)
Minimum Usage Condition: The highest Attribute of Dreamer must be greater than the sum of the two lowest Attributes
Description (Sealed): 3% addition in the Item-specific Skill while facing the Divine
Item-specific Skill: Change
Item-specific Skill''s Detail (Sealed): Transfer 10% of any Attribute to another Attribute
Warning: All effects of the Item would be lost if unequipped
Warning (Sealed): The Item would influence the Dreamer to be a Devil
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Now that Aldrich knew the reason for his teleportation-like speed in the 2nd za, he felt a tremendous loss seeing the sealed Skill. It wasn''t just a drop from 70% to 10% it also meant that his Correspondence Attribute had be a true handicap for him.
But Aldrich also didn''t want him to be influenced by the Devil anymore. Unless he found a way to thwart all attempts by The Great Old One from corrupting him, it was better to have the mask sealed. The most important thing was to get the memories and take a tremendous leap in understanding the Law of Devil. And that he had masterfully aplished.
"Sha."
The mask in his hand jumped out and turned into a big blob of shadowy mass. The dark churning blob soon outlined itself into a female figure. Her eyes were deep blue, and her hairs werepletely white. Her entire body was covered in a ck leather suit, which couldn''t be distinguished if it was cloth or bare skin. It almost felt like, except her face, the part below her neck was nothing but the congestion of countless shadows.
Sha put both her hands at her small, curvy waist and her chin moved up as if taking immense pride in her presence.
"Don''t worry Daddy Sha protect you."
Aldrich noted the way Sha had spoken two words without taking a pause. Sha, unaware of Aldrich''s cunning eyes, turned her right hand into a long telescope-based Item that she had eaten and started to look all around.
Aldrich joggled his head and took a deep breath.
"Update ss."
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Level: 30 (620500/112000 ExPs to next level)
Warning: ExPs overflow
ss-Specific Skill: Metacreativity (Lvl Max-upgraded)
Unassigned Skill Points: 1
Conditions met
Updating ss
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Without Sha''s memories, Aldrich had no way of guessing how exactly the Devil had sumbed under El Cid''s hands. But he was sure that a Skill of ss that brought down a Devil couldn''t be ordinary. And based on his experience, his next ss would also be in line with his Perception and Darkness characteristics. That''s why the second request that Aldrich had made was to add a ss based on El Cid''s specific abilities.
Aldrich clenched his hands as he stared at the notificationing up.
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Congrattion Aldrich for obtaining Viscount Rank