149 - - result of a spell

Okay, here we go!

I got it!

"Yeah, you got it."

After a lively dinner, Thor and the other four gathered in the living room.

During the meal, we had already been given an overview of the Ant's Nest Labyrinth.

What was to take place now was an attempt to lift the curse of the intrusion.

Standing directly in front of Thor on the sofa is a rather nervous-looking girl who has known him since childhood.

Thora can the effects of the cursed trait, but the girl alone cannot perceive the skill tree of others.

This is where Mu, who can share her vision with others, comes in.

Sitting on Thor's lap, the child proudly bends her chest.

"Please take it easy, Thor."

Yuril, the only one with experience, sits next to him and gently holds Thor's hand.

His gray eyes are shimmering faintly, probably from the recurrence of memories of the curse that has tormented him for so long.　

Thor quietly squeezes her hand back as she smiles at him, trying to reassure him.

He looks closely at his tree of skills.

Immediately, the details of Thor's tree appeared in the sight of everyone present, thanks to Moo's .

The trunk of the tree was black from the start, but the part near the base of the tree was sticking out in an ugly and distorted way.

"Wow, that's amazing. Which one should we start with?"

"Right, start with the top one."

Thor was not at all anxious since he had succeeded before, but the feeling of being able to see the large scabs on his back made him feel a little embarrassed.

"Yay!"

It was removed without hesitation.

Immediately the weird bulge disappeared, replaced by a white, smooth roundness.

"You're beautiful, To-chan!

"This is so refreshing."

Moe happily presses his head against hers, and Euril lets out an enraptured squeal.

Chuckling at this, Thor checks the contents of the fruit.

The curse of has been changed as follows.

- increases the upper limit of the possessor's physical strength and speeds up the recovery.

Activation: automatic / Effect: small / Scope: self.

"Okay, please continue with the three below..."

Let's wait!

Activation: automatic / Effect: small / Scope: self.

- increases the holder's resistance to physical anomalies.

Activation: Auto / Effect: Small / Radius: Self.

Effect: small / Range: self.

Each of them is a variant of , , and .

I can't check the physical strength, magic power, and resistance now, but the number of times has been increased to 11 times.

It was eight times before, so it seems that the 20% decrease became 10% increase.

It is quite unfortunate that only half of the can be returned.

"One more time, is it still the same?"

"No, wait. The bottom one first."

Only and remain.

The at the sixth layer and the at the seventh layer were not subject to the permanent effect, so they disappeared as soon as the dungeon was exited.

Also, I have been lumping all these spells together as root spells, but it seems that I was a little mistaken.

Curses related to the body, such as physical strength and magic power, were attached rather close to the middle of the trunk.

Now that they have become competent traits, they are in about the same position as Thor's other trunk traits.

On the other hand, the spells that interfere with the mechanism of skills such as and are much closer to the root.

It is in a similar location to the root characteristic of Mu.

This means that the closer to the root, the stronger the effect on the whole.

And the curse of , which extends thorny vines, exists just at the edge of the base of the skill tree.

The abominable curse crawling up the trunk is holding Thor's one and only branch of in place.

While everyone watched with bated breath, Thora took a deep breath and exerted her remaining magical power.

.

Suddenly a white radiance floods from within the bump, coating its surface.

Without a pause, the black thorns dissolve into thin air and disappear.

Instead, vines with lovely white buds at their tips begin to ascend the trunk of the technical tree.

The white line reaches a little below the branches of the , where it stops and petals open softly.

Then, like an illusion, the white glow vanishes in an instant.

But barely, Thor's eyes quickly read the name floating on the flower.

It was the name of .

It seemed to be a characteristic that would disappear when it finished its role, rather than take root as a fruit.

Thor, sensing the quickening of his heartbeat, focuses his attention on the area where the flower has disappeared.

A tiny bulge.

But it was surely the budding of a new skill.

In fact, he had tried many times before to see if a new branch would grow.

I have tried many times to grow back to level 1, and I have tried the meditation that Mu learned at the court temple together.

However, the next branch skill, Cobb, did not show even the slightest sign of being born.

As he gazed intently at the newborn bump, Thor suddenly realized.

He had assumed that a new branch would be born on top of the , but he may have been wrong.

The new bump is located below the long-lasting branch of the .

This clearly indicated the possibility that the was the upper branch skill.

Thor scratches the bottom of his chin as he thinks of all the work he has done so far, but he notices that his mouth is slackening.

The longer the hard work, the more pleasant is the joy of the fruit.

This time, however, the result comes from a completely different direction than the effort he has put in.

The Adventurer's Tag confirms that he has 13 skill points.

The result of our efforts so far is about 13,000 points.

I tipped the water bottle floating by the tree and poured the unused skill points into the small bulge.

First, a thousand points.

A branch grows smoothly.

It seems that the required points are the same as the lower branch skills.

The rest is poured in at once.

Unfortunately, the growth stops at level 4.

I take another look at the new skill.

The name of the new skill is....

Level: 4 / Usable number of times: twice an hour / Activation: instant / Effect: 1 second / Range: contact.

"...... Well, let's see what it's like."