Immediately after spending an additional 2579 experience points to increase his stamina from 57 to 60, Raydon received the anticipated system sound.
*DING*
''Awesome. '' When he heard the system sound, it was like music to his ears. He exclaimed with joy and checked out his new sub-skill right away.
[Title]: Master of All
-Experience points can be used to boost the stat points of your choice.
Currently available stat(s):
-Stamina
-Life Regeneration (sub-skill): Doubles the body's rate of healing and enhances the effects of healing skills used on the body based on the stamina stat.
-Damage Reduction (sub-skill): Ignores 50% of all received damage.
-Minor Element Resistance (sub-skill): Body resistance to common elements is increased by 50%.
-Greater Health: HP is increased by 1000.
-Reinforce Items: Increases the durability of bound items by 200%.
''Hmm, it's not bad. At least I don't have to worry as much now when I use my Flame Burst skill,'' Raydon reflected.
He preferred a skill that increased his maximum HP capacity, or increased HP regen which was halved by Ashen Heart, but this skill wasn't bad either. Also, whenever he used Flame Burst with his foot or hand at close range, his items would take damage, so this sub-skill would come in handy for him.
Raydon was now the equivalent of a level 30 F-Rank item holder with the amount of stamina he currently has, and with the extra sub-skills his title confers, he was well above this level, even if only in terms of defense.
He forced himself to come out of his thoughts and looked at the time remaining in the system. Relieved to see that it was only seconds, he stored the sword in his hand in his dimensional storage before his body was quickly engulfed in light beams and vanished.
[The match has ended.]
[Winner Team: B7890-D4850]
[…Based on the contribution, rewards are calculated.]
[You gained gold coins: 248]
[You gained item blueprint: Earring(White)]
[You gained crafting material: Liquid Snake Spine(Green)]
[Win streak: 4]
As soon as Raydon returned to his dusty room, he checked the system messages and frowned upon seeing the match rewards.
''There is no body enchantment this time? And what is this crafting material? '' In order to examine it, Raydon took the 1-meter snake spine with the consistency of blue slime from his dimensional storage.
He stared at the material in his hand, which was firm to the touch but otherwise appeared as though it could run out of his fingers like water at any moment, and murmured. 'I believe this is a water-type material. Anyway, it shouldn't be worthless because it's green-grade, so I'll keep it for the time being.'
Raydon then examined the items that had been dropped from the Long Ears race. There were three trash items, four white-grade items, and one green-grade item. Raydon carefully inspected the green-grade by returning the trash items and white-grades to his dimensional storage.
''Isn't this the turtle transformation skill that rabbit used?''
[Shirt]
-Grade: Green
-Quality: Good
-Skill: Transform: Water Turtle
The user's genes will mutate rapidly, giving them the appearance and abilities of a Water Turtle.
The rate of adaptation to the transformed species varies based on the charisma stat.
The duration of the skill depends on the stamina stat.
-Mana cost: 50
-Duration: 15 minutes.
-Cooldown: 10 minutes.
''It looks really great how this transformation-type skill works. But regrettably, it doesn't fit with my attribute and skill set. ''
It was the first time he had encountered an item with this skill-type since arriving in this world, and the prospect of transforming into various monsters appealed to him. Unfortunately, according to the information he obtained from Herman's books, transformation-type skills mostly required charisma, which Raydon lacked.
''Anyway, for the time being, I'd better concentrate on what I have. This looks like a good item and is probably worth around 10,000 gold coins. '' He performed the calculation. Since he now knew so much background information about the items, he was able to estimate a rough value for them.
After placing this item into his dimensional storage in order to sell it later, Raydon, feeling hungry, retrieved the region boss's meat that he had previously fried with the Flame Burst skill and began to consume it.
''Wow, this is much more delicious than those wandering snakes,'' He exclaimed as he devoured the meat.
Surprisingly, after consuming only 1 kilogram of this meat, he felt completely satisfied.
''Huh? Even though I had eaten about 15 kilos of wandering snake meat previously, I still felt hungry, but I am now completely full with 1 kilo.'' Raydon pondered for a moment before realizing it had something to do with the mob's rank. The previous wandering snake he ate was F-Rank, and the region boss was E-Rank.
''That's good to know. At the very least, I won't have to spend time every day eating hundreds of kilos of meat to satisfy my hunger. Perhaps if I can find D-Rank mob meat, I'll be able to reduce my need for meat even further. '' He considered.
He obviously couldn't satisfy his hunger by eating normal food anymore, and he wasn't sure if he could even eat a normal meal after satisfying his hunger with mob meat, so the next time he went to the item market, he decided to see if there was meat belonging to D-Rank mobs.
He removed his items, changed into regular clothes, and left the house to go to the item market after completing all of his routines.
When Raydon opened the door, Dan was standing there, his back as straight as a spear, ready to greet him.
''M-m-master you are back? ''
''Huh? Why are you here? Something happened? ''
Raydon questioned while strangely glancing at Dan, who had fiery hair and was wearing the stylish all-black ninja outfit that made him quite charismatic.
In fact, in addition to what he was wearing at the time, he also had a mask and gloves that were akin to those the previous Shadow Messenger wore, but he was not wearing them at the time because he felt it would be extremely disrespectful to do so in front of Raydon.
Also, there was another reason why he wasn't wearing his gloves.
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