Chapter 183: Dimension Gate

Chapter 183: Dimension Gate

Fran’s reply to my query caught me off guard. The fact that she was interested in Dimension Magic wasn’t something I’d been aware of.

That said, I could easily see why she felt the way she did, as I shared her interest in it.

『You sure you don’t want to pump a few points into Divine Sword Techniques first?』

「More curious about Dimension Magic.」

『Why’s that?』

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『Oh nice. Looks like we’re on the same page then.』

Royce’s skill, Dimensional Gate, sounded like something one would probably learn if they pumped a few levels into Dimension Magic. It looked super convenient to use, and it seemed that having it could potentially make visiting Rumina a hell of a lot easier.

Long Jump was nice and all, but it was too limited in its use.

The number of things that bothered us about it numbered two, with the first being its carrying capacity and the second being its ease of use, or rather, its lack thereof. It’s carrying capacity was limited by mass, and was actually so lacking that it couldn’t even allow us to warp Urushi unless he shrank himself down. Even then, the distance that could be teleported was inversely proportional with the mass, so we weren’t really able to go all that far. The furthest we could go, even without Urushi, was like five or six floors worth of distance at best; we weren’t able to instantly warp ourselves over to Rumina’s place of residence. The ease of use part pertained to the fact the only objects that could get warped were ones the caster was in direct contact with.

Dimension Gate looked like the type of skill that didn’t really care about the mass of whatever it transported so long as you plopped a pair of doors down. It didn’t look like the type of skill that really had much use in battle, but, man did it make getting around a helluva lot easier. The convenience factor alone made it look like something that was honestly well worth investing in.

『Alright. I guess I’ll try feeding Dimension Magic a bit and seeing what happens.』

I only had 20 self evolution points remaining, so I decided to give the skill one level at a time.

「That’s level 2... Looks like I learned how to do two new things?」

Pointing the skill once had allowed me to obtain a skill by the name of Turn Shield. It allowed one to block long ranged attacks and disrupt enemies by twisting space itself. The amount of magical energy the skill consumed scaled with the size of the spatial distortion created. Unleashing something on a scale large enough to completely engulf my surroundings seemed like it would end up eating somewhere in the neighborhood of 2k mana. The skill seemed pretty decent, and appeared to have a whole slew of different use cases.

「Vigour Mastery...?」

『Why that one in particular?』

「Beast Lord had. Might have connection with evolution.」

Looking at the Beast Lord’s stat sheet had more or less convinced us that Vigour Mastery was basically an upgraded version of Vigour Manipulation. The reason she wanted it was pretty clear as well. She wanted get all the skills the Beast Lord had that we didn’t, as it was possible that evolution was something linked to a skill.

『Sure. Let’s give it a shot then.』

「Nn.」

I spent 5 points on Vigour Manipulation, which in turn unlocked Vigour Mastery as expected.

『So? How do you feel?』

「...?」

It turned out that Vigour Mastery didn’t have anything to do with evolution. However, it had a clear, immediate effect nonetheless. The manner in which my mana flowed through my body seemed to change. It became much smoother, and I could feel my detection-based skills growing much more sensitive as a result.

But that wasn’t all.

『I feel like my body just got easier to control.』

I activated Shape Shift and transformed a part of my body into a series of threads. The threads seemed quite easy to manipulate; I’d managed to use them to form a number of different geometrical patterns with ease. I then split my blade into ten smaller pieces, and moved them all around simultaneously. I was able to do what the System Announcer did to the Legendary Skeletons did back when we fought a whole bunch of them at once. That is, I was able to form each into a thin but solid thread and thrust them in different directions.

My blade deformed and moved exactly how I wanted it to; I became capable of manipulating it to much finer a degree, and at a much lower mana cost to boot.

Vigour Mastery hadn’t seemed like anything too fancy, but it turned out to be useful as hell.

『Want to just hold onto the last few points for now?』

「Nn. Sounds good.」