Book 3: Chapter 49: Two Cast and No cost

Lone kept Sophie close to him, his arms still wrapped around her slender waist as he regarded Princessling Yulia. His girlfriend's firm but loving hug gave him the warmth he currently needed. Basic Regeneration could heal a lot, both physically and mentally, but almost dying in such a guaranteed manner was a new experience he was most certainly not a fan of.He thought before he said, "I don't think I'll be in the mood today to workshop on your magical ideas. I have some chores to run and some feelings to process. If you want to tag along, I won't say no, but don't expect any enlightening discussions."

Yulia smiled wryly. "That's... unfortunate but understandable. I'd like to stay, please. I've never fought an X-ranker before. Not that I haven't had the chance, plenty of my siblings wish to test my magic on themselves, but this fight was incredibly one-sided and dangerous from what I saw. I even gained a level for one of my skills just from avoiding the shockwaves of Lord Brux's shouts. How was it for you?"

Lone complained internally. "It was terrifying."

"I-I see," Yulia replied and then decided to copy Breena in being entirely silent.

Sophie squeezed Lone a bit tighter then let go of him. She got on her tiptoes and gave him a kiss before saying, "Let us leave, shall we? We have much to do today, and while we can add dreading the guildmaster to that list, we shall not allow it to become the entire list."

"Right, of course," Lone replied awkwardly. "I'll just check my notification log while we return to the lobby and pick out a quest for Breena then?"

Sophie nodded. "That sounds like a good idea."

"A quest for the child?" Yulia asked, her curiously likely faked.

"She's at the level cap for F-rankers so we want to find a quest that will allow her to step into E-rank," Lone explained plainly as he collected himself a bit and made to leave the room. "I'll be focusing on my notifications now, so I might not respond quickly, but I'm happy if you want to try bouncing a magical idea or two off of me."

Without waiting for a reply from the grand magus, Lone did just that and began going over his gains from the near-death experience he had just survived. He didn't bother mentally grouping them, instead choosing to read them in the order he had received them.

Congratulations! The host's unique skill [Basic Regeneration] has levelled up! It is now Master Level 8.

Congratulations! The host's unique skill [Basic Regeneration] has levelled up! It is now Master Level 9.

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Lone felt his anxiety and fears stemming from Guildmaster Brux lessening significantly. This was partially due to Basic Regeneration itself working on his mind and also thanks to the excitement of gaining two master levels from one injury.

Congratulations! The host's passive skill [Buckler Mastery] has levelled up! It is now Expert Level 7.

Congratulations! The host's passive skill [Buckler Mastery] has levelled up! It is now Expert Level 8.

Congratulations! The host's passive skill [Buckler Mastery] has levelled up! It is now Expert Level 9.

Congratulations! The host's passive skill [Buckler Mastery] has levelled up! It is now Expert Level 10.

Congratulations! The host's passive skill [Buckler Mastery] has levelled up! It is now Master Level 1.

Buckler Mastery

Cost: Mastery:

Lone concluded as he kept reading.

Congratulations! The host's passive skill [Oaken Flesh] has levelled up! It is now Master Level 3.

Congratulations! The host's active skill [Blood Clone] has levelled up! It is now Master Level 6.

Lone thought.

Congratulations! The host's racial skill [Tail Spear] has levelled up! It is now Expert Level 7.

Congratulations! The host's racial skill [Tail Spear] has levelled up! It is now Expert Level 8.

Congratulations! The host's racial skill [Tail Spear] has levelled up! It is now Expert Level 9.

Congratulations! The host's passive skill [Swordspear Mastery] has levelled up! It is now Expert Level 7.

Congratulations! The host's passive skill [Swordspear Mastery] has levelled up! It is now Expert Level 8.

Congratulations! The host's passive skill [Spear Mastery] has levelled up! It is now Beginner Level 7.

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Congratulations! The host's passive skill [Sword Mastery] has levelled up! It is now Beginner Level 2.

Congratulations! The host's passive skill [Sword Mastery] has levelled up! It is now Beginner Level 3.

Lone pondered as he kept walking.

Their group was now in the lobby of the guild with quite a few eyes curiously watching them, but Lone ignored that. "Go pick out a quest for yourself with Sophie, Breena. I'm still busy."

"With Soph," Sophie corrected. "We are no longer needed." And with that, the hardness in her eyes melted away to reveal a much more tender gaze.

"You're still looking at your notifications?" Yulia asked, surprised.

"Yeah. Got a lot of levels," Lone replied absently.

"Ah. I suppose that makes sense. It was a fight with Lord Brux and considering your discussion with father the last time you were in the city... Well, I shall wait here with you then," the princessling said as she walking upstairs and carefully sat herself down at a table before cloaked herself in distortion magic to avoid unwanted attempts at conversation.

Lone placed himself across from her and ordered a few drinks for himself and then dived right back into his notification log.

Congratulations! The host's active fire magic skill [Fireball] has levelled up! It is now Intermediate Level 2.

Congratulations! The host's active fire magic skill [Fireball] has levelled up! It is now Intermediate Level 3.

Congratulations! The host's active fire magic skill [Fireball] has levelled up! It is now Intermediate Level 4.

Congratulations! The host's active fire magic skill [Fireball] has levelled up! It is now Intermediate Level 5.

Congratulations! The host's active fire magic skill [Weakened Stream of Ezekial] has levelled up! It is now Beginner Level 2.

Congratulations! The host's active fire magic skill [Weakened Stream of Ezekial] has levelled up! It is now Beginner Level 3.

Congratulations! The host's active fire magic skill [Fireball] has levelled up! It is now Intermediate Level 6.

Congratulations! The host's active fire magic skill [Fireball] has levelled up! It is now Intermediate Level 7.

Congratulations! The host's active fire magic skill [Fireball] has levelled up! It is now Intermediate Level 8.

Congratulations! The host's active fire magic skill [Fireball] has levelled up! It is now Intermediate Level 9.

Congratulations! The host's active fire magic skill [Fireball] has levelled up! It is now Intermediate Level 10.

Congratulations! The host's active fire magic skill [Fireball] has levelled up! It is now Advanced Level 1.

Congratulations! The host's hard work and experimentation have resulted in their active fire magic [Fireball] gaining a new effect upon ranking up when otherwise it would not have gained one!

Active Fire Magic Skill: Fireball

Cost: Mastery:

Lone thought.

Congratulations! The host's Primal skill [Ungrounded] has levelled up! It is now Expert Level 1.

Primal Skill: Ungrounded

Cost: Mastery:

Lone appraised.

Congratulations! The host's active fire magic skill [Fireball] has levelled up! It is now Advanced Level 2.

Congratulations! The host's active fire magic skill [Fireball] has levelled up! It is now Advanced Level 3.

Congratulations! The host's active fire magic skill [Fireball] has levelled up! It is now Advanced Level 4.

Congratulations! The host's active fire magic skill [Fireball] has levelled up! It is now Advanced Level 5.

Congratulations! The host's active fire magic skill [Fireball] has levelled up! It is now Advanced Level 6.

Congratulations! The host has successfully applied the stat [Agility] for the first time. As a reward, the host has been granted 50 points of [Agility]. When applying [Agility] in the future, it will cost 7.5% of the host's SP per second.

Lone concluded.

As for the SP cost, he'd been aware of that, of course, from his discussions about the matter with Grimsley and Gilbert back in the Farwinds. The cost varied from person to person when unlocking the stat.

Grimsley said his initial cost for applying his Strength was only 4%, but Gilbert had laughed at that saying some people had an initial cost of less than a percent, so Lone was actually rather untalented in this regard.

That didn't bother him thought because the cost could be reduced with training and mastery of the applied state. Besides, he had his Fortress Shield Mastery to keep his SP supply matched with the demand.

The waitress arrived with his drinks to which he gave her a friendly smile and a silver coin, telling her to keep the change. She blushed and nodded her head softly. Almost instantly, Lone felt a glare coming from the first floor.

he pleaded his case.

Soph replied a bit too seriously for Lone's liking.

he chuckled mentally.

he suggested jokingly.

Lone laughed out loud upon hearing the two sides of his lover quibbling telepathically.

He happily downed his first drink and began nursing the second, feeling much better than he did about ten minutes ago. "So, wanna chat about magic? Maybe help me get some of yours? I know it ain't direct, but I can learn from observing."

Princessling Yulia was barely visible to his eyes but he could kind of see through the distortions when she stuffed a book into her ring which was obviously a storage device before she nodded at him sharply. "I would love to!"