Book 3: Chapter 51 — Ability Upgrades

Book 3: Chapter 51 — Ability Upgrades

Noah sat on the rocky floor, opening up the options of his abilities as he took everything in. He’d shot up in power rapidly, and it’d done wonders for his attributes. Especially after he switched his title back to Progenitor.

Astral Script:

Name: Noah Brown

Race: Draconian Humanoid

Rank: D

Title: [Progenitor]

Paths:

Wyrmblood Guardian (Legendary) - level 129

Runebody Arcanist (Legendary) - level 128

Abyssal Predator (Legendary) - level 130

Attributes:

Power: 1631 [2038]

Agility: 1436 [1795]

Constitution: 1744 [2441]

Mystic: 1860 [2604]

Attribute points: 289

Skill Points: 4

Noah took the attributes in. His buffed attributes were above two thousand, especially his constitution and mystic, which had quickly risen to become his two primary attributes. Still, he at least tried to maintain a relatively balanced ratio between all his attributes.

Taking his free attributes, Noah put a hundred and eighty in agility, before putting the rest into power.

Power (Buffed): 2038 → 2175

Agility (Buffed): 1795 → 2020

Satisfied with that, Noah moved on to look at his abilities which had all reached level fifty.

[Wyrmblood (Legendary, Advanced) - Level 50]

[Arcane Step (Legendary, Advanced) - Level 50]

[Abyssal Fusion (Legendary, Advanced) - Level 50]

[Void Annihilation (Legendary, Advanced) - Level 50]

Unlike before, reaching the next rank up level didn’t automatically level up the abilities. From now on, he would have to use a skill point anytime he wanted to upgrade his abilities.

Extremely conveniently, he had exactly four skill points available right now, but more than one ability of his was close enough to level fifty that it would make perfect sense for Noah to wait a little bit and grind his ability levels, before spending his skill points.

Do you wish to use a skill point to rank up [Abyssal Fusion]?

Yes/No?

Yes.

Initiating rank up.

This ability is tied to a familiar.

Familiar Tony [Abyssal Symbiote] has begun evolution.

The rank up will complete upon the completion of the evolution.

Evolution Time: 240 hours

Noah watched in horror, as he felt Tony shudder before the symbiote went to sleep, all the little fine tunings done by the creature now gone, and his Abyssal Awarenessnow flooding him with information, without any filter remaining to restrict what he could sense.

A headache assaulted Noah, and he looked up at the sky with a frown. “This isn’t fair!” he shouted.

Then, he selected another ability, and after a moment’s hesitation, used another skill point.

Do you wish to use a skill point to rank up [Arcane Step]?

Yes/No?

Yes.

Initiating rank up.

[Arcane Body] has synergized and upgraded the capacity of [Arcane Step]

Upgrade Time: 180 hours

“I see how it is,” Noah said, looking at his notifications. His body was practically humming now, as if sucking in mana, and the runes on his body were flashing and glowing. Noah tried using Arcane Step but found the ability inactive, as if it had gone dormant. It was still there... but sleep.

He had a feeling he could force it to activate, but he didn’t push the ability unnecessarily.

A part of him knew it’d be best to do something like this one step at a time, especially if upgrades like this took away the ability from him during the period of the upgrade.

Alas, it didn’t take him long to lose all willpower as he caved in and used his other two abilities as well. Afterall, if he used them all at once, then he’d have to wait less time for each.

Initiating rank up.

[Cosmic Wyrmblood (Bloodline)] has upgraded [Wyrmblood]

Upgrade Time: 200 hours

Initiating rank up.

[Void Annihilation] gathers powers from the Abyss.

Upgrade Time: 120 hours

Noah looked at his timers, and then, with quivering excitement building up inside his body, he left the chamber he’d been waiting in, to head out for the feast that awaited him.