Chapter 15: My Magic Staff

Chapter 15: My Magic Staff

It was too slow in my opinion. The family rule states that the rite of passage is to build some character, but that is nonsense. Back then, there were no resources in the treasury of the family and the reason why my ancestors went hunting in the forest.

As time went on, the size of the treasury grew and it was not needed for the family members to go to the forest to do anything but the family thought that the members would become weak if everything was provided to them. They want the family to survive, and what was the best place that they can learn to do so?

So, the original way of obtaining resources became the rite of passage.

Depending on your level of success, the family would provide resources for the next five years, which you spend in the academy. After graduating from the academy, you have to start contributing to the family or else you can't use your family name from then on.

So even if I wanted to lie back and enjoy, I have to at least show I am worth the resources, or else I would become too weak to survive in this world. Lying back doesn't mean that I want to die quickly. I have to show decent strength and talent to have a pleasurable life. It's the only way.

If only the family was small, it wouldn't have been so hard. I could have lied down from the start, without worrying about anything. Father may have pestered me, but Mother would have taken care of me, after, I am the youngest of all, and who doesn't love their youngest more than their other children?

---

Anyway, I need to level up faster and leave the forest. It's not like they can cut off my resources after I reveal my level which I hope would reach peak of Tier-0. This is the only way that I can reap maximum benefits from the family.

I should start to use the staff from tomorrow. It would be quicker and easier to level up with that in hand. I quickly pulled and checked the staff that my parents gave me before I set off.

--

Eldritch Staff

Attribute: Shadow

Magic Attack: +1,000

Dark Magic Attack: +3,000

Cast Range: +5-25 m

Rank: Tier-4

Durability: 2000/2000

--

Talent: Ritualistic Summoning (EX)

Rank: Tier-0

Level: 10

Health Points (HP): 1715

Strength (STR): 317

Endurance (END): 372

Dexterity (DEX): 65

Agility (AGI): 311

Magic Power (MP): 2800

Class Skills: Shadow Bolt

Skills: Evade Lvl. 2; Dodge Lvl. 4; Sprint Lvl.1; Alertness Lvl. 2;

Resistances: Physical Resistance Lvl. 4; Light Resistance Lvl. 3; Poison Resistance Lvl. 2;

Weapon Arts: Intermediate Staff Arts Lvl. 3

--

Other than my levels increasing and thereby increasing the attributes, nothing much changed in my status. Only my Alertness Skill leveled up to the second level. This was all that changed with my status in more than a week. I need to ramp it up if I have to get stronger and also enjoy life here.

If too much time was wasted on increasing strength, then what extent of my life would be able for me to spend leisurely? I would say not much. I would be like those old men in the family, who are desperately trying to break through the next tier in order to improve their life, only to see that their bodies aged too much and they can't enjoy too many pleasures of the world.

So the next part of my journey in the forest is important. It would be testing out my talent and how useful it would be for me. This would be like an experiment, as I have no idea about it.

The Inner area of the forest would be the perfect place. There are no people here and if anything goes wrong, no one would get hurt. Moreover, it offers some privacy from the prying eyes of the family.

I don't how, but I have a feeling that everything is going to change once I succeed with this. for new novels