With Elisha, William and Dorian gone, I am free in the academy.
Though those that caused me problems are no longer a problem, there are a few problems with my social life. Though it was declared that I killed Dorian in self-defence, there are many students in the academy who are wary of me.
They only see me as a murderer.
It is something common even on Earth. I read many articles about how people would see others after they killed someone, even if that was done in an act of self-defence. The people of Ragos were no different.
Of course, it would be different with adults but these are children who most likely never saw people killing each other. I believe they would change their views once they see the danger humans pose to each other, which is way more severe than the monsters pose to humans.
Whether they believe it or not, I don't care. I went on with my life.
There is much to gain and I have no time to waste on gossip.
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Five Months Later...
Five Months went by before I knew it. Of course, in these five months, the greatest of surprises came. In terms of quantity, I should say that it is two. In terms of quality, I have no scale to check and compare them to.
What I achieved was something that could shake the entire world if it was known.
There was a huge problem with one of the special skills that I had no way to overcome but when I was concentrating on another skill, a solution appeared before me.
The skill was Dragon Blood Evolution. It was only at level one at the start of the semester but through burning a lot of resources, I increased the level to level 10.
This brought various benefits. The Blood Purity of my bloodline increased to 10%. With that increase, I obtained a small increase in INT and Mp, but what I truly gained was not these attributes.
At first, I thought that the Dragon Bloodline would improve these attributes only but I was wrong. When the purity reached 5%, the attributes that improved were STR, and END.
Now that I am at 10%, I am not sure if those would be the same attributes that would increase or revert or if new attributes would increase, I have no idea.
Anyway, the true gains were that with the improvement in either my Bloodline and/or the Blood Evolution skill, I was able to improve my Rank Levels. In the beginning, I didn't see an improvement as the skill level and the purity were very small.
With the increase in these two probably, I increased by twenty levels in just five months. Now I am at Tier-5 level 25.
Moreover, the technique was recorded. I didn't know there was such a thing. Maybe the knowledge was lost and forgotten.
The technique is called the Black Dragon Essence Breathing technique. It was also recorded by the status panel, which didn't show before. Now with its appearance, I can say that it works, even if there was no improvement in levels.
If there was no improvement, then I should think that the technique was a low-level technique but gaining twenty levels in a few months means that I can say that the technique is a high-level technique.
With me reaching level 25, there were a lot of changes in me in the past five months. Three of my attributes exploded like crazy.
At Tier-5, every level would give me +62,500,000,000 HP/MP and +6,250,000,000 INT.
HP=>20*3,125,000,000= 62,500,000,000
MP=>20*3,125,000,000= 62,500,000,000
INT=>20*312,500,000= 6,250,000,000
With these improvements, I should be a quarter on the way to trillion points. I don't know if a Tier-8 would have my attribute points at this point.
As long as the opponent doesn't possess some weird skills, I am sure that I would win the battle even against a Tier-8 being.
Refined Skills: Shadow Bolt Volley Lvl. 21; Blood Drain Field Lvl. 3;
Skills: Evade Lvl. 20; Dodge Lvl. 20; Sprint Lvl. 20; Alertness Lvl. 15; Devour Lvl. 9; Fusion Lvl.
20; Split Lvl. 20; Demon Gaze Lvl. 5; Strengthen Lvl. 20; Tag & Track Lvl. 4; Night Vision Lvl. 13; Spatial Storage Lvl.
10; Mind Control Lvl. 9; Mind Probe Lvl. 9; Mind Defence Lvl. 1; Dragon Blood Evolution Lvl. 1 >> 10; Scent Recognition Lvl. 10; Sexual Stamina Lvl.
6; Perception Lvl. 20; Pet World Lvl. 3; Parry Lvl.11;
Resistances: Physical Resistance Lvl. 22; Light Resistance Lvl. 5; Poison Resistance Lvl. 4; Magic Resistance (Non-Attribute) Lvl. 10; Space Resistance Lvl. 7; Fire Resistance Lv.
11; Water Resistance Lvl. 10; Mind Resistance Lvl. 1; Wind Resistance Lvl. 8; Lightning Resistance Lvl. 6;
Weapon Arts: Advanced Staff Arts Lvl. 3; Intermediate Movement Arts Lvl. 6; Intermediate Hand Combat Arts Lvl. 3;
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As one can see from my status panel, there was not much increase in my skills except for one, Dragon Blood Evolution.
Reaching level 10 was not an easy feat. It burnt a lot of resources. I think this may be even more problematic than any other skill I can think of. I thought those skills like the Poison resistance would be troublesome but this was more so.
I literally burnt every resource and money I had on this, well except for a small amount of gold that I would need to leave at the end of the second year.
I am literally broke at this point.
I probably should enter the secret realm, and sell some resources from there in order to get some gold to survive in this world.
I should also look into those nine portals that are inactive at the moment. Originally those were on the agenda along with the improvement of levels of a few skills but that all changed when I saw the changes that started to occur in my Rank level.
I totally concentrated on this. This was because I was still at level 5 of Tier-5 at the beginning of the semester. I was in dire need to improve my Rank Level as soon as possible and take Tier-6 prmotion which would appear as Mission completion for Tier-2 to others.
It was already a year since I took the mission. If I drag this anymore longer, others might get suspicious or think that I am weak and useless.
Even if my father was in the process of dealing with the filth of the family and soon these traitors would be removed, that doesn't mean I would get any preferential treatment.
To the outside world, one has to reach the minimum rank of Tier-5. Only after that one would think about the skill levels. This was because after reaching Tier-5, the difficulty of upgrading was too high for more than 95% of the awakeners.
Only 5% would cross to Tier-6 and only 1% of awakeners would enter Tier-7. This 1% is a rounded figure, the actual rate is much less.
So to the outside world, if you can't reach Tier-5 quickly, you are weak, even if they aren't. It doesn't matter to all but what my family members think would dictate how much I could gain as yearly allowances.
I believe that my third resource might be reduced. There is no way that I can reach peak Tier-5 before the third year starts. I will reach the peak before the end of the first of the third year, as long as I hunt higher-level monsters and do what I did in this semester.
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The second greatest surprise was what happened after the exams at the end of the second year. This was something I wanted to happen but showed no signs of happening, yet it happened.
I am happy that it happened, though I am not sure how or why.
It looks like though I may not be as dense as the protagonists in the novel, there is much for me to learn and understand.
Hmm, you can't understand what I am saying?
I am saying that...