Book 2: Chapter 24: Risk and Reward

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Book 2: Chapter 24: Risk and Reward

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Is it possible to get the System to show all of my messages since the start of that battle?

Uh, yes, Tar answers, sounding a little confused. Why?

Because I want to see it all at once.

You wouldnt understand.

Tar grumbles something in my mind that I cant quite make out, but whatever hes doing while grumbling seems to do the trick as the System messages flood in before he even finishes grumbling.

{Level 106 Demon Fomorian defeated. A vast EXP bonus is awarded for killing a creature above your level.}

{Level 105 Demon Fomorian defeated. A vast EXP bonus is awarded for killing a creature above your level.}

{Level 105 Demon Fomorian defeated. A vast EXP bonus is awarded for killing a creature above your level.}

{Level 107 Demon Fomorian defeated. A vast EXP bonus is awarded for killing a creature above your level.}

{Level 126 Demon Acolyte defeated. A vast EXP bonus is awarded for killing a creature above your level.}

{Congrats, you have leveled up to level 76. Two Free Points have been awarded to you and your stats have been updated.}This chapter made its debut appearance via N0v3lB1n.

{Congrats, you have leveled up to level 85. Two Free Points have been awarded to you and your stats have been updated.}

{Thirty Skill Points are awarded for killing a being at a higher class than yourself without any assistance ten or more times.}

{Ten Skill Points are awarded for surviving having your heart cut in two.}

{Five Skill Points are awarded for killing a Demon Acolyte for the first time.}

{One Skill Point is awarded for killing a demon.} x5

And I just brought blood sacrifice to level ten, so thats out too. After all, I dont want to push any of my skills too far ahead of the others.

Well, unless its just a really useful high rarity skill, that is.

Hmm the decision goes down to blood boil, blood shadow, blood manifestation, and blood retribution. But since blood retribution is a last ditch skill that Id rather avoid using if I dont have to, whereas the others are active combat skills that I use quite frequently, Ill take retribution out of that list.

Which leaves boil, shadow, and manifestation.

Of course, I could also go and buy a rare defensive skill like some sort of blood shield. Although Im pretty sure that would be taking the blood directly from me, so is it really much of a shield if it drains me of blood?

It doesnt hurt to take a look, Tar says, and I shrug in response before opening up and then browsing the skills store, pointedly ignoring the two new epic skills that show up on the list from my new achievements since they dont add anything to my current skill set.

After a few minutes of searching, I find a rare defensive skill that is good enough for me to purchase. So I do so before opening up the description again just to soothe my nerves about spending my SP on another new skill. Because it took a lot of willpower to not just blow all my SP on leveling skills instead.

{Blood Armor Allows the user to create an armor purely out of congealed and hardened blood with mana. This skill may only create two plates of armor at one time. Each plate of armor created removes a small portion of the users mana pool until the skill is dispelled or the armor plating is shattered.}

You are sure this armor plating is going to be hard enough to actually stop an attack, right?

You worry too much, Tar answers. Its not as hard as congealed blood is. Its much harder, more akin to the durability of stone amplified by your own level instead at level 1.

And youre telling me you learned about it from a past blood magic user your previous contractor met?

Tar nods his head without saying anything.

Well, alright then. I still have 36 more SP to spend.

But before that, why arent any more demons entering the floor? Its been at least ten minutes since the fight, but nothing has entered.

Thats just not normal.

And I dont hear anything guarding the stairs.

Tar doesnt say anything.

I let out a huff before glancing at the kid still sleeping on my lap and then going through my skills to see which to level.