ALL NOVEL Chapter 15 “Leveling up”
Chapter 15
“Leveling up”
[Jhil: healing magic. Transforms the user’s mana into holy energy, allowing it to heal wounds and regenerate the tissues of a target. The quality and quantity of the repaired damage will increase as you level up (currently, this skill is restricted by the administrator and the user is only allowed to heal others, but not herself). It will consume 10 MP each time it is used.]
“What the heck is this thing talking about? What the hell is the point of being a saintess if I can’t heal myself?” She growled.”By other does she mean other races or literally any other living being but me?”
Is this because my employer doesn’t like humans or is it something personal against me? She was worried.
But then she remembered the words her new boss had told her when they made the contract, about giving her the class she would need to heal her people. Her employer had never mentioned, at any time, that he would also allow her to heal herself. And it bothered her to know that she had been naive and trusting enough not to negotiate that, nor to have realized it before.
“Shit!” she growled.
What species is my new boss that he feels the need to take so many precautions? She thought. And she stretched out her injured leg as she leaned back against the tree trunk and sat down on the grass while debating whether or not to use what was left of the holy water to heal herself.
Better to save it for really important occasions. She thought, remembering that among her extensive new collection of potions, she had only found two small vials of holy water, and of low quality.
“It is not safe to risk it” she decided and took out one of the red-colored potions. She questioned herself whether she should consume it directly or sprinkle it on the wound, and not knowing what to do, she decided to drink one of them. But to her annoyance, unlike the holy water, the health regeneration potion worked much slower and didn’t even take away the pain.
Kalysto observed the wounds for several seconds and although they had stopped emanating blood, they were not closing, which began to worry her. So she decided to take out another health regeneration potion, but as soon as she took the first sip, two screens appeared before her.
[Warning: the user can only drink one health potion every 10 minutes. Please wait for the required time before drinking another potion of any kind. All benefits of the second potion will be nullified.]
“What? Are you serious?” She was annoyed. And she poured the rest of the potion over her two wounds. “What kind of bullshit system is this? So, if the wound was more serious, what’s a person supposed to do? Let themselves die if they don’t have stronger potions on hand?” Slowly, Kalysto noticed how her wounds began to heal as she felt all the discomfort of the tissues regenerating. If she had only felt an itch before, now it hurt.
[The passive ability pain resistance has been activated.]
Are you serious?
She was annoyed that it had been necessary for a passive skill to be activated, but she also realized how deep the wounds had really been, even though she hadn’t noticed it before. She let out a long sigh and rested her right hand on the grass as she waited and decided if she should pour another potion directly on the wounds so they would close faster. But before she could come to any conclusion, something bit her hand. Her first instinct was to pull it away immediately, but the tiny fangs of what she had at first thought was a simple, defenseless wildflower were now firmly buried in her skin.
“Inventory!” she hissed, and pulled out the wooden club she stole from the goblin and struck the base of the flower protruding above the ground, hurting other flowers around it. As soon as her attacker released her hand, a thin tongue emerged from its center, cleaning the blood-stained petals.
Annoyed at that grotesque image, Kalysto hit the flower hard several times, until two windows appeared in front of her, giving her the same message.
[You have gained 10 experience points.]
“Stupid carnivorous flower!” She grumbled, looking distrustfully at the crushed remains of her assailant. And after giving it one last sidelong glance, making sure she wasn’t caught off guard again, she turned her attention back to her wounds, which had not yet finished healing.
“Holy water it is, then,” she sighed with annoyance at the slowness with which she drew. But before again taking out the bottle that her new employer had given her, Kalysto wanted to perform an experiment. And she exclaimed: ”Jhil” but nothing happened.
So she tried again, this time with both her hands, to be sure.
“Jhil!” And again, nothing happened. The third time she tried only with her left hand, and let her right hand rest on the grass. And this time, something different happened. A faint golden glow came from her right hand, and three of the carnivorous flowers she had hit, but not killed, stopped being crushed to the ground and became fully erect and without a scratch as a faint golden glow enveloped them.
“What the hell, I can heal even a monster but not myself, seriously?” she growled.
And this time, she didn’t hesitate to pull out the holy water and take a small sip. The pain disappeared immediately and the itching and tingling in her thigh, which she felt the previous time, invaded her leg again, but this time with less force.
And after her wounds began to close, she worried about infection.
“Why didn’t I think of that before?” And remembering that she had a skill for cleansing, she placed her hands on her wounds that were just finishing closing and exclaimed several times. “Purification! Purification! Purification!” Again, a soft golden glow emanated from the palm of her hands and clung to her thigh. “I wish I had thought of doing this before! I need to remember it for next time,” she repeated the spell three more times before she began to notice how dirty and bloodstained her sweatpants were. “Could this also be used to clean the blood?” And guided by her curiosity, she tried three more times, hoping this time that the bloodstains would disappear from her pants. It was after the third attempt that she seemed to notice that the stains were getting smaller, so she did not hesitate to try again. But immediately, two windows appeared before her.
[Warning: the user has only 10 MP left. Please wait a few minutes before attempting to use any ability again or your health will be severely affected.]
Immediately, Kalisto stopped. And after checking her status window, she noticed that indeed, she only had 10 MP left.
“I need more mana,” she muttered. While noticing that her level had changed. “I had forgotten about that.”
Then she noticed the change in her stats, and a doubt crossed her mind. Does each system give me points for leveling up or is it like when the same message appears in both windows? Her curiosity blossomed. And out of the corner of her eye, she looked at the group of flowers that were still alive and smiled.
“It’s time for a little test.”
And with the club in hand, she dedicated herself to crush each of the monstrous flowers around her.
[You have gained 5 experience points.]
[You have gained 10 experience points. ]
[You have gained 10 experience points. ]
[You have gained 5 experience points. ]
[You have gained 10 experience points. ]
[You have gained 5 experience points. ]
How many points will I need to level up? She wondered. She had already gained more than twice as many experience points as in the first one, and although she wanted to stay and investigate calmly, she hurried to finish quickly. Not wanting someone to come back out of the castle and decide to investigate the woman the guards saw earlier. Though she doubted they had survived the mouthful of fire, the huge black dragon threw at them.
Again, two windows, one blue and one violet, opened before her.
[You have gained 5 experience points.]
[You have gained 10 experience points. ]
She immediately began to close them, but before she could close the last of them, two other windows appeared.
[You have leveled up]
[You have gained +1 vitality point, +1 strength, +1 stamina, +1 agility, +1 intelligence].
Great! This is what I was looking for! She was thrilled. She didn’t even remember seeing a similar window when she killed the goblins, but she was glad she had paid attention this time.
She immediately opened both status windows and began comparing them.
The only major difference between her stats in both windows was that in the blue one, she only had two points available.
[Status window]
Name: Kalysto Luna
Age: 21 years old
Race: ---
Level: 3
Fatigue: 63
Class: Saintess (Heroic)
Profession: Not selected
Title: Champion of ?????/ (?????? Of ?????)
Affiliation: Kingdom of Bahram
HP: 180/180
MP: 10/156
Strength: 18
Vitality: 22
Agility: 29
Endurance: 22
Intelligence: 31
Charisma: 2
Luck: 1
????: 50
Status: Curious.
Available points: 4
Moved by curiosity, she pressed on her class and a purple window opened.
[(Heroic): The user gains 20% more experience when killing using the abilities of her class. Grants: +1 strength/ vitality/ agility/ intelligence/ stamina and 2 free points when leveling up.]