ALL NOVEL Chapter 165 “The System.”
Chapter 165
“The System.”
A shiver of pleasure ran through the saintess’s body as the gentle breeze caressed her face. Her fingertips itched as anticipation grew in her as she finished closing the collection of notification windows she received during the purification trip.
“I’ll go check the surroundings and look for the best route to approach the portal,” Hanna whispered before flying off, reducing her size to a small pink light, similar in size to that of a firefly. Curiously, as soon as Kalysto saw her change form, she immediately remembered the several fireflies she had seen from the night before the summoning in the front garden of the building she lived in when she was on Earth, the same fireflies she saw again on the morning the portal had opened and that for a moment she had sworn they seemed to understand what she had been talking about.
It's funny how it all seems so long ago, even though that was only two months ago. She thought as a flash of nostalgia warmed her chest. I hope Amanda, Sakura, Jessica, Natasha, and the others are okay.
“That’s fine,” she replied, refocusing on her status window.
As soon as she reached level sixties, a new option opened for her in the status window of the violet system, at the bottom of the window and in a shade of purplish gray that almost made it go unnoticed, she could now see how many experience points she needed to level up.
Although she now needed 325,000 experience points to move to the next level, a smile came across her face as she saw that she had not only gained several levels but also a new skill as a mage as soon as she broke the level fifty barrier.
[Rain of ice stakes: summons one hundred ice stakes two centimeters wide by twenty centimeters long. Spends 50 MP per use. Reuse time: 1 minute. By raising this skill to a higher level, the number of stakes summoned can be increased, as well as their size.]
Unfortunately, the same had not happened with her saintess class.
“Although considering that the queen had already unlocked the skills for me from the start, I shouldn’t complain.” Another difference between the two systems that she had noticed was that while as a wizard one needed to reach a certain level to unlock most of her skills, as a saintess it was leveling up one skill that unlocked another one, as was the case with ‘Ezhil Purification’, and all the others that shared the name ‘Ezhil’ at the end. “But then again, that difference may be because the queen intervened from the beginning in my system... The advantages of having the creator and administrator of a system as your boss...” she murmured, but that at the same time put her at a great disadvantage, since she herself had no idea how the queen could affect her system the day she got angry with her, or decided to punish her. Something that was hinted at after Persephone had destroyed almost an entire city.
A shiver ran down her spine at the thought.
Even if our contract stipulates that she will allow me to continue using the powers granted to me after I have completed the three missions, she never said anything about letting me continue using the system. She noticed.
“Agggg! It’s because of things like this that the elves complained so much that it was not convenient to do business with the fairies!” She muttered, covering her face with her hands.
She could do to me what the goddess Mhiralla did to the humans in this world and block my system so that I could no longer level up, and according to our contract, that would be a completely valid option.
Which meant that she had a limited time to level up her skills as a saintess and become stronger.
The problem is that the blue system is a cheap copy of the violet system, and if the queen blocks my access to the violet system, would that also restrict my access to the blue one? Which presented her with an even worse problem, one she hadn’t thought of before.
Damn it, I’d better not think about it now. I don’t have time for that! I’ll figure it out later! She decided after a few long seconds of reflection. The sound of a branch snapping alerted her senses, and she immediately turned around, fearing she had been heard by Hanna. Mana sense!
Kalysto spread some of the little mana she had left around the branches of the leafy tree in which she was resting, but there was no one near her. Even so, she did not lower her guard and checked around the tree, noticing the presence of a hobgoblin with a sharp spear in his hand.
Ice spear! She thought, and the spear pierced the hobgoblin’s body from side to side with excessive ease. His blood stained the grass as his corpse lay impaled on the spot.
[You’ve gained 5 experience points!]
Kalysto rolled her eyes at the small gain compared to the mana points she spent.
What a bad investment. She lamented. So she decided to forget about it and concentrate again on her skill window.
Where she soon discovered that another unexpected gain was that her skill ‘Ezhil Purification’ had risen to level 30.
“No wonder it seemed to me that the radius of the golden light had been extended, it’s now thirty meters,” she murmured. “It’s a pity I couldn’t use ’Dispel Ezhil’ while we were flying, I could have leveled it up as well.”
But if I had, it probably would have nullified Hanna’s flight spell. She thought. Better not try that for now.
Ignoring the blue system window, Kalysto just concentrated on the information given by the violet system.
[Status window]
Name: Kalysto Luna
Age: 21 years old
Race: ---
Level: 65
Fatigue: 27
Class: Saintess (Heroic)
Professions: Enchantments
Title: Champion of the fairies (avatar of ?????) (?????? of the ??????)
Affiliation: Kingdom of Bahram
HP: 4520/4520
MP: 95/3806
DMP: 2600
Strength: 149+55
Vitality: 158+80
Agility: 178
Stamina: 161+110
Intelligence: 157 +100
Charisma: 10
Luck: 20
???: 50
Status: spectator, curious.
Available points: 102 ]
“Tsk!” She clicked her tongue when she saw that the dark-mana she had decreased two hundred points after she used it inside the tower, but even though some time had passed since then, it still hadn’t been restored naturally like her mana. “That means I don’t have the natural ability to regenerate it by myself...” then she frowned, remembering having gained that skill inside the tower and opened her skill window to make sure.
[Skills.]
Active skills:
Inspect: level 4
Mana detection: level 7
Mana Sense: level 7
Mana Control: level 10
Mana Manipulation: level 13
Dispel: level 11
Ezhil Dispel: level 15
Sleep well: level 10
Purification: level 10
Ezhil Purification: level 30
Jhil: level 10
Jhil Ezhil: level 20
Blessing: level 20
Ezhil Blessing. Level 1
Water manipulation. Level 1
Water creation. Level 2
Ice manipulation. Level 11
Ice creation. Level 11
Water blades. Level 1
Ice blades. Level 1
Ice daggers. Level 2
Water arrows. Level 1
Ice arrows. Level 2
Eagle eyes. Level 1
Replica. Level 6
Earth creation. Level 1
Earth manipulation. Level 7
Basic healing. Level 1
Duplication. Level 60
Fire puff. Level 1
Resistance to ice . Level 1
Lightning. Level 2
Ice stakes. Level 1
Tundra. Level 1
Ice spear. Level 1
Stealth. Level 1 (Legendary)
Absolute immunity to fire. Level 3 (Legendary)
Perfect Shot. Level 1!
Telekinesis. Level 5 (Legendary)
Multiple targets. Level 1
Water resistance. Level 1
Night vision. Level 1
Dark mana creation
Poison resistance
Wind Swirl’ Level 1
‘Regeneration’. Level 1
Manipulation of dark mana. Level 2
Rain of ice stakes. Level 1
Passive skills:
¿¿¿¿???? From ¿¿? Level 70/131
Languages: : legendary level (User can understand, read, speak and write any language that has been used or is still used in Elinor’s world. This is a bonus given by admin.) (The skill has been upgraded by admin so that the user can also understand the native fairy language).
Regeneration. Level 4
Fire resistance. 41% of acquired skill (Incomplete).
Eternal youth. Level 1
Immunity to black plague’. Level 1
Poison resistance
‘Double conjuration’. Level 1
Profession skills:
Health enchantment: level 5.
Mana Enchantment. Level 5
Strength Enchantment. Level 2
Innate skills:
Focus: level 5
Empathy: level 3
Mental defense: level 70
Pain resistance: level 31
Absorb: level 35]
And indeed, there it was. She could create dark mana but not regenerate it. However, it was an active skill like ice creation and not a passive one like poison immunity or double conjuration.
I really need to try that last one. She got excited. And then her green gaze fell on her poison resistance.
“Ideally, I’d like to be able to level it up... “ at least then she wouldn’t have to worry about the zhalem flower anymore, but the idea of exposing herself to several poisons to level up the skill didn’t appeal to her. Even if she had holy water at her disposal ”... Maybe it would be a better idea to wait until she raised her blessing level, then if I can create holy water of higher purity it would have a much faster effect against the poison, in case the poison I ingested is stronger than my resistance to it.”
Then two things caught her attention.
The first was that despite discovering that she was a half-breed, that information was still not reflected in her status window. In fact, the blue system still only recognized her as human.
The blue system is so unreliable. She thought, and although she was grateful for the opportunity to be able to use magic, she was discovering more and more details that made her distrust towards it increase.
“Maybe I need to raise my inspection skills to a higher level to discover the information that the system is blocking me,” she muttered.
As soon as I have some free time I’ll get on that. She thought. That and a long talk with Tsuki. And although she felt a bit bad about having him locked in her inventory, getting him out now would be a bit complicated with his hero complexes.
The other thing that caught her attention was that one of her passive skills, which was full of question marks, had changed her stats.
¿¿¿¿???? From ¿¿? Level 70/131.
“What the heck happened here?” She frowned. “I’m sure it used to say its level was 40/125...”