CH.401 Status after the Spiritual Adventure
<span style="font-weight:400">During breakfast, I gave everyone the basic rundown of what happened in the spirit world, including the part where the spirit world is also in trouble because of the ‘miasma blobs’.
<span style="font-weight:400">I got some mixed reactions from my workers. A lot of them looked worried, likely because they realized just how big of a problem this world was really facing. I mean, if even the spirits, beings that exist in a separate reality, are affected, then things must be bad.
<span style="font-weight:400">And I know you might think that I shouldn’t scare my workers, but I say that they need to know this stuff. It is important. If things get worse and multiple fissures start appearing at the same time, I’ll need people who can handle them. At the end of the day, I can’t be at two ces at the same time.
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<span style="font-weight:400">After that little show, I focused on what I could see now. Mainly, what happened to my status.
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<td style="width:100%;height:24px"><span style="font-weight:400">Name: Brian Wood</td>
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<td style="width:100%;height:24px"><span style="font-weight:400">Race: One without a Race - User of Rare Skills (Advanced Human) ?</td>
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<td style="width:100%;height:24px"><span style="font-weight:400">Level: 160 <span style="color:#ff0000">[+2]
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<td style="width:100%;height:24px"><span style="font-weight:400">HP: 6720 <span style="color:#ff0000">[+90] (+25,000)</td>
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<td style="width:100%;height:24px"><span style="font-weight:400">Mana: 9540 <span style="color:#ff0000">[+970] (+22,800)</td>
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<td style="width:100%;height:24px"><span style="font-weight:400">Strength: 2625 <span style="color:#ff0000">[+20]</td>
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<td style="width:100%;height:24px"><span style="font-weight:400">Defense: 3465 <span style="color:#ff0000">[+20]</td>
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<td style="width:100%;height:24px"><span style="font-weight:400">Magic: 3700 <span style="color:#ff0000">[+480]</td>
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<td style="width:100%;height:24px"><span style="font-weight:400">One of Every Race LV.2 (unique-racial)</td>
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<td style="width:100%;height:24px"><span style="font-weight:400">- Draconic Body LV.1 (racial)</td>
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<td style="width:100%;height:24px"><span style="font-weight:400">- Draconic Magic LV.1 (racial)</td>
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<td style="width:100%;height:24px"><span style="font-weight:400">- Advanced Summoning Magic LV.2 (racial)</td>
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<td style="width:100%;height:24px"><span style="font-weight:400">- Spirit Magic LV.4 (racial) <span style="color:#ff0000">[+2]</td>
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<td style="width:100%;height:24px"><span style="font-weight:400">Pack Opener LV.8 (unique)</td>
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<td style="width:100%;height:24px"><span style="font-weight:400">Different Dimension Factory LV.8 (unique) <span style="color:#ff0000">[+1]</td>
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<td style="width:100%;height:24px"><span style="font-weight:400">Storage LV.10 (unique)</td>
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<td style="width:100%;height:24px"><span style="font-weight:400">Limit Break LV.1 (extra)</td>
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<td style="width:100%;height:24px"><span style="font-weight:400">Space Magic LV.5 (extra) <span style="color:#ff0000">[+1]</td>
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<td style="width:100%;height:24px"><span style="font-weight:400">Time Magic LV.3 (extra) <span style="color:#ff0000">[+1]<span style="font-weight:400">
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<td style="width:100%;height:24px"><span style="font-weight:400">Telekinesis LV.8 (extra)</td>
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<td style="width:100%;height:24px"><span style="font-weight:400">Dark Chain LV.1 (extra)<span style="font-weight:400">
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<td style="width:100%;height:24px"><span style="font-weight:400">Summoner’s Unity LV.10 (extra)</td>
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<td style="width:100%;height:24px"><span style="font-weight:400">Dungeon Founder (extra)</td>
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<td style="width:100%;height:24px"><span style="font-weight:400">Summon Light Spirit (extra) <span style="color:#ff0000">[new]<span style="font-weight:400">
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<td style="width:100%;height:24px"><span style="font-weight:400">Summon Dark Spirit (extra) <span style="color:#ff0000">[new]<span style="font-weight:400">
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<td style="width:100%;height:24px"><span style="font-weight:400">Summon Earth Spirit (extra) <span style="color:#ff0000">[new]<span style="font-weight:400">
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<td style="width:100%;height:24px"><span style="font-weight:400">Summon Fire Spirit (extra) <span style="color:#ff0000">[new]</td>
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<td style="width:100%;height:24px"><span style="font-weight:400">Summon Water Spirit (extra)</td>
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<td style="width:100%;height:24px"><span style="font-weight:400">Summon Nature Spirit (extra)<span style="font-weight:400">
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<td style="width:100%;height:24px"><span style="font-weight:400">Health Conscious (extra)</td>
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<td style="width:100%;height:24px"><span style="font-weight:400">Sword Technique LV.5</td>
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<td style="width:100%;height:24px"><span style="font-weight:400">Shield Technique LV.4<span style="font-weight:400">
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<td style="width:100%;height:24px"><span style="font-weight:400">Advanced Mana Control LV.14 <span style="color:#ff0000">[evolved]</td>
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<td style="width:100%;height:24px"><span style="font-weight:400">Taming LV.2</td>
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<td style="width:100%;height:24px"><span style="font-weight:400">Defense Boost LV.10</td>
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<td style="width:100%;height:24px"><span style="font-weight:400">Dragon Life Dedication (Greater True Fire Dragon)</td>
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<td style="width:100%;height:24px"><span style="font-weight:400">Eosther’s Blessing <span style="color:#ff0000">[new]<span style="font-weight:400">
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<td style="width:100%;height:24px"><span style="font-weight:400">Nyx’s Blessing <span style="color:#ff0000">[new] <span style="font-weight:400">
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<td style="width:100%;height:24px"><span style="font-weight:400">Gaia’s Blessing <span style="color:#ff0000">[new] <span style="font-weight:400">
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<td style="width:100%;height:24px"><span style="font-weight:400">Ninatia’s Blessing <span style="color:#ff0000">[new] <span style="font-weight:400">
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<td style="width:100%;height:24px"><span style="font-weight:400">Water Spirits Blessing (Greater)</td>
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<td style="width:100%;height:24px">Nature Spirits Blessing (Greater)<span style="font-weight:400">
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<td style="width:100%;height:24px"><span style="font-weight:400">Friend of the Spirits <span style="color:#ff0000">[new] </td>
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<td style="width:100%;height:24px"><span style="font-weight:400">Honorary Baron of Ruiso Kingdom</td>
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<td style="width:100%;height:24px"><span style="font-weight:400">Language Comprehension (humanoid) (draconic)</td>
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<td style="width:100%;height:24px"><span style="font-weight:400">ve Master</td>
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<td style="width:100%;height:24px"><span style="font-weight:400">ves: Rhianna</td>
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[copse]
<span style="font-weight:400">So yeah. Quite a bit happened to my status. Mainly I got five new titles, the four blessings from the superior spirits, as well as the Friend of the Spirits title. The blessings are simple. They would boost my affinity with the attribute magics, if I had them, and allowed me to use the ‘summon elemental spirit’ skills. And since I got the blessings of the superior spirits, I can summon any spirit of that attribute. Compared to something like Rain’s blessing, I could only summon her, as well as lesser and intermediate spirits that belong to her direct family.
<span style="font-weight:400">Friend of the Spirits just boosts my Spirit Magic, by the way. I think that title is part of the reason why Spirit Magic leveled up twice.
<span style="font-weight:400">And perhaps because of all the blessings I have, or maybe the Friend of the Spirits title, I got a new race unlocked in One of Every Race called Spiritual Being. It is somewhat simr to Spiritual Human, but even more spirit-like. I’m almostpletely a spirit when I turn into that race. But it doesn’t reallye with a lot of advantages, other than boosting my Spirit Magic more than Spiritual Human, so I’m not sure I’ll use it all that much.
<span style="font-weight:400">Also, I think it is interesting that I have almost 10,000 mana. With just a bit more, I’ll be able to power up a Mega Ton Magical Cannon entirely on my own.
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[copse]
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<span style="font-weight:400">After my status, I looked over Lua’s.<sup ss="modern-footnotes-footnote " data-mfn="1"></sup><span ss="modern-footnotes-footnote__note" data-mfn="1">Last time shown in CH.364
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<td style="width:100%;height:24px"><span style="font-weight:400">Name: Lucia</td>
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<td style="width:100%;height:24px"><span style="font-weight:400">Race: Dhampir Monarch !</td>
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<td style="width:100%;height:24px"><span style="font-weight:400">Level: 120 <span style="color:#ff0000">[+16]</td>
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<td style="width:100%;height:24px"><span style="font-weight:400">HP: 3730 <span style="color:#ff0000">[+550]</td>
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<td style="width:100%;height:24px"><span style="font-weight:400">Mana: 7565 <span style="color:#ff0000">[+1220]</td>
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<td style="width:100%;height:24px"><span style="font-weight:400">Strength: 1643 <span style="color:#ff0000">[+302] </td>
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<td style="width:100%;height:24px"><span style="font-weight:400">Defense: 1667 <span style="color:#ff0000">[+208]</td>
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<td style="width:100%;height:24px"><span style="font-weight:400">Magic: 5080 <span style="color:#ff0000">[+854]</td>
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<td style="width:100%;height:24px"><span style="font-weight:400">Skills:</td>
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<td style="width:100%;height:24px"><span style="font-weight:400">Dhampir Princess LV.4 (Unique) <span style="color:#ff0000">[+1]</td>
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<td style="width:100%;height:24px"><span style="font-weight:400">Monarch of Magic LV.3 (Racial) <span style="color:#ff0000">[+1]</td>
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<td style="width:100%;height:24px"><span style="font-weight:400">True Blood Magic LV.11 (Racial) <span style="color:#ff0000">[+1]</td>
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<td style="width:100%;height:24px"><span style="font-weight:400">Vampiric Body Modification LV.5 (Racial)</td>
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<td style="width:100%;height:24px"><span style="font-weight:400">Limit Break LV.1 (extra)</td>
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<td style="width:100%;height:24px"><span style="font-weight:400">Card Summoner LV.4 (extra)</td>
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<td style="width:100%;height:24px"><span style="font-weight:400">Winged Flight LV.4 (extra) <span style="color:#ff0000">[+1]</td>
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<td style="width:100%;height:24px"><span style="font-weight:400">Summon Light Spirit (extra) <span style="color:#ff0000">[new]<span style="font-weight:400">
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<td style="width:100%;height:24px"><span style="font-weight:400">Summon Water Spirit (extra)</td>
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<td style="width:100%;height:24px"></td>
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<td style="width:100%;height:24px"><span style="font-weight:400">Spiritual Water Magic LV.10 <span style="color:#ff0000">[evolved]</td>
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<td style="width:100%;height:23px"><span style="font-weight:400">Spiritual Light Magic LV.8 <span style="color:#ff0000">[evolved]</td>
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<td style="width:100%;height:24px"><span style="font-weight:400">Wind Magic LV.1 <span style="color:#ff0000">[new]<span style="font-weight:400">
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<td style="width:100%;height:24px"><span style="font-weight:400">Mana Healing LV.7</td>
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<td style="width:100%;height:24px"><span style="font-weight:400">Mana Control LV.12 <span style="color:#ff0000">[+2]</td>
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<td style="width:100%;height:24px"><span style="font-weight:400">Magic Boost LV.10 <span style="color:#ff0000">[+1] </td>
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<td style="width:100%;height:24px"><span style="font-weight:400">Quick Cast LV.10 <span style="color:#ff0000">[+1] </td>
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<td style="width:100%;height:24px"><span style="font-weight:400">Fast Mana Recovery LV.10</td>
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<td style="width:100%;height:24px"><span style="font-weight:400">Knife Technique LV.2</td>
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<td style="width:100%;height:24px"><span style="font-weight:400">Staff Technique LV.8 <span style="color:#ff0000">[+2]</td>
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<td style="width:100%;height:24px"><span style="font-weight:400">Blunt Weapon Technique LV.5 <span style="color:#ff0000">[+3]</td>
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<td style="width:100%;height:24px"><span style="font-weight:400">Saint</td>
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<td style="width:100%;height:24px"><span style="font-weight:400">Eosther’s Blessing <span style="color:#ff0000">[new]<span style="font-weight:400">
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<td style="width:100%;height:24px"><span style="font-weight:400">Thssa’s Blessing <span style="color:#ff0000">[overwrote Water Spirits Blessing (Greater)]</td>
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<td style="width:100%;height:24px"><span style="font-weight:400">Blood Sucker (Racial)</td>
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<td style="width:100%;height:24px"><span style="font-weight:400">Lifesaver</td>
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<td style="width:100%"><span style="font-weight:400">Language Comprehension (humanoid)<span style="font-weight:400">
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<td style="width:100%;height:24px"><span style="font-weight:400">Storage ess (Brian Wood)</td>
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[copse]
<span style="font-weight:400">I don’t know how Lua’s status realisticallypares to mine. The growth is also impressive, but it is different from mine. I just got a bunch of blessings, and while they are nice, they didn’t do to me what they did to Lua. Both her Water and Light Magic evolved. Though for some reason, her Mana Control didn’t, so hopefully that won’t be a problem for her. Maybe mine evolved because I was ying the songs using mana? Could also be because I went through that mana circuit advancement thing when I eliminated the HomeBase’s old dungeon core, but I’m not sure.
<span style="font-weight:400">Lua also didn’t get the Friend of the Spirits title. Again, don’t ask me why. I don’t know how the System titles work.
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<span style="font-weight:400">Last, Alice.<sup ss="modern-footnotes-footnote " data-mfn="2"></sup><span ss="modern-footnotes-footnote__note" data-mfn="2">Alice''s status wasst shown in CH.355
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<td style="width:100%"><span style="font-weight:400">Name: Alice Mana Watchman</td>
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<td style="width:100%"><span style="font-weight:400">Race: Magical Girl !</td>
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<td style="width:100%"><span style="font-weight:400">Level: 140 <span style="color:#ff0000">[+16]
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<td style="width:100%"><span style="font-weight:400">HP: 2760 <span style="color:#ff0000">[+380]</td>
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<td style="width:100%"><span style="font-weight:400">Mana: 7385 <span style="color:#ff0000">[+1230]</td>
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<td style="width:100%"><span style="font-weight:400">Strength: 1892 <span style="color:#ff0000">[+298]</td>
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<td style="width:100%"><span style="font-weight:400">Defense: 2052 <span style="color:#ff0000">[+238]</td>
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<td style="width:100%"><span style="font-weight:400">Magic: 5419 <span style="color:#ff0000">[+986]</td>
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<td style="width:100%"><span style="font-weight:400">Skills:</td>
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<td style="width:100%"><span style="font-weight:400">Magical Girl LV.3 (unique-racial) <span style="color:#ff0000">[+1]</td>
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<td style="width:100%"></td>
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<td style="width:100%"><span style="font-weight:400">Limit Break LV.1 (extra)</td>
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<td style="width:100%"><span style="font-weight:400">Card Summoner LV.3 (extra)</td>
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<td style="width:100%"><span style="font-weight:400">Magician’s Power LV.5 (extra)</td>
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<td style="width:100%"><span style="font-weight:400">Erasure Magic LV.3 (extra)<span style="font-weight:400">
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<td style="width:100%"><span style="font-weight:400">Multicasting LV.5 (extra)</td>
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<td style="width:100%"><span style="font-weight:400">Mana Flight LV.5 (extra)</td>
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<td style="width:100%"><span style="font-weight:400">Telekinesis LV.5 (extra)</td>
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<td style="width:100%"><span style="font-weight:400">Giant yer LV.3 (extra)</td>
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<td style="width:100%"><span style="font-weight:400">Summon Dark Spirit (extra) <span style="color:#ff0000">[new]</td>
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<td style="width:100%"><span style="font-weight:400">Summon Fire Spirit (extra) <span style="color:#ff0000">[new]</td>
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<td style="width:100%"></td>
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<td style="width:100%"><span style="font-weight:400">Spiritual Dark Magic LV.11 <span style="color:#ff0000">[evolved]</td>
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<td style="width:100%"><span style="font-weight:400">Spiritual Fire Magic LV.9 <span style="color:#ff0000">[+2] [evolved] </td>
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<td style="width:100%"><span style="font-weight:400">Earth Magic LV.1<span style="color:#ff0000"> [new]<span style="font-weight:400">
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<td style="width:100%"><span style="font-weight:400">Mana Control LV.13 <span style="color:#ff0000">[+2]</td>
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<td style="width:100%"><span style="font-weight:400">Magic Boost LV.8 <span style="color:#ff0000">[+1]</td>
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<td style="width:100%"><span style="font-weight:400">Quick Cast LV.10 <span style="color:#ff0000">[+2]</td>
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<td style="width:100%"><span style="font-weight:400">Instant Cast LV.6 <span style="color:#ff0000">[+1]</td>
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<td style="width:100%"><span style="font-weight:400">Fast Mana Recovery LV.10 </td>
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<td style="width:100%"><span style="font-weight:400">Magic resistance LV.5</td>
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<td style="width:100%"><span style="font-weight:400">Polearm Technique LV.7 <span style="color:#ff0000">[+2]</td>
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<td style="width:100%"><span style="font-weight:400">Staff Technique LV.4</td>
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<td style="width:100%"><span style="font-weight:400">One with two Souls</td>
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<td style="width:100%"><span style="font-weight:400">One who defeated the Impossible</td>
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<td style="width:100%"><span style="font-weight:400">Nyx’s Blessing <span style="color:#ff0000">[new]</td>
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<td style="width:100%"><span style="font-weight:400">Ninatia’s Blessing <span style="color:#ff0000">[new]</td>
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<td style="width:100%"><span style="font-weight:400">Language Comprehension (humanoid)</td>
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<td style="width:100%"><span style="font-weight:400">Storage ess (Brian Wood)</td>
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[copse]
<span style="font-weight:400">Alice is a lot like Lua. Her Fire and Dark Magics evolved and she got the Summon Spirit skills.
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<span style="font-weight:400">“Come on Brian. I want to.” Alice was begging me to help her advance her mana circuits, so hopefully her Mana Control would evolve.
<span style="font-weight:400">“I’m not strapping you into a literal torture device just so you can get skills.” I told her.
<span style="font-weight:400">“... then can you at least work on a way we can do it that isn’t torture?”
<span style="font-weight:400">“... there is a way, but it doesn’te cheap. I can use an SS-rank monster core to make an artificial rogue dungeon. Then I’d charge the core with a lot of mana before you eliminate it and the rush of power should advance your mana circuits.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Then why aren’t we doing that?” Alice asked.
<span style="font-weight:400">“... Because the SS-rank core will break. And I’d really rather not waste them for that.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Would it really be a waste?” Lua asked.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Yeah. I want to use my Behemoth core for this.” Alice said.
<span style="font-weight:400">“I could use the Fenrir core.” Lua said.
<span style="font-weight:400">“I said no. Until I have at least 10 SS-cores, we are not using them for this.” I denied them. It isn’t that I don’t want to evolve their skills, but honestly, there has to be a different way.
<span style="font-weight:400">“... that’s no fun. Aren’t they our cores?” Alice asked.
<span style="font-weight:400">“They are, but I don’t want you to be so impulsive.” I told them. “... and I do have an alternative, but it is slower.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Why didn’t you start with that?”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Because you were all ready to be strapped into a torture device. And what I’m offering is just marginally better.” I told Alice. “... it’s a mana spring. Using Spring of Rebirth, I’d make a healing spring somewhere on HomeBase. Then just guide excess mana to the spring and it should turn into a mana spring. By bathing in it and focusing on running all that mana throughout your body, it should basically supercharge your mana control and force your body to move mana beyond its regr limits. Thus forcing your mana circuits to quickly grow.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“... and we are not doing that because?” Alice asked.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Because I wasn’t sure it was worth it. Your mana control hasn’t really been a limiting factor, so I didn’t want to offer painful training methods. But now that I know about Advanced Mana Control, it might be worth it.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“So no to a torture device, but yes to a torture bath.” Lua recapped.
<span style="font-weight:400">“It isn’t torture, just a bit painful. And you can adjust the level of pain yourself, because at the end of the day, you are the limiting factor with the mana spring.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“... How soon can you make it?” Alice asked.
<span style="font-weight:400">“A few days. Today is a rest day anyway, and tomorrow I’ll … we’ll return to the spirit world to wake up the Time and Space spirits. Maybe see if we can wake up the superior Nature spirit as well, though I’d like Cailie to do that. And then ask if there are any other superior spirits I don’t yet know about.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Alright. But I’ll be holding you to it.” Alice said.
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<span style="font-weight:400">Thest thing of the day I wanted to do is test out if my spirit summoning skills are different now that I have blessings from superior spirits. I wasn’t going to train or anything, just a quick skill check.
<span style="font-weight:400">I decided to call Gaia. Truthfully I really wanted to summon Anemoi, so that she could check up on the evolving Cailie, but only Cailie has her blessing. So I went with the next best choice of Gaia.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Summon Earth Spirit.” I said the skill name, and when I did, I felt a pull of mana inside of me. It felt like my body was trying to ask how much mana I wanted to use. From my estimation, I could use around 100, 300, 700 or 1000 mana, each amount likely equating to a lesser, intermediate, greater and then finally the superior spirits.
<span style="font-weight:400">I of course went with the full 1000.
<span style="font-weight:400">After using the skill, I felt the earth under my feet move. It consolidated and then crystalized, forming a humanoid body that was made of crystal. I have no idea how Gaia just turned literal dirt into crystal, but I won’t question her about it.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Hello Gaia. Sorry I called you, but I wanted to test out the new skill.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“It is no issue, son-in-spirit.” She responded, as she stretched her body. She then looked around, and was seemingly happy with what she saw. “So this is where you live. Not quite a castle, but a nice pce.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“... It’s actually a citadel, but whatever.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Exactly. Home is home.” Gaia agreed. “How long can you keep me here?” She then asked.
<span style="font-weight:400">I quickly checked my mana, and noticed it was draining slowly. Well, slow is rtive. I was losing about 1 mana about every 2 seconds. With that drain, considering the summoning cost of 1000, I could keep Gaia here for over 4 hours. And I can also refill my mana by pulling mana from HomeBase, so I can keep her here as long as I want. … well, she might be able to return on her own as well.
<span style="font-weight:400">“For hours.” I responded.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Then perhaps a quick tour would be fine. I want to see my niece and maybe that Wilma person you mentioned. You don’t have to bring her to me, if I cane to her.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Sure.” I naturally agreed.
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<span style="font-weight:400">The tour of HomeBase was nothing special. Gaia did enjoy some sights, mainly she really liked how HomeBase was a massive flying rock, saying that she should make floating rocks in her domain.
<span style="font-weight:400">She was also very happy to see the evolution tank Cailie was in,plimenting the technology I used to help the evolution process.
<span style="font-weight:400">Of course not all could be perfect, as Paulina noticed us and challenged Gaia to a fight in order to get a spirits blessing. … only to get destroyed in 2 seconds when Gaia encased her in a crystal that Paulina couldn’t break.
<span style="font-weight:400">We also visited Wilma, and while Gaia was somewhat impressed by her work, she also said Wilma wasn’t ready for a superior blessing, because of her low Earth Magic level. I think that is because the superior blessings seem to cause the skill evolution, so for Wilma who has her Earth Magic at only level 2, the evolved skill might be too difficult to control.
<span style="font-weight:400">Eventually Gaia left back to the spirit world. I told her we woulde back tomorrow, in our time, and asked her to tell Anemoi that Cailie was doing fine. Gaia agreed to that, and soon left. Her crystal body broke apart, turning back into the dirt it was originally made from.
<span style="font-weight:400">“... that really doesn’t make any sense. How do you turn dirt into a wless crystal only for it to turn back into dirt?” I wondered.