Chapter 13: Shadow Diviner


    Shinto scrutinized the window that was disying his new skill list. The disparity that he saw from the previous one was that there were no skills or passives that were familiar to himThe one he''s familiar with? They''re all gone.


    "Well, that''s a no brainer with the fact I entered into a new ss..." Shinto sighed as he counted the number of skills and passives, half for each respectively, totalling up to ten skills.


    ''For being at level one, this ss sure gives you plentiful of skills and passives... Though that being said, this ss does reset and drop your level down to one, so I guess that''s a usible excuse for this amount of abilities.''


    There we''re many ways to unlock skills and passives for your ss. Through levelling up, throughpleting ss quests, or through bonus quests that provide you with abilities outside of your ss range.


    For Shinto''s case, he hadn''t done any quests that unlock abilities outside of his previous ss ''Lunar Swordsman'' because he had never encountered any. Well he did, but most of the abilities provided were useless abilities that proved no beneficial for him. Thus, losing those abilities from the reset didn''t necessarily impact him at all.


    Though even if he did lose something that impacted him, it was his own choice to choose a support ss, Shadow Diviner. So it wasn''t as if he could me anyone but himself for an unrationalized decision.


    But at the stage of this game, Shinto is in now, he couldn''t decide whether he would regret or would feel proud that he went with this choice since he had yet tested it or seen the skills. Choosing an unknown ss especially a support type would be proved risky.


    But as they say, high risk, high return.


    ...


    Shinto took a deep breath as he began to look at his list, with his in-game knowledge and judgement he could judge an ability based on its utility and usage to be either good or bad.


    Though that''s with the case of DPS. For support, he wouldn''t know much about it, thus he had to rely only on in-game knowledge and experience to see if it would be good.


    Shinto''s eyes locked onto to the first on his passive listDivining Gauge


    [ Divining Gauge Lv 1 ]


    All skills rting to Shadow Diviner, will consume a new energy ''Shadow'' and ''Divinity''.


    The max amount of energy that you may have is 30. Then to increase the maximum amount, it is dependent on your ''Shadow'' and ''Divinity'' stat.


    After umting a certain amount of ''Shadow'' or ''Divinity'' stat, you will gain a permanent boost to your ss.


    ''Shadow and Divinity stat?'' Shinto thought to himself, "Ah...! It''s the stat I just opened up with this ss..."


    Shinto opened up his status window, as he viewed the information of the two new stats.


    [ Shadow ]


    In the darkness of shadows, you will give off a faint aura of warmth under the night, increasing the supporting capabilities by 0.05% per Shadow Stat. You will also be more likely to be noticed by people that give off an aura of evil, but, you are less vulnerable to ''curses''.


    *The higher the stat, the higher the effect.


    *This is a ss-exclusive stat for ''Shadow Diviner'', not to be mix with the stat ''Demonic''


    *Stat points can''t be distributed into this stat.


    [ Divinity ]


    In the essence of light, you will give off a faint aura of light in the day, Increasing damage by 0.01% and defense by 0.02% per divinity stat and you will be more likely to obtain ''blessings''.


    *The higher the stat, the higher the effect.


    *This is a ss-exclusive stat for ''Shadow Diviner'', not to be mix with the stat ''Deity''


    *Stat points can''t be distributed into this stat.


    Shinto''s heart thumped upon a nce at the details of his new stats.


    "Oh? So these would be my ss-exclusive stats huh?"


    In the game, Spiritual Warriors. A starting character only has four core stats: Strength, Stamina, Intelligence and Agility. These are the main stats of a character when they begin the game, however as they progress they will unlock more stats exclusively for them or only a handful of characters have. What are they? They are called ''hidden stats'' only unlockable through quests or sses.


    From a survey of boastful veteran yers, there seemed to be many hidden stats within the game. Currently ounting up to more than 50 of them.


    As for Shinto? He originally had eight kinds of unique stat excluding the core ones. However, he had lost them all after the reset and now he only has three.


    "Hmm... My Shadow and Divinity stat are at 1... and I can''t raise them through stat points. Then, how do I raise them?"


    A unique trait about hidden stats is that stat points cannot be distributed into them and thus would require a persistent use of action in-game to raise.


    ''Since they''re ss-exclusives... Would it mean I have toplete ss quests in order to raise them?'' Shinto thought to himself.


    ''Since these stats give a lot of good benefits... It won''t be that easy to raise them.''


    ''I''ll have toe back to this when I check out my other skills.''


    Shinto closed his status window as he opened his skill list back, quickly moving onto the next few passives.


    [ Diviner''s Will Lv 1 ]


    As a Diviner, when you are dealt fatal damage, there will be a chance of a second ''chance''. Upon using up this second ''chance'', the passive skill will be ced on cooldown for 24 hours.


    *Second Chance - Allows the user to survive any and all attacks dealt by anything for 5 seconds.


    "A second chance, that would be nice when it activates... Though, I can''t rely too much on it..." Shinto sighed to himself, "It''s a chance skill..."


    Shinto shook his head, ridding his mind of a scene within his mind in which he needed this skill to activate at a crucial time, however it didn''t activate.


    "Sigh... My luck is so and so."


    [ Bearer of the Diviner Lv 1 ]


    You are a bearer of the diviner, for you have chosen under the guise of two sides.


    When supporting an ally, you will gain a protective spell of the divine, creating a damage barrier which absorbs up to 500 damage (Stackable up to 2500) damage thatsts until the barrier is broken. Once broken, it will be ced on cooldown for the next 5 minutes before you may put up a new barrier.


    When damaging an enemy, you will inflict a shadow mark. Enemies that''s inflicted with a shadow mark will take 15% additional damage from any attack dealt by your party or by yourself.


    "A shadow mark and a protective spell... That would be very useful during battle. I''ll have to keep a note on that."


    [ Eyes of Altric Lv 1 ]


    The all-seeing eye of Altric, with this vision bestowed upon you. You may now see things others don''t see, find hidden meanings of an item as well as read thenguage of Altric.


    As the Diviner of Shadows, you may see the disparity between light and darkness on your discretion, allowing yourself to identify between good and evil.


    Reading the description of ''Eyes of Altric'' Shinto sighed, "Jeez... It would be useful if I had obtained that earlier while I''m at the dungeon... So I could actually understand the meaning behind the words on the obelisk..."


    "Ah... Speaking of which..."


    Shinto averted his gaze away from his skill list as he turned towards the east, where the mountain of Gaveln could be seen from afar from the window within the temple.


    "The obelisks and the monoliths that were telling me something... If I go back there with the Eyes of Altric, would I get to know something?"


    Shinto shook his head at the thought. "It''s impossible for me to go there right now with the state I''m in at the moment... I''ll have toe back there another time."


    ...


    Shinto''s turned back towards the list as he gazed over to thest passive on it.


    [ Split Between Two Lv 1 ]


    The disparity between two sides, under the guise of light and shadows you are at the center of two sides.


    Under the geas of the night or within the dark, you will gain shadow stats more easily.


    Under the geas of the day or within light, you will gain divinity stats more easily.


    "Hmm... So with this passive, I can obtain these stats more often when I fulfil the conditions of being in a certain time of the day..." Shinto turned his head over towards a window, looking at the evening light protruding towards the floor, "Look''s like it''s turning night soon. If I remember correctly... At night is when most newbies level five and above hunt since powerful monsters appear at that time."


    Staring at the evening light, Shinto''s eyes averted, looking towards the entrance of the temple. "For now in preparation for nightfall, I''ll go for a supply run."


    Shinto looked down on himself, as his face turned disgruntled, "I need to get out of this ragged clothes... I''m so not used to seeing myself in this..." Shaking his head, Shinto stepped forward as he made his way out.