Chapter 23
The first thing that Mark did when he woke up was to check the new skills that he got when he leveled up past ten. When he opened the Skill Tree tab, he saw that there were sixteen new skills.
On Space and Void Chancellor, the new skills were Lightning Void under Void Slash which will allow him to summon a force from the void that will rip space in a specified area which looked like gray lightning. Mark sigh and thought that he needed to get used to the fact that Space and Void skills will primarily looked gray and translucent. None of the flashy multicolored spells that he like.
Under Void Push was Void Wave which was Void Push on steroids. Under Space Floating Disc was Space Wall and Space Tower was the one below Space Platform Stair. Space Wall was just a force field based on the description and Space Tower was a bit more interesting. It would allow him to summon a platform under his feet that would grow into a tower making him look like a mighty wizard casting spells on top of a tower. He was not sure of the practicality of the Space Tower but may be there would be more about the spell that he would learn once he decided to put a point on it.
On Rune Engineer, there were just three skills. Under Ice Rune there was Light Rune and under Earth Rune there was Dark Rune. Under Interconnection on the Inscribe root, there was Air Inscribe which basically would allow him to inscribe rune on the air.
Under Gaia’s Disciple, there were eight new skills. On the Plant Mage side, they were Thorn Spike Field under Thorn Spike, Swamp of Briar under Field of Briar, Field of Daisies under Floating Sunflower and Bush Golem under Bark Skin. On the Earth Mage side, they were Earth Shelter under Earth Wall. Earth Arrow Barrage under Earth Spike, Earth Quake under Earth Rumble and Dust Wave under Dust Field.
Thorn Field Spike basically would summon multiple spikes of thorn whip to hit enemies. Swamp of Briar is just like Field of Briar but obviously a swamp, increasing the slow effect. Field of Daisies was a small area of effect skill that would provide HP regeneration and detoxification to people that would stay inside it and Bush Golem would summon two small golem made of bush that will defend the caster.
Earth Arrow Barrage under Earth Spike would allow him to shoot multiple arrows of earth. Earth Shelter would allow him to summon a small shelter, basically a small house made of stone. Earth Quake was, well earth quake . Basically a control skill with damage and Dust Wave under Dust Field was a small wave of dust from what he can see on the description.
Every skill that Mark could see was interesting to him and he was moaning his lack of skill points. He wanted to have a tank on his party so he decided to add to Bark Skin so he can add to Bush Golem since it required Bark Skin to have two levels before he could add a point on it. Level two Bark Skin doubled the MP cost from twenty to forty but it also doubled its Physical and Magical defense buff from fifty to one hundred and twenty to forty respectively. The duration still remained the same at thirty minutes. Bush Golem description said that it would allow him to summon two plant bush golem that will last for thirty minutes with one hundred and fifty HP and twenty damage per attack for each golem. Again casting the skill again would not double the number of golems but instead would refresh its HP and Duration.
Mark also decided to add his newly earned stat points from the Vampire Bat elite to Wisdom since he needed more MP. His Wisdom was now twelve and his MP climbed from two hundred to two hundred and forty. All in all, he was very happy with his current stats and skills. He stood up from the bed and summoned Bush Golem to check what they looked like. A couple of plant bush grew rapidly from the place in the bedroom ground he indicated and the bushes turned into two cute plant golem about his waist high. They were as tall as goblins but were very cute and if he was a girl who loved cute things, he would not be able to send the golem to battle. Mark just shrugged and made his way to the kitchen to eat some breakfast and the golems followed him. After eating some breakfast he went and did his work out with increased intensity again and checked his weight after he was done. He was happy note that it went down from two hundred and thirty five to two fifteen. If he was a normal guy, he would worry about the fast lost of his weight but since it was brought on by the increase of stats, he knew that this would happen. More than likely, after a few days he would need a new complete set of wardrobe for his new slim body, Mark smirked. “I can’t wait to have a sexy body.”
After doing his morning ablutions, he decided to complete the Third Floor so he could level up and earn more skills and stats. It was around ten in the morning when he started his dungeon dive. He opened the portal and directly entered the third floor. He traveled to the last area of combat using his Floating Disc and when he arrived there, he slowed down. He refreshed the disc and opened his System Interface and tried to check if he could edit his visual interface to have small icons that would show the remaining time of his active spells appear without obstructing his view. He did find a way to edit his view. Now he could see his HP and MP at the lower part of his view and icons of the remaining time left of active skills on the left side. They were small but easily readable and the important part was they would not obstruct his view during combat. He stood up on the disc and continued floating forward, not forgetting to summon a Floating Sunflower to make sure that his MP was topped up.
Mark encountered a group of Hobgoblin and Dire Wolves. While floating on the disc, he immediately cast Field of Briar and summoned his two Bush Golem. He then cast a couple of Thorn Whip. Two plants suddenly grew with long tentacle like branch full of thorn appeared waiting for the nearest enemy that it could strike. The golems rushed to the enemy group by his command. He then leisurely cast Void Slash one after the other until all of his enemies were dead. He felt a proper wizard while floating on a disc slinging spells left and right with summoned minions defending him.