NOVEL NEXT Chapter 90: New Talent – Multi-Casting
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Blood Servants were basically ordinary civilians converted by the Blood Clan, so Sivis couldn't use the evil technique "Soul Sacrifice" in front of Vikalina.
Every time he killed a Blood Servant, he could only get a few soul points.
Luckily, these guys had very weak soul strength, so sacrificing them didn't yield much extra profit.
Sivis didn't care about this "waste."
But sometimes, a hint of surprise would flash in his eyes, for example —
["You have killed a Blood Servant Elite (Bronze-Rank Tenth ), and you have received four hundred soul points."]
["You have killed..."]
The elite blood servants who were specially marked were still originally ordinary people, with not very strong souls, but they had been trained by the Blood Clan for a long time. Each one could give out a decent amount of points!
So, Sivis spent a little time killing monsters in the sewers.
A large amount of points kept coming in, and small amounts kept adding up. Soon, his points were back up to over 1000!
It was a shame, though. Sivis was sorry that Vikalina must have killed a lot of elite Blood Servants before, and now Sivis had nothing left to kill!
After a round of killing, Sivis and Vikalina reached an exit in the sewers.
The two of them were a bit tired.
Sivis was having fun grinding points, but the Blood Servants kept coming one after another, in an endless number. They were impossible to kill all, and instead, they drained almost all of his energy.
Vikalina was about the same. As a female knight, she was already weakened by the "Flame of Salvation," and she had just fought a few rounds with the Blood Clan. The excitement of seeing Sivis safe was slowly fading.
She was starting to feel a bit unsteady on her feet.
"Maybe we should go back up to the surface," Sivis suggested.
Vikalina nodded. "The Blood Servants in the sewers can wait for now. They won't affect the citizens. Let's go to the surface and take out some monsters first, so we can save more people."
The female knight still believed that the only reason Sivis was fighting alongside her was to save people.
Sivis nodded and said nothing more.
Whether it was on the surface or in the sewers, grinding Blood Servants yielded about the same reward. He had already wanted to leave this dirty place filled with a foul smell.
The two of them arrived at a metal ladder that let out a faint glow. Sivis, being quite gentlemanly, let Vikalina go first, while he stayed behind.
After clearing another wave of Blood Servants, Sivis casually opened his system panel.
His soul point remained at 1,674.
Sivis then opened another page of the system. It read:
[Congratulations, you have met the requirements for a level-up. You have now reached Level 4 as a Monster Lord.]
[Next rank-up requirement: Acquire 500 regular townsfolk (completed), acquire 5 Silver-Rank townsfolk (0/5), complete one small-scale campaign (0/1).]
With a pleasant sound effect, Sivis felt a series of strange waves of heat flowing through his body.
Next, two scroll-like images appeared before his eyes:
[Please choose the talent you want to gain from this level-up.]
Another talent draw!
This time, Sivis wasn't especially excited. A Level 4 talent draw probably wouldn't give him anything too good.
Players would unlock an extra pool during talent draws when they reached Level 2, 5, 10, 15, 20, and 25.
For example, when Sivis first leveled up, he got "Corpse Resurrection" and "Soul Sacrifice, " which were impossible to get through regular talent draws. These were long-term talents that allowed the Monster Lord to keep growing and developing.
The "Extraordinary Power" he got at Level 3 was just because he had really good luck, and also because this talent wasn't strong in the previous game, so it wasn't that precious.
In other words, when Sivis reached Level 5 as a Monster Lord, he would probably get a big prize.
But this time at Level 4, it wasn't guaranteed.
Sivis thought he couldn't be that lucky every time.
As expected, this time's draw was decent, but the talent he got wasn't nearly as powerful as "Soul Sacrifice" and "Extraordinary Knowledge" before.
It was two skills used in combat.
[Darkness Enhancement]
[Cost: Determined by the martial technique and magic you are enhancing.]
[Effect: You can use the power of the Monster Lord to enhance certain skills into special forms, boosting their effectiveness.]
The other talent was—
[Multi-Casting]
[Cost: Determined by the number of additional spells you cast and the quality of the magic.]
[Effect: You can temporarily use multiple different magic martial techniques through this ability. For each additional magic martial technique you use, your cost will double, and you will suffer additional divine power exhaustion.]
"Both are really useful, even if they aren't those long-term, life-changing, super powerful talents that help me grow for a lifetime. But their combat effectiveness is solid."
"One can boost all of your abilities, and the other lets you cast multiple magic martial techniques at once…"
Sivis immediately got stuck. He wished he could just grab both talents at once.
After thinking for a while, he painfully chose "Multi-Casting."
This ability had no limit and could keep stacking different abilities as long as he could handle the cost.
"Darkness Enhancement" was just a fixed enhancement. As a common talent that he could get early on, it probably wouldn't be so useful once Sivis reached the gold or platinum rank.
"Multi-Casting" would remain active forever.
After making his choice, Sivis only felt a flood of memories rushing into his mind.
He immediately felt like he had gained a very special technique. It was different from all of Gandanyir's existing cultivation systems. It allowed him to cast more spells by forcibly consuming more energy.
Sivis's mental sea changed as a result, revealing strange spiral structures.
These spiral structures could inject extra energy, allowing him to use multiple abilities at the same time.
"Every time I draw a talent, the stuff I get is pretty good."
"Am I really lucky after being transported here?"
A flash of surprise appeared in Sivis's eyes.
Don't blame him for getting a bit full of himself. Anyone who found out that they had the strongest potential in the world, capable of devouring numerous Divine Power Stones, would feel a little high on the clouds.
Suddenly, Sivis felt even more excited about what he might get when he reached Level 5 Lord. If he kept this luck, wouldn't that mean he could get some top-tier talents?
Like the strongest talents recognized by all Level 5 Monster Lords—[I Am Among All Things],[War Madness],[Bloodthirst].
Just getting one of those would be enough for Sivis to take off!
But, getting to Level 5 Lord wasn't that easy.
Sivis had enough townsfolk, but he still needed to hunt down Silver-Rank monsters and complete one small-scale campaign. Hunting down Silver-Rank monsters was simple. After returning to his territory, the system's monster search function had already cooled down, so he could just teleport there and subdue them directly.
The worst case was if he didn't collect enough the first time—then he'd just wait for the next system cooldown.
Completing one small-scale campaign required Sivis to lead more than 50 units to fight against more than 50 units. That wasn't so easy to achieve.
At the moment, Sivis's territory was only being attacked by small adventure parties, which made it hard to gather 50 enemies to attack him. And if he went out to subdue monsters—
He couldn't let the system find Bronze-Rank monsters. Finding a group of over 50 Silver-Rank monsters at once was hard.
Unless…
"There's an opportunity right now," Sivis thought.
Minnet City had more than 50 Blood Servants—tens of thousands.
If Sivis just solved the other restriction—that is, leading 50 subordinates to attack and defeat the servants—then he could complete the campaign requirement immediately!
He didn't even need to kill all the Blood Servants. Just clearing most of them in the surrounding area would be enough.
The only problem was: how to get 50 subordinates to come to his side.
"First, I need to get the Extraordinary Soul from that Blood Clan figure. Once I have 'Call Guardian,' I can instantly summon the Goblins and Stone Demons in my territory. That would allow me to meet the requirements of the campaign."
"And..."
Sivis suddenly realized that he had no choice but to fight this battle. If he didn't use the Extraordinary Soul to get a unique skill, gather his subordinates, and eliminate the Blood Servants, he wouldn't be able to protect the townsfolk he had just captured.
His progress toward becoming a Level 5 Lord and upgrading the Monster Settlement would be delayed indefinitely!
The huge improvements of a Level 5 Lord and the massive benefits the Monster Settlement would bring to his entire territory were things he couldn't afford to give up!
"When will the Blood Clan's Bleeding Blood Technique end?"
Sivis closed his eyes again to sense "Blood Hunt," but it still didn't give him any trace of the Blood Clan figure. He immediately felt a headache coming on.
He was really in a rush!
At that moment…
Sivis's headache suddenly turned into fear. He suddenly saw several new prompts flash up in his system—
[Your townsfolk are in danger of death!]
[Your townsfolk Charles is in danger of death, has died!]
[Your townsfolk...]
Dozens of prompts popped up one after another.
In just a few seconds, Sivis had already lost three of the townsfolk he had converted.
That meant the Blood Servants on the surface had already launched an attack!
"Shit!!"
Sivis's face turned serious.
When he and Vikalina were in life-or-death danger in the sewers, his townsfolk had been safe. At that time, the Blood Clan figure was still controlling the Blood Servants, forcing them all to come down into the sewers to chase the two of them.
Now, with the Blood Clan figure using the Bleeding Blood Technique to escape, it had let the Blood Servants run wild.
These creatures, naturally hungry for living flesh and blood, had already taken over most of Minnet City's other areas. Naturally, they now turned their attention to the factory!