Jack was preparing to leave as he tallied his gains. He first checked his Container of Souls. He had left the container alone and planned to only use the souls when he was about to leave this region. The draconic monsters he killed might not be many, but the souls they provided were above average compared to normal monsters. His container at the moment possessed six hundred eighty-two thousand souls. He could level up his elite skills six times but he decided to max out most of his basic and advanced skills. He maxed out Swift Stab, Roll, Throw Weapon, Adrenaline Rush, Flash Step, Shooting Dash, Barrier, and Magic Bind. After he was done, his container only had five thousand souls left. Many of his skills and spells also increased in proficiencies. Flame Strike and Magic Shield, the two of his most used skills, had upgraded to six stars. Parry, Swing, Natural Body Recovery, Magic Bullet, Energy Bolts, Heightened State, were now five stars. Adrenaline Rush, Sword of Light, Flash Steps, Barrier, Arcane Turbulence, Ice Ring, Life Burning Art, Dragon Eye, were three stars. Shooting Dash and Myriad Ensnaring Chains were two stars. Eight skills received their first stars. Devouring Cross at first star now drained twenty-three percent of damage into HP instead of twenty percent. If all ten stars were upgraded, it would convert fifty percent of damage into HP. Blitz Slash increased its range by another one meter. Ranger's Roll allowed the ranger to roll to a maximum of three meters distance. Its first star added half a meter to that distance. With all ten stars, Jack would be able to cover eight meters of distance. He imagined himself rolling eight meters away, he thought it will be very unnatural. He would be like a ball rolling and rolling. Jack laughed when he imagined it. Tame Pet and Call Wolf Pack's every star had the same effect. They both increased the pet or wolves' attributes by five percent. Mana Beam's range got increased by two meters. Magic Weapon received a boost on damage by four percent for each star. The best one according to Jack was Call Familiar spell. When it received its first star, all of Peniel's spells received a boost. Fash Heal and Group Fast Heal now recovered fifty-five percent HP, the group spell even increased its AOE radius by one meter. Healing Field now Healed three hundred twenty HP/second. Invulnerability now lasted 3.5 seconds. The length when Second Life spell was in effect was now three and half minutes. For his non-battle skills, the ones increased were his Cooking and Inspect skills, both were now Basic Expert grade. He also did a lot of equipment repairing during these two months but it was not enough to increase his Blacksmith skill. He had forty-five free attribute points from all the leveling up. He dumped them all into his Endurance. His Human Age had increased to six months. In the fifth month, he received an active skill that corresponded with his Blade Dancer class, Slash of Determination, rank 1. It dealt one hundred percent damage that ignores all defense, with one hundred percent Bleed chance and twenty percent added critical chance. With this skill, he fared better against the Hard-shelled Drakeling. But this skill had a two minutes cooldown, which was still too long to make the Hard-shelled drakeling a meaningful farming monster. In his sixth month, his Limitless Potential passive skill increased to rank 4. It now increased his HP by eight hundred points, Stamina and MP by one hundred twenty and all his attributes except for luck are increased by 4. He had one new skill for each of his three classes after the level-ups. Penta Slash, level one over twenty? (Active skill, melee, requires dual-wield swords) Delivers successive five slashes to one target, dealing one hundred percent damage on the first slash, consecutive slashes had an incremental increase of fifty percent damage each slash. Magic Wall, level one over twenty? (Active Skill, requires magic weapon) Create a ten-meter wide wall of light in front of the caster, withstand damage to three hundred percent from caster's maximum HP, reduce all damage by thirty percent. Beast Form: Wolf, level one over twenty (Active skill) Transform into a beast, gain an additional one hundred percent HP during transformation, recover five HP every ten seconds during beast form. The Penta Slash was his currently highest damaging single target attack. Even at level one if all five slashes hit, the cumulative damage would be one thousand percent. As for the Magic Wall, he had the experiences already using them via the magic scrolls. The most exciting new skill for him was the Beast Form. When he transformed, he became a large werewolf that amplifies his damage, defense, and attributes. His weapons disappeared and he fought using claws, but the damage value of his weapons was still calculated into his damage. Peniel mentioned the Wolf form was the basic version for every beastmaster after receiving the skill. Other forms could be gained by either quests or items. She did mention that she knew of a place where Jack could get a powerful shapeshifting form. However, Peniel said Jack was not strong enough yet. The place was also very far away. After all the level-ups, he had twelve free Blade Dancer skill points, fifteen for Archmage, and twenty-five for Beastmaster. Jack didn't have many elite skills yet for beastmaster and he felt it a waste to spend the free skill points on advanced skills. So he spent nineteen points to max out the Beast Form. Leaving another six points for later use. The Beast Form at level twenty lasted ten minutes long. Every ten levels increased granted the beast an active skill when Jack was in the form. When Jack was in werewolf form, he could use three beast skills. Savage Claws, Ravenous Bite, and Beast Rage. The first two were offensive skills that amplified damage, while the last increased all his prowess for thirty seconds. The best thing was that he found out he could still use both Blade Dancer's skills and Archmage's spells while in this form. For the twelve free Blade Dancer skill points, he spent seven to max out Devouring Cross, this skill now dealt seven hundred percent damage. The remaining five points he used on Wind Slash. It now shot two wind energies that dealt three hundred fifty percent damage each to all those in their paths. The fifteen free Archmage spell points were spent on Magic Weapon. At level sixteen the Magic Weapon now lasted seventeen and a half minutes. The last upgrade was his bloodline. It was his main purpose in coming to this region, after all. But even after these two months, he only collected around one thousand five hundred Draconic Essences. With the Draconic monster being so tough, there was a limit to how many he could slay within a day. To make matter worse, most of the monsters only dropped one draconic essence. The level forty rare elite and a few level forty-five special elites dropped two essences, but that happened very rarely. His Gold Dragon Bloodline was now level two and it increased his attributes, HP, Stamina, and MP by twelve percent instead of ten percent. He didn't receive more active skills though. Peniel mentioned he would only get one every three levels. So the new skill would appear when his bloodline reached level 4. It was a pity, he would prefer to continue farming here to gain more draconic essences, but he supposed he needed to go back to see what was going on. John didn't say much in his message but he sounded urgent. Jack used the Guild Return Scroll and appeared inside Heavenly Citadel's teleportation chamber. As he went towards the Guild Hall where John was waiting for him, he walked past a balcony that overlook the outside. He was amazed by the change. Several new buildings had been erected, even the wall had been adjusted outward to allow more land to hold the additional buildings. Talk about a convenient gaming system. Down there, he saw several of the new units, Knights, Cavalries, Mages, and Healers patrolling around. He even saw some of the Eagle Rider Hunters flying above. The Blood Counts were nowhere to be seen. They were perhaps hidden and only came out if there were intruders, or if a command was given to them. Players were also abounding. The last time he checked the guild page, which was a few hours ago, their members were one thousand five hundred fifty-two members. Several walked past him without recognizing him. Jack couldn't be inspected, and he seldom hang around the headquarters, so it was not strange that new members didn't know him. Jack admired the changes a while longer before he resumed his walk towards the Guild Hall. When he arrived at the entrance to the Guild Hall, a player who stood with his friends near the entrance shouted, "Halt!"
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