BXBX NOVEL Chapter 198 Third Rank Promotion
After hunting in the woods for over nineteen hours, Alex returned to the capital city Quivira and rented a training chamber to complete his Rank promotion.
\'The skill points should be enough to get me some good magic skills, and with the class upgrade boost, I could start expanding on my arsenal of spells and start to truly benefit from my large reserve of mana,\' Alex thought, looking at the system screen.
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[Total Points Acquired= 20480 points]
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Class Upgrade.
Dark BattleMage: ....
[Specialty: The class holder can wield all darkness element aspects with a 20 to 50% less penalty while having a 30% boost in Damage / Understanding of all (Third Rank) Darkness Element Skills/Spells.]
All the Second and lower Rank Spells/Skills of the darkness element aspects would be much easier to understand and utilize. .....(See More)
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Alex decided to select magic skills as he already had enough skills to boost his physical capabilities but zero magic skills that could properly use his large mana reserve against high-Rank opponents.
Alex didn\'t learn any magic spells simply because they were too time-consuming, which he didn\'t have the luxury to waste, but after completing the first Domain connection mission, he would have close to a year for the second mission.
\'It would normally take four to seven hours for the Rank promotion to complete, but I hope mine won\'t take too long,\' Alex thought as he opened the system window to start the Rank promotion.
Alex started the Rank promotion, instantly losing his vision and slowly losing his ability to think as his mind was placed into a deep slumber while a cocoon of darkness formed around him.
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[28 Hours Later]
Alex regained consciousness to the ringing of the system notifications, and opening his eyes, he was welcomed by the sight of the skill selection window.
\'It took longer than I thought,\' Alex thought, looking at the system time.
\'Let\'s start by upgrading all of my previous class-specific skills,\' Alex thought, opening the skill upgrade section.
Alex spent 2770 points on upgrading his twelve class-specific skills to the third Rank, and then he started checking each of them to see the changes.
\'All of the skills have received quite a significant boost to effects after the upgrade to third Rank,\' Alex thought, going to the new skill section with a satisfied smile.
The Life and Mana drain skill effective time was increased to two minutes while their cooldown stayed the same at two minutes.
The Air jump skill could be used to create up to ten platforms in the air, with each mana platform staying stable for ten seconds, while the Counter skill could be used to disturb or even completely throw back any magical attack of middle stage fourth Rank.
The Death Illusion skill could target up to five individuals simultaneously, while the Doppelganger skill could create an avatar with 30% of Alex\'s base stats that could keep its form for as long as he desired by burning off a thousand mana every minute.
The Summon Elemental had the best upgrade, as it could summon three Darkness elementals with their maximum strength being at the early stage fourth Rank, while it could also summon a single elemental at the pinnacle of the fourth Rank.
The Darkness Clone skill had the least impressive upgrade, as the number of clones that Alex could create went from four to six, with the only good thing being the decreased cooldown time.
The Dark Vortex skill had the vortex area increased from ten meters to forty meters, with the darkness of the vortex having the corrosion attribute and increased gravitational pull toward the ground and the center.
The Dark Flame Meteor had two it could be used, with the one being able to summon five meteors of dark flames or a single giant meteor, and the good thing was that the meteors could be created in a short five seconds.
The last skill was the Minor Null Energy, which got upgraded to Lesser Null Energy with the added freedom of being able to spend triple the mana to vastly increase the potency of the null energy.
\'I can\'t wait to test my old skills in battle, but before that, let\'s select some new ones and complete the Rank promotion,\' Alex thought as he opened the Magic-oriented skill section.
Alex spent nearly an hour selecting skills as he took advice from his two guardians to eliminate any skill that didn\'t fit his fighting style or the skills he could learn with effort.
Alex then started selecting skills that could help him expand on the mage path while they could complement his close combat path.
After an hour or so, Alex was done finalizing his skills and was ready to conclude his Rank promotion.
\'I can\'t buy any half-decent skill with less than 200 skill points, so I might as well save them for the future rather than spend on some garbage spell,\' Alex thought after purchasing all his selected skills.
\'I can\'t wait to test these and my old skills in combat and create some amazing combinations, but before that, let\'s conclude the Rank promotion,\' Alex thought, looking at the newly selected skills.
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Name: Mage Focus (I).
Grade: Third Rank
Cost: 2100 Skill points.
Effect: Allow the user to use a percentage of his stamina to boost his mental capability with double the ratio of stamina used.
Description: The user can use up to (50%) of his stamina to boost his mental capability with up to (100%) for the duration of hundred seconds. (Mana Required: 1000)(Cooldown: None)
The Boost in the Player\'s mental capability will vastly increase his ability to perceive and understand things resulting in him gaining the ability to see things move slower than normal.
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[Important Note: After the skill effects end, the user will experience a mild headache and could also feel nauseous and temporarily blindness]
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Name: Darkness Heal (I).
Grade: Third Rank
Cost: 2150 Skill points.
Effect: Allow the user to tap into the pure nature of the darkness to heal himself or his allies. (Mana Required: 1k to 10K)(Cooldown: 1 to 10 Minutes)
Description: The user could select up to ten individual targets in the hundred-meter range or cast the hex of darkness to create a field with a radius of forty meters that will constantly heal any individual inside it.
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Name: Internal Corrosion (I).
Grade: Third Rank
Cost: 2300 Skill points.
Effect: The User can manifest corrosive energy that could be molded into any shape or form, and on contact with any living/non-living creature/thing, it would seep into the body and start to erode the inside rapidly.
Description: The user can manifest 20 strands of corrosive energy at maximum, with one strand being the minimum needed to use the skill.
(Mana Required: 1k to 20K)(Cooldown: 3 to 60 Minutes)
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Name: Dark Lightning (I).
Grade: Third Rank
Cost: 3150 Skill points.
Effect: Allow the user to summon Dark Lightning induced with mind-corrupting energy.
Description: The user can summon up to five Bolts of Dark lighting or a single destructive lightning bolt carrying their combined might.
Each Lightning Bolt will have a 33% chance of stunning a target of (Third Rank) for three seconds, while the destructive lighting bolt could stun a target of (Early Stage Fourth Rank) with 100% certainty for five seconds.
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Name: Dark Maiden (I).
Grade: 3700 Third Rank
Cost: Skill points.
Effect: Allow the user to summon a dark maiden to grant his enemies a painful and slow death.
Description: A cabinet made from the darkness with its inside covered in countless spikes and filled with potent deteriorating dark energy will form around the target, and chains of darkness will pull the target inside as the spikes-littered doors close on him.
The Dark Maiden will maintain its shape for [5 to 50 Seconds]. (Mana Required: 5k to 50K)(Cooldown: 2 to 16 Hours)
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[Important Note: The Amount of Mana used could be determined by the user, but it will affect the potency of the corrosive energy and the structural strength of the Dark Maiden, while the Mana usage will also increase or decrease proportionally to the target size.]
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Name: Bell of Unholy Curses (I).
Grade: 4150 Third Rank
Cost: Skill points.
Effect: Allow the user to summon a silent Bell to place his enemies in unstable conditions.
Description: A Dark Intangible Bell will be summoned that could be used ten times to target ten individuals or just one multiple times in the duration of five minutes before the bell vanishes from the world.
Every time the Bell is used, it will affect the selected target with a random dark curse of peak Third Rank. (Mana Required: 2k to 20K)(Cooldown: 100 Minutes)
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