Ding!
[Would you like to spend 73,891 XP to upgrade 'Inferior Heal' to Level 10?]
[Would you like to spend 73,891 XP to upgrade 'Basic Crimson Flame Manipulation' to Level 10?]
[Would you like to spend 65,253 XP to upgrade 'Offense Aura' to Level 10?]
[Would you like to spend 65,253 XP to upgrade 'Defense Aura' to Level 10?]
"Yes to all of them, of course."
Whoosh!
To start off his spree of upgrading his under-leveled offensive skills, Valyr went ahead and upgraded the four skills he had in his arsenal that were the nearest to the maximum level, all of them helping him out greatly in one way or another whenever he could use them.
While upgrading these four skills, he was slightly surprised that [Basic Crimson Flame Manipulation] had not disappeared, even though he had picked up [Basic Flame Manipulation] since it was one of the basic manipulation skills he needed to pick up if he wanted to gain control over the four basic elements.
Then again, even though it was quite odd, that did not mean that he would not use the two manipulation skills being separate to his advantage, wondering to himself whether using them together would result in a unique outcome.
With a great influx of information bombarding his mind, Valyr slightly gritted his teeth as he processed and organized the information he received from the upgrades, feeling that his mind was gradually nearing the limit regarding the number of skills it could handle each day. Nevertheless, he ignored the feeling for now, eventually letting out a long sigh as he obtained notifications from the system that the four skills had been upgraded.
"Now onto the hard part. All of the skills I have that are still Level 1." Wiping off the cold sweat that slowly dripped from his forehead after what he had just gone through, a bitter smile briefly adorned Valyr's face as he thought about how many skills he had left in his skill list that he had not upgraded yet, letting his mind rest for the meantime.
"Oh, it's actually not a lot." Surprisingly, after counting the number of skills he had yet to level up, Valyr found out that he only had 11 skills to upgrade before he was unable to upgrade any of them any further. Then again, that did not mean that upgrading all 11 skills to their maximum skills would be easy, considering that he was already nearing his mind's limit. With that, he knew that he was going to be in for a world of pain sometime soon.
However, that didn't mean he wouldn't try it anyway.
Ding!
[Would you like to spend 84,452 XP to upgrade 'Limit Break' to Level 10?]
"Yes."
Whoosh!
Accepting the prompt that had appeared in front of his field of vision, an influx of information washed over his mind once more, with the amount of pain that accompanied it this time around reaching a level that forced Valyr to grit his teeth.
While allowing his mind to process and organize the information regarding the skill he was upgrading, Valyr compared the pain he was feeling to the great amounts of pain he had experienced back when he was fusing his skills together into greater skills. In comparison to something like that, the amount of pain he was going through right now was still negligible, which unsurprisingly gave him a boost in willpower, enough for him to last until the system notified him of the successful upgrade.
Letting out a brief sigh of relief as he wiped off the sweat from his forehead once more, Valyr took a look outside the window in his room, seeing that there was still a lot of daylight for him to make use of.
Thinking about how he would have to enhance his armor set and his weapon to match to his current level after he was done, he psyched himself up for the 10 remaining skills he had yet to upgrade, all of which were magic-based active skills.
Ding!
[Would you like to spend 422,260 XP to upgrade all 'Basic Manipulation' skills to Level 10?]
Deciding to speed up the process of upgrading the 10 remaining skills by a bit, Valyr made use of a quality of life feature the system had when it came to upgrading skills, something that he used often back when he was still a player. Unsurprisingly, the amount of XP the prompt was asking from him was a considerable jump when compared to upgrading a single skill to its max level, though Valyr knew that it was just the cost of upgrading all five 'Basic Manipulation' skills to their max levels combined.
With that, he made a brief prayer to the heavens above as he prepared himself for the wave of pain that was about to come, accepting the prompt not long after as a considerable chunk of his unused XP was consumed. For a couple of seconds, there was a lull in the surroundings, making it seem to Valyr that he had returned to the village for leisure reasons.
Unfortunately, that thought swiftly disappeared not long after that.
"AGH! FUCK!" Unsuccessfully stopping himself from cursing out, Valyr gritted his teeth and clenched his fists as tightly as he possibly could, causing a bit of blood to drip from his palms while some of his teeth started to chip out as wave upon wave of pain bombarded his body from the influx of information he had received.
Thankfully, with the five skills he had decided to upgrade in unison having the same nature, the amount of time it took for him to process the information each upgrade had was equivalent to upgrade a single skill, though the intensity of the pain he felt was still equivalent to upgrading five.
Nevertheless, this realization was more than enough for him to bite the bullet and upgrade all 'Basic Magic Style' skills to their max levels in unison as well, which was naturally accompanied with a bit of cursing, blood, and a few contorted expressions.
"Haah… haah…" By the time the pain had subsided after he was successful in upgrading the last five remaining skills to their max levels, Valyr caught his breath as he sat down on the floor in the meantime, only to lie down on the cold floor not long after as he gave his body and mind some time to rest.
A few minutes later, he let out a faint sigh before sitting up straight, commanding the system not long after to show him the amount of unused XP he still had left after going through what he considered a heavily delayed upgrading spree. "I still have over 7 million XP left to allocate, huh."
"Well then. That's quite the jump." After taking a look at how much XP he still had left, he then checked with the system regarding the number of levels he could obtain with the XP he still had. Though he found it slightly disappointing that he was only a few tens of thousands of XP short from getting another level, the level increase he would get from what he had at the moment was still more than enough.
"Seven levels. To think I actually grinded enough XP to be solidly at the middle of Rank 2." Valyr faintly chuckled as he commanded the system to allocate most of the XP towards his levels. Taking a look at the prompt that had appeared in front of him in response, it did not take long for him to accept, muttering out a few words not long after with a slight grin.
"Well… it's definitely a waste to not make use of it, that's for sure."
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…
Ding!
[6,070,092 XP has been allocated.]
[Your level has increased by 7 levels.]
[You are now Level 33.]
