From Player To Npc

Chapter 149: New tricks

Shingi stood up from his bunker and could feel his body numb from being still for so long. He didn't want to imagine how it would be if he had to spend the standard time in there.

His body didn't change, and looking at himself through a mirror surface, he was precisely the same as before.

He opened his status window to see if things really changed.

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STATUS

Name: Shingi Maki

Class: True Sorcerer (LVL 22)

Profession: Scholar Master

Race: Blessed Human

Title: Master of the Arcane I

HP: 96/96

SP: 64/64

MP: 192/192

STR: 12

AGI: 14

END: 16

INT: 16

CHA: 5

Mana Pool: Earth, Light, Fire, and Spirit Element

PASSIVE SKILLS

Minor Mana Regeneration, Mana Detection, Minor Arcane Words

SKILLS

Base Rank: STEALTH, COOKING, CLIMBING

Master Rank: VISUALIZATION, MANA MANIPULATION, MANA SENSE, PERCEPTION, IMPROVISED THROW WEAPON, SMITHING, MARTIAL ART, GLASSBLOWING, WOODCARVING, LEATHERWORKING, ENCHANTMENT APPRAISAL, PROGRAMMING ENCHANTMENT

SPELLS

Ungraded: FILTH EATER, MINOR ILLUSION, LIGHT

Low Grade: MANA HAND, ROCK THROW, CAMOUFLAGE, ECHOLOCATION

Base Grade: INVISIBILITY, DOME OF SILENCE, MANA DOUBLE - LIGHT ELEMENT, MANA DOUBLE - EARTH ELEMENT, MAJOR ILLUSION, HASTE, STONESKIN,  EARTH SPIKE, FEAR, METAL HANDS, DARKVISION, MANA DOUBLE - FIRE ELEMENT, FIRE SLASH, MINOR RESTORATION, LIGHT SLASH, CURE MINOR WOUNDS

Master Grade: LIGHT FORM

Grandmaster Grade: GOLEMANCY

Blessings: Blessing of Beliss, Blessing of Dlog, Angel's Boon, Blessing of Choma, Blessing of Nyphm

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His HP, SP, and MP had been improved, with his MP to have the most remarkable change as expected. Especially with the effect of the Blessing of Nyphm, his MP had reached a new level. He had more MP currently than Little Phoenix, Mizuneko, and An's put together.

He could feel his Mana Tree also grew in power, not just in size, as his mana became even easier to use. Before, it was like he was breathing the thick air high in a mountain, but now it was better like normal breathing.

He finally had a level, and since he got to level 20 from the exps he gathered from clearing the floors, and the rest of the things he had done since he earned his class at Apprentice State, so he got the title he wanted; Master of the Arcane I.

This title was exclusive to NPCs, and many people wanted to recruit one with this title.

The benefit that one with this title had was changing one Element he controlled into another. This meant he could take the environment's Earth Mana and change it to Light Mana, although the quantity would be less since part of the mana will be used for the swap.

This could help them in environments that lacked one element they needed.

But since he had Master of the Arcane I, he could only change any Element to one Element of his Mana Tree, and not just anything. But if he evolved his title to Master of the Arcane II, he could choose to produce two Elements instead of one at once.

So currently, he could change his mana into Light, Earth, or Fire mana, as it didn't seem to work on producing Spirit Mana. He could manipulate the Tower's Spirit Mana, but his swap didn't work on it even if it was part of his Mana Tree.

Still, just being able to make more Light, Earth, or Fire mana was more than enough.

He wanted to test the limits of the swap as a few notifications started to appear.

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QUEST UPDATED: ROAD TO LIFE

Task Completed: Earn an NPC class

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QUEST UPDATED: ROAD TO LIFE

New Task: Reach LVL 20

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QUEST UPDATED: ROAD TO LIFE

Task Completed: Reach LVL 20

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QUEST UPDATED: ROAD TO LIFE

New Task: Evolve your class

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QUEST UPDATED: ROAD TO LIFE

New Task: Learn a Base Grade Spell or higher of each Basic Element

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He expected his Quest to get updated since he finished earning his class, but he didn't expect to acquire two new tasks and had already completed one.

But even if he completed two tasks this time, he didn't take any reward, maybe because they were the first two on the list. He found it troublesome of the new tasks, but learning a Spell of Each Element wasn't so hard at this point. He already had Earth, Fire, Light, Dark, and Spirit, so he had to earn one of Air and Water.

He could learn them from Mizuneko and be done with it, as also use some Mana Gems for each element he was missing.

But as for evolving his class, he didn't know how to do it.

Like Warrior, Rogue, Mage, etc., the standard classes could evolve at LVL 20, like Wild Tycoon had done, with the help of a tutor. For Special Classes, the evolution then happened at level 60 like Price had done with his class when he worked with Shingi back in town as he had reached level 60.

Shingi was confident that he had to reach level 60, but just reaching that level wasn't enough as special requirements depended on the class. The System didn't let them know what the conditions were, but some Players had researched and recorded about the ones of many of the classes, but that was useless for Shingi as no Player ever had the chance to become a TRUE SORCERER.

He couldn't be sure, but the requirements may be like the less unique class Sorcerer, an imperfect copy of his current class. He knew some steps for that one to get evolved, so his only choice was to try them out.

"Are you ok? You seem the same as before. Sid something went wrong" [Little Phoenix]

Shingi looked toward his young female student and noticed other than her, only An was around. Wild Tycoon, Hineko, and Mizuneko were nowhere to be seen.

"It went fine. I may haven't changed physically, but I got some massive updates. But where is everyone? Did they go outside?" [Shingi]

There were only two rooms, and Shingi could quickly check both of them without moving, using his detections Skills, and found no indications of those three to be in either room.

"They needed to take a break and returned to the Blessed Realm. They may not be back for a few days, though. It hasn't been long since they left."[Little Phoenix]

Shingi understood that they probably had to take care of things in the actual world and log off the game. But since the time outside passed differently than in the game, if they were away for a day, almost a week would pass here.

"I understand now. At least they put together the lab. Don't you need to leave also? You don't need to stay. I can keep myself busy for a few days." [Shingi]

Overusing the capsule for weeks in real-world time wasn't good for the user's body even if the capsule could 'feed' the user with some nutrients that anyone in the actual world could insert into the machine, but it was checking those nutrients before administrating them in case of someone trying to poison the user.

Little Phoenix was always in the game, unless of the time her sister wanted to play, which was rare, but she had to take a break now and then.

Fortunately, they could log off as long as they were in a safe position, like their current hideout.

Shingi noticed that An was currently reading some of Little Phoenix's notes about Enchantments and Runes. An had become like an actual apprentice of Little Phoenix, as she learned a lot from her and helped Little Phoenix with anything she could when Little Phoenix worked on an Enchantment.

An was an ENCHANTER at profession still, but Shingi was confident that she would become a RUNEMANSTER too and surpass Little Phoenix and possibly Zhen.

He let her continue studying as he went to the other room, which was a training kind of open area, but it wasn't too vast. It was as big as a basketball court, so more than enough space, especially since it only was himself training currently.

He summoned his sword and got ready to talk with it.

"'Been a while since we had time to talk freely. Are you ready for some training action? I have some new things in mind to test.'" [Shingi]

"'I look forward to it. But first, answer me this. When do you plan to make me reach the next level? You should have what you need, no?'" [Sinhunter]

Shingi was lucky to find some special materials he needed, one of them being that strange seashell he took from Merefolk Boss of the Water Floor.

He still didn't know what its energy was, but he noticed that when he used some of his Spirit Mana on his sword, a similar type of energy got created.

Spirit Mana on his blade had a peculiar effect that could be useful only in certain situations. It didn't increase its attack power or defense abilities, but the wounds created by the blade's attacks surrounded by the strange energy were more challenging to be healed, even by the Tower's Spirit mana.

This meant that the Bosses with healing magic or regeneration capabilities like the Evolved Moster they had faced would lose those benefits as long as Shingi hit them. This was game-changing, and he couldn't replicate the result with any other weapon, only with Sinhunter.

He didn't have time to look at it much, but since he had to wait for a few days, he could test things around.

"'We need to be sure that we have reached the limits of your current form before going to the next. This is the accurate way of getting stronger.'" [Shingi]

"'Understood. Then what do you want to try?'" [Sinhunter]

Shingi worked with his Spirit Blade, as even if he could use it and its effects were impressive, it still felt unfinished to him.

He learned SPIRIT SLASH, which gave him another way of attacking from range, and even if its effect seemed to be weaker, it still was better than nothing.

He used his Golems as targets to spar with and try his ideas, and after a few hits, he had to recast them as he couldn't heal them by using mana because of the attack's effects.

He could feel that the energy of the seashell felt more natural than the one his sword made, but he didn't know why. He tried to manipulate some of the seashell's energy to use it on his sword, but it didn't work.

So he just let the seashell over his blade to let it be in 'touch' with the energy to see if anything new would happen but was ready to pull his sword away at any time.

Sinhunter's INT had improved enough that it had his version of MANA MANIPULATION and tried to use it to attract that energy, which seemed to be more effective than when Shingi tried.

The energy started surrounding the blade, and Shingi paid close attention to any change that could show that everything was going wrong.

But just when the sword had almost completely covered by the energy, the energy returned to the seashell.

"'What happened? Is everything ok?'" [Shingi]

Shingi noticed nothing weird, but these were unknown waters he was sailing at.

"'The child is shyer than I thought. We should let it be for now?'" [Sinhunter]

"'Child? What do you mean child?'" [Shingi]