From Player To Npc

Chapter 184: The bird learning new tricks

Shingi looked at all the Skill houses and Manors of his Inner Space for any clues about the remaining two requirements. Unfortunately, he found none in the Skills, so he decided to check the inner buildings of the Spells.

The Spell Buildings worked differently than the Skill ones. There weren't any clues on how to raise a Spells Grade, only how to complete it if it was unfinished, but the clues were very hard to detect even then. So Shingi was checking his Spell buildings only if he had no ideas left to try.

There were still no clues in the spells, either meaning that the two final requirements weren't a skill or a spell, or he had to learn something he hadn't.

There was another case. The tattoo could be a sign of succeeding on the requirement instead of telling him it was a requirement. His MANA MANIPULATION and MANA SENSE Skill were both at Master Rank, so if they were still unfinished requirements, that meant he had to rank them up to Grandmaster.

It could also be because he wasn't level 60 that it could be like that, and when he reached that level, he could either see the other requirements or be considered complete. For now, all he could do was to work his way on leveling up.

Almost everything was ready except for one of their companion; Dark Shadow.

Shingi hadn't forgotten about him and his training, and he continued his training and tried to get him a class. But even after all these days, he had no class, no matter what Skills he learned or the Spells.

It currently knew all the Skills and Spells of the entire party, except for class-specific Skills and Air-Based Spells the party had access to. It even made the CREATE AIR ELEMENTAL Spell since it could use both Air and Spirit Elements.

He even learned the Master Grade Spell FLY, which he did so by trying to pass the limits of the LEVITATE Spell. Shingi made some armor for him and some special case for its peak and extensions for its toenails to work more like a claw.

Shingi found out what the unknown Passive Skill of Dar Shadow was; the Spirt Armor. It added to his natural defense as also gave him an HP Regeneration ability. Unfortunately, it was only to a degree only by damage that wounded his body, and the heal was partial. Still, it helped to increase its survival ability.

Its stats were still unknown to Shingi, and even after asking Dark Shadow, he wouldn't tell him. But later, he found out that Dark Shadow couldn't see its status window for some reason.

Sinhunter had worked to teach him what he could that made Dark Shadow follow more complex commands and develop tactics of his while in battle. But still, it couldn't communicate with Shingi, other than trying to be a mime.

Dark Shadow wasn't part of the spar because it worked on one of the last tasks Shingi gave him. To unlock the third Element.

Shingi was certain that it could do it as it didn't make sense of someone created that way to have only 2 Elements, or only 1 if somebody didn't count Spirit. Since his feathers seemed to contain part of a Dark Element, he had it to work on unlocking Dark Element. Its control over all the Elements was better than when Little Phoenix worked on it, and since it had no class, it wasn't restricted by being high leveled. Dark Element was the only one with that kind of restriction.

Still, since Dark Shadow had no Mage-based class, it would be harder to do so, but his stats were nothing like that of a newbie, so he could force his way. He had made a shadow ball even bigger than a ping pong in the first two days of training, and now it had to create its Dark Mana Structure in his Mana Tree. This seemed to be more complicated than expected as it still worked on it even now and still didn't seem near ending it.

Taking that long could mean two things. Either it was an impossible task, or the Mana Structure it designed was so complicated and powerful that it took that long. Shingi hoped for the second, but he couldn't check as nobody could access the Innes Space of others without causing some damage at least.

Shingi and the others could just wait for him to be over, and they would move after that no matter the result. They had stayed on this floor for too long.

Price had been monitoring the Players on the floor and if there was any weird movement, and he actually detected a few things.

Almost two dozens of Players on this floor were better equipped than the ones they faced when first got here. There were always two groups of eight going around the town, searching for clues while the rest guarded the stairs.

This meant that going through the stairs would be easier, but Price found out not to the case. Shingi joined him one day to check that everything was as it seemed, but as expected, it wasn't.

There were some magical traps on the bottom of the stairs and at a few of the staircases. They were well hidden, but not so well to hide from Shingi's MANA SENSE combined with his Passive Mana Detection.

He recognized the traps, with some being silent alarms that would send a mental note to some Players bonded with it, and some were summoning circles or traps that could cause some problems to them. Of course, with their current power, they could force their way through, but still, Shingi didn't want them to know how strong they were. It was better to be underestimated by them for now.

Shingi told Price to keep track of movements to see if there was a pattern that they could use. He knew that leaving the stairs almost unprotected with so few people was a setup, but since he knows where they had their traps, he could just go around them, as he first dealt quietly with the Players. Then, of course, he would have to make them unconscious so that they don't have a chance to alert the others.

There seemed like there actually had a scheduled pattern after monitoring them for a couple of days, so Price and Shingi found the perfect time.

A week passed since Price arrived, and it was almost two weeks since they were on the floor. And finally, Dark Shadow opened his eyes.

Shingi opened its status and saw that its Mana Pool included Dark Element but also Light Element. So it actually was working on two Elements instead of one and was the two more complicated for one to make. It was a miracle that it took it only that long to succeed for both of them together.

But the biggest change was that he finally had a class; Skymage. He was level 15 from all the enemies he helped fighting in the past floors as part of the exps were stored in him similar to how it did on Shingi. If it was a few more levels, it could also have the Master of the Arcane I, but he was strong enough even without it.

He also could see its Race, which was Primeval Kicnech. He had never heard of a race named like that in the game or anywhere else. The primeval showed that its creation was ancient, more ancient than the elves or the dragons. He had met and heard of primeval races, and most were extinct, or they had one or a couple of survivors.

But all of them were powerhouses.

Dark Shadow was clearly a result of a ritual, which could mean only two things. Either somebody created a Primeval race, which was unimaginable, or someone restored one that was dead to life. The second one was almost like the case and would explain why Dark Shadow's stats were that high, as it probably had them in his previous life.

Still, Shingi didn't know who was behind it, although he thought it might be Mikhail or that Eagle Tribe individual working for him. But that guy didn't bring up that the egg was missing, so Shingi didn't think of it at that moment. But if he really was the one behind it, it probably had something to do with Mikhail's plan.

Then Shingi realized that often that Mikhail was monitoring them; Mikhail's sight seemed to focus on Dark Shadow, but Shingi thought it was because he was an unknown being to him. But, on the other hand, maybe he wasn't that unknown and was just monitoring his progress.

If that was the case, there was a significant chance that Mikhail would have a way to control Dark Shadow in the future. But Shingi couldn't stop growing Dark Shadow's power or abandon him or even kill him. If he abandoned him, Mikhail would get to him at some point, and killing him would deal more damage to his plan.

So he decided to work on Dark Shadow's Spirit Element more and more to be used against charm or mind control abilities and hoped for the best.

Hopefully, this plan would work and not blow on his face.