BXBX NOVEL Chapter 88: Skill Upgrade.
And with the addition of his new skill, he could easily start meditating at any moment now without worrying about a stable mind.
"To think that old man would be able to increase the proficiency of meditating by so much...."
Felix\'s eyes glowed fiercely realising how such an improvement would affect him in the times to come.
Then he remembered the new skill he had created at the critical moment, just when he was about to faint.
"System, show me all the details of the new skill."
[Affirmative.]
[Skill Name: Equanimity
Description:
A passive skill that enables the user to possess an unparalleled serenity, a harmonious balance that allows them to navigate the tumultuous waves of emotions and external pressures with unwavering composure.
This skill is a manifestation of inner peace, granting the user clarity of thought, resilience in the face of adversity, and the ability to turn all of the pressure into a more focused concentration.
Cost: 140 Skill Points.]
"Hmmm..."
While reading through the information, Felix suddenly widened his eyes.
"What?? 140 skill points? Isn\'t that a bit too much for a non-combat skill...."
He had created the skill at the nick of time without carefully taking a look at it as he was not in a condition to do that.
But now that he looks at it, the skill which was an auxiliary skill had cost him the same as it would take for a decent combat skill.
Shaking his head, he decided to forget about it as milk had already spilled. The skill had been useful at the time, so he didn\'t have many regrets.
"Anyways, show me my status and how many skill points are left."
The guild wars were just around the corner, and he didn\'t know anything about them, giving him an unclear idea about what was going to happen.
And only the skill points that he had gathered gave him some assurance from not getting into trouble.
[--Status--]
[Name: Felix]
[Race: Human]
[Age: 14]
[Sex: Male]
[Mage Cultivation: Rank 0]
[Warrior Cultivation: Rank 0]
[Talent: ★★ ]
[State: Partially Pure Viens with strong muscles.]
[Skills: Silent Steps, Flashback, Earth Swimming, Ratio Technique, Parabolic Hearing, Earth Spikes, Agility Burst, Corrosion, Equanimity. ]
[Skill Points: 350]
Surfing his eyes over the status screen, Felix nodded while looking at his state and the many skills, then came to the skill points.
"350 skill points huh..... it\'s not that much but I suppose it\'ll be enough....."
Saying so, he once again glanced at all of his skills and pondered.
"Flashback, Parabolic hearing, and corrosion skills are not usually needed most of the time, while Silent Steps seems a bit weak compared to my new skills."
Coming to a decision, he called out to the system.
"System, is it possible to upgrade an existing skill to a better version?"
The system replied swiftly.
[Yes, it is possible. But the upgraded change would still depend on the host\'s imagination.]
While thinking about his first skill Silent Steps, Felix recalled its shortcomings and disadvantages.
"Hmm...this should be good."
After a few minutes, he thought of a suitable upgrade for the skill and imagined it.
"System, try to upgrade it like this."
[Affirmative.]
[Processing the skill\'s power scale....modifying the skill....estimating the possible points required.....skill successfully modified.]
[Skill Name: Silent Steps(Upgraded)
Description:
Completely hides the user\'s presence and sound. Your footsteps become untraceable. No effect on beings 2 Ranks higher than the user.]
[Cost: 60 Skill Points.]
Seeing the new description of the upgraded version of the Silent Steps skill, Felix nodded.
"Good, this skill now has 100% efficiency in hiding my presence and even works when people are looking at me. That means when I activate this skill, I\'ll suddenly disappear from everybody\'s sight."
The cost of it was also within his expectations, so without wasting any more time he told the system to upgrade the skill.
[Ding!]
[Successfully upgraded the skill \'Silent Steps\'. Does the host wish to change the skill\'s name.]
"Nah, keep it as it is."
There was no point in changing the skill\'s name, as what truly mattered was its power and usefulness.
Before, it only lowered his presence and turned off any sound, but now it completely hides both of them.
While thinking about the skill\'s upgrade, suddenly Felix had an idea of testing it out.
Wearing his clothes after realizing that he was butt naked all the time, he walked out of his room.
Felix then moved towards the dining hall as he felt famished, but before entering, he activated his upgraded skill Silent Steps.
After that, he slowly opened the door and slipped inside without making much noise.
The dining hall was as usual not that crowded.
With guild wars just around the corner, most of the guild members were out on missions to get stronger or get more resources for themselves.
Felix who had his skill activated was like a fish swimming between sharks.
Fortunately, there were no people of the 3rd rank in the dining hall, or else they would\'ve seen him jumping around making goofy faces, and pranking everyone present there.
In Twilight Chaos Guild, the highest a member could have was Rank 2, after which they would become part of the upper echelon of the guild and move to the fourth floor, gaining the title of \'Executive\'.
One such example was Miss Elsa, the receptionist of the guild who was of the Rank 3 and also the assistant of the Guild Leader.
All this information was something Felix had heard from Steve\'s banter.
But now was not the time for him to recall all that, as he was busy eyeing the food on the plates of other people.
\'Hehe, thanks for the food.\'
Felix walked past several tables and picked up some food from other\'s plates. He could have just taken a plate of food for himself, but sometimes doing a prank was not a bad idea.
Grinning with a funny face, Felix crept towards the many tables in the dining hall and quickly picked some food from here and there before stuffing them inside his mouth.
Even though he felt what he was doing was a bit unsightly, the thrill of doing such things made him unable to stop himself.
Going around the hall without getting anybody alerted while moving quietly, he noticed a person with curly brown hair and remembered who he was.
\'Wait, isn\'t that Steve\'s teammate? What was his name again...hmm, I don\'t remember.\'
Shrugging his shoulders, Felix stopped thinking of his name and instead sneakily approached him.
The boy with curly brown hair was quietly eating his lunch while reading a book in his hands with a serious expression on his face.
A bit curious, Felix went behind the boy and peeked at the content of the book to read what the boy was reading.
\'Hmm...let\'s see...\', Felix then started reading the book, \'and then he pushed her against the wall, raising her chin. They looked into each other\'s eyes, feeling the emotions that both of them had hidden deep inside....\', wait-! isn\'t this a romance book!!.....\'
Flabbergasted, Felix didn\'t know how to react.
From what he remembered, the boy with curly brown hair was a rude and haughty fellow, and to think he liked reading these types of romance books.
\'You really can\'t judge a person by their appearance....\'
With these thoughts, he shook his head and quickly grabbed a few pieces of roasted meat that the romantic books lover was eating and sneaked away from there.
When he was moving around the hall to find his next target, he overheard something interesting from a group of people sitting together at a table.
"I don\'t know for sure, but yeah it seems there was an incident in the lobby where some guys started attacking each other."
Felix raised his brows hearing that there was a fight in the lobby. \'A fight? That\'s unusual...\' discover m,v,l,e,m,p,y,r novels
"Those idiots! Don\'t they know that fighting inside the guild is strictly prohibited, and when caught you\'ll be facing severe punishment."
"Well, that\'s what happened later. Miss Elsa rounded up all of them and then took them down there...."
A chill went down the spines of everyone when they heard that they were taken down \'there\'.
A curious guy then asked.
"Do you happen to know the reason why they fought?"
The other guy replied.
"Hmmm...I heard that there was suddenly a dirty smell that spread through the whole lobby and after that, those guys made trouble and fought amongst themselves...."
Listening to the man\'s words, Felix tilted his with a strange expression on his face.
\'Wait- A dirty smell? They were not fighting because of me, right?\'
Shaking his head, he didn\'t care much about it and instead grabbed some hot buns from their plates, while they were busy gossiping about.
After having eaten quite a lot, Felix decided it was enough lunch for today and sneaked out of the dining hall without alerting anyone.
\'That was a nice upgrade, with this I\'ll have a better chance of sneaking upon my enemies and defeating them before they can react.\'
Nodding, he walked back to his room and entered inside before locking the door.
Just when he was about to stand in front of the mirror to take a good look at his handsome face, his eyes caught the sight of a book that he had neglected for a while.
"Black horizon Sword Arts, huh...."