Chapter 83 - 83: 083 Spirit Excellent Template
In the Land of Bone, basking in a gray glow, Dean McKenzie felt as invigorating as being submerged in a hot bath after being near frozen in the cold of winter.
Simultaneously, Dean McKenzie felt as if something within him was about to emerge.
After about ten minutes, the gray light ended. Like a bud breaking through the soil in spring, a system notification refreshed before Dean’s eyes.
[Your Mental Attribute Template has been upgraded to [Excellent], increasing your Mental Attribute by 40 points!]
[Your upper limit of Spiritual Power has increased to 176.2, Mana cap has increased to 3062, and Mana Attack has increased to 276.2! ]
[Your Spiritual Power earned the trait [Mental Fortitude] (D-Level)] Mental Fortitude (D-Level) (It offers a fixed 50% mental power defense. Mental attacks below this value are ineffective against you, and those above it have their effects reduced by 50%
ps: Any mental attacks surpassing 10 times your Spiritual Power cap ignore this trait!)
Scores of system prompts were refreshed.
Reading these notifications and feeling the changes in his spiritual power, Dean couldn’t help but furrow his brow.
“This upgrade is unlike Doggy Eight’s template upgrade, which upgraded directly to his profession. My template upgrade only applies to my mental attribute.
What the hell? Is it because I shortchanged it?
Why is it so unfair to… wait a minute, it seems it didn’t do me wrong after all!” Upon closer inspection, Dean noted that he wasn’t short of any attributes or traits.
“In other words, because I choose to grant the mental attribute, it didn’t upgrade my profession template, but the mental attribute template instead. That’s why all my other attributes are still listed separately.
Does this mean, even though my mental attribute is at Excellent template, my other attributes are still at the Ordinary template, and as long as I have Grant Quotas, I can still enhance them one by one.
When each attribute is enhanced, wouldn’t their attributes increase and gain traits?
Meaning, even with the same Excellent template, I can have up to seven, no, eight Excellent templates, along with eight traits and eight times the granted attributes. Even without considering the subsequent enhancements, just the current enhancements could add up to 90 points to each attribute.”
Having done the calculations, Dean couldn’t help drawing a sharp breath.
Dean had initially thought that being able to upgrade all the attributes like Doggy Two with one grant while he had to unlock his one by one was a raw deal.
But now, Dean suddenly realized his vision had been too narrow.
“I was only thinking about the hardship, but who could’ve thought there was such a great advantage right before me.”
Upon noticing the advantage, Dean became excited. Unfortunately, he didn’t have available grant quotas, so he could only covet them.
“Let’s leave that for later. Let’s get this job done first!”
Then, Dean took out the map given by the maid pig and spent about half an hour studying it with her. Eventually, Dean figured out the route to the Tempest Woods.
The Tempest Woods were approximately two hundred miles northwest of Pink City. Dean currently stood almost equidistant from there. But Dean couldn’t possibly go straight there.
After all, the journey was fraught with danger. There were even third-turn creatures lurking along the way. With Dean’s current strength, traversing such terrain would be suicidal.
So, Maid Pig drew a route for Dean.
Following Maid Pig’s route, Dean would have to travel five to six hundred miles instead of the original one hundred-plus.
Well, it couldn’t be helped as Dean was not strong enough.
Though he had saved her, his power was only at one-turn, and traveling through a hundred-plus miles was too daunting.
Furthermore, the journey would certainly not be smooth. Those from the Becky family would definitely set up roadblocks along the way.
Given Dean’s strength, since he couldn’t cross the hundred-mile distance in a short period and reach the Tempest Woods quickly, his only option was to steadily proceed.
With a worried expression, Maid Pig explained: “Although I’ve drawn a route for you that avoids as much danger as possible, your strength is still a bit too weak. To be honest, if it weren’t absolutely necessary, I wouldn’t want you to get involved. For a one-turn necromancer like you, this task is simply too dangerous.”
“So what if I’m one-turn? Looking down on one-turn? Don’t forget who saved you!
You can put your mind at ease. I guarantee I can safely bring you to the
Tempest Woods!”
Dean patted his chest, exuding confidence.
Joking around, Dean felt quite confident in himself after his recent Excellent-template upgrade and power surge.
Having said that, Dean stepped through the Gate of Bone, ready to embark on his long journey of delivering the news.
Maid Pig, on the other hand, watched Dean’s spirited silhouette stepping through the Gate of Bone, and couldn’t help feeling a bit dazed.
Although she always believed that their princess had gone blind to have chosen such a human scum, she had to admit, Dean’s figure was quite manly at that moment.
Then, Maid Pig realized what it meant by handsomeness doesn’t last for more than three seconds.
“Damn it!”
Dean, who had confidently walked through the gate, immediately stumbled back into the Land of Bone.
Maid Pig was taken aback and hadn’t yet reacted to the situation when a voice was heard from outside.
“I knew something was odd about this place. Why were there skeletons guarding here? I camped here for a while and lo and behold, there’s indeed a reward.
Thank goodness I didn’t follow orders and set up the card, otherwise, I would’ve missed this achievement!”
Almost at the same time, Dean received several system notifications.
[Your Wraith Servant (Doggy Four) has been killed!]
[Your Wraith Servant (Doggy Five) has been killed!]
[Your Wraith Servant (Doggy Six) has been killed! ]
Three more “doggies” were slain.
However, at that moment, Dean couldn’t afford to mourn because the Gate of
Bone that was opened two meters high was forced open, with a frightful-looking member of the Pighead Clan walking in.
Behind him were a batch of well-equipped Pighead Clan soldiers.
Seeing the Pighead Clan members who had entered, Maid-Pig’s face drained of color.
She instantly recognized the Pighead Clan leader as a centurion in the Becky family’s private army – a second-turn level 50.
The Pighead soldiers behind him were all level 40 elite template Pighead infantrymen.
Are they all doomed?
She had anticipated that Dean’s journey to the Tempest Woods would be dangerous, but she didn’t expect the danger to come so quickly. Dean hadn’t even officially started, before being blocked at the gate.
In her current state, she couldn’t fight back. With just Dean, he might be… Eh!
Maid-Pig suddenly noticed something odd about Dean’s expression – he didn’t seem scared, but instead, appeared somewhat excited!