The Tales of Draconic Warlock

Chapter 10: My journey of four years (2)

Poison resistance can be improved by taking small dosages of poison but too much may damage the internal organs of a person. So the dosage intervals are very large. The priest doesn't have such a limit to train me in gaining light resistance.

The Elders even claimed that since I have Shadow Affinity, Light Skills would cause a lot of damage to me if used on me. They were right on that point and my father couldn't argue after they said but the trainer is the worst. This was a training that was reserved for the members of the family who were considered average in talent.

I shouldn't have been considered average by any means.

Though my family didn't have Warlocks before me, there are many who awakened classes that associate with the dark elements. They are considered absolute combatants because dark elements would corrode the enemies if their attacks landed on them.

The attacks would slowly kill the opponents. So normally no one would provoke someone of these classes.

I was better than most of these dark classes. I was born with Shadow and Blood affinities. Though I only revealed Shadow Affinity, the family should have given me the top-class preference, but politics always cause problems.

This is the problem when someone is born to a noble. They would have to always watch their backs for such backstabs. If compared to commoners, in this aspect they are better off.

Moreover, this isn't some medieval age where the commoners starve due to lack of food. Ragos has developed a lot and everyone can afford food and a bed. The luxuries are the only things that they can't afford. they can enjoy them if they have the gold to buy them.

One doesn't need to be a noble to enjoy luxuries. Gold speaks a lot more than the noble title in the category but being a noble has many perks, that gold can't buy.

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Anyway, what I discovered in my four years was something very huge. Something that can help me save a lot of gold.

When someone awakens, they would get a Class Skill, which means that this skill is connected to your class and that skill would be already at maximum level. There is no need to train it as much as the acquired skills.

Acquired skills are soething one can get from Skill Books or Magic Cores.

Skill Books drop from a dungeon when you kill the final boss. This was not a guaranteed drop but if the dungeon was cleared for the first time, then it was a guaranteed drop. Since almost all dungeons across the world have been cleared at least once, if you forget about the ones in the forbidden zones, that would mean even if you defeat the final boss, you may not get the Skill Book.

The other way to get skills is by absorbing the Magic Cores, which are obtained by killing beasts and monsters.

When we absorb a magic core, it can either provide EXP to increase one's level, which majorly happens or it would grant one of the skills of the monster or beat it once belonged to. This was not a guarantee.

It was said that there is only a 10% chance of gaining a skill and that skill might not be the one that you are aiming at. So a lot of cores are consumed for gaining the required skills, which costs a lot of gold. This would be a burden even for nobles.

So most concentrate on obtaining certain skills that would work well wth their class or something useful but also most common by consuming the cores. These would be provided by the family of course but after that one has to earn their skills.

The skills I got from those cores were Evade and Dodge, which are very useful for a spellcaster to survive. Even though I have abnormal attributes, getting hit by an attack is stupid. You should defence and render it useless or evade the attack. Those are the only two ways to survive.

You see, when I started to absorb the cores that can give Evade and Dodge skills, I got certain notifications.

[Detected Monster Core...Devourer Physique activated.]

[Please select if you want EXP or Skills.]

When I saw those notifications, I was surprised but was happy with how things turned out. I simply selected skills.

[Detected skills: Evade, Dodge, Sprint,...]

I selected Evade first, and the core dissolved, but my status showed Evade Skill. I repeated the process again, and this time, I got Dodge skill.

This means that I can save a lot of cores to get the skills. I don't need to buy too many cores to get skills or even buy expensive skill books. This would save me a lot of money.

When I start hunting on my own, I can guarantee to get a skill from the monster I hunted and also if there are more of such, I can sell those cores in exchange for some other resource. This simply is the greatest luxury.