CHAPTER 53: CHAPTER 53: NEW SKILLS

At Big Gold Teeth’s bar counter

Kane was surrounded, wearing gloves, he solemnly picked up the Gem Talisman.

[Stone of Ultimate Emotion]

[Gem Talisman]

[Color: Golden]

[Attributes:]

[Instant Death Resistance]

[Charm Immunity]

[Control Weakening]

[Explanation: The token of love from the Gem Noble. Presented to the beloved — Mirelle Spinel]

Although he knew Burton was a gold-level dwarf, holding a gold-level magic accessory still felt out of reach due to its properties.

Looking at the 3 attributes on the Gem Talisman, none were anything less than top grade.

Not to mention combining all three, it was an unattainable fortune for Kane at this stage.

But Burton couldn’t possibly be unable to find someone to identify this equipment, so what did he want to know?

Was it this explanation? Then the amount of information is quite a lot.

Kane looked at Burton and asked, "Which information do you want to know from above?"

When Burton heard him ask, it seemed something had been identified.

"All information."

Looking at the curious eyes of his teammates, he couldn’t help but say, "Do I say it here?"

"Yes," Burton clasped his hands against his forehead.

"Alright then."

After speaking, he relayed all the information he got to Burton.

When he finished even the explanation, Burton slumped into the chair.

His eyes dimmed, he put away the equipment, jumped off the chair.

Headed towards his room upstairs, reminding the burly man beside him, "Mala, hang a sign, closed for business."

Kane and the others watched his back, it was a scene of desolation.

After Burton left, the group simultaneously looked at Longbei, even Meizike had a spark of gossip in their eyes.

"Why are you all looking at me? I also just found out, even though he’s my brother by blood, we are 500 years apart. When he wasn’t an explorer, I wasn’t even an adult."

As Longbei scratched his head, he said, "Though when I was young, Mom did urge him to find a partner every time he returned.

But when he wasn’t an explorer anymore, Mom didn’t bring it up, maybe that’s why."

"Ah, I remember now,"

Kreya clapped her head and exclaimed loudly.

This caught everyone’s attention.

"Quickly tell us, what did you remember?"

"Yes, do tell."

Kreya cleared her throat and said, "I remember reading in the Hundred Races Atlas that there was an introduction to the Gem Nobles."

"What is it?"

"Gem Nobles is a term humans use to refer to a rare race. It says that this race has few numbers but eternal life, residing on the Peak of Brilliance. However, they aren’t flesh creatures, but humanoid beings made of precious minerals."

"The Mist Lord, the Brilliant Monarch Siraishi. Kovi is a Gem Noble."

After Kreya’s explanation, everyone nodded knowingly.

Although many races aren’t reproductively isolated, or the isolation isn’t strong,

this doesn’t include flesh creatures and mineral beings.

The structure of these two bodies is entirely different.

"Alas, a destined impossible union."

In their minds, Kane and the others had already drafted about a million tragic words for Burton.

After listening to the story and distributing the equipment.

Even though Kreya and Longbei didn’t have anything applicable, they weren’t unhappy.

How could there always be something usable every time? Do you think you’re the Mist’s illegitimate child or something?

Kane looked at his teammates and said, "Let’s disband for now, meet at the tavern tomorrow morning."

After Kane finished speaking, Longbei and Meizike greeted and headed out.

"I’ll be borrowing Yoyo then,"

Kreya said while holding Yoyo.

Kane nodded, waved goodbye to her.

Watching the centaur leave the tavern, Kane rose and returned to his room.

Locked the door, pulled the curtains.

He carefully took a bath, then bowed to his medal.

Lying on the bed, he called out the Book of Adventure.

Took out the Magic Stone from his neck, then took out the Magic Materials.

Placed the Magic Stone up, the energy from the Magic Materials was drawn out, streaming into the Magic Stone like ribbons.

Before long, the Magic Stone was filled with energy, turning into a gemstone that shimmered with copper light.

Flipped open the Book of Adventure, opened the Extraction Array, and placed his hand on it.

[Skill Extraction]

[Do you wish to use the Copper Magic Stone for Skill Extraction?]

[Yes][No]

"Yes"

[Extracting Skill······]

The array on the book started to turn, the Magic Stone in his hand disappeared, followed by the emergence of a stone piece with glowing patterns.

He carefully inspected the Skill Stone in his hand.

[Name: Critical Strike]

[Type: Passive Skill]

[Color: Copper]

[Explanation: When spending Magic Power to attack, a portion of the Magic Power will stealthily enter the attacker’s body. After every 4 remote attacks/3 melee attacks, the Magic Power inside will explode, causing magical damage. The Magic Power spent and entered is fixed each time.]

[Introduction: Chase Kane’s Demon Hunter technique, they use this technique to fight the aberrations, protecting their kin.]

This skill’s damage is similar to true damage, but Kane’s skill grid was full, he had to make a choice on his skills now.

Thinking for a moment, he turned to the skills page, removed [Material Change - Steel], and put the newly extracted skill [Critical Strike] onto it.

From the Space Equipment, he took out a wooden stake, pinched out a small hammer, and began to tap it.

The spent Magic Power was fixed, not much. If he kept attacking, it should take over 40 hits for the Magic Power to run out.

After 3 taps, the wooden post burst open.

Looking at the post, if such power were to erupt inside the body, it would be quite effective.

The location of the explosion depended on where Kane’s final blow landed.

Where should he put the switched-out [Material Change - Steel]?

Thinking for a while

he turned to the third page, the Source Skills page.

Placed the skill stone of [Material Change - Steel] into one of the enhancement slots of [Transparent Play-Doh].

After closing the book, he began to sense the changes in the Source Skills.

Pulled out a stick, spent Magic Power intending to steelify it, the Magic Power consumption equaled using steelification enchantment.

Originally wanting to harden it to match the hardness of steel would take five times the Magic Power of steelification.

Now directly achieving steelification saves time for adhering steelification, as it skips a step, costing even less Magic Power than before.

But the downside is that spider silk and other materials can’t be steelified; some loss, some gain.

But overall, the gain outweighs the loss because if needed, he could always re-adjust skills with some time.

So this is how the skills page looks now.

[Skill Grid 1: Eagle Eye]

[Skill Grid 2: Spider Nest Weaver]

[Skill Grid 3: Critical Strike]

[Skill Warehouse: Empty]

Then he opened the Source Skills page to check.

[Name: Transparent Play-Doh]

[Category: Passive Skill]

[Color: Copper]

[Explanation: Within a range of 2 meters around, expends Magic Power to create. Things will dissolve within a minute if not held closely.]

[Introduction: A skill created especially by the Mist for Its warrior Kane, also a compensation for the descendants of the sacrificed.]

[Enhancement Grid 1: Material Change - Steel (Hardness enhancement, decrease in magic power consumption)]

After closing the book, he began to feel the changes of the Source Skills.

The moment he formed a stick and tried to steel it with Magic Power, the consumption was equal to using steelification enchantment.

Before, hardening it to the hardness of steel would use more Magic Power than steelification.

Now, as it directly reaches steelification, it saved some Magic Power compared to before.

The drawback is that spider silk and other items cannot be steelified anymore.

But the advantage surely outweighs the disadvantage, because if needed, he can always take time to switch the skills again.

As of now, the skills page looks like this:

[Skill Page 1: Eagle Eye]

[Skill Page 2: Spider Nest Weaver]

[Skill Warehouse: Empty]