Death Mage with an SS-Rank Talent-Chapter 273

Aaron returned to the fort after dealing with the Dungeon.

He has been away from the fort for two days. So, before doing anything else, he returned to the Bastion, lest any further delay could cause even more problems.

Once he returned to the fort, he submitted the hunts to fill his monthly quota. Though he brought a bit higher than usual, no one cared about that, as the amount was still lower than what others submitted regularly.

"Looks like having too many secrets is bad for health and mind. I am becoming too paranoid. Being afraid and a bit paranoid makes the chances of survival a bit higher, but too much of anything is not good for anyone", Aaron thought as he returned to his room.

Once he returned to his assigned room, he first went to refresh up a bit before he fell onto his bed and checked his status.

"Status"

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Name: Aaron Skyhart

Age: 19

Bloodline: Death Swallow (SS-Rank)

Physique: Death Physique (SS-Rank)

Talent: Supreme Growth (SS-Rank) (Unique)

Class/Profession: Death Mage, SS-Rank

Grade: Epic

Rank: 4 >> 5

Level: 1,000 >> 1050

Vitality: 10,000 (+30%)

Strength: 10,000 (+30%)

Stamina: 10,000 (+30%)

Agility: 10,000 (+30%)

Intelligence: 15,000 (+30%)

Wisdom: 15,000 (+30%) (+102.30%)

Health: 100,000 (+30%)

Mana: 150,000 (+ 30%) (+102.30%)

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Death Energy: 150,000 (+30%)

Perception: 15,000 (+30%)

Luck: 100 (Max)

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Skills (Active): Summon Skeleton (10230/10230) (Gold Rank 1); Death Lash (Rank 9); Sprint (Rank 8); Death’s Disguise (Bronze Rank 1); Summon Ghost (10230/10230) (Gold Rank 1); Mana Ball (Rank 9); Death Gaze (Bronze Rank 4); Death Drain (Bronze Rank 1); Insights (Rank 9); Analysis (Bronze Rank 1); Death Prison (Bronze Rank 1); Mana Shield (Rank 9); Death Lock (Rank 9) (110m); Death Touch (Rankless); Summon Lich Mage (38/38) (Platinum Rank 1);

Skills (Passive): Mana Regeneration (Bronze Rank 4) (+620%); Dual Cast (Bronze Rank 9); Spectral Wisdom (Rankless); Status Veil (Rankless); Death’s Embrace (Rankless) (New!);

Resistances (Passive): Poison (Bronze Rank 9); Light (Bronze Rank 9); Death (Bronze Rank 9); Fire (Bronze Rank 9); Lightning (Bronze Rank 9); Dark (Bronze Rank 9);

Trait: Kissed by Luck;

Free Status Points: 890,280 >> 3,290,280

Skill Points:163,105 >> 483,105

Items: Death Illusion Pendant; Bone Ring; Death Devourer Ring;

Blessing: Silvermoon Blessing;

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As Aaron reached Rank-5, his earnings in the FSP and SP categories increased by a lot.

At Rank-4, one would get 80 FSP and 32 SP per level increase, which increased to 160 FSP and 64 SP per level.

With a 100x boost, his gains are 16,000 FSP and 6,400 SP per level.

Though Aaron has killed a lot of monsters while clearing out the dungeon, there is a limit on how much EXP he can store. Most of the EXP that he could have gained has gone to waste.

He could only gain 50 levels after reaching Rank-5 from the EXP saved, but that was more than enough for now.

With those 50 levels, he gained 2,400,000 FSPs and 320,000 SPs.

He has never gained so many FSPs and SPs at the same time ever before. Even the number of those points that sit on his status has reached a new high level.

The FSPs have crossed the 3 million mark, and the SPs are almost near the half-million mark.

When he saw those numbers, he wanted to dump FSPs into other attributes and SPs into the skills, as most skills are at a state where they can’t improve even if he uses them regularly. It would take a long time for them to improve their ranks just by using them.

So, using them felt the right way to increase skill ranks, but Aaron’s goal was never to get a bunch of skills at high ranks, but to have a few ones at the peak and looking at how things were going on, he felt that there was a long way to reach that.

So, he decided to keep those SPs for now, and would use them to increase only a few skills, and a Death Mage, he intends that his first priority is to make his Death Skills reach the peak.

Speaking of Death Skills, after reaching Rank-5, a new skill appeared on his status. It was not an active skill, but a passive one and that too a Rankless one.

He decided to see why it was Rankless, as this type of skill is different from normal skills.

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Death’s Embrace (Rankless): Any enemy killed by the holder would die for sure. No resurrection items or skills can bring back the one killed by the holder of this skill.

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When Aaron read the skill’s description, a smile formed on his face.

When he was a newbie awakener, his life felt simple. He didn’t know much, but as time went on, he came to learn a lot that many didn’t know about, and then everything felt a bit complex.

He came to know that there are items and professionals that can bring the dead back to life, but from what he understood that they need the body of the person, and it has to be not damaged too much for the resurrection to work.

There is also a restriction on how many days before that could work after death. The known knowledge says that it was 24 hours, but who’s to say that there are no ways to bypass those restrictions?

It was why he didn’t eliminate Viren and his goons back then when they followed him with evil intentions. Viren was from a powerful family, so who can say that they don’t have ways to know that he was the one who killed him or to bring Viren back to life.

None would be good for him. Whether Viren was wrong or not, he would pay the price for eliminating Viren, as the Ironheart family could think that it was a matter of the family’s pride.

The clashes which were between students would go to the families. If he were strong or his family was, he wouldn’t have feared, but with such a weak family and power, he had to take the safest route.

Now with this new skill, his enemies would be dead for sure. They won’t come back to haunt him later in life. Though others could still use various methods to find what happened, the eliminated enemy would remain eliminated.

It was a good thing.

Coming to his attributes, though there are a lot of FSPs, he first thought to use them on his attributes, but the values he has are more than enough for a long time.

Instead, he wanted to unlock other hidden attributes and special attributes, which he knew would consume a lot of FSPs.

He asked Jay to look out for items that can unlock special or hidden attributes. Though he has none at the moment, once he does, he is going to dump and bring that number down.

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After checking out the status, his eyes went to the notifications that he had ignored after the Dungeon claiming was done.

Since he has reached Rank-5, he is now eligible to receive the rewards of reaching Epic Grade, but he knew that he might have to be alone. So, instead, he pushed them again, opting to rest for the night.