Chapter 49 - Final Fix.
Elder Huan shock his head and said "Truly you are if not one of the strongest young heaven ranked people."
Elder Huan said "I will consider this a win for you. since you have already passed my expectations by miles."
Kai said "No lets keep fighting I have enough mana to spare!."
Elder Huan looked around and said "You might, I may. but this room.. wont last much longer."
Kai was annoyed he already was going to pay one hell of a loss because of absolute charge and the last skills all have technical activated meaning currently he had used overcharge nearly 4 times.
Kai knew if he deactivated it right now the pain would be imminence but if he didn't and kept going the pain would be worse because the longer in over charge the worse the backlash is.
Kai sighed as he slowly allowed mana to leave his body.
The mana instantly began revitalizing the room
[30,000 / 30,000]
And at the same second he deactivated the overcharge, his entire body ceased up.
Kai fell backwards like a wooden board.
Kai tried to move or scream to no avail, his body didn't listen to him.
A horrifying feeling grew form the pit of his stomach he couldn't move, speak or do anything.
He was completely defenseless.
And yet the skills kept deactivating but one
[NightFall's Magic-Marial Art - Level 1]
The only reason he kept it open was because of the passive 2.4X to all of his stats.
Even though the sun was quickly coming up and he could slowly start to feel the intense pain.
Kai could do nothing but wait. His eyes tried to focus but his vision was swallowed by darkness.
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Kai opened his eyes.
He was panicking
He felt like he had been falling for far too long.
Once his eyes got used to the bright light, He began to see something from far above.
The mind space islands, He went to last time.
Kai could control his falling speed because it was within his own mind.
Kai slowed down his fall and smiled at the sight bellow.
It was still as grand as he remembered maybe even more grand?
The central island floating as a endless river form a central mound that held a single large cherry blossom tree.
It's leaves falling and then fading into nothing.
Kai truly felt proud only from the central island.
As nine separate chains dangled connected to nine other islands. Different, but completely empty islands. Though one of them had a forge.
And another island with a small arena.
Kai flew down his speed instantly hitting supersonic speeds. and he came to a perfect halt just above the cherry blossom tree.
Kai allowed his body to glide down toward the mound.
Kai sat down laying his back on it as he looked toward the bear sky.
Kai Mentaly said "So why am i here?"
[It seems normal for you but your body is not in the best of conditions.]
[Body status - 25%/100%]
Kai asked "you say that. But I still dont understand it, I fight and all but it remains at 100 even when im injured. But now its 25?"
[Body status dose not include your physical vessel but its ability to hold your soul since your soul is far far stronger than the normal heaven ranked person your body is always strained to hold it. This makes you much weaker. Though your stats are high you have never used them all.]
Kai hummed "So you mean even though i have 30 something stats in strength i have never used all 30 points?"
[Presisly, Your body is able to handle it but since its already strained just by holding your soul your mind natural decides to lock your power]
Kai asked disappointed "so. how much have i ever used?"
[Less than 50%]
Kai's mouth hung open. He was truly dumbfounded
Less than 50% less than 15 stats he had ever used. From his total pool of 30.
Kai Angerly asked "Why did you never tell me this?"
[I Belived you had already know that.]
Kai sighed disappointingly and said "How about you assume that i dont even have a point in intelligence?"
The system knew it was merely a quip and not a actual request so it just ignored Kai.
Kai spoke "How do i strengthen by body?"
[You already have a body tempering technique that has only been used once for only 2 hours. Train for it for far longer.]
Kai said "Yeah but for the Iron skin body remembering i need to be constantly hit, How do you expect me to do something like that"
[You merely have to upgrade it or create a tool to help you. Or you could use mana to create micro impacts on your body. that is not possible right now.]
[I suggest you start learning how to craft tools, This will allow you to temper your body by bathing in extremely hot water infused with these tools.]
Kai confusedly said "Tool? What tools?"
[Amour, Weapons Are all considered tools.]
Kai answered "alright i see why you gave me a stupid blacksmithing skill. even though i'd rather fight."
Kai sighed and got up his body natural floating.
His heart was pumping. He was exited after all his first craft in his life.
Kai went to a empty island and with a mere thought it turned into a island.
Kai summoned some materials iron and other metals aswell as other things.
Kai stared at them and said "So.. Here's the thing. I have a skill but i have no idea how to do this you know?"
[Would you like to boy Blacksmithing Knowladge?]
[Cost 1 level and all your current exp.]
Kai stared he was both surprised and pissed off.
Kai said "So i got scammed. How wonderful."
[It will only cost All your current Exp.]
Kai mockingly answered "How benevolent of you. And sadly yes i want it."
[level - 10] [Exp - 0/1000]
Kai then asked "no quest to win against Elder Huan or anything?"
[First of all you did not win. And second you were left in such a way that even a fly could have finished you off.]
Kai felt knowledge enter his mind a lot of it and even gained a skill
[Blacksmith's Ire : Summon A flame that deals no damage to living things but melts physical things instantly.]
It was a system give skill based on his knowledge on blacksmithing Kai sighed and picked up a ore of iron still with stone and it all. Kai snapped his finger and a massive furnace appeared and he simply tossed the iron ore and rock into it. Kai activated blacksmith's Ire though since he was in a mind space it didn't use any mana. and also unknown to Kai his body lacked mana.
Kai watched to his surprise the Flame he had summoned completely ignored the unknown stone and went straight for the iron melting it instantly.
Kai panicked and was way too slow causing it to turn hard again. But he noticed it got to a normal temperature far too fast meaning the flame summoned by blacksmithing Ire needed constant Mana to keep the Metal melted
Kai kept experimenting and trying to control the new skill he had just gained, He had noticed that it wasn't every single time that the iron was melted some times trace amounts were left.
Kai kept experimenting with the amount of theoretical mana he could push into the skill.
Kai had pushed nearly 200 thousand mana into the skill. He felt dizzy and then the next second. Half the island was gone. Kai stared in shock. He re summoned most of the island improved it even with heat shielding material.
It was the only material he know of that was temperature resistant Reinforced Carbon Carbon.
He belived it should help for now untill he desided to create his own matiral since anything in the mind space is just a fake and completly controled by kai.
But now Kai stared at a floating prompt.
[Blacksmith Ire. Sub skill Unlocked.]
Kai sighed and said "two things. why wasn't i told there is sub skills? and what is the sub skill"
[You weren't told due to the sub skill not being unlocked. You have many considered incomplete skills.]
[Blacksmith's Ire : Summon a physical flame that burns all You desire as long as it doesn't hold a living soul.]
[Ture Falme (Passive) : When ever using the skill it will alway's achieve 100% of the material to be melted.]
Kai asked "So what other skills are incomplete?"
[That is for you to discover. Experiment with your skills.]
Kai sighed and sat down, Closing his eyes as his entire skill list appeared in his mind perfectly organized
Kai was silently grinning ear to ear at the simple amount of skills he had.
Kai started reading through each one and finished finally after nearly a hour he already had a list of things he wanted to improve, the main one being shadow step.
Kai summoned a tree exactly 16 meters away and he could natural sense its shadow but not from the connection so he could teleport or properly sense it with the shadow sense skill
His shadow sense skill could only sense that of living beings. which annoyed Kai but also make's him happy because if his mind is flooded by thousands of locations of shadows he would palpably pass out because of the amount of information will simply be too much
But the area for it was a mere 5m while he could theoretically detect anything around him in a 50km area with god eyes.
Kai said, "Say I split a skill and using it I combine it with a random skill. could i use the original concept? for example, the exploding aspect of bladed mana could I split it and use that in a skill but still have the skill?"[The skill will be lost but you will be able to to use the skill and sometimes you will be able to combine it together with other skills once again.]
Kai nodded and didn't wait time as he combined God eyes with shadow sense
[Pure Sense : Level 1 : This is a passive skill but the majority must be activated, Passively sense all shadows around with the ability to filter them. While when the skill is active you will be able to detect anything within a 50km area that can be modified however you want but the limit remains 50km.]
Kai smirked and said "Sooo.... system you see what i want to do?"
[Yes. Would you like to combine Previous called Sharp Sight with Shadow step?]
Kai smirk widened and said "But ofcoursei do!"
[Shadow Sight : Level 1 :- When activated you can teleport toward any shadow in a 50km radius and see form within them even if you are 50km away.]
Kai eye's winded he had only expected the range element and said "Wait dose this mean in that fight i could have literally seen Elder Huan's next moves?"
[Yes.]
Kai smirked turned into a grin and he said "I can make this one smaller too right..."
[Naturaly since your intelligence stat is far too low to single handle fell and see and be able to teleport toward shadows in a 50km area.]
Kai sighed and said "Next up.... Why have my skills not leveled up even though i have clearly used them for a while. Like Inspect? Or even that Ture magic thing."