<~> Chapter 46It was not at all lost to me how powerful ritual magic could be if I used it with [Light Signal], this opened up a ton of different magical options for me. More than most people with the number of magic affinities I had. Barring a few I probably had at least a small amount of affinity with everything, certainly all the ohey had tested at the guild other than Holy.

  I tested anic circle I was familiar with, a fire creation magic circle. Usually it was only really useful for starting small fires sihe overall mana version was bad, retive to only using it to start something like a bo least. I used a thin line of light, enough to get good accuracy without infting the cost of the magiud drew the circle. This ritual took a bit more time because the runes for the fire circle were a bit more detailed than the one for water. Once I had it done I was able to use [Light Manipution] to scale it down and move the circle around. Doing this took a lot of tration but I was sure that I could get better at it with practice.

  Using [Light Manipution], I poihe small circle away from me and took a deep breath. I activated it and got something that seemed simir to a lighter fme. Now that the circle was active I imagined pushing a lot of mana through the circle all at once, ramping up the iy of the fme. My little lighter fme quickly turned into something more akin to a blowtorow, pointed away from me in the same dire that I had rotated the magic circle. Even after the circle was active I was able to use whatever remnants of [Light Signal] that still remained after its activation to manipute the orientation of the fme. It was actually due to pying with my new fshlight, or rather my [Light Beam] spell, that I was able to intuitively uand how to anchor and manipute the magic circle.

  After a while I released the ritual magid only then realized I had been panting with the exertion. I was excited though. Excited to find more applications for this ability, test out which rituals would work best when bined with [Light Signal], spend more time disseg and rebining different magic circles to get new effects. I felt like aire new world just opened up for me.

  "Lilith, that's amazing... I don't even know what to say..."

  I sat there panting for a while until I caught my breath. I hadn't pushed myself that hard using magic before so the effects were a little o me.

  "I wonder if something like this has been done before."

  Bel leaned against my shoulder. "I've never heard of it and at least some amount of ritual magic is well known. Light magic is detly well known too but isn't as popur among adventurers from what I've heard. I would be surprised if you're the first ever to do something like this but either way it's not a on way of doing things."

  I looked around. It had been a few hours since I started cheg my abilities and pying with my new skills. I still had some time to kill and as long as I made a point to actually keep watbsp;I would have plenty of time to think about my stat build.

  I checked my status briefly so that I could look at my stats. I have 20 unallocated stat points since my st levels. Right now my finesse is 90 after the extra finesse I have from Bck Cat, if I ge my css it'll drop to 40 and my lubsp;will drop quite a bit too. I've built up more karma from all of the dungeon exploration so it'll drop to the 200-ish raill pretty high pared to all of my other stats though.

  Right now I think I want to focus on increasing my Magitrol and Magic Forbsp;though, especially since I have some new spells to py with. Magic Forbsp;is raw power but Magitrol gives me better effid sidering all of the light manipution I io use, I think it would synergize with what I pn to do better. For now anyway. I had been holding out for Magic Forbsp;for a while but now that I have it, I kinda think Magitrol is actually more useful for me at this stage. Especially since I'm not really intending to be as heavy a hitter as Man is. My value will probably be more in my utility aility, especially if I'm able to learn more about rituals and how to create my own.

  I decided to put all 20 of the points into Magitrol. I don't think having more Magitrol than Magic Forbsp;will be much of a detriment to me right now, especially while I'm still getting a handle on using and maniputing magic. It does feel a bit weird to put a lot of my free stats into my magic stats while my css is more focused on other things but hopefully that makes me a bit more versatile. I just hope I don't end up a jack of all trades, useless at everything. On the subject of csses maybe it's time to revisit them since I'm able to safely ge it again.

  Right now Bck bsp;is my highest leveled css but there is a lot of be in switg things around temporarily, especially since I'm presumably in less danger now than when I was in the dungeon. I still should switch to Intermediate Swordsman at some point to unlobsp;Speed, though I'm not sure I would i any points into the stat right now anyway. Novice Light Mage might be good to level too but I think I'm already getting most of what I need by leveling Light magi its own without the css. A tiny bit of extra magitrol while equipping it just doesn't seem worth it. Novice Illusion Mage is almost the exact same css but giving boo illusion magistead of light magibsp;Novice Prostitute might be fun to level si apparently lets you gain skills reted to sex easier but for obvious reasons I don't pn on equipping it right now.

  That means I should either leave Bck bsp;equipped or equip Novice Swordsman for the day. I lose a big k of Fi I gain the speed stat lihe 10 you get from unlog it is probably worth switg on its own and it isn't like being a swordsman for the day should put me at that much of a disadvantage pared to normal. My actual swordsmanship might be a bit more sloppy but the 30 speed after the css bonus and the little bit of extra strength it gives would probably make up for it. It might be a tad impulsive but screw it. I switched my css to Intermediate Swordsman.

  [ged Css to Intermediate Swordsman][Unlocked Statistic - Speed]

  [Speed]Speed influences your physical reflexes and your ability to move quickly. As Speed increases the user is better able to process the mana in their body to move faster and fortably trol their body at higher speeds. Higher Speed will allow the user to run at faster speeds, make sharp movements more easily, a to their senses more quickly.

  The sensation of ging my css felt weird to say the least. Losing that mubsp;Finesse all at once made me feel clumsy while the huge increase in my Speed stat made me suddenly feel a lot lighter. Those ges together made me slip on the dirt under my feet and fall backwards over the log I was sitting on. It happened so fast that I smmed the bay head into the ground.

  "Lilith! Are you okay?"

  I cautiously stood up and rubbed the sore bases of my horns, rather than actually hitting my head my horns took the impad rang my skull like a bell. It wasn't particurly painful so much as it was hugely disorienting. The bases of my hor like they got yanked really hard though. "Yeah I uh, just switched my css and my stat totals are different enough that I wasn't used to it. I lost my band when I filed it just made me sm my head back faster..." I was really embarrassed but Bel looked more ed than amused so I carefully sat back dowo her.

  She turned my head away from her and ran her fingers gently through the fur on my head. She whispered a quiet intation to herself and I could feel her ana run over my horns and sooth them till it disappeared. She gave the top of my head a little kiss before lettiurn back towards her.

  Her gentle smile made me feel really warm i was worth hitting my head that hard if I would get my cute deer girl to pamper me a little. "Thanks for kissing it better." I leaned in and kissed her, iwining my fingers with hers at the same time.

  Now it was her turn to look embarrassed. She smiled cutely and looked down while her ears took on the light pink that gave away her blushes every time. "It's no trouble."

  I leaned in and kissed her cheek again before looking bato the forest. I sat there quietly for a minute before deg to ask Bel about her levels.

  "Did you level up much from that dungeon? It was kind of a lot, all of it."

  "I got 3 general levels and 15 css levels. I'm level 15 now and my Noviature Healer css is level 18 already, even though I only just unlocked it. It's holy pretty insane, I've leveled up more i week than I have my whole entire life bined. Well at least for my css..."

  "How long does it usually take to get the rank of a css? Like Intermediate Nature Healer?"

  "Mmm, I don't really know. It probably depends. A healer w safely in a city might take years of practice to get to the rank. A healer w in a war ic might get to the rank in a year, healers that go into dungeons and participate in fights probably level a lot faster than both. Not only do you get more experience from being there when monsters are killed, the system also seems to give more experien more stressful and dangerous situations."

  "I wonder how the system knows how dangerous or stressful a situation is. It makes it sound like the system has a mind of its own."

  Bel shrugged non-ittedly. "I don't really know but sometimes the system is more specific about how you unlocked something or why. My [Karmic Healing] ability says in the first line: 'You have shown your loyalty to your master by proteg her,' sidering our situation it might be the first time the ability was created. Either the system is intelligent or it's trolled directly by one of the gods."

  "I would like tue that but sidering I met a god yesterday it's kind of hard for me to dispute it."

  Bel chuckled.

  I decided to take a look at my full status with everything it'll show me now that I've ged my css.

  [Status]Name: Lilith [Surname Undefined]Race: Succubus [Race Hidden - Dispyed as Beastkin (Sheep)]Gender: FemaleCss: [Intermediate Swordsman] Lv. 1Level: 25

  Stat Spread:Strength: 50 (53)Vitality: 100Charisma: 10Luck: 20 (234)Finesse: 40Magitrol: 50Magic Force: 40Speed: 10 (30)

  Karmiergy: 2140

  Unallocated Stat points: 0

  Avaible Csses:Bck Cat Lv. 10Novice Prostitute Lv.1Novice Mert Lv. 1Novice Light Mage Lv. 5Novice Illusion Mage Lv. 1Novice Swordsman Lv. 1Apprentice Swordsman Lv. 1Intermediate Swordsman Lv. 1

  Skills:Haggling Lv. 1Swordsmanship Lv. 35Illusion Magic Lv. 3Light Magic Lv. 5Light Manipution Lv. 4Uuna Riding Lv. 13Linguistics Lv. 10Ritual Magic Lv. 3Drawing Lv. 8Mana Sense Lv. 4

  Special Passives:Special drop rate upSightspeakDouble Down

  Innate Abilities:KarmiceKarma AwarenessKarmic Resonance Karmic Retribution Dominating Authority Karmic HypnotismSoultouched e Lv. 2

  Racial Traits:Infernal Heat Resistanfernal Cold ResistanceDarksightSexual Appetite Lv. 3Soultouor Physical Shapeshifting (Succubus)Soulbound panionsLubrig Saliva

  Titles:[World Traveler - Hidden Title][in of Succubi - Hidden Title][Dungeoroyer][First Explorer][Early Intervention]

  Spells:Light Magic:[Light Orb][Fireflies][Light Beam][Light Signal]

  Illusion Magic:[Zone of Silence]

  Luck Magic:[Melee Hex][ Flip][Die Nudge][Bckjack]

  It's pretty long when you list out every part of it. My build is pretty unfocused, god if I hadn't dumped all of the points I had intth when Mark was... Ugh...

  Still, being a swordsman has really e in handy, especially with our party position. Maybe if I could find someoo fill the proper tank roll I could focus more on DPS. Though if I really want to make the most out of my build I should try and merge spell casting into my swordpy. Maybe I could get some sort of Are Swordsman Css.

  I closed my status and thought about the versation I had with Torien about buying out their sve tracts yesterday. I feel a little guilty I didn't sult Bel about it first but I was kind of following my heart at the time.

  "By the way Bel, I think we should try to buy out Man and Torien's debts. I already told Torien I would try... Sorry I didn't talk with you about it first."

  "That's okay, I like them too. I'm not really surprised though, you've warmed up to them pretty quick. Well, other thahing with Mimi I guess.

  "I think it's because I like them that the flict with Mimi bothered me so much. I resolved it with Torien though. She said she was jealous I was taking her under my wing so quick. She apologized and I feel a lot better about the whole thing. Lets just hope they actually get aloer now."

  "You don't have any wings though."

  I jumped to the disembodied sound of Mimi's voice. I looked over to the sword I had sat against the log.

  "You scared me. I thought you were still asleep. How long have you been listening?"

  "I filled up on mana a long time ago. I've been paying attention since yht me out of the tent."

  I sighed.

  Saine

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