Chapter 494 - Forming a core
When Liam opened his eyes, he found himself floating in the small pond that had now somehow become even smaller. He looked around and saw that the garden itself was somewhat destroyed.
"Hmmm? Did I do this?"
Liam only remembered fighting inside that black space so he didn't understand why the outside was so damaged.
He thought about it for a moment before his mind wandered back to the person whom he had faced inside that black space.
All along he assumed that he was fighting his own mirror image. It made sense because maybe he was fighting his own mental demons to become stronger.
But at the last moment, he had unmistakably seen someone else.
He only managed to catch a glimpse of that person's face. He could not even remember that face right now but he clearly remembered the feeling.
It was as if he had seen him somewhere before but he couldn't quite figure out where.
Liam lingered in the same thoughts for a couple of minutes before shaking it off and snapping himself out of the trance.
He had more important things to do than worry about an imaginary foe.
That's right! He had finally finished the cleansing process that he had worked so hard to accomplish!
"Time to form my core." Liam grinned. He was now truly going to step onto the next stage.
In his last life, this was such an unimportant process because his condition was like that. While others climbed to the top from this single step, he could only dream of something like that.
But now he was here again once more and this time everything was different.
Ignoring the garden that was beaten up, he still continued sitting inside the pond water and opened up his system interface first to check the effects of the elixir.
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Name: Liam
Species: Human being
Gender: Male
Level: 50
Class: Soulmancer
Titles: Rolling in Debt, Perfectionist, Soul Devourer, Pioneer, Gresh Kingdom Duke, Thol City Garrison Leader, Stage 1 Ranker
Pet: Luna, Talon
Health: 5250/5250
Mana: 5200/ 5200
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Vitality: 160
Stamina: 160
Strength: 160
Intellect: 160
Agility: 160
Physical Defense: 160
Mental Defense: 50
Soul Defense: 50
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Skills:
[Mana Manipulation], [Nether Manipulation], [Throat Punch], [Slash], [Sword Dance], [Spirit Slash], [Spirit Wrath], [Stealth], [Pickpocket], [Unlock], [Tame], [Awaken], [Demonic Summon], [Ice Shard], [Lightning Bolt], [Fire Ball], [Lava Rain], [Soul Forging], [Soul Sensing], [Summon Soul Undeads], [Dismiss Soul Undeads], [Nether Fire Storm], [Nether Fire Serpent], [Mana Net], [Frozen Earth], [Trapping vines], [Fire bullets], [Nether Scythe], [Wind Blades], [Ice burst], [Lightning Snake], [Earth Spike], [Venom Burst], [Ice Blanket], [Intermediate Ice Manipulation], [Intermediate Fire Manipulation], [Intermediate Lightning Manipulation], [Black Box]
Trade Skills: [Alchemy] (Expert Master Level), [Forging] (Master Level), [Mining] (Intermediate Level), [Herbalism] (Intermediate Level), [Cooking] (Beginner)
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Liam continued staring at his stats for an entire minute. He opened his mouth and closed it speechlessly. This time the effects of the elixir were completely beyond his imagination.
All of his basic attributes had increased from [145] to [160]. This was a 15 stat points gain per attribute.
Each level past Level 50 only gave 3 stat points per attribute when leveling up so a 15 stat point boost was similar to having a 5 level advantage over the same level opponent.
This was not taking into account the original advantage he had before consuming the first elixir and not to mention the silverfish.
With everything combined together, Liam now almost had the equivalent of a 10 level difference between another player of his same status.
And this was before he started forming his mana core.
Undoubtedly, this difference was only going to widen now after he establishes his core.
Liam rubbed his hands expectantly and cracked his neck.
He was excited about this but he was more excited about the two new attributes that had popped up on his status screen.
"Mental defense and soul defense…" He mumbled in deep thought. "Did these show up because they became big enough only now?"