Chapter 22: Learning Skills

After Leo and his group returned to the village, they rested for a while before heading to the academy.

After parting ways with the Crimson Flame team, Leo returned to his small villa.

His current funds had exceeded one hundred gold coins, including mission rewards and winnings from bets, enough to cover his accommodation and food expenses. However, he was living well on his own and saw no need to stay in the accommodation provided by the academy.

In the evening, Leo stood by the sea, closed his eyes, and felt everything around him.

Holding a sharpened wooden sword, he held his breath and struck towards the sea with a single swing.

The sword energy extended over a hundred meters, splitting the sea in half, which quickly merged back together.

“I feel like my strength has improved a bit.”

The wooden sword in his hand shattered into pieces, and Leo checked his status.

[Name]: Leo

[Profession]: None

[Rank]: c-

[Level]: lv1

[Mentality]: s-

[Magic Power]: a+++

[Physique]: c-

[Strength]: d+

[Speed]: c-

[Life]: d+

[Defense]: d+

[Recovery]: d+

[Talent]: Competitive

[Skills]: Basic Archery (Advanced), Heartflow Swordsmanship (Advanced), Heartflow Meditation (Advanced), Sword Heart Clarity (Advanced)

It was difficult to further improve his mentality and magic power, but there was still a lot of room for improvement in physique and life.

He could enhance his physical abilities through exercise.

As for talent skills, there were still just a few.

Generally, besides obtaining talent skills from the church, one could also purchase scrolls for talent skills.

In fact, the prices of both were quite similar.

If he could learn them independently, there would be no need to go to the church for instruction.

The library of the Nidlan Academy contained books that recorded the principles of magic and methods for learning some commonly used skills.

“I’ll go to the library tomorrow.”

Leo had hardly touched on magic theory or skills; his foundation was too poor, so he could only find time to catch up on his own.

After finishing his training, Leo returned to the villa, lay on the bed, emptied his mind, and autonomously practiced Heartflow Meditation.

Meditation instead of sleep not only allowed for quick recovery from physical fatigue but also improved his mentality, which was why he had achieved an s-class mentality at such a young age.

Early the next morning, Leo arrived at the library.

The library was only open to academy students, and aside from students interested in books, very few would come to the library, so when Leo arrived, he hardly saw anyone.

Of course, it might also be because he came too early.

The library had a total of seven floors; the higher the floor, the more precious the books, and the knowledge contained within was more complex. The books Leo needed were on the second floor.

The shelves were neatly arranged with books like “Comprehensive Theory of Basic Magic” and “Detailed Explanation of Common Skills”… all foundational.

Leo took these two books and found a corner to study.

This world contained five basic elements: wind, thunder, water, fire, and earth, as well as special elements like light and darkness.

Ordinary people could generally only master one element, and mastering two was considered genius; of course, there were those who could master more than three or even five.

The magic sword technique released by Yuris yesterday contained five elements, no wonder he was called a super freshman.

Very few people mastered the light and dark elements, and the light element was generally used by church members; Michelle was a master of the light element.

“Fireball!”

Leo chanted the incantation from the book, and a small fireball formed in his palm.

If one did not have the corresponding elemental talent, they could not learn the magic of that element, indicating that Leo had a talent for fire elements.

Of course, he could also ask the church for a priest to grant him the ability, but the power would be greatly reduced, and ordinary people would not do that.

“Thunderbolt!”

“Water Ball!”

He tried the basic magic of the five elements, and Leo was somewhat surprised; he didn’t expect he had magical talent, but he could only master the thunder and fire elements, while the others were beyond his reach.

This way, he could also learn magic sword techniques like Yuris. However, his core skill remained Heartflow Swordsmanship, with magic sword techniques serving as an auxiliary.

The basic magic was too weak; after a brief study, Leo flipped open “Detailed Explanation of Common Skills.”

First were enhancement skills, which included physique enhancement, life enhancement, and magic and mentality enhancement.

Enhancing physique could improve strength and speed.

Of course, there were also single enhancements for strength, and there were acceleration skills for speed.

Enhancing life could improve defense and recovery.

Currently, he could only learn physique and life enhancement, both of which required magic power.

Enhancing magic power and mentality were more advanced skills; Michelle had used them, and without the corresponding talent, it was difficult to learn unless one spent gold coins to ask the church for it.

Next were defense skills, which covered the body with a layer of magic power, making the surface of the body hard and able to defend against physical and magical attacks.

Then there were acceleration skills, which could not only increase movement speed but also enhance sword-swinging speed.

Learning these three skills, although Leo’s level did not increase, his strength saw significant growth, and his adaptability in combat improved greatly.

Finally, there were healing skills; unfortunately, basic healing could only stop bleeding. To achieve a healing effect, one had to learn advanced healing skills, which were generally only mastered by church priests.

Thus, every team would be equipped with a priest. In teams without a priest, mages would take on healing roles, but the effect would be much weaker.

The Crimson Flame team had Mona doing the healing, but after Michelle arrived, there was no longer a concern about injuries. As a substitute saintess, Michelle’s healing ability was stronger than that of ordinary church priests.

Leo continued to browse and found many commonly used skills, but unfortunately, he couldn’t learn them just from the book’s introduction.

For example, the skill of telepathy; if both people learned this skill, they could communicate mentally, an essential skill for team members.

There was also the skill of long vision, which allowed one to see far away, an essential skill for archers. Leo could replace it with Sword Heart Clarity.

Although his visual range was ordinary when his eyes were open, when he closed them and activated Sword Heart Clarity, he could clearly see everything within a kilometer, and no movement would escape his perception.

This was the power of the ancient inherited swordsmanship, Heartflow.

The last relatively useful skill was spatial storage, which could store items for easy carrying, very practical, but this skill could only be obtained from the church.

Leo currently kept all his belongings in a storage bag, a small pouch with a cubic meter of space.

The storage bag was the most precious thing the old man had given him, but unfortunately, it was already tattered. Compared to the storage bag, learning the spatial storage skill would be best.

If given the opportunity, he would go to the church to spend gold coins to learn these auxiliary skills.

Flipping to the end, he found a simple magic for recording images, which seemed very useful. After studying it carefully, he learned it. “I really am a genius.”

Closing the book, Leo carefully digested the information.

Looking at the time, it was already nine o’clock.

Unknowingly, two hours had passed.

He was already late for class.

But it didn’t matter; he had applied for an adventure internship, so even if he was late, the teacher wouldn’t mind.

Although it seemed very free, if his grades did not meet the standard, it would be a bit troublesome.

Leaving the library, he headed straight to the classroom.

Leo’s steps were lighter than before, and his speed had increased a bit.

Using enhancement, defense, and acceleration continuously had become a habit, which not only trained his skill proficiency but also improved his magic power, allowing him to respond to emergencies at any time, resulting in rapid growth in strength—truly a win-win situation.

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