Chapter 141: Chapter 137

After settling on her new plan to mitigate the impact of the System collapse, Alice finally took a moment to settle her new Perk from [Scholar].

Alice started out by scanning over her Perk combination options, as well as her options for new Perks.

After a few moments, she felt a flicker of disappointment.

She had really been hoping that some of her new Perk choices or combinations would either help her restore some semblance of the System and its mana, or help her a lot more with her enchanting experiments. After all, if Alice wanted to create a ring that mimicked the effects of the System, she was going to need a lot of time and effort to succeed. Having a Perk that made the process easier would have gone a long way right now.

Unfortunately, she didn’t find any Perks that directly impacted her enchanting or her experiments with System mana components. So she ultimately decided on a different Perk combination by sacrificing {Delve into the Arcane} and {Improved Memory}.

Delve into the Arcane Requirements: Scholar level 50 or higher, Magic 150 or higher, Intelligence 100 or higher, some sort of Perk which gives you the ability to learn information, rarity eight or higher Achievement related to Magic and Research

If you have spent at least an hour learning about magic within the past 24 hours, your mana regeneration rate is increased by 100% (This multiplier takes effect AFTER accounting for all other Perks you have that multiplies mana regeneration, working multiplicatively instead of additively).

Alice had leaned into {Delve into the Arcane} to help fuel the mana she needed for her experiments for quite a while, and to some extent, she still relied on it. In fact, considering the fact that she spent 8 hours a day reading while she was asleep, she found it easier than ever to trigger the Perk’s activation conditions, meaning that she was basically always enjoying the benefits of the Perk.

However, she was also starting to run into limitations on what she could do even with all of her mana regeneration stacked together. Right now, her biggest limitations weren’t mana-based at all – they were usually based on either the amount of time she could spend researching something, even with all of her time-efficiency enhancing Perks tossed together, or they were limitations based on the usage of her Perks. Her limitation of using {Broken Seed} once every four days, {Seeds of Ambition} once a month, and {Expanding Comprehension} every 2 weeks currently proved to be the biggest blocks on her forward progress. Right now, Alice had several magic seeds she wanted to try forming – and she seriously struggled to get all of them built. Even with two seeds a month, she already had several components of System mana that she wanted to make and experiment with, and nowhere near enough time to make them all. And having only 24 hours a day to experiment often proved a major problem for her progress.

Therefore, even though losing {Delve into the Arcane} would sting, it was a bearable loss. And the text Alice had seen for her new Perk combination seemed promising enough that she was willing to lose the Perk.

The other Perk Alice was losing was much less of a struggle.

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