Chapter 17: Chapter 17 NPC Auction Take Three

I was wearing all my gear except my bear hide cloak. The parentheses showed what amount of each stat I was gaining from items and buffs. So, I had 147 magic plus intellect. This meant I could learn 14 spells. I currently only knew eight spells. I thought about the message and the change to spells. The developers probably did this for one of two reasons. The first being that spells leveling up was a planned mechanic and they needed to balance caster power. My second thought was maybe there were fighter oriented players out there learning a whole bunch of spells. It would also make dividing loot in a group much easier. Why would a fighter waste two levels of stat points to level up magic or intelligence just to learn a new spell? I liked the balance this introduced. Next I looked at my spells.

 

Well it looked like all my efforts to date were lost. All my spells were level one. I selected Stone Bullet and looked at the new interface.

YOU HAVE 1 SPELL IMPROVEMENT POINT

Well, this just got a whole lot more interesting. The plus 16 was from my 80% bonus for having earth magic at level 40. I cast the spell and checked my advancement. A 5% increase, so 20 casts out of combat to raise the spell to level 2. I went searching for a target and found a squirrel and cast the spell again at the unfortunate victim. Hit and kill. I checked again 16% advancement, so 11% for attacking the squirrel. I had Opheela mount up Titan and went to the plains. I found a plains cat and started casting.

Casting has failed, you cannot cast this spell while mounted

Casting has failed, you cannot cast this spell while mounted

What the fuck?

Ah, the developers must have corrected my scorpion cheat. I would need to invest 5 points into the spell to be cast while riding. I dismounted and cast again. Titan in the meantime attacked the insolent lion and killed it in short order. I checked advancement again, 25%, so this time I gained 14% for attacking a level 6 creature. Just as I thought. The more dangerous the creature the quicker the advancement, just like skills.

On foot I travelled the plains and leveled the spell up to level 5, giving me 4 points to invest. Then I began to think how unfortunate mages were. At low level they would be spending time leveling up these low tier spells only to unlock a better spell at a higher tier which could be leveled up. I selected the 5-minute light option. My thought was it could be useful in a dungeon or as a signal at night by firing it into the air. Then I spent 3 points on magic reduction cost. Reducing the cost from 25 to 22. I spent the next five hours leveling up hail of stones to level 7. All 5 points went into movement, allowing me to cast while moving on foot at max speed and also on any mount! Ha, take that developers, my cheat would be intact!

I returned to the stables and turned care of Titan over to my elven horse masters. Patting him on the neck, letting him know he did a good job today. There was not much light left but I went over to the inn and worked into the night. Around midnight I went home and to the drafting board. Jaesmin had a meat pie warm and ready for me with some cider. I folded up the library plans. Almost done with those, just a few more days. The air mage tower would take me two days of magic to cast. I checked the summon stone spell.

YOU HAVE 1 SPELL IMPROVEMENT POINT

I selected the magic reduction for my first point. The color visual effect sounded cool. Making black stone with silver veins would be an awesome visual. But priorities, max out the magic reduction cost first to speed building.

Good. When the sun came up I would be able to finish the air mage tower. In the meantime I drafted a simple stone house for the shipwright. I left a note that Jaesmin was to build it near the docks. The alchemy shop was next. I decided on stone. A full basement for storage, a large open ground floor plan on the first floor, the second floor would be the lab area, and the third floor would be living quarters, and finally the roof would have an area for a garden. The building was 40 feet by 25 feet. I hoped it would be attractive enough for our incoming alchemist.

The sun was just coming up and I heard Jaesmin coming down the stairs. She was a young and attractive woman. Why shouldn’t I pursue an intimate relationship? Maybe tonight I would make an attempt. I pulled my gear on and went to finish the air mage’s tower. It only took seven hours to finish the tower and I leveled my summon stone twice, both times using the points to reduce magic cost for the spell. Also of note my skill in carving allowed me more freedom in summon stone, letting me make decent stairs as well! I tried a medium size statue and it was not too good but did resemble a larger Simba. I had the wood elementals carry it to the garden behind my house. I took in a deep breath and went to work.

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