Chapter 50: 3.12 – The Keep Over the Borderlands

Robin bit into a warm, fresh-baked roll, dotted with a small tab of butter. His eyes closed in bliss. There were very few things that could match that taste, in this or any other world.

He savoured the roll like he savoured the morning. This was the last bit of breathing room he’d have before things kicked into high gear in the effort against Basgar and Gis. He’d only managed to beg this much time off because he’d told Lantha he needed to ‘meditate on some new spells he had been studying in the hopes of mastering them before the action kicked off’.

It wasn’t entirely a lie, either. He didn’t have new spells, per se, but he did have a character sheet and a sizeable mass of experience gathered up over the course of recent events. The confrontation with Cor’Leon’s men after the man himself had fled had added an especially nice chunk. High-stakes trickery, fooling the loyal supporters of a crime lordling? Apparently very lucrative in the experience department!

Robin had taken his time, burrowing down into every available tooltip and menu. There were a lot more available now that he had actually taken his first class. The peculiarities were particularly interesting. He’d mentally flagged a couple as high priority for the next chance he got.

Sadly, ‘The Mirrors’ Revenge’ would have to wait. It required more skill or had higher prerequisites. Whatever the case, though he had managed to find an entry for it, it was effectively greyed out for him. The Queen of Air and Darkness’s words, however, reassured him that it would not remain that way forever.

Still, Robin had some priorities to see to. The first thing he did was to double-check that his Expression was maxed out. The skill was key to performance and thus to successfully completing his quest. Then he raised his Melee Combat skill, just in case. The next few days could get quite hairy.

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