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Achievement earned! [Breaker of the Flamberge] Title acquired!
[Ambidextrous] has levelled up! LV6-LV7!
[Short Sword Mastery] has levelled up! LV6-LV7!
[Pain Resistance] has levelled up! LV1-LV2!
[Pain Resistance] has levelled up! LV2-LV3!
[Rope Binding Prison] has levelled up! LV1-LV2!
[Blazing Bomb] has levelled up! LV3-LV4!
[Fireball] has levelled up! LV3-LV4!
[Lesser Barrier Shield] has levelled up! LV5-LV6!
[Unison Shield] has levelled up! LV1-LV2!
[Force Absorption Field] has levelled up! LV5-LV6!
[Bronze Skin] has levelled up! LV5-LV6!
[Lesser HP Regeneration] has levelled up! LV5-LV6!
[Dual Casting] has levelled up! LV1-LV2!
[Power Strike] has levelled up! LV1-LV2!
You have earned the Title [Skill Grinder]!
Issei whistled silently. That was quite the impressive amount of skills levelled at once. He was going to have to find a way to grind them more though; if nothing else, the fact that his skills were so low-levelled had been a contributing factor to how closely-won his victory was today. That would have to change, soon.
Another screen appearing caught his attention.
[Congratulations, Giant Slayer!]
For defeating an enemy twice your level, you are being issued a reward in lieu of the usual loot drop owing to the manner in which you defeated the Dungeon Boss. Please select two items from the five items below. A third will be awarded to you at random from the three you do not select.
- Skill Book: [Hizan/Flying Slash] [?]
- [Bloodmetal Longsword] [?]
- Sacred Gear Upgrade: [Dungeon Locator] [?]
- Skill Book: [Ryūken/Dragon Fist] [?]
- [Refined Bloodmetal Cuirass] [?]
Free Mandatory Item: Quest Reward: [Jagged Dagger of the Draugar]
Blinking, Issei tilted his head to the side slightly at this new development. The rewards here really were generous. Then again, he had just defeated someone who was twice as powerful as him, level-wise anyway, so maybe whatever entity inside the [Gamer's Gear] was giving him a kickback for doing well, perhaps…?
The quest item was interesting as well, but he would focus on that once he had left this place.
Shaking his head, the Sekiryūtei examined the five choices. The two skills were interesting. One was the ability to turn his sword slashes into projectile attacks, similar to Roronoa Zoro and Hawkeye Mihawk in One Piece. The other, despite having the same name as Son Goku's favourite punch in Dragonball Z, was actually a projectile attack, forming and firing a missile of pure magical energy in the shape of a western dragon. Better still it was a homing attack, meaning the enemy could dodge all they wanted and the Ryūken would curve around try and strike them again, with greater speed and reliability the higher the level of the skill was.
The others were interesting too. The longsword was exactly what it sounded like, a long sword made of Bloodmetal. Issei couldn't see if it had any special abilities or not, but he was betting that it did. The Dungeon Locator definitely piqued his interest, as it was an upgrade to the [Gamer's Gear] that integrated with it and allowed the wielder to detect and locate any dungeons within a certain radius. And it went without saying that the body armour was of high interest to someone who had recently lost his own set to combat damage.
Juggling with his wants and needs for a moment, the Gamer sighed and marked the [Refined Bloodmetal Cuirass] and [Dungeon Locator] as his choices. Practicality had to take precedence here. Finding other dungeons now that all of the Purifier bases and ratman dens he knew of were cleansed was a priority if he wanted to get stronger, and he needed to replace his destroyed armour as quickly as possible. Hopefully he could buy the skills in the Store at a later date, and the sword wasn't that important as he currently specialised in short swords, not longswords.
Two items selected, now randomly choosing third reward…
Oh yeah, he'd forgotten about that part!
…done!
You have been granted the [Ryūken] Skill Book!
…not exactly what he was expecting, but he'd roll with it. Opening his inventory, he examined his new cuirass.
[Refined Bloodmetal Cuirass]
Refined Bloodmetal is very hard to come by, as it requires a Master Smith to forge it into its needed shape. This particular example offers more protection than you might imagine for light armour and has several other enchantments of use as well.
Light Armour
- Grants 70 Armour.
- All Defensive Draconic Abilities have their effects enhanced by +15.
- All skills and attacks made with a bladed weapon add +5 to their overall damage.
- All blunt-force attacks made against the wearer have their damage reduced by 15.
As you might expect of an upgraded piece of equipment, it was very, very good. Over twice the protection value of his last one, and some very nice effects to boot. Issei equipped it immediately and then turned his attention to the other two rewards he had.
[Dungeon Locator]
This is an upgrade to the [Gamer's Gear] that allows its wielder to detect and track down dungeons. Working via a form of magical radar, the distance, height differential and power of any dungeons within range are displayed to the user's sight. The locator is automatically set to lead the user to the entrance to the dungeon.
Install into appropriate Sacred Gear?
Y/N
The item was a blue square about the size of a satsuma, fitting easily into the palm of Issei's hand. Quickly pressing 'Y', he watched as the square flew into his arm and dissolved. Two more white lines moved down his arm, on either side of the first one. That was new too.
[Reset!]
The sudden call of his second Sacred Gear caught him off guard. Then a wave of weakness made him fall to one knee, wheezing in exhaustion. OK, so…that was not a nice feeling.
The loss of so much power has temporarily drained you of energy! You suffer the [Weakness] Debuff for the next five minutes!
'Lovely. Just what I didn't need, on top of everything else.' Issei thought sarcastically. Presumably, this was the drawback of overusing the [Boosted Gear]. The description for the [Boost] skill didn't say that [Weakness] would result from letting the three-minute limit run down, but Issei was sourly certain that it was being updated with that information as he knelt there.
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