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Kevin's gains from this trip to Wolverine 3 were immense.
He eradicated the higher-ups of the Alkali-Transigen and stirred up a discussion online about the current plight of mutants.
By saving Wolverine, allowing him to live, and purchasing the rising sun, enabling Charles to pass away peacefully, Kevin acquired a significant number of skill points.
When Kevin returned to the The Boys world, his skill points had reached an unprecedented forty-six!
This was even without accounting for the skill points consumed to bring back X24.
With forty-six skill points, even if he spent thirty-two skill points to raise a level five skill to level six, Kevin would still have a full fourteen skill points left to use.
There was no need to worry about not having enough skill points for the first few skills of the second profession.
"Let's confirm the second profession's advancement first."
Because of his previous experience of being enveloped in a cocoon of power stone energy when advancing to the Deep Sea Fighter profession, Kevin was concerned that unusual circumstances might also occur when taking on a second profession.
That's why he waited until everything was handled before returning to his safe house in the The Boys world to advance.
His consciousness clicked confirm on the skill tree, and Kevin closed his eyes, waiting for something unusual to happen.
Indeed, upon advancing to the second profession, Kevin's consciousness once again found itself in a boundless, vast ocean.
He was deep in the sea, surrounded by clear, light blue seawater.
Countless runes gathered around him, and Kevin could tell that these runes were extremely similar to magic patterns, likely belonging to the same system.
However, they felt more intricate than magic patterns.
The runes encircled Kevin, forming one ring after another, spinning around him.
Finally, all the runes suddenly contracted, drilling into Kevin's body and mind, and in an instant, an immense amount of knowledge flooded Kevin's mind.
That was magic.
The skill tree for the second profession also rapidly extended at this moment, aligning itself alongside the first profession's skill tree, and stretching all the way to the Ocean Lord profession icon, connecting with it.
When all this subsided, a line of text appeared before Kevin's eyes.
—Second profession advancement successful.
As the prompt appeared, the skills of the second profession, Ocean Mage, were displayed before Kevin.
Just like the Deep Sea Fighter, the skills further down the Ocean Mage skill tree were all laid out before Kevin.
Kevin first looked at the basic skills of the Ocean Mage.
The basic skill of the Ocean Mage was undoubtedly Water Manipulation, and after advancing to Ocean Mage, the Water Manipulation skill became Water Element Control.
The level remained unchanged, still Lv5.
Next was the Shape-shifting ability; Kevin originally thought this ability should not belong to the magic series.
After all, it was about changing the body's form, so it should belong to the Fighter system.
But now, the change in this skill made Kevin understand why it was classified under the Mage system.
The Shape-shifting ability transformed into Water Element Body after advancement.
It allows one to transform between human and Water Element Creature forms.
However, according to the skill description, to fully transform into the kind Kevin imagined—where his entire body is made of water, and as long as there's water, he won't die—it would probably require this skill to reach LV6.
The first five levels would only allow Kevin to transform into a form close to an elemental creature.
In the Water Element form, Kevin's Water Magic abilities would increase by one level, allowing him to more smoothly cast various Water Element spells and deepen Kevin's ability to train his mind.
And after the form change, the Water Sword and Water Ball skills also disappeared.
They were replaced by two other skills: Water Magic Shape and Water Magic Variation.
The former allows Kevin to Shape Water elements, molding water into various forms, such as the previous Water Sword, or other weapons.
As long as Kevin wished, he could even create a giant castle out of water.
There were only two extended skills for Shape: Shape: Sharpness and Shape: Solidification.
The former can create various sharp water weapons, while the latter can solidify various water-made items that have been condensed, so that others can hold and use them.
The Water Magic Variation ability is even simpler.
It can transform water into other similar substances.
Mist and Frost are the branch skills of Water Magic Variation.
"Both Shape and Variation are basic skills and major consumers of skill points, but the extended skills don't require many skill points…"
After reviewing these skills, Kevin looked at the remaining forty-six skill points and fell into deep thought.
He originally thought these skill points were quite a lot and could help him light up many skills.
But now, it seemed that these few skill points were nothing at all.
"Anyway… let's upgrade Fighter's Body to level six first…"
After much hesitation, Kevin still decided to spend thirty-two skill points to improve his physical attributes.
These current skill points, at most, could only raise one basic skill to level five.
Perhaps raising Water Element Body to level five, or raising either Shape or Variation to level five, would also be good choices.
But when it comes to skills, quality over quantity is key; now that he finally had the chance to raise a level five skill to level six, Kevin absolutely couldn't let this opportunity slip away.
Those miscellaneous skills could be upgraded later; the most important thing now was to first improve his life-saving ability.
When it comes to life-saving abilities, you can never have too many.
Thinking this, Kevin unhesitatingly upgraded his Fighter's Body.
And then… the moment he chose to upgrade.
He knew nothing else.
…
"Kevin…? Kevin, are you okay? Kevin!!"
When Kevin regained consciousness, the first thing he heard was Starlight Annie's call.
He opened his eyes in confusion and immediately saw Annie holding him, tears in her eyes.
"Annie… why are you…"
His head was still a bit muddled, and looking at Annie, who was on the verge of tears, Kevin's expression held a hint of bewilderment.
The safe house he used for crossing over was bought with Annie after he returned last time.
Because Annie said that as a Superhero who saves other universes, Kevin needed a safe house exclusively for him, just like those true Superheroes.
So she was very interested and bought this safe house with Kevin.
When Kevin went to the Wolverine world, he also crossed over from here, and he also performed the advancement here just now.
Precisely because this safe house was common property for Kevin and Annie, Kevin was not surprised at all that Annie was here now.
But what Kevin found strange was how Annie looked as if she was about to cry.
What happened to him just now?
"Oh! Thank goodness! Kevin, you're finally awake!"
Seeing Kevin wake up, Annie immediately hugged him, saying with a choked voice:
"I just called you and couldn't get through. I ran over and saw you lying on the ground, and you weren't breathing. I thought… I thought something had happened to you…"
"It's okay, it's okay, what could happen to me? My body is perfectly fine."
Gently patting Annie's back, Kevin comforted her.
At the same time, he also remembered what he had been doing just now.
Right, he was advancing his second profession and raising Fighter's Body from level five to level six.
It should have been like that… So why did he suddenly lose consciousness?
While comforting Annie, Kevin looked at his skill tree with a hint of confusion.
On the skill tree, the level of Fighter's Body had successfully increased to six, which was confirmed, and the remaining fourteen skill points were also there, no problem on this side.
So why did he lose consciousness?
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Damn it! I wasn't suddenly knocked out by pain, was I?!
Kevin recalled the pain he experienced when Fighter's Body went from level four to level five and couldn't help but come up with a very outlandish guess.
That was, the pain from level five to level six directly made Kevin faint, and he selectively forgot the pain brought by the upgrade.
That's why he couldn't remember anything!
If that were true, it would be too absurd.
Even Kevin, who could endure the pain of upgrading from level four to level five, couldn't bear the pain brought by this upgrade. So, what would it feel like when upgrading from level six to level seven?
Kevin now suspected that when he reached the upgrade from level six to level seven, he might just be in so much pain that he would die.
"Are you really okay?"
Annie seemed quite frightened; she looked at Kevin suspiciously, wanting to confirm his physical condition.
Kevin simply picked her up, a mischievous smile on his face:
"You don't believe me? How about you try it yourself?"
"? Wait, I have an event later…"
"Forget about any events, it's been a long time, let's get intimate."
Kevin didn't care what Annie said; although for Annie it might have only been a few hours apart, for Kevin, he had once again been abstinent for several weeks.
So…
Tonight, Annie probably wouldn't get any sleep.
…
Annie… didn't last too long this time.
His upgraded level six physique had far exceeded Annie's endurance limit. As a result, when Kevin got up feeling refreshed, Annie was still sprawled on the bed like a rag doll.
This made Kevin feel a little guilty.
Perhaps he should have given Annie some rest time.
However, Kevin couldn't be blamed for this; after all, he didn't know that his level six physique would be so powerful, nor did he know how Superman and Louise handled these issues.
Without disturbing Annie, Kevin told her to stay in bed and rest, and used his CEO privilege to give Annie a day off.
Then, after allocating the remaining skill points, he took the large package containing X24 and headed straight for The Woods.
After upgrading his physique to level six, Kevin still had fourteen skill points left. Kevin used six of these fourteen skill points to raise Water Magic Shape and Water Magic Variation by two levels each.
The remaining eight points were used to put two points each into Sharpness, Solidification, Mist, and Frost.
Thus, all the gains from this trip to the Wolverine world were allocated.
However, even though his skill points were zeroed out, Kevin wasn't worried about not having skill points to use.
As the CEO of Vought, the 'hot topics' he published online, such as the Supervillain Alliance and Compound V, were still providing Kevin with skill points.
Although not much, perhaps only one point every two or three days, over time, the accumulated skill points would be quite substantial.
Now that the second profession was complete and the first profession's skill points were maxed out, Kevin could begin planning for a second advancement.
However, for now, he didn't need to rush with the second advancement.
After being busy for so long in the Wolverine world, he deserved a break.
So, while he still had time, Kevin planned to thoroughly study his other gains from the Wolverine world.
That is, the data obtained from the Alkali-Transigen.
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