For the next few days, the trio have been training to get stronger. Early in the morning the trio would cultivate for two hours before going their separate ways. On the first day Keith would go back to the Frozen Fang dungeon to clear it two times. The reason he would go there is so that he would get more ice-type talents.
Once he got enough, he used great merger, his innate ability which allowed him to merge anything together. He could use the talent to merge to talents together to make one talent. With the talent he was able to create two knew talents, (Ice creation-C Rank) and (Ice Manipulation-C Rank). After he got the skills that he wanted he would go to a local dojo to train.
He would practice various sword techniques and many other martial art techniques. When he was done practicing martial art techniques, he would go to raid another soul rift all by himself increasing his current body's battle experience. After clearing a dungeon, he would go and sell the resources he got from the dungeon.
He did this over and over again until he broke into the next rank. He was now at the supreme Soul Soldier Rank Level 2 and Spirit Apprentice Level 3. This is what his current stats look like:
[Name: Keith Kurosaki]
[Race: Dragon Hybrid and Oni Hybrid]
[Title: Celestial of Vengeance]
[Sub Title: Wolf hunter]
[Class: Master of Mimicry]
[Soul Rank: Supreme Soul Soldier]
[Level 2]
[Spiritual Rank: Spirit Apprentice]
[Level 3]
[Soul Crystals:0/5000)]
[Spirit Crystal:0/300]
[Talent shards: 150]
[Soul Essence:2100/2100]
[Spiritual Energy: 400/400]
[Unassigned Stat Points: 27]
[Physical stats: (Strength-53), (Agility-53), (Defense-41), (Health- ???)]
[Mental Stats: (Perception-36), (Intellegence-34), (Willpower-34)]
[Spiritual stats: (Spiritual Comprehension: 13), (Spiritual Force: 16), (Spiritual Density:18)]
[Class Talents: (Permanent Talent Mimicry-S Rank), (Temporary Talent Mimicry-A Rank), (Martial Arts Mimicry-B Rank), (Cloning-C Rank)]
[Innate Talents: (Great Merger)]
[Mimicked Talents: (Heart Grasp-D Rank), (Ice Creation-C Rank), (Ice Manipulation-C Rank]
[Celestial Talents: (Celestial SecrecyLv1)]
[Runes learned: (Strength Rune Lvl1), (Agility RuneLvl1), (Defense RuneLvl1), (Healing RuneLvl1), (Teleportation runeLvl1), (Talent Strengthening RuneLvl1)]
[Martial Arts: Soul Disappearance-Tier 3/5, Burst Step-Tier 2/3, Phantom Slash-Tier 1/5]
After looking at his stats he was quite pleased but he needed more strength. Whilst training Keith realized that Spiritual Energy is better than Soul Essence when it comes to strengthening the body. So, to him if he had to guess Spiritual Energy is closest thing the universe has to qi.
Sometimes Keith would experiment with Spiritual Energy in order to get a solid grasp on how it works and how to use it better in a fight.
Keith would often spar with his friends sometimes on his free time. The day before they would go through their first trial, he decided to enchant everyone's weapons.
Merlin was practicing using his powers and creating more talents that he would need to use in the trial. Through continuous practice with one's innate talents, the user would be able to create learned talents. Soul fighters learn talents through the use of a skill book or by using their innate talents to create those talents.
For example, a person with a water manipulation could create a talent that allows them to make water lances. To put it simply it's kind of like learning a spell or creating one.
Suguru had a creative mind so creating talents would be a bit easy for him but he had tone down his imagination a bit because some of the talents that he wanted to create require him to have an enormous amount Soul Essence and his intelligence wasn't high enough.
Sometimes when he went into dungeons, his would use his army of undead monsters to do all the work for them to level up and get stronger. He had also sacrificed some of his undead legion to create five spirit wraiths.
Merlin had also been drinking the blood of some soul beasts since he was part vampire in order to satiate his hunger but there was also another reason. He would drink their blood in order to increase his stats.
These are Suguru's stats:
[Name: Suguru Merlin]
[Race: Angel Hybrid and Vampire Hybrid]
[Title: Celestial of Death]
[Class: Master of Death]
[Rank: Supreme Soul Soldier]
[Level 2]
[Soul crystals:0/5000)]
[Talent shards: 55]
[Soul Essence:3000/3000]
[Unassigned Stat Points: 15]
[Physical stats: (Strength-40), (Agility-40), (Defense-30), (Health- ???)]
[Mental Stats: (Perception-30), (Intellegence-40), (Willpower-30)]
[Class Talents: (Spirit Contract-S Rank), (Spirit Wraith-A Rank), (Spirit Summon-C Rank), (Spirit Storage-C Rank)]
[Innate Talents: (Light Manipulation), (Shadow Manipulation), (Blood Manipulation)]
[Learned Talents: (Shadow Step-C Rank), (Shadow Storage-C Rank), (Shadow Bind-C Rank), (Light sword-C Rank), (Light orb-C Rank), (Light Golem-C Rank), (Light Whip-D Rank), (Shadow Tendrils-D Rank), (Shadow Sword-D Rank), (Shadow Coat-E Rank)]
[Celestial Talents: (Celestial SecrecyLv1)]
Kayla had been training in her marksmanship for the past few days also improving her telepathy skills. Just like the other two she would often go into soul rifts in order to get stronger and would always get carried away and finish all the soul beast in a blink of an eye.
Every time she would level up and get stronger, she would challenge either Suguru or Keith to a fight which they would reluctantly agree to. Most of the times she would win the duels breaking a few bones here and there.
Other than fighting those two, should would also train using her innate talents to create more talents just like Suguru. She was mostly using flame manipulation because right now she couldn't use reality manipulation because she needs a high intelligence and a large amount of soul essence.
Sometimes she would ask Keith to apply runes on her body which he would do without question since refusing her was not an option because she would break his bones.
Kayla's stats are as follows:
[Name: Kayla Flamesworth]
[Race: Dragon Hybrid]
[Title: Celestial of War]
[Class: Telekinetic Witch]
[Rank: Supreme Soul Soldier]
[Level 2]
[Soul cystrals:0/5000]
[Talent shards: 10]
[Soul Essence:100/100]
[Unassigned Stat Points:3]
[Physical stats: (Strength-40), (Agility-43), (Defense-35), (Health- ???)]
[Mental Stats: (Perception-32), (Intellegence-29), (Will power-30)]
[Class Talents: (Repulsion-B Rank), (Attraction-B Rank), (Compression-B Rank]
[Innate Talents: (Reality manipulation), (Flame manipulation)]
[Learned Talents: (Flame Spear-C Rank), (Flaming fist-C Rank), (Flame wheel-D Rank), (Flame Tendrils-D Rank), (Flame Sword-D Rank), (Flame Arrows-D Rank), (Flame Shield-D Rank]
[Celestial Talents: (Celestial SecrecyLv1)]
***
Keith, Suguru and Kayla were on top of rooftop getting their things ready. Merlin was sharpening the blade of his scythe. Keith sheathed his sword and new dagger and attached them to his belt. Kayla was sharpening the twin daggers that she had bought a few days ago as well as putting her arrows inside her quiver.
"Is everyone ready," Keith asked.
"Sure," Merlin answered dejectedly with a yawn
"Hell yeah," Kayla answered in an enthusiastic tone.
[You shall be transported to the first trial in five seconds] The system informed them
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