After mastering the skills on these Magic Scrolls, Tang Zheng looked at his status panel:
[Ability Table]
Innate Talent: [Player]
Overall Level: 5Lv
Experience Bar: 830/400
Classes:
Basic Class: Genius 1Lv (Warrior, Priestess/Priest, Potion Maker, Alchemist, Magic Caster, Thief)
Mid-tier Class: Sword Saint 4Lv
Skill Points: 3
Passive Skills: Item Box, Slash Enhancement (4%)
Active Skills:
Warrior: Instant Reflection, Fourfold Slash of Light, Quick Slash, Stealth
Magic: Papermaking (Zero-Tier), Warming (Zero-Tier)
Minor Healing (First-Tier), Magic Arrow (First-Tier), Odorless (First-Tier)
Class Skills: Potion Making, Alchemy
Killing those two members of Eight Fingers had earned him quite a bit of experience.
With a thought, Tang Zheng spent the experience to level up, assigning the gained level to Sword Saint.
Genius 1Lv + Sword Saint 5Lv — Overall Level 6Lv
Among the skills, Tang Zheng had mastered the male thief's Stealth skill and, in the process, unlocked Thief as a Basic Class.
Skill: Stealth
Cost: None (Cooldown: 1 min)
Description: In darkness or shadows, reduces one's presence and increases agility by 10% for 30 seconds.
Skill: Papermaking (Zero-Tier) ↑
Cost: 1 MP
Description: Produces 1,000 sheets of inferior paper. Every additional point of mana consumed produces 500 more sheets. No upper limit.
Skill: Warming (Zero-Tier) ↑
Cost: 1 MP
Description: Heats a touched object to 100°C for 1 minute.
As Tang Zheng looked over the information on the newly acquired skills and magic, he was not particularly surprised to see that Zero-Tier Magic required only one point of mana.
Zero-Tier Household Magic truly offered no help whatsoever in battle.
No wonder so few Magic Casters in the New World were willing to learn several kinds of Zero-Tier Magic!
Even the game YGGDRASIL had a limit on Skill Points.
For people in the New World, learning magic required effort. Moreover, each Magic Caster seemed to have a certain limit on the number of spells they could master at every stage.
Under such circumstances, even fewer people were willing to waste time learning Zero-Tier Magic.
Suddenly!
Tang Zheng noticed the "↑" symbols after the two Zero-Tier spells.
"This is!"
Tang Zheng's eyes widened and his body jolted. So my earlier guess was actually correct.
While browsing the Magic Scroll catalogs at the Magic Caster's Guild, Tang Zheng had noticed that among the recorded Magic Scrolls, Papermaking had both Zero-Tier and First-Tier versions.
That unusual situation had caught Tang Zheng's attention.
The Tier Magic system in YGGDRASIL had extremely clear level divisions.
Yet Household Magic independently created by people of the New World could actually be raised to different tiers!
This made Tang Zheng realize that the magic created by Magic Casters in the New World might differ from the game's Tier Magic!
That was why Tang Zheng had purchased two Zero-Tier spells to verify it against each other.
"Upgrade!"
Tang Zheng stared intently at the two Zero-Tier spells.
As each spell consumed one Skill Point, the two spells indeed changed.
Skill: Papermaking (First-Tier)
Cost: 5 MP
Description: Produces 800 sheets of high-quality paper. Every additional point of mana consumed produces 400 more sheets. No upper limit.
Skill: Warming (First-Tier)
Cost: 5 MP
Description: Heats a touched object to 150°C for 1 minute.
Tang Zheng looked at the newly displayed information. Though delighted, he also frowned slightly.
How should he put it?
His guess had been correct: independently created Household Magic in the New World could indeed be upgraded in tier. But for now, the changes were not all that noticeable.
Furthermore, the "↑" symbols after the two spells had disappeared.
"According to the learning levels for Tier Magic, First-Tier Magic can be mastered from levels 1 to 7, while Second-Tier Magic can be mastered from levels 8 to 14."
Tang Zheng silently thought, It should be because my level isn't high enough, so I can't upgrade them any further for now.
At the same time, he wondered whether he could raise these two spells to the level of Tenth-Tier Magic if he continued upgrading them.
But—
If they truly reached Tenth-Tier Magic, could these Zero-Tier spells developed by New Worlders for assistance possess the power of normal Tenth-Tier Magic?
Whether they would be useful was one question!
Another was whether spending limited Skill Points to upgrade them would be worth it.
After all, these Household Magic spells were meant for assistance in the first place. All of this required careful consideration!
Tang Zheng took a deep breath, his eyes still filled with excitement and surprise.
No matter what!
This was an entirely unexpected way to obtain Tenth-Tier Magic. After all, there were virtually no natives in the New World capable of using Tenth-Tier Magic.
No one used it.
Naturally, Tang Zheng had no way to spend Skill Points to acquire Tenth-Tier Magic.
More importantly—there was no intelligence on this kind of magic in the Great Tomb!
After sorting through his thoughts.
Tang Zheng gently rubbed his temples to ease his fatigued mind, then lay directly on the bed.
Most of these ideas could be tested later!
For now, the most important thing was raising his level. He could not lose sight of the main goal!
"Sleep!" Tang Zheng suppressed the excitement in his heart.
The next day.
As soon as dawn broke.
Tang Zheng got up, left the small inn, and began purchasing food and essential supplies.
With the Item Box, a relatively large spatial backpack, Tang Zheng did not need to worry too much about food storage or spoilage.
For the price of two gold coins.
Tang Zheng bought nearly a month's worth of food in one go. To avoid attracting attention by buying so much at once.
He went to different shops and purchased batches separately. Buying food alone took him the entire morning.
After casually eating some lunch.
Tang Zheng began procuring weapons. That short sword already had cracks and chips in it, making it unusable.
For one silver coin each, he bought ten ordinary iron swords. He also purchased a lightweight suit of soft armor for protection, spending one gold coin in total.
Next.
Tang Zheng went to the Magic Caster's Guild once more. Since they were unwilling to sell Second-Tier Magic Scrolls, he had no choice but to reveal his identity as a Divine System Magic Caster.
Only then did he spend three gold coins to buy a Magic Scroll for Item Appraisal.
Although it was Second-Tier Magic, Item Appraisal was neither a support spell nor an offensive spell, so it cost roughly the same as a First-Tier offensive Magic Scroll.
After taking care of these basic supplies.
Tang Zheng went to the Adventurer's Guild and purchased some intelligence materials about the Great Forest of Tob from them.
That cost him another two gold coins.
After an entire day of preparations, Tang Zheng had spent eight gold coins, leaving him with only six gold coins and seven silver coins.
Two days passed in the blink of an eye!
[Lower Wind Month], June 1.
Tang Zheng wore a black robe, with an iron sword at his left waist and a water skin hanging at his right. He left E-Rantel, where he had rested for two days, and headed north.
The Great Forest of Tob was a vast primeval forest surrounding the Azerlisia Mountains, located north of E-Rantel.
Countless dangerous magical beasts and Demi-Human Species lived within it. It was one of humanity's forbidden zones; even some top adventurers only dared to operate along its outermost edges.
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