Arcane Detective of the Steam Age
Chapter 62

Special reward

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[Mission "Dead by Daylight" completed] [Time spent: S] [Investigation efficiency: S] [Impact: S] [Overall rating: SSS]

Li Wei wasn't surprised by this rating. If he had run away or chickened out back then, his mission rating might have dropped. But he had taken the enemy head-on and won. There was no way he could get a low rating after that.

[Rewards obtained] [Lifespan +100, bonus +50]

Yep, perfectly normal.

Li Wei glanced over it, unsurprised. That gave him more than another half year's worth of life. Although he had used [Shadow Movement] and [Death's Eye] several times during his battle with the ghost knight, with [Soul Sight] active the entire time, burning through several days of life in one go, the return on that investment now looked substantial.

What came next was the real prize.

[Special reward: Skill level +1]

This was the main reason Li Wei had held off on claiming his rewards.

Skill level.

Those words might sound ordinary, but when they came in handy, they really came in handy.

Li Wei currently had four skills: [Soul Sight (LV1)], [Death's Eye (LV1)], [Shadow Movement (LV1)], and [Puppeteer (LV1)].

Naturally, these skills also had proficiency levels.

Li Wei had done the math. Basically, the more lifespan a skill consumed, the faster its proficiency increased.

For example, each use of [Shadow Movement] gave Li Wei roughly 3% proficiency. Meanwhile, the basic skill [Soul Sight] gave him 0.5% per use. It was something along the lines of "time consumed = proficiency."

That was pretty reasonable. If skills with different costs had identical proficiency requirements, that would clearly be unfair. Besides, he was spending his life, not MP. How could there not be some kind of bonus?

So, although [Shadow Movement] was the last skill Li

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