The second floor of the Mage Tower.
What greeted him was a room much like a bedroom.
Tables, chairs, stools, a bed, and solid wood furniture for meditation-it had everything.
It was fully furnished.
On the table on the second floor, An Kai found the unranked spell [Summoning]!
It was a scroll fifty centimeters long and twenty centimeters wide, with magical fluctuations emanating from it.
Unlike the [Summoning] Sally Bukelin had taught him verbally, this scroll imprinted the spell directly into his mind.
There was no need for a lengthy lesson.
[Single-use spell instruction: Summoning Scroll] [Note: channel mana elements into it to quickly learn the unranked spell Summoning!]
After taking a look, An Kai put it into his Storage Ring.
He would wait for a suitable opportunity to sell it along with his other Storage Rings.
Looking around, he spotted books scattered haphazardly across the floor, giving off magical fluctuations.
Determined not to leave so much as a thread behind, An Kai first tested them with Freezing Spell. Only after confirming that the magical fluctuations on the books were harmless did he gather them up.
Most of these books contained spell analyses written in the continent's common language.
"Applications of Explosive Flame," "An Analysis of Swamp Traps," "Effective Use of Wind Walls"...
There were plenty of books on spell analysis, and An Kai eagerly looked through them. Unfortunately...
All he could do was sigh. "Ah!"
His sigh echoed through the second floor of the Mage Tower, carrying all his frustration.
The reason was simple. For whatever reason, the Mage Tower's owner hadn't left a single Lv1 spellbook!
Even the lowest-level spells were at the first stage of tier two, equivalent to Lv11!
That was hardly friendly to a mage like him, who was only at the first stage of tier one...
With no other choice, An Kai packed the books into his Storage Ring to sell together once he finished his secluded training.
He continued searching, then began hacking apart tables and beds. The huge blade formed from Freezing Spell whistled through the air as he swung it.
The Mage Tower's owner had never imagined that an oddball like An Kai would become his successor!
Had he been able to foresee the future, he would have sealed off the furnishings on the second floor with spells, no matter what!
These solid wood furnishings, which were worth quite a bit even in high society, were worth less than a piece of scrap firewood to An Kai.
Indeed, in the Desert and Chaos City, furniture without magical elements was nothing but junk...
Only duchies and kingdoms treated solid wood furniture like treasure.
That was why An Kai had no qualms about destroying it. He was hacking it apart to make sure he didn't overlook anything!
Bang!
His Freezing Spell blade struck the last solid wood cabinet on the second floor. After cutting halfway through, the blade shattered!
An Kai's eyes lit up!
He stepped forward, seized the cabinet with both hands, and used his brute strength to tear the man-high cabinet apart along the split!
A moment later, a walking stick gleaming with dark light appeared before him...
[Brute Force Staff: Lv1] [Quality: fine] [Requirements: intelligence 100, strength 120, stamina 120, endurance 120.] [Note: this is a staff! This is a staff! This is a staff!]
"Whoa!"
An Kai grabbed the staff with one hand and pulled it out of the cabinet.
It was an extendable staff gleaming with dark light!
Gripping both ends, he yanked them apart. The [Brute Force Staff] extended from half a meter to roughly his own height!
An Kai was 183.42 centimeters tall, after all!
If anything, the staff seemed a little taller than him.
In his hand, it weighed around fifty kilograms.
If the system note hadn't repeatedly reminded him that this was a staff, he would have assumed it was some kind of warrior's weapon...
Since he didn't meet its requirements, An Kai had no idea what this rather unusual staff actually did.
But after seeing it, he suddenly understood why the first task for inheriting the Mage Tower was to improve all four attributes...
Perhaps the Mage Tower's owner had been a kindred spirit...
He put away the [Brute Force Staff] and glanced around. Thanks to his destruction, the second floor was a complete mess.
He looked at the passage to the third floor, which was shrouded in magical fluctuations. After a brief test confirmed that he couldn't get through, he chose to return to the first floor...
Overall, his haul from the second floor was substantial!
The [fine] staff alone was an enormous gain!
With the spellbooks and the single-use unranked spell [Summoning] that he could also sell, An Kai suddenly realized that these resources alone would fund another round of secluded training after he next emerged.
Back on the first floor, he used [Summoning] to summon that day's skill point.
As expected, it was another [Stone Statue Giant]. This time, however, An Kai didn't use Freezing Spell. Instead, he took hold of the [Brute Force Staff]...
One swing of the staff produced a thunderous boom!
The [Stone Statue Giant] shattered on impact, scattering rubble across the floor.
A thin layer of rubble from the [Stone Statue Giants] already covered the first floor, almost like a gravel floor.
"Seems pretty good as a weapon, too..."
Standing there, An Kai muttered to himself, put away the [Brute Force Staff], and dug a Magic Core out of the rubble.
Exchange! he said silently.
[Skill points +1]
This was the fifty-third skill point he had obtained during his two months and five days of secluded training!
Together with the twenty-seven skill points he had previously saved, An Kai now had eighty skill points in reserve!
In his estimation, these skill points would be enough for his next skill upgrade!
By then, measured by this world's standards, his spells would advance to the first stage of tier two!
Excitement surged through An Kai at the thought. He ate a little food, then chose to continue his secluded training!
Five days later.
An Kai opened his eyes.
Full of anticipation, he assigned his attribute point to intelligence!
[Intelligence +1] [Intelligence: 101]
He had spent five days in secluded training, including one day of rest.
All four of his attributes had reached three digits, with [intelligence] leading the way at 101 points!
Just then, the surrounding magical elements suddenly surged toward him!
Wave after wave formed a torrent and poured into An Kai's body!
This phenomenon lasted a full ten minutes!
[Mage's Body "Lv1" upgraded to Mage's Body "Lv2"] [Attribute points +40]
The sudden change left An Kai stunned.
Only after two breaths did he recover.
"Something this good can happen?!"
He distributed the forty attribute points evenly among his four attributes.
[Intelligence: 111] [Endurance: 110] [Stamina: 110] [Strength: 110]
After assigning the points, An Kai was suddenly overcome by hunger!
Without stopping to examine his [Mage's Body "Lv2"], he hurriedly conjured a Small Fireball and roasted the beast meat he had preserved with Freezing Spell.
He ate ten days' worth of his usual portions before finally feeling full.
After a satisfied burp, An Kai examined [Mage's Body "Lv2"] and confirmed that raising his intelligence to 101 had triggered the upgrade to his Mage's Body.
Put simply, his current level couldn't keep up with his four attributes, so his [Mage's Body] talent had been forced to improve.
With his level unable to rise, his physical talent had improved to better match his four attributes.
In this world's terms, An Kai's physical talent was too powerful and had grown too rapidly, triggering the advancement of his own [Mage's Body] talent.
After finishing his examination, An Kai checked his reserve of skill points. He still had eighty-four.
He sensed that the restraints on all four of his spells had been released again.
With a sweeping wave of his hand...
He suddenly froze...
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