A year and a half later.
Inside the Mage Tower.
An Kai let out a soft breath.
[Attribute points +1]
He added the newly gained attribute point to his [Intelligence].
[Intelligence +1] [Intelligence: 521]
A year and a half in seclusion.
An Kai had gained a total of 377 attribute points.
This had brought his attributes past "461," the threshold for raising his spell levels.
Now, he had even crossed "521," another threshold for raising his spell levels.
Of his four attributes, [Intelligence: 521], while the other three stood at [520].
The Mage Tower's first requirement, raising all four attributes to 500, had long since been met.
The Mage Tower's second requirement, learning the Forging profession, had also been met.
Only the Mage Tower's third requirement, [enhancing] a piece of equipment of any quality to [+6], remained stubbornly stuck at [+5]. No matter what he did, he could not raise it any further.
He had tried Lower-grade Magic Stones, tier-one magic cores, and tier-two magic cores. He had even experimented with tier-three magic cores.
No matter how hard he tried, he could not meet the requirement.
An Kai glanced at his 4,599 skill points.
With a thought, he chose to max out the five spells he could improve, along with his secondary profession skill, [Forging].
[Skill points -3600] [Meditation proficiency +60] [Fireball proficiency +60] [Freezing Spell proficiency +60] [Summoning proficiency +60] [Mage Armor proficiency +60] [Forging proficiency +60]
[Meditation Lv23 "580/580"] [Fireball Lv23 "580/580"] [Freezing Spell Lv23 "580/580"] [Summoning Lv23 "580/580"] [Mage Armor Lv23 "580/580"] [Forging Lv23 "580/580"]
After that round of upgrades.
An Kai had only 999 skill points and 424 Lower-grade Magic Stones left.
He had originally possessed 4,710 Lower-grade Magic Stones, but when he ran short of