Overpowered Wizard

Chapter 163: B2: C63: Morning Review 3

Zarian blinked after rereading the achievement and realizing he had forgotten how incredible this reward was. He reached into Para’s pocket dimension and pulled out the scroll that the System had delivered to him last night.

He hadn’t aura-identified the scroll until now.

Before Zarian concentrated, he thought how funny it was that they had two people with plenty of ways to use and abuse life energy. Zarian had his Bloody Lifesteal, and Gilbert had a new trait after upgrading the uncommon Extra Life to something epic, Life Wellspring.

Now that I think about it, it might be time I look at upgrading Bloody Lifesteal somehow. It’s falling behind a little.

That sounded like a no-brainer, but it actually required some major brainstorming. Zarian was thinking of upgrading the uncommon spell himself, which was something he’d never done before.

It was a simple enough spell. It only had basic symbols and runic text. There were even some blank spots where he could fill in stuff. Maybe he could pull it off. Maybe.

Putting experimental wizardry plans aside, Zarian held the scroll up.

It was like the other scrolls. They were a foot and a half long, made of leathery parchment, and had a thick rawhide cord keeping it rolled up and pinched at the middle.

Each one was dark yellowish while the cords were brown.

Under Zarian’s aura perception, each scroll shone with their own mystical power colors and shapes based on their unique runes and arrays. The death blight scroll was dark and harrowing, while the friendship revival scroll was illuminating and welcoming.

The scrolls also had deeply ingrained runes that were special and guarded by the System.

Zarian could feel the Star System actively shielding the special runes. He assumed these were runes for the game mechanics that kept scrolls as special items.

Zarian pushed hard just to stress test the Star System, and the System resisted all the way successfully. This was definitely a hard-coded mechanic, so Zarian left it alone for now.

He found it novel that he and his friends reached the point where super high-quality items, such as scrolls of immense power, were now available.

The weapons and armors were nice, but they were more useful to Hannah. The flasks filled with dangerous concoctions could go to Gilbert.

But the scrolls? Those were definitely in Zarian’s wheelhouse.

Zarian grabbed up all the scrolls with his aura and placed them into Para’s pocket dimension. He moved onto the next achievement.

Zarian snorted and reached into the pocket dimension again.

He pulled out the dark, leather bound vial with a bulging hand-sized belly and a cork on top. Something awful and tragic roiled inside of the vial.

“Damn, System, when you really want to be ruthless, you really can be,” Zarian said, putting the vial back into the pocket dimension. “Much appreciated. I’ll keep this for a really rainy day.”

“Huh, that sounds cool. I would wonder what that favor could be, but apparently I don’t need to think hard about it. Thanks.”

Zarian already had a lot to think about. So the less thinking he could do, the better.

“I’m really not an overachiever, but I guess I owe my thanks to the gnolls for stealing what could’ve been my first lair,” Zarian said, nodding. “You know what? I’ll even scratch behind some of their ears to show my appreciation.”

Some new notifications popped up in front of Zarian. His eyes widened at the messages.

At the very least, Para would take a short time to learn the first two or three spells once she could get the weird morph grimoire to cooperate. It was a basic grimoire, too, so it had plenty of growing to do before it advanced like the others.

Leaving Para to tame their new grimoire, Zarian moved on to the juicy stuff. Actual levels, advancements, and new gains.

“Oh, yeah, that’s that good, good stuff. I’d snort it if I could,” Zarian said, chuckling. “I’m eight more levels away from the big Level 100 and all the cool stuff that comes with it.”

More importantly, these advancements came with one skill upgrade and some new features that were unique to grimoires.

High Rune Mindframe +1 was more incredible now.

That includes the spiders and everyone who has a mind spider in their head, Zarian thought, amazed. This means everyone can have their brains structured and in sync like a bunch of computers on a network.

Hannah would lose it once she heard about this.

The only problem was that the aura cost would get heavy if he tried to boost and maintain too many mental workloads at once. It would probably work best when used against extreme problems.

“Still a very nice upgrade,” Zarian said. “But wait, there’s more.”

There it is, Zarian thought. A new element to the game. Apparently, the advanced grimoires can do more than upgrade spells. They can turn skills into spells, which gives me more access to the runes and designs of those skills. Better yet, they’ll grow stronger with the grimoires rather than individually, making it all more efficient for me as a wizard.

This also played into Zarian’s new theory. He should be able to advance spells on his own without the Star System’s direct help. Ruvaria hadn’t mentioned it, but Zarian was sure she left it as something for him to realize on his own.

Bloody Lifesteal was the perfect candidate for a DIY upgrade. After all, Zarian had loads of new inspiration from all the bloody magic stuff he’d experienced recently.

Other than that, he had some choices to make for turning skills into spells. Hence why he had gone skill hunting before returning to the lake.

Before Zarian made any permanent choices, he checked the new gains from waking up this morning. He was already smiling before he read it.

“About damn time,” Zarian said.