Noah opened his eyes and tried to remember what had happened.
Then he remembered that he had injected the perfected T virus he had created.
Noah felt lightheaded. The aftereffects had not yet passed.
He sat up slowly. An instant, bone-cracking sound echoed throughout his body.
His internal structure had fully changed. When he moved even a little, his muscles, bones, and joints began to function properly.
Noah felt his body had become very light.
He took the stopwatch in his hand and looked at the display.
[ 14:34:12 ]
Fourteen hours and thirty-four minutes had passed since he lost consciousness. Not a long time and not a short time either.
He was sure his genetic ability had evolved with the perfected T virus.
He checked his status panel.
[Name: Noah Aldric
Talent: Creation (Unranked)
Vitality: 500/500
Level: 10
Strength: 265
Speed: 285
Mana: 620
Spirit: 80
Exp: 2M/200000
Coins: 1200000]
All his basic attributes had been amplified five times. A tremendous improvement.
He saw some treasures in the shop that could also amplify basic attributes. The highest the shop showed had a three times amplification and that was not for all the attributes at once. Two or three at most. Those would cost him five million coins at the lowest.
Besides, those amplifications only worked if the attributes were under 100. Anything more than that, and they would not work.
What made Noah happy was that his mana points had surpassed the 500 mark and reached 620.
With this much mana, he could literally create something to help him get past the forest easily. But he would first create what was really necessary.
A scanner goggles.
This would help him identify monsters, plants, and other materials.
[550 mana points needed. Confirm?]
Noah instantly agreed. He needed something like this very much.
Then he started waiting for recharge.
Noah bought the skill Flash. Another million coins were gone.
An orb appeared in front of him like a core.
"So cores contained skills.", he thought.
Then would he be able to create skills too?
Noah laughed out loud. It was an extremely exciting thought. He wanted to experiment with everything, but for that he would have to wait for mana to recharge first.
He put the skill core in his palm and tried to absorb it like a core.
Instantly a skill appeared in his mind along with information about it.
Flash. It would make his nerves ten times more active, as well as his muscles and bones to cope with the nerve impulse.
The skill would cost him 100 mana points per activation and had a cooldown period of 30 seconds.
His preparation for the novice realm was complete. He could now break through to the Black Iron realm.
"Advance", he gave the command.
Instantly he heard three notifications at once.
[You have leveled up to 11]
[You have leveled up to 12]
[You have leveled up to 13]
One million seven hundred thousand experience points were gone. He had just leveled up three times.
The stronger he became, the harder it would become to level up.
He checked his panel again.
[Name: Noah Aldric
Talent: Creation (Unranked)
Vitality: 1040/1040
Level: 13
Strength: 540
Speed: 580
Mana: 1250
Spirit: 170
Exp: 500000/1.5M
Coins: 200000]
It was a tremendous improvement.
All his previous attributes doubled at level 11, and then he gained five points for each level up in each attribute. His strength and speed had surpassed 500 points.
If converted to punching force, his power had surpassed twenty-five tonnes already.
His base speed was now more than 1000 m/s. With the Flash skill, it would become 10,000 m/s.
It was an astronomical level of speed. If his body did not get tougher, he would be vaporized by air friction at that velocity.
And his mana had now surpassed 1200 points.
Noah needed something that would regenerate his mana faster.
He thought of a skill that would constantly regenerate his mana at least five times faster.
As soon as the idea popped into his mind, he closed his eyes and imagined a skill core that contained the skill Mana Regeneration.
[1200 mana points needed. Confirm?]
Just now, all his mana had recovered because of the breakthrough, but now if he created this skill, all his mana points would be gone. Even if the skill worked, it would almost take a day to fully recharge.
He was going into a huge battle. Should he do it or not?
The answer was easy.
Of course he would do it. If he had one hour to cut a tree, he would use forty minutes to sharpen the axe.
This mana regeneration would come in handy in the next battles.
Confirm.
Soon a green core materialized in front of him and he absorbed the skill.
What he did not know was that he had just created a passive skill, Mana Regeneration.
Such a skill could only be bought from the shop once one became a level 41 player.
After learning the skill, he could see his mana was regenerating ten points per five minutes. Two points per minute.
In the Black Iron level, normal mana regeneration was two points per five minutes rather than one point per five minutes in the novice realm.
Now he would need to create his weapons.
Two daggers. He wanted one dagger to contain neurotoxin to paralyze the enemy if cut. The other should be lightning attributed. Each hit would send electricity through the enemy’s body.
Both daggers would need 1000 mana points each. He would have to wait.
But he did not want to sit doing nothing.
Let us try the Flash skill.
Noah disintegrated the huge stone he had created to seal off the entrance of the cave and came outside. It was around ten in the morning.
The area was clear as he had killed all the monsters in the nearby tens of kilometres.
Noah activated the skill. One hundred mana points were gone, which had just regenerated.
He felt the world suddenly slow down and boom.
He shot like a rocket. With his ten thousand meters per second speed, he reached ten kilometres instantly.
But he fell to the ground because he could not control such speed.
He stood up and ran again. He would have to practice this skill for a long time to get used to such velocity or he would die in battle.
After ten seconds, Noah stopped. His mana was empty.
He would have to wait a long time to regenerate again.
He would need the daggers too.
Noah needed to wait here for atleast two more days to create the daggers and master the Flash skill.