"WOOOHOOOO!" I shouted as I ran through the forest at an insane speed.
Killing hundreds of monsters in my path, I kept moving forward as fast as I could.
Previously, I was limiting my speed because of Mark, but now that I was on my own, I was fully exploiting the [Kinetic Mastery!]. Combining it with [The One!], I was able to increase my speed to at least 3-4 times before, reaching the speed past 700 kmph, covering dozens of kilometers each minute.
[Your Gift: Cartography Has been Upgraded by 1]
[Your Gift: Cartography Has reached Mortal Grade 0]
[Gift: Cartography! (Growth Type)
Grade: Mortal Grade-2
Major Grade up Requirement: Map Out an Entire World/Floor!
-Allows the user to make a detailed Map of everything that he has captured with the skill [Mapping!]
-The user can now create a hologram to show the Map to others.
-The user can now Add one of his skills to combine with the Gift! The functions will be adjusted according to the [Gift]!
-Unlocked Skills: [Mapping!] [Perfect Measurement!] [Eidetic Memory!] [Spatial Sense!] [Creator's Dexterity!] ]
I realized that I had completed the final requirement as well, though I didn't get another skill as I was expecting. Instead, I just got an absurd requirement to get to the next grade.
'Sigh,' I was disappointed a bit before I looked to see if there were any changes to the skills themselves.
Grade: A-Grade (Directly Connected with the Gift: Cartography)
-Allows the user to map a distance of 10 Kilometers around the user with accurate precision!
-Allows the User to Map as far as he can see with basic Precision!]
[Skill: Perfect Measurement!
Grade: A (directly depend upon the Grade of the Gift: Cartography)
-Allows the user to perfectly measure the dimension and motions of all 3D objects which he sees!
-Allows the user to perfectly calculate the amount and type of energy an object has!
-Allows the user to determine all forms of variation that could occur in a process in front of him!
-Anything that the user has seen or sensed, can be taken as a standard and multiple calculations can be done within a second without any difficulties]
[Skill: Eidetic Memory!
Effects: Allows the user to remember and recall everything with great precision! Anything that the user has sensed or thought can be accurately described without any difficulty!
Additional Effect: The User Will Be able to recall necessary information by instincts whenever he requires it!]
Grade: A (directly proportional to the gift: Cartography)
Effect: Allows the user to have spatial awareness of anything and everything around him in a radius of 2 Kilometers! All forms of energies can be sensed by the user!]
[Skill: Creator's Dexterity
Grade: A (Linked with the Gift: Cartography)
-Allows the user to draw or recreate anything that he has seen.
-Increases the depth of intrication the user can perform with his hands!
-The user can create any A-Grade or lower artifacts as long as he has seen the process once!
Additional effects: Maps drawn by the user cannot be destroyed by anyone weaker than the User himself!]
'Qualitative and Quantitative change, huh?' I thought it was better than getting nothing. Though the fact that I needed to map the entire world, made me question exactly how big is this world? Since our world had a surface area of roughly around 550 Million Square Kilometers, if it were anything like that I would give up.
After all, even if I am traveling at 1000 km per hour, covering 20k sq Km in area each over, it would take more than 3 years for me to complete it.
'Though…' I then checked something fascinating in the [The Game Master Floor Menu!]
[Total Area: 2,000,000 Square Kilometers!]
'It seems to be more doable than that,' I sighed as I closed the [Gift!] menu. There wasn't any indirect way to increase the [Gift!] anymore so I guess, I should just leave this for later. I really wanted to get it to [Upper Mortal], though. Maybe I should look into it later?
Anyways, with that done, what should I do next?
"Hmmm. I have 2 S-Grade Skills now. I would need about half a billion GM Points for another S-Grade skill," I thought for a few seconds before looking at my [Body] once again.
[Body: Triple-Equilibrium Heavenly Body
Description: The Body of a being whose 3 of 5 sides have formed a complete harmony with each other. Their limits have been pushed to their peak and beyond, allowing the being to perform feats at a heavenly level.
-For every 1 point in intelligence, the user's Energy increases by 100
-Allows the user to convert his energy into any form at a ratio of 1:1.
-Increases the Base Physical Stats of the User by 150
-The Constitution to Health Ratio has been readjusted to 1:100.
-When the user exerts a pressure on any of his stats, he can increase that particular stat by 100% at the cost of 50% reduction of other 3 Stats.
-Base Wisdom of the user increases by 100
-All Energy/Wisdom Based skills of the User have their overall effect and duration increased by 100%. And their cooldown reduced by 50%.
Triple Harmony State:
Once every 30 Days, the user can attain an enhanced state, going beyond the normal realm. For 10 minutes, all the powers that the user have will be increased by a factor of 10, and the cooldown of all skills will be reduced to 0. ]
My eyes looked through the description once again, and found something that I was looking for. Especially the, [3 of the 5 Sides]. Since mental, physical and energy was already given, I was wondering what could the other two be?
And before I knew it, a certain piece of information appeared in my mind. Something about the [Soul] of a person. If I remember correctly, many of the races that are present on the tower have the capability to look directly into the soul of a person and make any changes.
'Though since they were people that mostly resided in the higher floors, I had decided to check it later on. But looking at the way things are stagnant, I wonder if I can look into it?' I pondered as I tried a couple of things.
At first it was related to the skills, and the weapons, but the more I tried it, the more I got confused. I mean, there were some debuff skills, protection skills and even a few attack skills, but nothing out of ordinary except for their prices.
If a normal F-Grade attack skill costs about 500 GM points, then the soul skill of the same type costs 2000 GM points. Though other than that, I couldn't find any major differences to be honest.
In the end, due to lack of information, I had to close down the window and sit down for a moment as I questioned what I should do next. I looked through the entire System, and the Game Master System, and there were a few things which I could have done, but in the end, nothing was there that could go make my heart doki doki, right now.
'Sigh. Such boredom,' I let myself fall for a few seconds on the ground as I looked at the starry night. A beautiful view appeared in front me as I smiled looking at what was in front of me. And as I looked at what my eyes could see, I then questioned a couple of things that I would normally do on a lonely night.
"What could be the best way to live?" I asked.
Back then, it was either to succeed in life financially and live off as rich as possible, or the other way around to live in farmland or mountains as far away as possible from the society. Though both needed enough skill that would set you capable enough to be the 'different one' from a normal human.
But now, another option has appeared in the answers.
And that was to be happy in the end where things were normal and simpler. In a way, it was a cliche but honestly, I don't want to work a lot in my later life. The power that I needed to live the previous life is in my hands, but life itself has changed so much that something so simple is so far out of my reach.
I then sighed as I closed my eyes for a few seconds, wondering if I should sleep here without any care or concern. But then again, that's a luxury I can hardly afford right now. Maybe later in the Safe Zone, I will take a few days break from all this, just to sleep properly.
My eyes once again opened up as I looked at the guy standing at the top of the tree. His eyes were observing me, perhaps analyzing me, and I created an illusion that I was still laying on the ground, while I stood up and observed him.
Though as if he could see through my illusion, he looked at me, ignoring the 'me' that was laying on the ground.
Wearing a black… smoke like dress that covered most of his body, he observed me carefully. His eyes and hair were pretty dark, and if not for my enhanced senses, it would be impossible for me to even see him.
"Tch!" He spoke before he mumbled something silently. And then looking at me with an irritated expression he spoke again,
"Your life and death energy sucks."
And then he vanished from there as I just kept observing him.