Short summary of the last chapter:

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  Voice finished his surveillance orbs, and began to watch the city. Almost right away he found a person the bandits had sent in to mess with his city. Using the eyes, he began spying on the bandit camp. The bandit lady poisoned the wells of the city, and Voice ignored it. Eventually he did heal those effected, and right before the bandits attacked too.

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  Something of note about the three days prior to the invasion. More precisely, the second day. One the second day I had made all of my purities at 25 or higher. At that exact moment, I got a notice.

  Obviously I did. What I got was: Deconstruct Spell.

  After that I went ahead and allowed magical mastery encompass it.

  This was the second skill I got out of the deal. That was a decently good skill as well. Thinking of the deconstruction of spells made me remember something. Skill dissembler. (Chapter 14)

  … Oh… I, uh, I’ve been a bit neglectful, huh?

  Even though I felt kind of bad for not using such a nice skill earlier, I was at least thinking that it wouldn’t get me much in the end.

  To be fair I did have a lot of things on my mind at that point. That was during my whole ‘alchemy’ phase. So you’ll have to forgive me.

  I dissembled all of them right away.

  From Sense Potency, I got: Sense Enchantment. I guess it was one of the requirements. It was weird, as soon as I dissembled that one, Aura Sight disappeared from the list of possible skills.

  From Sensory Perception I got: Distinct Perception. From Body Language Analyst: I got Language Inference. From Speed Reading I got: Enhanced Memorization, and Speedy Thinking.

  From Plant Location I got: Locate. From Alchemy I got: Combine. From Technique Thief I got an obvious one: Steal. Sleight of hand went away after that.

  From Spell Permanency I got: Enhance Spells. From Automated I got: Repeat. When I finally dissembled Automated, Automaton went away as well.

  I almost kicked myself for not using this skill earlier. I mean seriously! All of these ripe skills!

  Sense Enchantment wasn’t very good, but only because it was basically Mana Sight for enchantments only.

  Distinct Perception allowed me to more clearly separate my five senses. Everyone can tell if something is a sound or picture, but with this skill active I’d be able to watch a movie on mute and listen to the radio, and be able to understand them at the same time.

  Language Inference allowed me to slowly learn languages! I had to listen to them, and it took a while, but I would be able to learn them without dictionaries or anything. Although, with my compendium it wasn’t that good of a skill, if I lost the compendium it might be very valuable.

  Enhanced Memorization did exactly as the name suggests. It enhanced my ability to memorize things while in-game. Basically there was a bit more server room for my mind to work with.

  Speedy Thinking gave me the ability to think at a much faster rate than normal. The biggest downside is that my body wouldn’t get sped up as well. Still, thinking faster could mean life or death.

  Locate allowed me to locate the exact coordinates of anything I’ve come in contact with before. It was like Plant Location, but I couldn’t detect all iron swords, only ones I seen or touched.

  Combine, allowed the user to hold an item, and throw some mana at it. The mana would make the item gain new properties.

  Steal basically allowed me to more easily pocket items without others noticing, given that I wasn’t already being watched. Steal was extremely similar to slight of hand. It just worked on unattended objects instead of pockets.

  Enhance Spells made it possible to force extra mana in a spell to make it more powerful. I didn’t really need this one, but I wasn’t bothered by it. I mean the others were great, so why would I be upset about one FUCKING DUD.

  *Ahem.

  Finally, Repeat. It gave an ‘insight bonus’ to things I do repeatedly. Basically it enhanced all of my other skills to a slightly higher level. That was always welcome.

  Now some of those skills were pretty good, but there was one more thing that needs to be discussed. Skill Fusion. The results were:

  Combine + Alchemy = Magical Alchemy

  Magical Alchemy was put into the Key to Self-Sustaining Alchemy, which made the group skill become: Mastery of Alchemy. Basically it let me directly enchant my potions as I made them! I didn’t even need to do all of the tedious work of trial and error. I just pumped in the mana, and the potion would become something more potent.

  Enhanced Memory + Skill Analyst = Total Recall. I could perfectly recall any memory I had with perfect detail. Of course this only worked with in-game memories. It wouldn’t make sense if it worked outside of the game. I assumed it worked by stimulating certain synapses.

  Locate + Language Inference = Dialect Detection. Basically it gave me the additional ability to tell where people were from just by listening to them. The game did have a bit of a dialect to certain characters, so it made sense. The only prerequisite was the I had to visit that place, or hear the dialect to get the information.

  Now for the last two skill fusions of that fateful second day.

  Distinct Perception + Sensory Perception; and Speed Thinking + Long Distance Inspection.

  From the first fusion I got: Empowered Perception.

  Basically my Long Distance Inspection wouldn’t miss anything… ever. I could just about tell any information about my surroundings that I wanted. Unlike when Inspect normally got an amazing upgrade, I wasn’t overwhelmed by the information. Instead it seemed to be simply flowing in lazily.

  The new information wasn’t terribly more than before, but it was all much more clear. It’s like putting on a perfect pair of prescription glasses after having broken yours a few days prior.

  The final skill fusion, which happened to be the best, was Speedy Thinking + Long Distance Inspection. Not only did this one make me more powerful while using Inspect, but it also gave me something I never thought I’d get.

  Imagine it!

  No, wait. I have to tell you about it first. Heh, I still get chills thinking about it. It was the single greatest time of that era.

  What I got was the skill: Rapid Inspection

  Obviously I fused it before exchanging it into Long Distance Inspection.

  Right away I exchanged Rapid Inspection. I remembered when this happened with Long Distance Detection, so I was hoping for a turnout like then. I wasn’t disappointed.

  Long Distance Inspection evolved!

  Now, the most important part of that? “This skill has a secondary effect: Slow Time!... The dilation will be based on level and rank.”

  I CAN SLOW FUCKING TIME!!!!!!!!!!

  Oh god! Think of it! Just try! Whenever I am using Analysis I can choose to slow time. Time slows down to about 1/10 of actual time. I could watch a bullet come at me.

  I might not be able to physically react to the bullet, but I’d see it coming! With my speed buffs I might even be able to barely dodge it, if it wasn’t point-blank.

  Now if you’ll remember I can already teleport. It just costs a MASSIVE amount of mana. It’s much more cost efficient to just fly. Chao doesn’t have that problem though. I don’t know how that little turd has so much mana.

  With the time dilation, and teleport, I’d be able to get out of almost any situation that might actually get me hurt.

  If rank also played a role, who knows how good it would be at that time!

  I also got another notice. Which is worked on the last day before the attack on the city.

  While I was exited about that, I sure as hell wasn’t about to give up this huge plan I set in motion to upgrade a skill. At least the upgrade didn’t have a time limit.

  Heh, time. Just thinking about the slow time effect made me smile.

  I also made the Group Skill: Devourer of Knowledge.

  This skill was good, but not as good as the time slowing. This one would allow me to get 20% more information from my inspections though. And a 20% increase in EXP gain is always great!

  Back to the present.

  It was night. The sky was fairly light out. It was pretty late in the evening, but the stars shone brightly.

  The bandits crept to the wall silently, but I had me ‘eyes’ on them. I knew exactly where they were coming from. I couldn’t use my eyes while they were prowling, because I had to be out here to stop them.

  But my enhanced inspect made it so that I could easily see the people crawling in the tall grass. The faintest movement of the blades of grass were easy for me to make out.

  They slowly spread out, and began to circle the base. I made sure to cloak myself in darkness. Though I was floating in plain sight, they wouldn’t be able to see me.

  There was only ten people going into the city at the moment. I waited until the first person scaled the wall, before I began to fight.

  As soon as I was ready, I threw out two small rocks from my inventory. Both of them headed for the first person that scaled the wall. At the same time I used wind mana to call out: “CITY ON HIGH ALERT! CITY ON HIGH ALERT!”

  I used my wind mana to circulate the sound all the way to the furthest parts of the city. The guards in the inner arcs instantly started heralding the people to the castle.

  The two rocks exploded when the neared the person. A huge explosion of light and sound rang out.

  The girl threw up an arm to shield her face. Wrong move. I used a huge gust of wind to knock her off the top of the wall.

  The fact that they could scale the wall was amazing. It was perfectly flat, and had nowhere to put holes in easily. I was going to find out how they did it after the battle.

  As the girl fell, I sent up several earth spikes to impale her when she landed. After making sure she landed on them, I went on to the next person.

  By the time I got there, the person had already scaled the wall, and was sneaking towards an alley. He was stunned after I threw one of them.

  It was incredibly easy to handle him after that. I just fused a bit of darkness mana to some water/wind mana, to make a poison mist.

  After that I just stabbed him in the throat a few times with the tip of my spear. The poison began to seep in rapidly. The poor raping/pillaging/plundering bandit died in seconds.

  I made quick work of the others. I only spent a few seconds on each one. With my large amounts of buffs, and the fact that I had planned all of this before-hand, I was able to kill them quickly.

  The other bandits didn’t attack that night. I guess they were going to wait to see what happened. I debated whether or not to force them into a battle in the open, but decided against it. I wanted them to come out first.

  Then I’d handle the situation in a way that made everyone see how great I was. So that was the end of that day.

  Aw, I didn’t even get to try out my cool new skill!

  Alright guys! Second promised chapter of the day. I don’t know exactly when, but I’ll try to put out another later this week. Man that slow time thing! I wonder how that will turn out.

  Spoiler It’s in the next chapter[/i]

  Also here are his stats for those that have been wondering!

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