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Chapter 192

Elija P.O.V.

The last few months have been hard. That foolish power hungry little nitwit had done massive damage to the local economy with his curse infused sicknesses and looking over the contracts we had to fulfill I was starting to get annoyed again.

I knew that the crown had little recourse but to seize all the goods present at the time, not only that but there was no way we would get a market value rate on them but couldn’t they at least make sure we would be getting our st...

Chapter 191

It was almost mid day by the time Ajax started heading towards the city. He had spent a good portion of his mana that morning taking care of his medicinal plants that were finally starting to sprout flowers. He knew it was early but his mana had always made plants grow faster and he was outputting quite a bit of it for that purpose on a daily basis.

He hadn’t yet used any of the elemental mana types since he didn’t know what if any effect that may have on the plants and later the fl...

Chapter 190

“So, you’re not only telling me that you somehow managed to get a stamina based cursed skill, something which only one other person in the kingdom has, but you also decided to focus on crafting?” Luna said as she looked to be nursing a headache. “This on top of your hybrid fighting style?”

“Yes.” Ajax confirmed.

“Under normal circumstances I would congratulate you for your dedication to see through any and all potential you have but what you're doing is stupid.” ...

Chapter 189

“Yes” Ajax nodded eagerly, surprising the old man. “I just came out of an Abyssal themed floor and I was cursed, more than once.”

“Oh” All of the righteousness and anger was replaced with an undercurrent of guilt as the old man deflated. “What, kind of curses, are they progressing right now?”

Ajax realized now that he hadn’t properly expressed himself. “They were all minor and temporary, no longer than an hour. But I want to know if it would have any adverse ef...

Chapter 188

For the next few days the team had finished mining out the iron deposit, not only that but the number of attacks on their camp had increased in number. This was to be expected as both imps and hellhounds weren’t stationary monsters so they had cleared up most of the floor already.

Ajax spent his time as one of the more popular leather crafters during this time. Most of the reason for this was that he was one of only two that were using the leather as insoles for the plate and mail arm...

Chapter 187

Ajax was overloaded with information following the strike. Not only from the system as the skill imparted the necessary muscle memory for him to use it but also from everything else he was observing as he was carefully monitoring everything.

With the battle still ongoing he didn’t take a look at the notifications he could feel popping up and simply focused on the fight. He did feel a slight discomfort in his left arm following the slash so didn’t make any attempts at using the newly...

Chapter 186

A/N : sorry for the late chapter, hate to do a bit of editing and did a bit of overtime today.

His theory that both the imps and the hellhounds sacrificed their stamina to turn it into curse mana had a solid basis, both when it came to this world as he saw the hell hounds getting tired a lot faster than any monster that level should after the amount of effort they put in, but also in terms of Earth knowledge as a lot of warlock tropes surrounded sacrifice for power, the...

Chapter 185

As he watched the combatant battle the agony inflicted by curing the curse Ajax found himself praising his past self for the foresight to not test out the interaction between the two conflicting mana types on his own body without doing any research first.

“Is he going to be alright?” Ajax asked Nina as the fight was over.

“He will be fine, the hell hounds bite only inflicts a lesser localized curse caused by infusing a large amount of curse mana into the bite site.” She ex...

Chapter 184

Despite the curse being spread out and weakened, Ajax spent the next fifteen minutes feeling like his blood had raised its temperature by twenty degrees, this wasn’t enough to deal any real harm to him especially through his [Pain Resistance] but it did certainly make for a very unpleasant time.

With that the attacks seemed to have stopped and soon night was upon them. As Ajax was considered one of the crafters for the duration of the mission he wasn’t assigned a position in the nig...

Chapter 183

The instant that he read the notification Ajax quickly cut off his [Mana Syphon], for the first time he had found a downside to his core skill, he had read a few times that there was no such thing as a perfect skill all of them had limitations or downsides only the rumored Mythic skills didn’t and he had finally ran into [Mana Syphon].

He had paid very close attention to how his skill absorbed mana in the past, even when using it against spells that were cast by others the process was...

Chapter 182

A/N : Bonus Chapter! Thank you guys so much for all your support, this month you guys broke $2000. I very much appreciate it and I will see you all tomorrow for the Monday chapter.

The battle was over quickly, with this being a crafter run team almost all of the combatants were at level fifty-five meaning they were slightly above the strongest monsters that could be found and would have stood a chance going even one floor higher. After all no house would risk its crafte...

Chapter 181

“You too?” Trevor asked as he noticed Ajax filling multiple barrels.

“I’d like to try and get the hang of alchemy.” Ajax said truthfully. “Making potions in the dungeon is certainly a lot cheaper and not having potions is a loss of potential.”

The porters grumbled slightly at the amount of weight they had to carry from the second floor but the team quickly got a move on and stepped through the arch.

“I’m not an alchemist by trade but we do have more than a ...

Chapter 180

The team moved through the dungeon at a decent speed. The one thing that was never the same regardless of it being on the same iteration of the dungeon’s first floor was the arches that lead to the next floor. Ajax knew more about them having found out that the mana types he could feel when touching them represented the main themes that the floor they led to would take.

Ajax had done quite a lot to try and improve his precision when taking a look at different arches, the biggest issue...

Chapter 179

Ajax was on his way back towards the bee hives with a full bag of different flower seeds on his back. He had checked a few things that didn’t seem to add up about the achievement description since he had already brought down one enemy that matched all the listed criteria.

It turned out that there was an extra requirement that the monster be at least level fifty. Ajax was pretty sure that the fish he had faced at the lake was close to that but perhaps it was only level forty nine, [Jud...

Chapter 178

Ajax was only brought back into the moment after Balthazar started walking towards a different aisle. He still could get his head around how the man had been alive for four thousand years, even the two hundred that normal people lived here seemed like a lot to him after he ended his first life before the age of twenty-five.

“How could you survive for four thousand years?” Ajax finally asked.

“I’m only three thousand nine hundred and seventy four.” Balthazar said cheekily...

Chapter 177

Ajax had a problem putting together the movements of the old librarian. He had spent a considerable amount of time analyzing his own movement and that of other people with decently high physical stats and yet the old man was unlike anything he had seen before. All of his movements were consistent with the slow shamble of an old man yet somehow he moved as if someone hit fast forward on a recording.

Despite trying to figure out why the old man’s movement seemed so odd to him he still m...

Chapter 176

As most of the students split back up into their three groups Ajax decided to do something productive and started cooking the deer they had brought back. As he was cooking he was thinking about how he should deal with the Punishment. Clearly he needed to do some more research and a visit to the school’s library would fit in nicely after they returned from this delve. Until he got a chance to do that research however he was going to go out of his way to make sure if he needed to interfere an...

Chapter 175

PUNISHMENT:

Infraction stemmed from Bullying I (Mitigating circumstances : Inside Dungeon, 50% lowered punishment) : 1000 experience lost.

Punishments until Bullying I upgraded to Bullying II : 1/3.

Ajax brought up the notification he had gotten in the middle of taking out the wolves and swearing under his breath.

“Seriously?” he muttered, “Guess I’ll need to be more careful about this in the future.”

He brought up his Retribution to double check some t...

Chapter 174

Lexi P.O.V.

Hunting through the dungeon like this was a totally new experience for me. Despite having been on a delve before, that was one that was arranged by my father where he sent most of the people around my level with a few higher leveled people to watch out for us. Like most groups that brave the dungeon, that group was heavy on physical fighters with a few mages and made up of fifteen people.

“Watch your steps, we are getting close to the deer and you might give away you...

Chapter 173

Unlike his previous eight days at the Academy this time Ajax came dressed in his combat gear instead of his uniform and he even carried his trust expanded backpack that was filled with his provision. He recognised how useful the ring was but he wasn't going to risk it somehow getting damaged in the delve.

“All right now, settle down.” Professor Silvertongue said. “I know this is the first time going on a delve for most of you. This is why I as well as healer Ungus will be joining ...

Chapter 172

“Well, I can definitely see what you meant when you said you weren’t taught any style. “ The instructor said as he gently placed Ben back on the ground. “Your attacks were quick, precise and had quite some power behind them. That said they didn’t flow from one to another almost at all.”

“What was that!?” Ben exclaimed excitedly, the instructor's observation bringing him to the present. “There was almost no time to react from the moment you started to gather mana to whe...

Chapter 171

A/N Some last minute editing, sorry for the slight delay on the chapter.

Ajax stepped to join the physical fighters, though he didn’t see the prince sighed dejectedly at that as he was on the mage side of the courtyard, he hadn’t heard the conversation that had taken place in the class before Alchemy as he had already left by then.

“First things first then,” the instructor started. “ I am instructor Anthony Gatecrasher, the man to my right her...

Chapter 170

The respectful request for a spar was like a signal for most of the people who were now mingling around Ajax. All of the people that were part of Benedict Steelblade’s entourage almost entirely lost any hostility towards him.

“Great, but I suggest we all get moving.” Lexi broke the silence that had been established. “ Professor Vilethorn has a habit of making all who are late take potions of necrotic resistance.”

The statement had two very distinct reactions from the peo...

Chapter 169

Despite many looking like they had more questions on the subject, professor Silvertongue didn’t give them any more chances to ask questions and moved into the main point of today’s class. Unfortunately for Ajax this first class period was focused on explaining the purpose of the academy, something all of the incoming nobles already knew, meaning most of them were still mostly focused on him. The four pings from [Enigma] in the last ten minutes reassured him of it, even if three o...

Chapter 168

Ajax took five steps towards the classroom before he realized that the ring on his finger didn’t have anything to write with or anything to write on. He quickly popped into his office and shoved two pencils, a sharpener and a small notebook into the ring before he headed towards the classroom.

Looking at the other students that were messing around in the hall, Ajax noticed a few distinctions between his uniform and the one that the students who decided to wear one had. Unlike theirs h...

Chapter 167

Name : Ajax

Level :31

Experience : 2910/55100

Traits: Divine Witness

Health: 2240/2240

Mana: 2250/2250

Stamina :1850/1850

Vitality : 224

Strength :185

Endurance :185

Dexterity : 185

Intellect : 225

Wisdom...

Chapter 166

With the arrangements made Ajax quickly took his leave. Walking away from the school however Ajax quickly realized that his plans for today were flawed. He had initially intended to spend today setting up all of the bee hives that were made while he was in the dungeon, doing that however ran the serious risk of either getting him an achievement or a new trailblazer skill that would mean he would lose a free achievement.

His destination didn’t change at all however as he made his way t...

Chapter 165

Out of the four spectators both professor Silvertongue and the headmaster were less surprised by Ajax’s show of strength since they both did largely believe him when he made his claims. While the headmaster was ecstatic at the show of a new magic style the other two spectators were still stunned at the display even after the fight was over.

Both had expected him to be strong, having learned that he had passed the test for a level thirty-two but the show of power now was certainly way ...

Chapter 164

Ajax P.O.V.

I was fighting an internal battle with my own instinct that told me to just go try my luck at the Adventurer’s Guild ever since the two women burst into the headmaster’s office. The only reason I wasn’t was because the offer sounded like an ideal deal for me and that I knew the two of them helped me out less than a year ago.

I had technically been around them for a few months before, during the skirmish, but at that time I had been doing everything I could to dis...

Chapter 163

Annabeth Goldmancer P.O.V

The formal last night was more of a chore than I had expected it to be. Throughout the last eight years, ever since I unlocked my stat points I had gotten some more exposure to the outside world but my father did his best to keep me in a cocoon for as long as he could. At first she had resented him for it a little thinking he was overprotective but if all of those events were like last night she was glad he had kept her out of them.

“Miss Manashaper.”...