The conversion of fireball to fire control piqued my interest.

I was able to control fire freely. I did not need to call its name out like in fireball.

I held out my hand and tried to flow the fire through my fingers and hands. It caused my HP to decrease.

Skill Evolution: [Fire Damage Resistance level 2]

Slowly my resistance also started to increase. I continued to let my HP decrease, and when it was near 10, I would stop and let it refill again.

I repeated the process several times until the resistance stopped leveling up.

Skill Evolution: [Fire Damage Resistance level 5]

Skill Evolution: [Fire Control level 3]

Now I went near the lake and took a dip inside. I did not need to breathe. My body seemed like it could survive underwater. As I went deeper, the pressure started to increase.

New skill [Water Damage Resistance level 1] learned

“This is deep enough.”

I then tried to use fire control. However, a fire wouldn’t ignite. I thought using fire underwater would be more useful for increasing its level.

I still tried to circulate fire through my entire body, but no fire lighting signs were up.

However, after some time, the temperature near me began to rise. There was still hope, but I was nearly out of MP, so I stopped and got out.

Fire control had remained at the same level.

I was on my way back to the cave when I saw a snake. It was in the place where I killed the wolves and left their corpse behind. It was around 15 meters long and as thick as a wolf.

The corpses seemed to have attracted their attention. It was merely eating the bodies.

I used stealth to get close to it. The snake covered its body in scales.

With the little man I had, I used fire control and covered my hands with blue flames.

Ding!

The system noticed your actions!

Your affinity with the system has increased!

The system has granted you combination skills!

“What?”

Skill Combination: [Fire Control level 3] + [Pierce level 1]

New skill [Fire Piercer level 1] learned.

“Nice, very nice.”

I used the sage's eyes to find its weak point and used my new Skill on it.

It was a one-hit kill.

[You killed a Mutated Viper]

[You leveled Up]

[You leveled Up]

Required level met:

New Skill [Darkness Attribute] obtained.

[Darkness Attribute] is evolving Skills.

Skill Evolution: [Flame control level 3] ==> [Dark Flame control level 3]

Skill Evolution: [Fire Piercer level 1] ==> [Dark Fire Piercer level 1]

New Skill [Absorption] obtained.

“Since most of the information seems locked, I have no choice but to analyze on my own, sigh.”

As I reached level 40, two new skills got added: Darkness and Absorption.

I used appraisal on both skills.

The darkness attribute seems to help evolve my skills and grant new abilities in contrast with their attribute, like how dark flame can burn a person’s life force and add it to my own.

Absorption takes away the skills of the beings I kill and adds them to my own.

Both seemed pretty useful.

As I leveled up, my MP recovered. So, I used dark flame and burned the snake’s corpse as I wanted to test my new abilities. I did not get any life force; however, I did gain a unique ability.

New Skill [Poison Breath level 1] learned.

[Posion Breath: Grants you little control over posion]

The color of the flame was a mix of dark blue and a bit of black. It was very similar to the fur of the wolf I was wearing.

I then went around and burnt a wolf's corpse.

New Skill [Sense of smell level 1] learned.

As I was a skeleton, I did not have a sense of smell, but I could smell the things around me when I obtained the Skill. However, all there was, were a bunch of rotting corpses which gave of a foul smell.

I burnt them all to ashes to get rid of the smell.

Skill Evolution: [Sense of smell level 2]

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Skill Evolution: [Sense of smell level 7]

By killing beings with the same Skill as me, I found out that I can level up my skills.

The snake had left a trail from where it has come from. I followed it and found a den of snakes.

The snakes saw me, and one of them tried to strangle me with its body.

I simply grabbed its skin and used my flames. The flames were small at first, but they spread like water on a sponge and burned until not even its ashes remained.

I was surprised by how powerful it was. Snakes filled the den. All I did was light up the ground, but soon the fire consumed the entire shelter.

[You killed a Mutated Viper]

[You killed a Mutated Viper]

[You killed a Mutated Viper]

[You killed a Mutated Viper]

[You killed a Mutated Viper]

Skill Evolution: [Poison Breath level 3]

[You leveled Up]

Even though I killed a lot, my level only went up by 1. The kills required to gain a level seemed to increase with every increasing level.

Behind the den was a gigantic door which was almost 20-meters high and about 10-meters wide.

I could not sense anything behind the door. I tried to open the door, but I couldn’t even budge it.

I even tried to burn it only for it to be ineffective.

“Appraisal”

[Floor Master's Room]

It can only be opened when all other species created within this floor cease to exist.

“All other species!!”

I started to think about how troublesome that would be. I tried to come up with a way to deal with this as soon as possible.

“Status”

Name: N/A

Title: [Dungeon Seeker] [Dungeon Explorer] [Sage] [Merciless] [Tactician] [Wolf Slayer]

Gender: N/A

Race: Skeleton {Sage}

Class: Dark Mage

Level: 41

HP: 1200/1200

MP: 1000/1000

Strength: 270

Defense: 200

Agility: 200

Intelligence: 83

Luck: 45

Charisma: 10

Unique skills:

[Resurrection level 2] [Night vision level Max] [Persistence level 1] [Stoic level 1] [Physical Damage Resistance level 5] [Craftmanship level 2]

[Appraisal level 2] [Dark Fire Control level 3] [Gravity Control level 6]

[Fire Damage Resistance level5] [Regeneration level1] [Stealth level1]

[Dark Amplification level1]

[Pierce level 1] [Dark Fire Piercer level 1] [Darkness Attribute] [Absorption]

[Sense of smell level 7] [Poison Breath level 3] [Water Damage Resistance level1]