Sleeping Player (Project Chrysalis Book 3) by John Gold (novel24 TXT) 📕

normally in the water is being fed by my Life Magic to grow with incredible speed, and even bamboo with its meter a day has nothing on what’s all around us.

Femida is gathering the crabs crawling about on the bank of the island. Slender is skewering stranded fish on his tentacles as if they’re spits.

“Fem, I have a problem. Joining the Hunters made all my equipment practically useless, and I can only make new items in the Hashan Desert. None of the gods have any control there, so I can make as many sacrifices as I want.

The crabs decide to fight back against the girl who’s polishing them all off. Both sides, however, make their peace with each other after a quick burst of flame from me.

“What kind of a hit did your fighting capacity take?”

“With the source in the astral, I have more like an ocean of mana than a sea. But I’m only half as strong as far as everything else is concerned. If I burn my health, I can make up the difference.”

“We need to focus on leveling-up and boosting our skills right now. You slept for a month, and you have no idea the kind of search that’s going on right now in the game and in the real world. Leon put together a complete chronology of events from when you showed up in Sural to when you went missing at Valhalla. The clinic we went to is blockaded—the dragons agreed to keep an eye on it and see if they can find you. The League received all kinds of orders to find you. Everybody’s looking for you just as much as they’re looking for Ekron.”

“What do they want her for?”

“Do you have any idea how much money has been invested in the Katain economy? How many items were hidden in the dwarf banks scattered across the abandoned cities? It isn’t even that they’re worried about losing their investment; the money is all tied up in their working capital. Whose money do you think the gods used to fund the crusade against the demons in Katain?”

“Interested parties. Smart! There are other interested parties, too, but that’s a question for another day. In the meantime, what’s the actual threat? Our names are hidden, sending seeker spirits out to look for us would be pointless, and we don’t have any special things people could use to identify us with. There are pairs of swordsmen and mages all over the world.”

“Well, there’s your face! Nobody remembers mine, but you stuck yours in front of that camera. You could buy a shifter potion, though you’d have to buy one from an awfully skilled master to beat your resistance. And it wouldn’t last long, either…”

“Forget it. I didn’t come back to his world to be scared of every shadow. Anyway, we’re going to be sticking to places where they don’t like people very much. Okay, maybe I should say that they like them a little too much.”

We continue toward the city, my life aura still on. A fifty-meter strip of green stretches out behind us, and the island gets its own status as Floating Crab Island when we leave. A quick glance back tells me that seagulls are starting to gather.

Six hours of running later, I get what I’ve been going for.

Life Magic +1

Life Magic spell effectiveness +1000%

Your Life Magic skill has reached the maximum value.

 

New spell learned: Panacea

In ancient times, healers all around the world looked for a medicine that would cure all diseases, though very few of them were able to reach those heights of Life Magic. As a reward for their labor, they received a unique spell that reflects the true nature of the medicinal arts.

Effect: Instantly restores 50 million health, removing all debuffs and curses

Cost: 100000 mana

Recharge time: 2 hours and 30 minutes

Needless to say, it’s an interesting spell, and I even know who could use it, but it’s almost pointless for me. I need constant healing and an enormous mana pool to build my resistance.

The spell description, however, gives me some valuable information. When I modified my mental body, I picked up 50% resistance to mental damage, or 12.5 million. That means that the maximum resistance is 25 million.

Following the theory of resistance, the maximum damage you can do to a unit of space is 50 million, and the panacea is confirmation of that. The way my world is, I’ll definitely be coming across that kind of damage, so it’s a number I need to hit.

Femida stands next to me quietly as I read the spell description.

“Panacea! Maximum!”

There’s an explosion of life. The spell slips underwater, the residual radiance scatters around the area. But I find out something interesting—the total of the streams of consciousness I use to boost the effect also has a limit of 50 million. Instead of one overwhelmingly powerful panacea, I end up with a cascade of powerful Life Magic spells. The water under our feet gurgles with thousands of different plants, the smell of flowers bursts out into the air, and the buzz of insects is deafening.

I’m lifted ten meters into the air as the residual effect from the spell grows the plants at an incredible speed. The fish swimming beneath us are swept up to feed the plants—and that’s just nine streams. I’m not going to make the same mistake twice, as I just spent 900000 mana. The gods have nothing on me.

Achievement received: Herald of the creator. First rank.

You were able to create a location out of nothing.

Minimum requirement: The creation of a complete ecosystem

Reward: +10 to all attributes

Some of the newly grown shrubbery moves. A stream of profanity pours from the plants and loose base of the island.

“Dissection!”

Femida brings her sword down with all the strength and mastery she can muster. The