The Arcane Archer - Chapter 36 Spell Changes

Before checking my stats and skills to see what has changed, I made sure to get somewhat far away. I say somewhat because as shown earlier, even with me activating my super speed and pushing myself to the limits, I was still moving slowly for the enemy.

It was also confusing as to how he was moving that quickly as his title said he was the “Potential Deprived” or something like that. Deprived means a severe lack of so with him having no potential, how did he even get to that strength in the first place?

He also had a last name and from what I’ve learned from both the elves and dwarfs, having a last name as a human means that you’re royalty and such. Maybe him being royalty has to do with him being able to achieve his strength? Or maybe it has something to do with Aetius?

Aetius is still a giant wildcard as far as I know. According to the dwarfs (especially Vondal who loved to talk about his god), gods try to avoid interacting in mortal affairs. If they need something to be done on the mortal plane, they usually have their worshipers do it for them, as shown by Vondal who said he would carry out anything his god needed of him.

Aetius however is different. He is no god. All he is, is an absurdly powerful half-divine, half-human, hybrid that is Addicted to put it simply, to humans and want people to think of him as a god because that’s what he believes himself to be. A god to humans.

As a semi-divine being, he’s allowed the power to come and go from the mortal plane freely whenever he wants. This gives him the power to be a physical god to humans and put in actual work to prove his existence.

Resting against a tree, I took a quick break from running. Sitting down, I looked at all my stats and skills. Thankfully, they were split and simplified for me now.

Here is what it was at level 10 before the update. –

[ Name- Leo Walter

Race- Human (Mutated)

Class- Arcane Archer +

Shown Title- Friend of God (+10 luck per level) +

System Points- 829
for visiting.

Hp- 627/890

Mp- 910/910

Previous cost: 720 Xp

Level- 10 (Xp- 468/1,165)

*LEVELING METHOD*

Min/Max- Only certain stats are raised depending on class.

Strength- 90 (+5 from Hero)

Dexterity- 97 (+3 per level) (+5 from Hero)

Constitution- 89 (+5 from Hero)

Intelligence- 91 (+2 per level) (+5 from Hero)

Wisdom- 88 (+2 per level) (+5 from Hero)

Luck- 125 (+10 from title per level) (+5 from Hero) ]

And after the update-

[ Name- Leo Walter

Race- Human (Mutated)

Class- Arcane Archer +

System Points- 829

Hp- 63/89

MP- 91/91

Previous cost: 72 XP

Level- 1 (XP- 47/117)

Strength- 9

Dexterity- 10

Constitution- 9

Intelligence- 9

Wisdom-9

Charisma- 6 ]

So, everything pretty much got divided by 10, rounded up or down, and still somehow below average. The average is supposed to be somewhere around 10 for everyone or something like that in this world. Probably not because then everyone would be an abnormally strong superhuman.

Hopefully it’s not what I was thinking cause that also meant all the humans I met in that town all had a 1 in their stats or something and will die within a week or two if they’re lucky I should probably make sure they’re ok when I’m much stronger or something.

Done with my stats, I looked at my skills and just nodded at the very small changes here and there before getting to one of them.

“MOTHER FUCKER!” I yelled.

Looking up at the sky, I gave it two birds and yelled, “FUCK YOU GOD! GIVE ME BACK MY APEX BODY!”

I yelled out some more insults and curse words hoping to get at least a sorry or something from god. Sadly, all he did was use the clouds in the sky to create two giant birds in the sky. One an actual bird made from clouds and the other being the current ones I was giving god.

My {Mana Regeneration} and {Basic Magic} got nerfed as well but I didn’t care about those as much as my wonderfully overpowered {Apex Body}. Like, come on, who wouldn’t shake their fist at god if they just removed something that just barely kept you ahead of the game?

After getting a few more curse words out and saying some angry stuff in German which causes anything said to sound even more angry, I eventually called down before giving one last quiet “fuck you”.

With a slow sigh, I looked over my stats to see if anything else big changed. The biggest thing I noticed after tearing my eyes away from the spot in my skills that showed {Apex Body} was no longer there was that I had a charisma score now instead of my luck.

‘Hey system, what happened to my luck and why do I have such a low charisma score?’ I asked the system.

[According to the update log given by god, as you deemed luck to be completely useless, it was instead replaced with charisma. Luck will continue to work in the background, but charisma-based skills will matter much more. For instance, when you attempt to lower the price of something you’re buying or when trying to get someone to buy something with an elevated price, charisma will be used for these checks.]

‘Does that mean I’ll be able to buy 20 arrows without spending an entire gold! Those things seemed so overpriced!’

[You’ve could’ve done that even without the update. You just agreed to the price instantly and didn’t argue. Also, that was the correct price for them.]

‘Yeah but he was so nice! He was just trying to make a living and I’m not one to try and ruin someone’s life by very under paying.’

[Understood. Now to answer why you have such a low charisma score, I think you’d like to know tha- Warning, hostility detected.]

Upon hearing the system say that there was some sort of hostility, I used basic magic to cast a spell I deemed as {Mist Step} which allowed me to teleport to an area within 30ft of where I casted the spell.

Turning around, I looked back to where I was standing to see a sword imbedded into the tree where I was standing earlier. The person was wearing some basic armor with some metal pieces here and there. Their sword also looked very basic as well and their face screamed a “Oh no!” look.

Casting inspect, I quickly got the basic details from him.

His name was Evan and he was a human which I could clearly see. His class said he was a {Apprentice Swordsman} with his strength score being the highest followed by his constitution and dexterity. His level was also at 7 but supposedly nearing 8 according to inspect.

Forming a quick mana bow, I fired two low mana arrows at him hoping to end this quickly. Sadly, to my disappointment, the didn’t kill him instantly but did deal some good damage. The two arrows were blocked by his arm which he raised up to block them. The arrows temporarily imbedded themselves into it before vanishing out of existence.

Using his foot by putting it against the tree, he finally pulled his sword out before turning towards me and getting into a attack position. We stared at each other for a bit before he gave a battle cry and ran towards me with his sword in the air.

Before I had time to cast another spell or move, he was already in front of me and brought his sword down. He slashed my armor and slightly cut into my skin.

Using taekwondo, I kicked him back a couple of feet and cast another spell which I deemed {Hunters Mark}. This spell simply increased the amount of damage I would do to him and it was a combination of both mana mark and a very basic curse which does nothing by itself.

He once again tried rushing at me but this time I was already in the process of casting another spell. The spell was {Bramble Thorn} and made the small area around me grow sharp brambles.

At that time, I also noticed the nerf to my basic magic. Certain spells now required Concentration to put it simply. I had to actually focus on a singular spell, and I could only concentrate on one thing at a time.

Obviously, I wanted to curse again but was obviously busy at something at the moment.

Luckily the bramble thorns slowed him down enough to actually give me time to notice and think of what to do next. Casting another use of {Inspect}, I figured out that he only lost a fourth of his health.

Backing up, I quickly shot two more mana arrows and dealt a bit more damage to him as he escaped the area of bramble around him. He got close enough to swing his sword at me once again and I nearly dodged, but he once again cut me slightly.

Since he had to also take a step forwards to get to me, he also was slightly open so instead of pushing back and firing more arrows, I went forwards and got near him. Putting my left foot behind his foot, I used the palm of my hand to push him forwards and trip him.

Next using my right foot, I stomped it onto his chest before pulling one of my knives out of my inventory and stabbing it down at his throat. It nearly hit its mark, but he grabbed my foot and rolled to the side making me fall to the ground as well.

Now on top of me, he pulled his own knife out of his boot and went to stab me. I raised my arm up and blocked the knife using it. I screamed out in pain as it went deeply inside my arm and blood went everywhere.

Turning on flaming aura, I pulled himself closer into me as his eyes widened and he desperately tried to escape. He screamed out in pain as he struggled over and over to try and escape. Against me meager strength, he was actually able to pull himself away and get free.

Another inspect showed that he was on his last leg and 1 or 2 more shots from my mana bow would kill him. Evan seeing that he had no weapon, put his fists up and got ready for a brawl.

“Really?” I asked

He just grinned before running towards me with one final battle cry.

I got down low and once he was a few feet away, I took a step forwards and used a kick to hit him up slightly into the air before making a mana bow and firing a quick mana shot at him. His eyes widened upon seeing this as his eyes dulled as his body fell to the ground.

[Congratulations you’ve leveled up! You’re now level 2!]

[Congratulations you’ve leveled up! You’re now level 3!]

I canceled all my spells and skills and let out a sigh of relief. Taking a look at my health and mana, I saw that I had 57 out of 89 Hp left and 34 out of 91 left. According to the system, my regeneration was now per minute instead of per second.

{Basic Magic} divided up my spells into categories and costs for each. A cantrip or one of the most basic spells, cost 10mp per casting. A level 1 spell costs 10 to 50mp per spell, a level 2 spell costed 50 to 100mp, and finally a level 3 spell costed anywhere between 100 to 200mp.

{Basic Magic} now only allowed me to cast up to 3rd level spells instead of whatever I wanted as long as I had enough mana. It gave me some extra spells that I didn’t know or use beforehand but still.

No clue what this means for {Wordless Magic} though. Looking more deeply into it, more stuff changed but I’m still going to have to figure out what all changed.

Letting a minute pass, I gained some more health and mana back, so I went over to Evan’s body and started looting. He has 4 silver pieces and a singular electrum piece. So around $14 in total if you’re using American money as a reference. Not much but appreciated.

Grabbing whatever else I could find, I picked a random direction and started running. I needed to escape Aetius’s men as soon as I could.