BXBX NOVEL Chapter 168 Synthesizing Skills!
Alex suddenly paused on his steps.
Raising an eyebrow, he said, "You… know how to cook?"
Tilting her head, Kris said, "Didn't I tell you before?"
Alex shook his head, "No, you never told me about it."
Then a smile appeared on Kris' lips.
"Well, now you know!"
"Anyway, you should stay. I'll show you my cooking skills later."
With Kris continued insistence, Alex finally gave in.
"Fine, fine. Make sure your cooking tastes good or I'll be really disappointed." Alex jokingly said.
"Heh, I'll make you addicted to my cooking. Just wait and see." Kris said, full of confidence in her tone.
The two continued chatting for a while before Kris stood up to start preparing dinner.
Left alone in the living room, Alex has nothing else to do.
So, he called out his status window to view his progress.
[Zero]
[Class: Dungeon Master]
[Bloodline:Draconian]
[Level: 66] (Tier-2)
[Talent: Fortune's Embodiment] [Luck Points: 0]
[Health: 177,350/177,350]
[Mana: 174,100/174,100]
[Strength: 17,058] | [Constitution: 17,058] | [Agility: 17,058] | [Intelligence: 17,058] | [Charisma: 17,058] [Will: 10]
[Free Attributes: 21,610]
[Skill Points: 500]
[Skills: Sacrifice (U), Synthesis (U), Monster Manipulation (A), Lord's Sanctuary (A), Fireball (D), Earth Spike (D), Wind Blade (D), Freeze (D), Water Ball (D), Stealth (D), Concealment (A), Dragon Scale (S), Seal (A), Lightning Judgment (A), Underwater Breathing (C), Tidal Wave (A), Dragon Tongue (S), Transformation (S), Dragon's Life (SS)]
…
Alex stared at his status panel with a thoughtful look.
"Hmm, my status has grown again, huh."
Saying that, Alex fixed his eyes on the [Bloodline] that he didn't inspect yet.
"This thing, it's not just for design, right?"
As he muttered that, the details of the bloodline appeared on the screen.
[Bloodline: Draconian]
[Details: Dragons are one of the strongest beings in the world. They reign supreme and boast great strength that makes them far superior than the others. Draconians are descendants of dragons and inherited some of the powers they possessed.]
[Effect: x2 strength stat, ???, ???]
…
Reading the information about the additional bloodline that he got, Alex looked happy.
When he saw the effect that bloodline grants him, Alex's eyes started shining brightly.
Chuckling, he said, "Haha, my stats are really getting more and more overpowered."
The x2 strength stat made Alex feel joyful and at the same time, made him curious about the other effects that are written in question marks at the moment.
Rubbing his chin, he said, "Hmm, just the x2 strength is such a great effect already. I wonder just what these other effects are."
Alex made some guesses in his head before he stopped thinking about it.
Next, Alex turned his attention to the other skills that he got with the [Draconian] bloodline except for [Dragon Life].
[Dragon Tongue] (S)
[Details: The language of the dragon is not something that any other people can learn. Only those who possess the blood of dragons can learn and understand their language.]
[Effects: Dragon Language Proficiency]
…
[Transformation] (S)
[Details: As creatures that were called as Higher Beings, Dragons are able to change their shape from a huge monster to a humanoid shape and back to a huge Dragon.]
[Effects: Dragon Transformation: Transform yourself into a dragon.
Duration: 1 minute
Cooldown: 1 hour]
…
Looking at the two skills, Alex nodded in understanding.
Then he muttered, "I don't know when these will be of help to me but these should be useful."
After saying that, Alex dismissed the information of the skills on the screen.
Next, Alex's eyes landed on the new Unique skill that he obtained.
Synthesis!
In this skill, Alex still has some expectations for it.
Since it's a skill that has the same Unique rank as his cheat-like [Sacrifice] skill, Alex can't help but feel anticipation.
[Synthesis]
[Rating: Unique]
[Effects: Select two items or skills that you would like to synthesize. Item or the skill's rating might decrease or increase depending on the compatibility of the two selected things to be synthesized.]
[Description: For every use of synthesis, consume 1000 gold coins as the energy source.]
…
Alex glanced at the description of the skill for a moment.
Then he said, "Let's try you out, I'm curious about what you can really do."
Saying that, Alex started going through the skills that he has.
Since he wanted to test out the [Synthesis] skill, he needed to look for skills that have great compatibility with each other.
After a short while, Alex finally made a decision.
"It's you two, you're going to be the subjects for this test."
Alex said while looking at the two skills [Stealth] and [Concealment].
The reason why Alex chose these two is first, he thought that they were highly compatible with each other.
[Stealth] is a skill that can hide the 'physical body' of its user.
Meanwhile, [Concealment] is a skill that lets its user hide his or her status from people who want to peek at it.
At the same time, it also has the ability to lower the presence of its user.
So, that is to say, both [Stealth] and [Concealment] are actually skills that both have the same purpose of 'hiding its user'.
With this conclusion, Alex did not hesitate and chose them as the preliminary 'test subjects' for the trial of [Synthesis].
Without delay, Alex immediately started.
"[Synthesis]!"
Launching the skill, a new translucent screen appeared in front of Alex with only two empty spaces in it.
By intuition, Alex knows that this is where he should put the things that he wants to synthesize.
Without hesitation, Alex placed the [Stealth] and [Concealment] skills in each of those boxes.
After doing that, a line of text suddenly appeared.
[[Synthesis] is about to consume 1000 gold coins. Would you like to continue?]
[Yes | No]
Alex didn't even need to think about it and pressed [Yes].
Suddenly, the skills that were placed in the boxes burst into tiny particles and slowly started mixing together!
Then the next second…
[Congratulations, you acquired the [Hide](A) skill!]
But since this is only the first time he used [Synthesis], Alex can't get the answer for them yet.
12:03
Alex saw the notification and a frown immediately appeared in between his brows.
"A-rank? [Conceal] was originally an A-rank skill but the skill that was Synthesize from it and [Stealth] only resulted with this?"
"Could it be that the D-rank [Stealth] was not enough to raise the rank to S?"
In a short amount of time, a couple of questions have already popped up in Alex's mind.
But since this is only the first time he used [Synthesis], Alex can't get the answer for them yet.
Therefore, Alex decided to pay attention to this when he used [Synthesis] again.
Anyway, Alex turned his attention to the new skill he got.
[Hide](A)
[Effects: 1. Hidden: Allows you to lower your presence until you become imperceptible to people who are 1 Tier higher than you and below.
2. Unknown: Let you hide your status screen from anyone who wants to peek at it.
3. Invisible: Make your physical body not visible to anyone for a limited time.
Consumption: 1,000 Mana
Duration: 1 Minute
Cooldown: 10 Minutes]
[Details: A semi-passive skill that allows you to hide from people.]
…
After reading the full information of the new [Hide] skill, Alex felt surprised.
"It's still the same rank as [Conceal] but it seems like [Hide] is greater than it!"
This realization immediately extinguished the dissatisfaction that Alex was feeling earlier from only getting an A-rank skill.
From the information of [Hide], Alex can see just how amazing this skill is.
Compared to [Conceal], Alex can say that [Hide] is higher by more than just a level!
Just the 'Invisible' effect of [Hide], Alex can already clearly say that it's awesome.
From its description, it says that his physical body can become invisible to anyone!
This means that no matter who it is, no matter how strong they are, they won't be able to see him!
With just this, Alex is already filled with satisfaction.
With a smile on his lips, Alex said, "The 1000 gold coins that was consumed by the [Synthesis] was more than worth it just because of this!"
The more he thinks of it, the happier Alex becomes.
Not just at the new skill [Hide] but also at his unique skill [Synthesis].
Just as Alex was immersed in happiness, the voice of Kris suddenly sounded.
"Alex, I'm done cooking. Let's go eat dinner."