Skill Creation in the Fantasy World

Many skills went by in his mind as he slowly narrowed down the list and decided to choose the one requiring the least skill points for not emptying his hard-earned collection.

'It doesn't have to be flashy and should let me quietly take their lives even from some distance.'

He glanced at the many fallen monsters who were at their last breath but were protected by some of their tribe who weren't taken down yet.

If he had to count, then the number of monsters on the battlefield easily surpassed more than 200, with half of them already dead and the rest of them still alive while keeping a distance from the stronger two monsters.

Felix looked in deep thought at the monsters, who were lying down on the ground and moving away sneakily. Their whole body was touching the ground and some monsters couldn't even move, resting while taking their last breaths.

'If I swim underground, then reaching them won't be a problem but coming out and attacking them would be hard as my whole body needs to be out if I have to deal them damage. Then what about an attack from underground...'

He narrowed his eyes and came to a conclusion on which skill he needed at the moment to start farming monster lives.

'That may be the only option. System, create this skill...'

[Affirmative.]

[Processing the skill's power scale....grading the skill....estimating the possible points required.....skill successfully moduled.]

[Ding!]

[Skill Name: Earth Spikes.

Description:

Allows the user to project out rocky spikes from the ground. Can create 6 spikes for every minute. The power and number of the spikes can be increased by using mana.

Cost: 120 skill points.]

Felix looked at the skill details he had imagined and widened his eyes in doubt.

'System, are you sure about that cost? It's not even that strong, with just projecting spikes from the ground and it costs 120 points....'

[Answering the host, the skills that are directly related to damage dealing and combat inherently need a lot of skill points to create. While skills that are auxiliary and non-combat require lower skill points to create.]

Hearing the rule for pricing the skills, he got confused and asked about it.

'And why is it so? Is there an important reason for it?'

[....]

There was no reply from the system which resulted in a groan that escaped his lips.

'Ghh, fine. Don't answer me, but at least create that skill.'

[Do you wish to use 120 skill points and create the skill 'Earth Spikes'?]

'Am I a joke to you? Of course yes!', he rolled his eyes that were peeking out from the ground at the system for asking him that when he already agreed to it.

[Ding!]

[Successfully created a new skill.]

After the skill was created, he calmed down and completely went underground.

Earlier, he was about ten meters away from the battlefield so he had to move near them before he could start his attacks.

He swam forward and made sure he had covered the proper distance before slowly poking his narrowed eyes out to take a look.

'What the-'

Just when he had pulled up, a goblin came and stomped its skinny leg on his head before staggering weakly and falling down on its back.

Felix stared at the stupid goblin in surprise and decided to test his new skill on this fucker.

'Earth Spike!'

The ground beneath the fallen goblin wobbled a bit and suddenly a small rocky pillar quickly ejected from there.

It happened so fast that the goblin couldn't even react before an earth spike impaled into its back and came out from its chest.

[You have killed a being higher than your own rank.]

[You have gained 10 skill points.]

Felix grinned at the quick death of the monster who had dared to step on his head and nodded inwardly at the power of his new skill.

'Hmm not bad, I can control its size and speed and it should be able to reach around one meter in height.'

The earth spike that killed the goblin was not that tall, just reaching 50 cm like how he had wanted to create it. So, it went unnoticed by the other monsters.

He turned his head to glance around and made sure that no other monster accidentally stepped on him, before looking for other monsters that had already fallen in the battle.

'Only fallen ones can be taken out easily as most of the monsters ignore them and instead focus on the standing and fighting ones.

Quickly finding another poor prey, he swam and neared it before stealthily taking its life, and continued to do the same around the battlefield. Taking the lives of the weakened monsters, he slowly reduced their numbers without them noticing.

If a monster ever happened to notice him, then an earth spike would impale him from below.

Unlike the battle between the weaker monsters, the two leaders of the group had a large space in the middle reserved for them where no other monster would even dare approach.

The muscular goblin was growing increasingly anxious during the fight while getting furious at its partner who must have decided to just act as a spectator and let it deal with all the damage.

It couldn't remember if it had done any wrong for the goblin mage to do this to it.

As more and more wounds appeared on it from always being on the defensive, the goblin gave up on waiting for any long-range attacks from the mage and decided to start attacking the strong ape.

"GAWWRR!"

It roared out loud to show its dominance only for the ape to shove a punch in its face.

The goblin wiped the blood from its mouth and furiously looked at the big ape who started drumming its chest.

Grabbing its giant club tightly, the goblin jumped ahead bringing its weapon and swinging at the ape's head.

Their battle had finally started to get serious with both of them having their full attention on each other, which let the small silver head that was poking out from the ground have a crazy hauling.

'Damn, I hit the jackpot!'

With eyes full of excitement, the unnoticed Felix took the last light out from the weakened monsters both goblins and apes alike.

His emotions in jolly as he traversed throughout the battlefield, impaling his spikes into several parts of the unaware monsters including their as*.

[You have killed a being higher than your own rank.]

[You have gained 10 skill points.]

[You have killed a being higher than your own rank.]

[You have gained 10 skill points.]

[You have killed a being higher than your own rank.]

[You have gained 10 skill points.]

The messages from the system kept on buzzing inside his head but his thoughts were purely on killing more and more without a rest.

Creating six spikes every minute was enough for him as he needed time to find and locate his prey before waiting for an opportunity to strike.

Gradually, most of the monsters were falling down with the light inside their eyes turning off.

The colorful forest was dyed in a bloodbath as only a few beings remained alive on the battlefield who were tired from all the fight.

One of them being a silver-haired boy who was calculating the profit from today's hunt while eyeing the two stronger monsters.

'Should I?....'