The Insider System

Chapter 42: The Wind

Lake and Joy had just killed the last undead in the last tunnel and it hadn't even been a hard fight and that meant he didn't earn a lot of Exp. "Joy, how much longer can we be down here?" He wanted to max out his job before he had to go back to doing alchemy. "They didn't set a time limit. We can be down here until you're ready to go."

Lake didn't know how long it would take to hit level 10 on his fire mage job and he didn't feel like doing the math but he wanted to push for it. "Joy can we go a little deeper." Lake wanted to find stronger enemies and he guessed there would probably be more of them as well. "Yeah but do you think you can handle it? you're still using low level spells."

Lake had kind of forgotten that there was a lot of effort that went into learning new spells, and that he had gotten lucky when he unlocked Fire Blast. The fact that he needed to use Fire magic to get the Exp multiplier kind of made him wonder if he would be able to handle the amount of enemies they would be fighting.

Lake had noticed as his Intelligence increased he was able to gather more mana around him. Right now he could use Fire Blast 3 times in a row but he didn't think that would be enough. Lake could only see one way around this, and that was to level up a few other mage jobs to get his intelligence higher so he could spam Fire Blast.

But first Lake wanted to know where his intelligence was.

Race: Human Lv.3 ( 6/10 )

Job: Fire Mage Lv.7 (248 / 640)

Special: The Insider Lv.0 ( 3/5 )

Stats

Health 30

Stamina 30

Mana 30

Strength 10

Endurance 10

Agility 19

Dexterity 32

Perception 23

Intelligence 70

Charisma 6

Free stat points: 2

Lake was starting to realize how busted his Unique Comprehension skill was; he could see why normal people were capped at a few mage jobs, his Intelligence was already racing towards 100 and he hadn't even put that much time into learning magic. His plan would result in his Intelligence being higher than all his other stats combined.

Now that he was committed to this plan Lake thought about what type of magic he should use next. "Hey Joy, what types of magic can you use?" Lake didn't know if it was taboo to ask this, but he felt Joy wouldn't mind telling him. "I can only use anti magic. It's something you can get if you get common comprehension; it's treated as a rare element."

Lake found this answer unhelpful so he switched how he asked what he should use next. "If you could use magic, what would you want to use?" Lake thought this was a good way to find out about the best elements to fight with. "I would probably want to use wind so I could fly." Lake had forgotten about the usefulness of wind magic.

Lake made up his mind and a few seconds later lake started to build up wind mana. [New job unlocked Wind Mage] Lake switched over to his new job and then he formed the mana into a blade listening for the voice Lake repeated what it said. "Wind Blade." Now that Lake was ready he and Joy went back to the junction.

"Let's go down this one it leads deeper." Joy and him had been to the end of this tunnel earlier and it had led to another junction like this one. Arriving Lake looked around to count the number of tunnels that were in this junction. There were only 10 but since they were deeper he was sure he would earn more Exp than he had in the last one.

"Joy, let's do the same thing as Last time." Lake turned on his Mana vision and started to run down the first tunnel. Since Lake had realized only the strong undead had cores he had started to do this so he and Joy didn't have to go slow anymore. He would be alerted if an undead strong enough to be dangerous was up ahead.

Seeing a dot of light appear, Lake slowed down. There was no reason to get any closer, Lake started to cast spells. "Wind Blade, Wind Blade, Wind Blade, Wind Blade, Wind Blade, Wind Blade." Lake stopped here because he felt the spell was lacking power, and he wanted to see what was going to happen before he sent more spells.

Lake moved forward until he could see the undead his spells had hit. Lake inspected the damage he had caused and he confirmed that the damage was indeed lacking. There were a few thin cuts on its body and that was it. Lake knew to kill this undead with this he would probably need to land 3 attacks on its neck.

The good thing about Wind Blade was it was a long attack so the undead wasn't really able to dodge. The undead finally saw Lake and had started to charge at them, so Lake took aim at the undead's ankles and started to fire. After 13 times Lake had detached the undead's legs. Recharging his mana Lake walked over and fired directly into its neck. [Level up] [Level up][Level up] [Level up] [Rank up] [Level up]

Lake went ahead and opened his stats.

Race: Human Lv.4 ( 1/10 )

Job: Wind Mage Lv.5 (19/160)

Special: The Insider Lv.0 ( 3/5 )

Stats

Health 40

Stamina 40

Mana 40

Strength 10

Endurance 10

Agility 19

Dexterity 32

Perception 23

Intelligence 90

Charisma 6

Free stat points: 2

Lake also saw his skills flashing so he opened it.

Wind Control (E) Lv.1

Increases affinity for Wind to Medium.

Gale Force (R) Lv.1

Doubles the speed of Wind spells.

Lake saw that he had gotten a better version of Wind Control and wanted to see what the difference was. "Joy, what are the levels of elemental affinity?" After he asked Lake dispersed his mana then started to build his mana back up to see if it was faster. "The order goes Basic, Low, Medium, then High."

Lake guessed if he had gotten the Legendary version of Wind Control he would have High wind affinity. Lake had just gotten done timing how long it took and found it was around 12 seconds. Lake wanted to see the difference so he dispersed it again and started to build up Fire mana. Lake found it took almost 30 seconds.

After he was done Lake cast Fire Blast as many times as he could after 4 times he didn't have enough to cast it again. Lake switched back to wind because he wanted to test the power of Wind Blade now that he had Gale Force he wanted to know if it would do more damage now that it was moving faster.

Getting to the next tunnel Lake rushed to the undead he could hear flopping around. When Lake saw it was still on the weaker side he knew his spell was going to do more damage anyway since this undead was so much weaker. He thought maybe he would be able to cut this undead in half with one spell. "Wind Blade."

Lake had been right the spell decapitated the undead but this hadn't been a real test. Lake went on to do this a few more times, [Level up] and found that the spell was definitely a lot stronger now that it was faster, and it made Lake wonder if he could increase the speed even more. Maybe this was the path to the next tier of spells for the Wind element.

Of course Lake had no idea how to make his spells faster. He remembered the principles thing from the books he read, but how was he supposed to change the principles of the elements? This was a good thing for him to study later. Lake had switched his focus from Fire to Wind; he felt it was a better choice now to level Wind to 10 so he could maybe learn how to fly.

But not today he was done for the day he was starting to get tired and he still needed to walk back up the stairs. "Joy, I'm ready to go back." Lake hoped this wouldn't be the last time he got to come down here. He had found undead to be easy Exp, but next time he came down he wanted to bring a list of elements with him so he could get all the mage jobs.

Getting back to the gate, Lake asked Joy. "Are you going to stay here or are you like my personal guard?" Lake didn't know if she had been waiting for him here, or if guarding this gate was her new job. "This is my new post, but I've been told to go with you whenever you go through the gate."

"Ok well I'll try and come back tomorrow. Bye." Lake thought he and Joy had become a pretty good team, so he was happy he wasn't going to have to do this all over again with a new guard every time he came down here. Looking at the elevator Lake wasn't really sure how it worked so he said. "Joy, will you show me how to work the elevator?"