406 Learning How To Use The Spear With Partner
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That night, we ended spending the majority of the time looking at the moon until the clouds finally covered it from our sight. I recall I had fallen asleep while resting my head over his chest, when I woke up, I had found myself over my bed, while he was nowhere to be seen. Right after I woke up he came back with a breakfast to my bed, so it was overall a nice day at the end.
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Two weeks have passed since then, and things had been slowly changing all around. The town was growing bigger, now that we were here and had a lot of free time, I began using the undead help to build more houses for everybody, while also thinking about repaving the floor outside. However, even then, there’s still a lot of ruins in front of us which would become very hard to take down. For now we have left them there.
Well, to be honest, it wouldn’t be hard to take them down… It’s just that I don’t want to do something like that for the moment. I feel like it would end up being quite rude to the people that once lived here. Demolishing everything just to make more houses and all, especially when we already got enough of them is not necessary. The population had been growing slowly as some of the women began to get pregnant, but aside from that, nothing big has happened yet.
Oh well, nothing big in terms of population increase and all of that! I mean, there are massive magical herbs growing all over the place right now inside of the Greenhouses. Not only did the potatoes and carrots and other veggies that turned magical thanks to my Skills grew bigger over this entire time, but also new herbs I didn’t remembered planting appeared around.
These herbs were infused with tons of magical essence and were all the medicinal type of herbs! There were herbs such as Bitter Weed, Sun Grass, and even Recovery Herb. These herbs when mixed together make some premium potions, so I was glad they somehow began growing when we never planted seeds here. Someone, however, said that seeds from weed and other herbs usually are always present in soil, so perhaps these plants were always here and simply used the rich soil and magic in the environment to grow to such big sizes.
However, if we let them there, they would suffocate the rest of the veggies, so we ended cutting them down and saving them inside my Inventory so we can use them later for more potions, which I’ve been making through the weeks to gain more Skill Proficiency in Alchemy and Clandestine Brewer Skills. I’ve also been trying to level up Farming and Little Farmer, all while teaching Cooking to Partner and learning from her amazing Spear Techniques. It has been a truly busy month where I’ve been doing a ton of stuff and learning new Skills as well.
Ding!
[You acquired the [Apprentice Spear User: Lv1] Title Skill]
[You learned the [Piercing Spear Attack: Lv1] Skill]
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[Apprentice Spear User: Lv1]
A Title Skill that only those that could be considered apprentices of the usage of the Spear would acquire. This Title Skill grants an enhancement to accuracy and damage dealt while using the Spear of +20% with each Title Skill Level.
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[Piercing Spear Attack: Lv1]
A Skill that can only be learned by someone who had thrusted their spear against a foe or a practice target for an enormously long quantity of time, to the point the very technique of the spear’s piercing blade had become engraved into their very mind and soul. While using this Skill, the spear can move three times as quickly and unleash a powerful piercing attack, that can ignore 20% of the target’s max Defense and grants an additional damage bonus of +20% with each level.
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After some practice with Partner and the spears, I was finally able to learn how to handle with one. The one I’ve been using this entire time was one I got from the dungeon, named [Black Dragon Spear], dropped by the monstrous flesh dragon thing that was the avatar of the dungeon’s core. It is a pretty strong weapon packed with Attack, so it was the best spear for me.
Of course, I had already given the first best spear to Partner so she could dually wield them, while I kept the second best. Her first spear is the same as ever, the one she had not let go at all even when it has become fairly weaker than the new drops we have gotten. It was the first weapon she ever got and she is very emotionally attached with it. The weapon has already reached its max level after killing so many, only evolving a second time and then reaching the pinnacle of what it could reach, but even then, it is not near as strong as the newest spears we got from dropped items.
She simply doesn’t want to let it go, even when it had gained a lot of bruises and a few cracks now. The three dwarves, however, had done their best to fix it, and used some special Magisteel Ingots to fix the spear damage, but they said they didn’t had any more Magisteel, so if we want to keep repairing her spear we’ll need to buy some more in the dwarven country.
“Well done, Master! Your movements with the spear were amazing!” Partner praised me. We have been practicing the spear for over a week. Apparently there are even affinities and talents in weapon types, as if this were some Fire Emblem Game. My affinity with swords and axes was way better than spears, as I only needed to swing those weapons once to get their skills, this one took me over a week.
Maybe it influenced that I used them to fight strong enemies back then when I was weaker, as the System told me that fighting strong foes also influence in the learning process of Weapon-related Skills.
“Yeah, phew, I finally learned the two Skills you’ve had for a while now…” I sighed.
“Haha, my Apprentice Spear User already awakened into Spear Knight!” Said Partner. “And Piercing Spear Attack is now Blood Spear Arts.”
“W-Woah… That’s amazing.” I said in surprise. “You’re really improving on it, don’t you?”
“Yep! I pride myself in being the strongest spear user here.” Partner said while puffing her chest.
“I am glad to have such a great teacher then!”
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