Astral Online: Cursed by the Demon Lord to Become the Strongest Beautiful Girl, I Rapidly Grow and Dominate with Cheat Skills Despite Being the Weakest Profession - Chapter 157
Chapter 157: All About Skills
Once El finished showing them around, the group dispersed for the day.
Inori was picked up by the Futaba family’s butler, Ikeda, a woman in a black suit, and left the scene in a black car.
After seeing her off, Sora parted ways with Shinji and Shiro, and headed home with Kurono.
When they arrived home, Sora’s younger sister Shiori had already returned and was preparing somen noodles.
Sora and Kurono helped her, and the three of them enjoyed lunch together.
Curious about Shino’s whereabouts, Sora asked Kurono. It seemed that after Kurono dropped her off and spoke with the principal, Shino had left for work with the ?Valkyrie? members at the Japan branch. Apparently, no one was home at their place.
Since it didn’t seem safe for Kurono to be alone in that house, Sora suggested that they play the game at her place, and Kurono happily agreed.
After that, Sora gave in to Kurono’s request to log in together. She changed into her loungewear, lay down next to her on the bed in her room, and put on her VR headset.
Kurono commented, “Things are going to get busy starting today.”
“Absolutely,” Sora replied. They synchronized their voices to say, “Game start,” and dove into the virtual world together.
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After logging in, Sora, accompanied by Kuro, opened her window screen to check the ribbon-wrapped box icon labeled ?Present Box?.
Inside was a new item: a ?Skill Selection Ticket? given by the god from the real world.
Sora tapped it to check, and a list of skills, the same ones from the existing skill shop, appeared.
It seemed she was supposed to choose one skill from the list.
There didn’t appear to be any rare skills, so the only benefit was being able to obtain a skill without spending a large amount of ?El? currency.
Recently, after sharing the festival profits with everyone who helped out, I still had millions El in my pocket. But I’ve been spending a lot, so now I’ve only got a few tens of thousands. I’m honestly grateful for things like this.
?Master is the type of person who shouldn’t be trusted with large sums of money. Even Kuro-sama was exasperated back then.?
I chose to remain silent in response to Lucifel’s remark.
Anyway, here’s the current state of my skills:
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?Adventurer?: Sora
?Skill List?:
?Attack Skills?:
– Strike Sword V
– Sonic Sword V
– Guard Break V
– Dual Nail V
– Triple Stream V
– Quad Slash V
– Rage Slant V
– Vertical Slash
?Defense Skills?:
– Sword Guard V
?Support Skills?:
– Magic Resistance III
– Physical Resistance III
– Status Ailment Resistance III
– Insight II
– Perception II
?Enchantment Skills?:
– Elemental Enchantment V
– Attack Power Boost Enchantment V
– Defense Power Boost Enchantment V
– Speed Boost Enchantment V
– Jump Power Boost Enchantment V
– Ailment Resistance Enchantment V
– Enchantment Reduction V
?Equipment Enchantment Skills?:
– Strength Boost Enchantment
– Sharpness Boost Enchantment
– Critical Rate Boost Enchantment
?Skill Slots?:
?Attack Slot?:
– Disable Thrust: A piercing skill that nullifies the enemy’s defense and deals damage.
– Angriff Fliegen: A skill that launches a crescent-shaped attack from a distance.
– Counter Boost: A skill that increases attack power when successfully countering an enemy’s attack.
?Defense Slot?:
– Sonic Step: An emergency evasion skill that momentarily accelerates during a step move.
– Royal Guard: A skill that reduces all skill cooldowns based on the amount of damage blocked from an enemy’s attack.
– Scapegoat: A skill that creates a decoy when targeted by enemy hate, temporarily diverting the enemy’s attention.
?Support Slot?:
– Stun Time Reduction II
– Cooldown Reduction II
– Equipment Weight Reduction II
– Quick Change
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And that’s my current skill setup.
I had purchased and set up various skills, and to my surprise, despite all the additions, my skills weren’t as jumbled as I had expected.
If I were to make changes to my current skill slots, the first candidates would probably be ?Disable Thrust? in the attack slot and ?Quick Change? in the support slot.
Everything else is quite useful, so there’s no reason to remove them.
“Alright, if I have to pick, it would be this one.”
Sora selected and acquired a skill called ?Burst Charge? for the attack slot. This skill, sold at the skill shop in the Sea Kingdom for an outrageous price of 10 million El, was something she had given up on purchasing, feeling defeated by its cost.
According to the skill description, its effect is simple: the longer you charge it, the more powerful it becomes.
If I combine it with my enhancement skills to maximize its potential and then hit the enemy with their elemental weakness, just how powerful would it be?
Excluding the ?Lucifer?-specialized skill ?Heaven’s Lost?, this could very well become the highest-damage-dealing skill since the game began. Just thinking about it makes me so excited I feel like dancing.
“I can’t wait to use it in the next battle.”
“Sora, you look like you’re having fun.”
“Of course! Just thinking about setting up skills like this is enough to keep me entertained with this game for a whole year!”
“That’s… well, no, that’s actually really weird.”
Kuro gave a wry smile, but I ignored that as I operated the window and touched the “confirm” button.
With that, my skill setup was complete.
Next on my to-do list was related to my new profession, ?Intermediate Enchanter?, which allowed me to allocate more skill points.
After investing all the points I’d saved up, my profession skill level reached 110, and two options appeared before me.
I could either acquire a new skill or strengthen one of my existing enhancement skills twice, but I could only pick one.
The new skill had an interesting name: ?Flinch Rate Increase?, an enchantment for weapons.
My main weapon, the ?Silver Magic Sword?, is a B-rank weapon, so it has four enhancement slots.
Since I’m currently only using three enhancement skills, it might be a good idea to fill the remaining slot with this new one.
So, I selected a new enhancement skill and immediately applied it to the ?Silver Magic Sword?, then closed the window screen.
“By the way, is Inori not logging in yet?”
“She said she’d log in around the same time, but maybe Inori-chan isn’t feeling well…”
“If that were the case, she’d have contacted us. Maybe she’s so exhausted from going out that she fell asleep.”
Inori’s physical stamina in real life is pretty much non-existent, so that’s definitely a possibility.
That said, I’d rather not move on my own and risk just missing her without any contact.
Guess I’ll just wait patiently and glance at my window screen for now.
As I lay back on the bed, my head bumped into something soft, like a large cushion.
Ah, no way…
A bad feeling crept in, and just as I tried to make a cautious escape—
Two hands reached from behind, grabbed my head, and pulled me in with surprising strength.
“To think I could snuggle with Sora-kun as soon as I logged in. Could this be heaven?!”
“Let me gooooooo!!”
Pressing two overwhelming “weapons” against me was far too much for a high school guy to handle, so I struggled to escape with all my might.
But the assailant was a seasoned veteran who once stood beside me in ?Sky Fantasy?, a formidable opponent with skill equal to mine. She held me firmly in place, refusing to let me go.
As the fierce battle on the bed continued, Kuro, instead of coming to my rescue, pouted and leapt in.
“I-I have a chest too!”
Even you, Kuro?
Later, Sora told her two best friends about this incident with dead fish eyes, saying that escaping was as difficult as facing the ?Great Calamity?.