Redo: Grimoire System in the Apocalypse

"Are you planning on learning one?"

Sindri had her chin on his shoulder, staring at the two cards that he was holding. She had initially only been slightly interested, but after Geth explained the bigger picture, he had her undivided attention.

'Being able to choose your Skill path before spending SP? How many resources would it take for him to achieve that for every Skill?'

Geth's brows were furrowed as he studied the two cards in his hand.

'He says he's doing it for himself... but is that really true?' 

She just couldn't get a read on the man.

Sindri had heard directly from Blaze, Zolis, and Geth that he only did things if they furthered his own interests. But, it seemed that so many of these things benefited others more than him.

The more she was around him, the more she found herself appreciating him. 

It wasn't just him. Even Zolis had her own quirks that she found endearing.

'I shouldn't even think about it right now. He's working, and I'll just distract him.' 

Sindri crawled over to the piles of cards and looked for anything that would help her as a tank. 

Things became challenging after the first Class change. For the first 24 Levels, it was possible to learn any Skill if you had the card for it!

After choosing the Knight Class, it was only possible for her to use Skill Cards that were marked for tank or melee Classes. 

She would have ignored the Class choice completely if she'd known beforehand.

'Who am I kidding? I'd be dead if I didn't choose a Class.' 

Even though it was bothersome, they had dealt with it. But now, things were different.

She didn't have many Skills to begin with, a couple of blocking Skills and an aggro Skill for defending. Then, she'd learned the Slash Skill just for counter-attacking enemies.

Outside of those four, she had learned one from each Class upgrade.

One allowed her to heal for 20% of her HP and doubled her Defense for ten minutes. It had a cooldown of six hours.

Once she unlocked her new Class, Blood Knight, she found that learning some Mage Skills was also possible.

The Blood Knight Class was interesting, and she'd even gained a bar similar to her Mana and HP bars. It was a Blood bar.

As enemies died around her, the blood bar would fill with their life essence. Her Blood Knight Skill needed this essence to be used.

Additionally, she could also use that essence in place of Mana for any of her standard Skills, and they could have additional effects.

She couldn't learn any spell that mages could, but she found that close-range attack spells weren't off the table.

'I wonder if the others can learn new Skills now?'

Based on what she had observed, the first 24 Levels took the Skills learned, weapons used, and the Points distributed into consideration whenever offering a Class.

The Class Upgrade seemed to go even more into depth, reading into your thoughts, fighting style, and even the experiences along the way.

'What will the System be looking for in the next section of Levels?'

All of this was very mysterious to her. She found it odd how Geth would converse about so many things with his Grimoire.

She'd become friends with her own, but the information her Grimoire had available wasn't so abundant. Geth's even helped him look out for danger while he slept... how?!

It seemed that there was still a lot for her to learn. But for now, she needed to take up Geth's offer to upgrade a spell for her.

"Let's see... the biggest spell stacks here are Fire and Ice. That's... so basic. Are these the Common forms of Fireball and that Icicle spell that Goblin Shamans use?"

She looked over her shoulder at the man sitting behind her. Then, she remembered she was wearing a see-through dress and was on all fours in front of a man she was attracted to.

To make matters worse, when he looked up from his work, he had that same appraising look that he'd had when she entered the room.

'Can he not at least try to hide that he's checking me out? How can he not even be a little embarrassed?!'

She watched him admire all of her curves for a minute before his eyes met with hers.

"Yes. Those were dropped from weak Shamans. 

Months ago, the Skill Cards that began dropping were these Common forms instead of the Skill that was actually being used.

I can only guess that the Mana that's been eating away the Dungeon Formations has something to do with it. 

Even the cards dropping from these wolves are mostly 'Claw' or 'Hasten.' I'm not even sure that a Human can learn Claw."

He looked over her curves once more before activating the Transmutation Table and creating more healing cards.

"Hmph."

Sindri's face flushed red once again. She couldn't remember the last time she'd been both this embarrassed and aroused at the same time.

Looking at the position she was in didn't help. She was practically bent over like a dog in front of him!

'Ugh! Why don't I ever think before I do things?'

It was too late to worry about it now. She looked at the descriptions of the two cards before her.

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Fire (Lvl 0)-

Cost (5 MP/Second) Fundamental fire manipulation. Allows User to slightly warm up the area around them by heating their own body. Can spark a small flame in User's hand that can be used for starting fires.

Note 1: Manipulation becomes easier with high Wisdom. Flame can be larger or can radiate more heat with high Intelligence.

Note 2: Can only learn one elemental manipulation Skill.

***

'This one looks promising.'

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Ice (Lvl 0)-

Cost (5 MP/Second) Fundamental ice manipulation. Allows User to slightly cool down the area around them by chilling their own body. Can emit a light frost from User's hand that can freeze some liquids or quickly cool a small space.

Note 1: Manipulation becomes easier with high Wisdom. Frost can extend further or freeze the area faster with high Intelligence.

Note 2: Can only learn one elemental manipulation Skill.

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'I like this one as well.'