Invisible Reaper Dragon (A Reincarnation Story)

Chapter 40 - The Test (Part 4)

First Chapter-with-parts sequence that's broken past 4 (Lol) :)

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It was surprisingly easy to get used to the speed and attacks that these Dummies threw at me. They didn't use magic, and that was a huge part missing from this kind of training, but it was still a welcome experience for testing how strong I was compared to most humans at or near my level range. Then again...the only people that I've met at that range would probably have been that peasant couple that I'd first helped at the gates, and even then they were most likely too weak for even an accurate gauging in strength disparity to be put into consideration. 

The only people that I could compare to would be Red, Pops, Freija, Wreign, a few guards, and that Cinder guard captain lady here. All of them were likely above level one-hundred and Red was almost to level 70, which was further than my next evolution requirement in levels...just another thing to look forwards to when I evolved again; well, the pain was still something I was not ready to go through again, but seeing the differences after such an event was sure to be amazing. 

Almost made me want to try sneaking out to level again...almost. 

By the time this dummy had gotten a fatal strike in, disintegrating and reforming where it stood before the exercise started, I felt confident that I would be able to handle myself rather well if I faced anyone--or anything--at a similar level. I looked back at Pops, only to see that he was deep in thought and hadn't even registered that I'd been defeated this time. I didn't care to count the notches this time either, but I was definitely past level six for each dial. 

I lashed my tail, creating a small series of sparks as the blade cut through the ground behind me. It would probably have been easier to use my (Flame) but I didn't want to anger him accidentally by spitting fire at his face when he was distracted. It got his attention though, Pops' eyes refocused on me and he looked at the dials for a second before turning all of them back to the starting positions. 

"Now I want you to use your Skills as you fight. It'll be the same sequence as the first session, since you'll be attacking again. But I want you to use any active Skills you have, short of your breath attacks." Pops motioned for me to go back to the middle and I turned around as he re-set the dials, "I know that you are able to passively increase their levels when fighting like this, even without intent Skills at lower levels will be easy to level, with intent the increase per use as an active Skill will count more towards leveling and you should be able to get quite a lot from this." 

I took the moment to look at what's changed for my Skills' levels and was pleasantly surprised: 

Skills: Flame (Lv. 6), Toxic Slash (Lv. 36), Tail Smash (Lv. 33), Bite (Lv. 19), Flight (Lv. 4), Toxic Breath (Lv. 11), Hindrance (Lv. 12), Stealth (Lv. 18), Patient Hunter (Lv. 25), Steal (Lv. 19), Tracking (Lv. 9), Paralyzing Touch (Lv. 12), Dash (Lv. 41), Meditation (Lv. 5), Dodging (Lv. 16). 

My Special Skills hadn't changed at all, most of them couldn't even be used in this kind of setting but it was nice to see that Flight was slowly getting up there in levels: I guess using my wings more when dodging really helped with that...I'd gotten a level in almost everything, with (Bite), (Stealth), and (Tracking) being the ones with the most gains. I'd even gotten a new Skill from this: (Dodging), and it was already at level 16 too!

Made me wonder if there was a log or something I could see after--

{Skill Level Increased: Flame (Lv. 2)
...
Skill Level Increased: Flame (Lv. 6)}
{Skill Level Increased: Toxic Slash (Lv. 35)-->(Lv. 36)}
{Skill Level Increased: Tail Smash (Lv. 32)-->(Lv. 33)}
{Skill Level Increase--