Kaiser of the New World (Ch 200+)

Training (260)

"Rising up, back on the streets. Did my time, took my chances..."

"What are you singing to yourself?"

Kai chose to ignore Cecilia's grumpy remark to his incredible singing in favour of letting her continue her training with her Mana Threads.

About a week and a half had passed since encountering that strange Lynx creature and deciding to have Cecilia madly train to get stronger, but progress was steady enough.

Even though there was a large lack of any sort of creatures that Kai would be willing to fight in this environment, they managed to encounter a few that he had successfully taken down and got Cecilia to deal the final blow, albeit with a little trouble.

The higher they rose, the worse the blizzard got, and the more dangerous the abominations infesting the side of the mountain got as well.

By now, every creature they encountered was minimum level 75, meanwhile Kai was level 63. Of course, he had a variety of skills to make up for the stat difference, but that's not to say that the beasts he encountered did not also have skills that could do the same, especially since they all possessed three more skills than him.

But no, things had gone rather smoothly. Cecilia had successfully reached level 9, meaning there was only one more beast standing between her and obtaining her first class.

Kai sighed to himself, reminiscing about the good old days. Unlike Cecilia, all he had to do to level up early on was get beat up by Noelle, which was a much nicer alternative to fighting these damned blizzard creatures.

At least Noelle knew how to go easy.

... Well, not really, but it was still better than their current situation.

Currently, the group was resting in the tent, various small candles lit around them using Soul Flame helping to keep them warm.

Cecilia was sitting beside Kai, weaving her Mana Threads into various different items.

Turns out, she had already been on the brink of turning the Uncommon skill to a Rare one without even realising, and the path it was following was actually quite interesting.

Like Kai, who had obtained Strong Mind and Nonchalance at the Uncommon rarity when first unlocking his skills, Cecilia had unlocked Mana Thread at Uncommon rarity. Despite that, after ten thousand years passing, the skill had not received a single upgrade.

And the reason for that was the path the skill was following was not one that Kai expected.

Mana Threads upgrade came in the form of desire.

Cecilia was under a mind hex nearly her entire life, trapped under a spell that Anastasia had placed on her, and because of that, she had never been free.

And like any being trapped in a cage, Cecilia subconsciously longed to be free.

And that desire for freedom manifested in the only way it was able to at the time.

Her skill.

The upgrade Mana Thread received when reaching Rare rarity was that its strength no longer relied on Cecilia's Mana stat, it also relied on how strong she desired them to be.

If there was a situation where Cecilia was trying to create a rope made of her Mana Threads to lift something below her, the rope would be pretty strong considering that she probably wouldn't want to drop the item, combined with the fact that the threads woven together were stronger than the average threads used in a rope thanks to its Uncommon ability.

But if it was a rope created to hold onto a loved one who was dangling over a ledge, a ledge that if they fell from they would most certainly die, the rope would be much, much stronger.