Assimilate All Talents

Chapter 69: Reunion

Done with siphoning the skills, Sol begrudgingly began to search Weaver’s corpse. He hated the idea of looting others, but he direly needed something that Weaver had on him. After searching for a while and removing a few other magical items like his spatial ring, shoes, and belt, he finally found it.

Deceiver’s Earring

Unique

Skills:

[Status Deception] Lv 8, [Item Camouflage] Lv 7, [Facial Disguise] Lv 4

[Status Deception] Lv 8: Create a fake status page that others will see when using [Analysis] or [Inspect]. Can have three saved presets to swap between or toggle off at any moment.

[Item Invisibility] Lv 7: The item blends into obscurity, becoming perfectly invisible.

[Facial Disguise] Lv 4: Can slightly modify the wearer’s face for a limited duration. Duration: 12 hours. Cooldown: 1 week.

Sol almost didn’t find it until his hand accidentally brushed against his ear, where he felt something metallic. It seemed the item’s invisibility was still in effect even after Weaver’s death, likely because it didn’t require the user’s mana to maintain.

The quality of the item honestly surprised Sol, as he didn’t expect it to be a unique item. Sol didn’t truly know how far the connections of Cane went, as he was one of the most influential crime bosses in the city. Not only that, but because Kerman was located on the border of the kingdom, they were right next to not only the Frostaxe Clan, but Sylmasera and the Holy Kingdom of Delvania, making it extremely easy to access their markets to gain rare goods.

Sol didn’t have any piercings but the item magically latched onto his right ear. Once in place it once again became invisible. Since Sol had his Locket of Safekeeping taken from him Sol decided to make a preset just in case anyone felt like peeking into his status. He made the fake status page consistent with his current public abilities, with [Sword] and [Water Affinity] as his two talents.

Name: Sol

Race: Human

Talents: [Sword], [Water Affinity]

Level: 35

Exp: 14,380/165,000

HP: 350

MP: 400

Str: 45

Vit: 30 (+5)

Agi: 30 (+5)

The witch remembered the letters she had received before to visit, which usually came at a bad time when she was either traveling or working on a big project in the Apothecary Guild. The rest of the party had similar reasons for being unable to go and only came because Loraline made it sound urgent in her message.

"My bad..."

"Yeah, we should have stayed more in touch..."

"Sorry..."

Everyone’s sincere apologies made Loraline happy, "It’s okay. Let’s deal with these criminals and celebrate our reunion after!"

The tigerkin clashed his claws together, "Haha! Sounds good!"

The scout giggled, "Alright, but Sato is paying for my share."

The archer protested, "What?! But I paid for you last time Mia!"

"You’re the older one so of course you gotta pay for your cute sister!"

The human barbarian interrupted, "Settle this later. I want to clobber someone already!"

With the barbarian putting everyone back on track, the party dove into the hole and began their attack on the base in full force.

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Sol at first was confident in the raid party safely neutralizing the entire base, but what he saw from his [Mana Perception] frightened him. Some moved incredibly fast, instantly taking down their opponents in one interaction. One mana signature cast spells that flooded entire rooms and passages with mana with the aftermath leaving multiple bodies on the ground. The scariest of the two were the two mana signatures that could not be stopped by anything. They even ran directly through walls Sol knew were there, so he could only assume they just destroyed the wall and anything else along the way.

He knew there would be A-Rankers in the raid, but it looked like they were all that ridiculously strong. While the level of power was honestly frightening, Sol felt motivated to one day reach that level of power.

One of the mana signatures was quickly running down the hall heading towards the cells. This led Sol to believe he was about to be rescued. While he was correct, he was wrong in who was saving him as just before the mana signature reached the door, the wall behind Sol shattered as a human wielding a large axe came through. Two seconds later, the metal door opened, revealing the catkin scout.

The barbarian immediately bragged, "Haha! Told ya I’d get here first!"

She pouted, "That’s not fair! You just bulldozed through the wall."

"No one said I couldn’t!"

Mia grumbled but couldn’t deny it, "Hmph, fine! You win."

Sol saw the interaction between the two adventurers and couldn’t help but wonder.

’This is the rescue party?’