The discussion of the alliance was pretty simple. In exchange for helping Khionah with what she needs, Shiro will get her assistance in becoming the winner of the New Age. It was similar to Misu’s but with some minor changes.
There were some new conditions such as Shiro providing her with the best server and new computers but that wasn’t important.
Shiro did ask Khionah about her wish that she had for the new age but she said if Shiro can accomplish it, then it doesn’t matter. Since she just wanted humanoid monsters to have more safety in this world rather than being hunted down.
Naturally, Shiro was fine with that. As long as they didn’t attack, she was sure that the citizens in Asharia would be understanding. After all, if they could make peace with demons, they can do the same with humanoid monsters.
Once the contract was made, Khionah went back to her city while Shiro spent the time relaxing while checking out her other rewards.
By that, she meant her level.
After killing the Raven, the Exp she received from killing a god was much more than she expected. It directly propelled her from level 870 to 950. A whole 80 levels at this stage was insane with how much Exp was required.
Plus, before sealing Niphim, Shiro could see that she had reached level 1000 while Nan Tian gained 10 levels himself. He didn’t do much aside from protecting Shiro when she needed it so his Exp gain was naturally smaller.
Now that she has reached level 950, she gained an additional Passive skill.
[Nanotech Demi Goddess Physique]
Health will not go down as long as you have mana. If you run out of mana, nanobots will be destroyed instead. Your health will only go down once all nanobots and mana are gone.
+60% Damage Nullification
+50% Elemental Resistance
+20% Divine Energy Generation
+20% True Damage Nullification
Reading this passive skill, Shiro’s lips curled up into a smile since this was perfect for her. When she activates her Machine Goddess Decent, she essentially creates an immortality field for herself when combined with the new passive.
‘If I start a fight and have the satellites drop the towers down, I suppose even if I stand still, it’ll be hard for them to kill me. The towers collect ambient mana to produce more nanobots so that it doesn’t drain my own mana after all.’ Shiro thought with a small smile.
Looking at her stat table, Shiro figured that it was about time to start fusing skills together.
Thinking about this, Shiro wondered what she could do. Previously, she had been using the Blessing of Chaos to increase her privilege to talk to the system and ask it for tasks. If she asks it now, it shouldn’t be too much of a problem. Especially since it was just fusing skills together.
“System, are you able to help me condense skills down?” Shiro called out.
Seeing no response, Shiro clicked her tongue and glanced towards her Chimera Art’s skill. Since it was something that helped her fuse elements together for a short period of time, Shiro wondered if she could combine it with Error to help her.
Activating Error, Shiro watched as her arm turned black and red circuits appeared.
“Error, can you help me out with something?” Shiro asked as Error bounced up and down, mimicking the actions of a nod.
“Cute. Are you able to help me fuse a few skills together with Chimera arts? It’s the skill that fuses elements together. I was wondering if we could repurpose it to work with skills instead.”
Hearing this, Error paused for a moment before diving back into her arm. Forcefully cancelling the spell for a moment, it seemed as though he just disappeared which confused Shiro.
‘Was it outside of his capabilities?’ Shiro thought to herself.
However, just as she thought of this, a glitch started to appear in front of her.
As though tearing through reality, a flickering box with a glitching border appeared in front of her, asking her a single question.
[ Would you like to sacrifice – Chimera Arts – to create – Skill Alchemist –?]
Seeing the border that kept flickering as though it’ll disappear at any moment, Shiro quickly accepted before it was too late.
Feeling a slight prick inside, she watched as Chimera Arts started to glitch out on her stat board before being replaced with Skill Alchemist.
[Skill Alchemist]
A unique skill produced with the sacrifice of Chimera Arts and the help of Error. This skill can fuse skills together to produce something stronger but it can only be the skills that you have earned from your class. In the case of Entity – Shiro – it will not work with recycled skills.
Cost: 2 or more skills to activate.
Duration: Skills created by this are permanent and cannot be reversed.
Cooldown: None
Backlash: None
Warning: If the nature of the skill conflicts too much, it may cause a failure which forces this skill to be on cooldown for 2 months. The skills used will be refunded but their effectiveness will be decreased slightly.
Reading this, Shiro blinked her eyes in surprise since she didn’t expect Error to directly make a skill for her by sacrificing Chimera Arts.
Seeing Error ‘stand’ on her arm and puffing out his circuit chest in a proud manner, Shiro smiled and patted his would be head.
“Good job.” Shiro praised Error as he jumped around before going back into her arm.
Activating Skill Alchemist, Shiro could see a new menu appear with empty slots. She assumed this to be the spot where she picked the skills. Now it was just a case of going through her skills.
“Let’s see..” Shiro muttered while looking at her skills.
She decided to experiment with the skills that don’t have much priority right now.
Pressing Tier 6 Elemental Magic, Legendary Elemental Mastery, Spirit Assistance EX, Elemental Breath and Force of Elements, Shiro tapped on fuse and waited for the result.
Seeing the loading bar on the bottom, Shiro stayed silent.
She could see the skills slowly fade away on her stat board while the loading bar moved.
Soon, all five skills disappeared.
[Element Control EX]
You are able to control all of the basic elements to maximum efficiency and even call on spirits to help. During an attack, you can choose to enhance that attack with elements, the more elements you infuse, the stronger that attack becomes.
Each element that you infuse into an attack takes 5% of your mana.
Cooldown: N/A
Backlash: None
Reading this skill, Shiro raised her eyebrows in surprise since most of the skill has become passive effects which boost her control without any cost. The only cost now was the effect that came with Force of nature and even then, the cost was decreased to 5% per element.
“Hm… what else can I combine…” Shiro muttered.
‘Demi God’s Raiment is an enhance ability that gives me a second set of armour similar to True Spirit Nature so these two might be pretty good together. Though True Spirit Nature is something that brings out my nature as a spirit and Demi God Raiment is just elemental armour that enhances attack. To be fair, Demi God Raiment would have probably been better with Element control EX.’ Shiro thought to herself.
The main reason she wanted to fuse True Spirit Nature with Demi God Raiment was so that she could eliminate the 1 minute time restriction of her True Spirit Nature. If she could enhance her control over souls to its peak for more than one minute, it could be extremely helpful.
Thinking about this, Shiro decided to give it a try anyways.
Tapping True Spirit Nature and Demi God Raiment, she pressed fuse.
Suddenly, she felt a sting of pain in her body. Gritting her teeth, she furrowed her brows while watching the progress increase.
Since True Spirit Nature was something at the core of her being, having that taken away from her and fused into something else would definitely be painful. The Skill Alchemist has no inherent backlash but that doesn’t mean it’s the same for skills closely tied to her.
Cold sweat dripped down Shiro’s cheeks as the pain slowly subsided.
Once the pain completely disappeared, she looked at the new skill that appeared on her interface.
[Soul Maiden]
Similar to the Power of Hades, your influence stretches to the soul so that none can escape your grasp. You have mastery over all your elements and can use it to help you capture your enemies. Whether that be in a blazing hellfire or frozen landscape, if you have the attunement, you can use that to empower your Spirit Nature.
Activation cost: 1% of Divine Energy
Duration: 1% of Mana per second
Cooldown: N/A
Backlash: The longer you stay in this form, the more you exhaust your body. After a certain point, you will not be able to activate this skill unless you have given your body enough time to recover.
Reading this skill, Shiro sighed in relief and decided to give it a go. Since her True Spirit Nature was originally called Frigid Soul Keeper, she used the ice element first.
Suddenly, black mist appeared and wrapped around her body. A black dress with a long semi-transparent veil could be seen as the Soul Reaper Butterflies appeared without her activating the skill.
“Seems like I passively spawn you guys in now.” Shiro muttered with a small smile while looking at the butterflies.
