My Skill Bar is Full of Monster Skills-Chapter 63: The Path of Classes

"No problem." Raine nodded in agreement.

"Of course there are, actually, regarding any spell, especially low-level spells, there are quite a few modifications."

"After all, almost every year on the Valzeg Continent, amazing genius mages appear, and over time, the accumulation of related modified spells becomes quite substantial."

"Also, the last situation you mentioned should be rather rare, because the purpose of the Gigantification Spell is to increase size. Generally speaking, the direction of modification doesn’t focus on reducing the spell’s effect in terms of amplification."

"Of course, to my knowledge, it’s not unheard of. There are very few mages who, in order to simplify the Gigantification Spell to a First Level Spell, had to weaken its effects."

"But even if there are modified spells, it doesn’t mean they are easy to acquire. Any kind of modified spell is often the painstaking work of an outstanding mage, and very few circulate in the market."

"Uh... thank you." Raine bowed slightly.

I have to say, Master Benjamin in front of me gave very detailed answers.

In Raine’s view, it’s totally worth the charge of 1 Silver Coin.

At the same time, Raine was quite pleased.

’Although there are differences, at least it can be explained, so there’s no need to deliberately hide or secretly perform it in the future.’

Raine then asked a few more questions, all about other spell-like abilities he had, such as Silent Roar, Stepping into Darkness, and Acoustic Positioning.

Basically, they are similar to the situation with Gigantification.

Although what Raine mastered was essentially monster skills, which have a qualitative difference from orthodox spells.

But the genius mages on the Valzeg Continent, over thousands or even more years, have also created and accumulated many modified spells based on orthodox spells, many of which are very similar in appearance to the monster skills Raine mastered.

Take Raine’s Silent Roar, for example.

Initially, Master Benjamin mentioned an orthodox spell with a similar name — the Second Level Spell Silence Spell.

This spell’s effect is to make the designated sound disappear within a radius of about six meters, but Raine’s Silent Roar has no silencing effect at all. Instead, it releases high-frequency sound waves.

More importantly, the Second Level Spell Silence Spell can only interfere with or interrupt spells requiring incantation. If the opponent’s spellcasting only needs hand signs, or rather, doesn’t require incantation, it can’t be stopped.

However, his Silent Roar can produce interference effects as long as the opponent’s spell isn’t cast instantly.

So, when Raine described the effect of Silent Roar, Master Benjamin immediately pointed out that the spell Raine envisioned was actually somewhat like a combination of the Third Level Spell ’Spell Counter’ and the Ninth Level Spell ’Mind Scream’.

What surprised Raine was that ancient mages did innovate in this direction.

This made Raine feel fortunate, aside from marveling at the unrelenting exploration and innovation desire of mages, he was lucky because thanks to these brilliant ancient mages, when he uses these monster skills in the future, it won’t be impossible to explain them.

"Master Benjamin, I would like to inquire about one more thing regarding profession advancement." After asking about spells, Raine asked again.

"Besides conventional classes like Warriors and Wanderers, are the advancement conditions for special classes, like the Dwarves’ Giant Hammer Warrior, explicit?"

"This question is a bit pricier, two Silver Coins," Benjamin smiled kindly and said.

"Of course." Raine inwardly relaxed; he didn’t expect this question to be so affordably priced too.

"Classes and combat skills don’t correspond one-to-one. For instance, mastering Tornado Slash, Horizontal Slash, and Shield Bash can make you a Warrior, but those mastering those three combat skills might also become a Shield Master, a special branch of Warrior."

"So now the mainstream view is that this is related to personal insights during advancement. In other words, the conditions for advancement are not explicit."

At this point, Benjamin paused and added.

"Of course, the conditions for advancement aren’t completely without traces. For example, a necessary condition for advancing to Shield Master is mastering a shield-type combat skill. However, this conclusion is purely empirical, without any counterexamples thus far."

"Additionally, say you have mastered spells but no combat skills, then you are less likely to advance as a Warrior."

"And if you have mastered only combat skills, it’s unlikely you would advance as a Mage."

"However, if you have mastered excellent sword skills as well as spells, then you could potentially advance into a special class like Curse Swordsman. Still, it’s only potential. To my knowledge, the success rate isn’t high."

Hearing this, Raine couldn’t help but nod.

He somewhat understood what Master Benjamin meant.

In advancing as a class, one can generally define a range according to one’s combat skills and spells, but it can’t be explicit.

As for someone like him, who knows spells and combat skills, it’s especially ambiguous.

"Master Benjamin, my last question is, can you confirm if someone has caster talent?" Raine asked this question to confirm whether he himself had other talents.

Because up to now, he has only encountered the Frost Spell Zero Level Spell ’Freezing Ray’, and has not yet encountered others in the Evocation line like Fire Spell, Earth Magic, and so forth.

As for other categories of spells, there’s no need to mention.

"Of course, but this test is relatively pricy—it requires 10 Silver Coins."

"No problem, Master Benjamin." After a brief moment of thought, Raine nodded.

Hearing Raine’s answer, Master Benjamin was a little surprised too. The young man in front of him, wearing a Horned Helmet and clearly dressed as a Warrior Apprentice, was actually willing to spend 10 Silver Coins for a caster aptitude test.

Could it be that this young man has some powerful bloodline in him, making him an unsurfaced Mage?

This made Benjamin take a closer look at Raine.

"Okay, young man, please follow me."

Raine followed Benjamin into a room at the side.

What met Raine’s eyes was the Hexagram Array in the center of the room, emitting a flickering glow, and four about half-meter-tall Crystal Pillars around it.

"Young man, here we will conduct four tests to assess aptitude in different areas."

"It’s well known that a mage requires a certain amount of spiritual power to communicate with the Magic Net, so those with weak spiritual power cannot sustain even the expense of a First Level Spell."

"Next is the perception of mysterious energy, like Evocation Masters often have an affinity with water, fire, etc., while Illusionists have an affinity with Star Realm Energy, and so on."

"Furthermore, is stability and control, as the environment where battles occur is often quite harsh..."

...

Ten minutes later, Raine and Benjamin emerged from the room once more.