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725. Grand Skill Points

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There were three Grand Skills I could upgrade with my two brand new Grand Skill Points. It was between [Divine Essence Of The Angelic Devil Princess], [Claw Of Corruption], and [The World Of My Mind]. Each of these Grand Skills of mine had a different utility— they provided me different benefits, whether it be within a combat situation or outside a combat situation.

As of right now, I had a handful of permutations to distribute these Grand Skill Points. I could either split my Grand Skill Points between two of my Grand Skill— whether it was between [Divine Essence Of The Angelic Devil Princess] and [Claw Of Corruption], [Divine Essence Of the Angelic Devil Princes] and [The World Of My Mind], or [Claw Of Corruption] and [The World Of My Mind]. However, I could also expend all of my Grand Skill Points on a single Grand Skill.

If I was being completely honest, I wasn’t sure what I should even do. 

After all, I wasn’t sure how any of these Grand Skills would function differently even with an upgrade. 

Well, I knew that [Claw Of Corruption] became far more effective at preventing enemies from escaping while simultaneously corrupting its target— and in general being more powerful than before— when I leveled it up the first time around. And while that was definitely an upgrade, it didn’t feel like nearly as much of an upgrade as [My Flames Shall Burn Until Eternity Ends] got when I leveled it up.

So that made me apprehensive about upgrading [Claw Of Corruption] even further. 

And [The World Of My Mind] lacked any combat utility in general as of right now. Not only that, but I had been able to improve my control over my pocket space simply by upgrading my space magic in general. 

However, does that mean I will get a much better upgrade now if I level it up? I wondered to myself.

The Grand Skill which drew my most interest was [Divine Essence Of The Angelic Devil Princess]. For a multitude of reasons, of course— the main being that it was the best Skill I had for combat situations.

Perhaps if I level it up, I will be able to increase my Stat Boost from it, I thought as I rubbed my chin in excitement and curiosity. Or maybe it will just give me a passive aura of divinity at all times.

I didn’t know what leveling up [Divine Essence Of The Angelic Devil Princess] could unlock, but that was what I was burning to find out. I knew I could spend my second Grand Skill point on either of my other Grand Skills. However, I already had my mind set on what my first Grand Skill point was going to be spent on.

“Alright, let’s see what you have for me…”

I whispered to myself in trepidation as I focused on [Divine Essence Of The Angelic Devil Princess]. And just like that, I leveled up the Grand Skill.

I expected something fancy to happen— a massive powerup to immediately occur. However, I knew that was not how it usually worked. But considering that I already had [Divine Essence Of The Angelic Devil Princess] active, I thought there would be some kind of an immediate effect.

But there was nothing. I didn’t experience an increase in my boost in my Stats. I didn’t feel a sudden surge in power. Nor did I feel like my control over my divinity had improved in any significant way.

Frowning, I raised a hand and focused the wisps of iridescent flames flaking off my body into my palm. They eddied there like normal. I created a sword, before turning it into a sickle, and finally created a pair of gloves with it. There was nothing special about them.

I clenched my fists, snuffing out the flames.

“Huh, that is odd.”

I narrowed my eyes at myself. I twirled around, looking to see if there was any physical change to my body. But there was nothing.

“Um, did I just waste my Grand Skill Point?”

I asked the question to nobody in particular. It was genuinely odd to me. I wondered if maybe there was an unseen and unquantifiable improvement to my [Divine Essence Of The Angelic Devil Princess]— or maybe the upgrades would only take into effect later on, because it was still currently in effect from before it was upgraded.

I had no idea. All I knew was that there was nothing I could do right now but hope that I didn’t waste a Grand Skill Point.

“Well, that kinda sucks. But I still have one more Grand Skill Point to play around with, I guess.”

I muttered to myself as I shook my head. Right now, I had to make a choice between my two remaining Grand Skills. Well, I could always expend the remaining Grand Skill Point on [Divine Essence Of The Angelic Devil Princess], hoping that something different happened this time.

But I didn’t feel like taking that big of a risk at the moment.

Instead, I decided to take a smaller risk. While I knew the general idea of what came with upgrading [Claw Of Corruption], I wasn’t too impressed with it. So I wanted to see whether [The World Of My Mind] could receive an improvement that could… well, at the very least, surprise me.

And surprise me it did.

The moment I spent the Grand Skill Point on [The World Of My Mind], it immediately felt as though my mind expanded. Like the very capabilities of what I could do with my pocket space had greatly increased. 

My head snapped up as I brought a hand to the air. Immediately, I opened a rift straight into my pocket space. And as I stepped through that door-like hole in space, I was not greeted by the empty and dark glass-like world that I was normally limited to.

Instead, my feet sank into a carpet of grass. And instead of being greeted by the darkness of the fold between the planes, I saw a blue sky overhead. Clouds were drifting by as I swept my gaze over my surroundings. 

“Huh.”

I stood atop a grass knoll, surrounded from all sides by an empty plains. And when I focused, raising my hand, the world changed.

A dense lush forest grew all around me. It rose from the ground quickly, rising high to create a canopy that drowned out the light from above. And there was just light coming down— no sun.

I smiled as I looked around my pocket space. I only had one comment.

“Nice.”

Author's Notes:

Short chapter today because I promised one but idk today I've felt very off and lethargic the whole day. Will make up for the length with a chapter tomorrow too.

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