shopping
Oliver had no problem dealing with the remaining 49 groups of soldiers, it took him around 10 hours before he could return to base camp, and most of his time was spent lying in wait for the perfect time to strike, the actual assault only latest at most 10 minutes with the combination of [lighting field (B-grade) (25)] and [mana domain (S-grade) (9)], the shortest one took only 2 minutes, but that was mainly because of the poor skills of their commander.
In these assaults Oliver had also discovered the maximum level of his [lighting field (B-grade) (25)] which happened to be 25, the maximum level of the [S-grade] skills and above were still a mystery to him, but that's only logical since they are much harder to level up, in his previous life he couldn't even find out the maximum level of [B-grade] skills even though he was in the 5th round of the second phase.
The loot he got from all the groups combined was excellent, the armor and weapons were at best subpar, but the number of coins and exp was crazy, in the first group, their commander was a support type, so his level slagged behind, but all the following groups had commanders all at level 9, so the total amount of exp he got was around 65 billion, giving him enough exp to level up to level 14, only 1 away from reaching the threshold of [Tier 1], the coins he got where also overwhelming, a total of around 1.25 billion, giving him a total of 1.5 billion coins, a nice sum but not nearly an amount that he could be satisfied with.
With the teleportation skill Oliver was back at base camp in no time, but before going in he went to a secluded area to summon Anna, now that he had some time while the enemy was hiding inside their base, he was planning on having dinner and walking around for a little, trying to think his plans through, and he might as well do that with Anna.
"I Oliver Smith summon Anna the child of light."
As always, a dim holy light could be seen with a beautiful woman inside.
"Hello there, Anna, as beautiful as always."
Before Oliver could even focus on Anna's blushing face, he looked at her armor and remembered that he had made a promise.
"A, thank you, and hello to you too Oliver, why have you summoned me."
"Well, I was planning on having some relaxing time, you know, going to dinner doing some sightseeing and so forth, and I thought it would be nice if you could join me, but before that it seems that I need to fulfill a promise I made some time ago."
"What promise."
After saying that, Anna seemed to have realized what promise Oliver was talking about, and her face lid up with a bright smile.
"You got it, we are going shopping, this is good timing actually, I happen to also need something from the shop."
Anna was already wiggling in place, eager to go.
"Are we leaving now?"
"Yea, but before that I have a question, can you buy things from the shop, or do I have to buy them for you?"
"Yes, from what I know every guard above [SSS-grade] has all the same qualifications and rights as players and as guards, so can we go now?"
"Let's go then."
Normally if Oliver and Anna sprinted it would only take a minute to reach the shop, but today they took their time and just walked over there and took that opportunity to have a nice conversation, they arrived at the shop 2 hours later.
When they arrived and stepped inside, Oliver started looking for the skill [thunder gods descend(S-grade)], but he realized Anna just standing there.
"Anna, what's going on?"
"I wanted you to pick out something."
"I appreciate it Anna, I really do, but I have no fashion sense at all, so I really couldn't, before I forget, only pick [S-grade] equipment."
When Oliver said that he looked at his own gear and realized he himself could also use a big upgrade, with the amount of damage he was doing he didn't really notice his equipment getting obsolete.
After looking around for a bit he found himself a new robe some gloves, a new ring, boots, leather armor for under the robe and a new wand, in the midst of all of this he also found a [S-grade] storage ring, so he promptly replaced his old one, it was quite a disappointment that there were no more rings for sale, even none at the lower grades, after all Oliver had 10 fingers and only 2 were being used.
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[Staff of thunder (S-grade)]
+120 intelligence
+80% damage to lightning related spells.
+gives you a profounder knowledge of the lightning element.
+can store mana up to [10,000] for emergency use.
Description: a staff forged and tempered by the lighting itself.
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There was one weird attribute that many people dismissed in my past life, this one has to do with knowledge, but there were also ones that said they would bring you closer to the element itself, it did nothing, so it was largely ignored, only now with the knowledge of [Tier 1] beings and how they cast their spells did Oliver know how valuable this was, well to other people that is, with his current affinity of 97% he could understand the lighting element extremely fast when he finally got his mana body even without this staff.
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[Arctic robe (S-grade)]
+200 defense
+40% elemental damage reduction.
+Arctic robe can freeze until it is rock solid for 10 seconds negating 99% of damage, has to cool down for 5 hours after use.
Description: a robe ones wore by the quine of the ice lands.
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The robe was a good find, normally robes have barely any defends, but this one had surprisingly a lot, it even had a defensive skill.
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[elven leather armor (S-grade)]
+250 defense
+100 agility
+25% physical damage reduction.
Description: an armor made for the archers of the elven royal guard.
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The armor didn't have any special skills or the like, but it gave agility, which was quite rare for armor, so Oliver decided to pick it up.
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[gloves of channeling (S-grade)]
+200 defense
+gives your mind accelerated thinking while thinking in runic language
+doubles the power of 1 spell with no extra cost, has to cool down for 2 hours
Description: gloves that assist you in channeling mana.
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The only reason Oliver bought this was because of the second option, this was the only thing that after his mana body was made could make his casting faster, now his cast time was fast because the names of the spells were easy, but the runic language would be a lot harder.
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[runic ring (S-grade)]
+120 intelligence
+25% damage to lightning attacks
Description: a ring carved with runic symbols.
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The ring wasn't that special, and it didn't have that high or crazy stats, but rings never had those to begin with.
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[boots of quickness (S-grade)]
+150 defense
+120 agility
+40% agility
+doubles your speed for 5 minutes, has a cooldown time of 1 hour
Description: these boots were made with only speed in mind.
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The boots were his best find today, its states in agility were unmatched, Oliver guessed that these boots should be really close to becoming a [SS-grade] item.
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[Ring of storage (S-grade)]
Description: can store up to 1000 m^3 of non-living things, time doesn't flow inside, and it gives the wearer a +75% mana regen effect.
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The new Ring of storage was also really needed, with all the items he had been carrying around, his [A-grade] ring was almost full, and the extra mana regen was always welcome.
Of course, he couldn't forget the reason he had to come here in the first place, the skill he had been wanting for a long time, [thunder gods descend(S-grade)]
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[thunder gods descend(S-grade) (1)]
Description: let a giant lightning bolt descent from the sky that deals (intelligence x 10) over an area of 500 meters around the fallen lightning bolt.
Cast time: 0
Cost: 7000 mana
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The damage and more than that the area of effect were insane, he could probably do over 25,000 damage when the skill was only at level 1.
Now that Oliver was done, he looked at Anna who started telling him what she had bought, apparently it was a heavy armor set in the same colors as her normal attire, dark red with golden accents, a big shied and some basic sword.
After I confirmed all the purchases, the total price came to about 500 million, putting a slight dent in Oliver's pockets.
Now that all the necessary things were done, Oliver and Anna went to dinner.