Rest

"Ugh… I feel horrible"

Atlas complained as he lay on the ground.

It was the afternoon of the fourth day since they had arrived at the church. The mission had no time limit to be completed, the real limit was the food Atlas had left.

He was supposed to have food for a week, but being completely realistic, in one more day he would run out. This would have lasted a full week if Atlas wasn't expending so much energy, but to recover it was completely necessary for him to eat more than he wanted.

"One day… I have to complete that in one day…"

Atlas covered his face with his hand as he slowly let [Minor Regeneration] take effect. The potions had clearly already run out, so he had no choice but to rely completely on [Minor Regeneration].

Leaving his plans for tomorrow until later, Atlas opened the system.

Name: [Atlas] [Level: 61] [Exp: 40/100]

Race: [Human]

Stats: [HP: 28/57] [Mana: 32/51] [Magic Power: 21/26] [Strength: 12/22] [Agility: 13/47] [Dexterity: 32/40] [Intelligence: 33/ 33]

Title: [Non-existent]

Core: [First Core]

Missions: [2 available]

[Store]

[Point distribution]

Artifacts: [Maiden's Cloak] [Night Griffon Staff] [Black Crystal Ring] [Andreas Apostle's Ring]

Active Skills: [Minor Wind Blast] [Minor Fire Spark] [Eye of the Mad Bird] [Casting Delay] [Minor Wind Bullet] [Light Sphere] [Minor Quick Steps]

Passive Skills: [Human Language Valer] [Intermediate Poison Resistance] [Advance Potion Creation] [Minor Pain Resistance] [Aurdy runic language] [Intermediate Mana Control] [Minor Mana Sensation] [Minor reaction time] [Minor Regeneration]

Rewards: [1 Available]

With so much time on his hands, Atlas had been looking at the system too much lately, so he was fully aware of how much his stats had increased just in the three days he had been facing the apostle.

For months, his stats were stagnant as he needed mana cores to increase them. Except for his dexterity and intelligence which increased when he brewed potions.

However, his HP, strength, and agility depended on physical effort. The more he took damage and took his time to heal, the more his HP would eventually heal. The same thing happened with his strength, since he needed to train his body like a person would in the gym, then his muscles would regenerate with a good rest and his strength would increase.

Something similar happened with his agility, the more he moved, ran, etc. His agility would naturally improve, making him faster overall.

However, how much his stats could increase in three mere days was also very limited. He had only seen him increase from 1 to 5 points, which wasn't much but every point was worth it.

Although his level was completely stagnant since to level up, he needed to kill beasts, monsters or create potions. So, in a place like the church where there were no beasts, it was simply impossible.

But apart from his stats, there was something else that he had increased while he faced the apostle. The mastery of his skills.

[Human language Valer] Mastery: [68%]

[Intermediate Poison Resistance] Mastery: [11%]

[Advanced Potion Creation] Mastery: [15%]

[Minor Pain Resistance] Mastery: [48%]

[Aurdy runic language] Mastery: [52%]

[Intermediate Mana Control] Mastery: [30%]

[Minor Mana Sensation] Mastery: [32%]

[Minor reaction time] Mastery: [29%]

[Minor Regeneration] Mastery: [38%]

Every time he bought a skill, the mastery directly started at 20 points, so seeing that the three passive skills he had recently purchased had already gone up by 10% it was clearly an improvement.

Although, however, the improvement was so small that Atlas could barely tell the difference when using them. There were seven levels that he could achieve a skill, from minor to supreme, the change of 10% mastery to the first level was negligible.

[Minor Wind Blast] Mastery: [99%]

[Eye of the Mad Bird] Mastery: [52%]

[Minor fire spark] Mastery: [39%]

[Casting Delay]

[Minor Wind Bullet] Mastery: [25%]

[Light Sphere]

[Quick Steps] Mastery: [38%]

His passive skills were not the only ones that had increased, as the mastery of several of his active skills had also increased. But since Atlas was not attacking the apostle, they clearly did not increase at the same rate as his passive skills.

Atlas focused on a specific skill.

"99% mastery… Should I evolve it?"

[Minor Wind Blast] was about to level up, so taking advantage of the fact that he needed time to heal and that for the rest of the day he would not face the apostle again, Atlas sat cross-legged and closed his eyes concentrating.

Feeling the mana course through his body as he was driven by his heartbeat, Atlas brought the mana to his hands, then created two light green magic circles at the same time.

Both magic circles had designs that looked like mandalas. Each magic had its own magic circle, and although magic could also be activated with words, Atlas had never really learned how and didn't know how to do it.

The mana accumulated in both magic circles, then Atlas opened his eyes as he felt that the magic circles were filled to their maximum and created two air currents, fully controlling them as they moved around him like snakes.

The gusts were neither too strong nor too weak, nor were they too wide or too small.

Atlas was curious to know what would happen if he attacked the apostle from outside the garden, but he decided not to try. He did not want the apostle to suddenly ignore the boundary of the garden and attack him.

Then, while he was thinking that, the system spoke in his head.

[<Minor Wind Blast] mastery> has reached 100]

[The skill < Minor Wind Blast> evolves]

[You have obtained the skill <Intermediate Wind Blast>]

Atlas felt as if controlling the gusts of wind was suddenly easier than before. Furthermore, now that he had the [Intermediate Mana Control] skill, he could clearly sense how he needed less mana than before for the blasts to have the same power.

It wasn't an attack-only magic, and wasn't even very powerful, but it was better to have an intermediate skill than a minor skill.

Making the gusts of air disappear, Atlas looked at the system with satisfaction. However, the thought that he was staying without time did not leave his mind.

He still had to resist the apostle's attacks for more than two minutes, literally half of the five minutes.