Healing System

It's one of the perks I exchanged many of your skills for. With it's abilities, you can bypass a lot of the restrictions placed on your power growth. Skill Sacrifice makes it so you can choose one or more skills to sacrifice, and in exchange, you can power up a skill of your choosing.

'That sounds pretty overpowered but is it worth it? Isn't Skill Merging still better?' Michael wondered, after all, skill merging produced a higher rank skill than the ones he used to merge together with.

But at the same time, he knew that enhancing his already existing skills would be very useful, as normally, they can only be upgraded under special circumstances.

Well, you kind of answered your own question, didn't you? But yes, both are equally as good but I would say Skill Sacrifice is a little better since there is no defined limit to how much you can enhance a single skill.

'I see... that is pretty interesting then, can I test it out now?' Michael asked while opening his status and clicking on the Skill Sacrifice button.

Why ask me if you are going to do it anyway... Do keep in mind though, the skills you sacrifice will not reappear and will not get stronger. For example, if you sacrifice Sword of Light, it would no longer show up as a skill, but since you had prior experience of using it, you would still be able to do it.

'So kind of like my mana clothing ability then?'

Yes, the same skill can only be registered once. When it is gone, it can no longer come back to the system, so choose wisely which skill you want to either merge or sacrifice.

Michael nodded and looked back at the Skill Sacrifice window, it looked nearly identical to the Skill Merging one, but the order was a bit reversed.

He needed to select a skill to enhance and then right after, a skill to sacrifice.

It seemed like he could enhance both passive and active skills, it was definitely a great thing.

However, as that thought came to mind, he quickly exited out of the Skill Sacrifice window and opened up Skill Merging, but despite his high expectations, he was left disappointed.

Michael expected to be able to combine passive skills, yet it seemed like enhancing them was the most he could do at the current moment.

Don't worry too much, you will have a bunch of skills in the future, it would be the perfect time to merge them then.

He ignored the system's words and opened the Skill Sacrifice menu back up and debated on which skill to enhance.

It seemed like he could only enhance the already existing skill with other skills that were of the same rank, pretty much just like with Skill Merging.

Michael thought about it for a moment and noticed that there was only one clear choice, and that was to enhance the Sword of Light skill.

All of the other skills proved to be quite useful and it would be best if he held onto them for a while longer.

As for the skill he decided to sacrifice, It was Veil of Detection, the skill he practically never used because he already managed to passively feel the mana around him, practically the same as what the skill was supposed to do.

Michael had asked the system about it previously and why it had not turned into a passive skill, but it just gave him some lackluster response about how there was already a similar skill to it or whatever.

It's not lackluster, you just don't know how to use Eyes of The Healer yet. When you figure that out, your life will get much easier than it is now, trust me.

'Right right, I'll do that later, first, I need to enhance this skill' Michael said and pressed the sacrifice button, a bright blue light instantly flashing in front of his eyes, momentarily blinding him.

But once it was finished, what greeted his eyes was...

Sword of Light [Beginner] [Active]

#Summon 1 or multiple swords containing the Light affinity.

*Cost: >1% MP/S

The same-looking Sword of Light skill, its description had not even changed, the only thing that did was the rarity, as it only went up from Basic to Beginner.

Michael slumped back even further on the sofa 'Is this some sort of joke?' He could not believe that this was what he got from the supposed Skill Sacrifice.

The system had made him think that it would be special, yet it was pretty underwhelming.

Your impatience is your greatest flaw. The skill did get enhanced, maybe you would have found it out if you used it?

'The description is the same though?' Michael stood up off of the ground and listened to the system's words even though he was a tad bit doubtful.

He summoned a single Sword of Light and much to his surprise, it seemed like it had gotten sharper. It seemed like the cost had been reduced by a fair deal too.

Michael just could not understand why it was not in the description, would have saved him a minute of sulking.n/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om

As I have already said, there are limitations, one way to bypass them is to not update the new status description. The skill's power had increased by at the very least two times, hence why it might seem sharper to you.

'You talk about limits, but aren't you the Archangel Michael yourself, the one who had been turned into a system, why would there be limits?' Michael asked as he walked back to the sofa. He pretty much finished all he wanted to do.

The feather had been absorbed and he could see it in the status screen, besides that, he could not even feel that it was even inside of his body.

I had one too many negative encounters with the other Michael's for there to not be a limit. I imposed it myself and made it practically impossible to remove... As for the feather, just think of it as a resident inside of your own body until you awaken your bloodline.

'Oh.. sorry for bringing back bad memories..' Michael apologized, he could tell from the system's previous and current tone that it did not like talking about those particular times.

It's fine, you will get to experience those memories in the future as well, I am just giving you a heads-up that they won't be pretty. Anyways... I think it's time for you to go visit Kevin. Or are you planning on lazing around until that academy event?

Michael's hand which had been reaching for the TV remote, froze 'Ha? Of course not, I'll go' He stood back up and walked towards the door.

'How big is the map range now?' He asked as he headed down the elevator and after telling the receptionist that he would be checking out, he casually summoned a single sword of light and flew into into sky.

Hmm? I can feel around 30 kilometers around you now, the halo had unsealed a bit of my own strength as well. I can also use it as a catalyst now, just make sure to channel mana into it when you are not doing anything, it stores up and I'll use it if an emergency arises.

'Sure' Michael nodded, and a map appeared right in front of his face, displaying the entire area of Inner Vivum.

He looked around for a few moments, looking for one area in particular.

Michael had looked all around the entire hospital and could not find Elizabeth, but if she could be anywhere, it would be right next to Kevin.

After a bit more searching, he finally found Kevin's mana signature, and it was weak, however, what surprised him the most was the fact that there were quite a lot of red dots surrounding him.

And as he suspected, just a few meters away from Kevin, there was also another mana signature he could feel, and even from this distance, he could tell that it was Elizabeth and that she had really been cursed.

You should go, Kevin is having some trouble with the imps it seems like. Oh and do try to find out more information from him, the Michael he talked about is not part of my memories.

'And you couldn't tell me this sooner?' Michael's eyebrow twitched at the system's comment, but before they could argue further, he felt a lot of mana be unleashed from where Kevin currently was.

It was not the normal kind of mana, instead, it was the chaotic kind he felt from the imps as well as Adam and Eve... and well, Baldor.

They are summoning a demon, hurry up already.

Michael sighed and began flying as fast as he could towards Kevin and Elizabeth.

'I know.'