"Welp...this is one hell of an improvement."
[Report. Success! The E-Rank Mana Crystals have been successfully absorbed.]
[Mana Capacity gained from all the E-Rank Mana Crystals: 3285.]
[Extra Mana Capacity gained from each E-Rank Mana Crystal absorbed with the use of Fury of Dantian Skill: 6.]
[Total amount of extra Mana Capacity: 3600]
[Total amount of Mana Capacity gained from Mana Crystal absorption: 6885.]
[Report. Advancements in the Subject's overall Warrior info have been detected as a result of recent actions.]
[Now calculating advancements...]
[Cultivator Skill has advanced from D-Rank to C-Rank. Cultivator's Sub-Skill Astral Unification has advanced from D-Rank to C-Rank. Cultivator's Sub-Skill Fury of Dantian Skill has advanced from F-Rank to D-Rank.]
[Weapon Fanatic's Sub-Skill Bladework's effects on the Subject's Stats have increased. Effect on Strength has increased by 400. Effect on Speed has increased by 450. Effect on Health has increased by 1800 and effect on Intelligence has increased by 2500. Now redesigning the effects of the A-Rank Bladework Sub-Skill on the Subject...]
A-Rank Bladework Sub-Skill: Effects When Active
• Strength +1300
• Speed +1570
• Health +2760
• Intelligence +3720
[Furthermore, Mana Capacity has increased by 3350+6885. Strength has increased by 550. Speed has increased by 650. Health has increased by 1200 and Intelligence has increased by 1800.]
[Now redesigning overall Warrior info...]
Name: Raid
Surname: ???
Affiliation: Awakened Warrior
Class: Blacksmith
Skills:
• Craft D-Rank : ....
• Repair D-Rank: ....
• Weapon Fanatic C-Rank: ....
•• Bladework A-Rank: ....
••• Sunset Slash: ....
• Treasure Hunt B-Rank: ....
•• Soul-Piercing Eyes C-Rank: ....
• Mine D-Rank: ....
• Item Space B-Rank: ....
• Brawler C-Rank: ....
•• Demolition Strike: ....
• Cultivator C-Rank: Possesses an expert level of mastery in Mana manipulation, through the use of a Dantian.
•• Astral Unification C-Rank: Allows one to unify many aspects of oneself through breathing for the purpose of increasing sensory perception, Mana manipulation efficiency and overall amount of Mana.
•• Fury of Dantian D-Rank: Sizeable Dantian that acts as the Mana Source of the Subject. Can temporarily increase Subject's Mana Capacity four-fold. Significantly increases Mana manipulation efficiency. Adds 140% extra Mana Capacity when absorbing Mana Crystals.
• Resilient Regeneration D-Rank: ....
• Hypermove E-Rank: ....
Rank: F
Level: Locked
Mana Capacity: 16648
Strength: 3240
Speed: 3463
Health: 4254
Intelligence: 5090
"There's three things I've learned through absorbing all six-hundred and fifty-seven of those Mana Crystals."
One, how the Bladework Skill works. Or rather how all Skills, A-Rank and above work. The effects they have on a Warrior's Stats isn't determined by the strength of the Skill, rather by the strength of the Warrior. The effects are set to match the current Stats of the Warrior. So the higher the Stats, the higher the effects.
Furthermore once a Skill reaches A-Rank, its further advancements to higher Ranks isn't determined by the strength of the Warrior but by their willpower, however unlike how effects work, this concept isn't something the System told me, rather a theory I came up with on my own. Now for the second thing I learned, how the Fury of Dantian Skill works, specifically, at first, it said it could temporarily increase my Mana Capacity two-fold when it was F-Rank, now it's says "four-fold" instead since it's now D-Rank.
What I've gathered from this is that it adds a fold when it goes one Rank higher. Then there's the extra Mana Capacity it gives when I absorb Mana Crystals which was 120% before and is 140% now, indicating that it adds 10% each time it goes one Rank higher. My conclusion is that by the time the Skill reaches SSS-Rank, the temporary increase in Mana Capacity will have reached ten-fold while the extra Mana Capacity it gives when absorbing Mana Crystals will be 200%.
Then there's the fact that the Dantian now acts as my Mana Source. All living beings, rather all living beings that can generate Mana, have what is called a Mana Source, which is where their Source Mana mostly resides. For monsters, their Mana Source is their monster core, for Warriors, it varies from person to person between the brain (similar to how it was for me), the lungs and heart but since I got the Dantian that became my new Mana Source, it's possible I have a Mana Source that might have the highest potential in Mana manipulation efficiency.
As for the last but not the least of the things I've learned; the ins and outs of Mana Crystal absorption, or to be more specific, the ins and outs of my Mana Crystal absorption. I've learned that the way I absorb Mana Crystals isn't necessarily similar to how all the other Warriors do it. While I'm still uncertain about their exact methods, one thing is for sure, no other Warrior has a Skill that allows them to absorb Mana Crystals.
Furthermore, ever since my Cultivator Skill reached D-Rank, There isn't any Mana Crystal of any Rank that I can't absorb. The only aspect that is currently fixed is the amount of Mana Crystals I can absorb at once depending on the Rank. To be more specific, the Cultivator Skill allows me to absorb 100 Mana Crystals that are of the same Rank as itself at once.
And that number either decreases or increases by 10 when dealing with Mana Crystals of either higher or lower Ranks respectively. Because of that, I was able to absorb 110 E-Rank Mana Crystals at once at a time. And from now on, I'll be able to absorb 120 of them at once. I can't, however, absorb Mana Crystals of varying Ranks at the same time, nor do I want to.
The amount of Mana Capacity one gains from each Mana Crystal is determined by the crystal's Rank. Specifically, all Mana Crystals of a certain Rank give five times as much Mana Capacity as Mana Crystals of one Rank below. For F-Ranks, it's 1 Mana Capacity, for E-Ranks, it's 5, for D-Ranks, it's 25 and so on. In my case, I'm only getting extra Mana Capacity because of my, shall we say, "unorthodox" methods of absorbing Mana Crystals. I've found three different methods of absorbing Mana Crystals and all of them vary in the amount of Mana Capacity they give me.
I had tried them all when absorbing those 657 Mana Crystals. The first was to simply use only Cultivator to absorb them. I absorbed 7 at once and I didn't get any extra Mana Capacity, just a measly 35 while my Mana Capacity Stat along with the others increased a little on their own.
The second method of absorption was to use the four Skills I had used before, there was still no extra Mana Capacity but in addition to gaining 250 Mana Capacity from it, said-Mana Capacity along with the other Stats increased by a lot. I then absorbed the crystals using all four of the previous Skills in addition to the Fury of Dantian, my Stats incomparably increased even higher and the amount of extra Mana Capacity made me dizzy.
The conclusion was that Stats increase as a result of achieving certain feats, the more difficult the feat, the higher the increase in Stats. Hence the difference in the increase between using one Skill to absorb and using four Skills to absorb. While it's true, I could achieve the same objective of extra Mana Capacity, absorbing Mana Crystals through the use of two simple Skills being Cultivator and Fury of Dantian, the increase in my Stats in particular will undoubtedly diminish.
Which led me to make a decision.
"From now on. I'll absorb Mana Crystals using five Skills total! The pay off will be humungous! Mwahaha!"
My maniacal laugh echoed through the quiet empty room.
"Ahem...now then, what should I do next now that I'm done with the absorption. Hmm... I'd like to see about some crafting, using either some Cold Iron or the weapons and equipment I sto-I mean "borrowed" from the Zeke Party. Yeah, let's do that... Open Item Space."