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Chapter 96: Technical skill

Chapter 96: Technical skill

The technical skills, as the players liked to call them, were the manual skills that players could create by repeating the same actions repeatedly in the game.

It was something that gave an edge to the skill professionals of the real world.

As they joined the game, for them, developing these skills was much easier.

There were cases in his past life where some professional chefs were able to create a dozen cooking skills within weeks inside the game.

Whereas a gamer who was just playing a chef class would only have half a dozen skills, even months after playing.

It was the same case with blacksmiths, painters, singers, and other manual skill-based jobs. But that was just a small section of the technical skills.

Where this method truly shone was in learning martial arts techniques or mana arts methods from the NPCs.

Some humans used mana for physical enhancement and transformed that mana into the aura, which they then used for martial arts.

Then some mages used mana in its purest form and molded it into different powers—that was the way of the wizard.

Some species, like elves, used mana to form a bond with spirits, which then allowed them to manipulate nature itself.

Then there were the likes of dwarves who trapped mana inside tools to create mana artifacts and weapons.

Some shamans used the same mana to curse others.

Then there were beings like angels and demons who had their unique ways of using mana.

Almost every species had their way of using mana—some of it limited to their special talents, while most revolved around how they utilized the mana.

The players called them different paths of mana utilization.

Now, the big thing here was that players could learn all of these methods—if they managed to convince an NPC or creature to teach them.

The only restriction was that once you selected a path, you could not backtrack and learn skills from other paths.

This was the way most of the big guilds in his past life formed strong connections with legendary figures inside the game.

It was a relationship where the big guilds would do tasks for those figures, and in return, the legends would choose a couple of guild members as their students.

Even the big NPC families used this method to attract guilds to work with them.

Though all of that was too far away for him. After all, to get an NPC teacher, he had to make a name for himself in the game first.

That kind of stuff was more suitable for Tier 2 cities onward.

The technical method he was aiming for was the player-created technique.

Some people recreated some of the cool fantasy skills inside the game, but all those methods were extremely secret and heavily guarded.

Though there were a few that got leaked to the public, and he was aiming for one of them. It was the Mana Burnout method. freeweɓnovēl.coɱ

It was a scary, suicidal technique that required endless use of mana to the point that all the mana veins inside the player’s body got overused to the point that they started burning.

End result: you would die.

But there was this one crackhead in his past life who developed a type of mana channeling that not only saved you, but gave you a new mana technique.

Too bad the guy did all of that on a live internet stream.

He was mainly one of those people who tried different suicidal ways inside the game to entertain others.

Forsyx remembered the videos of that stream.

From what he knew, the guy was a specialist in taking mana burning to extremes that gave you the most painful death.

It was a weird kink that many on the internet seemed to enjoy at the time.

It happened during one of the streams where the guy was doing the same thing.

Just channeling mana in this weird way into his mind, trying to make his head burst like a balloon.

Things were going as they were supposed to, with the crackhead screaming in pain while still pushing himself... but then suddenly, blue cracks appeared all over his body, and in the next moment, nothing happened.

There was no death scene, just the guy going back to his normal state while staring wide-eyed at the sky.

Everyone saw him close the livestream in a panic, and the guy even deleted the whole stream in the next moment.

But like people say, once on the internet, always on the internet.

There were many people who somehow recorded the entire stream.

Many started questioning the crackhead, while some brave ones took it upon themselves to try those methods.

It took a few attempts, but eventually, people discovered the mana burning method.

It was kind of funny. This mana burning method was such a good technical skill that it could’ve changed the crackhead’s life, but the livestream just ruined it for him.

Within less than a week, the method of mana burning spread throughout the internet, making it one of the staple techniques that was a must-learn for mana-based players.

The only good thing was, all of this had happened much later in his past life.

If he remembered correctly, it happened around the time he had the Template Wielder class, so he still had 3–4 years.

Forsyx started walking toward the Kiyon guild office.

There were two requirements to learn this method.

First, the player needed a skill with no cooldown that they could spam to consume their mana.

It was kind of a hard requirement, as even the weakest of skills had a few seconds of cooldown in the game.

The good thing, though, was that his Template Shift had no such cooldown.

The second requirement was access to a large amount of mana.

Now, for that, he had to rely on mana potions.

Also, the thing was he wasn’t just aiming for the normal mana burnout, but for an advanced variant of this technical skill.

The thing was, mana burning was a base method, where tweaking the mana channeling would lead to the development of different technical skills.

It’s just that once you have gained one skill, you wouldn’t backtrack to develop others. He was aiming for one such explosive skill that would suit him most.

It didn’t take him long to get back inside the guild office. There, he spotted Fakun on the sofa, surrounded by his teammates.

He waved at the guy. "Fakun, I need your help."

Other members inside the guild looked at the entire situation with interest.

Fakun rushed to him. "Yeah, what do you want, sir?"

Forsyx noticed many new faces who were whispering about him. They were likely Fakun’s teammates.

Not caring about them, he asked, "I want an empty room and some low mana potions from the guild vault."

Fakun raised his eyebrow and asked, "How many mana potions do you want, sir?"

Forsyx just mumbled, "Player status."

He focused on his mana.

It was still at the initial stage of 50 mana. In his current state, each of the common shifts took around 2–3 mana, so that gave him around 20 to 25 active shifts.

Now that he wanted to do this, he also wanted to work on the fast shift.

In his past life, he maxed out at switching three template shifts per second. Anything above that, and he lost focus. He wanted to use this opportunity to train and at least reach the same speed as in his past life.

So that was going to take around 8–10 seconds. He clicked his tongue and decided to place all six unassigned points into his intelligence stat.

After making the change, he mumbled, "Player status."

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Player Name: Forsyx

Species: Human/Nil

Class: Template Wilder

Level: 10

Health: 500/500

Mana: 110/110

STR: 15

AGL: 35

VIT: 25

INT: 11*

STA: 5

DEF: 5

Condition: Healthy

Unassigned Stat Points: 0*

Dark stats points: 71 (deactivated)

Template Slots:

Slot 1: Green Goblin.

:-> Extra stats: 2 Agility.

Slot 2: Pipler bird.

Slot 3: Green hook snake.

Class Skills:

→ Template Shift

→ Mark of Wilder I

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Now, the new changes gave him around 25 seconds. Satisfied with the changes, he said, "Just give me around 100 low mana recovery potions."

Fakun stared at him with his mouth wide open. He gulped and said, "Sir, that..." Before the guy could complain much, Forsyx just took out extra stuff from his inventory.

"Here. These are some things I don’t need."

One after another, he handed different grade Bucher’s knives to Fakun.

The guy didn’t react much to the trash and an iron-grade butcher knife.

But then Forsyx pulled out a mid-bronze-grade Shimaki Whip that he got as a reward for the highest contribution during the boss Hibiki Snake event.

He saw Fakun’s eyes shine for the first time.

But Forsyx didn’t stop there. Next, he pulled out two of his three Master Butcher Tokens.

"Here, add these two skill tokens to the guild vault," he said, the last part loud enough for everyone around to hear.

Sure enough, the moment they heard skill tokens, he saw everyone staring at Fakun.

On the other hand, Fakun just stared at the master butcher tokens with his mouth wide open.

Not caring about the crowd, Forsyx looked at his inventory.

All he had left now were just two low-bronze-grade butcher knives and the one Master Butcher Skill Token.

Also, there was the Hibiki Snake’s poison sac useless for him in combat but valuable for his lab experiments.

Fakun soon came to his senses. The guy just placed all the items in his inventory and said, "Just follow me, sir. I’ll guide you to the empty training room. Is there anything else you need, sir?"

Forsyx shook his head. "Nah, just the stuff I asked for will be sufficient."

With that, both of them started walking to the first floor while everyone on the ground floor whispered about the skill tokens.