My Level Zero System-Chapter 253: [Life Magic] magic skills

- [Life Magic ★★]:

- [Cure level 0] 0/300

- [Regeneration level 0] 0/300

- [Life Remove level 0] 0/300

- [Life Deprive level 0] 0/300

Looking at these newly appeared magic skills, Kain couldn’t help but sigh; the cost of [Life Magic] was truly no joke. The first level alone required 300 skill points for each magic skill, and Kain guessed that the required skill points for the next level would certainly not be less than 100 more.

However, when he thought about what he witnessed during his enlightenment, how he had almost touched the essence of the concept called "life," Kain felt that this resource expenditure was well worth it. It must be known that in many ancient tales, life has always been a mystery, a goal pursued by most people. And now, with his [Life Magic] leveled up, Kain felt that he had taken another step on that journey.

Currently, Kain felt full of vitality, a state he could fully assess through the condition of his own body. The stability of his organs, the speed of blood circulation, his sensory keenness... all had far surpassed their previous states. Kain even felt he would live for decades longer than the normal human lifespan. Moreover, unless his psyche was affected, his body would not show significant aging. This meant that even if Kain were a 100-year-old man, he would still look like a middle-aged man of 50 with a few more wrinkles.

Compared to leveling up magic systems like [Thunder Magic] or [Fire Magic], which only expanded Kain’s energy, [Life Magic] came with several other effects. It certainly didn’t waste the over 500 differing skill points. This change couldn’t help but broaden Kain’s perspective.

"The advancement of [Spirit Magic] allows me to expand my spiritual wavelength. The advancement of [Life Magic] makes my life force stronger and more persistent than usual."

"What would happen if I continued to advance these two types of magic? Would I literally become an immortal?" Kain pondered.

He knew the nature of living bodies: a continuous exchange of "resources" with the outside. Organisms eat, digest, absorb nutrients from external resources to create internal resources, replacing dead parts within and expelling them. Seriously, life is an almost perfect cyclical structural system. The reason it’s "almost perfect" is that despite the high completion of this system, it still cannot prevent loss; that is the limit, and what is called "lifespan."

So, who or what determines the lifespan of living creatures? Does a truly perfect circulatory system exist? And if it does... wouldn’t that be an immortal entity? Thinking this, Kain felt a headache coming on, so he had to temporarily set these wild speculations aside.

He focused on these new magic skills.

[Regeneration] goes without saying; it was Kain’s original goal when upgrading [Life Magic].

[Cure] is also very useful. Illness has always been a difficult problem to deal with, especially when in situations without readily available doctors or medicine.

[Life Remove] is a rather unique magic skill. Its effect allows Kain to transfer a portion of his own life force to others. [Heal] uses the life force of the treated target to accelerate their self-healing. [Regeneration] uses magical energy, transforming it into life force to support the perfect regeneration of major wounds, even those that couldn’t heal back to their original state.

As for [Life Remove], this magic skill directly uses the caster’s own life force as a source. It doesn’t require an additional transformation step, so its efficiency is much higher. Combined with [Regeneration] and [Cure], it is truly perfect. Of course, the life force lost by the caster will also be naturally replenished over time; for mid-class Magi specializing in [Life Magic], this happens even faster, virtually without any loss.

As for the final magic skill, [Life Deprive]. This is the only magic skill in [Life Magic] that possesses combat capabilities, though its effect isn’t overly dominant.

[Life Deprive], as its name suggests, allows Kain to deprive another entity of its life force, from the smallest weeds to humans, and even Magi. However, Magi with strong magic resistance can resist this effect, or even be completely immune to it. The deprived life force will, of course, belong to Kain. He can absorb life force, and can also use this life force as a source of power to cast [Regeneration], [Cure], and [Life Remove]. In general, while not overly effective against high-stage Magi, against other living entities without strong resistance, this magic skill seems to be a nightmare.

With the remaining skill points, Kain allocated all of them to [Regeneration].

[Regeneration level 0] 48/300 (+48)

Seeing the still-empty skill points, Kain couldn’t help but sigh. As his magical power grew, he thought gaining skill points would be easy, netting hundreds with each hunt, but the points required to level up magic skills also climbed steadily. The first floor of this mid-sized Dungeon was no longer enough for Kain to "feast."

"Time to move on to the next hunting ground. At the very least, I need to get [Regeneration] first."

Thinking this, Kain, without hesitation, entered the final room of this Dungeon floor’s guardian monster. This time, it was still the same gray mutated Slime, but Kain was vastly different. Without wasting a single moment, Kain immediately bombarded the unfortunate monster to death with [Thunder Magic], instantly gaining 15 skill points and advancing to the next floor of the Dungeon.

[Regeneration level 0] 63/300 (+15)

...

It was already evening; brilliant lights began to illuminate every corner of the city. In one of Whesling’s most luxurious and opulent buildings, Mera, in a splendid evening gown, walked arm in arm with her father into a high-society party.

Mera hadn’t experienced this type of soirée in a long time, but she felt no anticipation. Simply put, she wasn’t interested. So, after a quick round of greetings and polite boasting with the guests alongside Wilfred, Mera swiftly slipped away to the food counter.

Although beautifully arranged with all sorts of rare delicacies that commoners rarely saw, none of the high society folk touched them. At these parties, the only thing they consumed was the wine served to them. They called this "nobility," while Mera called them silly. Because of this, on the few occasions she did attend such parties, she was often given strange looks. But she didn’t care. What could she do? That was just her nature.

Just as she was about to reach for the food, a voice sounded in her ear.

"Miss Mera."

Mera frowned and turned, seeing a polite young man standing there, a glass of wine in his hand, smiling suavely at her. His appearance was enough to win the favor of many girls at first sight. But Mera didn’t seem particularly bothered. It wasn’t that she denied his good looks. She had simply seen too many, so she wasn’t overly impressed in this regard anymore. Besides, being around Kain for so long, Mera had inadvertently picked up a bit of his peculiar trait: treating only special people specially, while maintaining a consistently stable emotional level with everyone else.

Seeing that Mera didn’t extend her hand for the familiar noble greeting between men and women, the young man’s expression stiffened for a moment, but he quickly regained his polite demeanor and began to converse. ƒreeωebnovel.ƈom

"Miss Mera, I’ve heard about your and your teammates’ victory at Kanzax Academy. It’s truly wonderful. You’ve brought honor to Whesling’s younger generation."

"Oh, is that so?" Mera began to show a little interest. Although she wasn’t a detractor, she knew that in this remote northern region, the speed of information transmission wasn’t very fast. And no one specialized in reporting on this event. Furthermore, the student tournament had only recently concluded; even her father hadn’t known until she told him. So how did this person know?

As if understanding Mera’s question, he gave his reason.

"I have a friend who happened to witness your demeanor during that tournament, and he told me about it. Miss Mera, many nobles are discussing rising talents like you."

"So, you are..."

"Oh, excuse me, how rude of me. I am Ron, merely the son of a merchant."

"Young Master Ron merely saying he’s the son of a merchant would surely sadden your father." Wilfred’s voice chimed in, approaching with a cordial smile, a glass of wine in his hand.

When Ron saw Wilfred, he bowed, and Wilfred politely helped him up. Afterward, Wilfred introduced him to Mera.

"You two probably already know each other’s names. Ron is the son of Sir Dolis, head of a large merchant guild."

He then subtly signaled Mera with his eyes; after all, this person was an esteemed guest, so a little respect wouldn’t hurt. Seeing this, Mera could only reluctantly extend her hand. Ron touched her hand, performing the classic bowing gesture between noble men and women.

After that, Mera quickly lost interest and found an excuse to slip away. Once Mera was gone, Ron also apologized to Wilfred, claiming he had urgent business to attend to.

This made Wilfred sigh. Did his stubborn daughter truly want people to dislike her? Myra, by comparison, was far more mature; she would have handled a situation like this much better. Thinking of Myra, Wilfred also felt a pang of regret for not being able to see her again, but knowing she stayed at the academy to strive for the mid-class Magus stage, he couldn’t say anything more.

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