The Tales of Draconic Warlock

The difficulty rises as the skill proceeds further. The real problem would be after reaching level 10. It was not just after level 10. At every ten-level interval, the difficulty of improving skill levels increases much more than what it is at a single-level improvement.

If there was no such difficulty, then all those old monsters who have been alive for centuries would have reached level 100 a long time ago. Though it was not made if they have reached level 100, it was said that the difficulty to reach such a level is very high.

It was recorded that a decade ago, there was a small battle with one of our neighbor kingdoms and one of those old ancestors had to come out of the seclusion to deal with an old ancestor from the other side.

They each mocked one another that they had yet to reach level 100. It was said that at Level 100, one can be said to be in perfect control of that skill. They would be the true masters and could even defeat creatures that were higher than themselves.

If one of them had reached level 100, that country would have been the other one.

These types of battles are quite common. I looked into it and there were many occasions that the old ancestors would come out and use words to quarrel instead of power.

At this stage, they know that if they battle each other, they could injure their own nation accidentally which would give access to a third party.

This was why they would never directly quarrel unless their levels were far above the other.

It was recorded that the ancestor level crossed level 90 a century ago. Even a century later, he has yet to reach level 100. It was said that the other ancestors from those other nations would be around the same level.

So there was no reason to fight each other.

Fighting each other at this point can damage their armies or damage each other. This would give way to the other wolves, which they never agreed to. These ancestors are a kind of deterrent for each other nations to not cross a certain line.

If that line is crossed, it would be mutually assured destruction.

Though it was an unspoken rule that the ancestors shouldn't attack each other, the nations would probe each other to verify each other's level.

This probing was to see if there was anyone who closing on reaching level 100. If one of them reached level 100, especially in resistance or attack skills, then it would spell doom for them.

Like not to attack each other, there was another unspoken rule among them or at least that's what I believe so.

It was take down anyone who was close to reaching that level if others were far away from that level. They should know that an ancestor with a level 100 skill would be dangerous to their own nation.

So I am sure that these old monsters would battle a great battle when one of them is near level 100.

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There is something else that I gained from the academy in addition to improving my skills. Well, I should say that it was Inari who gained something. She found a way back home.

She found a ritual that can reverse a summoning. The summoned creature can be sent back from where it was pulled from.

There are only two issues with it. The resources required to do the reverse summoning and the place where it has to be done. The reverse summoning can only be done in the place where the summoning happened.

So I can only do the ritual back at home. This was the easy problem. I can reverse summon her when I am at home.

The issue was the resources. They were considered rare and are very difficult to acquire. The only possible way for me to acquire those is through the Cosmic Market at this time but there were no items listed.

From the information that I gathered from the Cosmic Market guide, it was connected to various worlds but I believe that it would be the same case as me. It was said that the market wouldn't open to everyone who held the Scroll, only to a few.

It means that the persons who can view the market don't have any items that are similar to the items that I need.

Hmm, it would have been nice if there was an option where I can order the required items and sellers can directly send them to me if they find them. I mean what everyone would sell is an item that can be sold easily. No one would like to sell items that are not needed much unless specifically asked.

So there might be a chance that someone out there can get their hands on the items that I need but with no option like that, I can't get my hands on them.

Finding them in the real market out here can be considered a dream. Most of those items have other uses. So they have a great demand and once those materials appear, they would disappear within seconds. With no other way, my hopes of gathering those resources shifted to the secret realm.

It was said that many resources that are rare in the world can be found in those secret realms but there would be danger associated with them.

Afraid of those monsters, I don't need to. I am at Tier-4 and the top boss would be at Tier-5 at the most. As long as I can avoid that one, most of the monsters there wouldn't be any problem for me. This Tier-5 would be at the core and wouldn't wander around other territories.

So as long as I don't enter the core where it is located, I can easily sweep all the resources in the secret realm. Hopefully, I will be able to pick up all the resources without needing to enter the core area.