Supreme Monarch

Chapter 87: Skills

Tyler didn’t spend all that time inside the cattle doing nothing. He received the report on the large horde of Gray troll and Goblin riders heading in the direction of the castle sometime around the mid-afternoon and late afternoon. He then came up with his plan and handed Albert his instructions before the sun had set.

The ogres had then engaged in battle with the Trolls sometime around midnight. Which meant he had around 5-6 hours between the two events. Naturally, he didn’t just laze around eating fruits drinking wine although he would’ve preferred chips instead but couldn’t complain.

Within that time frame, Tyler had requested for Albert to teach him magic sense as that was one of his greatest flaws. While skills were more difficult to learn as, unlike spells that mainly required a high intelligence level to memorize and construct runes using one’s own Mana.

While spells required magic circles to be infused into the Mana body so one could achieve the desired effects and also develop resistance. Skills require mana essence to be infused or rather inscribed into the physical body as well as the soul, it then strengthen the body while also achieving the desired effects.

Mana essence was simply the natural mana that exists in this world. Naturally, it wasn’t easy to learn a skill, one needed to follow a specific method or formula although there were rare occasions where skills could be developed by accident or by racial traits and evolutions.

Other than those, one generally learns a skill by being taught or by using skill books. Skill books or tomes contained the formulas that, once etched onto the Body and Soul, the skill can be instinctively used without any practice, though their efficiency and effective use require varying amounts of practice and hard work, depending on the talent and compatibility with the user.

Naturally, there was also a shortage of high-level skill books, and finding a high-level skill that was comparable with you was even harder. Of course, there was an abundance of low-level skills and also skills that were comparable with all.

There was also a limit on the number of skills that could be learned by a single individual base on the strength of their Body and Soul. That said, magic sense was a mid-tier skill that had a wide range of comparability and was a sensory type skill that requires no physical action to learn, although it was still quite difficult.

Tyler had spent five hours learning the skill from Albert and the old dude was quite eager to teach. He even taught him his original skill ‘keen eyes of a demon.’ From the name alone Tyler had felt hesitant to learn it as he still held a slight sliver of hope that he was still human but that hope was completely shattered by the speed at which he had learned that skill.

Barely 10 Minutes.

Of course with Tyler’s slightly inquisitive personality. He ended up messing around with the formulas of the two skills, creating a brand new skill. Although he knew it was dangerous, his curiosity had still gotten the better of him but it had paid off quite nicely as he had ended up creating a new skill by infusing some of the runes of the wave of despair spell and he ended up with quite the powerful skill.

The skill intimidated weaker opponents that fall under his gaze. As long as his opponents had no resistance to mind attacks, he could even knock them out with a single glance as demonstrated by the two unconscious trolls by his feet.

Being the creator he needed to name his skill and had thought of various names but couldn’t decide. Although he had narrowed it down to three, which were, ‘Demons Might, Forceful Gaze, and Haki.’

Tyler turned his head to face the Darknar forest and his eyes glowed in. seed hue as his vision crossed the distance and his gaze landed on several dark figures hidden in the forest. He signaled Albert to retrieve the unconscious trolls, as well as the remaining ten-plus Gray trolls as space warped around him and his figure, disappeared from the plains.

He wasn’t naive enough to believe that there was no one besides the scouts watching the battle between the ogres and trolls even though Erin had confirmed that there wasn’t anyone else using divination magic to spy on the battle. There were other ways to achieve the same results and the simplest was to just send specialized spies.

He had Erin use divination and confirmed his hunch but she could not locate them so he had to improvise. Magic sense could not cover a distance of thousands of meters but all he needed to do was feel for the direction in which he was being watched and search manually using Keen eyes and magic vision. Sure enough, he had spotted several figures during the fight with the trolls.

Space about 2,000 thousand meters away from the Greyad plains warped and distorted as Tyler’s figure appeared next to the figure of an unsuspecting spy clad in what looked like a tattered ninja outfit.

“Found you.”

The spy was a little startled but did not produce the reaction Tyler was expecting. The forest was dark and Tyler didn’t have Dark Vision but his magic vision combined with his magic sense allowed him to see around him quite well, allowing him to fully discern the appearance of these spies.

“Undead?”

Currently, there were four of such undead spies around him and Tyler felt a mixture of relief and disappointment. He was relieved because this meant the Great Five didn’t have anything to do with this attack and disappointed. After all, the Great Five didn’t have anything to with this attack.

He had just wasted so much time and effort because of some damn overzealous Lich.

Seeing this undead and knowing how the gray trolls evolve into gray trolls and Gray-War trolls, he immediately knew who the mastermind of this was. After realizing the objective of the trolls Tyler had the magic weapon appraised and the description told him the story of a demon moron that failed his advancement from an Eldar Lich into a Grand Lich and had to use the failed ritual’s remnant energy in creating the weapon to preserve the energy.

‘What an annoyance.’

The undead spy in front of him quickly took out two short swords and so did the remaining three around him. They all simultaneously lunged at him but Tyler was no longer in the mood for games.

He only needed one of these for research as undead creatures could not be interrogated. With his usual nimble movements that seemed to the undead spies like he was blinking around the trees.

Tyler avoided all their strikes and appeared before one of the spies wielding a single long katana-like sword. He casually swung his leg at the undead spy who quickly raised both arms in an attempt to block the strike, however…

Crack. Bang! Whoosh… BOOM!!!

The sound of cracking bones was heard for only a moment as the body of the undead spy flew like a missile, covering the distance of over two thousand meters, and crashed into the rocky soil of the outskirts of the Greyad plains startling the ogres and beastmen who were busy cleaning up the battlefield.

The other three seeing this immediately melded into the shadows as they quickly retreated. Undead’s did not feel fear, they wouldn’t be intimidated into running away. Their actions right now simply meant their original orders required them to bring back the information they gathered at all cost and they were not ordered to fight.

Tyler’s irritation was rapidly growing as he stretched an arm into space in front of him and retrieved a single parchment. It was a scroll and with the wave of his arm, the parchment caught fire in a purple haze and disappeared.

Tyler’s feet soon left the ground(tree) and he took flight. His figure appeared over 200 meters in the air, he then pointed a finger at the retreating shadows as he cast a spell.

“Twin-Widened Magic – Blazing Sphere.”

Without any regard for his Mana two massive spheres of yellowish-white flames that spanned over 100 meters in diameter consumed everything within the sphere including two retreating shadows that hadn’t even made it past 100 meters.

As Tyler watch one of the shadows getting away with his keen eyes of a demon, he pointed his index finger at the shadow and the sphere of intense flames moved upon it, leaving a trail of nothing but ash and dust until it also consumed the last undead spy.

Tyler looked at the scorched forest and sighed. There were probably a lot of valuable resources in that section of the forest and he had just burnt it to smithereens because of a little irritation.

“What a drag.”

He turned back to face the Greyad plains and with the sound of a Sonic boom, his figure disappeared as he flew back to the Greyad plains with insane speed.

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The trip back to the castle was quite troublesome as Tyler couldn’t use spatial movement with that many people and even combining the skills didn’t work. Of course, the group hadn’t arrived here unprepared.

They had ridden on one of the large carriages pulled by the Six-eyed bulls and would return the same way. Tyler however, had no interest in riding with them. He returned to the cattle using the combined skills of spatial movement and Spatial distortion which he was now calling Spatial Teleportation.

Arriving at the castle with the pair he saw Liz and Rain who had long since returned from their mission and had completed their task flawlessly.

As soon as the girls noticed him Rain ran over excitedly as she practically jumped him, his face swished in between her chest.

“You’re finally back, did you see me, did you see me…”

Tyler couldn’t talk with her breasts in his face and if he couldn’t go days without breathing, he probably would’ve suffocated. Liz soon ran over and pulled her fried off him as Tyler sighed deeply.

Her enthusiasm was quite right, even with the unexpected situations that occurred, his plan had still been completed as well as it possibly could. Aside from the one scout, he let go because he wanted to sow a seed of distrust in the Great five that would buy him more time. They had all made sure there were no loose ends.

Tyler chuckled slightly. “Yes I did see you, I remember seeing you play around and almost mess up if Liz hadn’t intervened.”

“Huh, wait that’s not what I wanted you to see…”

Tyler couldn’t help but laugh at her embarrassed expression and even Liz was hiding her laugh which further made Rain complain even more.

Tyler chuckled and patted her in the head. “I was only joking, you both did a great job and everything went well thanks to your efforts… It’s already quite late so let’s all just take a break and relax.”

“Hmph…” Rain’s cheeks were flushed as she slightly pouted and even Liz looked a bit embarrassed as well.

Tyler then turned back to face Albert as he continued. “I’ll head up to rest first, when you’re done organizing everything you should rest as well. Oh and Erin, good job as well, you spent a lot of mana today so try and rest as well. Hm, I think I’m saying rest a lot.”

Erin’s face went slightly red as well but Tyler didn’t notice. Learning two skills and creating one had taken more out of him than he had thought, not to mention he had let his Mana run wild during that last spell so he needed to rest.

There were only a few people still awake in the castle and they all greeted Tyler as they awaited the return of either their husbands or brothers.

Tyler headed up to the seventh floor of the west wing and into his chambers as he collapsed on the soft bed. The sheets had also been changed but he was too tired to notice, he should probably try and increase his stamina next.

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