During his time choosing new abilities and skills, Kazumichi was able to find out more information about the ones he had seen from each of Kirk’s party. Wanting to see the full details of his newly acquired skills and abilities, he brought up the information for each.
Kazumichi realized several things after allocating some of his points and gaining new skills and abilities. Firstly, he realized he had overlooked his MP Recovery before. While his MP would constantly drain while using [Stealth], or his newly acquired [Arcane Shield] and [Arcane Barrier] abilities, his MP Recovery was greater than the drain. This meant he would be able to keep one of them active at a time without worry, as long as he wasn’t spending more MP for other abilities.
The second thing Kazumichi took note of, was that he had likely leveled his [Heal] ability too much. It seemed that while the healing effect was greater; the cooldown was always three times the mana cost. Meaning it was likely better to keep single-target healing abilities lower-leveled in order to cast them more frequently. He hoped this wouldn’t be an issue for him later, and he made a mental note to look into possible ways of resetting skills and abilities to lower levels.
Thirdly, Kazumichi noticed that the [Spellcraft] skill did allow him to create spells as he thought. However, it worked in a way he hadn’t been expecting. It seemed that uniquely created spells had a higher base level, and as such, would cost more Ability Points. However, he hoped that the wording meant that he didn’t have to add additional effects, since it stated “can” instead of “must” or “will”. He also found it interesting that there was a restriction on the level of spell he could create. Even though his stats were massive, and he had insanely high percentages on all of his abilities and skills, he was still limited to currently only creating spells of level 4. So even if he wanted to create a spell with 7 or 8 effects on it, he would be unable to due to the current limitation.
Kazumichi was feeling overall much better with his current situation, however. Closing the status screen with a thought, he headed back out of the cave and activated [Stealth] to test it out on the way back toward Kirk’s group.
It didn’t take him long at all to find his way back to the campsite where he had initially discovered the four adventurers. Once there, he wasn’t all that surprised to see they were already awake and packing up their camp. He then activated [Shapechange] and once again took on the appearance of his human form. However, Kazumichi soon realized he had overlooked a crucial part of his plan; he still didn’t have clothes.
Quickly devising a plan, he picked up a rock and started bashing himself with it in various places. Once he was confident he looked beaten enough, he let [Stealth] end and stumbled out from behind one of the trees. Falling onto the ground, not only to lead credence to the story he was going to spin but also to keep himself covered. Looking up at the four adventurers, Kazumichi reached out a bloodied hand to them.
“Please.. Help..,” he said in a feigned hurt tone, before dropping his head and arm to the ground. Closing his eyes, he waited to see if the adventurers were truly good people, or if they would attempt to finish him off. Either way, he would gain something for his troubles.
