Since Timothy brought his slaves out of the needle universe of Purpureus Mundi Aqus, he decided that it was due time that he sat down, and tended to some unfinished business. Before he left the Ruins of Aqumus, he had accumulated tens of thousands of system points, and now, where the overall circumstances surrounding him were calm, he decided that it was time to spend those points!

  There were two, fully-necromantic abilities left for him to buy, and after that, he would meet the end of the batch of fifteen upgrades, and or powers that the system had presented to him. It would be the end of the batch of upgrades, and this was exciting for a couple of reasons!

  Firstly, his MQ would rise again, because he would attain powers that were difficult to attain elsewhere. With a higher MQ, mana itself was his canvas, so he could experiment more in terms of power merging, and power creation!

  Secondly, after he bought these couple of upgrades, the system promised a complete overhaul of how upgrades, or new abilities could be bought. Basically, she would give Timothy the right to improve whichever abilities he chose, rather than lining a batch of mandatory upgrades for him!

  This overhaul would include everything that he could spend points on. So, if he later on chose to upgrade his Sex Appeal one-hundred times, no one would be able to stop him from doing so!

  Freedom was power, and considering his current arsenal, the system gave him the freedom to do as he pleased. He was no mere, tiny stingray anymore, but rather, he was a capable mage in the Adept Arcana Realm of mana! The gift of freedom of choice was just around the corner, and he was ready to receive it!

  “Give me both of them, system, I want to buy both abilities." He requested.

  Timothy could have bought these upgrades while they were getting back from the Ruins of Aqumus, yes, but he had avoided doing so, because he knew that it would be a bad idea. He wouldn't have been able to practice his necromantic abilities while they were on the road, as most cities, towns, or villages would not welcome it, so he saved himself the trouble back then, and decided to buy the necromantic abilities today!

  Although this process was not painful, the system took her time to implement the new abilities. Unlike the fractional, dark powers that he stole from the Hunched Humans that he killed, these couple of powers that the system was giving him, were influential as much as they were expensive. They were whole, there was simply nothing fractional about them!

  Timothy could dispel the fractional powers whenever he wanted, he could pull them out of his own body, and toss them away. However, with these full, necromantic powers, the influence they spread was permanent!

  Even if he decided to toss these insanely expensive powers away, the effect that they would have on his mana pool would remain permanent! Dark Mana would engulf a certain percentage of his mana pool, and there was no known way to reduce that influential percentage, he didn't know of a way, at least.

  This was why the couple of purchases took hours to implement. They were setting into his mana pool nice and slow, and thus, slowly altering his pool permanently! It wasn’t a simple process!

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  Once the powers settled in his body, he grew ever so excited to experiment with them! These were fully necromantic abilities, and naturally, he expected them to be effective as much as they were expensive!

  [You successfully purchased the two necromantic abilities, and together, they cost you 130,000 system points in total. As of now, 159,000 system points remain in your sum.]

  “That’s bloody expensive! I looked at their prices a hundred times before, but I never seem to get used to them, god damn! I hope they were worthwhile, though, I’m gonna try the one that lets me summon monsters, the one that’s called The Master’s Call. Let’s just see what I can summon, then…” He muttered, and then he walked a hundred meters away from the dragon’s den, because he didn’t want to startle them.

  Despite the hundreds of men and women surrounding them, the dragons were asleep, because it was nearly dusk. They were napping, and they were quite keen on taking naps. He didn’t want to startle them with what he could summon.

  “Based on your description system, The Master’s Call ability lets me summon monsters, such as a Kelketuk, but, what is that? What the hell is a Kelketuk supposed to be?” He asked.

  [It’s funny that you mentioned hell,] The system beeped, [I won’t ruin the surprise, summon a Kelketuk, and see for yourself.]

  Timothy was looking for a straight-forward answer, but he got teased instead. He did not appreciate it, because he wanted to know what to expect here, and considering the adventurers that he had throughout these past few weeks, he wasn’t in the mood for surprises!

  “I’m guessing that you’re gonna make me summon a demon here, but…” He muttered, and in the meantime these thin, red-lines of fire started circling around his fingers. “I want to know if it’s a cliche demon with horns, or some big bastard with a thousand eyes? I’m starting to think that it’s the latter, even though everything I know about summoning, is contradicting your descriptions. It’s to my understanding that monsters, and demons are of different categories in the summoning world, system, with monsters being physical beings from our universe, and not from hell. I did not know that one could summon demonic monsters, that’s new to me, and it’s a mix of the known categories!”

  [Hell has its own categories, since it takes part in another universe.] The system added, and that was all that she said.

  It would appear that the topic regarding summoning creatures in general, was more complicated than he initially thought. However, he was happy enough that he could keep up with the inconsistencies, and he was happy that he was smart enough to ask the important questions about the matter, regardless of the fact that he didn’t have any answers to his questions! He felt conflicted overall, but furthermore, he was ready to give his new powers a shot.

  The flames of his new ability slithered around his fingers, he had activated it, and when he called out the name of the species, the effect was immediate! He was tossed ten meters backwards as a result of a large, fat species appearing out of thin air, very close to him! A dark cloud formed, and then dissipated moments later, signifying the extensive use of dark mana that took place.

  [-5,500 dark mana points,] The system beeped.

  “So this is Kelketuk?” He asked, after he pulled his face out of the sand.

  [It’s a Kelketuk,] The system corrected him, referring to the fat, ten-meter long demonic monster in front of him, who stood on its four pairs of legs. [You can call it the demonic version of a Basilisk Dragon, except the demonic ones have several abilities to aid them, and they have lava-encrusted scales! The one that you summoned here, is under your command for a day!]

  The Kelketuk growled afterwards, showing clear irritation that it wasn’t happy to be here. The sand, water, and dirt moved around in response to his sonic-like growl.

  “You’re a loud, expensive bastard, aren’t ya? You woke up my dragon friends.” Timothy spoke to it.