The quality of Timothy’s mana was fsh upgraded to level three, he bore det mana now, that was its literal name. He was still shocked about how it happened, it had been painless and quick, he being a fsh upgrade, but despite being shocked, he was also really happy! This was the easiest mana quality upgrade that he had ever gotten, his friends were gratuting him quite a bit too, they were excited! Well, everyone gratuted him, apart from Arvena, who was fixated on her scrolls.

  Anyway, then things got eveer! The system came with a great annou.

  She cited, [gratutions, Timothy. Apart from all the bes you got from that fsh upgrade, your mana pool has also expanded. As of now, you accumute up to 3,000 points of mana in your pool, in this goblin form! As a stingray, however, you’d be able to accumute a maximum of 8,000 points, that is, if you chose to swim in your full, gigantic size! You have great options overall.]

  “Eight thousand points, huh? That would take forever to fill up, I definitely won’t be four-fug-meters long anytime soon.” He thought to himself.

  Then, the system corrected him. [Don’t let these bigger pools intimidate you, Timothy, because the rate at which you gee mana naturally, has also upgraded. In this goblin form, you gee 100 points of mana an hour, and again as a stingray, if you choose to be gigantic, you could gee 220 points of mana an hour! These rates are to your favor, that is, they’re signifitly higher to what you’re used to, and that’s just one of the perks of upgrading the quality of your mana. gratutions!]

  Those rates of mana regeion were great iim was very excited! From what he uood, if he avoided spending mana all together, then he could get another mana upgrade shortly, after a day or so! He felt very lucky because of that, and sihe gods were less likely to kill him during a mana quality upgrade in this universe, theruly felt like he had struck gold here! Tim could propel through several levels rather quickly, and this reminded him that this was the religious charm of Valporovus, this was why he was here to begin with!

  “Gotta collect my mana, I gotta py it smart!” He thought to himself, “Let’s hope these dwarves don’t attack us, otherwise it will take me forever to fill my mana pool afterwards! A single fireball probably costs thirty points now, that’s less than eic.”

  Anyway, after sidering his stroke of luck, his friends Ortana and Skendus then got motivated to read a few more scrolls themselves. They picked up several of them, in the hopes of getting a fsh upgrade too, but they didn’t seem to be as lucky oter. The scroll that Tim had grabbed, only offered a single fsh upgrade from the looks of it, he firmed this, because the scroll didn’t work on his friends!

  This demotivated his friends a little bit, but then they kept searg through other scrolls regardless! The two of them tried their best not to damage the scrolls in the meantime, as most of these things were old and fragile. They tried to be careful, but such carefulness may take a lot of their time, because there were about five-hundred scrolls in this library! Their search for power was a daunting task without a doubt, they had their work cut out for them for sure!

  About two hours ter, their search ultimately led them to the lower parts of the library. The scrolls that they had gohrough so far, either featured a bunch of history about goblins, or demanded for the whole scroll to be read in exge for a ‘surprise’ of sorts. The ter part sounded intriguing, but sihey had a timer on their heads, they’d rather not spend hours reading through a single scroll in exge for a mysterious surprise, as it didn’t seem so productive.

  Plus, they didn’t know how to properly roll a scroll back together anyway, so if they were to read through a couple of them, they wouldn’t be able to put the scrolls ba their inal position, no. They’d rather not risk it, instead, the two of them wanted any sort of instant progress!

  For that matter, they were at the lower parts of the library now, and as a result, Arvena basically started hissing at them! She wasn’t so happy that the a scrolls were being touched. At first she spoke to them in the aongue of the goblins, as the insightful blessings she summoned were still pretty active, but theiced what she did, and switched to her inal nguage pretty quickly!

  “Yonhem!” She hollered, “You better fug know what you’re doing!”

  “Don’t worry,” Ortana answered, “We’re barely opening them anyway.”

  Ortana then picked up another scroll, despite the prior harsh warning, and it erhaps good that she did. Apart from the a dust that got in her eyes, something iing actually happehis time!

  Someone suddenly whispered in her ear. The voice was that of an old man, but she couldn’t make out what he said, his nguage must be undoubtedly a! Regardless of that, she still uood what was going on.

  A huff of pink smoke went in her nose, and as it did, she felt the presence of a new power! She wasn’t possessed, thankfully, her did she obtain any sort of upgrade, but she did obtain a new, magical power!

  “Shaman’s grip, huh?” She muttered, as she felt the presence of a ghht in her personal space.

  Ortana couldn’t see the ghost, but she was well aware of what was going on! The aforementioned shaman guided her in some way, he kept her calm.

  Then, she expressed. “Thank you, shaman, I’ll squeeze the life out of my foes one way or the other. Thank you!”

  Ortana got lucky, or she forced lu herself at least. There were several ways to describe this occasion, but the truth of the matter was that she had an offensive magical ability now, that was what mattered the most! The Shaman's grip was quite a literal power, she could literally try and crush her eo death with a grip of sorts, and if the quality of her mana was good enough, she could take on more massive foes too! This was very beneficial for her, because she was rarely dangerous before.

  Skendus didn’t mao drink out of the same well, unfortunately, he wasn't as lucky. The two special scrolls that his friends found, were seemingly ‘depleted’ of their gift-giving abilities now, even the prior scriptures that were written on them had disappeared! The tter part retty spooky, but it wasn’t like he could do anything about it.

  Anyway, moving on, it would appear that their guide Arvena had been the busiest here so far. She had gotten to the point where she was reading all three scrolls at once, seemingly effortlessly, and this had a sort of resulting triangur effect! It was triangur, in a sehat three bulbs of light were now shining in front of her ~ Two on her hands, and one near her forehead!

  These bits of light were fist sized, and their colors were white, gray and bck. Sihere were three of them, it was more than likely that each of these wisp-like lights represented each of the three scrolls that she was reading!

  With that said, her situation was getting quite symboliow, it ooky, especially because she exclusively spoke in that a, goblin nguage as well! She was whispering some kind of inprehensible spell to herself, and that may be where the a nguage came in handy, but all-and-all, the trance-like state that she had gotten herself into, was terrifyingly uable!

  Timothy took one look at her, and then he instantly pio himself. “Jesus… this looks familiar. Hell, this is no different from some possessed fool speaking tin! I have a feeling that she's gon us all killed.”

  Timothy might be right, because a momehe three bits of light that floated near Arvena, got together and turhemselves into a single, shiny, and ft triangle for some reason! The triangle itch b color, and its purpose was rather uable at first.

  When Arvena stood up and somehow stepped irias purpose then was very clear. She had created a portal for herself, and sidering the portal's a uo was uhat she had done something noble here!