Skill Creation in the Fantasy World

Absorbing and refining the new knowledge in his head, Felix took deep breaths as many ideas of new skills started to gather in his mind.

'Now things are starting to make more sense...'

The main reason he came to the combat section of the library was to read books and understand the way the people of this world fought, and the various kinds of techniques that they used.

So that when he creates skills, it wouldn't be something completely off from what they could do, making him appear as the odd one and then become the target of their suspicion.

It wouldn't matter if he was one of the strongest in the world, but he was still weak, and displaying such strange skills would only get him in troublesome situations.

He didn't want kingdoms to capture him and some crazy mages to experiment on him for his uniqueness.

Opening his eyes, Felix used the fallen shelves as support and got up from the floor.

It seemed there was a toll on his body, especially the head, from continuously reading hundreds of books in one take.

"Growl~"

Hearing the weak sound from his stomach, Felix smiled wrily and made his way towards the door of the library.

On his way, he suddenly stopped as he saw a person sitting on a chair elegantly amidst the chaotic scene of the library.

It was a woman wearing a brown robe, which couldn't hide her tender and curvy figure, but the mask on her head completely hid her face except for her green charming eyes.

Her presence seemed to have turned the tumbled-down library into a picturesque and aesthetic scene, adding beauty and elegance to the messy place.

Felix narrowed his eyes on her, wondering where she got the chair from when he had to just sit on the floor, and then furrowed his brows as she looked familiar.

'Hmm...where have I seen her...'

As he churned his exhausted mind to recall where he had seen her, his vision slightly faltered, stopping him from continuing to stare at her.

'Ugh, whatever. I am in no mood for that now...'

Holding his hungry and grumbling tummy, Felix quickly walked out of the library without making a single sound and thus failed to notice the woman who had turned towards him.

"Phantom, I didn't think you'd get involved in this...", she muttered while staring at his leaving figure, her calculating eyes turning brighter.

*****

After coming out from the Forbidden Library, Felix headed directly to the Nether Cuisine, a facility created specifically to satisfy the appetite of the elites in the underworld.

'I just hope this place isn't dysfunctional or chaotic like the other two...'

Standing before a door present within a tunnel inside the corridor, he wished himself safety and protection from whatever was inside and pushed open the door to enter it.

A dim golden light shined on his face the moment he stepped inside, and his eyes widened in surprise, not at something that completely blew his mind but at the simple yet classy design of the restaurant.

'This is still against normalcy, but it isn't unlikeable.'

The entire place seemed to have been carved out within the ground. The walls, the floors, and the ceilings were literally made up of earth, or in simple terms, this place was a 'cave'.

There were various tunnels Felix could see at the entrance, with boards above them mentioning different types of cuisines, like vegetables, meat, monsters, seafood, and others.

There was even a tunnel labelled 'posion', which Felix didn't want to have on his empty stomach.

Beside the entrance, there were a few desks for asking directions and help, but Felix didn't waste time there and deftly walked towards where his heart desired.

'The Meat Section.'

Dragging his legs into the tunnel, Felix arrived at a hollow place that had plenty of empty tables and chairs, with only a few people dining.

His hunger had reached its peak, so he quickly grabbed a seat and gestured at a waiter nearby.

"Please bring me something to eat that'll arrive in the shortest time possible. Also, don't be stingy with the quantity and send more."

The waiter who heard the strange order nodded hurriedly and ran away from the hungry stare the customer was giving.

A few seconds later, the same waiter pushed a cart and arrived beside Felix, giving him plates and plates of food full of meats.

Felix didn't care what was present before him and dived into the plates, his hands grabbing whatever he could find on the table before throwing it into his mouth.

The waiter and the other customers glanced at him speechlessly, wondering what kind of heavy work he had done before coming here.

Twenty minutes later, Felix finished eating until his tummy got filled and paid the waiter with his exclusive card.

Waking out of the Nether Cuisine, he decided to visit another important facility of the Underworld Castle and moved towards its direction.

Seconds later, he arrived at some stairs leading below the floor and went downstairs.

A long corridor appeared before him, with doors on either side and boards above them displaying the names of the places.

But there was a main board hanging from the ceiling of the corridor, and written on it were the words 'Treasure Plaza'.

'I heard this place sells the most valuable of treasures like Battle Techniques, Weapons and Artifacts...'

The last time he had come to the Underworld Castle, the maid had guided him and Falcon through all the available facilities for them, though briefly.

This 'Treasure Plaza' was one of the many facilities that intrigued him the most, when he heard that he could find the most secret and illegal things there.

Just the thought of these taboo and unprohibited things that may harm its users in many ways made him feel curious.

Also with his cheat of creating any skill, he could find some useful treasures for himself and negate any drawbacks like curses or restrictions it may have on it.

'Hmm, let's see....'

Felix stood puzzled in the corridor, reading the words written above the many doors.

There were dozens of doors in the long corridor, each one opening to a shop belonging to an elite underworld member or some professional illegal merchants.

The names of these shops were all bizarre like Thordon's Basement, The Illegal Corner, Rogue's Finds, and The Smuggling Merchant.

Pondering to himself, Felix walked around and chose a shop at random to enter.

'Anyways, with my Inspect skill, there's no way I'm getting scammed.', he smirked.

Pushing the door open, he stepped into a shop named 'An Outlaw's Shack' and took in the scene that caught him off guard even when he was prepared for something strange.

But it would be better to say that he didn't actually take in any sight, because he couldn't, as a thick layer of smoke covered every inch of the shop.

Just when he was about to take a step back to exit the shop, a murmuring voice trickled his ears.

".....welcome dear customer, how may I help you....."

Felix quickly turned his head in the direction of the voice and held his breath when an ugly face was a few inches away from his face.

His thoughts got jumbled up for a second before he hurriedly stepped away and took a battle stance unsheating his sword with unstable breathing.

'Gosh that scared me!'

The ugly face, which was the only part of the person that could be seen in the gaseous room, stared at him blankly and muttered in a low voice.

"...dear customer, is there anything you would like to buy from my shop..."

Felix glanced at the face cautiously and looked around in confusion.

"I can't even see what you're selling, so how am I supposed to buy anything from your shop?"

The ugly face sighed, then closed his eyes as he muttered a chant of a spell.

Swoosh~

A whirlwind was conjured in the middle of the shop, sucking away all the gas present inside and turning it into a small orb of solid white crystal.

'H-How did he do that....'

Felix widened his eyes in shock, now that he could see the interior of the shop, and turned to the hunched-back man who had just done something magical.

"Was that a magic spell? But what attribute does that belong to? Wind?"

The ugly man shook his head and replied matter-of-factly.

"A magic spell? No. That was just a basic technique of Compression of an enchanter."

Standing in the shop without even looking at the items present, Felix rubbed his chin as he came across a rather rare and new profession.

'Hmm, an enchanter? That's interesting....'