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    “Damn idiots…”

    Roland looked at one of the thieves that ambushed him as he was getting back home. He was holding his unmoving body in one hand while his legs were dangling around. Agni appeared next to his master with a somewhat bloody mouth that was slowly burning up due to his flaming bite.

    It was a total wipe for this band of thieves with one exception. The lookout that he saw on his radar made the smart choice of running away instead of aiding his companions. While he could probably catch up to him, there was no reason for it.

    He wasn’t some bloodthirsty bandit like the ones that attacked him here. The person might have been aware of his identity but that was probably a good thing. There would be no repercussions for him, slaying these people would be seen as just in this world.

    The person could not make a proper report to the thieves’ guild either. If he did, then the truth that they attacked a black market member would come to light. This was akin to suicide in those circles, the man had two options.

    Either leave this region or stay while hoping that the black merchant that they attacked didn’t know he even existed. Roland had already spent some time in the criminal underbelly but he never really ventured past the black market dealings.

    His biggest informant Lobelia has been moving up through the ranks over the past three years.If he brought up this issue with her, there would be a possibility of getting to the bottom of who these people were. There was also the fact that not all of them were dead.

    “I won’t kill you but I don’t have to save you either…”

    Roland received some experience after blasting the unsuspecting robbers with a couple of spells. Some with more vitality than the others were just knocked out, one of the people was missing a limb. The fight didn’t take long as magical attacks that didn’t require incantations were hard to counter without a proper mage in the party.

    This was still the lower area of the dungeon. If the monsters didn’t get to the survivors, then there was a chance that they could live. The chances were slim but a returning party of adventurers could spot them and give them a hand.

    With how much stronger Roland was than they were, it didn’t sit well with him to finish them off after they were all disabled. He felt that he was being somewhat soft for feeling this way but the old moral compass that he had taken from his old world was still with him. Killing people during a fight was one thing, finishing them off after they didn’t pose a threat was another.

    ‘Their chances of survival are low.’

    Roland called over the mule golem that was on standby during the whole predicament. The spider golems weren’t needed for low leveled adventurers so they were left inside of the spatial bag.

    As he walked away, he recalled some of his previous close calls. While trying to avoid any type of confrontations he managed to get himself into hot water every time. Even this attack was proof of his bad luck.

    If he came out a few hours later the bandits would probably not be there. But not like he did anything to avoid them, the radar clearly showed him that they were there and he decided to confront them while knowing well that they were below his level.

    ‘At least that helped me to level up…’

    Name :

    Roland Arden L 117

    Classes:

    T2 Runesmith Lord L42 [ Primary ]

    T1 Mage L25 [ Secondary ]

    T1 Runic Mana Scribe L 25 [ X ]

    T1 Runic Blacksmith L 25 [ Tertiary ]

    The boss monster that he faced was above his own level but even it didn’t push him through the threshold. Only now after slaying a few bandit adventurers was he able to reach the 117th level, with his Runesmith Lord class now being at 42 he only needed to level up eight times.

    Only then would he make the jump to the next class. As it stood he was already able to change his classes at this point in time. The requirement was to only get twenty-five levels in any given class.

    If he really wanted to, he could get three different classes to level 25 before he got to the 150th which opened up tier 3 classes. The current class that he had was much too good for him not to max out. Even now he received some valuable skills from just gaining levels in it, ones that helped him out in runecrafting.

    “Common boy, let’s go home.”

    “Grrrrr….Woof!”

    Agni barked at Roland while previously growling at one of the survivors of the battle. Roland didn’t expect to find any tough opponents while going up, so he would leave the fighting up to Agni while he gave him some ranged support. While they were slogging through the dungeon levels he decided to bring up his system screen and look through some of the skills that he had gained through these three years.

    Debugger L 7

    Passive Skill

    Allows the user to find and resolve defects. Bonus to Intelligence +5.

    His most precious skill had seen a big boost since he started working at the tier 3 schematics that the kitty professor had given him.

    He was not really sure what would become of this skill if it ever reached the 9th level, was there some kind of higher form of it? The black card that he could not examine was also still on his mind. Would he now be able to scan it when his skill reached level 7 or would he need to further increase it?

    Circuitry L 9

    Passive Skill

    Bonus to repair and creation of circuits or circuit equivalents. Bonus to Dexterity +6 and +6 intelligence.

    Circuitry on the other hand seemed to level up faster than his debugging skill. It clearly was profiting from all the runes that he created through the years but seemed to be stuck on the 9th level for half a year now.

    ‘Maybe I need to be tier 3 for it to turn to the higher tier skill?’

    Roland could only base this theory on the basic skills that he was stuck on when he was just a tier 1 class holder. There was also a possibility of him needing some kind of special class to further his skills, one related to actual circuits. It could very well forever be stuck at this level without ever turning into a higher tier skill.

    Expert Tinkerer L 3


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    Passive Skill

    Increased proficiency in the creation and repair of various components.Bonus to Dexterity 10.

    High Analyze L 6

    Passive Skill

    Used for identifying and analyzing the world.

    His tinkerer skill that he brought over from his previous world on the other hand managed to go past the threshold. It became an expert skill that increased his dexterity bonus by ten instead of five.

    High Analyze was the improved version of the Analyze skill that was normally the limit for tier 2 classes. But thanks to Roland’s various scholastic titles and his high intelligence stat he was able to learn a better form of this skill. Thanks to it he was now able to tell levels of every creature that was at tier 2, this also included seeing the classes of people.

    This skill was quite useful but it was not without drawbacks. There were various ways of fooling this skill to give the user false information. Just as he was wearing the trinket that he received from his old gnome boss, so could other people.

    Basic Rune Mending, Basic Rune Overload, Runic Cleansing the skills that he got at the beginning of his tier 2 journey were all at level 8. With each subsequent level, they became better and he was sure that he would be able to max them all out before reaching level 50 in his Runesmith Lord class.

    Then there were some new skills that he had learned along the way. Some came via experimentation while others were given to him by just leveling up.

    Lesser Rune Duplication L6

    Skill

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