Chapter 95 - Skills
Austin and Abigail stayed for the cleanup which made it significantly faster than if I were alone. The Rune ran out of mana not long after I woke up which made the ice start to melt and create a muddy mess.
I had to throw all of it out of the camp before it created too much of a slurry. Walking around in the mud was no fun for anyone. We were lucky enough to get the bodies out before they thawed and started leaking everywhere.
Cleaning up bodily fluids was the worst.
Now that the wave was over, there were so many things I wanted to spend my time on. I wanted points to buy a bloodline, I wanted to upgrade my Law before my evolution. Plus, I wanted to spend time upgrading some of my skills.
All the ones sitting at Common irked me. In the long list of things to do, my profession was lower on the list. It just wasn't as important right now. Being 3 levels away from a class evolution made it the center of my attention instead of my profession.
I wanted to form my Spirit Anchor and go through the first step of Body Tempering to do as much as I could before evolving. I wanted to get the best class possible. I wasn't really under pressure to rush either.
There was always the option of abandoning the camp and fighting it out down south where it would be safer. There was no existential crisis causing me to rush and there was no need to hasten my evolution other than my vanity.
I wasn't going to shoot myself in the foot just for a challenge I felt now. Fighting the waves alone wasn't necessary and I wasn't going to alter my potential because of it.
If it took a little extra time to evolve to get everything done, it was worth it. Even if I didn't evolve before the tutorial ended.
Austin looked at me hopefully with the idea of going around to the nearby pylons to rack up some points. He still needed quite a lot for the bloodline he chose and he hadn't gained much from the wave.
He had filled me in on how it went and it was funny to see him frustrated about it. The amount of people they had made it so they split the points among a wider group of people during the waves, diminishing what everyone got.
He was lucky I worked out a deal so we didn't have to give them up like the rest of the camp. Well, we gave some up but not more than we already did.