Rebirth: Tyrant's New Reality

[Reflow Barrier]

[-Affinity: Wind]

[-Class: 1st class]

[-Rank: SSS]

[-Cost: 100,000 Chi energy]

[-Effect: Blocks all types of attacks. Convert 5% of incoming attack's power into usable energy every five seconds to maintain the barrier and creates a whirling wind coating on the barrier to slightly weaken incoming attacks]

'SSS rank skill of 1st class? Wow, ok. No wonder he managed to block my powerful bombardment of attacks for so long. I definitely spent a lot more energy on my attacks than he did on defending them with this barrier skill. That's why he lasted longer in the battle during that bombardment.'

[Indeed, my lord. This skill is very good for defense].

'How much it costs to learn this?'

[13,450 reality motes. This is actually the discount amount. You will know how later]

'…'

[Well… That's how it is, my lord. You can hunt more beasts and farm reality motes. Though killing powerful people will also give you reality motes, slightly more than killing beasts]

Arkhen was walking and conversing with Velshi all this time. The skill store was also not that far from the Arena, so they reached there.

"Here it is," Meya said as she pointed at the big store in front of her.

"Welcome, lady Meya," the man standing outside for security quickly greeted Meya with a smile and did a small bow.

"Royal Treasure store…" Arkhen muttered before asking, "Is this related to the royal family?"

"Yes. this skill store belongs to prince Davan and is supported by the Royal Household of the kingdom," Meya said with a nod as she entered the store first while Arkhen, Emily, and Azela followed her inside.

"Take us to the collection of best skills," Meya said to the manager after entering.

Soon, the three of them were taken to the 3rd floor of the building. There were two rooms on the 3rd floor, and they entered one of the rooms on the left side of the floor.

Inside the room, there was a single table and a single cupboard. Other things were just beautiful and exquisite decor and room design.

Everyone sat at the table while a lady in her late twenties went towards the cupboard with a special key. Special because after she put it in the keyhole of the cupboard, a magic circle briefly flashed over the cupboard.

Opening the cupboard, she took out a storage ring and returned to the table before taking ten scrolls from the storage ring.

"Arkhen. My parents wanted to reward you for your deeds and told me and my brother to let you get one skill and one combat art of your choice. Additionally, you can also get custom-made armor and a weapon of your choice," Meya said with a smile. "The skills in front of you are the best this kingdom can offer. Take your pick."

The staff lady nodded with a smile and specifically put three scrolls ahead, "These three skill scrolls are the most valuable. Each one cost more than 1,000 high-grade essence stones."

The staff lady wanted to see the shocked reaction of Arkhen, Emily, and Azela. However, only Arkhen slightly raised his eyebrows while Azela and Emily's eyes contained the same curiosity as before.

'W-What's going on? How come they are not shocked?' the staff lady thought with shock!

Alas, she didn't know that even though Arkhen knew 1000 high-grade essence stones were valuable, he didn't know the exact value. On the other hand, Emily and Azela were completely oblivious to their value.

Meya started laughing because she knew the reason. She also wanted to see shocking expressions but then remembered that Arkhen and his wives probably didn't know the true value of high-grade essence stones since they were new in the realm.

"Haha, you don't know the exact value of high-grade essence stones, right?"

"I know they are very important and valuable but don't know the exact value," Arkhen said with a nod. "Simply, I don't know how hard it is to get them."

"Cough… May I explain, lady Meya?" the staff lady asked politely.

"Sure, go ahead," Meya said with a smiling nod.

"Ahem, so… Let me tell it this way: If a normal person without any power just wants to live a peaceful life without worrying about food or living place, that person only needs 100 high-grade essence stones for his entire life."

"Ohh... If you say it like that, 1,000 high-grade essence stones seem super valuable," Emily said with raised eyebrows.

"You can get an increase of 50,000 EP by using 1000 essence high-grade stones. So yeah, they are indeed valuable," Arkhen said with a grin.

Azela and Emily were startled to hear that.

"Then these skill scrolls must be really powerful," Azela said as she intently looked at the skill scrolls with curiosity.

"The Bariat kingdom only has a single high-grade essence vein. It is of Metaphysical essence. It produces 10,000 to 15,000 high-grade metaphysical essence stones every year. Though we have other veins of mid-grade essence stones of all five energy types, so that's good," Meya said.

"Where are they?" Arkhen asked.

"Haha, the location of veins are the deepest secrets for any force. Nobodies know the locations except for the rulers. They can also change the location of veins and plant it at another place, so they should be tightly secured at some place," the staff lady said.

"Yep," Meya said with a smile. "Alright, now open the skill scrolls. Arkhen, you should choose from those three scrolls. They are the best."

The staff lady unfurled the scrolls one by one as Arkhen saw mysterious pattern symbols on them. The skill details were at the bottom of the scrolls.

After opening the three scrolls, the staff lady said, "These scrolls are sealed. You can't get the knowledge of the skills even if you try to infuse your energy into them. Also, do not try that as the seal will activate its effect and severely damage you to the brink of death."

"How are these skill scrolls created?" Arkhen asked with narrowed eyes. 'Velshi, can you learn me the skill if I am looking at the scrolls?'

[Possible. But since these three skills are SSS-rank skills, they will cost around the same amount as that Reflow barrier].

'... Ok.'

"Eh, you can't create the skill scrolls," Meya said with a wry smile. "You have to earn them from labyrinths. I will tell you about the labyrinths later. Anyway, the possibility of making an S-rank skill into an SSS-rank skill is within your hand, but you can't create a skill scroll like this."

"Though, of course... You can create your own skills, but they are called unique skills. They are uncertain factors because only you know how powerful they are.

"The real skills used by those people at the peak of this realm are a combination of unique skills and very powerful skills from skill scrolls mastered to the 9th class," Meya finished speaking before she told the staff lady to serve them tea.

"Alright, I choose this skill scroll: Thunder Mirage Dash," Arkhen said as he pointed at the 3rd skill scroll.

He could see their details written on the scrolls and also because of the system. After checking out all three, he felt that the 3rd skill was the best for him right now, and he needed that one. Moreover, it was a primal energy-based skill. The other two were metaphysical energy-based and chi energy-based respectively.