New race
First a clownfish and then a shrimp, what's up with these random picks, aside from the fact that they're weak creatures at least the ability sounds powerful this time, and in case it isn't it doesn't matter too much either, the Shinigami's wings are enough for them for their trip to the second floor.
Not only that, the information is also important, the fact of being able to connect with alternate dimensions on other floors using the portal to the Nether is very beneficial, perhaps the Bleach world exists on one floor and you can use this to travel to the Society of souls, that would save you a lot of trouble.
In addition, there is still another portal on the first floor with which it has not yet come into contact, following the logic the portal to the Nether connects with the infernal dimension of a world, so traveling through it in a possible Bleach world, the normal thing would be to reach the Hollow World, but this is just a guess at the moment and you don't understand the exact operation of the portal, it's best to find the other portal on the second floor to try both.
"This is not the time to think about that..."-Har shook his head and opened the descriptions of the skill books, the one that interests him the most now is the Shinigami wings but it wouldn't be bad to take a look at the others, if they turn out to be unusable you can post the books in the store and earn something from them.
[-Skill Book: Gills-
Allows you to directly obtain the ability:
>Gills<
-Type: Active-
-Cost: 0 MP-
-Description:
When activated, your body will enter a state of transformation to adapt to underwater life, you will be able to filter the oxygen contained in the water to breathe.-]
[Do you want to learn the skill? >Yes< >No<]
[-Skill Book: Shinigami Wings-
Allows you to directly obtain the ability >Shinigami Wings<
-Type: Active-
-Cost: 1MP/minute-
-Description:
He gets the wings of the Shinigami race when activated, allows him to fly-]
[Do you want to learn the skill? >Yes< >No<]
[-Skill Book: Chaos Bubble-
Allows you to obtain the ability >Bubble of Chaos<
-Type: Active-
-Cost: 1000 MP-
-Cooling time: 1 minute-
-Description: Shoot a bubble at high speed and temperature.
-Range: 2 Meters- -MP cost is halved when underwater-]
[Do you want to learn the skill? >Yes< >No<]
[-Skill Book: State of Soul-
Allows you to obtain the ability >Soul State<
-Type: Active-
-Cost: 0 MP-
Special ability of the Shinigami race, when activated it will enter a disembodied state becoming a soul.
-Common attacks will have no effect as they come from a tangible body as well as their common attacks will not be able to influence the material-
-When using a magic ability in a soul state, its cost will be doubled.-]
"This time I really got good improvements."
Submarine skill, air skill, close range attack skill and a stealth skill, with these in your arsenal everything will become easier on the following floors.
"Gill's ability is quite simple, the amazing thing is that it seems to have no time limit, if that's the case I can use the ocean to protect myself in an emergency."
Har didn't pay too much attention to this initially because it's easy for a Runner to hold their breath underwater for a long time, as long as you upgrade your body using attribute points it shouldn't be a problem, when upgrading physical attributes like agility or strength your stamina is improved overall as well as other attributes necessary to keep your entire body in harmony.
It goes without saying that no matter how much you improve your body, you will still be a human who needs to breathe, sooner or later you will have to surface unless you are half fish.
Shinigami's wings will allow you to have more freedom of movement and it is also a good way to escape, to know the real value of this ability it is necessary to know the maximum speed that can be reached, although the simple fact of being able to stay suspended in the air it is already beneficial.
Regarding Chaos Bubble, the description was quite simple but its cost is immense, if he were to cast the ability with his current MP he would no doubt faint without even fully activating it.
It is the most expensive skill he has seen so far and it only has a 2 meter range, this makes him very curious to know its exact damage since it was not specified in the description.
'The skill with the highest MP cost comes from a shrimp...'
Lastly, Soul State may be the most useful ability for him if it works as he has in mind, since it's a shinigami ability then it must work like sight in the anime, humans are unable to see them unless they have one. Death Note so they can run free in the world.
If the clones use this ability then their weakness will be gone, while common attacks can't influence material they should still be able to summon Vexes to fight so there wouldn't be a problem.
"There is nothing to think."
[The >Gills< skill has been obtained]
[The skill >Shinigami Wings< has been obtained]
[The ability >Bubble of Chaos< has been obtained]
[The >Soul State< skill has been obtained]
Har decided to learn all the skills by making the books disappear instantly, the next second something happened out of his expectation.
[It is detected that he has what it takes to perform a skill fusion.
-Shinigami Eyes+Shinigami Trait+Shinigami Power+Shinigami Wings+Soul State-
Result >Race: Shinigami<
-Can replace the original race or be added as a Subrace-
-By replacing the original race, his appearance will change to that of the new race and he will obtain all its benefits-
-When added as a Sub-race he will obtain a characteristic of the race-]
[Do you want to merge the skills? >Yes< >No<]
'Is this a new feature?'
A fusion of skills to acquire a new race, Har had never heard of such a thing, although if to do so it is necessary to have all the skills of a race then it is normal.
"Yeah"
He agreed to merge the skills despite having no intention of changing his race, but being able to get a sub-race characteristic would be a good thing, plus all the skills would be compressed into it.
[>Change race< >Add as Sub-race<]
"subrace"
Following his words, the aforementioned abilities disappeared from his status and a new description appeared, [Sub-race: Shinigami]
[Gained the racial characteristic >Addicted to Apples<]
Hearing that, Har felt a bit strange. "Does this count as a scam?"
-End of this chapter-