A competent heale?
Su Mu walked into the room as the door was open.
"Hello, young mage!" Inside the room stood an elderly male mage wearing robes, with a kind and friendly expression.
"Hello, I want to learn skills," Su Mu said, and two skills appeared before him.
There was Ice Arrow, which could be learned at level 2, and Magic Missile, which could be learned at level 4.
[You have learned Ice Arrow, costing 1 gold coin!]
[You have learned Magic Missile, costing 1 gold coin!]
Su Mu didn't hesitate and directly learned these two skills. After learning the skills, he opened his skill panel.
[Ice Arrow: Deals 50% magic damage to the enemy, reducing their movement speed by 10% for 3 seconds. Consumes 50 mana, cast time: 1 second, cooldown: 10 seconds, attack range: 10 meters (0/5)]
[Magic Missile: Deals 100% magic damage to the enemy, consumes 50 mana, instant cast, cooldown: 20 seconds, attack range: 10 meters (0/5)]
"These two skills are great!"
Seeing the descriptions of these two skills, Su Mu's mouth curved into a smile. With these two skills, he could easily handle the White Wolf.
"I'll upgrade them all to S-grade first!"
The skill points column with the number 9,999,999 made Su Mu disregard any concerns. He upgraded his previously acquired warrior skills without any hesitation and went on a rampage.
[Ice Arrow successfully upgraded to Ice Arrow (E-grade)]
[Ice Arrow (E-grade) successfully upgraded to Ice Arrow (D-grade)]
...
[Ice Arrow (A-grade) successfully upgraded to Frost Arrow (S-grade)]
[Frost Arrow (S-grade): Deals 300% magical attack damage to the enemy, reducing their movement speed by 50% for 3 seconds. Consumes 50 mana, cast time: 1 second, cooldown: 10 seconds, attack range: 30 meters]
[Magic Missile successfully upgraded to Magic Missile (E-grade)]
[Magic Missile (E-grade) successfully upgraded to Magic Missile (D-grade)]
...
[Magic Missile (A-grade) successfully upgraded to Magic Missile (S-grade)]
[Magic Missile (S-grade): Deals 400% magical attack damage to the enemy, consumes 50 mana, instant cast, cooldown: 20 seconds, attack range: 20 meters]
"This game is so much fun!"
With both skills reaching S-grade, Su Mu began to study his combo for fighting monsters. With the range of Frost Arrow being the same as Fireball, he could use Frost Arrow to slow down the enemy, followed by casting Fireball, and finishing with Magic Missile.
With this combo, even monsters with high movement speed would have a hard time getting close to him.
"There are other profession instructors. I should go learn their skills!"
Su Mu continued searching for other instructors in the village.
During his search, Su Mu came across some level 2 and level 3 quests that he could undertake, but he had no intention of doing them. The level 2 monster area was already crowded with people, and it wouldn't be long before people arrived in the level 3 monster area. Doing quests would require competing for monsters, which would waste a lot of time.
Moreover, Su Mu was already level 4, and killing low-level monsters would only grant him a small amount of experience, making it inefficient. Although the quests offered decent equipment, Su Mu didn't currently need equipment. Leveling up was his top priority.
Su Mu eventually found the Assassin's profession instructor. After a conversation, two melee skills appeared before him, but they held no meaning for him, and Su Mu didn't want to waste any more gold coins.
"May the holy light shine upon you, adventurer!"
Su Mu continued searching and found the Priest's profession instructor. There were many similarities between mages and priests. Both were cloth-wearing professions that heavily relied on intellect and spirit. Among the five major professions, Su Mu had high expectations for the priest's skills.
[You have learned Healing Touch]
[You have learned Lesser Holy Light]
[Healing Touch: Restores the target's health by 100% of your intellect, consumes 20 mana, cast time: 1 second, cooldown: 2 seconds, cast range: 10 meters (0/5)]
[Lesser Holy Light: Infuses the target with holy light, dealing damage equal to 50% of your magical attack to enemies and healing allies for 100% of your magical attack. Consumes 50 mana, instant cast, cooldown: 10 seconds, cast range: 10 meters (0/5)]
"These skills are quite challenging for monster hunting."
Seeing these two skills, Su Mu pursed his lips. Being a priest was quite tough; the damage output was nowhere near that of a mage.
"Upgrade, upgrade, upgrade!"
Su Mu didn't hold back and upgraded the skills without hesitation.
[Healing Touch successfully upgraded to Healing Touch (E-grade)]
[Healing Touch (E-grade) successfully upgraded to Healing Touch (D-grade)]
...
[Healing Touch (A-grade) successfully upgraded to Healing Touch (S-grade)]
[Healing Touch (S-grade): Restores the target's health by 250% of your intellect, consumes 20 mana, cast time: 1 second, cooldown: 2 seconds, cast range: 20 meters]
"These skills make monster hunting quite difficult!"
Seeing the two upgraded skills, Su Mu frowned. Being a priest was indeed a struggle; the damage output was incomparable to that of a mage.
[Lesser Holy Light successfully upgraded to Greater Holy Light (E-grade)]
[Greater Holy Light (E-grade) successfully upgraded to Greater Holy Light (D-grade)]
...
[Greater Holy Light (A-grade) successfully upgraded to Holy Light (S-grade)]
[Holy Light (S-grade): Infuses the target with holy light, dealing damage equal to 200% of your magical attack to enemies and healing allies for 400% of your magical attack. Consumes 50 mana, instant cast, cooldown: 10 seconds, cast range: 20 meters]
"Not bad!"
After upgrading these two skills, Su Mu felt confident enough to face not only a White Wolf Pup but even another one if it appeared. He looked at his current attributes:
Player: Su Mu
Class: Mage
Level: 4 (0/1000)
Health Points: 130
Mana Points: 600
Attack: 21
Magic Attack: 86
Physical Defense: 13
Magic Defense: 15
Attributes: Strength 8, Constitution 8 (+5), Agility 8, Spirit 10 (+5), Intellect 40 (+3)
Equipment: Mottled Iron Staff, Wolf Leather Cloth Armor
With 600 mana points, he had more than enough even if he used all the skills he currently knew.
"With my intellect, Healing Touch can restore 108 points of health."
"Holy Light can deal 172 points of damage and heal for 344 points."
"Now, I can consider myself a competent healer, right?"
"Little White Wolf, here I come!"
Su Mu's face lit up with a mischievous smile as he headed towards the monster area.
In Newbie Village #469, a group of people was hovering around the outskirts of the level 3 monster area.
"Mu Xue, how much health can your Healing Touch restore now?" a man holding a greatsword asked a petite and cute loli girl beside him.
If Su Mu were here, he would be very familiar with the sword in the man's hand.
"I've upgraded this skill to level 5, so it restores 25 health points, which is 125% of my intellect," the loli girl replied, linking her hands.
"Isn't it a bit of a disadvantage to invest skill points in these ordinary skills in the early stages?" Just as she finished speaking, a cool-looking, short-haired beauty with a tall figure next to her spoke up.
"If you don't upgrade skills in the early stages, leveling up becomes a big problem. We always need to invest in a leveling skill!" The man with the greatsword took a deep breath, sounding somewhat helpless. "It's a pity that there are so few people in the same newbie village. If those mages in the guild were in this newbie village, we could have saved those skill points!"
Beside the man, there were five mages standing, whom he had hired at a high cost. This was the reason why both he and the priest and assassin could level up to level 2 so quickly.