Chapter 80: Level 5 Sorcerer!
“Finally level 5.” Anse had a smile on his lips, in a great mood.
He had waited for this day for too long!
Nolnos seemed to sense his mood, couldn’t help shaking his head and swaying, his steps exceptionally light.
Rounding a giant tree, 【Quesser】 suddenly appeared in sight ahead, the forest’s concealment was very good, running far might really make it impossible to find again.
Nolnos lightly leaped onto the deck, Anse dismounted, a sense of safety surging in his heart.
The forest was dim, always feeling like countless eyes were watching from the shadows, making one very uncomfortable.
Salian saw Anse return so quickly, thinking he hadn’t caught up, but his expression seemed otherwise.
“How did it go, not injured, right?”
“I’m fine, killed two, the others ran.” Anse shook the orb in his hand, indicating he was okay.
“That’s good. Do you think these dinosaurs’ meat is edible?” Salian pointed to the deinonychus corpses on the deck and asked.
The situation was complicated now, he feared supplies wouldn’t be enough, must plan ahead.
“Should be edible?” Anse wasn’t very sure.
Dinosaurs are beasts, living in natural environments, theoretically edible.
“Then slaughter them, if edible have the chef make them into smoked meat or pickled meat…” Salian stroked his beard, deciding to have the most resilient green dragonborn try some first.
“Mm.” Anse thought there was no problem, his bottom line was not eating intelligent creatures.
Next, Salian began assigning tasks to everyone, the injured go rest, professionals with high wisdom handle vigilance, common crew members clean the deck, quickly assist the chef in processing the corpses, lest the bloody smell attract stronger monsters.
Deinonychus claws and fur were also good, should be nice magic materials, the cargo hold was basically empty now, not afraid of taking up space.
Anse didn’t need to stand watch, this was the spellcaster’s privilege.
He gave Salian a greeting, hurriedly returned to the cabin, lay on the bed, and entered the mental world.
The silver dice spun slightly, popping up the level up option:
Raise sorcerer level or choose a new class.
He unhesitatingly chose to raise sorcerer level.
【Level Up: Level 5 Sorcerer!】
【You gain a new class feature:「Spell Recovery」, 「Mana Control」 level up】
【Dragon Bloodline awakens, you master new draconic spells:「Fear」, 「Fly」】
【Storm Dragon Mark’s power strengthens, you master new spells:「Sleet Storm」, 「Wind Wall」】
【You can learn one new spell, one evocation school spell, and one cantrip】
A series of prompts flashed by, making Anse’s mood leap with joy.
Level 5 is a professional’s first major milestone, the gap between level 4 and 5 is especially obvious, far beyond just class features and third ring spells.
Anse first checked the new class features:
「Spell Recovery」: You gain new understanding of your innate magic, and learn to borrow primal mana to make it more vital.
Through one short rest meditation, recover up to half your psionic energy, once per day.
This feature seems standard, but actually enhances sorcerer sustainability indirectly, after all psionic energy and mana can convert to each other, a definite boost.
「Mana Control」 raised to third ring, letting him easily handle third ring spells, greater spellcasting stability.
Mana value extra +5 points, icing on the cake.
The biggest change is a new feature: You have extraordinary control over mana, damage roll +1.
A bit of spell damage boost seems minor, but reflects his exquisite mana control, meaning any spell in his hands will be more powerful.
After leveling up, dragon blood bloodline brings two draconic spells: 「Fear」 and 「Fly」.
「Fear」 is a third ring illusion, after casting, all creatures in a 30 foot（9 meter） conical area will feel the terrifying draconic majesty, forced to make a wisdom saving throw, failure drops all held items and enters panicked status.
Panicked creatures will flee from you at the fastest speed until hiding in a corner you can’t see, then make another wisdom saving throw, success ends the spell.
This is a powerful crowd control spell, those without strong wisdom will fall to it, unless the creature itself can resist or is immune to such spells.
「Fly」: Third ring, school of transmutation.
Duration: Concentration, up to 10 minutes
Touch a willing creature, grant it free flight ability, base flight speed twice the base run speed, and can levitate, extra mana consumption can extend flight time.
When the spell ends, the target falls.
This is the fly spell many spellcasters dream of, spellcasters begin conquering the skies from here!
Flight is more than fulfilling a flying dream, it greatly boosts combat and survival, others can’t fly, you can, combat is then in your grasp.
Storm Dragon Mark also brings two new spells.
One 「Sleet Storm」, third ring conjuration, can continuously drop freezing piercing sleet and hail in a designated area, causing heavy obscurement, ground icing, but no direct lethality, a control spell.
And one 「Wind Wall」, third ring evocation, can raise a fierce wind wall from the ground, shape freely shaped by the spellcaster.
If enemies in the wind wall area lack strength, they take 3d8（3-24） bludgeoning damage.
Wind wall can block fog, smoke, various gases, arrows, small or light flying objects, etc., a functional spell with protective qualities.
These four spells are good, but all require concentration, can only cast one at a time, and may be interrupted if attacked.
Counting up, he has too many spells requiring maintained concentration: dragon breath, polymorph, hold person, levitate, darkness, fog cloud…
‘Headache, another day envying Tiamat, more heads are better.’
Anse sighed, then began selecting two new spells, this was the key.
Sorcerers have many useful third ring spells, like fireball, lightning bolt, haste, blink, gaseous form, dispel magic, water walk…
「Arcana Resonance」 brings evocation spells from the full spell list, but only a dozen or so, besides attack spells like fireball, there’s Leomund’s Tiny Hut that only wizards and bards can master.
His idea was must take fireball, and select another survival spell.
In games the top choice is haste, it doubles target speed, armor class +2, attack speed faster too, but ineffective on spellcasting.
But when haste ends, the target falls into brief incapacitation from exhaustion, unable to take actions or reactions.
‘Negative effect too deadly, and requires concentration.’ He shook his head slightly, great step was enough for now.
Dispel magic is good, but so far he hadn’t met a reliable spellcaster, learning it would just gather dust.
‘Leomund’s Tiny Hut and fireball!’
「Leomund’s Tiny Hut」 generates a 20 foot（≥6 meter） hemispherical force field, fixed in place, like a tiny hut.
Marked creatures and objects can freely enter and exit, while other creatures, objects, spells are blocked.
No matter the outside environment, air inside the force field hut is always dry and comfortable, can freely adjust light, and one-way transparent, inside can see out, but outside can’t see in.
This spell is essential for travel and camping, with protective ability.
Then fireball, hesitating one second is disrespecting it.
「Fireball」: Third ring, school of evocation, base casting distance 150 foot（≥45 meter）.
Condense a fireball, streaks to designated location, explodes dealing 8d6（8-48） fire damage to every creature in a 20 foot（≥6 meter） spherical area, and ignites all flammables.
Dexterity saving throw success halves damage.
Fireball isn’t as slow as many imagine, it looks like a bright flash, by the time you notice, it’s already beside you.
In Anse’s hands, fireball’s explosion radius nearly nine meters, besides prediction, basically impossible to fully dodge.
‘Strong, long range, large area, high damage.’ A sense of satisfaction welled up in his heart.
For the last cantrip he chose animal friendship, to see if he could trick a small animal into a magic pet.
Additionally, 「Super Magic Master」 lets him master another metamagic ability, he clicked that nebula, decisively choosing transmutative spell.
It can change a spell’s damage type, six total: acid, cold, fire, lightning, poison, thunder, meaning he can turn fireball into poison ball, damage unchanged.
【Spells: Leomund’s Tiny Hut, Fireball, Animal Friendship, Metamagic: Transmutative Spell, confirm?】
“Confirm!”
The next moment, the dice trembled, an invisible force projected onto him, mana surged from his body, turbulent and surging, even the primal mana in the air resonated and stirred.
Dragon mark lit up with faint light, continuously growing and spreading along the soft scales, body rising and falling, countless inherited memories surging endlessly in his mind.
Not knowing how long passed, Anse stood up, mana filling his body, feeling ethereal, with the illusion that the world was in his grasp.
‘Suddenly feeling a bit cocky!’
Mastering six third ring spells at once, hard not to get cocky.
