Overpowered Wizard

<Devourer of Secrets and Stories (Legendary): With aura and Willpower, your mind can feast on profiles, languages, qualities, memories, ancient knowledge, puzzles, complexities, themes, fables, and the dark depths of the Infinita Star System itself. This trait also comes with +25% to Willpower and a high dose of studious madness.>

Zarian and Para weren’t linked like they used to be. They couldn’t unravel into each other anymore.

That was okay.

Zarian’s aura-rich wizard madness and Para’s parasitic nature found a few workarounds, even if it meant the Parasite Cloak +3 drained a larger amount of aura and focus from Zarian for them to stay deeply connected.

The benefits were worth the drawbacks.

Gold notifications popped up around Zarian, telling him what he wanted to know as he swept his aura over the mist isles.

Spectral spiders plopped down onto the water’s surface as he summoned a few thousand of them and sent them exploring north, northwest, and west.

As they travelled into the unknown, each spider spun multiple webbed barriers and cast enchantments of protection on themselves that Hannah had taught them. That way, the curses had less of an effect on the little eight-legged and dance-happy explorers.

The spiders searched for the small things of interest such as lost treasures or cool lore-related stuff that Zarian might overlook. That left the wizard with sweeping broadly for major things of interest while he counteracted the informational defenses of the actor in the mist.

He smiled as he felt a pulse of anger from the mist. Whatever was out there didn’t like their major secrets getting out.

“What’s the SITREP?” Naomi squinted at him as they remained hovering and waiting.

Since he hadn’t finished compiling a report yet, Zarian thought of something else to say to fill the gap.

“You’ve eaten well. Your butt’s bigger.”

She bobbed near him and swung a half-hearted punch, which could knock down half of a small castle mountain.

Zarian dodged it.

She kept throwing half-hearted punches at him and forcing him to dodge around in the air as he read up on the mists, the curses, the nearest monsters, and whatever other information he could devour.

Spectral spiders sent brief messages of the things they found, such as lost artefacts and hidden shiny stuff.

When they performed their creative spider dances, Zarian could low-key cast Void Waltz on the little treasure hunters. Through the void, he hauled in treasures for the cloak to store away.

In the meantime, Para worked on counteracting the various curses that were trying to debuff the wizard and the cultivator. She was tactical, pragmatic, and relentless in finding and destroying debuffs as they came.

The experience in the Grimrock Hell Gate had taught Para well.

Finally, something arrived, a roguish type of monster. It was a high-level creature that would’ve slaughtered most adventurers who weren’t adept enough to sense invisible, intangible, and damn near imperceptible monsters. It seemed like it had its eyes set on new victims, but had no idea it was truly prey to the adventurers.

Zarian turned around and used another one of his new traits.

<Eldritch Existence (Legendary): Your otherness can be a mystery and horror to enemies. You can heavily obscure your advantages, disadvantages, appearance, and motives based on your Willpower. Thus, your presence can inflict psychological trauma and lead to enemies having broken Willpower. With more victims, your vitality rises even greater.>

Zarian liked his odds against the spectral ambusher. A roguish monster wouldn’t have high Willpower, would they?

The creature, a Marsh Wraith Monster, screamed in horror as it came into contact with Zarian’s eldritch presence and lost its ghost-like camouflage.

Zarian noted how it looked like a rotten mannequin covered in swamp-soaked rags and heavy chains. It stood ten feet tall while standing on the water’s surface, too.

So, when it fell back, it didn’t make a splash or sink down. It scrambled backward with thin, spiky legs and four arms, its chains rattling as it screamed.

Zarian turned to Naomi. “It’s a wraith with a legendary class, Level 122 Spirit Drowner. It’s not Master Ranked, but do you want it?”

Naomi pouted. “No, you found it, you get it.”

The wraith twisted around and tried to run.

Zarian smiled. He summoned all of his grimoires.

<Advanced Grimoire of the Voidling Exile +2 (Level 30): The exiled mad voidling prince has left you his most advanced magic teachings. These void spells are powerful. You can promise safety to friends and possessions. You can evoke spells without summoning the grimoire, but they are more powerful when cast through the immaterial conduit. You can further advance old or new spells. ….>

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<Advanced Grimoire of Black Magic +2 (Level 38): You are mastering the arts of dark magic and your studying prowess is supreme. You can evoke spells without summoning the grimoire, but they are more powerful when cast through the immaterial conduit. You can further advance old or new spells. ….>

<Advanced Grimoire of the Hell Gator +2 (Level 40): Your mastery of these folktales is frightening and advanced, enabling you to triple cast or intensify any section of the folktale with super hellish effects. You can guarantee safety to friends somewhat. You can evoke spells without summoning the grimoire, but they are more powerful when cast through the immaterial conduit. You can further advance old or new spells. ….>

<Advanced Grimoire of Freaky Morphs (Level 7): You have a better handle on this unforsaken accident of odd magic, but it still has strange effects to show you. You can evoke spells without summoning the grimoire, but they are more powerful when the grimoire is out as materialized support. You can further advance old or new spells. ….>

The steely Voidling flashed out of a portal with a bloody metal hum and orbited around the wizard. The thick Black came out of his soul like a crawling ghoul, its spectral chains rattling.

The leathery Gator appeared over his right shoulder with a deep growl and a huge predatory presence. And the centipede-like Morph scrambled into view from behind his back with a hiss before latching on to his left shoulder.

Because of the heavier beta skill debuff as Master Rankers, summoning the grimoires as conduits while using spells helped to counteract that. All of them were mainly immaterial, too, except for Morph, which lessened the danger of someone wrecking them and removing a part of Zarian’s toolkit.

At these levels, that was more of a concern Zarian had to look out for. But in this case, against the wraith, he felt confident. Summoning the grimoires hadn’t taken him that long, either.

The wraith couldn’t run fast enough to escape Zarian’s reach as he used another new trait along with one of his new spells.

<Outer Planar Scourge (Mythical): Warp, dimensional, void, and other cases of eerie outer magic are yours to master or rebuff. Your presence can empower them or weaken them while scaling wholly with Willpower, Wonder, and Mysticism. Doing so will also grant you +125% to all three esoteric stats.>

<Void Domain (Mythical): Your rulership over the void becomes more absolute. Other void users who cannot match your prowess are yours to crush or invigorate. Other types of environments, items, and elemental powers who cannot resist are yours to infuse with the void for alternative effects, even if temporarily. Scales with Wonder.>

The wraith had the misfortune of relying on a void-based skill. That was how it could become imperceptible to most sensory abilities or even a decently high Wonder stat.

Zarian was sure Bianca would’ve figured it out anyway, since her Wonder stat was uber high at the base amount.

She wasn’t here, though. Zarian was, and he gave the wraith no means to escape.

It tried to use its Void Stalk +3 again. The Conquest Wizard stopped the skill outright as he darkened the area with the Void Domain spell.

The brackish water became black. The blocky mists turned nightmarish gray with strange shadowy faces that twisted, morphed, and screamed silent screams. The hostile curses weakened, especially the warp one.

And the wraith’s void skill failed outright with each attempt.

Impressed by the power of Void Domain, Zarian kept the dance going by using Void Waltz on himself. He repositioned from behind the wraith to in front of the tall and gangly monster so smoothly it felt spontaneous, leaving little to no wrinkle or sign of teleportation in the air of his domain.

The creature shrieked and flailed. The wraith was obviously confused and terrified. Zarian was more of a wraith to the monster than the monster was a wraith to him.

Still, it tried to fight, even if pathetically.

Every swipe of its claws made the air screech like a thousand banshees. Its traits and stats empowered those strikes, too, and at Level 122, it had enough power to knock down castles like they were little toy blocks.

Against non-rankers and weak adventurers, the wraith’s Nightmare Strike +3 would’ve petrified them on the spot for a simple hit and easy kill. Against Zarian, the screaming did nothing.

The strikes themselves couldn’t harm him much, even while he stood still and took them on the face and chest. The same went for three out of his four grimoires. Morph crawled to his back to avoid a direct strike, but the other grimoires hovered about just fine.

His Aura Mastery thickened the air into a barrier that slowed each Nightmare Strike +3 and dampened their magical and physical damage. On top of that, he had his three new skills working in concert as he flexed more of his overt dominance.

One skill had replaced his mindframe and wizard hat with a new hat that looked like the last – black, crooked, and wide at the brim. But it would sometimes glow with a subtle array of colors, veering between blue and red when Zarian used more of its power.

<Intense Arcana Hat (Level 1): Improve all aura abilities and increase your mental capacity intensely. Scales with Wonder and Mysticism.>

Unfortunately, Zarian couldn’t link the benefits directly to others anymore. But that was okay. He had a few workarounds. Namely, Aura Mastery and Spectral Spider Network +3.

Besides, the new hat skill was so powerful, losing advancements from his two prior skills wasn’t a huge drawback.

The intense aura power up became a bigger deal when paired with the other new skills, such as the body enhancing one. That skill had come from a combination of Level 0 Willful Might, Level 0 Wondrous Speed, Level 0 Mystic Toughness, and Level 0 Shredded Grimoire of Battlefield Destruction.

Zarian liked the end result.

<Grand War Mage Body Furnace (Level 1): Burn your aura and infuse the results with your flesh. You’ll lose vitality gradually, but you will have a powerful force fused with your body. Scales partially with Willpower, Wonder, and Mysticism.>

Just like that, Zarian had a smaller but easier wizard version of Aura Ignition. A plasma-blue force covered his muscular frame as it drained slightly from his vitality, which Eldritch Existence buffed from making the wraith deathly afraid.

But wait, there was more. This last new skill tied together how stupidly busted Zarian had become as a Master Ranker.

It was outright unfair. It shouldn’t really exist. But there was no doubt about why he had the skill after choosing the mythical class, Conquest Wizard

The Lion Prince was truly part of his birthright, maybe a direct gift from the Biggest Granmama despite her being some ultra scary cosmic threat. Then again, maybe her being so scary was the reason for the skill.

<Lion Prince (Level 1): You can assert your claim upon reality based on your point of view. This can shift causality in your favor. However, you must weigh the risks of chance, challenge, and change, which may lead to terrible odds. This part of the skill scales with Willpower. The tail itself scales with all of your stats plus a little more.>

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