Antagonist Protection Service

Chapter 243: Return To The Tower

Illusory Aegis was a Skill I had my eye on for a while.

It wasn’t something I had thought much about until I acquired Mana Corruption since it required magic energy to use, but now that I did have that, I considered it more carefully.

As the name implied, it was a defensive ability, one that would supposedly summon a shield of magic energy to protect me, the strength of the shield scaling with my own magic energy and I suppose the Skill’s level.

Best of all, it was cheap at only 1,450 World Stability to purchase.

On the other hand, I was also considering levelling up Sneak.

Lockpicking was something I, frankly, didn’t much care for, but Sneak was useful.

I did have the Draconic Shadow, but as was evident with the Black Fang last time, there was still a possibility that people could find me.

In hindsight, I realised the way they found me was through magic detection. Joádin also said that was how he found me―by sensing the Imperial City for unique magic energy signals.

To be matter-of-fact about it, my Presence Concealment was top-tier, but my Magic Concealment was only about ‘okay’.

It wasn’t a worry before because I literally had no magic energy to be detected, but now that I did possess it, and quite a lot of it at that, I should seek to get that covered.

Otherwise, I feel like trying to be stealthy in general would be practically useless, especially if there was a mage nearby.

These were the two Skills I wanted, but now I had to think about how to go about assigning level ups. With a balance of 3,900 World Stability, I suppose the first thing would be to purchase the Skill I didn’t possess yet.