Immediately after he dealt with the upgrade of the skills and techniques that he had acquired, Bob did not step out of the house again. Instead, he began using the energy absorption technique, absorbing the arcane energy in the air.
This process continued, and he only stopped when he had to eat. And after eating, he continued throughout the night, only sleeping late in the late night.
And when he woke up in the morning, he immediately continued with absorbing the arcane energy. The feeling of getting stronger was so addictive that Bob did not even want to stop.
It was just that at around 10:00 in the morning, Bob had no choice but to stop. He understood that he needed to start working on the idea that he had. Currently, he had the meadows, and the only thing that he lacked was a workshop.
In fact, he was thinking about acquiring a place that he could stay. He could stay in a place that had its own backyard, and the front was a shop. As for the location, he did not want it to be in a very busy area where the powerful awakened would gather.
At least for the time being, he had no intention of getting in the limelight, despite possessing several skills that he could use in order to hide. The longer the duration that he had, the better, considering that on each passing day, his strength kept on increasing.
But before going out, Bob summoned the system panel, and his information was displayed in front of him.
[Name: Robert Milton
Age: 20
Power Level: Level 6 Master
Techniques: Crimson Vortex Sutra (Epic), Spear Mastery (Epic), Human Weapon (Epic), Alchemy (Epic), Rift Trace (Epic).
Skills: Phantom Veil (Epic), Phantom Thrust (Epic), False Mirror (Epic), Echo Wraith (Epic).
Divine skills/abilities:
Current skill points: ∞]
His efforts had finally paid out. But, it seemed that the speed at which he was progressing had reduced. This was to be expected, considering that the amount of arcane energy that was required to level up always increased the higher his level became.
But even then, just feeling the strength that he was having at the moment made him feel that all the effort that he had put in all this while was worth it. So, it was finally time for him to venture out and go to the market area.
But before that, he wanted to try something out. The moment that he thought about this, a shadow suddenly separated from his body, before it began condensing.
And in just a few seconds, another Bob had formed, possessing identical features, same body height and body frame. He was even wearing the same clothes as the ones that Bob was wearing at the moment.
Bob was not sure about where those clothes came from, but maybe they were duplicated from the ones that he was wearing. But as he looked at this clone that had been produced by Echo Wraith, Bob was amazed.
The clone was currently looking back at him, and Bob almost felt that he was looking at himself in the mirror. The past 2 days were enough for him to be able to adapt to his current identity and appearance, so, he did not feel that much foreign about his current appearance.
Bob observed the clone for a while, and then he noticed something. It seemed that the power level of this clone was at level 6 commander. That was something that shocked him the most.
Even though he had already received this information before, just to think that this clone in front of him was at a power level higher than he was the previous day, it was quite shocking.
But more than that, at this moment, yet another shadow condensed into another figure. So, the maximum number of clones that could be produced had already been produced at this point.
Looking at them, Bob realized something. It seemed that if he could get stronger, maybe he would just be sending the clones to deal with most of the problems. That way, no matter what, it would be difficult for him to be affected personally.
After all, even if a clone ended up dying out there, it could be condensed once again. It was just that at this moment, after condensing the two clones, he realized that the energy within his body had been consumed by 1/3.
That implied that if these two clones ended up dying, he would need at least 1/3 of his energy in order to be able to condense another pair. But this was way better than some limitation such as a cool down and so on.
As he thought about this, Bob went ahead and gave the command to one of the clones to do the cleaning of the house. As for the other one, he instructed it to prepare food.
While the two clones did not possess deep memories, ones that Bob had, they possessed basic intelligence. Preparing food was something that they could do, and so was cleaning.
So, for a few minutes, Bob watched as the two clones busied themselves. If someone was observing the two clones, they would think that they were actual people.
The only limitation was that they could not speak. The only situation where they could speak was if Bob took over control of the bodies of the clones. This was a disadvantage, but it was enough for the time being.
Several minutes later, the two clones had already completed the duties that have been assigned to them. Bob tasted the food, and he realized that although the test was not the best, but at least it met the basic requirements.
Looking at the house, it was currently well arranged, even though it did not have that many things.
After thinking for a while, Bob instructed one of the clones to go out of the house and purchase a new pair of clothes. As for himself, he decided to continue taking this chance to improve his own power level.
But just before the clone left, Bob thought of something else. Did the clones also possess the same skills and techniques that he did?
Thinking about this, he instructed the two clones to use False Mirror to change the power level that was being projected. And under his astonished gaze, the two clones had their power level change. In just a few seconds, the power level of the two clones had been reduced to level 1 of the soldier realm.
This amazed Bob. After all, in the information that he had received previously, there was no mention of something like this. But this worked so well.
Thereby, Bob instructed the one that was going to purchase clothes to buy a few pairs of masks. That way, there would be no problem caused by similarity in appearance between them.
Bob waited for several minutes before the clone came back. He had been observing the movements of the clone through its perspective. Since it was his clone, and he could swap places with it, and also control it, Bob obviously could see what the clone could see as well.
During the time that it was about to make a purchase, Bob took over control of the clone, doing the speaking. The body of the clone was just a copy of Bob's, and so, it could speak. It was just that Bob did not know why there was a limitation as to why this clone could not speak on its own.
Along the way, the clone did not encounter anything, and that was the reason why it only took a few minutes before it came back. So, after coming back, Bob went ahead and picked the mask brought over.
He then went ahead and instructed the two clones to change their aura. The moment that they changed the aura, together with their clothes, before putting on the masks, apart from the body build that looked almost the same, they look like completely different people.
With this out of the way, Bob instructed the clones to go out now. One of them was instructed to go and look for a workshop. As for the other one, it was supposed to look for different materials and ingredients that could be used in alchemy.
Bob did not want to buy so many things at once, as this was going to be a trial first. So, he only targeted the materials for the pills and potions for the soldier and captain realm.
First of all, they were not expensive, and they would definitely not attract that much attention in the busy market. So, the two clones set out, each and every one of them heading in their own direction.
Bob could see what the two of them were seeing, at the same time. It was just a matter of where he focused, in order to control one of them. The problem was that he could not control all of them at the same time. But in order to change the clone that he was controlling, that was something that could be done within an instant.
So, Bob would be able to use the clones to ask for what he wanted. He only instructed those clones to find what he needed before he could take care of the negotiations.
As for himself, he decided to deal with the remaining demon crystals. He had quite a number of them, especially those that were in the commander realm.
This was going to be quite simple, and at the same time, he might just as well purchase a few skill scrolls. The current him only had a mask on his face, though he did not change his appearance, but he had limited his power level to the commander realm level 3.
He obviously would attract a lot of attention if he was in the soldier realm, and sold demon crystals that were in the commander realm. No matter how much one thought about it, there was definitely something suspicious about that. That was unless he was a member of a certain team, and he was the one that was assigned to selling the demon crystals.
But Bob was not willing to be associated with any team, as that might as well lead to him being targeted by someone that wanted to join the team or maybe an enemy who thought him to be a member of a certain team.
Less than 1 hour later, Bob had already arrived at the market area that was located close to the exit of the stronghold. When he got there, he entered one of the shops, before asking to sell the demon crystals.