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Chapter 58: The Hospital Behemoth (3)

Reidar wiped the sweat from his brow as the last wisps of life vanished from the behemoth’s corpse.

[QUEST COMPLETE: The Hospital Behemoth]

[LEVEL UP! You have reached Level 25.]

[You have gained 0.5 attribute points to distribute.]

[You have unlocked a System’s function: Resource Node Mapping.]

<Great. With this quest completed, I should almost be done.>

His Guardian Shade was still there, replenishing his mana as Reidar checked the entrance for some more hidden danger.

Then he turned to his summons. While he might have been done with the monster, there was still stuff he had to do.

"Go search for the supplies."

He didn’t want to lose more time than he already did.

The summons left the room and went searching around the hospital. It would take some time before they found everything they needed. Since he didn’t have much to do, he checked his status.

—[«STATUS»]—

Name: Reidar Miller

Level: 25

Health: 180

Mana: 1280

C.L.A.S.P: 3525 / 8500

Available Attribute points: 0.50

Skills: Summon Rift-Sprite Squad , Fireball, Aqua Pistol, Stone Bullet, Wind Blade, Summon Primal Pack, Summon Guardian Shade, Summon Bone Militia, Mending Touch, Group Rally

Equipment: Rift-Sprite Conductor, Ember Sprite Bracers, Stone Sprite Gauntlets, Aqua Sprite Circlet, Wind Sprite Boots, Rift-Touched Cloak, Rift-Woven Leggings, Sprite-Touched Armguards, Wind Sprite Sash, Aqua Sprite Pendant, Ember Sprite Ring

Proficiencies: Basic Combat

Attributes:(S.H.I.E.L.D.: 1,8), (A.C.U.M.E.N.: 12,8), (F.L.A.I.R. : 1,6), (F.L.I.P.: 2,1)

Minions: Rift-Sprite Squad, Bone Militia, Primal Pack

Survival Points: 75.669

Trait: Skill Sharing

Perks: Arcane Potency (6/6), Mana Attunement (1/5), Arcane Leech (5/5)

Perk Points:3

Titles: The First Killer, The First Apprentice, The Pioneer, Creature Slayer IV, Rift-Sprite Hunter IV, The Exterminator, Guardian of the Innocents

Profession: #N/A

—[«END»]—

Reidar went through his perks. There were many things that interested him, such as the survivor perk Social Grace, which Improved prices when buying from and selling to Vendors, or the effective scavenger, which increased whatever he found when looting, but he was attracted to the mage tree again.

[Spell Control: Increase the amount of time a skill lasts. (+5% of the base duration per point)]

Indeed, it would be. The maximum number of points invested in the perk would be 5, meaning the increase in time a skill lasts should get up to 25% more.

But Mana attunement was also there. Reidar already had a point invested in it, and with three more points invested, he should reach the 20% increase of mana gained from all sources.

Reidar also went to another Perk tree, the crafter tree. He didn’t check it as much as he would have liked, but he did now.

The tree had many useful things, such as increasing the chance of crafting higher-rarity items, or increasing the chance to harvest double resources. There were a lot of things there.

While Reidar was lost in his thoughts, the Rift-Sprites skidded to a stop near an untouched pharmacy. Shelves stood untouched behind reinforced glass, antibiotics stacked in orderly rows, surgical kits wrapped in sterile packaging, bandages piled high enough to fill armories.

As soon as the summoned creatures found the pharmacy, Reidar got the quest complete notification.

[QUEST COMPLETE: Medical Reclamation]

[Rewards: 3000 C.L.A.S.P points, 2400 Survival points]

Reidar’s eyebrows shot up.

After placing his perk points into Mana Attunement, so that he would get the best synergy with Arcane Leech and the guardian shade, Reidar headed where the Rift-Sprites were.

The hospital had been a tomb of rot and roots, but the medical storage rooms remained miraculously intact. His summons showed him finds in triage areas, surgical wings, even an underground cold storage unit lined with refrigerated cases of antiserums.

One of the Sprites cracked open a steel cabinet buried under fallen beams. Inside, crates stamped "EMERGENCY STOCKPILE". There was a lot of stuff there.

"More than Keth’moran asked for," Reidar said. "And more than Malcolm had hoped. Well, at least luck is on our side."

He knelt beside the shattered IV stand, brushing dirt off a crate label.

Reidar breathed slowly.

Malcolm and Kate had been scrounging alleyways for half-empty cans, risking their lives for moldy sacks of rice and aspirin, while trying to perform with boiled kitchen knives to treat wounds.

Reidar stored the medical supplies in his inventory, watching crate after crate vanish into the system’s storage, another benefit of the Guardian System that still felt unnatural after weeks of use.

He pushed through the hospital’s destroyed entrance, broken glass grinding under his boots. As he stepped out, the afternoon sun warmed his face. He took a deep breath. If anything else, air was much fresher now that industrial production had been halted.

<Since I finished the quest, Malcolm probably knows already.> His quests were tied to some of Malcolm’s, so his should’ve been completed too. The guy had other jobs besides keeping the place safe. Since this was a big deal for the settlement, he’d definitely get a notification that the behemoth was gone.

There was no need for messengers or explanations.

His parents waited in Creamont. Martha and Marcus were trapped somewhere in Kingsguard. Every hour spent here pulled him further from them. He helped where he could, making the others stronger and giving them a safe place to stay, but he could not be here forever. Not that he stayed a lot.

He hadn’t been there for much time he wanted. Less than a week, in truth, but it still was too much for him. Given the brief stay, he didn’t even feel particularly attached to anyone, so leaving wasn’t going to be problematic at all.

The Vendor might have new skills, better equipment, or information about the road ahead. With over seventy thousand Survival Points burning a hole in his inventory, Reidar could afford almost anything the Thalassari merchant offered at his level.