The Strongest Spellblade

Chapter 142 – Mother's Legacy

We had stopped for the day.Our team had been in the dungeon for over a week. There had been a lot of rotation in team formations, but it was working out somehow.

There had been no life-or-death moments, thankfully. Everyone was capable enough and got their chance to shine.

Tonight, I was on watch for half the night and split the other half with Sam.

While it was unlikely anything would show up during the night, it was just common sense to have someone sit up.

Even if it was boring, it was necessary in case an Abnormal or other people showed up.

It was also a good time to read or work quietly on one's skills. I pulled out my mother's book she had left me, her legacy. Until now, I had not looked at it.

That was just like my mother. I couldn't help but smile. Even when she was dead, she was still telling me to work harder in her own way.

I couldn't wait to see what skill had led my mother to greatness. I kept reading with eager anticipation.

My eyes went wide at this revelation. It shocked me to my core, just as it would everyone else.

Could she still be alive? For a moment I felt a bit of hope, but that was impossible. There was no way she had been hiding in the dungeon for years. That was absurd, but that didn't stop me from reading more.

A legacy tier 1 skill. Ignorant people would think that a tier 4, 5, or even 6 skills would be better.

But it wasn't.

Often, those skills didn't have a proper foundation. I knew that my mother's high-tier skills were a combination of spell skills, runes, and Mana control skills.

I was already working on such skills.

But a Tier 1 one skill that wasn't commonly known was far more valuable. It would allow me to build a foundation for the more advanced skills in the skill chain.

That I had never even heard of such a skill even in passing showed how valuable it truly was.

I closed the book and hesitated for a moment.

If it were anyone but my mother, I wouldn't dare to do this. I placed my hand on the cover of the book.

"I will never forget."

From the book, I felt a surge of Mana. I didn't resist whatever the effect was.

My hand sank into the front cover of the book, and I felt something under my hand.

I grabbed the hard object that seemed to have some paper tied to it and pulled my hand out.

The Mana that had briefly surged was gone.

In my hand, I held an Alchemical Crystal Phial with a scroll of paper tied to the side.

I untied the piece of paper and began reading it.

My eyes grew moist. Even after all this time, my mother was still giving me things to help me advance.

A truly priceless gift.

A hidden tier 1 skill that was the foundation of the greatest legacy ever to exist. The legacy that allowed Elena to become a Supreme Legend.

Taking a deep breath, I put the piece of paper inside the book and set them on the folding table to my side.

Everyone was still asleep, and there were no disturbances.

I uncorked the crystal phial and gulped Alchemical Mixture.

I felt the impact on my soul immediately and allowed the skill to settle.

My soul shifted, and I felt a pain across my entire body.

It was going right through my Pain Immunity.

I clenched my fists and endured.

My soul settled down a few seconds later, but I felt an ache across my body.

I didn't have to move if I didn't want to.

My heart seemed to freeze and even my Mana grinding to a halt.

It lasted only for a moment before my blood surged.

My body ached some more.

It wasn't a simple skill.

Stillness was something incredibly unique. No wonder it wasn't a common skill.

Anyone could sit and meditate or run, but this was something far simpler and far more profound.

Stillness was becoming still in a way that there was no difference between a person and the background.

Of course, there were things like heat and being present physically, but there was something greater about this skill I didn't fully grasp.

I knew it was greater with how my entire soul had twisted slightly and my body was still in pain.

Without the Alchemically extracted skill, I would never learn this kind of skill naturally.

My mother, in fear and desperation as a young girl, had unlocked it long ago.

She had told me about the death of her family, but I hadn't realized it had started her on her path to greatness in more than one way.

No wonder she seemed so conflicted about her past.

She had gained something incredibly powerful, something that allowed her to become a Supreme Legend, but it had also cost my mother her family.

I put the crystal phial away in my spatial pouch.

Checking the book again, the next bit of content talked about how to train other skills to complement Stillness.

I don't need to worry about that right now.

I needed to get this skill to tier 4, Mana Stillness.

Other skills did not allow one to practice stillness.

That my mother had kept such a secret from everyone was shocking.

I didn't know how old she was, but she had been the youngest of the Supreme Legends, though she supposedly had the highest combat power out of all of them.

The Mathemancer and The Librarian had retired from their adventuring once they had become Supreme Legends.

Only Blood Gore remained fighting monsters, but he was weaker than my mother from what I had picked up.

It was shocking and incredibly scary that my mother considered herself a stealth specialist, not a spellblade.

I had always looked up to her overwhelming power.

And while that was true, there was an entirely new dimension to her.

But if she said this skill was important and left an Alchemically prepared copy for me, I wouldn't doubt it.

I would train the skill and its supporting skills.

Just one more thing on my list of skills to train and maximize.

It didn't seem so overwhelming as it had before, knowing that my mother believed in me.