Leo marveled over his stats for a bit and then came the next and equally important part, using his skill points.
"Let's see, I'll start off by using 3 skill points to upgrade my item box to level 2 and another 3 to upgrade my stealth to level 2 as well. Then I'll buy some more ghost skills, the ghost sounds, fear and spectral hands skills. And now it's time for the much anticipated magic, I should probably start by buying the basic ability to use magic in the first place, magic circulation and then let's just buy as many elements as possible. I'll start with the basics, Fire magic, Earth magic, Wind magic, Water magic, Light magic and Dark magic. Now that I have the basics, let's buy some sub-elements, buy healing magic, iron magic and lightning magic. That's enough of magic, I should buy some other skills now, some fighting skills maybe, let's see what to buy. There are a lot of weapons I can buy skills for but I don't currently have a weapon and I don't know if I would be comfortable with that weapon either."
There were skills for all kinds of weapons, martial arts and combat skills in general. He looked through a lot of them and a specific weapon skill caught his eye.
"Scythemanship huh, I'm a ghost now, if I wielded a scythe I could go around looking like the Grim Reaper" Leo laughed
"Do it, purchase Scythemanship. I have 4 skill points left, what should I buy now. A Utility skill maybe, hmm, danger sense sounds very useful, it's kinda expensive at 3 points but all the more reason to buy it since the more expensive, the more useful, probably. I just thought of it but I have a physical body now, that means I must also have taste now, even though I don't feel hungry and don't need to eat, it would be nice to be able to eat tasty stuff, I shall buy the cooking skill as well then. These are the skill points I had, now let's see what my status looks like now"
[Status]
[Name: Leo Hawthorne]
[Age: 19]
[Species: Ghost]
[Level: 8]
[HP: 68/1200]
[Mana: 700/700]
[STR: 72]
[AGI: 70]
[VIT: 55]
[INT: 70]
[SPR: 120]
[Stat Points: 0]
[Skill Points: 0]
[Unique Skills: Status Window, ???]
[Skills: Item Box (Lvl 2), Appraisal, Stealth (Lvl 2), Pain Tolerance (Lvl 2), Dodging (Lvl 1), Fighting (Lvl 1), Fire Magic (Lvl 1), Earth Magic (Lvl 1), Wind Magic (Lvl 1), Water Magic (Lvl 1), Light Magic (Lvl 1), Dark Magic (Lvl 1), Healing Magic (Lvl 1), Iron Magic (Lvl 1), Lightning Magic (Lvl 1), Inferior Scythemanship (Lvl 1), Danger Sense (Lvl 1), Cooking (Lvl 1)]
[Species Skills: Invisible, Ethereal Form, Levitation, Spectral Sight, Chill Zone, Possession, Undying, Tendrils, Life Absorb, Transform, Ghost Sounds, Fear, Spectral Hands]
"My status looks good, now to try out all these magic and skills that I got. I'll start with my healing skill since I need to heal myself, I can't be going around leaking smoke everywhere for god knows how long. Let's see now, how do I use it"
Leo read the description of the skill to see learn how to use it, but he was not ready for what he saw, it wasn't possible to use healing magic on himself, he could only use it on other people
"No way, why can I not use healing magic on myself, this is stupid, does this mean that I have to go around with my HP being so low? Fuck, if I knew this was the case I would have bought a regeneration skill instead. Now I have no way of healing myself other than just waiting for it to heal on its own"
Leo was in a bit of a dangerous situation, he was in a forest with many animals, any of them dangerous and his HP was at rock bottom, he was one spit away from actually dying
'Wait, I forgot I can just turn ethereal and nothing will be able to hurt me. If I am in danger I'll just turn ethereal and all's well. Now how about I test out my magic, let's start with fire magic, according to the description by having the level 1 fire magic skill I can cast a fireball and I cast it by either using a chant or imagining the spell'
Leo extended his hand forward and opened his palm, then he imagined a fireball and one started forming on his palm, he aimed his hand towards a nearby tree, the fireball shot from his palm and struck the tree with a thud. A brief sizzle followed, and a patch of bark where it hit glowed red before quickly charring, leaving a smoky, blackened mark.
'Wow, that's so cool'
Leo played around with his fireball, randomly throwing it around burning a few trees in the process.
'I should probably try using my water magic now to put out the fires I've lit'
Leo extended his hand and opened his palm just like he did when he was casting the fireball spell, only this time he instead thought of a waterball instead of a fireball. Just like with the fireball spell a small ball started forming on his palm but this time it was made up of water instead of fire, he then pointed his hand toward one of the trees that were burning and shot the waterball on it. The ball wasn't big and so it wasn't enough to do much on its own so he cast a few more on that same tree for the fire to be completely extinguished, he then repeated this on the rest three trees that were on fire and a few bushes.
'It's certainly much weaker compared to the fireball when it comes to destructive power but that's to be expected since it's water, not fire. It will most certainly have its uses'
Leo proceeded to try out the rest of the magic he had obtained as well, the earth magic allowed him to form a piece of rock to throw as a projectile, its destructive power was fairly strong, able to break through half of an average sized tree trunk, the air magic allowed him to send a gust of wind in the form of a crescent shape that would slash through everything in its path. But at its level it was only capable of making a 1 inch deep cut on a tree, but that was still something. Then he tried using his iron magic, by casting it iron threads appeared, he could control these iron threads however he willed, they were pretty thin and not very durable but that was bound to change as he leveled up and got more proficient on these magic. Then it was time for the lightning magic. Leo had some expectations from it but to his disappointment it only produced a simple spark, but even though it was quite weak on its own he thought it would be quite useful paired with the iron magic. Then he tried out his light magic, it produced a bright flash of light. This could be used to blind opponents so it was definitely a useful skill. Then he tried his dark magic, it produced dark tendrils like the ones he could already produce with his tendrils skills, but the ones he could already produce were stronger.
'These are some pretty nice magic skills, they are not very powerful yet but they'll definitely get stronger with time'