The Tales of Draconic Warlock

From the status panel, it was clear that I improved a lot.

Sure it may appear that I only improved by two levels in my rank and the skills didn't change much except for the movements in one or two and that too didn't improve by many levels.

This normally shouldn't be considered good, but if you look at my rank now and the levels of those skills, I say the improvements are pretty good.

At Tier-6, improving by two levels in a month is considered a wonder. Even though it is, it is nowhere near the growth rate that I want. If I grow like this, it would take years before I could reach peak Tier-6 and after that, there would be a Tier-7 promotion mission, which I need to complete too before I could be allowed to access some of the restricted parts of the library.

I hope that the knowledge that I need is there. Even if it is not there, it is not a loss, though I may have to double the efforts to improve my skills from that point.

There is something I learned from the knowledge that I was able to access in the library.

An increase in the Rank and skill levels had to go hand in hand.

An increase in rank means that the improvement in skill levels would be difficult to achieve. This was because the skills improve as we practice more but for a high ranker, fighting an enemy would take seconds if the enemies were of low rank.

This means there is no chance to use skills multiple times and that means less improvement in the skill levels. As the rank increases, they can't just practice against a dummy. It would be very costly to do so. No one could support such costs.

This is why the ancestors would come out once in a while and fight each other.

I thought this prevented someone from reaching level 100 as that could break the balance between the kingdoms here. This was what we were taught through the books but it seemed to be wrong. They kept it a secret for whatever reason I can't understand.

Anyway, since they were considered to be at the top of the world, the resources required to support them could destabilize a kingdom like ours. It should be the same for the other four. So they devised a perfect plan to improve themselves and keep each other in check.

If you observe this as a factor, then many events that didn't make sense are now clear.

Each kingdom wants to conquer and occupy each other but that is very difficult to do so.

For example take this as a scenario. There are five nations A, B, C, D, and E.

Nation A defeats Nation B and wants to occupy it but how could C, D, and E would stay still?

If Nation A succeeds in its endeavour, then that would mean it would grow stronger than it is and then it would be one of their turns to lose their territories next. They can never accept that. So they would prevent from Nation B losing the battle either directly or indirectly.

For suppose, Nation A offers to divide Nation B into four parts and distribute among all, there is a chance but it most likely would fail.

How would they divide the territories?

Would they say that set the area of the territory as the standard for the division?

This is not a guarantee for equal division. Some lands would have huge mines or some lands could produce food in large quantities every year. This means that they are worth a lot more than areas that don't produce quality products or in quantity.

If it were a discussion between two parties, then it would be easy but there was no easy way that all four would agree to the division terms. Everyone is greedy and everyone wants the best of the land. If they lose out here, then they could be the next that would be split in three ways.

No one can accept that.

Everyone wants the best and that is an issue that can't be solved easily.

So even though our kingdom has four neighbours and always fighting each other, the kingdom stood. Though there are always changes in the borderlines every now and then, they are not significant enough to say that the kingdom is doomed.

Every kingdom keeps the other in check. No one wants others to gain momentum and destroy them. Everyone wants to keep their freedom and the reason for the survival of the five kingdoms even though they have been fighting each other for a long time.

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Wait, what am I discussing?

I again started to discuss something that was not needed at the moment and made waste of time and brain power.

Coming to the point, the rank and the skills had to go hand in hand or the skills would lose out. This is exactly the problem that I am facing but I have Nexus, where I can set the enemies to a higher rank. Though they won't give any EXP to improve my rank, they are very useful to improve my skill levels.

This was why, even though I am at a very high rank compared to what I should be with my skill levels, I still made sufficient progress.

Even if I reach Tier-7, it won't be a problem. I can set them to Tier-9 or even higher if there is a rank higher than that.

I problem I have right now is to show that I am much more capable than what I am showing without spilling every secret out.

For that, I need an event, but I don't see any on the horizon. I hope one will happen before I graduate.

To be on the safe side, let's say that the event happens in the last semester before I graduate, that leaves me with twelve or more months to prepare for it. Let's set it for twelve and be prepared for it.