Chapter 424 - Certain People Shouldn“t Be Indulged Anymore (1/2)
Elemental Lord
Cla.s.s Specialties: Elemental Enhancement, Elemental Embodiment
Below were explanations to the two specialties.
Elemental Enhancement: All the elemental spells you cast are 25% more powerful with a 25% lower cost. Also, the difficulty to learn all elemental spells is reduced by one level.
Elemental Embodiment: You are still made of flesh and blood, but you may transform into the elemental form in which you will have no fatal weaknesses. The spells you cast in the elemental form will be strengthened. In the meantime, your Health will be improved by twice your Intelligence points. The elemental form will continue consuming your magic power until your magic power is used up or you cancel the elemental form.
The two specialties were very simple, but after reading their detailed introduction, Roland fell silent.
Powerful… They were too powerful.
Someone said that the more awesome a thing was, the simpler it tended to be. This might be an example of that.
The Bards, in comparison, had all kinds of fancy talents and specialties, which could enhance melee and remote attacks. They could also cast spells with music effects.
But in fact, those spells were very tricky to use, and not very effective.
Their songs couldn’t distinguish friend from foe, and they were not nearly as good as the Saint Samurai’s Grand Aura.
The specialties of the Elemental Lord, on the other hand, were simple and straightforward. They reduced the spell costs, increased the power of the spells, and most importantly, removed Roland’s weaknesses while improving the upper limit of his Health.
It meant that Roland would have barely any physical weakness in the future.
As long as he turned on the elemental form, it would be a simple compet.i.tion of tricks, Health, and abilities.
Chances were slim that he would ever suffer a critical injury and be killed by someone far weaker than him.
However, he would rather find out what it felt to cast Elemental Embodiment first.
Roland used Elemental Embodiment in a lab in the magic lab and turned into… a man of fire!
He was best as Grand Fireball, so he subconsciously chose the embodiment of fire elements in priority.
He was now exactly a man of fire. His whole body was exclusively made of fire.
But amazingly enough, he could still experience the sensation of touch. Also, his equipment was not affected by the fire.
Still, terrifying hot waves were spreading in the lab, filling the air with the stench of burning.
The floor where Roland was standing was gradually turning red and black.
It was not very scientific, but very magical.
Roland tried casting a fireball. The super ma.s.sive fireball which would’ve taken at least five seconds before only took him two seconds to cast at this moment.
Also, the fireball was even hotter.
He hadn’t thrown the fireball out yet, but all the wooden furniture and devices within a dozen meters were set ablaze despite the magic-suppressing barrier in the lab.
Roland dispersed the ma.s.sive blue fireball and tried the embodiment of earth and water elements.
The spells of the cla.s.s of the element that he embodied would be greatly strengthened, and they could be buffed by Elemental Enhancement.
But Elemental Enhancement had downsides. When he was in the state of embodiment, he could only cast one specific cla.s.s of spells.
For example, when he was the embodiment of fire elements, he could only cast fier spells, and couldn’t even use Arcane Bullet.
Also, the transformation would take at least three seconds, which was too long in high-level battles. So, he had to be well prepared before the transformation.
In general, the abilities of the Elemental Lord were really not bad.
All those abilities were empowering and not insubstantial.
Roland opened the forum and was about to post a guide on how to become an Elemental Lord, but he dropped the idea after a second thought.
Earlier, someone had submitted his research results to other countries for rewards, which was quite annoying to him.
Of course, communication among the Mages was still necessary, but it shouldn’t be free anymore.
They had to exchange knowledge for knowledge.
Thinking for a moment, Roland wrote a thread with a different t.i.tle.
The Magic Tower of Delpon Sincerely Welcomes All Mages For Friendly Communication.
Roland introduced the credit system of his Magic Tower and his ideas on its future development. He also pointed out the “knowledge points” that he had, including Basic Enchantment, the models of all level-one and level-two spells, the derivative spell of Ice Ring, etc. He specifically elaborated on the abilities and features of the Elemental Lord, but he didn’t say anything about how to become an Elemental Lord. He simply concluded the thread with “welcome to discuss with me.”
Then, many other players replied to the thread.
“What’s the meaning of this? Roland is also selling knowledge for money? Tsk, tsk. This is the day he loses his reputation.”
“He’s called a mentor to all Mages, but he’s corrupted by money in the end, isn’t he?”
“Do you think he’s short of money? Every Mage nowadays has to throw a gold coin to Roland’s bowl in exchange for the divine-level specialty. You think he’s short of money?”
“Don’t take him for a fool. You know exactly what certain people did with his hard work.”
“Not only did you take advantage of him, but you even recorded the whole process and posted it online.”
“You really think that Roland never surfs online?”
“Knowledge should be applied. Since Roland published the knowledge and the tricks, he gave everyone permission to use them. How other people use the knowledge is none of his business. Why is he so jealous?”
“Wow, I’m almost impressed by your shamelessness. But no matter how you defend yourself, the people know who’s right and who’s wrong.”
“Hehe. If you are a celebrity, you shouldn’t think about making money all the time. That’s very demeaning, do you know that?”
“You’re saying that Roland should teach you and feed you for free, right? Are you his son? Does he owe you anything?”
“What are you fighting for? Stop fighting! Let’s play some music!”