Chapter 111: Start of the real-combat mission! (1/2)

Chapter 111: Start of the real-combat mission!

“Multiple skill invocation effect?”

“Cocktail-style composite arcane power effect?”

“Integrating arcane particles with arcane power through sixty patterns?”

Within the following dozen seconds, Ayrin finally understood why Donna’s “Fire Embers” was one of the hardest arcane skills to learn.

This arcane skill unexpectedly required three instant skill invocations, flowing the arcane particles from inside the body out of the hands and feet at the same time but in three different time frames. Arcane particles were split into three parts, gushing out from three different positions in the hands and feet, and you needed to rely on minutes gestures of the hands and feet to cause sixty streams of arcane particles altogether to flow out of the body in different ways, generating a discrepancy in the integration with arcane power, finally forming a perfect synthesis effect.

“There are some especially mighty arcane skills that are true multi-invocation skills in the genuine sense, launching multiple arcane skills with extreme speed. The collision of primordial energy will trigger a more violent chain reaction.” Donna looked at Ayrin and explained, “My Fire Embers originates from the era of the newly risen Draconic scholars’ Goudohar kingdom. The creator is the one called ‘Great Cocktail Master’ Norcas. His studies were directed at how to control as many flows of arcane particles in on arcane skill as possible, in order to produce effects only multi-invocation skills can generate.

“Of course, the arcane skills he pursued are faster than the genuine layering of multiple skills, but the result was that every one of his arcane skills is especially difficult. After all, it’s equivalent to doing the things you’d do to invoke two or three arcane skills in the time you invoke a single skill, and you even need to be especially meticulous. That’s why the vast majority of his arcane skills weren’t passed down. This kind of diverse and meticulous arcane researcher has always been in the minority. The mainstream still consists of studies on gathering more arcane power with single arcane skills.

“Also, legends say that the only ones who can use it are arcane masters with some red dragon bloodline, that is to say, the bloodline of fire dragons, or some other mutation bloodline with a special affinity for fire-elemental arcane energy.” Donna thought for a while, yet she still added without holding anything back, “I happen to have a little red dragon blood… The reason why I’m telling you this much is to make you understand that, if you really feel you can’t adapt to this skill, that you can’t use the aura of this skill, then don’t be overly tempted by it. Many arcane masters, because they were lured by the power of formidable taboo skills, kept studying them, yet couldn’t learn them no matter what. In the end, they never obtained any accomplishment in their lifetime.”

“I understand. If I can’t learn it, I won’t try to keep digging a hole. Anyway, our Holy Dawn Academy still has many arcane skills I can learn.” Ayrin looked at Donna, a little embarrassed. “Only, teacher Donna, can you do the kind of arcane skill that let’ll me remember the scene of your skill invocation, like teacher Ciaran did?”

“Are you talking about ‘Spirit Touch’?” Donna blinked faintly, then immediately smiled and shook her head. She stretched her hand and handed a small scroll to Ayrin. “I can’t grasp that skill. That said, the effect of that skill is to give a profound impression of a scene that happened only moments ago in front of your eyes. I can just use the skill again right now, and Ciaran will help with Spirit Touch. This is an explanation scroll I made, you can also peruse it carefully.”

“Teacher Ciaran, can we do that?” Ayrin took the scroll and looked at Ciaran.

“Go for it.” Ciaran smiled faintly, nodding at Ayrin and Donna.

“Fire Embers!”

“Soul Contract – Spirit Touch!”

When the pale embers once again flashed around Donna, a stream of arcane particles became a dot of deep red light at Ciaran’s fingertip, then gradually vanished between Ayrin’s eyebrows.

A seemingly very gentle breeze blew up, blowing some withered leaves.

Donna and Ciaran both became grave all of a sudden.

Liszt’s figure suddenly appeared on a great tree in front of them.

“The missions are starting?” Donna asked directly. Her face no longer showed any of the gentle and relaxed expressions she had in the past few days.

“It’s starting.” Liszt nodded. He stretched out his hand and directly shot out a small scroll in front of Ciaran. “I already let someone notify Moss, he should be here very quickly.”

“Then we’ll meet after the start of the mission.”

Donna waved at Ciaran and Ayrin. After a mere few flashes, she and Liszt both vanished completely from Ayrin’s line of sight.

“Teacher Ciaran, is it like you said a few days ago, we’re going to carry out missions as battlemasters?” Ayrin realized, suddenly excited.

“Yes.”

Ciaran opened the scroll Liszt tossed her way and gave it a careful once-over. Then red flames sparked on her hands and burned the scroll to ashes.

“We also have to set off immediately for Windsough Canyon.”

“Windsough Canyon?”