Chapter 151 - Fight for the Throne (1/2)
Whoosh! Whoosh!
In an instant, Aurus manifested his soul once more outside his body as a soul vessel. This time, he could not help but notice the improvement of manifesting a vessel in terms of speed. Not long after that, he then split up the soul vessel into two. He then did a test to see the level of burden he would obtain while manipulating the two separate vessels independently, noticing that the level of burden on his mind was significantly reduced after fusing the two skills together.
Of course, he continued to split the soul vessels once more, increasing the number of soul vessels in front of his field of vision to four, then eight not long after. Surprisingly, Aurus could still think quite actively while controlling the eight vessels as they moved in different directions, which allowed him to deploy a greater level of protection once the war starts.
Just as he was about to call it a day, a thought popped up in his mind all of a sudden as he decided to split the soul vessels into two once more.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
At this point, he now had 16 soul vessels in front of his field of vision, each having a sixteenth of the Soul Power of the original soul vessel. As for the burden on his mind, it was more or less equivalent to the level of burden he felt while controlling eight soul vessels with only the [Nine Worlds Soul Morphosis] skill. Then again, that was only when he did not move the soul vessels in different directions.
Once he did attempt to move the 16 soul vessels in different directions, although he came to the conclusion that it would allow him to see more of the landscape in the heat of war with the vision portion of the skill activated, he was severely debilitated in the mental area just like before, only allowing him to put up a basic level of protection around his body. Nonetheless, he was quite satisfied, deciding to use the 16 soul vessels if he was going to act as reconnaissance, and the 8 soul vessel form when he was going to attack and act as reconnaissance at the same time.
”Well then, I guess my control over multiple soul vessels has improved, increasing it to 16,” Aurus said to himself, very satisfied with the improvement the newly fused skill brought. Not long after that, he told Fenrir and Charisa that he was going to head towards another part of the Tower of Seclusion as he wanted to test out the destructiveness of his skills.
The two found no problem with that and told their master to still be on alert. In response, Aurus let out an aura of slight happiness before disappearing in front of the two's visions, heading towards one of the dummies situated within the Tower of Seclusion.
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While the whole Tempest Branch Alliance was preparing for the worst in the upcoming war that was going to befall them, an Animate was currently trying to fulfill the last goals given to her by her master, which would ultimately allow her to transition into a stronger class among the classes of the higher ranks.
XXXX Continent, Seraph Kingdom, Arcana Tower.
Glurg glurg…glurg glurg…
Within one of the training rooms that were allotted to those that reside within the Arcana Tower, a young woman was arduously manipulating a small ball of water in front of her, trying her best to solidify the shape of the ball as a sphere. At the current moment, although the shape of the water ball in front of her was more or less a sphere, to be more exact, there were still times where her control over the water ball would falter, making the ball ripple every once in a while.
This young woman was none other than Erea, Dane's only student who was trying to master the Lower Level 1 spell she recently bought in a bid to allow her to transition into a stronger Rank 3 class.
Splash!
”Aah!” Erea could not help but scream out as the water ball she was controlling had abruptly burst. Due to the water ball bursting, it was a given that Erea was soaked by the water. Nonetheless, she was not angry over the fact that she was not able to control the water ball properly, which led to the slip-up that made the water ball burst.
Instead, she took a few deep breaths with her eyes closed, before sitting down on a nearby chair as she recalled the sensation she felt while manifesting and controlling the water ball. From there, she reflected on her mistakes, which allowed her to ponder on how she could reduce the time of manifestation, as well as increase her level of control over the water ball after manifestation.
”If I manipulate my mana in a way that would allow the whole water ball to roll clockwise, that would allow me to have a greater chance to fully control the ball. At the very least, that would allow me to call the activation of the spell a success. Then again, that isn't a true [Aqua Sphere] though since that would need me to mimic the movements of water in a natural setting, taking into consideration the ripples, the breeze, and so on,” she started to mutter to herself as she reflected over her possible workarounds to activating the spell successfully.
”Of course, I could remedy this if I put more time into improving my affinity with the Water element,” she said not long after, only to chuckle afterwards as she added, ”If I have both ideas, why not just do both at the same time?”
Fwoosh!
She then stood up from her chair, extended her right arm as a small fireball manifested on her palm. Not long after, she manipulated the fireball to travel all around her body, drying off the water that was on her robe. While looking at her exquisite control over the fireball, she could not help but ponder over it as she muttered to herself, ”Hmm…how about I take some of the things I do while controlling this fireball? Then again, this fireball is the only Lower Level 1 Spell I have mastered so far.”
Step. Step. Step.
Not long after, she headed towards the center of the training room and stood there, closing her eyes as she attuned her body to the mana in the surroundings.
Whoosh! Whoosh!
A few seconds later, a blue haze started to appear around Erea's body, to which she opened her eyes as she extended one of her arms forward, a magic circle appearing a few centimeters away from the extended palm not long after.
”1st Circle. Aqua Radialis Opensei.”
”[Aqua Sphere]!”
Swish!
At the very instant she finished chanting the incantation for the spell, the magic circle started to glow a faint blue hue, to which the blue haze around her started to congregate towards. Bit by bit, the magic circle she created started to shrink, to which a water ball that was growing in size bit by bit was replacing the magic circle's place.