Chapter 291 - A Time of Change (1/2)

'The Blessed Water spell [Aqua Imperium Universalis] has been created.'

'Would you like to identify its properties?'

As the system asked him as to whether or not he wanted to check the new spell's effects, it came without saying that Argentum was eager to look as to how strong [Sage's Water Magic] was in its current form when it came to bringing spells to life. Accompanied by a notification sound, a small holographic screen, which had the same Water-themed design as the skill's spell creation module, soon appeared in front of his field of vision with the text at the top portion slightly glowing a faint gold. Looking at it, Argentum could not help but wonder as to whether only Blessed Water spells had this type of design.

Nevertheless, he hastily placed the thought at the back of his head as he focused his sense of vision towards the description and the effects of the spell he had just created. Surprisingly, it only took a single skim of the whole screen for him to be left with an aura of disbelief, shock, surprise, and all other emotions related to the previous ones radiating from him at an immense level. Taking around half a minute for the aura radiating from him to return to normal, he then took in a deep breath as he looked at the screen in front of him once more, making sure that the effect he had hastily read through a while ago was, in fact, true.

Ding!

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[Aqua Imperium Universalis]

MP Cost: 100 MP per second

A Blessed Water spell forged with the knowledge and comprehension of [Sage's Water Magic], it is a spell designed by the user to enhance all of their properties to incredible heights, allowing them to surmount the gap of combat power when it came to fighting stronger enemies. Due to the property of this spell taking on the Water element, which is considered an all-encompassing and flexible element, the purpose of this spell synergizes very well with the element, thus bringing out more of the spell's potential.

Of course, since the element of Water is all-encompassing, in terms of offensive properties that could be improved by the Fire element, agility-based properties that could be improved by the Wind element, and defensive properties that could be improved by the Earth element, it is still lacking.

> 50% boost to all stats

> 50% boost to HP and MP

> 50% boost to HP and MP recovery rate

> 50% boost to movement and attack speed

> 50% boost to skill effectiveness

> 50% boost to damage

Note: Whenever [Sage's Water Magic] evolves to a higher grade, the spell's boost increases by 25% for each Mortal grade, and 50% for each Transcendent grade.

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Letting out a sigh of awe from the effects brought about by the spell, Argentum instantly decided that he was not going to discard the spell as its effects were far beyond his previous expectations. Not only that, but the note at the very end of the spell's description could not help but make him curious about the future, a future where all of his abilities would not just be boosted by 50%, but by an increment far higher than that. At that point, he would more or less become invincible, right?

”Speaking of which, it seems that the system takes my words literally,” Argentum said to himself as he closed the screen soon after, mulling over the words he had said when describing the spell's purpose. He then continued to mutter, saying, ”In this case, every specific detail when it comes to describing the spell would be taken into consideration.”

”If that's true, then if I told the system that I only wanted my stats to be boosted…how high would the boost be?” he continued to mutter, this thought surfacing in his mind as he thought that the skill was truly flexible when it came to spell creation. Naturally, he had a feeling that the output of such a statement would lead to a spell boosting his stats to an incredibly high degree, but he felt that the current skill would serve him a greater purpose in the long run.

After getting a better idea as to how the spell creation system of [Sage's Water Magic] worked, Argentum thought that it was now a good time for him to head back to the Verdant Blossom Branch Alliance. In his mind, he decided that he would spend the remainder of the time before the deadline grinding his skills up, focusing most of the remaining time onto [Sage's Water Magic]. Of course, he thought of enhancing his understanding of the other elements to the True Element level, but eventually thought that the boost they gave would lose out to normally grinding his skills. Not only that, but he also took into consideration the amount of time it would take for him to achieve such a feat.

Looking at the current position of the sun, which was at the peak of the sky, Argentum patiently waited for his MP gauge to return to full capacity as [Niflheim Horizon] had reached its time limit while doing so. It was only after about 10 minutes after [Niflheim Horizon] had disappeared did his MP gauge recover back to full, unhesitatingly going ahead and casting all of his movement speed boosting buffs.

While doing so, he thought about casting [Aqua Imperium Universalis] to get a better feel of it. But then, he recalled the amount of MP it consumed every second, discouraging him from doing so as he plotted the fastest route back to the Verdant Blossom Branch Alliance through the system's map feature.

Whoosh!