Chapter 331: All Roads Lead to Suspicion (2/2)
With that in mind, it was no surprise that this silhouette was none other than the owner of the Desecrated Inheritance. A dark skeleton that was 2 meters tall and had dark brown flames in its eye sockets, this being, who went by the name of Lord Calcifas in order to look imposing in front of the inheritors, was also the disembodied voice Argentum was talking to, as well as Melzarin Vadicarde, the owner of the Desecrated Inheritance.
After confirming that she was heading to his inheritance, Melzarin could not help but let out a loud cackle as he said, ”She's finally coming…she's finally coming…she's finally coming to see me again!”
”Oh, Eleanor…from the first time I met you, I already fell in love with you,” he continued to mutter, bringing up a screen that showed what was happening in the room where Argentum was taking a trial. As he watched Argentum move through the bookshelves in a lackadaisical manner while lightly grazing his hands over the books, Melzarin could not help but say, ”If not for this young Pseudo-Animate right here, I might have never gotten a chance to meet you again for a few thousand more years. Thank you for being related to Eleanor.”
”Speaking of which, this being is just way too fast at comprehending, even finding out that this trial had something to do with his specialties,” Melzarin continued, letting out a sigh of relief after remembering that Argentum's suspicions gradually died down after some time. Nevertheless, he knew that he had made a mistake, thus he was going to make sure that if Eleanor came after the third trial was done, he would create a trial that did not seem to be inclined to his specialties.
”Well, to be honest, I really only have two trials, so he has already passed my inheritance with flying colors, but…” he said, focusing his attention on the screen with dots once more.
”Just hold on for a little bit more, young Pseudo-Animate. I'll surely repay you once she arrives.”
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In another part of the Desecrated Inheritance, one would find a room filled to the brim with bookshelves that contained skill books that were inclined to the Earth element. Inside this room was a Pseudo-Animate that had the colors green, brown, and blue all at once on his body. Of course, this was none other than Argentum, who had been sitting near the entrance of the room cross-legged for over two and a half hours now.
During the previous two and a half hours, he waltzed through the various bookshelves of the room, lightly grazing his hands over the books as the system continuously announced to him that he had learned a new skill inclined towards the Earth element. He could afford to do this since his comprehension speed was increased thanks to Aurus consuming an All-Seeing Comprehension Leaf before he underwent an evolution process. If it was any other being, even those with the best talent would take around half a minute to learn a skill.
At the moment, his sense of vision was closed as he commanded the system to bring up information regarding [Sage's Earth Magic], namely the innate spell that came along after learning it. As [Sage's Water Magic] came with [Niflheim Horizon], a domain spell that reduced the defense of his enemies, he was curious if the first spell he would obtain from [Sage's Earth Magic] was a domain spell.
Ding!
”Sure enough, it's also a domain spell,” Argentum inwardly muttered to himself as he read the name that was plastered on the screen that appeared in his mind.
”[Jotunheim Domain]…” he murmured the name of the spell, pondering over it for a bit as he continued, ”If my memory…I mean, Aurus' memory serves me correct, then the Fire and Wind variant of this skill would have something to do with Muspelheim and Alfheim? What does it have something to do with Norse mythology?”
”In any case, I'll probably find the answer that in the future. For now, identify [Jotunheim Domain],” he added, eliciting a notification sound to resound from the system as a screen appeared in his mind.
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[Jotunheim Domain]
MP Cost: 20% of the user's MP gauge, 1% of the user's MP gauge for each additional second of binding
Understanding the intrinsic properties of the element of Earth, the sage of earth now has access to the realm of arth in another plane. This spell allows the user to create a domain that emulates the realm of earth from another plane, binding those the sage deems its enemies in a world of earth, as well as reducing their combat ability to near zero.
When the user decides to only use the spell for the first cast, the binding effect would only last for 10 seconds. Any second after that, would continuously consume a small percentage of the user's MP in order to keep the binding effect active.
> Duration: 10 seconds / dependent on the user's MP regeneration rate
Note: All spells from the [Sage's Earth Magic] skill, may it be crafted or innate, would show twice as much power inside this domain.
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”From the effects of this new spell, I guess the first spells would also have something to do with giving a debilitating effect to those I deem as enemies?” Argentum muttered to say, wondering what kind of effects his attacks would have under the effects of both [Niflheim Horizon] and [Jotunheim Domain].
”I should probably go and look through the bookshelves one more time. I might've missed a few skills here and there,” he said soon after, ready to open his eyes and stand up to waltz through the bookshelves another time. But just as he opened his eyes, a familiar fiery silhouette appeared in front of him, making him fall at a loss of words as he muttered.
”Eleanor?”