Chapter 345: The Final Element (1/2)
XXXX Continent, Inferno Plains, inside the Flame Spirit Inheritance.
A few days have gone by since Rosalia dropped by the Flame Spirit Inheritance to give Argentum the items he had requested from her to procure. Of course, the items were none other than the items he needed to concoct the Heaven's Wind Potion, the final type of potion he needed in order to achieve the True Element level on all four elements. Although he only asked one set of items from Rosalia that would allow him to concoct around 10 or so flasks, the amount he had obtained was surprisingly more than that, being around five to six sets or so, which he was naturally thankful for.
At this moment, Argentum was still sitting cross-legged at the center of Eleanor's room as he continued to increase his understanding of the Fire element to the True Element level. Currently, a large mass of Fire energy particles surrounded him, with him acting as the center of orbit. Every once in a while, the path these particles took would change into that of an ellipse, or sometimes, it would change into an erratic pattern. Nevertheless, after a while, it would still return to that of a perfect circular orbit.
So far, he had already consumed 50 flasks, with the sun shining down on everyone gradually arriving at the peak. With the fact that each flask's effect lasted for 2 hours, that meant that Argentum had been continuously increasing his understanding of the Fire element for over 4 days now.
Fortunately, just like the saying 'Many a mickle makes a muckle' went, a qualitative change had finally occurred around Argentum, with the Fire energy particles surrounding him a while ago turning into an ardent field that covered every nook and cranny of the room he was in. Not long after, this field had compressed into a tiny ball of fire hovering over his head, gradually increasing its heat as the color of the flame changed, with the heat exuded by the small ball of flame at the end of it being akin to the sun.
Soon after, this ball of fire exploded, turning into thousands of small wisps of fire, though there was no sound accompanying it at all. Not only that, but the color of the wisps had turned gray as they gradually fell to the floor. As each wisp touched the floor, the temperature of the room gradually decreased from its smoldering hot temperature quite some time ago, eventually returning the temperature in the room back to normal.
It was at this point that Argentum had finally opened his eyes, standing up with an aura of glee surrounding him as he said to himself, ”I've finally done it. I've finally achieved [True Fire Affinity].”
Ding!
Coincidentally, at the very instant he was finished saying those words, a notification sound resounded throughout his mind, prompting him to open it up, even though the wording of the system remained the same.
'[Animate Fire Affinity] has been upgraded to [True Fire Affinity]. Due to the inherent limits brought about by the upgraded skill, [True Fire Affinity] has replaced [Animate Fire Affinity] while regressing down to C-grade Mortal level.'
'Thanks to [True Fire Affinity], [Fire Resistance] has been upgraded to [True Fire Resistance], regressing down to C-grade Mortal level.'
'Due to the user understanding more of the Fire element thanks to [True Fire Affinity], all active Fire-based skills and spells have been considered as incredibly inferior, prompting the system to fuse the multiple skills as one with the help of [True Fire Affinity].'
'The active skill [Sage's Fire Magic] has been created. Due to the properties of the skill, the user is now able to create their own Fire-based skills and spells, using this skill as a basis. Improving the grade and level of the skill would allow the user to craft more complex and powerful spells.'
Without hesitation, he dismissed the notification screen in his mind as he went ahead and opened up the description of [Sage's Fire Magic], namely the innate spell portion of it. Just like the other variants he had obtained so far, a domain-type spell was the first innate spell he had obtained. Though, after identifying the innate spell that came along with this new skill, he could not help but say, ”Well, I guess that makes sense.”
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[Field of Muspelheim]
MP Cost: 25% of the user's MP gauge, 5% of the user's MP gauge for each additional 3 seconds of effect
Understanding the intrinsic properties of Fire, the sage of fire is now able to borrow the power of the realm of fire from another plane. This spell allows the sage of fire to create a domain mimicking the effect of the foreign realm of fire, boosting the offensive abilities of those that the sage deems as its allies, turning them into warriors that could forge ahead without fear.
When the user casts the spell for the first time, the duration of the spell would last for 30 seconds. Any extension of this duration would gradually consume the user's MP, with a small percentage of the user's MP being consumed for every additional 3 seconds.
> Effect: Attack +50%, damage dealt +20%
> Duration: 30 seconds / dependent on the user's MP regeneration rate
Note: All spells from the [Sage's Fire Magic] skill, may it be crafted or innate, would show twice as much power inside this skill.
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Naturally, with the addition of this innate spell, he could not help but think about a scenario wherein he could cast all three domains at once. Of course, having the effects of all three domains stack on top of each other would more or less make his abilities become that of a god inside the domain, though he could not help but lament the fact that the extremely potent offensive buffs he obtained from the previous Fire-based magic skill he had was now gone.
”Of course, I could still create a spell that boosts my offensive properties, but I'm only limited to one now…” Argentum muttered to himself, though a thought soon surfaced in his mind as he remembered the fact that he still had a massive amount of Earth-based skills from the Desecrated Inheritance.
Remembering how the system told him that it was up to him if he were to fuse the skills to [Sage's Earth Magic] or not, he decided that it was better to fuse those skills now than never, given how he did not have too much use for them. Of course, if he needed a certain skill for a certain moment, then he would just use the spell creation module to create one, even if it meant he would be trading power for flexibility.
Commanding the system to fuse all of the skills he had obtained from the Desecrated Inheritance into [Sage's Earth Magic], a notification sound soon accompanied a notification that appeared in his mind. Reading through it, he could not help but feel slightly confused since the notification contained something vague.
Ding!
'You have fused a total of 832 skills to [Sage's Earth Magic].'
'Your connection with the four elements have slightly increased.'