7 Resistance (2/2)
While Luna's flame burned heatlessly on Rainer, she mumbled out her discontent, ”Hmm, taking advantage of Luna, because Luna so small and nice and beautiful and perfect, one day Luna will get big and she will take advantage of Rainer.”
”Take all the advantage you want,” Rainer said with a grin as he leaned back and enjoyed the healing.
”Mocking Luna, thinking Luna can't, well Luna will.”
After Luna finished healing his leg, he decided that this was a good as time as any to see if fire resistance existed, though he might as well ask her about it before he put himself through the pain.
”Hey, Luna what do you know about resistance Skills?”
”What about them, of course, Luna knows.”
”For example, how would you go about getting a [Physical Resistance] type skill?”
”Hehe don't even try. Unless you get lucky from a skill orb or receive it from leveling up your class, you could spend all your life getting hit and not gain it. Most resistances are like this says Luna. Luna will be happy to try though.”
She added on the last part while giving Rainer a toothy smile and with her long pointed ears twitching slightly.
”And [Burn Resistance]?”
”Hmm, soak yourself in scalding water for several years. Fire Fae sometimes train like that. Luna doesn't get it though. And it doesn't always work. Silly fire people.”
Rainer couldn't keep his happiness down at how powerful the [Arcanist] Class truly was. Every time he discovered more about the world his Class had only gotten better and better.
”How about fire resistance?” Rainer asked as it was his next course of action if such a skill existed.
”Drink the blood of a Fire Dragon.”
That one sounded a bit easier to Rainer.
”But it has to be alive. 100 Rainers couldn't even tickle one.”
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”Thanks for the vote of confidence. Alright well. I'm gonna burn my hand with a flame so keep healing me constantly. Tell me when you can't go on,” he said as he placed one hand above the other.
”Stop says Luna! Luna just explain and yet Rainer didn't listen.”
Rainer paused for a moment, before smiling and asking a question that could solve this.
”Luna, can we show other people our status screens?”
”Rainer only needs to think of showing Luna his status screen and Luna will be asked if Luna wants to see. Luna doesn't understand how this help.”
He did exactly as she said and looked for her reaction as she stared at what was likely his status screen. She stared blankly for quite a while before even a peep came out of her.
”What...How is this even possible, what is this [Arcanist] class that it can do such thing? He hits himself for hours like an idiot and gains such a powerful skill?” Luna quietly said to herself completely oblivious that Rainer was in fact not deaf. Without pause, Luna fluttered over to Rainer's hand and spoke impatiently.
”Well come on, start burning yourself, I want to see how this works.”
It wasn't difficult for Rainer to see that when she became serious her personality shifted. Whether Luna was aware of this herself, he wasn't sure, but when they had some real downtime he decided to see what was going on.
Rainer composed himself and focused on the task at hand. He planned on gaining some form of fire manipulation at the same time as fire resistance. He had altered the magical formula of [Candle Flame] earlier and the system had seemed to acknowledge his actions. Activating the spell became no different than his Arcane ones. Manipulating the fire with his mana, however, would still prove a challenge.
”Come on Rainer, how's that little flame going to do anything to you, heat it up!” she said as she kneeled on top of his hand and then slapped it a few times.
Ignoring the overly-excited and slightly mean Fairy, Rainer, with as much control as possible, put his mana into the flame. Luna watched as Rainer concentrated, wanting to retort that you can't just put more mana into spells whenever you want unless you were a truly powerful mage, not a level 3 one.
She had wanted to yell the same thing when he cast those ridiculously powerful [Arcane Bolts]. Luna didn't understand how the Orc could survive that nor how Rainer could do that. Though seeing his skills for a brief moment gave her some insight. She'd ask to look closer at them in the near future as her shock at seeing the [Physical Resistance] skill prevented that. She immediately focused on healing after she felt some more mana leaving Rainer.
The [Candle Flame] increased in size as Rainer attempted to keep both hands steady. His hand already felt the heat and pain though it seemed as if the [Burn Resistance] skill lowered the actual damage being done and with Luna's constant healing he could manage, at least for a little while.
Soon he lost control over the flame. The flame burst out in size and with Rainer gritting his teeth and focusing on keeping the spell going, he managed to stay steady. He had a feeling that if the spell went out he wouldn't gain any sort of fire manipulation skill.
His desire for power outweighed the scorching pain. And to him, such power meant more opportunities to further his magic. The pain was immense as the fire burned but it settled down and with a final effort Rainer managed to keep the spell going.
[Skill Gained: Pain Resistance lvl 1/10]
Seeing the message the task became noticeably easier, though the pain still existed. After a few more flare ups and with Rainer still managing to keep the flame under control despite the three messages that soon appeared one after the other.
[Skill Gained: Fire Resistance lvl 1/10]
[Candle Flame has reached level 2]
[Experience Gained: 3%]
[Skill Gained: Fire Manipulation lvl 1/10]
Rainer canceled the [Candle Flame] the moment he gained [Fire Manipulation] and waited for Luna to heal him up completely. He relaxed as the dark violet flame tended to him. The contentment from his accomplishment visible on his face.
”To think Rainer was so incredible, Hehehe Luna got rescued by someone much better than silly hero.”
It wasn't difficult for her to discern that Rainer had succeeded.
Rainer opened his eyes to look over his messages while Luna finished up healing him.
So half the exp gain I received for leveling up [Arcane Bolt Armament]? Is it because the spell is so weak? Or because I only receive half equivalent experience for non-Arcane tier one spells? Well, looks like I can in the end only train physical skills in my sleep, or if I gain enough levels and tier one spells become useless for leveling. The level up for the [Candle Flame] seemed a bit too quick too. There must be other factors at play other than my leveling bonuses.
Right after Rainer inspected all his resistance skills, curious what exactly the difference between fire and burn resistance were, though he had a basic idea.
[Physical Resistance lvl 1/10: Increases one's resistance against all physical effects. Can be toggled on or off.]
[Pain Resistance lvl 1/10: Increases one's resistance against pain. Can be toggled on or off.]
[Burn Resistance lvl 1/10: Increases one's resistance against burns. Can be toggled on or off.]
[Fire Resistance lvl 1/10: Increases one's resistance against heat and flame. Can be toggled on or off.]
So with only [Fire Resistance] the heat that affects me is lowered, but I burn at the same threshold...and with only [Burn Resistance] my heat threshold at which I burn is increased? There may be fire spells which have a status effect that [Fire Resistance] will help me defend against. Well, either way, they seem to stack, I'll just accept it. Though, will this make me colder? At least not enough to significantly tell as of yet. Perhaps that's why it can be disabled.
Rainer looked at his mana and noted he consumed about 3 for the whole training session leaving him with 14, 2 having been taken up by his 4 armed [Arcane Bolts].
Yet when he was about to stand up he noticed small glowing red orbs approaching from every direction. Momentarily he was quite frightened by the possibility of ghosts. Yet those fears at least would be dissuaded. Whether the reality of them being 8 little beady eyes would be much better for him, only time would tell.