Chapter 914 (2/2)

So Randidly returned to his small hut while whistling. There were a few things that he wanted to try out before the challenge against Donnyton. Some part of him considered Leveling up further, but all Randidly would obtain was another Skill or two. He didn’t want to let himself be distracted by a shiny new toy before the challenge.

Another part of Randidly suggested heading into a Dungeon and training his new Style up to a high level of proficiency before the challenge. He would have plenty of time then. But there were two reasons why he didn’t.

The first reason was that the pressure of a time crunch spurred him into desperate motion. If he had more time, he would take longer to test things. But somehow, Randidly sensed that careful testing was not the way of this Style. This was a monster born to grow on the dangerous edge of battle.

The second reason was that he wanted to send a message to Donnyton. And nothing would send that message more critically than if they could watch him forge an image of great power, in the middle of their fight.

Besides, Randidly had planned to head into Dungeons after this challenge, to prepare himself for the descent of his Final Judgement.

But the first thing Randidly needed to do right now was accustom himself to moving with all of his new equipment.

With all the equipment worn, Randidly certainly looked strange. His circlet was an ashy grey, while he had a glowing golden belt. His glovers were a dark, almost liquid seeming, purple-grey. Meanwhile, his greaves looked like brightly condensed moonlight, luminescent white and flawless.

But altogether, Randidly grinned as he looked at the combined Stat bonuses he received.

Health +300, Stamina +300, Stamina/R +50, Vit +20, End +20, Agi +140, Str +75, Perception +20, React +45, Resistance +40, Focus +20, Int +15, Willpower +80, Wisdom +15, Control +15.

Certainly a fair amount of Stats from this… especially with that boosts to agility… puts me up to almost 750…

Then, to test how the bonuses felt, Randidly moved through some basic Skills and movements. Immediately, Randidly discovered several things that hadn’t been immediately clear from simply reading the item descriptions.

The first and most obvious realization came from the greaves. Sam had woven leather padding into their constructions, so they were extremely comfortable. And when Randidly moved faster than a certain threshold, pale blades of moonlight spread out behind him, leaving deep cuts in the ground and trees that he passed.

It seemed like the one option provided by the greaves simply created an area attack whenever Randidly moved fast enough to activate it. Which was an extremely useful skill, considering the violent nature of his combined Style he was slowly creating.

The second thing was how light and deceptive the gloves were. As stated in the description, the long sleeves of the gloves were much longer than Randidly could use, so they hung down over his hands, billowing in an invisible wind. There was a slit along the side, so they hung down back over his gloved hands like a long banner. It seemed as though the gloves themselves purposefully shited to cover whatever Randidly was holding in his hands.

Now, it wasn’t very effective if Randidly was holding onto a spear, but if Randidly was holding a handful of Emerald Essence…

Which led Randidly to the final discovery. When Randidly used Ignition of Emerald Essence a certain amount, the ambient energy in his body would ignite the ashy-grey circlet, like it was made of charcoal. Suddenly his forehead was wreathed in emerald flames.

Randidly stared at himself in the mirror. It sorta looked like there was a halo of fire hovering around his head. And when he condensed his Crown of Upheaval and Gloom above it…

Randidly grinned at his reflection. This will certainly be a fun challenge.

Which left one last thing to test with the equipment. Three Wishes. Eruption of the Blazing Leyline.

Randidly chose to detonate this Skill on a hill further Northeast of his current position, away from Donnyton. But even still, Randidly had a sinking feeling that someone would complain to him when he saw the white-hot eruption that ripped out of the nearby hill.

The ground immediately shattered underneath the force of the spell. A plume of flame about ten meters tall erupted upward. Rather than its usual emerald color, it seemed that the infusion of the sun’s wrath caused the flames to be a lime green, wreathed in golden swirled of fire. The heat quickly melted the top of the hill and parted the clouds above.

After ten seconds, the flames slowly faded away, leaving a pool of molten metal. Randidly’s Grasp of the World Seed senses slowly recovered in the area and surveyed the extent of the damages. Randidly grimaced; it seemed that this Skill ran much deeper than the regular variety.

Honestly, if he didn’t know better…

Randidly walked closer, right up to the lip of the lava pool. The molten liquid below him bubbled expressively as if greeting its father. And as Randidly stared at it with his emerald gaze and scanned the depths, he couldn’t deny that his Skill had marked the Earth so deeply that it legitimately created a passage for lava to come to the surface.

Randidly had made a small volcano.

Sighing, Randidly returned to his hut and tried to justify the fact such a small volcano couldn’t possibly be a danger to the town. He quickly returned inside his building. As they say, out of sight is out of mind.

In terms of power, the Skill was about five times more powerful than the regular version, while costing the same amount of Mana. And at Randidly’s Level, an improvement of five times was quite a lot. Enough to form a small volcano. Even if it was only three uses per day, it would be more than enough.