Which put Randidly immediately on the back foot at the beginning of the training sending his mind scrambling to cope with the barrage of attacks It was from those emergency instincts that the bare bones of his new Style emerged And although it was an imbalanced skeleton that he had made it was at least a complete skeleton One with the power to compensate for its relative danger
so All is Ash was the Skill to combine with Breath of the Spear Phantom huh
Randidly grinned at the ground By merging the two together it lowered the Mana expenditure immensely while now costing a small amount of Mana Stamina and Health to compensate And it was exactly the sort of move that could demonstrate its oppressive power against a large group of enemies
Well anyways better take a break before I work on the image
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 didnÆt 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 didnÆt
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 hadnÆt 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 wasnÆt 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 sunÆs 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 RandidlyÆs 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 didnÆt 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 couldnÆt 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 couldnÆt 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 RandidlyÆs 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
Chapter 915
After checking the performance of the equipment Randidly removed the Tinglesilk Gloves and stored them within his new belt He kept brushing the sleeves against himself and giving himself a dose of the numbing poison which was extremely inconvenient right now
Perhaps at some point Randidly would have time to try and give himself paralysis immunity but Randidly didnÆt really have the time right now to grind that Skill
His next order of business was experimenting with the new ash manipulation component of All is Ash Especially since ash as an image would be injected into his entire spear usage Randidly wanted to test the edges of what this ash could do
When Randidly activated the Skill Randidly could feel his Mana begin to trickle away But it was a very manageable amount Slowly waves of ash began to spread outward from his current position filling the air like desolate waves of sorrow
Randidly gestured in a grasping motion and the ash spun happily to his call When he gripped it he could feel the hunger and the emptiness that animated the ash Ash as an element was very different from the natural order of plants that Randidly touched It also was divergent from the Emerald Essence that was RandidlyÆs fire
Both of those two images were focused upon growth and possibilities Yet to ash Randidly closed his eyes
What I feel from it most is wistfulness A longing for the past An all encompassing remorse over what has been lost
Which Randidly could use to his own benefit Ash spun around his figure gathering to him and creating an armor that was marshaled from a hundred thousand motes of ash RandidlyÆs Mana continued to trickle away and more and more waves of ash spread out from him Slowly his armor became larger and more imposing Spikes and heavy plates formed transforming Randidly into a walking fortress