Obviously, I wasn't satisfied and still wanted to perform a few more tests. I was very curious about the resistance to teleportation Vee spoke of, but she wasn't willing to be a volunteer. Thankfully, my [Sub-Cores] ca to the rescue, and I tried teleporting Beta from one hand to the other.
It was a relatively easy experience, made easier because I opted for the safer confird thod of double [Position] spells. However, there was no resistance. I next gave Beta the order to resist or reject the teleportation and tried again—it worked!
Thanks again, Gramps, for such helpful workers!
If I had to describe the resistance against teleportation, it felt slippery. The coordinates were hard to hold onto, and if my grasp slipped, they would rapidly revert to their original number. It was a bizarre experience, and I understood why Vee had opted to trick targets into entering a portal and skipping this entirely.
Vee even had quite a nice explanation of it from her point of view, "Unrestricted teleportation would be kinda broken, don't you think? Like you could just teleport your enemy up into the air and let gravity kill them. Or teleport them into the ocean, or into lava, or sowhere crazy! And no, you can't teleport them inside of a solid object and try to kill them with shunting—I've tried."
The whole shunting thing was supposed to be a drawback of incorrectly using [Blink] or other forms of teleportation and was clearly intended as a punishnt for improper use. Either the gods didn't want soone weaponizing a drawback, or soone had done it in the past, and it was rectified.
"The more restrictions you put on a teleport, the easier it is to do," Vee continued, explaining her hypothesis. "Like the teleportation rug, they put us on. Assuming you could just walk off it, you'd be safe since it was slow to activate, and thus, it was hard to resist! Sa with my web portals, you chose to walk through them so you don't get to resist it."
I'd hardly call what Vee did with the portals "choosing to walk through them" as she tried her darndest to trick you into entering or falling into them. Still, it was certainly sothing to think about, and I wondered what restrictions I could add to successfully create a weaponized version of teleportation.
The obvious solution for avoiding any restrictions would be to create the debuff, which I had already presud made it easier to change soone's coordinates without interference. So, that would beco my next custom spell priority.
However, this decision had one big flaw—it was absurdly arduous! I felt sowhat confident in my magical capabilities after so quickly putting together that temperature reading spell using complex concepts. My assuredness was also fueled further by the fact that I'd turned creating debuffs into a routine procedure prior to this.
And, of course, this shatters my self-assurance… I suppose it's my own fault for underestimating "advanced magic," as I'd only ever created debuffs from interdiate and basic. The step up from making [Flammable] and [Perable] to [Frigid] and [Conductive] was quite a leap, but this really takes the cake.
Fortunately, my stubbornness was a characteristic I could rely on. I was determined to keep at this task until I achieved success. The only downside was that I'd have to keep its creation sowhat under wraps, as Sylthaeryn could never have gained [Dinsion Magic].
I opted to keep poking at it through the night, deciding to postpone looking at the books until the morning. I prodded away and might have even pulled an all-nighter until Vee scolded for interrupting her beauty sleep and finally sleeping in the absurdly luxurious bed.
***
The next morning, while Vee ate breakfast, I took a gander at the books provided. Vee had already ntioned that the Tar book was pretty basic, so I looked at the one they had provided with information on my class.
The book itself was an overview of the elents as a whole rather than the Elentalist class specifically. It mainly spoke about the benefit of hyper-focusing on one elent and progressing further down classes, such as Pyromancer.
Sadly, almost none of the information was new to until right at the end, when it briefly ntioned that there were rare classes that combined multiple elents together. The author noted that having the respected affinities and magic skill levels wasn't enough as you also needed to have equal elental purity in them so that they could harmonize together.
I guess Trixie just guessed that since my Mana purity was maxed out, I'd qualify.
Elentalist was briefly ntioned as one of the pinnacles of elental magic and one of the few known ways of adding additional elental affinities without ascendancies. I was beginning to feel disheartened that I'd wasted my ti until the author ntioned a theory that the true power of the class was the ability to unify the elental spell skills.
Wait—really!?
I rushed to try fusing all my magical skills together but got no result. I knew I was still missing [Dust Magic], but my gut told this wasn't the only reason. I tried again, this ti only grabbing Fire, Water, Air, and Earth.
I gasped in surprise and slamd my hands on the table, startling Vee. "Who, what, where!?"
I excitedly explained it all to Vee in a flurry of words, although as I babbled on, I could feel her interest rapidly waning.
"That's cool… I guess… congrats?" Vee comnted. "If it just turns four skills into one, I don't really see too much benefit beyond removing so clutter."
"One skill is easier to level than four skills, not to ntion the levels get sort of combined and divided into the new total," I answered.
"Right… You ntioned that before," Vee replied. "I was supposed to be working on that [Body Mastery] fusion?"
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"And [Soul Mastery]!" I quickly added. "And then I think you can combine the two into one ga trait!"
Vee nodded, although clearly, she didn't share the sa excitent about the possibility that I did.
"Look, I can't get [Body Mastery], so I need you to answer the question for ."
"Just get [Sli Mastery]," Vee joked.
"[Morph Sli] is kind of like that…" I replied. "I'll ask Gramps if there's another one. I've certainly tried combining [Cryo Sli], [Blaze Sli], [Acid Sli], and the like with no success."
I quickly tried again to confirm, but there was still nothing.
"Or maybe it's stuck behind an evolution," Vee suggested. "When I evolved, I had a lot of traits that got swallowed up into [Thread Mastery]."
I nodded at her explanation and began thinking.
If there is a fusion of the sli traits, then Vee might be right that I need to evolve and stop being a blue sli. Being a blue sli ans having [Mana Sli], and I probably can't fuse it into a superior trait while still remaining a blue sli. Although, having said that, it doesn't explain why I can't fuse the other sli traits by excluding [Mana Sli]... unless there's a rule about fusing that I'm unaware of? Sothing like "you must use all the pieces you have available"?
I sighed. I was worrying about future things again when I really should have been focusing on this [Basic Elental Magic] right before .
What prerequisite am I missing? I hope it's not class-level related, or Gramps has really put in a shitty situation…
I continued reading the book's last few pages, hoping to find the answer. Sadly, the book didn't ntion any prerequisites, and I could only curse the author for leaving such a tantalizing treat outside of my grasp.
The best I gained from it was a hint at what [Basic Elental Magic] would provide —harmonious control over the elents not unlike the equivalent Arch-mancer class.
Sighing, I examined my profile, tried to figure out what prerequisite I could be missing, and ca up with two possible theories.
[Water Magic LV 5]
[Fire Magic LV 6]
[Earth Magic LV 5]
[Air Magic LV 5]
Could the reason be that I need to have these four skills at the sa level? Fire reached level six, so it "fell out of harmony" with the other three. Although I could just be grasping at straws. As for my other theory…
[Derived Elent (Air) LV 8]
In all likelihood, this is the reason. My other three elents were naturally acquired through sli cores, while this one is artificially added through the class. Hopefully, when it reaches the max level, it will behave equally to my other elents.
The trait had shot up to stupidly high levels with minimal input from my part, thanks to my ludicrous Mana purity. Even my three newly derived elents had also made gains without looking.
[Derived Elent (Magma) LV 3]
[Derived Elent (Steam) LV 3]
[Derived Elent (Nature) LV 3]
I should focus on casting so air spells, as that definitely boosted the gains in [Derived Elent]. If Paeris agrees to the hunting trip, that might be a good opportunity, as I can't exactly use any of my sli powers of [Dinsion Magic] publicly.
Once again, I was feeling a bit too stretched in too many directions. I was definitely being greedy, wanting it all rather than focusing, but I felt like it would weirdly work out due to circumstances. Arguably, [Dinsion Magic] was my number one priority, but I could only progress it behind closed doors, which left to work towards Elentalist stuff publicly. My ensuing evolution would happen naturally and would be outside of my control unless I decided to go on a sudden killing spree.
The final thing I checked out was seeing about fusing my sight and vision traits, which I kept forgetting about. [Soul Vision] and [Soul Sense] were both options, just like I had predicted, but I opted to not grab them at this stage.
Firstly, my trait points were low, sitting at a re seven points! Maybe I was paranoid, but I felt I needed to be more careful. Secondly, I couldn't see any imdiate benefit from fusing [Dark Vision], [Thermal Vision], and [Eagle Vision]; what would I gain from it? A few extra levels in [Eagle Vision] and possibly a new unknown effect.
[Soul Sense], on the other hand, was a tantalizing option as I'd see benefits to [Electro-Magnetic Sense], [Tremor Sense], and [Spatial Sense]. But it would be a waste to fuse them at this stage without getting past the easy levels in [Spatial Sense], and then there was my other doubt—I needed [Spatial Sense] right now for my [Dinsion Magic] training.
I was a little distraught when I temporarily lost [Mana Conception] when I combined it into [Soul Sight]. It felt like I had been ripped off for my purchase, and I found myself a little hesitant to repeat that situation.
Perhaps I was being a little neurotic, but I also felt like the only reason I regained my [Mana Conception] functionality so soon was my familiarity with it. anwhile, with [Spatial Sense], I had barely scratched the surface, and if my doubts manifested themselves, I could be without it for days!
So let's put a pin on that until I get so more levels into it and then either beco more familiar with the sensory trait or reach a stopping point in [Dinsion Magic].
Shortly after, Paeris arrived looking absolutely prim and proper. I thought I might get so enjoynt out of his reactions to serving a sli, but his capability to hide it was beyond my social deductions.
"I hope you slept well, Lady Sylthaeryn," he said with a bow. "Any problems with the accommodations? Your mother has emphasized that I should make you feel right at ho."
"Thank you. Everything is great in that regard," I replied.
"aning there is sothing that can be improved?" Paeris questioned, catching on quickly.
"I want to hunt sothing," I replied honestly. "And preferably before that, I'd like soone to share [Companion Growth] with ."
I was expecting a minor protest or objection to my request, but surprisingly, Paeris nodded, "Your mother and Llewel have both suggested you go on a short hunting trip to loosen up and relax a bit. Likewise, it will allow us to evaluate your fortuitous growth while absent."
aning they want to know what magic I'm packing. Makes sense.
"As for your other request, that will be easily doable. We shall simply ask one of the Tars to show their progress in the skill, which will double as sharing the skill."
"I'm surprised we can't just ask them to share it," I replied.
"This deception is necessary. Why would you ask for a skill you already own to be shared?" he explained. "However, due to your position and my own, we can easily ask for a progress update and even have soone surrender their full profile for scrutiny."
I can just ask anyone to show skills? Jackpot!
Perhaps seeing my excitent, he raised a finger, "However, abuse of such a privilege would be a faux pas and should be avoided whenever possible. Speaking of which, please inspect the level of my current skill."
Paeris held out his hand and projected one of his skills for to see and undoubtedly share.
I was flabbergasted; the skill sounded utterly insane, and Paeris already had it at max level! I imdiately wanted to compare it to the original description of [Acting], which I quickly pulled up.
That's quite the upgrade! What happened to the superb but straightforward [Acting] I'd grown so fond of? This feels like you've gone through so many promotions that I hardly recognize you anymore!
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