Xin beckoned Sophia over with her fingers, "Get the bucket Sophie."
"Right away ma'am!" The woman tossed away her coat onto the muddy floor in no ti and rushed to get a bucket of clean water for her.
She sat down at the side to wipe her feet while her husband dealt with whatever trouble he invited.
Na: Scarlet Rhael Ning Xin
Priming: Lvl 685 (Ⅵ)
Core Skill:
Unwavering Immortal's Pulse - Lvl 1588 (Ⅴ)
Adaptable Transmutative Heart - Lvl1455 (Ⅳ)
Firebird Devourer's Composition Lvl 1358 (Ⅳ)
Emotion Concord Lvl 424 (Ⅴ)
Class: Scarlet Sword of Equilibrium Lvl 701
Class Skills:
Featherfall Dive Lvl 1478 (Ⅴ)
Fire Mana Edict Lvl 1497
Cascading Sword Sovereign Arts Lvl 1541 (Ⅴ)
Cascading Dismber Lvl 1541 (Ⅳ)
Infernal Surge Lvl 1397 (Ⅳ)
Solar Eruption Lvl 1219 (Ⅳ)
Gospel's Foreseeking Perforation Lvl 1541 (Ⅴ)
Immolation Swamp Lvl 1322 (Ⅳ)
Solar Blood Seethe Lvl 1481 (Ⅳ)
Blood Mana Decree Lvl 1444
Judgent's Blood Halo Lvl 1444 (Ⅳ)
Passion Nourishing ditation Lvl 1263 (Ⅳ)
Ichor Cauldron Lvl 1408 (Ⅳ)
Rite of Malice Lvl 844 (Ⅴ)
Sinful Modulation Lvl 466 (Ⅴ)
Sub-Class: Skycarve Reaper Lvl 701
Sub-Class Skills:
Wind Mana Command Lvl 1187
Lightning Mana Command Lvl 1235
Thunderstorm Indoctrination Lvl 1183 (Ⅳ)
Stormpot Peration Lvl 1235 (Ⅳ)
Cyclonic Razor dium Lvl 1187 (Ⅳ)
Charged Vitality Lvl 1337 (Ⅳ)
Volt Lash Lvl 1235 (Ⅳ)
Cyclonic Blade Lvl 1187 (Ⅳ)
Ominous Storm Lvl 379 (Ⅲ)
Empty Skill Slot
Profession: Red Banquet's Head Chef Lvl 701
Profession Skills:
Carnage Cooking Lvl 1299 (Ⅲ)
Delicate Heat Perception Lvl 1491 (Ⅳ)
Live Ingredient Deconstruction Lvl 1452 (Ⅲ)
Essence Quintessence Lvl 1274 (Ⅳ)
Astral Palate Cuisine Lvl 1102 (Ⅲ)
After 4 whole years, her Priming was finally catching up to her level. Slower than her husband but Priming was one of the few things she was okay with being slower. In this regard, her husband was basically cheating.
Her maximum Pri rate after evolution and these 4 years was 53%, her husband had it at 79% and he already pushed it to the limit while she was sitting at 45% out of 53%.
This ans that all her training and leveling was only pushing that 45% value up and her maximum never changed since she evolved.
Ebony's maximum Pri Rate after evolution was lower, but since he'd reached the limit all further training slowly increased the maximum Pri Rate. At a rate thousands of tis slower than pushing the soft percentage up but at least he was making progress.
From his inhumane training, this alone slightly helped him cover the stat advantage she had over him. Not only did he have a higher maximum Pri Rate, but he also refined his Priming to have its base stat incrent heightened.
With her foresight and his help in making new exercises, she also gained refinents so she wasn't envious of him.
Scarlet Rhael Ning Xin's Priming - Peak of Conditioning. Placing aside Fortifications, Classes, Skills & Stats, you have found what's unique to you amongst all your traits. Above all but Physique itself, you saw to it not to live as you were born but prid to perfection as an individual.
All Stats increased by 45% 0.5% per level.
Unwavering Immortal's Pulse Maximum Energy Transference increased by 800%
Sword Synchronicity increased by 400%
Avarice increased in potency by 200%
Arcane Restoration increased by 100%
Ebony's base stat incrent hit 60%.
Her Core Skill's maximum energy transference referred to both the speed at which her body can convert energy to stat and also the capacity.
Sword Synchronicity was basically her ability to sync with her sword spirit. It works on swords without spirits too but that gave a worthless improvent. What it does for her is allow her to listen to her sword spirits and improve their technique.
400% seed like a lot but in battle, being 5 tis better at understanding flow or knowing where to cut, when to slice or how to better lead into her combos was not easily observable against most opponents.
Avarice was sothing like a reminder that she had a bad personality, was very greedy and always wanted more. She used to feel a little stung by the realisation that she was always greedy for food, power and her desire for the best.
With Singular Desire Converter, this avarice was easily convertible and only a plus for her.
Arcane Restoration was new, sothing she got after living with her husband and basically bathing in his mana day in and out.
Her Baseline Physique had been improved against arcane mana. It was necessary both to take in any of Ebony's support augntation spells as well as against high purity and density mana. Thanks to all the Potential she got, she managed to push this trait of hers high up.
Yet training with her husband over the years had her body understand that it wasn't enough.
Enough mana to power a ten-story-tall mage tower at full blast for a day can be pumped into her in a single second.
Emperor-ranked purity mana burned through her veins whenever they trained mutual augntation spells.
This was normal enough until she was in transmuted form. In fla form, all of Ebony's previous augntation spells except Resolve's Cadence couldn't stick. Experinting with her body's properties when she lost her physical form led to her discovery of the fiery form's properties.
Arcane Restoration didn't heal her.
Where does her life force and stamina sit when she completely transmutes her body into a bunch of flas?
Technically, it dissipates into the air but she always transmutes back to her body within seconds or minutes. She Prid herself to stay fully transmuted for as long as possible and realised that she could burn herself out completely.
In the end, she was a human not a creature of fire. She could lose all her vitality since the fiery form couldn't contain life force.
Perhaps she had her foresight and intuition to thank for never testing her ti limit for transmutation in battle.
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Her new Physique and Core Skill evolution brought her composition even closer to that of a Phoenix. Arcane Restoration appeared to be the body's ability to convert her energies into mana, arcane, fire and solar.
This enabled her to last far longer in transmuted form than before. Solar mana also stores life force far better than fire mana.
If she could continue to consu, her 'arcane' form could continue to restore itself.
It was a survivability upgrade.
Unwavering Immortal's Pulse (V) - Unwavering heart — steady, resolute, and untiring. Each beat channels a perfected stream of vitality, augnting physical ability by 4500% 25.0% per level. Vitality regeneration is amplified by a static 5800%. Passive state runs at a static 25% output.
While her first Core skill didn't get an evolution yet, it was constantly refined and barely slowed down. Tier 5 skills had such high base limits!
At 5800% she hasn't felt any blockage in improvents yet. No wonder even with the sa tier skills, there could be enormous differences between two people. Unlike leveling which requires repetition, refinents require optimising or strengthening the principles of the technique so it wasn't sothing that could be done consistently.
Ebony relies on his simulations to develop his skills. She relies on instinct.
She made use of his simulations. He made use of her divination.
It was perfect.
Doubtlessly, if she didn't have him she wouldn't have refined her skills as fast as she did, and she helped prevent him from making detours in his simulations.
This Core Skill of hers had increased the passive state static output to a quarter. All physical ability was augnted by 443 tis at full power or 110.75 tis at rest.
While this increased her energy requirents, it was more than enough for her to overwhelm her husband's resting strength, though not enough to damage him in any way because of his ridiculous toughness.
The static vitality regeneration addition of 5800% also cuts to a quarter.
She had never quite been able to evolve Adaptable Transmutative Heart to tier 5. Since this skill worked so closely with a specific organ, Ebony told her it might be similar to his mana compression skill that had a significant change that refined or mutated a physique.
It used to be a semi-passive skill that helped her convert stamina and mana to vitality and now it was just as efficient in converting any one of her essences into another. There was so loss, especially when trying to convert any of them into stamina but it wasn't significant enough to stop her from doing it when necessary.
Firebird Devourer's Composition was her transmutation skill. It drew a greater portion of her blood's energy to further strengthen her body against physical stress. Increase heat resistance to what felt like near immunity nowadays. Compared to the pre-evolution Firebird Heathen's Imitation Composition, her fla form was supposedly tied her entity together better. aning her soul, mind and all the extra parts of her that she didn't know about was also transmuted and attached to her fla version.
Emotion Concord - Utilise Nun to bind two or more entities into a single emotional resonance. Pierce through ntal defences with 2500% 25.0% more ease. Control over emotional balance increased by 15% 0.25% per level.
It was a simple skill that was surprisingly useful. Besides the usefulness of taking advantage of her husband's ditation skill or the ability to knock him out of ditation, it had a large range of possibilities.
First of all, Nun was not sothing she could produce within herself. She can sense it to a degree and it was constantly flowing into her.
From the Altarbound Kin. From Ebony. And even from herself.
If it were from herself, could she say that she produced it?
Yet Nun doesn't co from within her, it cos externally but she was quite sure she could isolate the streams and sense that one of them was from her though it wasn't coming from inside her. Weird.
Similar to thought energies like Will or Intent, but harder to exhaust and cos in far smaller quantities.
Sothing new she learned about Emotion Concord was what an 'entity' was.
She successfully bound herself to a rock. Instantly cutting all her emotions in half and receiving nothing, proving that non-living rock didn't give her any emotion. What that did to the rock, she didn't know. The rock continued to be a dead, unmoving object.
What was so useful about this, she had her husband to thank for, she wouldn't never thought about it. She could technically force any berserker type, monster or person to instantly calm down if she didn't have him around. By combining her, the target and any non-living 'entity', emotion-related buffs can be weakened.
Not only was berserkers considered emotion-related, but even Will and Intent, which drew on thoughts and emotions can be cut.
Another warrior who wants to imbue Intent of 'cutting' would need to concentrate to gather this intention in their minds, imbue it into their weapons or attack, then manifest it into reality. If she uses Emotion Concord against soone who was a greater Intent user than her, she could dilute their Intent. If that wasn't enough she could just connect both of them with a rock, two or as many as she could with whatever Nun she had.
Nun as an energy source was weird. As far as she could tell, there was no hard limit to how much she could store at the mont. However, the amount that flows in could stop completely and had recently been decreasing from the Altarbound Kin.
Relying just on her and her husband's Nun production streams, she was going to be troubled as she cannot further improve this skill of hers.
Featherfall Dive - Enter a controlled dive, converting body mass, stamina, and montum into forward propulsion. Movent speed increased by 4800% 25.0% Strength and Agility per level.
It was misleading but her skill descriptions had never been as clear as her husband's. This was not just a movent skill for her aerial flight. It was technically also her footwork movent skill. Improved upon Spring Bolt, it now increases both strength and agility giving her bigger bursts of speed.
Physically requiring her to lean and get close to the ground because of the leg muscles she needed to activate, and also uses an enormous amount of stamina. The 'featherfall' part was likely referring to her lighter landings compared to the past, fiercely stopping her montum no longer leaves large craters since she learned from Ebony and made use of the montum for her follow-up attacks.
While she cannot store montum or wait too long as he can, she can imdiately link that montum into a strike the mont she reaches her destination.
And, the skill was applicable in flight. She was capable with her bloody wings to such a natural degree that most of this skill's effect was maintained. The 'dive' part was likely her husband's fault. She was so used to going both against and along gravity that any forward propulsion of hers beca a diving motion.
Cascading Sword Sovereign Arts - Succession of power blended into the cascading sword sovereign arts. Strike after strike, Strength and Agility increased by a static 0.25%. Strength and attack speed increased by 300% while dual-wielding swords. Fluidity, balance, stability and deftness increase by 10800% 25.0% per level.
Thanks to the resident Martial Sage, Art developnt was so smooth it was honestly scary. Other than her husband, she didn't know who or what could disrupt her combos. Not even Xienor's villagers, with so exceptions who never want to spar.
While she hasn't made the 'dual-wielding swords' part go away and be able to utilise this for unard boost, she also didn't need to as she still saw herself as a swordswoman.
Reaching 100,000 combos would make each strike 250 tis stronger and more agile. This was impossible to reach because she didn't know what opponent can survive, parry or counter her long enough that she could reach this state of flow. And to reach this in the number of swings was sothing she could achieve in a very short ti.
Hundred thousand wasn't her limit either.
Cascading Dismber was her basic art enhancent skill that rode along with her Art, similar to Ebony's Blitz which was wrong to say since he was the one who copied her.
Cascading Dismber - Cascading dismbernt increases the speed of your strikes by 1% 0.005% after every strike per level.
Years of developnt had her increase the baseless skill to a 1% incrent. This was pure speed incrent skill, every swing of hers can increase her next strike's speed by 8.705% compared to the previous. If no one stops her first few strikes, they would find it next to impossible to stop it after she speeds up.
Thanks to her baseline and physique improvents over the evolution of Firebird Devourer's Composition, her body's stress limits were raised to extres and she can take it. The only problem with more speed was that it might ss her Art up. This pushes her to improve her basic ability with her technique and the reason why she had a technical limit to the number of swings to reach a limit in combos.
It was also a stamina-intensive skill.
Just like Fire Mana Edict, there was nothing much to Infernal Surge. It was her fire mana imbuing skill.
Pyro Eruption mutated and evolved into Solar Eruption but just like Ebony with lunar, she wasn't all that great with solar mana. Manipulating it with her mind felt constipative to be honest. The only advantage she had was that her Physique was closely tied to solar.
It was a basic fireball explosion spell with an addition of solar mana, which made this skill more potent against spirits, ghosts and other similar creatures without taking away the original effects of imnse heat and forceful explosion.
Her most talented active sword skill had always been piercing attacks and sword thrusts.
Gospel's Foreseeking Perforation - Foretell a puncture in whatever thy desires. Accuracy and precision increases by 5500% 25.0% per level.
It consus a small amount of astral mana and to so degree, it helps adjust her aim when the target evades. When used with intent, she hasn't failed to puncture even Ebony within their Domain. His nanotre evasions failed his simulations when her sword thrusts could ho in and adjust her sword tip or the shockwaves if used at range to enact a puncture that she divined.
Except this was a small wound that could easily be healed. She also couldn't use Gospel's Foreseeking Perforation that many tis. Her Sword Art would find it hard to find a situation if she were deep into her combos and would want to thrust instead of slice. While she still performs that a lot close up, this was more of a first move to catch soone off guard or at range.
Immolation Swamp was her area of effect heat attack. Except her fire mana was often used with blood mana.
By conjuring blood around her to change the field, she can technically make her surroundings harder for mages to manifest their spells. Sort of expanding her reach of magic body to so degree. So far, it was hard to say if it had effects that were worth the mana expenditure against Ebony because he was just that much greater of a mage.
At most, it increased his mana usage to prevent himself from burning and also increased the effort he needed to distract her with his spells. It amounts to nothing most of the ti. She also couldn't summon it without complete focus if she was within Dusk, should the Domain treat her as a hostile.
Blood Seethe evolving into Solar Blood Seethe was also predictable with the Phoenix blood essence she ate.
Solar Blood Seethe - Conjuration of fire and solar mana in your blood flow, increases Strength, Agility by 3500% 10.0% of Intelligence. Spirit Permanence increases by 10% 0.10% per level.
Spirit Permanence was sothing related to one of her new Fortifications. Sothing hard to test.
Judgent's Blood Halo - A halo of blood containing the entity's Nun and Intent to realise its purpose.
Her skill descriptions were truly not helpful compared to Ebony's. It doesn't even tell her what levelling the skill would do. However, she used it enough over the years to know. Each level increased the blood halo's ability to retain information or emotion imbued in the Intent for it to carry out what she conjured it to do.
Whether it was to be a weapon, a rotating disk to saw into a target or turn into a flat blood plate to defend. Whether it was to inject itself into an open wound to infect. Whether it was becoming a tiny blob to physically get close to a target so that she could overco the magic body with ease and conjure more useful spells and transmute without interruption.
The blood halo being filled with Nun sohow helps her realise any intention with far more ease. She wasn't quite sure how that worked, but it worked and unlike a certain soone, she doesn't care to know how as long as she continues to follow her instincts and it works for her even better, that's all that matters.
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