Riyald gave William a few more bits of knowledge before returning to one of his many unfinished experints in the laboratory. Since his visit to the Mysterious Realm, Riyald’s interest in unique chanisms only increased and he hardly had ti to be chatting with his Disciple.
William returned to his room to drop off a few interesting items he had collected during his travels, also taking the ti to appraise the Startal Safe he had forgotten about. The System had completed the evaluation a long ti ago, but he was outside the Ruins and didn’t have a chance to check until now.
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Startal Safe (Mythic Storage Artifact): A spacious safe forged of Startal by a Master Blacksmith and improved by a powerful Array Master. Created to store great quantities of items, this storage item may one day be comparable to a Royal Treasury.
Storage Space: 4.5 trillion cubic ters
Durability: 800,000/800,000
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Still only Mythic, even after all that work? What a sha, I thought it would be Celestial... William was a bit disappointed, but he was happy to see the incredible storage and durability of the Artifact.
Soone knocked on his door the mont William exited the Startal Safe, "William? It’s Yuming. I just wanted to return the Interdiate Runes sheet you gave ."
William opened the door and let Yuming in, "I don’t need them back. Have you already morized all the Runes I gave you?"
Yuming nodded with a smile, twirling his fingers and forming an Interdiate Rune of Stability and connecting it with a Rune of Fire to form a stationary Fireball Array on his fingertips— a cheap trick used by Interdiate Array Masters.
William nodded seriously, "You’ve done well, my Disciple."
Yuming imdiately dispersed the Array and scowled at William, "We’re the sa age, don’t call your Disciple!"
Just the thought of calling him Master makes want to puke. Whose idea was it to give this shaless idiot so much talent?
William laughed, "I’m just joking. I only showed you what to do anyway."
Yuming shrugged, "Good, because the day I call you Master is the day I eat my own toes. Gunther and Tia are about to spar with Charlotte, Carl, and . Do you want to co watch?"
"Sure, why not?" William followed Yuming to an area of the residence he hadn’t been to before. It was a large arena much like the one in the Adventurer’s Guild, except the entire floor was made of dark blue stone brick.
The entire Arena was covered in Complete Arrays, which both protected the Arena and prevented any true deaths. As long as the level of attack didn’t exceed the ability of the Arrays, no one would truly be hurt.
"I can’t believe I haven’t seen this place before..." William muttered. He really hadn’t spent much ti exploring the Gravitas Ruins, which had many facilities like this one. After all, the residence took up most of the underground layer.
"It’s great, right?" Yuming nodded.
He wasn’t much of a fighter, but being able to fight to your heart’s content was a special kind of experience. Yuming jumped into the Arena, where Charlotte, Gunther, Tia, and Carl were all waiting.
"What took you so long? Too busy causing trouble outside?" Carl shouted to William, who sat in the stands up above to watch. He had no intention to join a low-level battle.
The group got started imdiately, placing Yuming, Charlotte, and Carl on one team while Tia and Gunther were on the other. To keep things fair, Carl wasn’t allowed to summon any of his Magical Beasts, while Tia and Gunther were each allowed to use their unique treasures that the Artifact Spirit had given them.
Tia had a special kind of gauntlet that enhanced the power of her punches, while Gunther’s robe was enhanced with even more Arrays that better amplified the Ice Elent. It was a perfect set for the duo, and they seed quite accustod to the Artifacts.
Carl adopted a more front-line stance, casting multiple Earth Walls to obstruct his opponents’ vision and defend against any surprise Ice Spells. He stood just a few ters in front of Charlotte, whose primary purpose was to heal any of the temporary injuries that ford.
In the backline, Yuming had a unique fighting style, throwing vials of corrosive liquid over the walls and casting Fireballs to blast them apart midair. The fluids spread over a large portion of the Arena, forcing Gunther to cast multiple layers of Ice over their heads. Experience exclusive tales on .Côm
As soon as the corrosive rain ended, Tia rushed forward and punched at the Earth Wall with her thick gauntlets, clashing head-on with Carl who was directly behind it.
How did they detect him so accurately? They couldn’t even see him! William inspected the battle more closely, but it wasn’t until Tia’s next attack that William understood what was going on.
Every ti Carl cast Earth Magic, Tia would stop moving for a brief second as if she was frozen. It seed like just a coincidence at first, but it beca more strikingly obvious as the battle continued. He looked at her feet, realizing that she wasn’t wearing any shoes.
Is she sensing where the Earth Mana is coming from, even though she doesn’t have the Earth Elent? William was astounded with Tia’s Talent.
Not only was her body already strong enough to deal with Nascent Soul-level Earth Walls, but she had a detection thod unique to herself that was incredibly sneaky!
Many Mages would avoid casting Detection Spells during a battle, since they could be reverse-traced and used against them, but this thod didn’t have that shortcoming. He decided to add this move to his repertoire of niche abilities.
As the sparring raged on and on, it beca more of a battle of attrition than an actual spar. Tia and Gunther were still holding on surprisingly well, despite being unable to inflict any serious injuries on their opponents and not having a healer of their own. Their teamwork was impeccable, reminding William of his battle with Supre Left and Unbreakable Right.
For so reason, I kinda miss those guys. They may be my enemies, but they didn’t seem all that bad...
His thoughts were interrupted by a sudden developnt in the battle Arena. Gunther had secretly prepared a tunnel of Ice through one of Carl’s Earth Walls, then made ice skates around Tia’s feet. All it took was one high-speed push, and Tia had broken through the last thin wall of Earth, which happened to lead her directly towards Charlotte.
Take out the healer first, a tried-and-true strategy. There was only one problem— Charlotte had been targeted before during their spars and had been working on sothing nasty. After all, Charlotte wasn’t a pushover.
When she saw Tia speeding in her direction much faster than she could dodge, Charlotte clasped her hands together and mumbled a few short chants, drawing in the ambient Life Mana to gather in front of her into a small one-ter cube.
The cube was pushed directly in the path of Tia, connecting with her left leg around the knee and redirecting her movent. Her montum was halted in an instant as she dropped to one knee, finding that the vitality in her lower left leg had been reallocated to her upper thigh.
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