Mike returned ho loaded with goods. Back at the Mysterious Mine, he dropped off tons of supplies for the miners' leader to distribute.
Even the lizard got a set of beach skins, lounging in the sand pits looking totally chill, like it were on vacation.
"Free stuff might not always be the best, but it sure is the most enjoyable."
Mike could relate to that saying.
After distributing the supplies, Mike cautioned, "No drinking while mining, and no mining while drinking, got it?"
"Got it!"
The miners' leader and the dwarf Bromli assured Mike that no one would drink during work hours.
In front of everyone, Mike warned the lizard.
"If you sll anyone reeking of booze in the mine, consider it an extra al."
Lizard: "Gizz-gazz, fizz-fuzz, whizz-whazz! (But I don't wanna eat people, human at tastes awful)"
"I'll get you a barbecue grill later, eat sothing cooked."
With the lizard supervising, it added an extra layer of insurance that no one would dare drink and work.
As Mike left, the dwarf craftsn felt both happy and a bit down.
The clock struck midnight.
Mike re-entered the Core City of Truth, heading straight for the ninth floor of the Tower of Truth.
"May you conquer the Tower of Truth soon!"
In front of Mike stood three elental gates, silently awaiting his choice.
He had already conquered the wind elent change class realm.
Mike looked at the remaining two elental gates:
One gate was made of fire elents, radiating intense heat even from a distance.
The other gate flickered with lightning, with arcs jumping continuously and thunderous sounds emanating from it.
"In terms of output, there's [Charge Up] and [Thunderclap Strike], [Wind's Reach] combines output and movent."
Mike analyzed his current strengths,
"What I'm lacking right now includes: endurance, sustained damage, area damage, survival..."
With two SSS-tier skills and two chances, Mike had a rough idea of his direction.
"Let's go to the Lightning gate first."
Mike approached the gate of lightning elents, and as lightning struck his skin, it caused no harm but instead gave a tingling sensation.
[Ding, it has been detected that you possess an exceptional affinity for lightning. You are the undisputed king of lightning, and all lightning elent monsters submit to your rule.]
Five minutes later, Mike walked out of the gate of lightning elents, even feeling a bit disappointed.
"How was the lightning change class so easy?" Mike wondered. He hadn't even done anything significant inside, yet he achieved the highest score and acquired the skills he needed.
[Lightning Phantom Form]: Learning requirent: Lightning affinity greater than 210%.
[Lightning Phantom Form]: Transforms the target into a Lightning Phantom state for 15 seconds.
In the Lightning Phantom state, physical attacks cannot be made or received, immune to physical damage, and magic damage taken is increased by 30%.
If cast on oneself, it grants immunity to lightning damage and the Lightning Phantom state can be ended at will.
If cast on an enemy, the lightning damage they receive is increased by an additional 5000%.
Mana cost: 1500
Cooldown: 60 seconds
The greatest advantage of [Lightning Phantom Form] is its immunity to physical damage!
Combined with [Inhibition Orb], Mike, in his Lightning Phantom state, is immune to physical damage and enjoys significant magic damage reduction, making him a mobile firepower platform!
Of course, Mike can also cast [Lightning Phantom Form] on enemies to trap them!
In the Lightning Phantom state, one cannot initiate physical attacks and must also endure high amounts of lightning magic damage.
Naturally, the duration of the Lightning Phantom state is also affected by resistance.
As a supplent to Mike's trump cards, it is at least qualified.
Unlike [Wind's Reach], skill like [Lightning Phantom Form] is difficult to produce as skill books. Even if turned into a skill book, few possess a lightning affinity over 210%.
Thus, [Lighting Phantom Form] can be considered one of Mike's exclusive and trump card skills. Turning it into skill books would an exposing his trump card.
Once the effects of this skill are known, it becos very easy to counter.
For this reason, Mike needs to ensure that anyone who has seen [Lightning Phantom Form] cannot live to share this information, thus securing his trump card.
The learning and usage scenarios for [Lightning Phantom Form] are quite demanding, making it a skill tailored specifically for Mike.
[Lightning Specialization] increases the effects of lightning skills by 100% and reduces cooldown tis by 50%.
In other words, Mike can maintain [Lightning Phantom Form] for 30 seconds with a cooldown of only 30 seconds.
Unlimited refills!
Having the [Lightning Phantom Form] skill ans Mike don't have to worry about any physical damage.
Mike tucked away the skill description and headed towards the final elental gate—the Gate of Fire Elents.
As he approached, blue flas surged up, dancing joyously on his shoulders. When he opened his eyes again, Mike found himself amidst countless active volcanoes.
Each volcano belched black smoke, intermittently spewing molten lava from which fire elent monsters struggled to erge.
"This realm only allows the use of fire elent skills!"
With the experience from conquering the previous wind realm, Mike quickly got into the groove. However, compared to the Lightning, the progress in the Fire Elent Change Class Realm wasn't as smooth.
Mike had so ideas for the fire elent's SSS skills.
"Let lightning handle the burst damage; the skills I create here should focus on sustained and area damage." That was also why he had chosen the fire elent initially.
One by one, the fire elent monsters wailed as they fell, their bodies shattering into magma, leaving behind elental cores.
"Generate skill [Fire Joy], S-rank!"
"Reset!"
"Generate skill [Volcanic Eruption], SS-rank!"
"Reset!"
"..."
After battling for three to four hours, Mike finally reset the skills to SSS-rank.
"Generate skill [Blazing Sacrifice], SSS-rank!"
Mike glanced at the skill—it didn't quite et his needs. Blazing Sacrifice was a risky tactic, burning a portion of HP to boost all stats and gain various powerful buffs. The more HP burned, the stronger the combat power!
"Powerful, but not for ."
While hunting fire elent monsters, Mike continued to reset the SSS-rank skills.
The Eye of Truth had hinted: [Keep so ti free; after passing all three change class realms, there's a surprise waiting.]
Glancing at the ti, Mike saw he had 90 minutes left.
After three more resets, a promising option appeared.
"Generate skill [Blazing Storm], SSS-rank!"
Blazing Storm was a typical area damage skill, dealing high fire damage over an area with sustained burning effects. It had high mana consumption, a reasonable cooldown, and a short casting ti.
It perfectly matched Mike's initial concept and was a good addition at this stage. However, while Blazing Storm was balanced in all aspects, it also ant it had no particularly outstanding features—a very standard SSS-rank skill.
It would probably only be useful up to the Battle Lord tier, and not much beyond that.
"I'll make do."
Mike steadied his mindset, comforting himself.
Just as Mike was about to learn [Blazing Storm], a notification popped up from the Skill lter:
[Next skill reset: teor Fire Rain...]
Mike glanced at the description for [teor Fire Rain] and was imdiately captivated.
[Blazing Storm]? Sorry, I'm not familiar with you. Let's not keep in touch; I'm afraid [teor Fire Rain] might get the wrong idea!
Mike dove back into battle, collecting elental cores, ready to reset his skills!
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