At the ninth level of the Tower of Truth, the realm of wind elent class change is a place of fierce battles.
"Windstride Slash!"
A streak of light flashed as Mike easily defeated a giant wind elental wolf. An F-grade wind elental core dropped and was picked up by the Cerberus Phantom, who brought it back to Mike's side.
In his left hand, Mike wielded the Force of Nature, and in his right, the Thunderclap Hamr, wreaking havoc among the wind elental monsters. For a mont, it was hard to tell who the real monsters were.
As this was a realm for wind elent class change, the use of skills unrelated to wind was prohibited. Skills like Charge Up, Thunderclap Strike, and Ignite were all disabled.
Fortunately, Mike had mastered Windstride Slash, enough to handle various situations.
At level 60, Mike's attributes were top-notch, far surpassing his peers. Even without using lightning magic, just using his staff for regular attacks, he could easily handle these monsters.
After more than half an hour, over a thousand F-grade cores, and over a hundred E-grade cores.
Mike noted as he looked towards the center of the realm where sothing like a trophy floated in mid-air—the Skill lter. Placing elental cores into it allowed for skill slting.
The lter had a capacity limit; after a certain number of cores were placed, it would automatically generate skills. It could also be reset infinitely, each reset costing half of the cores while also increasing the upper limit of elental grades the lter could accommodate.
Essentially, resetting was a form of refinent. To create an SSS-grade skill, nurous resets were necessary!
Resetting skills beca increasingly challenging and the skills stronger as one progressed.
Mike approached the lter, grabbed a handful of elental cores, and threw them in. After devouring the cores, the lter glowed faintly.
"Generate skill [Wind Howl], F-grade, learn?"
"No, reset!"
...
"Generate skill [Wings of Wind], E-grade, learn?"
"No, reset!"
"...."
"Reset!"
After several resets, Mike had used up all his accumulated elental cores. The latest skill generated had reached A-grade!
For ordinary participants, an A-grade skill was satisfying. But for Mike, who aid for an SSS-grade skill, there was still a significant gap.
As the continuous slaughter went on, the monsters kept respawning, but their strength also increased. From being able to smash a monster to death with a staff, it now took three swings of the Thunderclap Hamr to achieve the sa result. The dropped elental cores also increased in grade!
...
"Generate skill [Wind Burial], A-grade, learn?"
"Generate skill [Hurricane], S-grade, learn?"
"....."
After continuous resets, the lter emitted a dense blue glow, almost overflowing.
"Generate skill [Interdinsional Hurricane], SSS-grade, learn?"
After 18 resets, Mike finally generated an SSS-grade skill!
"It took over three hours to generate an SSS-grade skill, not easy at all." The difficulty of the ninth level was greater than Mike had anticipated.
The Tower of Truth only allowed six hours of activity per day, which was extrely precious. If Mike couldn't create a suitable skill in the wind elent change class realm within six hours, the next ti he entered, all progress would be reset, and he would have to start from scratch.
Many powerful human beings were stuck at certain levels for life because they didn't have enough ti!
Human will is infinite, but potential is always limited.
Before Thor appeared, even if one adjusted their state to the extre and executed every step of the strategy perfectly, so levels were still impassable!
Now, Mike faced the sa dilemma—ti was running short!
It took 42 minutes on the eighth level, and 3 hours and 7 minutes to reset 18 tis to refresh an SSS-grade skill.
Before entering the Tower of Truth, Mike had also delayed a few minutes.
[Countdown: 2 hours 3 minutes 8 seconds] A red countdown tir appeared in the lower right corner of Mike's vision. Based on the current situation, Mike quickly adjusted his target.
First, conquer the wind elent change class realm. Lightning and fire elent change class realms will be dealt with tomorrow!
As long as he conquered the wind elent change class realm, the progress would be saved and not reset. If he couldn't refresh a suitable SSS-grade skill today, Mike would have to waste today's opportunity and co back tomorrow.
But ti was pressing, and Mike didn't know when the demon god's storm would appear; he had to enhance his strength as much as possible before that.
Clarifying the current situation, Mike focused on the newly created SSS-grade skill.
"Interdinsional Hurricane?" Mike glanced at the skill description and imdiately chose to reset.
As a wind elent skill, [Interdinsional Hurricane] could summon a terrifying hurricane after chanting, tearing everything apart and causing extrely high damage. For any wind elent mage, this was a coveted divine skill.
However, for Mike, its value was actually not great. In terms of burst damage, Mike had [Charge Up] and [Thunderclap Strike].
Then he would add a Lightning group damage, so he had both single-target and overall damage covered. Because of the scalability of [Thunderclap Strike], even when facing multiple enemies, Mike preferred to use Thunderclap Strike.
The most useless aspect of [Interdinsional Hurricane] for Mike was its slightly long chanting ti! The burst was not sufficient, and the disadvantage was too fatal, so it was not a good choice.
After resetting [Interdinsional Hurricane], Mike imdiately swung the Thunderclap Hamr and attacked the newly spawned monsters.
Ti passed quickly, and after forty-five minutes of continuous fighting, Mike had collected hundreds of S-tier wind elental cores!
Back at the lter, Mike didn't waste a second and started slting skills! At this stage, every slting Mike perford created SSS-grade skills!
"Generate skill [Reviving Wind], learn?"
"Reset!"
"Generate skill [Wind Shadow Shield], learn?"
"Reset!"
"....."
Each SSS-grade skill did not et Mike's needs. There were too many auxiliary and healing skills, which Mike directly ignored. And the damage skills were mostly long-chanting types, with too obvious disadvantages.
After more than ten resets, Mike still hadn't found a skill that t his requirents.
"No wonder the path of Wind Combat Mage is so difficult..."
Mike was able to reset wind elent skills to SSS-grade, which was already quite difficult. Especially since on the basis of SSS-grade, he could still reset more than a dozen tis.
In three hundred years, probably only Mike could do it!
"If I choose long-chanting high burst damage, that's traditional wind magic, and traditional wind magic doesn't lack forbidden-level damage skills! But chanting makes you immobile, sacrificing the most important mobility of Wind Combat Mage."
Mike analyzed in his mind while using the Thunderclap Hamr to kill monsters. "At the sa ti, these SSS-grade skills have another fatal flaw—the consumption of mana is too high!"
Even with Mike's top-tier attributes at his level, take [Interdinsional Hurricane] for example. Without considering mana recovery, Mike could only cast it twice before depleting his mana.
If Mike was like this, other wind mages couldn't even think about it! A skill that loses universality and can only be mastered by very few people doesn't an much to the entire class.
Why is [Windstride Slash] so popular in the market? It's because [Windstride Slash] has extrely strong universality!
Assassins, warriors can all learn it, and even mages who don't stick to their duties co to learn it.
The SSS-grade skill Mike wanted was to serve as the core skill of the 'Wind Combat Mage' class, filling the gap in damage!
In other words, if Mike really created such a skill, he would have opened up a new developnt path for the entire 'Wind Combat Mage' class! Becoming the mainstream of wind magic in the future is not impossible!
"Continue resetting!"
Mike glanced at the countdown, which had just over an hour left.
...
Thud— The Thunderclap Hamr heavily smashed down, and the wind elental king fell to the ground, an SSS-grade elental core quietly lying on the ground.
"The ninth." Mike had reached the limit in the wind elent instance. An elental king core could reset a skill once, and Mike still had nine reset opportunities!
[Countdown: 5 minutes]
Mike rushed to the lter and threw in an elental king core.
"Generate skill [Summon Wind Elental Queen], learn?"
"Reset!"
"..."
"Reset!"
"..."
After six continuous resets, Mike still hadn't harvested the skill he wanted!
"Three chances left...." With only a minute and a half left, Mike had no chance to continue hunting the wind elental king.
"Generate SSS tire skill [Wind's Reach], learn?"
[Wind's Reach]: Deals [2000 1.5*Intelligence 5*past 10 seconds of movent length (yards)] wind elent damage to enemies. While dealing damage, the caster transforms into a breeze, able to dash any distance, with the maximum distance being 20% of the damage dealt (yards).
Mana consumption: 400 points
CD ti: 10s
Seeing [Wind's Reach] instantly revitalized Mike, sweeping away his previous fatigue. After five hours of continuous effort and resets, it was all worth it at this mont!
"This is it!" This was the core skill of [Wind Combat Mage] he was pursuing!
"Res..no no no..learn!"
"Learning skill [Wind's Reach] successful!"
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