After Poluk left, Sila was obediently waiting where he was. He waited for hours and couldnt see anybody coming. In the end, he carelessly fell asleep. Sila hadnt slept in the ga for a long ti. Usually, he would circulate qi to rest instead of sleeping. This ti, however, he couldnt circulate qi and he didnt have a wink of sleep, so he easily gave in to drowsiness.
He slept for a while before waking up, sensing soones presence.
Are you awake now? A female voice ca from behind him.
Sila turned his body around. He saw a pink-colored sli that looked similar to him. Her pink was slightly lighter though. Surprisingly, this sli had a circular halo floating above her head.
Poluk had told Sila to wait for Viola. So, Sila guessed that this sli must be Viola, another Sli Guardian.
Hello, Madam Viola? greeted Sila.
Are you the trials challenger? asked Viola.
Yes. My na is Sila.
Okay. Okay. Then, lets start without further ado. Im Master Viola, a Sli Guardian who is in charge of the magic part in the Way of Slis ordeal. Any questions?
Finally, Sila could ask about what caused him a lot of confusion.
Yes, I have one. Im curious as to why slis cant use magic. And since we cannot use magic, why is there a magic-type skill?
Its not that slis cannot use magic, but rather that slis are bonded with a single kind of magic. This type of magic negates us to use different kinds of magic, so that makes it looks like we slis cannot use magic.
Single kind of magic? wondered Sila.
Yes. Do you know that S-grade skills always co with downsides? This magic is an S-grade skill with a downside that prevents us from using different kinds of magic, replied Viola.
Oh. I see. Anyway, do I have to take part in the magic part of the ordeal since Im a qi-type player? Sila still had this question as he knew that players can only use one type of energy, except for Zero who is the first one to be able to use two.
What you are about to do isnt related to your choice of energy type selection. Its about racial skills, answered Viola.
How is that different?
Its different. The energy type of a racial skill doesnt have to be the sa as your own energy type. Havent you noticed that your status window always shows qi points, magic points, and psychic points even though you have chosen qi-type? asked Viola.
Sila opened his Status Window and found that she was correct.
Player Status: Sila
Level: 662
Race: Pink Sli
Rank: Squire
Health Points: 705,000 / 705,000
Qi Points: 835,000 / 840,000
Psychic Points: 450,000 / 450,000
Magic Points: 362,000 / 362,000
Social Status: Naless Elders Main Disciple, Varees Lover
For example, if you choose magic as your energy type but choose orc as your race which is a qi-type race, you will beco a magic-type player who can also use qi-type racial skills in close combat. Players usually choose a race with an energy type that matches their own. But there are also so who choose the other way around. Thats not wrong, apparently, as that will result in a unique playing style.
Wow. So, the sli race is very good, isnt it? We have the skill of all three energy types, asked Sila.
Viola smiled, Whether its good or not, that depends on you.
What do you an?
Sli skills are too high-tier to be classified as normal racial skills. Therefore, prior to overcoming the ordeal, all skills will be sealed at F-grade just to be fair to other races. The Way of Slis ordeal can only be participated in once. So, if you fail in any part of the ordeal, you will lose the skill of that energy type. On the other hand, if you pass all three trials, you will obtain the skills of each energy type, explained Viola.
Silas mouth was wide open. Wasnt this explanation too important to not be ntioned by the Sli King? If he had been told about this, he would have trained his sli skills until he was confident enough to participate in the ordeal.
This was bad. He wasnt proficient in any skills except qi-related skills.
Sli skills are hard to obtain since the player needs to excel in them. It may look advantageous to have skills for all three energy types, but if he fails in every part, he would have no racial skills at all. Another downside of the sli racial skills is that there is only one skill for each energy type, while the other races would possess three skills for their specific energy type. It would be fatal for players with the sli race if they are not proficient enough.
We have talked too long. The trial will start now, declared Viola.
Please wait, Madam Viola, said Sila.
Call Master.
Yes. Master Viola. I want to say that Im not familiar with the Colorful Sli skill yet, Sila said slowly.
Not familiar yet? That cant be helped, replied Viola.
Sila released a sigh of relief. He needed to extend the ti to take part in this trial first. At least, I can get more ti to practice the skill first.
So, you fail. Okay, you can go now, continued Viola.
Sila was dumbfounded. Please wait!! Stop!! I an, can Master teach first?
You want to teach you? wondered Viola.
Yes. Normally, in trials like these, there should be a demonstration first, right? The examinees ability to do it is tested afterward. Sila was talking about the ti when Poluk had demonstrated the use of Fluffy Sli.
Oh, I see. No wonder no one passed my trial except His Majesty, muttered Viola.
Sila could hear her, however. He thought, Sli King must be very exceptional to pass Master Violas trial.
Okay. I get it. Look at , said Viola.
Then, her bodys color changed from the usual light pink to red for five seconds before changing again. This ti, her color changed multiple tis to cyan, green, brown, yellow, and blue, respectively. Lastly, her body color changed back to red and stopped at it.
Okay, now its your turn, said Viola.
Sila pulled a wry face. He didnt get it at all.
Umm, Master. Usually, you need to explain how to do it first. If I try to do it by myself, I might do it wrong. That would affect your reputation as my master. I surely wouldnt want that to happen. Sila tried to force his way out by talking.
Viola frowned. If this little kid uses this skill poorly in front of an outsider and people find out that it was who taught him, that would indeed be bad.
I see. By the way, you are such a pain, you know? When His Majesty participated in this trial, I didnt need to say a word. His Majesty could show the skill flawlessly. Viola said, Watch again. This ti I will slow it down.
Viola changed her bodys color again. This ti from cyan to green, brown, yellow, blue, and red, respectively. Her color returned and stopped at cyan this ti.
Then, Viola drew a six-pointed star on the ground.
This is the only magic that slis can use elent manipulation. You may have seen so magic that can imbue an elent into a weapon. But our magic is different as we are not imbuing an elent into a weapon. Instead, we change our body into that elent. We dont use magic but we beco magic ourselves. Viola explained while Sila was glaring at the six-pointed star on the ground, trying his best to rember the elental sequence written on it.
There is a sequence that the elents follow. Red is fire, cyan is ice, green is wind, brown is earth, yellow is lighting, and blue is water. You cant possibly change yourself into an elent that isnt next to your current elent. Viola further explained.
Sila tried his best to understand its concept. It was very different from the concept behind qi-type skills that are simple yet flexible. While other players might think that qi-type skills are hard to practice, for Sila who isnt good at rembering, qi-type skills are easier to understand than this elental sequence of magic-type skills.
There are various kinds of magic-type skills, so the complexity is incomparable to simple qi-type skills. For qi-types, there are only the hot elent and the cold elent, which are mutually exclusive. anwhile, for magic-types, there are eight elents and all of them have their own unique characteristics.
Therefore, Sila had to spend almost an hour trying to rember each elents characteristics and weaknesses.
I won't be able to morize all of this. I need to practice it to make my body rember, Sila thought.
Sila is the type that prefers to use his body for morizing, not his brain. Thus, he started changing his body color into red, cyan, green, brown, yellow, and blue respectively.
Nevertheless, his result was nowhere near what he had seen from Violas. His color changing was too slow. Sila had to spend ten minutes to change into one color. It took him two hours to go through the whole sequence of elents twice.
This seems like it will take a while. Ill co back tomorrow, then. Viola said before leaving.
Sila didnt hear what Viola said. Once he imrses himself into sothing, he would ignore others.
He felt too tired so he unconsciously fell asleep. Once he woke up, he would only eat and practice without doing anything else. He was practicing without knowing how much ti had passed again.
Now, Sila had shortened the ti he needed to change his color to five minutes. It currently took him half an hour to complete a full sequence. Although the ti had been halved, it would still be too long for using it in actual combat.
Magic-type skill is too hard. If it was a qi-type skill, I would be able to use it decently by now, Sila complained.
Wait. Sila realized, Mister Poluk said that every sli-race skill has more than one way to be used. Am I practicing it incorrectly? He talked to himself, if I perceive that Colorful Sli is a qi-type skill, can I use it well enough?
Afterward, Sila tried using Formless Soldier. He changed his body to beco harder, softer, heavier, and lighter respectively; like he was changing elents.
Although the speed wasnt instantaneous, it only took him one minute to complete the cycle. Compared to changing elents, it was a lot faster.
Although these two skills are different in energy type aspect, their principles are very similar. If I understand why I can use Formless Soldier quicker than Colorful Sli, I may be able to change color faster.
Subsequently, except for eating and sleeping, Sila dedicated all his ti to practicing Formless Soldier and Colorful Sli.
Once his qi ran out, he would train Colorful Sli. Once his magic ran out, he would train Formless Soldier. Due to the fact that these two skills consud separate resources, Sila could train two skills without any breaks.
Ti passed, and now Sila only had to spend three minutes to complete the cycle of Colorful Sli. As for Formless Soldier, he had already achieved the ability to use it almost at will. It might be due to his preference for qi-type skills. Anyway, he still couldnt use the separate ability of Formless Soldier simultaneously as Poluk had ntioned.
Viola who watched him from afar couldnt help but sigh.
Poluk, youre too kind. Anyone can do it if you give that many hints away. It seems I need to increase the difficulty of my trial a little.
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