Spending a dozen cycles inside the storm, Sora felt the damage dealt by the [Spatial Elent] becoming a threat to his life. Recognizing the need to reset the cumulative damage caused by the cycles of elental attacks, he exited the storm montarily.
His experint had yet to yield the results he hoped for, as it only took a few minutes for the relentless elents to overwhelm him. He repeated the process until he finally unlocked the [Spatial Elent]. As he did, he saw a change in his [Mana Evolution] skill.
Effect 4 : Mana Customization: The user can guide how their mana evolves. Progress depends on the user's talent and comprehension.
[Sub-effect: [Elental Control]. By recreating elents through [Mana Customization], you unlock a sub-effect allowing for perfect skill creation based on your comprehension of each elent. Elents Unlocked: 6.]
Though far from mastering the new elent, he felt satisfaction as the initial connection ford. The unfamiliar energy now seed less foreign as he could feel his affinity with the elent growing.
He turned his focus to his other task, and returned to manipulating the five elents to temper his body and resistance. Drawing each elent to attract its wild counterpart, he allowed them to bombard him, targeting each of his fingers.
As the damage from the elents increased, he decided to test their combined force. Clenching his fist, he concentrated the five elents on a single point. The result was imdiate.
When the elents converged on Sora's fist, the collision was chaotic.
Each elent resisted mixing harmoniously, their energies fighting off for supremacy. The chaotic force broke through his defense, sending waves of pain through his fist as the interaction of the elents bypassed the resistance his body had painstakingly built up.
'What is this? The five elents combining to bypass my resistance? Don't tell this is so new elent… Each individual elent is weak against , but I have no resistance against their combined might.' He thought, fascinated.
Unwilling to leave the phenonon unexplored, he used his other hand to summon the five elents again, attempting to mimic the process.
His first attempt to replicate the chaotic energy fell short of his expectations. With his left hand, he summoned fire, water, earth, wind, and lightning, each elent obediently responding to his will. Yet, as he tried to force them to interact in the sa way they had in the storm, the result was underwhelming.
The elents flowed gracefully in his palm, harmonizing without a hint of resistance. His elents were too calm, too controlled. They followed his commands without hesitation, fusing and balancing rather than clashing and struggling for dominance.
As he observed, it beca clear that this harmony was nothing like the wild intensity of the storm's elents. The storm's energies had raged, even rejecting his control.
Reflecting on this difference, Sora realized that the chaotic power he sought might require sothing he hadn't yet mastered— like the release of his control, or perhaps a different type of interaction between the elents.
Trying his new theory, he attempted to release his control, but it wasn't easy. His control over mana was ingrained deeply, a product of his training and his [Mana Evolution]. Every particle of mana he summoned was accustod to obeying him.
As frustration started to build, he pondered his lack of progress. He had tried everything he could think of—loosening his control, increasing the mana output, and experinting with opposing elents—but nothing had recreated the chaotic energy he sought.
'Don't tell [Mana Evolution] itself is holding back… Or am I missing sothing crucial?' he wondered, a tinge of doubt creeping into his mind at the repeated failures. 'I need even more ti to experint in this direction.'
Lost in thought, Sora absentmindedly directed the elents in his left palm. Fire, water, earth, wind, and lightning flowed together, forming a small, stable whirlpool. The movent was smooth and fast, each elent complenting the other. Unlike the wild elents of the storm, this harmony erged naturally, effortlessly.
Watching the steady rotation of elents, Sora's frustration began to ease, replaced by curiosity. 'If that wild elent is out of reach for now, maybe I can explore another direction— I can see what I can do by following my intuition.'
Exploring this new direction, each elent interacted with synergy in Sora's palm, enhancing one another's strength.
Fire burned with intensity, fueled by the gusts of wind, making the flas hotter, faster, and wilder. Earth grounded the fiery wind, absorbing the heat and anchoring the other elents, stabilizing everything. Water circled around, tempering the burning earth without extinguishing it, creating bursts of steam. Lightning danced through this misty atmosphere, infusing the dense, marble-like fusion with electricity, giving the 'marble' a pulse.
Using [Condensed Mana] for each elent, their power soared to a new level. But as the 'fusion' progressed, Sora noticed sothing alarming—the energy was draining his mana at an unprecedented rate. Although he was used to high mana consumption, he was taken aback by how fast his condensed mana was drained.
'This little fusion is draining faster than I can condense more mana… What is this?'
Despite the strain, he pressed on, his curiosity outweighing the discomfort. As the elents continued to mix and amplify each other, they ford a dense, bright core of energy in his palm.
Suddenly, he noticed a transformation in the energy he was wielding. It wasn't fire, or wind, or any single elent anymore. The combined force of all five elents, condensed and stabilized, began to take on a new form.
The energy in Sora's hand looked like a thick, tallic liquid core, heated to an intense temperature and surrounded by a mist that revolved around it at incredible speed. The entire core seed alive, charged with electricity that pulsed through it, making it glow with power.
'Is this… a new elent? This feels so strong' He stared in shock at the extre energy condensed in the palm of his hand.
'I feel that Earth and Lightning are the strongest components. Maybe it's because I've focused on these two elents the most.'
While he could sense his affinity with fire influencing the fusion, its impact was noticeably weaker.
[Your mastery over Earth, Lightning, Fire, Water and Wind has increased trendously]
[You have created an Elental Nexus (Embryo)]
[Description: The initial form of a powerful fusion elent that unites fire, earth, water, wind, and lightning in a single core.]
[Elent Composition:
Earth Elent: 30%
Lightning Elent: 27%
Fire Elent: 18%
Water Elent: 13%
Wind Elent: 12%
Spatial Elent: 0%]
Sora looked at the notification in surprise, excitent flickering in his eyes at the discovery. He could already feel the potential for this energy to grow, and it was confined by the na of what he had created.. 'This thing can definitely evolve, but for now, I need to test its power.'
He focused on controlling the [Elental Nexus], now fully ford, and tried to manipulate it. However, it was difficult to move—it felt heavy and slow.
As he attempted to extend it outward, Sora noticed his control weakening with distance. Bringing the [Elental Nexus] back to his palm, he observed the storm around him. The wild elents seed naturally drawn to it, like moths to a fla, getting absorbed into the nexus
At the sa ti, his understanding of the five elents deepened. Experinting with the water elent, he instinctively allowed his body to transform. His form took on a translucent, liquid appearance, flowing and shifting as though he had beco water itself.
In this water elental form, Sora moved with effortless grace, imagining an imaginary opponent, transforming into water and reforming in the blink of an eye. He even split his body into smaller bodies before reassembling it.
However, he quickly realized the trade-off: his superhuman strength, durability and resistances were inaccessible in this state. Instead, he gained immunity to physical attacks but remained vulnerable to elental and energy-based assaults.
As elents struck his water-like body, he noted that lightning, in particular, caused extre damage. 'It's a double-edged sword… This form definitely has room to grow, but I'll leave it for now,' he thought, reverting to his physical form.
'This must be a side effect of learning about elents in depth. This form likely has room to grow too, but I'll set it aside for now,' he thought, leaving the elental form and returning to his physical body.
What had started as an attempt to push his body's limits had now granted him two new elental powers and a set of elental transformations.
'Here I am, discovering new things when I should just be polishing my current skills… Damn it, can't I train peacefully and push my skills? It seems like I can never train in peace.' he grumbled internally, complaining about having too many opportunities.
Kara's voice echoed in his mind. "You should co out. There's so action inside the zone."
Sora quickly stepped out of the storm, the [Elental Nexus] still pulsing faintly in his hand.
His focus snapped to the dozen players standing not far away. They were demon race players, each from different factions—Foxes, Chickens, and Vipers among them. His eyes landed on a familiar face: the demon player they had spared earlier.
Emily crossed her arms, exasperated. "Told you we should've killed that damn demon. Why keep a promise to an enemy? Damn it, Ralph, you're too soft."
Without responding, Sora channeled his remaining [Condensed Mana] into the [Elental Nexus], feeling its power surge in his palm. He glanced at Kara, who gave a nod of understanding, already preparing herself.
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