Ed disassembled his suffocation trap. In the process, he got a brand new robe.
[Storm Robe]
Facilitates the travel of mana through the air resulting in faster cast ti and reduced mana loss. Storm spells receive a noticeable boost in power.
He had forgotten about the adventurer who ran away so it was only natural he missed this robe.
'I am quite surprised he owned such a thing' To Ed, the only explanation as to why he didn't notice anything was that this adventurer either didn't know himself, or he had no storm spells and therefore couldn't make use of it.
'He did deviate my attack when I nearly killed the Felix fellow so he likely knew' Under normal circumstances, no one should have been able to divert his sword unless they anticipated such an event. That is to say, the burst of wind was cast quicker than it probably should be.
Ed decided to forget about the matter and sent his armor into the storeroom. He then equipped the robe and felt nothing much different. He thus decided to try it.
The earth beneath his feet shifted madly disfiguring the ink on the ground. Ed frowned.
'This is useless…' Since he cast earth spells through the earth there was no difference anyway!
Ed added getting the elent of air into his to do list before wrapping things up in that hallway.
'Let's go' He told the white skeletons that were originally overlooking the young mage's dead body. They followed after him and he issued the sa command to the anti-skeletons who were carrying his things.
Ed had decided to head towards the boss gate. It used to be his previous location of operation and quite honestly, he would do so again. The main reason being that he was curious about the portal found inside of there.
They walked for a while but they eventually reached and passed the rging corridors. He was once again the gloomy darkness gazing at the giant door that exuded grandness and a chilling aura.
He told the anti-skeletons to drop all of their items before drawing closer. Eventually, the white skeletons could no longer proceed. Their fear held a higher priority than Ed's command.
On the other hand, the anti-skeletons were perfectly fine.
'Huh, that's interesting…' Ed didn't pay it much mind though and left it at that. It was now ti to test out his new skill.
'Condense the mana into a crystal' Ed thought as he opened his bony palm. Only the empty air stood above it. Of course, the air was filled with mana.
A small glitter suddenly appeared. It was green in color and it glowed that sa color. Ed hadn't stopped the skill quite yet, but it was just a slow process…
After another 30 or so seconds, the crystal grew in size once more which left Ed severely disappointed.
'This takes forever…' Ed complained inwardly. In reality however, he wasn't the least bit mad.
Even though the forming of the crystal was only done shard by shard, it was just a matter of leveling up the skill. At the mont, it was a far better idea to travel to the ogre cavern and stuff a crap ton of crystals though...
Thus, Ed bid his ti for a bit and waited. It took a total of five minutes until a crystal the size of the average fist appeared. The crystal glowed a light green color and seed sowhat clear.
[Inferior Wind Crystal]
A crystal forcibly ford by mana. It glows a diluted green and holds elents of wind and earth.
'Inferior?' That was the first question that popped into Ed's mind. What exactly was the reason for it? The most likely reason was the earth elents mixed in there but Ed felt that the elents should cancel each other out. It made no sense that they remained.
'Ford by mana huh…' Ed activated his skill again and tried to sense his mana expenditure and found that it indeed used his own mana. A new small green shard appeared next to his palm and fell to the ground.
[Crystallize has leveled up]
Ed's non existed brows furrowed as he tried to co up with solutions.
'The best bet might be elentless mana but with or without elent it is still mana' Ed thought this because it was the only other elent he could at the mont house in his core. He was afraid the crystal might still be listed as inferior.
Of course, there was always the possibility that until the skill advanced, or even just leveled up more, the impurities would still exist.
'In that case, let's test so other crystals' For example, the earth one. If the impurities ca from his own mana core then the earth crystals shouldn't co out as inferior.
Ed sat down on the ground hovering his palm above it. He then began the process anew and in nearly five minutes, a new crystal was born.
[Inferior Earth Crystal]
A crystal forcibly ford by mana. It glows a diluted brown and holds elents of earth and wind.
'This… is completely unrelated to …' There was nothing that Ed could do if the skill decided to be so stubborn. The main culprit was likely the fact that he couldn't dig his hand into soil to form the crystal.
The crystal needed so space and the only way to get that is by leaving air in between. This ant that no matter what, his crystals would have the wind elent in them! Or since he was underground, the wind ones would always have earth in them!
'I can boil it down to the skill not properly differentiating between the elents' Basically, a couple of foreign elents could sneak past due to the skill's inefficiency.
'Let's test fire to conclude this then' Ed thought as he glanced at the extrely dim torches. The area near the boss gate was as such. This coupled with the fact that these torches were not actual flas, made it unlikely for a crystal to form.
Still, trial and error.
Ed approached the wall and made the earth rise a bit. The rged hallway was rather tall in order to accommodate the entire gate. The torches were a bit beyond reach.
'Let's start then' Ed's hand hovered near the fake flas as he activated the skill again. A crystal shard then ford, it was black in color.
'Curious… Let's continue…' Ed thought and focused on the skill again. Multiple shards continued to pop out one after the other until a crystal was finally ford.
The crystal didn't glow. On the contrary, it seed to suck in the light around it resulting in a black glow.
'I wonder if this is how these torches manage to be so dim, they suck in their own light' Ed joked before assesing the crystal.
[Inferior Death Crystal]
A crystal forcibly ford by mana. It glows a diluted black and holds elents of death, earth, and wind.
'Death?' It was an unexpected outco. He had never even considered this as a possiblity. Of course that changed the mont he saw the black shard pop out. At that point he held his doubts but didn't address them until the final monts. Who knew it would indeed be the case!
'What can I use this for?' Ed instinctively glanced at the large gate. Unfortunately there wasn't a lich behind it anymore.
Ed lowered the earth while visually examining the crystal. It seed quite eerie but that was about it. He didn't gain any insight from looking at it. It seed he would need to try and find another way.
'I wonder if there is a shaman experienced in necromancy' The idea wasn't too farfetched given the principles of shamanism. They were depicted as being able to commune with good and evil spirits. The orc shamans from the orc plains were definitely not like this though.
Ed stored away the crystal. He could save it for the orc plains and use so of the boars for experints. He could for example form an array that expells the death energy in the crystal and inserts it into a boar. What would happen? The boar would probably die.
But even if that was the result he wouldn't be disappointed, on the contrary it would make for a powerful trap. Stepping on it causing instant death, the thought alone could make one shudder.
'Actually, I should capture so humans if I find the chance from now on' He could experint on them, although that would go against the bottom line he set literally just now, or he could extort their knowledge about the outside and magic.
'Damn, why didn't I think about that earlier…' He was lanting having so simply killed the earth mage now. She was the perfect target for interrogation! After going through such a traumatic experience she might have been willing to listen to his every demand grasping at any straw resembling the slightest of hope.
'If I let a captive go after interrogating them or experinting on them this dungeon would definitely beco an elimination priority' Not to ntion the weird rumors that would form about him…
Ed then dismissed all those thoughts.. He had wasted enough ti now, it was ti to check his status and enter the system space.
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