Elio took position, his body tense while charging the three movent vectors.
The water bomb floated in front of him, ready to unleash chaos.
Everything would co down to a fraction of a second.
Elio Mana: 47
Quick Charge: 7
When he fired his attacks one after another...
Elio Mana: 41
Quick Charge: 1
The combination of the explosion and wind vectors didn't work exactly as Elio had planned.
Although he managed to destroy the barrier and direct most of the corrosive gas toward the chamber, the combined force of the recoil threw him back more violently than expected.
A part of the intensified gas reached him, attacking his nickel protection. For a terrifying mont, Elio could feel the tal reacting, but the protective layer barely held.
'I only have one accumulated mana point left,' he thought while stabilizing himself. 'Better accumulate more before facing the monsters...'
His planning was interrupted when 16 creatures erged from the chamber and ca into the tunnel.
They were flattened beings that floated similarly to his eel, their bodies radiating their own corrosive nature. Elio thought they might not leave the chamber if he didn't enter, but…
He was wrong.
Fortunately... The gas attack seed to have affected them, but not as much as he expected.
'They must have thirty-nine resistance points,' he quickly calculated. 'The enhanced corrosion wasn't critical for them like it was for ...'
The monsters didn't give him the ti he needed to accumulate more mana. But while observing their fluid movents, an idea began forming in Elio's mind.
With only one accumulated mana point but more than 40 in reserve, Elio made a risky decision. He channeled so neon toward his eel, which still maintained its normal size, and then allowed the creature to begin extracting mana directly from his body.
Elio Mana: 40
Quick Charge: 0
But when the eel turned red, instead of attacking, it quickly used more of Elio's free to take mana for sothing else.
The process was intense.
Elio Mana: 32
Elio could feel the energy leaving his body while his familiar began to grow, its form expanding while the neon gave it a threatening reddish glow. The sensation was different from any previous extraction; this ti, the eel seed to have a specific purpose for the mana it was taking.
'Eight points,' Elio counted, observing his book. His eel had reached a considerable size, its reddish body pulsing with contained energy.
The monsters approached in formation, apparently unconcerned by the eel's transformation.
That's when the familiar released its attack.
Elio Mana: 30
The red energy arc that erged was different from anything Elio had seen before. It impacted the first monster and, to Elio's surprise, didn't stop there. The energy bounced, finding the next target, and then the next.
Elio's eyes opened in amazent as the arc continued its path, bouncing between monsters like a crazed lightning bolt.
Eight impacts, each as powerful as the first.
'Only 2 points,' Elio automatically registered, noting the attack's cost. Much less than the 32 the eel would have needed to fire 16 tis in its small form.
His eel, still in its augnted form, didn't waste ti. A second energy arc erged, finding the eight remaining targets with the sa deadly precision as the first.
Elio Mana: 28
When the last energy arc found its final target and destroyed it, the transformation began to reverse. The eel, which had maintained its increased size during the attacks, started to shrink gradually. The reddish neon glow faded, returning the creature to its familiar electric blue tone.
The total cost had been surprisingly efficient: eight points for the transformation and four for the attacks. Twelve points total to eliminate sixteen enemies. The economy of movents, cadence, and mana would have been impossible with any other tactic.
As the magical mist that had filled the environnt during the battle began to dissipate, Elio felt the familiar system regeneration recognizing his victory.
Level 9 was complete.
'I have to learn to make it grow on my own,' reflected Elio, observing his eel now swimming calmly around him, as if it hadn't just demonstrated devastating power.
The familiar statue appeared in the center of the chamber, repeating its usual ssage.
"Congratulations on overcoming the Fourth challenge of the second level of elental control. Fortunately, this ninth test of that... Goddess, didn't overco you. Now you have power over Fluorine, continue learning to use its power and don't forget to keep improving with the other elents."
"P.S.: Sorry for the lack of originality in the ssage. Sotis, even gods run out of creative ideas. But hey, at least you have a new elent to play with!"
Elio didn't pay much attention beyond reading the na of the elent, and just touched the statue to get the extra armor stats.
The new elent, Fluorine, joined his arsenal, though Elio had mixed feelings about its extrely reactive nature.
Elio Von Elian's Statistics
Skills:
{5 Basic ones}
Heaven's Frost
Heaven's Spark
Heaven's Gale
Heaven's Synergist (New)
Familiars:
{5 Basic ones}
Frost Penguin
Spark Eel ( 35 MD)
Gale Roseline-Shark (157,070,903/1,000,000,000)
Corrosive Glaucus (157,070,903/10,000,000,000) (New)
??? (0/100,000,000,000) Level 10 required
Emblems:
Wind
Level 9
Mana: 90/90
Resistance: 90/90 ( 900)
Stamina: 14/14
Attack: 9 (14)
Magic Damage: 9 ( 9)( 35) / (53)
Strength: 9
Defense: 9 (18)
Magic Defense: 9 ( 5)( 9) / (23)
Speed: 9
Perception / Agility: 1.9
Superior Mana Spear / Attack 5
Superior Mana Dagger x10 / Attack 5
Superior Elental Resistance Cloak / Magic Defense 5
System's Armor 9 / ((Defense 9) (Magic Defense 9) (Magic Damage 9) (Resistance(900/900))
Portable oral oxygen stone
Balance: 100 mana points
His eyes stopped at the new entry in his book: "Corrosive Glaucus" with extre requirents, 10 billion cores.
The figure left him montarily breathless.
Even if he collected all the cores from the ground to the end of the monster sea, he would need to repeat the process in five different locations to reach that amount.
'For the level 10 summon...' Elio shook his head.
Not even the cores accumulated during a hundred years would be enough. But that was a problem for another ti; now he had more imdiate concerns.
His magical damage had increased to 53 points, an improvent that in any other situation would have been significant. But against the monster waiting outside...
Elio vividly rembered how his previous attacks had barely managed to scratch the creature.
'The corrosive attack could add an additional effect,' he thought while experinting with his new elent. 'But against sothing so powerful, will it really make a difference?'
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