Aliandra
The core of the Living Fme evaporated into motes of mana as Ali’s notification chime sounded. had mao lure several of them from the Landing o a time, and each had beeed quickly – their new mana drain strategy made the fights far quicker.
Variant pleted, but the imprint is full. Make space or select a neter.
Ali frow the sight of the message. Her Grimoire’s imprint chapters were a precious resourd now her Elemental imprint was full – spending another chapter to expand it seemed wasteful and ineffit. In her entire elemental imprint, she had only the one Forest Guardian which was usable, everything else was for a mana affinity inpatible with her own. Well, there was the Bamboo Crawler, too – a mohat seemed to have been cimed by both the elemental and the grass imprints.
Other than purely academiterest, there was little reason for her to keep the imprint for the Living Fme. A, her study of the Glimmer Shard had advanced her uanding of the use of her barrier magic, allowio learn to fashion sharp shards for attag. Besides, she was quite ied in studying the unique fme of these elementals. She paged through her Grimoire thoughtfully, pausing for a moment at the imprint for s. Given her access to magicite and mana-purified water, s did not add mu the way of value, other than the venienaking currency directly. Just selling magicite had a far greater impa the ey, provoking great excitement and growth among the crafters. Even her Fme Web imprint should be a great boon to the tailors and weavers.
Hmm, but I have Fme Spinners in the spider imprint... a fact that rehe Fme Web imprint redundant. With just a few minutes and a few hundred mana, she summoned one, verifying that it could produce the valuable fming silk threads on demand.
Well, that ahat, she decided, removing the Fme Web imprint, and deg to rely on making the monsters instead. They would serve double duty in defending her domain. The only downside would be that she couldn’t transmute other materials into Fme Web, weaving it directly with Domain Mastery, but she couldn’t immediately see any be to that, and besides, she could always recover the imprint from the spiders if she iure.
Variant: Living Fme added to Imprint: Elemental.
“Bad news,” said, catg her attention. She turo find him squinting through the archway at the remaining elementals within the Landing. “I don’t think I split any of the remaining groups, they are just too close. We’re going to have to fight more than one elemental at the same time.”
Peering through the archway herself, Ali was dismayed at the number of elementals that remained within. At the far side, she could now make out the twer ohat would be the boss had pointed out before. There were obvious gaps in the room though, where had cleared the easier-to-reach monsters.
“I don’t suppose you tank a Living Fme?” asked, gng at Malika.
“I… no,” she said, looking down. “That’s too mue.” She seemed ashamed or embarrassed to have to admit that, but simply accepted her assessment and moved on.
“What about that group, maybe?” He pointed. He seemed rather uain as if he didn’t have the choice but to put Malika on the spot again. “It should e as a group of three.”
Living Fme – Elemental – level 64 (Fire)Shard of Fme – Elemental – level 38-40 (Fire) x2
“How do we do it?” Ali asked. They had fought many of the Shards of Fme, even two at a time. But the Living Fme elementals were extremely powerful and dangerous, even on their own. Each of the elementals had a powerful aura of fme, and they all healed from fire damage, so they would have to be separated.
“We o split them up, and the Living Fme is the most dangerous,” said, his expression thoughtful. “Maybe Malika tank both shards off to the side while we kill the Living Fme, and then we split them and finish them off?”
“I don’t think I hawo at a time,” Malika said, looking utterly forlorn. “I don’t get aance from armor like you guys, just the little I get from this hairpin. I think two of them for that long will kill me unless I get very lucky with dodging.”
Ali g Malika, more than a little worried about her friend. Something in this mine had gotten to her, and badly shaken her spirits and the attitude she had toward her css and role. She knew her friend had a powerful resolve to get stronger and be a force for positive ge in the world, but this challenge of not having enough fire resistance seemed to have undermined her fidence more thhly than she would have thought possible. She wao see Malika smile, and have her unshakable, calm, self-assured friend back.
“The Living Fme is the most dangerous,” Ali began, thinking through all the abilities they knew about. “But without Malika’s drain, it will take a very long time to kill.”
“Do you think we should kill the Shards of Fme first?” asked.
“Maybe. Mato, you tank the Living Fme and one of the shards at the same time?” she asked.
“Yup, this armor is really good,” he said, not pig up on how sensitive Malika might be to hearing about his cool armor with all its fire resistahe only really dangerous time is if all the healers get blown away.”
“What if we have Mato tank the Living Fme and the Shard iunnel where it’s a little narrower? I put two Acolytes up against the wall on the opposite side and that way, they ’t be tossed out e by the bst wave.” Her little Kobolds would have to take the bst wave and the crushing impact of being smashed against the wall almost simultaneously, but if she was careful to make certain they used Restoration on themselves right before the explosion, she was sure they could survive it reliably. It would be eveer if she could spare a barrier or two to deflee of the bst.
“That means…” said, gng about. “You want Malika and the st Shard over there?” He poio Mato’s inal tanking spot by the wall.
“Yup. It should be far enough to split the auras and keep her out e of the explosion too. With Malika’s stamina and an Acolyte over here, I think we keep her healed.” Ali surveyed the room for a moment while her friends sidered her idea. “We kill Malika’s shard first, and thes the sed one and takes it away from Mato, separating it from the fire aura and the bst wave, and then we kill that ooo. Finally, we all kill the Living Fme with Malika’s mana attack. What do you guys think?”
“I definitely handle one Shard of Fme,” Malika said, giving Ali a grateful look.
“It’s better than my idea,” said. “I think the bst wave has a rger rahough, maybe Malika should be here instead.” He indicated a spot somewhat further separated. “Ali, without resistances, Malika will be taking a lot of melee damage from the shard that she isn’t normally subjected to when Mato is tanking. you afford to make another healer?”
“That’s a good idea,” Ali said. “Two Acolytes for each tank, just in case anything random happens.” While she was hopeful her adjustment pg two of her healers against a wall would help stabilize the fight, the explosive bst wave was so quick it was sometimes challenging to predid a substantial source of randomness in the fight. The extra healing was something she should have thought of herself.
Their strategy discussions took quite some time, but even the usually impatient Mato simply listened quietly. It was abundantly clear to everyohat without a strong pn, they would have no ce of defeating the group. They all waited patiently while Ali created her Kobold Acolyte aored her mana with Inspiration. She had to admit that the picture of her little Kobolds wearing the highly fashionable fire silk robes made her smile – but Lydia’s phenomenal craftsmanship and their racial resistao fire was about the only thing keeping the low-level Kobolds alive against the sheer damage output of a level sixty Living Fme.
“Ok, I’m ready,” Ali announced.
“Alright, I’ll go get them,” said.
Malika and Mato both moved over to the giant stone archway, waiting while vanished as he stepped across the threshold, blending into the shadows and illusion of his stealth magic. Everyoheir breath for several long minutes while the denizens of the Landing slowly drifted bad forth. Right as two patrolling groups separated, Ali sa open, and into that gap fred a brilliant fsh of light and magic as an arrow punched into the core of the Living Fme. suddenly reappeared from a shimmer of dissipating illusion, sprinting through the arch of storailing smoke and fme from his burning body while the three angry elementals surged after him.
“Ining,” Malika murmured redundantly, but Mato simply chuffed softly beside her.
Ali stood well back from the archway with her minions arrayed around their two anticipated tanking spots. As the elementals crossed through the archway, there was a chaotic flurry of melee. Mato roared and swiped. Malika’s magic fshed several times in rapid succession and both of their health dipped dramatically as their bodies were set alight by the powerful fluence of fire within the close fines of the archway.
“Devotion,” she instructed, and her Acolyte instantly reacted by activating her skill, suffusing herself with the familiar pilr of potent holy light. Mere moments ter, Malika and Mato’s health began to rise in respoo the powerful surge of healing magic. Mato charged away from the archway toward the tunnel, while Malika ducked to the side up against the wall somehow miraculously with only a single Shard of Fme emerging from the fray to follow her.
A brilliant red formation of fire mana sprang iehin the Living Fme, drawing a mind-blowing amount of mana into its flowing shape.
“Explosion!” Ali yelled, suppressing the sudden surge of panic. They hadn’t ated for the fact that the monster wouldn’t patiently wait for them to set up their positions before using its powerful bst wave attack. She threw up a barrier in front of the Kobold still empowered by her Devotion skill and then, using every scrap of her hasted mental reas, she timed her Minion Teleport for the precise instant after the bst wave smmed into her chest. The detonatio everything in the room flying: Mato, Malika, the Shards of Fme, and most of her minions. The only exceptiohe Acolyte c behind her barrier, and herself and the sed acolyte she had switched pces with as she leveraged her teleport skill to dissipate the momentum from them both.
“Heal Mato,” she told her empowered Kobold. He had bounced off the wall and the Living Fme was about to smash into him – and he had not yet had the time to establish his Brutal Restoration magid was therefore in the most precarious position. “You heal Malika,” she told the other stationary Acolyte. Malika only had one Shard of Fme to deal with now that she was out of the fire aura of the other elementals, and while she had very weak resistao magic, she also had her own healing skill.
She cycled her point of vieidly through her minions, casting barriers to catch the ohat were at most risk of dying, preventing one of her shamans from flying back through the archway and into the Landing. Every ounce of damage she could prevent during the explosion was damage her acolytes wouldn’t o heal, and she knew she had saved many of her monsters from dying to falling on the rock or nding in va.
“Lock it down, Mato,” yelled, nding with a fre of his brilliant wings, arrow nocked and ready.
Several rapid flickers and fshes pulsed around Malika as she halted her momentum midflight and alighted on the rocky ground near her assigned spot. She waited until her flying Shard of Fme nded and turned, floating across the room at great speed to engage her.
Mato’s great bulk smmed hard into the rocky wall of the tunnel with enough impact to extinguish the fmes burning his fur. Ali wi the ch of bones breaking, but Mato charged the Living Fme, shaking off the impact like it was nothing, and smacked it with his paw, drawing it back towards the tunnel where he was supposed to tank.
There was a moment of teicipation while the remaining Shard of Fme nded and paused, as if looking around, although, what it might be using for eyes Ali couldn’t imagine. But Mato had clearly a more than enough, because it made a beelihrough Ali’s rec minions as it charged him down, triggering a ripple of holy magic spells through her minions – her healers reag to its aura of fme passing by.
Ali breathed a sigh of relief as a modicum of stability emerged from the midst of the chaos of the pull and the juggling for position. Now we just have to kill them.
“Go,” she told her waiting minions, and her shamans, Hobgoblin, and the rogues swarmed across the rocks toward Malika, daggers and swleaming in the light of the fire, and shields beginning to arc with lightning. The bone mages and archers opened fire, filling the air with their yipping battle cries. With a thought, Ali fired off a pair of barrier shards to add to the attack, but the bulk of her attention was devoted to the fight through the senses of her acolytes, monit Mato and Malika’s health stantly. The amount of damage inflicted by the elementals was enormous, and she clearly felt the alika’s healing and the extra elemental in the chaotic swing of Mato’s health as he tanked iunnel. Malika’s health, oher hand, was a gut-wreng skiff bobbing in a stormy sea, steady for long moments as she dodged everything the elemental dished out, and then suddenly plummeting armingly when several attacks in a row made it through.
“Sed explosion in ten,” called out in a steady voice.
She knew he couldn’t see the magic, but she was grateful for his assistand his impeccable sense of timing. Sure enough, in approximately ten seds, a giant surge of fire mana shot through the Living Fme.
“Explosion!”
Ali was out e of the bst wave this time, so she got to watch the effect of the pressed shockwave in a. A powerful surge of brilliant white-e burst outward from the elemental’s body, like an outgassing of fme, followed by a detonation remi of an empowered fireball triggered by its core of fire mana. The explosion instantly pressed the fme into a dense shockwave that bsted outward in a giant sphere around the elemental, pig up and tossing everything within its radius.
Mato smmed up against the wall, boung off the rod nding ba front of the Living Fme. The two acolytes she had assigo him were standing opposite him ihe tunnel, and they too were picked up and smmed into the wall, despite the hasty barrier she summoo protect them. But her pn had worked, both were battered and burnt, but still in range of Mato when they nded. Mato’s Shard of Fme went flying right across the room, nding almost on top of her mages and archers, and the sudden presence of the fme aura caused a sed ripple of holy magic spells to cascade across the room. She didn’t o check; she could already reize the effit restoration magic that would heal each of them for the hirty seds.
“Mato, you shift it to the other side ime?” Ali called. If he could arrao have the Shard bsted away from the group and dowuhat would save a lot of healing. She got a loud grunt in response. Not sure if that means yes or no…
Ali checked in with all her miniurly, makiain they were topped up and standing in smart positions, and she assisted them with her barriers through several explosions while they wore down Malika’s Shard of Fme. Even though the sed shard was tossed into the room a few more times due to the explosions, only once did it get close enough to potentially heal the other oh its aura, and Ali intercepted that with a barrier mid-flight, making it nd short of the target. She ighe shield and fire-tornado, allowing the Living Fme tee fully, focused entirely on keeping everyone alive and her unfortunately low-leveled attackers on target.
How much faster would this be if my mages or archers were at the same level as the Hobgoblin?
With a soft chime, Malika’s Shard of Fme guttered and dropped to the ground, and Malika was about to charge into the fray when called out. “Wait, Malika! Explosion in ten, go in after.”
She paused outside of the range of the bst wave, and Ali found herself with some downtime, so she flew over to the fresh corpse of the Shard of Fme to destruct it for some mana. She wasly low, but it never hurt to have more.
“Explosion!” she yelled, seeing the dense formation in her mana sight.
She caught a flying Kobold Acolyte that had been a little out of positiohe explosio off with a quick barrier, guiding it back to the ground while switg one of Malika’s ones in to keep Mato healed.
This part was likely to be the most dangerous of the etle. Malika had backed off and caught the Shard of Fme as it nded in the middle of the room, but Mato had been hitting it for quite a while, so it charged back toward him, f Malika to chase it down into the double fme aura, and without much resistance. Her healing magic began to flicker tinuously.
“Devotion,” Ali instructed, triggering empowered healing to try and smooth over the transition.
Malika’s punches were a rapid strobe of white light as she went all out with her binations, trying to peel the Shard of Fme off Mato with sheer fury and speed.
“Ten seds,” called out. Malika’s punches accelerated to a blur and her magic switched to a bluish color as her punches began to steal the creature’s mana, in an attempt to get its attention faster. Five seds to go, and she still did not have it.
“Explosion!” Ali called out as the mana surged through the Living Fme. Malika nded a strong kick which fshed blue, and the Shard of Fme turned and punched her right as the bst wave exploded outward, pig up both Malika and the Shard itself, and flinging them across the room. Malika halted herself in midair, pulsing her heal as she sprinted downward to the ground and stood in her spot. The Shard of Fme returo her, not Mato.
She did it!
“Nice,” yelled.
Ali gave Malika a few more seds to secure the elemental before instrug her minions to attack. Lightning bolts cracked, bone spears flew, and rogues stabbed. The darkly gleaming shafts of dozens of Eimuuran steel arrows filled the air – they were the only ones Ali could make that didn’t spontaneously bust iense heat down here.
“Explosion!” Ali checked on her Acolytes, but they seemed to be ok on mana. Four of them seemed to be the magiumber, and she leased she had decided to spend the mana ora one. Off to the side, the Living Fme eself in its shield of fme and a tornado of fire as it regeed. She ig again and focused all her attention on the Shard of Fme.
It took several cycles of explosions before the Shard of Fme finally expired, colpsing into a core of slowly dying fme.
“Wait o?” Ali asked. There was only one more explosion before the shield and she wasn’t certain if it would be better to wait it out in their attack earlier.
“Go,” answered immediately.
She didn’t question his decision, sending her minions in immediately. In cases like this, it was better to be coordihan right. If was mistaken, it would still be fine, provided they were all following the same strategy.
Malika began draining its mana and all her minions attacked. Everyone was now withi wave range, so Ali kept most of her barrier magi reserve, moving in closer so she could protect whoever .
“Explosion!” she yelled, proteg three of her acolytes with barriers to reduce the damage and downing a Potion of Fire Absorption as she opted to take the bst herself.
The wave of fme smashed into her body with a deafening crash. She felt something crack within her chest, with a simultaneous stabbing pain that seemed tered on her heart. Her skin blistered and bed from the heat as she was tossed high into the air. She cast Minion Teleport, switg pces with an airborne archer, using the versatile skill to arrest both of their momentum. She summoned a quick barrier each to returo the ground without breaking more bones in the process. As soon as she got bate, one of her acolytes cast a restoration spell on her and the warm soothiion of holy magic filled her body, repairing her burns and cracked ribs. By the time she was ba the ground and creating barrier shards, she was mostly healed up.
Nasty! Those elementals could certainly dish out the damage.
As soon as she was ba position, the Living Fme used its tornado of fire tee its mana. The whole cave was filled with dazzling white illumination, and Ali didn’t o turn to see that had used his Righteous Fury. She simply made as many shards as she could and attacked the fme shield without holding back.
With the two extra elementals killed, this had turned into the same fight they had learned while clearing this cavern – with the exception of the resources already spent. Once Malika ran it out of mana, it would be easy.
“Explosion!” she yelled, hoping this would be the st one. But right before the fiery core detohe Living Fme shed out and hit Mato with a brutal pune that burhrough his hide. A loud crad a stumble told her that it had broken his leg, causing him to roll on the ground. Normally not a big problem, it would be healed rapidly, but at that very moment, the Living Fme detos bst wave, flinging Mato and all the melee up out out into the room beyond, leaving Ali staring down the gigantic elemental through her irely ie-seeming barrier.
The Living Fme turoward her, drawing back a massive arm of fme.
Oh, crap…
Malika
Malika failed to execute her dodge, and the bst wave of fme impacted her fad chest with crushing force, tossing her into the air like her weight was insignifit. She pulsed her Healing Mantra automatically, feeling her ribs snap bato pce, but right then she registered what she was seeing down below.
Mato was flying off in a different dire, no longer beside the Living Fme, and none of their melee team had avoided the explosion. But Ali was all alone fag the Living Fme from behind her golden barrier as it swung about to face her.
Ali! She poured stamina through her Diviep skill, halting her momentum with an abrupt, bone-jarring stop in midair, and sprinted downward as fast as she could move, pushing her skill to the absolute maximum.
The Living Fme swung an arm that was bigger than Ali’s entire body, smashing the barrier into a spray of golden glitter and shards, leaving her pletely defenseless. The sed arm swung, smashing through a sed hastily summoned barrier at the instant Malika nded. Burning stamina, she dove between the massive desding blow and the diminutive form of the Fae, choosing deliberately to blostead of dodge.
The monstrous elemental’s strike crushed her raised forearm, burning through flesh and exposing the bone as the fme tore past her block searing her fad chest. She gritted her teeth, poured her stamina into healing, and unleashed a jab with her good arm, powered with her mana-draining Soul Strike. She struck again and again in rapid succession, urgently trying to gain its ire before it could eve. With each strike, she earned deep searing burns from its retaliatory fire, but the strike was aimed at her instead of Ali.
“Run, Ali!” Malika shouted as she broke into a sprint, taking several steps through the air to get up and around the giant Living Fme, turning it to face the wall of the tunnel again. She blocked another hit, feeling her flesh crisping and tearing from the heavy searing impact that knocked her flying. Her body smmed into the wall before she could halt her momentum and several ribs snapped, and something in her spine ched.
Fuck, and that was a blocked hit. Ouch.
She healed herself and simultaneously felt several holy magic spells nding to top her back up. Her wounds closed almost instantly, flesh rapidly regrowing uhe onsught of holy magic. She pressed her lips tightly together and unleashed the full punch sequence of the seveh form – or, as her father had once called it, ‘Scorpion Strikes.’
She dodged, and then luckily dodged a sed attack before the third strue, unblocked. Her body smashed into the floor, crushed by the impact with her shoulder and arm burned almost off from the sheer iy of the fme.
How the fuato do this every time? The onsught of healing spells rapidly rebuilt her body and she scrambled to her feet trying desperately to dodge the attack.
And then he was there, the giant bear, fur burning and cws striking with palpable force. He roared, but the Living Fme somehow resisted his Taunt.
“Ease up a bit a him take it back,” said. “Everyone, hold off attag. I think the explosion is an aggro dump.”
Malika ignored most of ’s analysis, fog all her energy on anticipating the ridiculous strikes and dodging or blog everything she could while the battlefield became strangely calm as most everyoopped attag and just waited. She did ease up on her punches but suffered from not being able to steal health on every strike, but every few seds her mana and stamina ticked up just from standing irangely rejuvenating fme, and she immediately turned all of it into healing.
“Explosion!” Ali yelled.
This time she deliberately did not dodge; she did bra anticipation, though. The detonation smmed her against the wall, and she bounced off the jagged stone, careening off the Living Fme and rolling on the ground. She healed the crushing damage to her body once again, but with a gnce, she could tell Mato had regained trol and she breathed a sigh of relief.
Slowly, she settled into her normal role, pung the monster and draining its mana. But her rag heart had not nearly calmed down by the time the elemental finally colpsed.
Soul Monk has reached level 46.+10 attribute points.
Martial Artist has reached level 25.Soul Strike has reached level 27.Healing Mantra has reached level 30 (+2).Soul Armor has reached level 23 (+2).Enlightened Evasion has reached level 28.Diviep has reached level 25.Sed Wind has reached level 13.
Oh, I leveled up. She collected the Essence of Living Fme the elemental had dropped and sat to meditate o the core, healing herself as usual. She spent one point on vitality and one on strength and then sidered the rest of her attributes. Making her decision, she allocated three each to dexterity and endurance, reserving the final two for wisdom. But her notifications were not done.
Requirements met for skill adva.
Mentor: Rezan JinSoul Armor has reached at least level 20.Wisdom has reached 200.Endurance has surpassed 160.Ta least three different elementals.Studied the defensive magic of the hs of Ahn Kheated oure of elemental damage.Survived losing more than half your life to a single elemental attack.
Soul Armains Poisoance.Soul Armains the Wisdom trait.
Soul Armor – level 23Requires: No body armor or shield equipped.Mana: Your soul reinforces your body increasing your natural defenses. Reserve: 10%Armor +503 [skill x 7 + endurance x 2]. Poisoance +876 [skill x 12 + wisdom x 3].Soul, Melee, Defense, Endurance, WisdomSoul Armains Fire Immunity.Soul Armains the Wisdom trait.
Soul Armor – level 23Requires: No body armor or shield equipped.Mana: Your soul reinforces your body increasing your natural defenses. Reserve: 10%Armor +503 [skill x 7 + endurance x 2]. You are immuo Fire damage.Soul, Melee, Defense, Endurance, WisdomSoul Armains Magic Resistance.Soul Armains the Wisdom trait.
Soul Armor – level 23Requires: No body armor or shield equipped.Mana: Your soul reinforces your body increasing your natural defenses. Reserve: 10%Armor +503 [skill x 7 + endurance x 2]. Resistance +561 [skill x 7 + wisdom x 2].Soul, Melee, Defense, Endurance, Wisdom
Choose one adva.
She sat and stared at the notifications for a long while, letting the plex torrent of emotions cascade through her. Ever since asking for Rezan’s advice, she had been studying – meditating – in fire, va, and poison, a nothing had seemed to help. But now, down here in the mines, after risking her life, her skill had finally advanced.
“You ok?” Ali asked, ing over and sitting down beside her.
She nodded and shifted over to give her a little space where she could sit without being in the fire of the elemental core.
“Thanks for ing to rescue me,” Ali said. “That thing smashed my barrier like it was nothing.”
“It hits really hard,” Malika agreed.
“Oh, I know. I nearly died every time I saw your health drop like that,” Ali said. “I’m grateful that you saved me, but I don’t want you to die doing it.”
“Hopefully ime it won’t be so scary,” she said. “Here look at this.” She shared her skill adva choices.
“Holy… fire immunity!” excimed. “Do you know how strong that is?”
“gratutions,” Mato said. “But you really shouldn’t have shared that advance.”
Malika snapped a fused look at him. “Why wouldn’t I share?”
“Now they know you taer; they will keep making you do it,” he told her in a mock-spiratorial faux whisper. “Better to pretend you don’t have it!” It was only then that a big grin cracked the deadpan look on his face.
She swatted him on the shoulder, half ahat she hadn’t caught onto the joke quicker, but holy, she was just excited that she now had resistances. With their group makeup, they had easily fallen into the pattern of letting Mato tank everything because his css was so well suited to it. When they had first started out, she had done a lot of the tanking, and her defensive skills had groidly, but with her current role of mainly healing or extra damage and the occasional mana drain, her defensive skills had gged somewhat.
It was only here in the mihat they wo tanks, and Ali’s Forest Guardians were not suited to the fire affinity dungeon.
She was also gd that Rezan had been right, and not secretly pranking her. Not that he would do something like that, but there had definitely been times when she was sitting in the fire that she had sidered he might have been.
“So, whie are you going to choose?” Ali asked.
And that was really the question. The requirements for the advaold the story of her struggles, and the s matched the poison clouds and fire she had beeating in as often as she could.
“I’m not sure,” she answered finally. All three of the choices dramatically improved her armor by tying it to her enduraribute. The poisoance used aremely high-value formu, sg by three times her wisdom and twelve times the skill level. But it would only affect poisons, leaving her just as weak in this dungeon. Oher hand, the sed choice was full fire immunity, which probably wouldn’t wainst evolved monsters far above their levels, but still, it was a ridiculous ability. And the st option offered her magical resistances simir to her armor value.
“Fire immunity,” said. “You could simply grind on fire elementals forever and level up super-fast.”
“Don’t you think that would be too specialized?” Ali tered. “After all, how often do we really choose what we o fight?”
“True, but she could probably solo a Living Fme with that,” added.
“Probably not,” Malika said, but the idea was certainly attractive. Definitely one of the Shards would be no problem with fire immunity. “The Living Fme hits with physical and fire, and the explosions do some physical damage too. I don’t think I could break the shield by myself before it fully regeed.”
“You’re right, the general resistance is probably the smartest choice, but still… immunity to fire is ridiculous,” said.
That’s really what it is, she thought, recalling the hs of Anh Khen had a lot to say about smart skill choices. In cases like this, the breadth of applicability for her Soul Armor was the stro feature. With all three defeats, she would bee a far more versatile fighter, able to tank when needed, and able to survive against any fardless of the kind of damage it used.
“I’ll take the general Magic Resistane then,” she said and itted her choice. Despite knowing what would happen, her eyes still wide the sight of her magic damage redu jumping to over thirty pert.
“Want to try the double Living Fme group ?” asked.
“See, I told you!” Mato excimed.
***
Name: Malika YuRace: HumanTitles: Street Rat
Active Buffs: Perfect Body, Soul Armor, Enlightened Evasion
Css: Soul Monk – level 46- Martial Artist – level 25- Soul Strike – level 27- Healing Mantra – level 30- Perfect Body – level 18- Soul Armor – level 23- Enlightened Evasion – level 28- Diviep – level 25- Sed Wind – level 13- Crity – level 12- Soul Sight – level 9
General Skills- Dang – level 9- Calligraphy – level 3- Lockpig – level 5- Appraise – level 14
Aptitudes- Languages: on, Ahn Khen- Bloodline (Ahn Khen): +45% te and power of Bloodline skills- Mana (Affinity): Soul- Relentless (Css): +100% to Stamina Regeion- Relentless (Css): You pay for any abilities with stamina instead of manaPatrons & Tithes- Mentor: Rezan Jin
Attributes- Vitality: 81 (+12)- Strength: 82 (+54)- Endurance: 176 (+72)- Dexterity: 328 (+173)- Perception: 32- Intelligence: 22- Wisdom: 204 (+84)
Equipment- Head: Ruby Hairpin – level 40- Hands: s of Accuracy – level 17- Feet: Pathfinder Initiate Boots – level 4: Silver Guild Ring – level 3: Seal of the Quartermaster – level 40
Armor: 513Physical Damage Redu: 28.48%Evasion: 852Dodge: 39.81%Resistance: 569Magical Damage Redu: 30.64%+20% to Fire resistance.+6% to Accuracy rating.+10% to Movement speed.
Health: 810/810Stamina: 1056/1760 (704 Reserved)Mana: 2040/2040
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