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Chapter 12
Kain was sitting inside a building in the clan property using his newly bought computer (1,000,000 Won). He was scrolling through the site that Nagato had shown him, the Abyss Auction. Looking at the front sickened him, as it had a younger woman for sale, and they had not dodged around the question of what she was best used for. If he had been caught by that one guy, would he be on here?
That brought him to his current purpose: to get stronger. He knew he was going to focus on martial arts, but Kain still knew that the best martial artists were versatile. If he could be proficient in something else, he could create a style of fighting that would work best for him.
The first thought that came to his mind was learning elemental powers. He had several ideas for that. Kain had found a cheap spell book that was for learning how to summon an elemental. The description also told him that he could learn the affinity of fire as well. It costed 1,500,000 Won, but he put it in his checkout bin.
Kain also had a plan for his fighting that would involve one more affinity, but this one was much more expensive. For 45,000,000 Won, he put in his checkout bin a spell book to teach him how to manipulate gravity.
Then Kain got a little carried away with elements, since they sounded so cool, and he ended up also putting in his bin books for lightning and wind as well (another 5,000,000).
Browsing the pages, he found one more very useful spell. "Healing, finally," Kain muttered to himself. It was the most expensive book, but it called itself one of the stronger healing spells available in a book. For 50,000,000, he put it in his bin.
As Kain was checking it out, he clicked the button for express delivery, about 300,000 Won, and within ten minutes later, he had the books in his hand. At that time, he noticed that he had accidentally hit the button to purchase the fire elemental book twice. He sighed. "Damn it, that was a waste of money. At least it was only 1,500,0000 and not the 50,000,000 book."
Lowest Elemental Summoning (Active) Lv 1
Max number of spirits that can be summoned: 1
Strongest spirit able to summon: Lowest Elemental Spirit
New Status Created: Fire Affinity
New Status Created: Lightning Affinity
New Status Created; Wind Affinity
New Status Created: Gravitational Affinity
Healing of the Sages (Active & Passive) Lv 1
A spell that can heal and even expand on your well-being with prolonged exposure
User can affect others with it as well
Increases HP by 200 if injured (Quick Spell)
Permanently increases HP slowly with constant use (uses MP/min)
New Title Discovered: Elementalist
Conditions: Learn more than 3 Elemental Affinities
Grants: 5% Resistance to affinities learned, 5% increase to damage of elemental attacks
"Whoa! The healing ability really was worth it! And I got a title?" Kain pressed on it as it popped up, and suddenly it was equipped to him. "Well, since I don't have any others, I might as well leave this one on."
Kain walked into the time illusion barrier that was owned by the clan and proceeded to grind the healing spell for its worth. He didn't have enough mana at first to use both the healing and the summoning, so until about half of the day was over, he hadn't bothered to summon the elemental spirit.
When he finally decided to do so, the experience nearly made him fall unconscious. His mind had been flooded with the thoughts of the spirit. He saw flames licking across his body, feeling as if he was about to burst. When he thought he was about to die, he returned to his normal state.
"I am Tinder, what is your name?" the spirit asked. It appeared as just a flame with a slight humanoid shape. The voice sounded female.
"I am Kain," he replied, in a trance-like state. "As the laws decree, we are now one. Here my name once more. I am Kain."
"I am Tinder. The summoning is now completed."
Tinder disappeared, leaving Kain struggling for breath. "Wow, I thought I was done for." He quickly used the healing spell in hopes to recover. Luckily, it did so, and he was able to continue his training.
For the rest of the day, he was able to hold the summon for Tinder and continue using the healing spell.
Healing of the Sages (Active & Passive) Lv 33
A spell that can heal and even expand on your well-being with prolonged exposure
User can affect others with it as well
Increases HP by 840 if injured (Quick Spell)
Permanently increases HP slowly with constant use (uses MP/min)
Current HP Increase: 1,200
Lowest Elemental Summoning (Active) Lv 29
Max number of spirits that can be summoned: 3
Strongest spirit able to summon: Lowest Elemental Spirit
"I can't believe how effective the healing spell is! It gets more effective as you use it, and I almost tripled by HP," Kain said in amazement.
He went off to sleep in one of the areas that Crimson Rain had for members.
The Next Day
This day was going to be dedicated to testing his proficiency in using elements without help of summonings. Kain used a 3x time barrier and a zombie ID, since the ogres were large and he wanted to check the power of the gravity manipulation before fighting something so large. He only made a 3x time barrier because he had started to notice that his body was aging still in the barriers, so to prevent it from happening as quickly, he decided to start limiting his barrier.
Kain brought along Murkuro and put him in his party. Murkuro was level 29 now, so he had been doing some training while Kain was doing his own.
"So you wanted to show me some new stuff?" Murkuro asked.
"Yeah, yesterday I bought some skill books off the Abyss Auction. Most of them were elemental books, so I wanted to see how well I could use them."
"Elements? Like fire, water, and all that? That stuff is really hard to get!" Murkuro exclaimed.
"Really? They were in the cheaper section of the Abyss Auction," Kain replied, slightly confused.
"Yeah, they take forever to get down. Being able to get an affinity for anything is really difficult. Usually you have to be born with a talent for one to get one without extreme training."
"Oh. Then lucky me, I guess," Kain smiled, shrugging it off. "Here we go," Kain said as the first zombie started coming close to them. Kain searched his body and brought fire from his hand. "Okay, now let's see if I can get it all the way around my fist." After a few more seconds, he had the flame surrounding his hand. "Now, try to make it spin a bit..." Before the zombie reached him, Kain had succeeded. Kain punched it with the hand that was surrounded with spinning flames. The flames burnt straight through the zombie, destroying it instantly.
A skill has been created through a special action. What would you like to name the skill?
Kain thought for a second before speaking. "Fire Fist?"
Fire Fist (Active) Lv 1
A technique to manipulate spinning fire around the fists of the user to create attacks with the burning status effect.
"Lets see how well it works as a skill then, Fire Fist," Kain used the skill. The skill ignited both of his hands instead of just one.
"Awesome!" Murkuro exclaimed. "I wish I could do that, that seems pretty useful."
"Here, I bought an extra book on accident, you can have it. Maybe you can learn it if you study it enough." Kain handed Murkuro the book.
"Whoa!" Murkuro exclaimed.
"What?" Kain said, confused.
"It's...it's giving me a prompt to learn the skill," Murkuro said quietly, amazed.
"Really?! Do it!" Kain yelled out.
Murkuro clicked it, and Kain finally saw how it looked to others when he learned a skill. The book disappeared into shards of light, and Murkuro absorbed those shards. "I...know how to manipulate fire. And how to make a summoning?"
"Try what I just did. And yeah, it was a book for summoning a fire spirit."
Murkuro struggled for longer than Kain did, but soon he had the fire spinning around his fist. "Whoa! This is so weird."
"I know, it's so exhilarating when you learn a new skill," Kain said, grinning. "Well, now you can use fire, and you can summon an elemental if you want to. I just saved you a nice amount of studying."
"This is so incredible!" Murkuro manipulated the fire to shoot off his fist into a zombie about ten meters away.
"Well, if you were me, you probably would have just gotten another skill," Kain laughed. "But it's great that I can teach you it easily like that. Maybe I can be more help to the clan this way. Let's hurry up and finish up my tests so I can go to talk to Nagato."
Murkuro nodded. "If you can do that for everyone, then our clan can become strong much faster."
"Well, I'm gonna check my gravity power really quickly." Kain walked over to another zombie that was slowly walking towards him. Kain focused and could feel the ability to manipulate the area around him. Kain expanded it as far as he could, which was roughly 5 meters away from his body. He slowly increased the gravity around him. Then he noticed it was affecting him, too. "Crap, that won't be beneficial." He thought about it, and with some difficulty, he separated himself from the gravitational pull so his body was the only thing not affected by it in the 5 meters. "Okay, now that I'm clear from it..." He waited until the zombie was within the 5 meters. "I use as much force as I can at once!" Suddenly, the zombie was pushed to the ground. It tried to struggle, but in a matter of seconds, Kain could see its body crumpling inside itself. It died moments later.
A skill has been created through a special action.
Gravity Field (Active) Lv 1
A gravity field that affects everything except the user
Current Reach – 5 meters
Current Change in Gravity - x10
"Well that's effective," Murkuro said, still playing with his new-found fire ability.
"It better be, it cost over 40 million won," Kain said, releasing the gravity.
"Damn, you have that kind of money to blow?" Murkuro said with a raised eyebrow.
"I can't promise anyone my money situation is gonna be okay," Kain smiled. "But I make it just as easy as I spend it, so no complaints here. Let's go talk to Nagato." Kain broke the illusion barriers, and he and Murkuro walked off towards the building Nagato always worked in.
The Gamer of Crimson Rain
Kain Rockbear Lv 31 Exp 3.50%
Health: 1700/1700 (+340/340)
Mana: 1190/1190 (+59/59)
Vit: 50 + 26% + 38%
Str: 65 + 26% + 38%
Dex: 50 + 26% + 38% + 21% + 12%
Int: 64 + 26%
Wis: 31 + 26% + 6%
Luk: 22
Points: 25
Money: 4,883,500 Won