Ashley
After messing around for around fifteen or so minutes, I find that I can only use the fundamental spell circles. Which only have the three fundamental runes.
So the most basic of the basics.
For the spell circles themselves, the first one lets me do a basic pulse attack of any kind. Similar to my Scald and Frost Torrent skills. Skills that let you push out a small torrent of something at variable levels of pressure.
Then the second one lets me enhance or alter my own body in the most basic of ways. So for gravity mana, that would just be what the goliath was doing to me. Altering its own weight.
And the third one lets me enhance or alter an object I'm in contact with. So I could, for example, enhance the weight of my knives when I'm striking with them. If I can focus enough to do that in the middle of a battle.
As for gravity mana doing the first spell circle, that basically just pushes a bit of a vacuum in the air out in a narrow pulse. One that makes a very short-lasting gravity field that draws stuff in.
Not very useful right now.
Overall, the second and third spell circles sound good to learn for now. And I can do the first later.
But I want to go out and start leveling as soon as possible. Just to make sure I'm not out-leveled by others in the time I'm resting here. Especially since a lot of enforcers are already stronger than me due to powerful root skills.
Meanwhile the only really powerful root skill I have is my gravity magic. Which I don't know any of yet.
Not counting Assimilate, that is. Considering it's not a combat skill.
Anyways, I spend another ten minutes figuring out how to alter my own gravity. Which is easy to learn, not so easy to do while fighting. Even when I'm just going through the motions and not actually battling anything.
Especially since one unit of mana seems to alter the gravity of only one limb for around five seconds. Briefly making me wonder just how much mana that goliath had.
I let out a small sigh as another magic circle fades away in my mind. With the circles not visible to other people.
At the very least I should be able to make my legs or arms lighter or heavier when I need to. Even if it won't be fluid throughout combat yet.
So with that in mind, I quickly learn how to alter the gravity of my knives. Which proves far easier to do, since I only need to do it when I'm going in for a strike. And I don't need to do it for anywhere near as long.
After finishing up with that, having spent an entire half an hour learning magic, I get up and begin flying straight out of the dome.
Back into the rain.
And to my surprise, I find the person from before still standing in the rain at the entrance to my Spire.
Wonder what they want?
I stare from hundreds of meters in the sky for several seconds, only to shake my head.
Whatever. I need to make sure I level up and am not left behind.
So without paying any more attention to them, I begin to fly down towards a much less populated area of the park in terms of people and enforcers. Something I can spot with ease from up here. Then I land on the ground and draw my knives from my rather shabby scabbards.
Almost want to just store my knives in my storage ring instead. But it's best to have them out, since there is a brief delay on summoning things from the ring.
Level 13
30
PHY
28
MEN
29
MAG
Chaos Energy
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Successor of Chaos
Now there are number symbols next to all of the bars in my status. And when I select one of them, it changes the bars to numbers instead. With another symbol next to them to change them back.
Which is rather convenient.
Mostly because it gets difficult to tell just how many units of mana or health or energy I have with those bars. Especially when I'm in trouble.
As for my points allocation? After some research on the ever-handy forums, I learned a few things about these stats.
The PHY stat is rather simple. It determines your body's physical condition. Your strength, how much damage you can take, and so on. Everything about your physical body.
Then there's the MEN stat, which isn't as simple. It determines your mental strength. Which generally means it is used in mental attacks. But it also determines your secondary energy.
So I need it, what with my Chaos Energy.
Lastly, the MAG stat. It determines how powerful any sort of magic you use is, as well as determines how much mana you have.
And what I need the most right now is my physical strength, since that's what I use the most.
I make sure to set my status as numbers instead of bars, then I go ahead and begin walking in the direction of the next monster I smell. Only to pause when my stomach growls, and I realize I'm hungry.
Right. Hunger is a thing.
I kind of forgot about it because I haven't needed to eat since waking up from my coma, but food is a necessity.
But where will I get food...
I cross my arms and stare down at the ground for several seconds. Then I blink as a thought comes to mind and I check the new skills I got from the many monsters I killed. And after finding what I'm looking for, the skill already having been unlocked due to being a root skill, I turn to look at the corpse of my latest kill. A large spider.
That'll do.