After the maze closes for the third time, it will be completely shut down, and a new challenge can only be initiated at the next grand ceremony.
The battle festival will start in a week, and during this time, everyone is actively preparing.
The original author was clearly influenced by many fantasy cultivation novels, designing the dungeon with an old-school fantasy vibe.
Things like young talents competing for treasures, hidden secrets, and sparring after acquiring cheats… So why didn’t they write a fantasy novel instead of a magical one?
The intense special training lasted for two days.
After two days, Milora was already able to use the diffusion of rune power.
“!” She stabbed the rune short sword into the ground, and purple-black ripple-like lightning spread across the ground, covering an irregular circular area.
Torina tried to step in—
“Whoa…” As soon as she stepped in with one foot, she felt that foot become much heavier.
After stepping in with both feet, her whole body felt heavier, as if she was carrying several invisible barbells.
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Gravity Rune Skill: Gravity Field
Enhances or reduces the gravity experienced by objects within a certain range.
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“How is it?”
“Not bad, can you increase the gravity?”
“I’ll try—huh!!” She injected power into the ground through the short sword, and Torina’s legs went weak, her knees hitting the ground directly.
“Very good, if I recklessly stepped in without defense, I would be directly forced to kneel by the gravity… Of course, the premise is ‘I am not defending’, and also—”
“Mm… ha.”
The gravity only increased for a short while before returning to normal, and Milora was panting heavily, supporting her knees, recovering after a while.
“It’s a bit strenuous, I’m still not skilled at it.”
“This requires more practice, and what about ‘reversal’? The one you mentioned about reversing gravity up and down.”
“There’s some progress… Can you attack me to test it? Use your ice-throwing skill.”
“That’s called ‘Ice Arrow’, throwing ice sounds so unrefined… Get ready.”
Torina stepped back a bit, summoned the ice rune, and with a wave of her hand, a sharp, elongated ice block flew towards Milora—
“⁚” She inserted the sword into the floor, and the suddenly reversed gravity lifted a floorboard, blocking the direct shot of the ice block.
Not only that, the ice block seemed to be subjected to gravity when it hit the floorboard, not piercing through but clattering to the ground under the pull of gravity.
“Awesome, have you already developed a defensive skill?”
“Yes! But for now, I can only do this.
If I can master gravity to the extreme, I can defend against all kinds of attacks by distorting the gravity around my body…”
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Gravity Rune Basic Skill: Quarry Defense.
Controls gravity to lift solid objects like stones from the ground, gathering them around the body to block attacks.
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“This is already very good, you have initially mastered melee enchantment, defense, and area debuff.”
“What skill should I develop next…”
“How did the rune spirit you encountered attack?” Patty, who was watching, asked.
“Um… it enhanced or reduced gravity within a certain range, could change the direction of gravity, and… it could also use gravity to lift stones from the ground and throw them, it was amazing.”
“Oh? So there are long-range skills like throwing? I can guide you.”
“Really? Thank you!”
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Gravity Rune Basic Skill: Gravity Throw.
Controls gravity to lift heavy objects like stones from the ground and throw them at the enemy.
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Using gravity to throw heavy objects sounds simple, but it’s surprisingly difficult to control.
Milora can change the direction of gravity within a small range to some extent, but it’s either increasing or decreasing weight without changing direction, or crudely reversing up and down.
This skill requires using anti-gravity to lift the heavy object and then immediately changing the gravity direction forward, and applying a lot of force in one go to throw it quickly.
Milora practiced hard for an entire day, with Torina accompanying her.
Milora, who had never systematically studied magic before, mastered a brand new system of spells from scratch to this extent in just three days.
This talent is already extremely terrifying, living up to the name of Feng Aotian.
But…
“…Just this isn’t enough, right?” Milora murmured.
“……Yeah, not quite enough.” Torina nodded.
Gravity runes, increasing weight, decreasing weight, gravity throw, all sound impressive, but in reality? It’s basically special buffs and throwing stones, the control range is currently very limited, and the output capability doesn’t have a significant advantage, the increase and decrease weight buff is currently just a surprise attack.
In the future, gravity magic will definitely have a lot of development space, but for now, this is all that can be done.
No matter how high the talent, the training time is still too limited.
Is there any other way to make up for it…?
For example, besides rune spells, also conduct special training in swordsmanship?
“Ah! That’s right!!” Milora slapped her soft, smooth, white thigh and took out from her backpack—the King of Mushrooms Greatsword!
“Why did you take that out?”
“A greatsword! Weight reduction! From now on, ‘can’t lift’ won’t be a problem for me with equipment!”
“Oh… right!”
Milora applied a weight reduction buff to this person-height wide greatsword, and then—she easily lifted it with one hand! Swinging it with great momentum!
“But a greatsword relies on weight to cut, right? If it becomes lighter, won’t the lethality weaken?” Patty reminded.
“It can be like this!” Milora raised the greatsword high above her head, and as she smashed it down, she stopped the weight reduction buff, switching to a weight increase buff—
Boom!!!!
The suddenly heavier greatsword smashed a big pit into the ground.
The already heavy sword body, plus the weight increase buff, the destructive power is self-evident.
“As long as I can switch between weight increase and decrease freely—”
She swung both the short sword and the greatsword, her movements were chaotic, but it looked very imposing.
Not only could the weight increase at the moment of a downward slash enhance destructive power, but it could also create a strong sense of dislocation by “a greatsword that looks heavy but is light to swing” and “a short sword that looks light but is very heavy”, interfering with the opponent’s judgment.
“Wow, so cool.” Patty clapped her hands.
“Indeed cool, but… um…” Torina fell into thought.
Firstly, the Protagonist in the original work later fought with a greatsword throughout, not with one greatsword and one small sword.
Secondly, there’s no time for Milora to create a new set of swordsmanship from scratch using both a large and small sword, it’s best to find an existing one for her to learn.
The Deville family indeed has a swordsmanship style with one hand holding a swift sword and the other a blocking dagger, even her previous life’s Earth had it, but the combination of short sword + greatsword is too different from dagger + swift sword, this swordsmanship is definitely not applicable, what to do…
“…Ah!” There really is.
“Milora, you keep practicing this, Patty, help me guide her on resistance to long-range attacks, I’ll… be right back.”
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Half an hour later—
“Hi, Morai sister~”
“……Huh?” A disguised Torina appeared at Morai’s house door, carrying large and small bags.
