Rahz realized that he was starting in a completely different path that relied on his ability and nothing more. Apocalypse could give him an analysis of a skill but if he didn't know the building blocks that led to the phenomena he was a sitting duck.
"So the first thing I need to do is to learn how to manipulate my energy and then I can start learning differents skills. Do you know of anything that can help me?"
"Since you like heavy weapons, I am assuming that you want to be a warrior type fighter so the Reinforcement, Tranmutter, Alteration, Emission should be your focus and since you already know how to use skills that use a combination of this fields it would be easy for you to achieve.
You should start practicing Strengthen Defense and Devastating Blow as they use the reinforcement field as its building block but the skill itself is only half done because all it does is reinforce with a coat of energy something but it doesn't fuse completely with the material really reinforcing it".
"Take your knife out and use devastating blow on it"
Rahz did as told by apocalypse and energy covered the knife giving it increased sharpness that increased the damage by 50%.
"If you really had reinforced the knife you would not be able to see the energy coating on it as it all would have gone inside the molecules reinforcing the structure at the molecular level, the skill given by the gods is wasting 66% of your energy".
Gasp!!
"Start trying to reinforce your own body to feel the changes and further understand the manipulation until none of your energy is spill over, and then use Reinforcement on the knife"
Rahz nodded and started to use the skill but he felt an incredible amount of fatigue after using it a couple of times. It was very nostalgic for him going through the training again and the face of his father came to his mind the whole time, thanks to the new energy network in his body, the replenishment of energy was now only 15 minutes as opposed to the hour it took him when he was just 5 years old.
The next few months were pretty relax for Rahz and all he did was activate Strengthen Defense on his whole body and observe how it affected it before trying to control the degree of reinforcement and the efficiency of the skill. Rahz was now familiar with many of the people but when he didn't attend to the second evolution ceremony it raised the eyebrows of many of the elite that were looking forward to the event.
Thug'Dromog kept asking Giant Blade about the reason but the embarrassed gnome just brushed it off stating that Rahz felt he was not ready. The constant consumption of Energy managed to increase Rahz's level to 6 in the few months that he was practicing reinforcement and showed the improvement of his body in terms of absorbing the Spirit of the Realm to increase his level.
Rahz was constantly communicating with Riddick via Hennessy and told him most of the stuff that had happened and assured his best friend to not worry about him and that he need it to get stronger so that he could protect him since he had reverted back to a low level. Riddick was concerned but he knew that the best thing he could do was to continue his training which consisted in bathing in a pool of rocks that were melted by Third Tier Chaos Fire.
Rahz improvement was amazing to say the least and his reinforcement skills finally reached the level of zero energy wastage after 4 months of constant work. The changes to the molecules increased the level of reinforcement on his knife and provided a damage increase of 150% making a wooden knife be able to cut through the energy protection of another person of the same level. In other words, Rahz could used a wooden knife that was reinforced to do damage to a First Evolution fighter.
"Not bad owner!!! Now that reinforcement is done then the next step is definitely Transmutation of the energy. The concept of imbuing your energy with properties and changing its structure is called Transmutation. Chaos Fire is made by imbuing fire particles with the poison element that adds the corrosive element. Rage is the result of the amalgamation of your killing intent with the energy of Heaven and Earth. You should be able to use other elements or the combination thereof the way you use your chaos fire and rage, whether it is water or wind everything comes from the Realm of Elysian and can be amalgamated to your energy and used in skills."
Rahz eyes lit up as it was inconceivable to be able to do that but the proof was on his ability to wield Chaos Fire so Rahz started to use reverse engineering on his small Chaos Fire until he was able to understand the essence of the combination. The maximum level of understanding of the chaos fire was definitely to separate it into its components, Energy, Fire and Poison.
Rahz was obsessed with his new task and everyone could always see him with a small chaos flame in his hands mumbling to himself like a crazy person. It took him a whole year and many hours of coaching by Apocalypse to be able to separate them but when everything was set and done he could dissipate the fire and have Poison Energy necessary for spells or dissipate the poison and have only the Fire Energy.
The alteration was the easiest of the fields due to the amazing energy control skills that Rahz developed while studying the other first two fields. Rahz was able to change the shape of the energy at will in a months time. The final type of manipulation was Emission which also came easy to understand thanks to the Chaos blade skill he learned during his first evolution and Immolation aura which used the concept of sending energy out of the body to burn the enemies. Mastery of Emission came in the form of Chaos Rain the go to spell of his best friend that required an incredible amount of control over the emission of the energy. Chaos Chains was done as well but he went through muscle memory to replicate them as they required the field of conjuration that Rahz was not inclined to study.
It took Rahz 2 years to get his feet wet in the use of energy and then 2 more to be proficient at it, at the end of his study period he was extremely proficient in learning skills and using the real versions of them.
He had 4 skills in his enchanted pouch and decided to start with them, Triplication, Master of Shadows, and Warrior's Fury. The concepts were written and the theories behind how the energy made it extremely simple for Rahz to learn them. The tables had turned, the difficult part about learning skills from books was now gone and he was the king of putting into practice concepts and the difficult part for him was to learn the skills other people got as a nice little package from the Gods.
The 4 years that past were very kind to Rahz in terms of levels and he was now level 10 but some of the skills required more energy than what he had available to him so it was a problem that he need it to solve. This was the perfect opportunity to go to the outside and stretch his legs, and what a better way to do it than going in a killing spree with an enhancement jukebox and a level 48 teacher to protect him.
Giant Blade was thrilled and felt that he had being too coup up in the temple and it was time to get some fresh air. They all packed their backpacks and thanks to one of Giant's Blades wives a portal was opened and they arrived at the entrance of the abyss.
The moment they crossed the portal the incandescent sun of the Realm hit them like a Pimp Slap but there was nothing that beat the feeling of Warmth on the skin. The most excited of all of them was Hennessy that had never been outside of the abyss her whole life.
"Where to?"
"Let's go to a town that has a flying mount services, I would like to go Back to a town call Naas that was closer to Blackrock Port".
"Do you have a portal to a big town Honey" asked Giant Blade.
Of Course….Whoosh
Six people walked through and appeared just outside of a pretty nice town that surprisingly enough was just 6 months away from Nass.
"Let's go have a drink, I am dying to see if they have some specialties"
Cheers ..
After 4 years in the abyss and the tutelage of Jazz, Rahz had changed the Fruit Juice for something a little more robust like the Fire Breathing Ale that adjusted to even the most refined pallet. The group passed through the gates and the most surprising poster caught their eye..
WANTED!!! THE DEMON SQUAD
1,000,000 GOLD for any information of its Members.
2,000,000 for any of their bodies Death or Alive
The Shadow Serpent …. Midori's Picture was uncanny with colors and all.
The Fire Demon …..The Real 15 ft tall Riddick was Eating the head of a person
The Elf Witch...Elune has being painted in a very revealing outfit
The Behemoth… The old Rahz was there with a heart in his hand
"Wow how many ales could we get with that chunk of change" said Jazz not putting 2 and 2 together.
"Isn't that.."
Yeah…