After saying goodbye to Captain Raven, I went to Calen's shop to order some custom arrows. When I checked in there the mood in the store got pretty heavy, Calen didn't say anything to me other than something about equipment.
She completely shied away from any other subject, and upon her penetrating gaze I did the same. During our short and to-the-point communication I explained to her about my advancement and problems with my ammo incompatible with my new tricks.
To my surprise Calen seemed to have clients with these traits before, she simply gave me two options of custom arrows to be sweated with my fire and lightning element.
An arrow made with special material that can contain the energy of the lightning element more efficiently to prevent my aim from being harmed by the savagery of the lightning element, when she explained to me the shape of the arrow, I realized that her tip was not simply made with a different material, her entire body was customized making her heavier and able to contain more elemental energy.
In her pack the energy of the lightning element in the body of the arrow and directed to the tip of it creating a triple pack on the target, the strength of the arrow combined with two lightning element discharges are able to pierce through very resistant defenses.
I'm really excited to use them on some defensive type magic beast to test the effectiveness of my lightning element, but the best part is that this arrow is reusable and even if it breaks its material, it can still be reused easily, so spend that much money in them will not evaporate after one use.
My heart cries in pain more than my wallet when I received the quote for the fire arrows, they are cheaper than the lightning ones, but they will be destroyed after being used, none of them are left to be reusable.
The arrow for my fire element is more destructive than I expected, its metal not only easily stores more elemental energy with its round tip shape and metal property, as when exploding the metal breaks into several small, sharp and thin.
They are great for injuring organs after penetrating your target's flesh is how the metal still retains heat from the fire element causes them to fuse burning into the target's flesh, depending on the target's element the metal can be poisoned by elemental energy that the metal is emitting.
I was very surprised with these characteristics of this volcanic metal that is the main and most valuable metal that make up this arrow, the arrow alloy only carries a small amount of it making its cost not so high, but enough to slightly modify the elemental energy that is inserted into it causing it to become slightly toxic to beasts and warriors with the element of water in their bodies.
I asked Calen where else this metal was used, but it didn't make her very happy so she didn't give me much information, basically the metal is not used much because it in large quantities does not increase its toxicity and it is not very resistant, so sweating it into weapons and armor isn't very smart, it's mostly used by some mages and rune carvers.
This last bit of information got me very interested in this metal, it looks like I'm going to have to talk to teacher Frey about how to use this metal in runic arrangements. It is likely used as a platform or addition to traps.
After not having anything else to talk about with Calen, she didn't kick me out of her workshop with words or gestures, but her look clearly said that I should leave because there's nothing else for us to talk to each other and in case I don't do that. she's going to use me as a test body for the arrow they're getting ready to make.
Leaving quickly to avoid Calen's wrath I head for the institute; on the way I think about the conversation I had with Captain Raven earlier. Despite the great chance that my debut in a new arena will cause me a lot of problems it's still a good option to do, I won't spend a lot of time on them and the fights are focused on the use of elemental energy than aura which is very good for I, profitable training.
But before entering an arena I have to see what effects this new form can have combined with my fists; it would be really horrible to find out in the arena that my fist covered with fire elemental energy explode my fist is my opponent's face in the middle of my debut.
I regretted it a bit after using the boot camp to practice some moves, it was such a stupid idea on my part to use the new forms of elemental energy in my body. My fire element almost severely burned my skin and the result of this blow was quite violent for both my opponent and my target.
The only move that I was able to merge well with this elemental energy was the third move of the Flaming Fists art, the defensive move that uses elemental energy to block enemy attack the explosive effect of the fire element is a perfect match with this move, the only point negative is that this move becomes more difficult to control and execute, this slows down the speed at which I can execute this move.
After being reddened and with sensitive skin I decided to rest and wait for my body to recover from this training, but after I recovered, I tested the lightning element only to come out a lot more burned.
It's a great way to shave because when punching a tree with a fist of lightning I didn't even have a hair on my arm, the electricity also burned my skin on my fingers because some of the energy came back against my fist after destroying all the bark of the tree I used in training.
After training a little more I felt my bones in my hands sore after just a few hits, it seems that the negative effect of using the lightning element is quite big. During training I used a small amount of energy, but in a real fight I think my bones would break and my skin would burn to the point of being charred on the first blow with all my might.
It took me two days to fully recover, the damage to the bones in my body was more than I expected or felt. I think I've discovered a new feature of this shape of my lightning element.
To finish off my reckless training I sweated my wind element with extreme confidence that it would be cut, my hope was that the cut on my body wouldn't be too deep, but to my surprise my wind fist had a completely different effect than I expected.
Using my wind element in direct attacks with my fist before has always had a limited effect, either an extra pack with the wind surrounding my fist or moving my arms faster. Common effects that don't give you a big advantage in unarmed cam.
With my new form of elemental energy my fist was slower, when trying to surround it with the wind element it created a resistance effect making my punch slower and when hitting the tree, it didn't cause much damage to it. What a rubbish effect but it also didn't hurt my body which is a victory after being injured by the other elemental energies I used.
When I used palm movements both to push and to cut the wind element was much more useful, the palm has an interesting defensive effect. I tried to repeat a move similar to the fire fist art I was able to create a small, concentrated wall of wind to block an enemy attack.
But the slashing motion was the motion that finally cut my skin, the slashing wind was not very effective because the blade created was too thick, short and brittle. The cut she created wasn't very deep, but it was enough to cut the tips of all the fingers on my hand.
My attempts to use my elemental energy in close combat moves were enlightening, obviously mimicking the source elemental energy made my elemental energy not as compatible with me anymore.
A warrior's elemental energy shouldn't hurt his body, this is a huge advantage of elemental seed warriors. A mage will always be harmed by his spells, but a fighter can always use his elemental energy to protect himself from the natural elements without fear of being burned by its flames or drowned by his water element.
I have no idea why this happens but I know this is not common or normal teacher Balder was shocked when I told him this for various reasons. I shouldn't have progressed so far in training; my elemental energy shouldn't be hurting me and to top it off my energy shouldn't be that wild.
According to him I should be able to make my energy have elemental energy characteristics, but it shouldn't have changed so drastically and the time it took to reach that level of progress should have been much longer. He thinks the damage to my body might stop after I use this form of energy to temper my body, but it's probably going to be a pretty intense experience, so I'm not that excited about it.
The rest of the oddities I've been accumulating the teacher doesn't even have a coherent explanation for them.