Chapter 22: Creating Elemental Spells!
Draco, still walking, looked happily at the swirling [Ball of Darkness] as he aimed at a tree and launched it.
The ball shot out at terrific speed and hit the tree, exploding along with it, but it didn't end there.
The tree, which was now composed of two major parts and many shards, twigs, and leaves, started slowly decomposing as if caught in a fire, and turned into a truly lifeless tree.
[You've Created The Skill [Ball Of Darkness(Lvl1) - Form A Ball From The Dark Element And Shoot It At Your Enemies Dealing 20% Of Your Int As Raw And Decomposition Damage, 4 Mp Cost.]
"Heeh, Nice Element, I can understand why one would prefer a technique with an affinity over a Mana technique. Now let me try with space!"
Then Draco proceeded to summon his space elements. He looked at the ambient Space Element all around him and tried to call them.
However, unlike Darkness, it was absorbed slowly, as if disdaining even coming close to him but having to anyway, and then it swirled chaotically around under his hand, refusing to take shape.
Draco looked at this confusedly as he asked the system why it was like this.
[It's The Space Element, Host. It Wouldn't Have Been A Rare Element If Anyone Could Use It, Even If It's Abnormally Everpresent In This World.]
"Ah, I see, Then, seeing as I have an affinity with it, I could do this." He said as he forcefully gathered the Space Element, quite literally stripping the element of its own control, He then used [Mana Ball] and simply swirled space around it, He watched amusingly as space distorted and glitched all around and then he shot it.
*Skhwshh* *Shboom*
[You've Created The Skill [Spatial Ball(Lvl1) - Form A Ball From The Space Element And Shoot It At Your Enemies Dealing 20% Of Your Int As Raw, Contraction, Banishment, Chaotic Displacement, And Decomposition Damage, 10 MP Cost.]
"Ohoho, That's Cool!" Draco opened his eyes wide in astonishment as the tree that was 5 times as tall as him quite literally got chewed up by the ball and destroyed to chunks, some parts teleported somewhere unknown and others scrunched up together to form a mass of tree chunks.
"The Space Element is so lethal, you've got to deal with all kinds of attacks when attacked by a single spell; no wonder it's so innately arrogant." He thought aloud.
[Indeed, Host!]
"I think when it comes to space, the first thing you think about is teleportation, and right after that, is... [Space Blade]!"
Draco grinned as he first composed a [Mana Slash]—a skill he already had. However, it was in the shape of a sword and an innate skill of his sword but now he made it his and changed it into a sharp crescent shape, then he added the space element to it before shooting it.
The skill was, as he thought, that a long line of trees was cleaved in half and it didn't end there The residual space element made a mess in the entire zone, as it could be considered a minor forbidden zone.
Space was distorted, minor tears and cracks could be seen if one had keen vision like Draco, and one could even be teleported somewhere unknown if he wasn't careful. This was the effect of an E-Rank Affinity Space Element.
Draco looked at all of this in awe. Such destructiveness was something he had never seen before.
"Heeh, I should make more spatial element skills, but let me expand the list of my mana skills first." His evil grin that he inherited from shamuji was still on his face as he began to work on the previous skills the system suggested.
His new mana affinity and its E-rank really made a huge difference, as he didn't take long to form the skills or change them to their desired forms and effects.
The system notifications sounded to update him on his creations.
He then proceeded to turn some of the skills into elemental skills, and as he did, he received a notification.
[Your Title [Spell Creator(F-Rank)] Evolved Into [Spell Creator(E-Rank) - Create 10 Spells - +50 Int, +25% Physical/Magical Dmg & Defense.]
A few minutes later...
Draco stood in front of the dungeon gate.
[Cursed Dungeon Of Debbs - F-Rank]
A system panel with the name and rank of the dungeon appeared in his field of vision, he looked at it and asked.
"Cursed? Why is it cursed? Is this some kind of uhh... unorthodox Dungeon?" He asked.
[Negative, host. It seems that every single dungeon of this forest at the very least is holding the cursed notion in their names, even this forest itself.]
"What's the name of the forest."
[The Great Cursed Forest.]
"Oh, damn... Of all the places in the world to get transported to." He sighed.
[It doesn't matter as this entire world is cursed.]
"Huh? Why so?" he asked, confused.
[%Authority Insufficient %]
"Oh well..." he said as he proceeded to enter the gate.
[Entering Dungeon...]
*Fwshh*
[Teleportation Successful! Please Proceed Carefully!]
"Urgh! Dammit, It sucks!" He said holding his head, getting teleported wasn't as friendly as he thought Even with his space affinity, he still felt the world turn around him.
"Oof, what would it feel for someone without affinity? Hey system, is this going to happen every time?" He asked.
[Negative, host! You will get used to it very soon; in fact, it might never happen again.]
Now that he was getting a little accustomed to the dizziness, he looked up to find a scenery that was more fantasy-like than The Great Cursed Forest.
Red trees with fiery leaves and rich Fire elements swimming in the air in abundance alongside mana, scorched red soil that looked alive even in the fire with its orangish grass.
He moved and with every step came a small explosion of non-harmful fire.
"This is quite cool. I'm really amazed by this world. to think even trees and grass can be so attuned with an element to create such a scene, this... makes me... Want to conquer it!" His eyes lit up with an evil glint.
He then felt something was wrong with what he said but just thought it was some isekai excitement.
"This place screams Opportunity! I can feel it in my bones!"
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