Chapter 214 214 Magic and Arts
[Lucy's POV: ]
In the Worldline, Skills, independently, are the weakest form of weapons.
-Clank! Clank!
-Boooooooooooom!
They have practically no great offensive power on their own and can easily be deflected, countered, or nullified by various means. For the stronger people, the weaker skills are nothing more than a splash of water.
[ "You took that head on as well~? Damnnnnn baby~. You are as strong as me now~." ]
[ "Next." ]
[ "Yes, yes~." ]
The people of this world, as well as most of the lower grade worlds of the Worldline with little knowledge about the Worldline itself or the Worldline system for that matter, the information about the things is very limited, which makes the overall quality of people, society, culture, and the general standards of everything lower than what we are already used to.
[ "I am increasing it to [Blaze-5]. Prepare yourself." ]
"Huuuuu…"
The people think skills are everything and find ways to get stronger skills, to get stronger, to get ahead of the other people walking down the same path of strength, and, perhaps one or two of those millions of people might find their unique paths to the strengths that they seek.
'But that's just a spark of dust in the large ones of this world.'
People like that later realize the Skills themselves were never the answer, and, the reason the great academy of Idylla focuses so much on the basics, the skill's applications, and the techniques themselves, is because they do know of this certain fact.'
Not that the students take this too seriously. Not everyone does it at the very least.
[ "Here it goes~." ]
The students still just focus on the fact that they could get stronger skills from the academy's Shop system with the points that they earn in the academy by doing various things or achieving certain things, and this is a world Bias so if they want to stay in this world, they need to have stronger skills and be of a higher level to be in an authoritative position in the society.
It's not their fault. The world itself is wrong in this aspect and we cannot do anything about that.
-Ooooooooooooooong!
-ZAAAAAAA…!
'Six Season Desolation: Third chapter of Winter- Blizzard!'
-Boooooooooooom!
-Thudddddd!
"Ughhhhhh!" I couldn't manifest the thing I wanted completely so her large blast of flames hit my head and I was thrown to the other side of the room, where I crashed into another wall, made a deep dent in it, and slid down with a white protective shield covering my body.
"Booooooo! You failed again, hehehe. Get up! We are doing it again!"
"Of course…"
Few people understand this through self-enlightenment or by the words of some great people however, when speaking in the context of the greater Worldline, [Techniques] and [Arts] as well as the [Magic] is more powerful than the 'Skills' themselves.
'The skills are irreplaceable, certainly. They stand as an inseparable aspect of the Worldline. However, the 'Skills' regardless of their grade, level, or flexible applicability, are never as useful as one would need them to be when facing tough situations or tricky scenarios.'
The skills are specific things despite their range of use that one could only understand after gaining good enough proficiency with that skill and leveling it up to a certain level.
They can only be triggered with enough energy and come with a risk, someone could die just by overusing a very simple [Grade-1] skill at the lowest level continuously.
'The skills are more dangerous when they are used independently in most cases. And I mean it for any kind or type of skill out there.'
In our time in the game, during our time at the creation of that game, in our time in this world as us, in all this time, we have seen countless skills. Skills that are used to harm someone, skills that are used to heal someone, skills that could be used to buff a state of something, skills that are useless, skills that are too good that even we desire it, the skills that are outright cheats.
We understand what skills are, their vast application and uses, and their limitations. That's why all the skills we created from the start were based around the 'versatile' application.
'We do not have control over the skills we are granted by the Worldline directly for our achievements, but they are mostly good things if we have achieved them by ourselves; however, aside, from my physical skills like [Horizontal slash], [Quick stab], [Light walk] to her magic skills like [Telekinesis], [Elemental magic], or the [Drop of health] skill, all have more than a specific use.'
We can apply them in different situations with the intention to achieve different results. Use them alongside the other arts, or in magic.
They are unique, and since they are created by us, they are unique as well so countering these skills would be a difficult task, much less nullifying something like them.
'They are strong on their own, certainly, but, still, when used with our main skills like [Aspect of Sword] and [Aspect of magic], they become much more effective than they could ever be on their own.'
It's just the way it is, and, going forward, it's going to stay like this as well.
"Cary! Fix that thing~!"
[[ I am reduced to a mere repair tool. Tsk. ]]
"Anna! Did you get the data~?"
[[ Yes~! One got the data from both of the attacks! One can now create an artificial simulation~! ]]
"Good~."
Today's classes were mostly boring ones, including our personal classes. We already knew all the teachers and the things they taught so nothing happened on our first day of school this time… ah, of course, that certain incident with Ras caused some misunderstandings around the campus, but his natural habit of making things sound extremely inappropriate is something the students here will understand with time. I do not have to worry about that.
'Lectures ended, and on this fine evening, we are inside the personal training room of our dorm floor.'
She is helping me finish my Sword Dance however, even with the new incense in my strength and restrictions, this is proving to be a little difficult.
[ "Get ready baby~. Mama's gonna come again~." ]
[ "Yes…" ]
It wasn't impossible anymore though. I can do it.
With the current state, I am in, with the effects of the titles, the boost in stats, the lowered restrictions and all that, I can finish this within a week. And since I have her, as well as Anna and Cary, I know this is possible.
'I don't know if I will be the youngest swordmaster to create my own Sword Dance or not, but, I know it will be done with their help.'
[ "Here I come~." ]
In this completely empty room with walls made of strong stones, that were further enhanced by Cary's powers, I was on one side, Friday and Miss Eva were watching us from the sides with Cary and Anna.
El was before me in her battle outfit with her magic staff in her hand, and I was on the other side, with my Dawn in my hand.
The room had been destroyed and repaired a few times after our clashes, and I was done seventy percent already so, we were almost there.
With just a few long hours of real practice and some longer hours of practice in my Worskspace, by next weekend, I should be able to finish my first Sword Dance.
If it turns out good, I might also get my sixth Authority but, it's not certain.
There might be some unforeseen circumstances in the upcoming days before us so, I see of focusing on something like that…
-Oooooooooooong.
She summoned her dark purple [Blaze-5] flames, the Flames of Purgatory, and the flames took a round form.
It was a fireball, however, this fireball was half the highest in this room, so this was in no way any small fireball. And, the ground it was not even touching was turning into magma so one can just guess the destructiveness of those flames.
"Huuuuuu…"
They were flames perfectly created with her mighty magic, a very complex calculation, a lot of Mana, and some of Cary's Shadow energy.
She was experimenting with things with their powers and Anna was her research partner this time around. The two of them got along pretty well, and the same was true for Cary and me.
'Six season desolation.'
She was getting stronger with each passing day, and, I couldn't possibly fall behind her.
'Third chapter of winter.'
The flames were strong and I could feel their radiation on my face as they approached me.
'Blizzard!'
However, right after she released her spell, I also called out my Aura, mixed it with my Mana, gathered the cold energy of nature from the environment using [Elemental magic], used my [Shallow breathing], and perfectly calmed my mind until… there was only coldness remaining.
I condensed this coldness, splattered it all across my body, all across everything existing in me, concentrated all that energy into tiny swords, and, while controlling all these swords with [Telekinesis], I used [Quick stab]… sending a chilling blizzard, a force of nature recreated with my own power, at the otherworldly flames coming at me.
However…
-Boooooooooooom!
-Thudddddd!
"Ughhhhhh!"
The output wasn't clear enough so the swords that were supposed to continue down at the flames could not stop the fireball and I crashed into the wall once again.
"You are as weak as my pinky finger, hehehe~."
And this sadist sister of mine was always happy to see me suffer, of course, so she was laughing at my misery.
"Haaaaa… again."
"Alright~!"
We have already been doing this for perhaps half an hour now and Cary looked bored now. All he had been doing was repairing the broken walls, poor thing.
'I should treat him to something nice when we finish this. He is working hard.'
But of course, Anna worked far harder than him with all the technical stuff she was surrounded by.
'I don't even know when or how she made those things but, she has created her own analysis system, and she is having more fun than I had expected.'
Well, I was happy if she was happy, but, I would be happier after I finish this Sword movement. We can have dinner after that.
[ "Here I come again baby~! Take it all this time~. All. Of it~!" ]
[ "Haaaaa. Yes." ]
Let's get this done with. And eat, so that we can start again.
We don't have much time anyway…
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