Chapter 435: 405 Research on Similar Magic Techniques

Chapter 435: Chapter 405 Research on Similar Magic Techniques

“Ultimately, it’s because my strength has increased too quickly.”

Tang Yu found a suitable reason for himself.

For followers like Luo Zhe and Kong, although their strength also increased rapidly after being summoned to Earth, they had solid accumulations of experience. Luo Zhe practiced with the heavy sword for several years, achieving perfect strikes whether using a knife, sword, limbs, fists, or any other body part.

Even learning other combat skills, he grasped them very quickly by drawing analogies from various cases.

“And as for me, aside from my busy cultivation work, I had little time to practice combat skills, and I mastered too many of them…”

“Wait a minute, Eileen has mastered no fewer combat skills than I have and her strength increased even faster. She didn’t have any accumulations before being summoned either…”

Tang Yu felt like he had been hit hard and was a bit out of breath.

Actually, not being proficient in combat skills couldn’t really be considered a true weakness… over 99.999% of the Awakeners don’t even know what combat skills are… In large sanctuaries, some martial arts halls with true inheritances only possess incomplete cultivation skills and combat skills, non-existent.

But awakeners from the Fourth Epoch had mastered numerous combat skills/magic. Yan Dingtian contributed more than twenty, exchanging them for Source Crystals and other cultivation resources—Yan himself had only practiced about seven or eight. These were accumulations of hundreds of years from Nanlin Country—Ancient Spirit and the other Three Great Countries had at least thousands of years of history and owned even more combat skills/magic.

At least much more than he currently had at hand.

The foundation of his territory was still not quite enough!

So Tang Yu established the Magic Research Institute, aiming to create more magic… As for why it wasn’t called the Combat Skill Research Institute, compared to magic, combat skills are less diverse and harder to study.

The initial source of magic came from ability users.

The special abilities that emerged from awakening were just the rudiments of magic; only they released abilities instinctively without understanding the essence of their powers.

Tang Yu felt the most useful were not combat-type abilities but rather those like retrospection, spiritual domain perception… If he could understand the principles of these abilities and translate them into systematic magic, most people could learn and master them.

The importance was self-evident!

It was also very important for enhancing his own combat abilities.

Previously, he had focused on cheating; compared to deploying his domain and entering turret mode, his personal combat ability was nothing to mention, which made Tang Yu somewhat neglect the study of combat skills and magic.

Not until the last confrontation with the cult, consuming drugs almost to the point of turning into a Smurf, did Tang Yu realize that his use of combat skills was too crude!

“Instant Step” can cross a hundred meters in an instant, but is that really the limit of “Instant Step”?

Clearly, it wasn’t.

In terms of exerting force and running Source Crystals, Tang Yu was quite rough. In contrast, the recently formed mirror image called up a massive amount of data to simulate a scene where “Instant Step” was adeptly mastered: from exerting force to instantaneously appearing, there was almost no change in the whole body’s movement.

Less power leaked out, and the consumption of Source Power could also be correspondingly reduced.

Once he could become an expert in combat skills/magic, it would also be a significant help for advancing his personal combat system.

“Continue!”

A pure white space unfolded before his eyes, and under the activation of the “Insight Eye,” what he saw was lines continuously intertwining and spreading, from line to surface, then to a three-dimensional space.

Immediately, an identical figure appeared in the distance.

This time Tang Yu made the practice space even larger, reaching five kilometers in length and width… It wasn’t that he didn’t want it bigger, but constructing the scene required consumption of Source Crystals, and Lord Tang having to be frugal considered his own consumption more excessive than that of hundreds of people.

The mirror image still used the same tactic, taking the lead with “Instant Step,” leaping over two to three hundred meters and appearing in front of him.

The rune longsword’s blade light flickered, “Instant Movement Continuous Stabbing” ready to launch.

“I won’t falter in the same place twice…”

Tang Yu narrowed his eyes, his right foot stomped the ground, and his figure flashed, appearing a hundred meters up in the sky.

Then,

a sword light followed like a shadow, and a sudden intense pain erupted in his chest. The next moment, he was staring at the gray, murky space.

“It’s actually the combination of ‘Instant Step’ + ‘Instant Movement Continuous Stabbing’; although both involved instant movement, it’s still not fair…”

Tang Yu muttered, frowning.

If the mirror image could achieve it, theoretically, he could do it too.

Restarting the battle, Tang Yu was even more cautious. Combat no longer took precedence; instead, he concentrated on observing the mirror image’s movements amid dying repeatedly. With the ‘Insight Eye’, he could even see the general trajectory of the mirror image’s Source Power and compared it to when he used his own Combat Skills…

Reflection,

Exploration,

After dying around twenty to thirty times, Tang Yu gradually had some ideas.

When it reached forty to fifty times, Tang Yu could already endure ten seconds against the mirror image.

Several hours later, Tang Yu had made significant progress.

“My previous use of Combat Skills was too standard, and there are many areas for improvement.”

“In the ‘Trial Tower’, without any tricks, I reached nearly the seventieth floor, solely because my physical condition is much stronger than other Awakeners of the same level. My control over strength is far incomparable to Kong and the others.”

It wasn’t bad, but it could be done better.

His muscles tensed, and clinging Source Power to his feet, he leaped over a hundred meters in an instant. The air was not an impediment, and his movements had reduced significantly.

Based on his own classification of skill mastery:

Learned, Proficient, Mastered, Fully Mastered.

Previously, most of his skills were at the Proficient level, but now, ‘Instant Step’ had likely reached Mastered.

It consumed one to two tenths less energy than before, and each stride covered a greater distance. If his ‘Instant Step’ had been at this level when he was chasing the Ghost Hand Clan’s Young Clan Leader, he wouldn’t have let him get away so far, and he wouldn’t have had to overdraft his energy like a ‘Blue Elf.’

…

As Tang Yu achieved the ‘Die a Hundred Times a Day’ milestone, the newly established Magic Research Institute was also gathering research staff.

Eileen walked leisurely inside the still somewhat vacant institute, with equipment being moved around.

A few core employees transferred from the Logistics Department closely followed her.

“How many ability users are registered in the Sanctuary?”

“A total of 782 ability users. Among them, 342 are from the Elemental Series, 121 from the Transformation Series, 56 from the Spiritual Series, 12 from the Solidification Series, and the rest are from the Special Series. However, some of these reside in other Sanctuaries, and excluding the adventurers on missions, less than 300 are currently in the Sanctuary.”

“Among them, 96 are ability users within our system.”

The number of registered adventurers is increasing, totaling several tens of thousands just at the Green Shadow headquarters, but the number of ability users is woefully insufficient. Even Awakeners with high aptitude often lack Special Abilities.

‘The awakening of abilities must be influenced by certain factors.’

Eileen thought to herself, then asked, “Among the Elemental Series, which subgroup has the most ability users?”

“It’s the Earth Series, with a total of 88 people.”

“Since that’s the case, let’s first summon all Earth Series ability users. Yes, post the relevant task in the adventurer guild.”

(Today, a cold and a lack of inspiration defeated me, so ummm…)