Chapter 585: Preparations (2)
[Targeted Healing Elixir (FFF+) (Consumable)]
[A sweet nectar pulled from Heavenly Dew. Drink this and heal a specific location of your
body. For every 20 points of Constitution, boost healing capacity by +100,000%. Effects last a single day.]
[Requirements: Wisdom must be +50% of Strength]
[Coins: 10,000,000 (F)]
'I see. Good.'
The usual Healing Elixir was a general-purpose Consumable that healed the entire body at once. But with a Targeted Healing Elixir, he could focus in on a very specific part of his body. That would concentrate the healing strength and thus make the Elixir far more effective. The requirement of high Wisdom wasn't much of a surprise either. The Elixir wouldn't be able to guess where you wanted healed, so you would have to do it yourself. Ultimately, the end result would be up to you and your skill level.
If you had poor control, you would end up wasting this Elixir or targeting the wrong area by accident.
Sylas bought five.
He was highly confident in his comprehension of his own body. He bet that while the threshold was +50% for everyone else, he could even get away with his Constitution being much higher than his Wisdom and still succeed.
In his base form, that wasn't a problem. But when he was fused with the Basilisk King, his Constitution did become greater than his Wisdom, so the fact he had used Extricate to study his own body so thoroughly would definitely come in handy.
Now, he should be able to heal from any injury in the middle of battle in just a handful of seconds at worst.
'A defensive method is the last thing...'
Sylas had about 30 to 40 million Coins left. This probably wasn't enough to buy a shocking treasure, but he wouldn't have done that anyway.
It was very difficult for him to use defensive Treasures with his telekinesis because of already known limitations. So, he was actually leaning more toward getting himself a Skill.
By now, Skills like <Solidify> or <King's Shield> were far too weak. They only had a few hundred Defense, and that could be far outstripped by Sylas' Aether skin alone. It wasn't worth it. Not in the slightest.
At the same time, he was missing the use of Skills like <Astral Bind> and <King's Bind> as well. Being able to freeze an enemy for a split second was invaluable in battle.
Unfortunately, everyone had Counter Skills these days, and they were barely good enough as disruption Skills. Sylas didn't even use them against enemies that were too powerful because they could sense them ahead of time and react accordingly.
With this amount of money left, Sylas definitely couldn't buy two powerful skills or both. But... he didn't need to.
[Frosted Menace (FF+) (Skill)]
[The things that go bump in the night carry a Frosted edge to them.]
[Cost: 1 Aether Unit per second]
[Limit: Decided by every 10% gap in average of Will and Charisma]
[Cost: 8,000 (F) coins]
[Icy Shield (FF+) (Skill)]
[Crystalline and beautiful, but sturdy and unmovable.]
[Cost: 1 Aether Unit]
[Defense: 550]
[Cost: 8,000 (F) coins]
Both of these skills had an ice elemental foundation to them, and that was exactly what Sylas needed.
<Frosted Menace> was interesting because it was a more firm application of Will. It was compatible not just with his Ice Runes, but his Mutated Freeze Ice-Poison Rune and <Astral Will Fission> as well.
Sylas had experienced something odd the last time he split his Will. His stat didn't plummet the way it should have. Even after observing it for a long while, he realized that nothing changed.
Instead, his Will went from feeling somewhat hollow to recovering until it felt no different later on.
That made Sylas realize that his Will had actually recovered all on its own. Though it had taken time, over half a month, he had also used a large amount of Will in a single sitting as well.
But this time, he bet that <Frosted Menace> would work well even if he only used a couple dozen Will points at most. And it would be almost impossible for anyone to counter it because his Will was simply too powerful.
In the end, he ended up turning <Frosted Menace> into...
[Frosted Nightmare (FFF+) (Skill)] (Progenitor Mastery)
[The things that go bump in the night carry a Frosted edge to them, and your Will is their whetstone.]
[Cost: 1 Aether Unit AND 10 Will per second]
[Limit: Decided by every 10% gap in average of Will and Charisma]
Sylas was actually a bit surprised that it didn't count as a Gene Skill. The power of this newly forged Skill couldn't be underestimated. It would have even frozen a King Beast like the Woodland Spider Queen for a while.
But then again, maybe it couldn't count as one because the cost was too high. Only Sylas would be able to use a skill like this one freely, at least on Earth. Who would take a permanent -10 reduction to their Will to cast a skill just once?
The improvement to Icy Shield was far more straightforward.
[Ice Banned Shield (F-) (Gene Skill)] (Progenitor Mastery)
[Crystalline and beautiful, but sturdy and unmovable. Banned from its territory are Attacks.]
[Cost: 10 Aether Unit]
[Defense: 5,000]
This was maybe even more surprising than the first. That was because Sylas had done nothing but swap out the Ice Runes for 70 Foundation ones. He didn't even change the circulation pattern of the Skill because it would take far too long.
But in the end, he had been correct. This skill was very compatible with his Runes, and it
showed.
It would be even more powerful if not for the fact his Aether was still immature.
The only shame was that it didn't have the same freeze on attacks effect that <Arctic Howl Mutant> did. But Sylas had expected this tradeoff as well.
This was what he exchanged for a speedy evolution. He didn't have the time to slowly refine
this skill.
What he didn't consider was that the number of people who would tweak and change Skills
like he could were next to none. His Rune Mastery had impacted so many aspects of his life by now that he felt that it was only natural... he didn't even realize that even what he had done this time would have still taken him hours back when he had yet to form Rune Essence.
But now, his mind was elsewhere.
It was time to set out.