Max tried to differentiate the pros and cons of the four class specific moves that he could choose from and after a lot of introspection he was able to make a list.
Max knew the move [ Ice World ] from Omega, a very famous player named ' King Of Ice ' used this attack and there were a lot of legendary clips of him on the forums using this attack in large scale battles.
The move was very powerful and could completely halt troop movement for a few seconds for strong troops while completely incapacitating weak ones.
Many fighters were reluctant to fight the king of ice at close range because of this exact move and while it was an AOE spell that did not deal immense damage by itself, it did create an opportunity to deal immense damage when used correctly by incapacitating enemy movement.
There was even an infomercial in his past life which Max vividly remembered where the King Of Ice was on a beach and a Hot Girl told him that the sun was too hot, so he used the move ' Ice World ' converting the beach into a snowpark.
It was a cringe snowpark ad, but very funny which is why it was stuck in Max's head for so long.
The second move on the options list was pound for pound, one of the very few moves actually recorded off Angakok, so probably a move he used late into the Chaos Era, undoubtedly one of his most crucial moves.
It was a broken ability that would allow Max to slaughter millions at once without even fighting.
Theoretically if Max was able to procure a million tier2 rabbits, he could use pound for pound and kill those million rabbits to kill a subsequent number of soldiers on the enemy side.
He could change the tide of mass scale battles with this move under his belt, but while if done correctly it could be game changing, it was not as easy as it seemed.
There were not many species in the universe at tier2 that were extremely weak, more so at tier4 and higher.
If Max commissioned a job to capture 1 million tier 2 creatures, he would need to pay at least 10 gold coins a creature to be captured alive and wait for 1-3 years for so many to be collected.
Accumulating such a large collection of creatures, keeping them alive and feeding them until the day of the sacrifice was a massive headache plus a huge expense on his end.
Since he would not always have such time to prepare thoroughly for a war, the move had a serious disadvantage attached.
But given enough time, it could floor an army of tens of millions within minutes.
The third option was Illusion Space, a move much like the Mirror World which allowed Max to drag a single opponent until his tier to be dragged into an alternate world that he controlled to have a one vs one uninterrupted combat.
Since he controlled the world, it could always be altered to his advantage, mountains could be created out of nowhere and reality could be bent to cater to his liking.
If Max ever faced an opponent within his tier who was stronger than him, then this was the one move that could give him the edge to beat that person in battle.
While there may not be many individuals like that at tier4, at tier7 and 8 where there was very little in terms of talent separating the warriors, it could prove to be an invaluable spell to have under his belt.
The last move he needed to consider was [ Disperse ], Max did not understand why this was a class specific attack, since he was sure that his master Kremeth had perfected this attack while not belonging to the shaman class.
Max had asked Kremeth to teach him this attack, but the old turtle had refused to do so, stating the reason behind the refusal being that it was impossible for Max to learn the move at his then tier2 power level.
Kremeth had described him about the move though where he explained that while mana based attacks were created out of thin air and took physical form carrying power, they had small imperfections within their formation especially when the caster of the move had only basic or intermediate mastery of the attack.
If one was able to detect these micro imperfections and target them perfectly, they could break the attack as a whole without taking damage.
This technique was applicable to Sword Qi slashes, attacks like fireball and fireblast, as well as complex attacks like meteor rain.
It was the pinnacle of neutralising powerful PVP spells, however, there was a significant risk behind executing the move.
If one did not target the exact weak link where there was a micro imperfection while using disperse, they would face the full brunt of the blast and take significant damage.
Defensive moves like [ Block ] while basic and not so effective, still had a very high success rate which meant that even though the user might take damage, they would be able to negate a major portion of it everytime.
Faced with a dilemma, Max thought long and hard about which moves to select out of the four, and after much consideration Max chose his first choice to be [ Illusion Space ], the move was sure to become a key part of his arsenal throughout his journey and had many applications from day one.
While Ice World and Pound For Pound were excellent moves that could bolster Max's overall combat ability, in the end disperse was the most appealing option in Max's psyche because he had seen his master Kremeth use it and regard it highly as an attack.
With this his tier4 promotion was officially complete.
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/// A/N - Thankyou all for voting, all your votes have been tallied and this time the voting was very close with hardly 3-4 votes separating all four choices, but in the end the top 2 choices were selected.
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