Single Wish: Rise Of The Omniscient Paragon

380  379: Elemental Runes

If a knowledgeable person were to look at Corey's status screen and compare it to what it was on the day of the announcement of the Battle of Chosens, he or she would begin to question their common sense and all that they knew.

The changes to Corey's status screen could only be described in one word- Unbelievable.

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After the announcement of the Battle of Chosens, Corey knew that he had to improve his stats and skills as much as he could before the Battle of Chosens began, and he did what majority of the Underworld residents did- He trained.

He absorbed as many elemental stones as possible to increase his attributes, however, he obviously could not max out his attributes despite absorbing quite a lot of elemental stones.

Due to his attributes surpassing the universal limit of Violet Star, he needed way more elemental stones to bring up his attributes by even a single percent.

Apart from improving his attributes, he put more energy into his stars of consciousness so that the rate at which they improved his proficiency of his skills chose increased to a ridiculous degree.

He chose not to focus on every skill during the week before the day of the Battle of Chosens. Instead, he chose to focus on skills that could help him.

For example, he chose to improve his profiency in his Dreamfire Manipulation skill, Super Jump skill, Lightning Movement Art, Full Counter, Hexagon Barrier, his Poison Warlock skills, Teleportation, The Paragon Martial Arts, his knowledge skills, his intents, his manipulation skills, and his forbidden skills.

He also learnt new skills which he obtained from the records of the Library in the Inner Area of the City of Sins, and due to him learning two particularly difficult skills, he got a new title- Arcane Elemental Runeweaver.

After 'looting' every single bit of information in the Inner Library, there were a lot of skills he could have chosen to learn, however, he chose to learn just four new skills.

The first skill he learnt was a skill called Infinite Mirage. Infinite Mirage was a very useful skill that allowed him to create a field of 'infinite' illusions.

He could create a field of illusion which would show an 'infinite' number of himself to anybody that was in his field, he could even show an entire city, he could even make it seem like they were underwater, he could literally make an illusion anything he wanted. His imagination was the only thing limiting him.

Although anybody with this skill could make a realistic illusion of anything, the more illusions the person created and the more detailed it was, the more mana it required and the more mental strain it put on the person's mind.

However, Corey was hardly bothered by this.

With his mana stat literally breaking the Universal Limit, his mana pool was absurdly large to the point that it could rival the mana pool of some elite tier 4s and even some tier 5s.

Also, he possessed the Celestial Mana Veins, and the benefits of the Celestial Mana Veins were absolutely wondrous. Not only did it make his mana extremely pure and also of much better quality, it also increased his Mana regeneration speed.

As for the mental strain?

That was the absolute least of Corey's worries. He had thousands of stars of consciousness, and his stars of consciousness could share the mental strain with absolute ease.

The second skill that Corey decided to learn was called 'Phase'. Just like the name, Phase gave Corey the ability to make his entire body became intangible. It was similar to the abilities of his Ghost Gloves, however, it was also different.

Instead of becoming something like a ghost, Phase gave Corey the ability to exist in another plane, allowing him to bypass certain objects and also physical and energy attacks.

With his Intermediate skill proficiency, he could use Phase to avoid the attacks of tier 4 beings. However, the more powerful the attack, the more energy he used to maintain Phase.

The last two skills which Corey actually wanted to learn ever since he read about it in the Inner Library, was related to runes and elements.

Infinite Mirage and Phase were extremely costly skills if one wanted to rent the skills books from the Inner Library to learn about the skills. However, what was more costly were books, not skill books, books that contained knowledge on runes and the elements.

These books were written by Pamela, the leader of one of the top five groups of the Underworld- The Darkness Destroyers.

She was also the one who had written The Fundamentals of Magic that he recorded from the Outer Library.

These books were one of the most expensive books in the Inner Library, and they were extremely valuable to Corey.

One thing Corey knew about his skill set was that although he had a lot of skills, his skills were not extremely powerful skills.

His skill set was versatile.

However, after reading Pamela's books on runes and elements, he was able to develop two really important skills- Arcane Elemental Runeweaving and Runic Transmutation.

Although he did not possess an extremely high affinity or talent to any of the elements like Divine for example, with Arcane Elemental Runeweaving, Corey could now control elements like fire, water, ice, and the likes, using runes.

Although there were a lot of strengths and benefits with Arcane Elemental Runeweaving, it also had its weaknesses and drawbacks.

Controlling and manipulating the elemental runes in the air was not as easy as one would think, and if he was, for example, fighting Divine and he tried to control the fire elemental runes around them, he would not be able to due to Divine's extremely high affinity and talent when it came to the fire element.

The second rune related skill was called Runic Transmutation. With this skill, if Corey held an ordinary stick, he would able to temporarily transform the stick to a flaming sword, a lightning spear, an actual sword, or even anything as long as it was related to an element.

He could also do the same even without an object. He could weave the runes, and create a flaming sword or an elemental weapon.

Not only that, he could temporarily transform elements that were not controlled by others into another element. However, Corey would rarely use this ability because of how much mana it took, the staggering amount of mental energy it took, and also because of some other limitations.

Moving aside from runes, another thing that Corey did was to use one of his two skill evolution crystals.

I'm sorry for not posting for the past two days. I've been busy and I was too tired to write.

Anon22

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