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Chapter 39 Promotion
The image of the giant bat wielding its power flashed through his mind again, and Vales tried his best to capture that feeling of harmonious resonance between wind and bone.

"It wasn't a forceful push."

"It's entanglement...it's fusion."

Vales drew another arrow and channeled his fighting spirit back to his fingertips.

Entangled...fused...

The fighting spirit began to flow from his fingertips, carefully starting from the tail of the arrow and gradually spreading to the entire arrow.

This is an extremely demanding process, and any mistake can lead to the loss of all previous efforts.

Vales took a deep breath, trying his best to remain calm, and didn't budge even as sweat slid into his eyes.

Finally, a delicate balance was achieved between the fighting spirit and the arrows.

The arrow emitted a buzzing sound, as if it had its own will and could no longer hold back.

Draw the bowstring again!

Vales took a deep breath and released the bowstring.

"boom!"

This time it was no ordinary sound of something cutting through the air, but a high-frequency boom that resounded throughout the entire forest!
A flash of electricity danced in the air, the entire arrow enveloped in a pale blue glow, and swept forward!

"boom!!!"

The moment the arrow struck, the terrifying kinetic energy blasted a hole the size of a bowl into the tree trunk, and then pierced through it!
The edges of the cavity bear charred marks from lightning strikes, giving it a rather brutal appearance.

"Ah……"

A slight smile appeared on Vales' tense face as he wiped the sweat from his brow and raised his chin slightly.

After years of hard work, combined with this sudden flash of inspiration, I finally achieved something.

From this moment on, Vales officially stepped into the threshold of intermediate ranger!

It was both joyful and somewhat unexpected.

Vales never expected that his battle aura would be imbued with lightning properties; he had thought it would be something like wind blades.

But it's not bad, is it?

Vales got up to return to Blackrock Town, but his ears twitched as he suddenly caught a sound.

"Bang...bang...!"

It looks like something is exploding?

Vales looked in that direction, his mind filled with questions. After a moment's thought, he decided to go and take a look.

Passing through the last row of dense bushes, a winding river came into view, with several huge black rocks scattered along its banks.

The guy who made the noise was right next to the rock, and his figure surprised Vales.

It was Zelier.

At this moment, he was holding the ash wood horizontally to store magical energy, with a faint light passing around him.

At the front of the staff, wisps of light gradually gathered and then condensed into a more refined form, creating a prismatic energy missile that contained terrifying energy that was chilling.

Vales' eyes widened slightly.

Finally, when the missile was compressed to its limit, a flash of blue light appeared!

It exploded like a cannonball, hitting the black rocks on the riverbank with a loud bang!

"boom!!!"

A loud explosion was heard.

In an instant, surging magic spread out, and the rough surface of the black rock was blasted into a crater the size of a fist by this terrifying destructive force.

Pebbles splashed into the river, creating waves.

"This is so tiring..."

Zellier took a deep breath and plopped down on the ground.

What he just released was the arcane missile he had witnessed in the training grounds. After half a month, the arcane missile analysis was finally completed.

Both being level 3 single-layer spell structures, Arcane Missiles is more powerful than Flame Breath.

At least in terms of single-point destructive power, Arcane Missiles is stronger than Flame Breath; its only weakness is its area of ​​effect.

However, just as Bev had said before, arcane magic consumes much more mana than elemental magic. Zelier's current mana reserves are only enough to cast Arcane Missiles three times at most.

Moreover, Arcane Missiles has a longer channeling time than Flame Breath, requiring nearly nine seconds to cast.

In addition, the Ice Spike spell that Lant had previously unleashed has also been analyzed.

Ice Spike has a higher piercing power than Wind Blade, and after hitting the target, it will produce a small ice explosion, similar to an explosion effect, making it a decent offensive spell.

There's also some good news these days.

Because of the increased intelligence attribute, the analysis speed is faster, and the spell structure of the Mist Veil Embrace has also been reproduced.

But there is also bad news.

Zellir is unusable.

【Embrace of the Mist】

Magic School: Arcane
Construction type: Single-layer surgical structure
Magic Level: 4

Effect description:

The spellcaster mobilizes their own magic power to weave a gentle force field around their body.

This force field guides, deflects, and deflects any high-speed physical kinetic energy that intrudes into its range.

From the outside, the force field appears as a blurry halo. When a physical attack comes into contact with the force field, it's like sinking into a quagmire; the enemy's power will be instantly dispersed, making it difficult to inflict effective damage.

However, this magic only targets physical kinetic energy and has no defense against attacks in pure energy form. Furthermore, it will disrupt the moderating force field, causing the magic to fail.

Level 4 single-layer spell structure magic has a very high degree of complexity in its rune circuits.

No matter how hard Zellir tried, he could not complete a process using magic.

This is the limitation of one's level of magic manipulation.

If your intelligence attribute is not up to par, even if you know the structure of advanced magic spells, you will not be able to use them.

Zellier pondered to himself.

I'll probably be able to cast fourth-level magic once I'm officially promoted to a lower-level mage.

Zelier still vividly remembered the scene of fighting the Mist Demon that day; that special ability to block physical attacks was exhilarating to think about.

In recent days, Zellir has been trying to optimize the spell structure, but there has been no progress. Even with an increase of four points in Intelligence, the invisible constraint still exists.

"What kind of magic was that just now?"

Vales's voice suddenly rang out, startling Zell.

He turned around and looked back. "It's you...you're here too?"

“Just like you, I’ll hone my skills.” Vales walked over and sat down next to Zeril.

Zellier carefully observed Vales.

He noticed that Vales seemed to have undergone some inexplicable changes compared to before.

Has it become stronger?
"It's a relatively offensive type of magic. Compared to elemental attacks like fireball and wind blade, the missile we just used was made of pure magic power, so it was much more powerful."

Zellier gave a brief explanation, then asked the question as well.

"It looks like you... have broken through?"

Vales had brought this up during a previous dinner gathering.

It seems they were inspired by the attack methods of giant winged bats?
“Yes, I have mastered the method of combining battle aura with arrows, and now I can be considered an intermediate ranger.” Vales nodded.

"Congratulations," Zellier smiled.

(End of this chapter)