"Kid, you had a lot of problems. Whether it was combat experience or combat methods, you were as immature as a novice."
Chen Yi humbly accepted Genryūsai Shigekuni Yamamoto's criticism.
Charmander, standing nearby, widened its eyes. Only now did it realize that this kind-looking old grandpa and its Trainer were both so strong.
Charmander secretly encouraged itself. At the very least, it could not lose to its Trainer.
"When you are weak, a sneak attack can be a good choice. But you cannot make it your primary method. It will make you intoxicated by false strength."
"Secondly, do not limit your attacks to Fireball. Flames have never had a fixed shape."
Chen Yi found this somewhat difficult. The essence of Fireball was constructing a framework in his mind, then consuming Mana to guide the Fire Elemental Particles present in the air.
To change the shape of the flames, he would need to alter the framework's composition. That did not seem like something a novice mage like him could accomplish.
Genryūsai Shigekuni Yamamoto merely offered guidance and did not reveal his own methods. Only what Chen Yi understood for himself would truly suit him.
"There is still plenty of time. Start training."
"A strong person cannot have obvious weaknesses!"
Instead of receiving training in flames from Genryūsai Shigekuni Yamamoto, Chen Yi began close-combat training.
Genryūsai Shigekuni Yamamoto did not require Chen Yi to learn swordsmanship or Hand-to-hand combat. Rather, he wanted Chen Yi to learn to control his body in battle, master his balance, and thus dodge attacks on the battlefield.
Seeing its Trainer training nearby, Charmander voluntarily joined in as well.
Genryūsai Shigekuni Yamamoto intentionally or unintentionally guided Charmander.
A fulfilling hour passed in training. In the short term, Genryūsai Shigekuni Yamamoto could not teach Chen Yi much more.
More than anything, Chen Yi needed to train and master things himself.
Still, Genryūsai Shigekuni Yamamoto had already helped Chen Yi greatly: various methods for training the body, techniques for responding in battle, and most importantly... how to run away.
He began to gain a different understanding of the parts of Effortless Meditation concerning the body that he had not understood before.
After he stopped summoning Genryūsai Shigekuni Yamamoto, the price of Training Mode dropped to 100 Copper Coins per hour.
Even so, the vast majority of players had never used this function.
Chen Yi stayed in the Arena for four hours before leaving with Charmander. After a simple dinner, Charmander began yawning from time to time. Today's training intensity had already been very high for it.
Chen Yi rubbed Charmander's head. At times like this, it forgot its pride and unconsciously nuzzled against him.
Amused, Chen Yi returned Charmander to its Poké Ball and went alone to the library.
Teacher Cat was still asleep as always. Chen Yi did not understand the life of a night owl.
He did not know who had built the library, but it housed all kinds of books: books about warriors, Ninja, Assassins...
There were dozens of versions concerning mages alone, and they came from different worlds.
Yet without exception, mage spells all came from controlling Elemental Particles.
Furthermore, the true damage of high-level Fire spells did not come from flames. More often, it came from the physical impact caused by explosions.
For example, the advanced fire spell Doomsday Judgment—summoning a Meteor Swarm to strike.
The high temperatures possessed by the Meteor Swarm were actually incidental. The real damage came from the meteorites' descent and explosions.
Hellfire Gate and Meteor Fall, both Fire spells, were all related to explosions. The temperature of the flames themselves was relegated to secondary importance.
It was not as though mages had never considered increasing the temperature of flames through other means. For example, while meditating, they could bring Fire Elemental Particles into their Mana, slightly increasing the temperature of Fire spells.
Or they could study how other systems used flames and create specific organs within a mage's body.
But the results were all unsatisfactory. Compared with the improvements brought by explosions, flame temperature rose far too slowly.
Chen Yi rubbed the corners of his eyes, which were beginning to ache. None of these were methods he wanted to pursue.
The future of Fire Mages was utterly bleak.
If you think this book is good, please remember to add it to your bookshelf so you do not lose it next time.
Forget it. He should finish reading the apprentice-level books first.
Some simple spells did not require buying specialized Skill books. These books contained the corresponding methods; players merely needed to memorize and master them themselves.
Earth Wall of the Earth Mage system, Wind Blade of the wind system, Water Cannon of the water system, Ice Shard of the ice system, Electric Shock of the Lightning System...
Chen Yi memorized the basic skills of All Attributes, not to use them in battle, but to handle different situations or make daily life more convenient.
Over the following week, Chen Yi maintained the same routine: going to the Arena in the morning, leaving for the library in the afternoon, and returning home at 10:30 at night.
As his knowledge of mages continued to grow, Chen Yi gradually moved beyond the apprentice stage. Now, he was qualified to call himself a mage.
This day, in the Arena.
Chen Yi leaned back, and a seat formed from rising earth suddenly appeared in the empty space behind him. The Earth Wall originally used to block arrows and other flying attacks had been modified by Chen Yi into a summoned chair.
With the Spell Analysis skill, he possessed an unparalleled Talent for analyzing Spell Structure.
His physical training continued, but his magic had fallen into a bottleneck.
The library only had the basic skills of each system of spells. Anything beyond that was outside its collection range.
After obtaining 500 Mana Points last time, Chen Yi was no longer someone who could drain all his Mana in ten-odd seconds. He began considering learning new skills.
Because of his Talent, Fire Skills were naturally his first consideration.
But as mentioned before, Fire Mage skills merely changed small Fireballs into big Fireballs. That was of no particular use to Chen Yi.
Chen Yi had also considered learning skills outside the mage class, such as Great Fire Annihilation from the previous reward. It was not as though he had not seen that skill at player stalls.
Unlike the reward from the Game World, this skill was restricted to Ninjas. The Skill book recorded the rapid circulation of Chakra and hand seals.
Still unwilling to give up, he searched for other Fire Skills.
Fire Blade Quality: Green Coat a weapon in Fire Attribute Qi to deal additional fire attribute damage. At high mastery, it can also unleash Fire attribute Blade Qi. Restriction: Players with Fire Attribute Qi may learn it. Dance of the Unknown · Phoenix Storm Quality: Green A special Fire attribute martial skill. Flame damage was related to internal energy consumption. Restriction: Fire Attribute Warriors
It was not just these two. After browsing player stalls for an entire day, he did not find a suitable skill, but he did casually buy himself a weapon.
Spark Staff Quality: Green Physical Attack: 10-12 Magic Attack: 27-34 Durability: 17/17 Effect: Attacks had a chance to add an additional Fireball attack. Level: 15 Evaluation: Inscribing Fireball onto a staff? A genius idea.
Although Chen Yi had encountered a bottleneck, Charmander had not.
After training these past few days, although Charmander's level had not increased, its Base Stats changed every day.
After accepting the changes brought by the rules of the Game World, even Pokémon could not change the rule that they had to gain Experience Points to level up.
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