As the Profession Level companion Combat Skill of Meteor Blade Hunt, Gravity Etching had become one of Xia Nan's daily training staples ever since he advanced.
For one thing, its limit of "3" casts and its special mechanism of recharging once every six hours made training this Combat Skill relatively simple.
He only needed to keep track of the recharge time and use up the fully charged casts. The efficiency of raising its proficiency was much higher than with other Combat Skills.
For another, it was because of Gravity Etching's exceptional effect.
Compared with Combat Skills like Whirlwind Slash and Tooth Hunt, which emphasized physical movement and technique, Gravity Etching was more like a kind of "enchantment."
It condensed pure energy over the surface of a weapon, providing a large, one-time burst of damage to an attack.
More importantly, the type of damage it inflicted was "force-field damage."
A unique, pure, invisible energy directly shaped and guided by Magic Particles.
It was different from elemental types like "ice" and "fire," physical types like "piercing" and "slashing," or other things like "dark erosion" and "psychic."
A "force field" could be an impact, a cut, or a barrier, a shield. It was formless, yet possessed physical substance.
The vast majority of magical creatures in this world, including Adventurers who had obtained Profession Levels, possessed a certain degree of resistance to all kinds of damage.
Even Xia Nan, who had only advanced a few months ago, had gained resistances to "radiance," "fire," "slashing," and "piercing" through the support of various Feats and equipment.
—The former came from the Light Bather Feat, while the latter three came from the Plate Chain Composite Armor he wore, forged from Malan Pattern Steel.
Although none of the resistances was particularly high, accumulated together, they were enough to