Chapter 100: Awakening Specialty

This was the first time Gao De had seen a ley line creature with such a huge body size, and it was also the first time he had witnessed a Rank 2 ley line creature with his own eyes.

In his heart, he felt both shocked and somewhat emotional.

Shocked because the Purple Worm's body size and power were unimaginably large, and the visual effect was too exaggerated.

It felt a bit like a sci-fi movie being performed in reality.

Emotional because the flaws of this kind of giant ley line creature were too obvious and fatal.

Their body size was too large, so their moving speed was quite slow.

At the same time, because the body size was too large, the target was too obvious.

So they basically couldn't dodge when facing spell attacks and could only choose to resist hard.

If they could resist, they were invincible—if you couldn't break their defense, what could you do to them?

If they couldn't resist, they were like this Purple Worm, wantonly toyed with by Magic User Weiersha, who was also Rank 2.

This thing looked scary, but in terms of combat power among Rank 2 ley line creatures, it should be among the bottom tier.

The sudden appearance of the Purple Worm caused the death of five people, including an unlucky magic apprentice.

But this did not cause too many waves.

People in this world had a kind of accustomedness to death that Gao De's previous life absolutely did not have.

Human life was like grass.

Gao De still had some strange emotions in his heart.

The soul from the era of order, after all, could not achieve indifference to life in a short time.

But Gao De found that he was also gradually integrating into this atmosphere, gradually learning to accept this environment.

People always have to adapt to the environment.

Subsequently, the guards first roughly tidied up the temporary camp that had become chaotic due to the appearance of the Purple Worm.

Several guards went up again, along the cracks in the horny armor layer on the Purple Worm's corpse, and dissected the Purple Worm.

Half an hour later, the corpses of the five unlucky ones who had been swallowed into the belly by the Purple Worm were dug out by the guards.

Having been swallowed into the belly for less than an hour, the corpses of these five people had already been corroded beyond recognition.

It was not strange; one had to know that the Purple Worm's stomach could corrode and digest even leather armor, let alone a human body. After the guards simply searched for the relics on them, they found an open space, dug a pit, and buried them together.

As for the relics searched out, after returning, they would also be returned to the families of the deceased.

This was already considered human enough.

If the remains could not be brought back, at least the relics could be brought back, leaving a thought for people.

9th of the Harvest Month.

Last night's accident did not affect the continuation of land reclamation.

It was still batch by batch, clearing the ley line creatures living in the dense forest on both sides of the official road.

Everyone was also familiar with the whole process.

"We are so far from where the Hogan Ley Line is, generally speaking, there will be no Rank 2 ley line creatures appearing..."

"This time, fortunately, Magic User Weiersha led the team, otherwise it wouldn't be as simple as five people dying."

Ma Qieyi was a relatively talkative magic user, and while ley line creatures had not yet been discovered, he sighed to everyone.

"Magic User Weiersha is a combat magic user, and she has been promoted to Rank 2 for more than ten years, so she could take down a Rank 2 ley line creature so easily."

Speaking of Weiersha, he had a look of admiration on his face.

"Combat magic user? Why is there such a distinction, and what is the basis?"

This was already the sixth day of land reclamation.

The relationship between their temporary team had also become much more familiar.

Hearing Ma Qieyi take the initiative to speak, someone immediately followed the topic and picked up the conversation.

Ma Qieyi didn't mind popularizing some knowledge that was "common sense" to them. "It's normal that you haven't heard of it; this is generally something you will only come into contact with after being promoted to Rank 1," Ma Qieyi explained.

And except for him, everyone in the entire team was a magic apprentice.

"Every time a magic user succeeds in raising a circle, they will randomly awaken a special ability."

"This special ability can be aimed at a single spell, only enhancing the power of a certain spell."

"It can be aimed at a certain type of spell. For example, obtaining certain gains when casting spells of the Protection School, or enhancing the effect of summoning spells, or enhancing the power of all damage-type spells, all are possible."

"It can also be a general enhancement applicable to all spells, such as reducing the spellcasting time of all spells, or enhancing the spellcasting distance of spells, etc."

"Or it can be an enhancement aimed at oneself, such as increasing one's resistance to certain elements, increasing one's reaction ability, increasing one's skill with a certain type of weapon, or even simply and rudely increasing one's mana and mental power."

"It can even be an enhancement aimed at skills, such as increasing the success rate or speed of manufacturing alchemical items..."

"It can also be some strange auxiliary effects, such as increasing your practice speed..."

"Besides that, it can also be directly letting you master a certain peculiar spell."

"In short, any special ability you can think of, or cannot think of, may appear when awakening."

"And these special abilities, which are numerous in variety, different in effects, but extremely magical, are collectively referred to as specialties."

"There is no recognized standard for the level of specialties; after all, it is extremely difficult to find two identical specialties in the world."

"But according to the effects of the specialties, they can be divided into multiple types."

"That is, combat specialties, creation specialties, metamagic specialties, auxiliary specialties, and special specialties."

"Among them, specialties that can significantly enhance a magic user's combat power are classified as combat specialties."

"And once a combat specialty is awakened, and one practices multiple damage spells and is proficient in combat, one can be called a combat magic user."

Although these were just trivial common sense to Ma Qieyi, they were extremely precious knowledge to the wild magic users in the team who had not yet touched the field of formal magic users.

Everyone listened with great interest.

"Every time a magic user raises a circle, they can obtain a random specialty. Magic User Weiersha, as a Rank 2 magic user, is said to have awakened two specialties, both of which are combat specialties."

"So even in the law enforcement team, she is a combat magic user who ranks high."

Speaking of this, everyone finally understood why Ma Qieyi sighed that it was fortunate that Weiersha was leading the team.

"You said that the awakening of specialties is random, does that mean it's all up to luck?"

"Wouldn't it be possible for wild magic users to also awaken specialties far superior to genius magic users?"

"Or is it possible that genius magic users might also awaken useless specialties? Wouldn't that make those talented magic users very depressed?"

Suddenly, someone in the team asked a question that Gao De was also considering.

"Saying it's random is certainly correct, but it's not completely random; it should be called pseudo-random," Ma Qieyi shook his head and explained specifically: "What specialty is awakened is definitely uncontrollable, so it is said to be random."

"But the awakened specialty is associated with the magic user's own knowledge, spells, and even the guidance method and meditation technique practiced."

"How is that associated?" Still unable to specifically understand the concept of specialties, another person couldn't help but ask.

Ma Qieyi was not impatient and continued to say: "Let me give a few simplest examples. If the spells you master are all functional spells and you haven't mastered any damage spells, then you basically won't awaken combat specialties."

"If you have mastered multiple spells of the Protection School and have your own unique understanding of the application of Protection School spells, there is a high probability of awakening metamagic specialties for Protection School spells."

"Or, you are an outstanding alchemist, and your mastery of alchemical knowledge far exceeds other knowledge, so it is highly likely that you will awaken creation specialties."

"In short, according to experience, there is a consensus: the more spells a magic user masters, the more profound the knowledge, and the more powerful the mana and mental power, the higher the possibility of awakening a certain type of powerful specialty."

"So it is said to be random, but in fact, it is a random within a controllable range."

"Those genius magic users, whether it is the knowledge or spells mastered, are far beyond ordinary magic users, so in 99% of cases, the specialties they awaken will also be exceptionally powerful."

"So that's how it is." Not only the person who asked the question, but everyone present had this sentence pop up in their hearts.

Everyone began to think deeply, subconsciously starting to consider what kind of specialty they would awaken after being promoted to a Rank 1 magic user based on their own situation.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 101 =====