Chapter 159 : Chapter 159

Chapter 159. The Powerful Sunflame Techniques

Ever since Caleb had been arrested, he had confessed everything. Those revelations caused him to bear the charge of murdering a mage, and in three months, he was to be executed directly.

As for the investigation record Dante had submitted, after the reviewers arranged by the various parties gave it a simple look, the investigation was approved immediately.

That let Dante breathe a sigh of relief. He slept for an entire day in the reception hall, celebrating the fact that he had somehow truly completed such an impossible task.

After Caleb was convicted, Fulan remained in Ged Town for another ten days, all for the sake of finding a place to practice the techniques she had obtained from the Adventurers’ Guild.

In an empty training ground, Fulan gripped her longsword and lunged straight forward, leaving behind a few traces of drifting wind elemental power along the way.

She rapidly unleashed a flurry of slashes at the empty air, and the entire training ground echoed with sharp WHOOSH-WHOOSH sounds.

【You practice Swift Wind Slash once. Swift Wind Slash proficiency +3】

【Swift Wind Slash proficiency is full. Level increased.】

【You use Gale Blade to complete a good round of practice. This helps you gain a better grasp of this technique. Gale Blade proficiency +5】

【Gale Blade proficiency is full. Level increased.】

【Your affinity with the wind element rises, allowing you to understand the wind element more deeply. Swift Wind Breathing Method proficiency +800】

Fulan only felt her physical abilities improve once again. Wielding her blade became even easier, and she could also sense the connection between herself and the wind element growing much closer.

She silently called up the panel, and her current status appeared in her mind.

【Name: Fulan

Profession: Gale Swordsman (One Star)......(omitted)

Attributes: Physique 10.1, Spirit 15.1

Techniques: Swift Wind Slash (Mastered) (Proficiency: 2/1000): Gather the wind element around yourself and launch a rapid forward slash.

Gale Blade (Mastered) (Proficiency: 1/1000): Attach the wind element to a slashing weapon, increasing attack speed and adding a slight amount of wind elemental damage to each attack.

Earth Uplift (Mastered) (Proficiency: 23/1000): Activate the earth element within the ground to attack enemies standing on the surface.

Swift Wind Breathing Method (Extraordinary) (Proficiency: 234/100000): You have already surpassed ordinary people by far in this technique.

Wind Blade (Extraordinary) (Proficiency: 431/100000)

Sword Dance (Extraordinary) (Proficiency: 231/100000)

Sunflame Infusion (Beginner) (Proficiency: 34/100): Store the flames of the sun within the body and extend them to a weapon. When attacking, the Sunflame can be released.

Sunflame Breathing Method (Beginner) (Proficiency: 42/100): Use the Sunflame as the energy source for breathing, strengthening yourself and preventing yourself from being harmed by the Sunflame.

Sunflame Slash (Beginner) (Proficiency: 23/100): Release the Sunflame at extremely high power.

......(omitted)

Traits: Solar Body (You can absorb and use the power of the sun.)

Windwalker (You possess a certain affinity with wind elemental power, enhancing all techniques related to the wind element.)

......(omitted)】

Looking at this panel, Fulan nodded happily. Her hard work in practicing techniques over the past several days had indeed not been in vain.

First of all, she had finally formed the First-Tier profession of Gale Swordsman, which was the result of all her efforts over the past several days.

It had finally brought her Physique into double digits, allowing it to catch up at least a little with the pace of her enhanced spirit.

Also, to be honest, the accompanying techniques of the Gale Swordsman did not feel all that impressive.

Their power and attack speed were both inferior to some of the techniques she had originally possessed.

But that was fine. She had only come to form a profession anyway, and as long as she could pick up the attribute points, that was enough.

Another change was her Swift Wind Breathing Method. Originally, it had still been a few hundred points away from reaching Extraordinary proficiency, but because the Gale Swordsman profession had formed, it had directly advanced into the Extraordinary tier.

Then there were Wind Blade and Sword Dance, which had actually been close to Extraordinary proficiency for quite a while already.

During these past few days, she had simply taken the opportunity to raise both skills to that level as well.

The reason she had not used them before was that she had never found a suitable chance to do so.

As for Sword Dance, it was because the spell was simply too distinctive. The moment she used it, people would know she was from the Sword Chant School.

Yet Fulan clearly was not from the Sword Chant School, so unless it was a critical moment, she would never use it.

Wind Blade, on the other hand, had been too weak. In terms of damage, it was not even as good as the Wind Blade she had been using all along.

The reason Fulan had practiced that spell was only because of the earlier prophecy, which was why she had deliberately raised its proficiency.

Only after obtaining Earth Uplift did this spell gain a proper foundation for actual use.

Previously, Wind Blade had been extremely dependent on the environment in which it was used. Inside towns, the ground was flattened, and in some places it was even paved with bricks, making the spell difficult to cast.

Even in the wilderness, Wind Blade still depended on the local terrain. If the soil was too loose, the damage it caused would be low. If it was too compact, then the spell would be difficult to use at all.

But after obtaining the First-Tier version, [Earth Uplift], the situation changed. That spell directly smashed through every obstacle by force, and with her trait [Earth Dragon’s Breath] on top of that, it could inflict extremely powerful damage.

As for Sword Dance, after it rose to Extraordinary proficiency, she did not obtain its First-Tier version. Rather, when using Sword Dance, she was merely now able to perform something similar to the First-Tier Sword Dance of the Sword Chant School.

She felt that this was related to the unique nature of Sword Dance itself, but she knew too little to make even a proper guess.

There was also the fact that she had gained two new traits.

One of them was the upgraded version of the trait she had originally obtained, Move With the Wind. Not only had it inherited the original effect, it had also been greatly strengthened.

She felt this was brought about by the formation of the Gale Swordsman profession and by the Swift Wind Breathing Method reaching the Extraordinary tier.

The other was connected to the techniques of the Second-Tier profession Sunflame Knight, which she had managed to pick up cheaply. This trait, [Solar Body], had come from her practice of the Sunflame Breathing Method.

That breathing method even required practice under direct sunlight. Only after reaching the Beginner level could it be used indoors.

And the sheer power of this technique had exceeded even Fulan’s expectations. In Fulan’s view, even among Second-Tier professions, this profession ought to rank near the top. Yet why, on the panel, was it only a two-star profession?

Fulan activated the Sunflame Breathing Method. After gathering power for three seconds, her body began radiating astonishing heat, and even her longsword turned much redder.

She swung out all of the Sunflame stored within her body and smashed it into the air.

A burst of red light erupted in the air. Following the path of her blade, a scorched black mark appeared on the ground, and a chair in the distance was sliced cleanly in two, with blackened traces running through the middle.

“This is even fiercer than my dragon flame. It’s just that this Sunflame can’t be released through spells.” Fulan canceled the Sunflame Breathing Method and carefully savored the power of this technique.

If she had only just entered the First Tier, then with this technique alone, she would have been able to slaughter her way through the First Tier unchecked. What she could not understand no matter how much she thought about it was this:

Why was such a powerful technique sold by the Adventurers’ Guild for only thirty gold coins?