Chapter 27: Master Rank Skills (1/2)

During the week, he hadn't just pushed his body to its limits but also his Mana Skills. One of these limit-pushing exercises was manipulating the Elements around him with MANA MANIPULATION as he did with the sunlight today. Manipulating elements like that was something that took him a while to succeed. Still, he was far from his technique to be perfect as he knew that these actions would be impossible without his Blessing's passive effect. Even with that, he seemed to be barely capable of doing it.

But it wasn't just his INT being too low but also his limitations of the Rank of his skill but because of his Blessing; he was using the advantage of his high INT to push through the other requirements.

At some point during his craft of the hourglass, he felt the sunlight becoming more comfortable to control, but he didn't know at that point that it was because he broke the limit of the Base Rank of his skill.

He could also feel that his MANA SENSE has been increased cause he used it a lot during that to replace his sight, but it didn't seem to be enough to reach the Master Rank yet.

After he waited and made sure that Annoue was asleep, he started his tests with the new limits of his skill, and this time he did the same exercise that he gave to Little Phoenix. He manipulated and gathered the mana of his and Annoue's shadows.

Also, as he did with the sunlight, he didn't cut the mana's ties with its shadow, so he started manipulating the shadow entirely and not just its mana.

Cause this was supposed to be of Dark Element, it wasn't as easy as controlling Light Element. However, it was still way more manageable than when he managed the Light Element with his Base Rank skill. The difference was quite evident as he had tried it in the past, like during his second meeting with Hineko at the storehouse where he gave himself that darker look. Still, it took everything he had, but now he barely needed to put some focus on it, and the speed was multiple times faster than then and more precise.

After making a ball of shadow filling his hand, he spread the shadow to cover his whole body with the shadows, and it happened in a matter of seconds.

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SPELL LEARNED

The spell CAMOUFLAGE (Low Grade) has been learned.

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'Oh, that is interesting. Then with some adjustments, I should be able to cast that spell.' [Shingi]

Shingi kept the shadows to cover his body. He tried to mix some of his Light Mana with the shadows, which wasn't easy as the two elements were repelling each other as it was in their nature.

That wasn't much for Shingi now as he focused a little more and had everything under his control. Before he was sure that he might have a 30% chance of succeeding if he tried to do something like that, he used all his focus. Now he wasn't even using 20% of his focus, and he had everything under control. This was the true difference in the power of a Base Rank and a Master Rank skill.

And so part of the shadows combined with his Light became somewhat transparent and then invisible to the eye. Still, it wasn't like you saw through it as the body part of his cover was hidden too. With the Light Mana's help, the shadow was like magnets for light, and it was manipulating the light and gave the deception of not being there. But if one was quite perceptive, he could see his figure, especially if he was moving, but it seemed the System thought of it as acceptable.

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SPELL LEARNED

The spell INVISIBILITY (Base Grade) has been learned.

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