My magic and the pain of trial and error
I repeat the process of full lower body physical enhancement, I'm able to increase my speed the way I wanted. After finishing this part, I proceeded to try using the flames on my feet while walking, I burned myself a few times and gained 2 new Resistance skills.
It wasn't planned but it will help later, I kept trying to surround my feet in flames without burning myself or my clothes. It took days to achieve this, and during that time I've been walking around bare foot, finally being able to walk around with the flames on my feet, and not have them go out or burn me.
I start doing the same thing again, but this time I'm doing it while running, it didn't work right for awhile, my focus was split so I couldn't keep my mana flowing right and run. After a few hundred tries, I got it to work, but I was burning my feet again. °~°
After what seemed like forever, I got a skill that would help greatly with trying to make the magic I'm aiming for.
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Name: Sara
Level: 104
Health: 33,928/34,600
Mana: 6,497/10,200
Stamina: 83%
Strength: 112
Vitality: 346
Dexterity: 204
Agility: 179
Magic: 204
Unassigned stats: 20
[Magic]
Mana Bow - Able to conjure a bow and arrows of solidified mana or reinforce a bow and arrows with mana
[Skills]
Pain Resistance Lvl.34 - Reduces pain felt by 17%
Poison Resistance Lvl.3 - You have resistance to poison by 3%
Paralysis Resistance Lvl.5 - You resist being paralyzed by 5%
*New* Fire Resistance Lvl.9 - You have resistance to fire by 9%
*New* Burn Resistance Lvl.17 - You have resistance to being burned by 17%
Stealth Lvl.87 - Hiding reduces your presence by 87%
Mana Control Lvl.42 - Your control over the mana within your body increases with your understanding of it
*New* Concurrent Mana Body Control - While executing other tasks with your body your control over your mana does not decrease
Meditation Lvl.Max - Through meditation while focusing on your mana you can increase the speed you recover mana by 100%
Mana Sense - By expanding your mana to the surrounding you can detect the mana of living things
Adrenaline Burst - When you're mana and adrenaline mix you will experience time at a slower rate
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After getting the skill, I'm able to run while controlling the flames on my feet, I no longer burn my feet, or have the flames go out. Testing it tens of times more, I decide to try whether it burns my clothes or not, taking out a rag, I wrap my right foot with it.
The 1st few tries ended in failure, but after the 7th, I managed to figure out how to control the flames, to not burn the rag. Repeating this a hundred times without burning the rag, and my previous tests, took me 5 days.
Taking the rag off, I decided to work towards getting the flames to stay on my feet, while I'm doing the physical enhancement. After about a thousand tries, and many hours of meditation, I succeed in controlling both at the same time, but that's while standing still.
Walking was my next goal, it felt like it took more tries, but it didn't, it only took longer because, I was using more mana with every try. Finally being able to walk around while keeping both up, made me dance around, sadly I burnt myself again.
Running was next, after standing still and walking, I only have a week left before I fight the goliath again. Starting the tests, it started well, but once I'm at speed my control slips, repeating this took far too long, over 1,500 tries, I lost count after that.
I kept trying, now I only have 4 days, getting out the rag, I keep working at it, I want to succeed at doing the spell before I give it it's name and deciding on the chant. After a day, it was working every time without burning the rag, finally I can give it it's name and chant.
I get ready to run as I speak the chant. "My path is a solitary one, any who follow shall be burned by the flames, I step with certainty, I will reach the eternal flame, PATH OF THE BURNING STEPS" As I finish the chant my mana rushes to my legs and feet, as I start running.
As I'm running, I look and the path behind me is covered in fire, which ever direction I go the flames are left on my path. Stopping the flow of mana, I walk away from the fire and watch it, it takes about 15 seconds for the flames to die out.
Looking down at the rag, it's not burnt, I finally made the magic that I wanted, opening my status in excitement, I see my new magic.
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Name: Sara
Level: 104
Health: 34,600/34,600
Mana: 7,709/10,200
Stamina: 63%
Strength: 112
Vitality: 346
Dexterity: 204
Agility: 179
Magic: 204
Unassigned stats: 20
[Magic]
Mana Bow - Able to conjure a bow and arrows of solidified mana or reinforce a bow and arrows with mana
Path of The Burning Steps - Able to cast in 2 stages Single chant "Path of The Burning Steps" Leave a path of flaming footsteps and increase your movement speed by 15% Full chant "My path is a solitary one, any who follow shall be burned by the flames, I step with certainty, I will reach the eternal flame, PATH OF THE BURNING STEPS" Able to conjure flames that follow your path and increase your movement speed by 25%
[Skills]
Pain Resistance Lvl.35 - Reduces pain felt by 17.5%
Poison Resistance Lvl.3 - You have resistance to poison by 3%
Paralysis Resistance Lvl.5 - You resist being paralyzed by 5%
Fire Resistance Lvl.10 - You have resistance to fire by 10%
Burn Resistance Lvl.19 - You have resistance to being burned by 19%
Stealth Lvl.87 - Hiding reduces your presence by 87%
Mana Control Lvl.51 - Your control over the mana within your body increases with your understanding of it
Concurrent Mana Body Control - While executing other tasks with your body your control over your mana does not decrease
Meditation Lvl.Max - Through meditation while focusing on your mana you can increase the speed you recover mana by 100%
Mana Sense - By expanding your mana to the surrounding you can detect the mana of living things
Adrenaline Burst - When you're mana and adrenaline mix you will experience time at a slower rate
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Apon making my first magic, I could feel my control over my mana had increased, I may only have three days but, I somehow know I'll be able to make the exploding mana arrows, but for now I'm back to the big tree to sleep for the night.