Leaner

After some more minutes of thinking, Michael finally chose Lina for his second Hero Tier Spirit. He presses her name and is greeted by her skill list, with which Michael eagerly examines to see if there were any differences from what he already knew.

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Spirit : Lina

Level : 1

Abilities :

Convection (Rank 0) : Allows user to float half a meter in the air by channelling a small continuous amount of mana. The height the user can levitate can be increased by using a substantially higher amount of mana. The highest speed the user can reach while using this is half of their regular movement speed.

Dragon Slave (Rank 0) : User fires a wave of scorching flames that mimic the shape of a dragon.

Light Strike Array (Rank 0) : User channels the sun's energies into a focal point that blasts an area with solar fire. Stuns, damages, and blinds enemies caught in it, vampires also take double damage. Cannot be used without sunlight or another energy source.

Fiery Soul (Rank 1) : Flames enhance user after every spell cast, granting them extra movement speed and attack speed. This bonus stacks with every spell cast, once enough stacks have been gathered, enemies in an area around user will take continuous fire damage. Can be turned off.

Laguna Blade (Rank 0) : User fires a powerful bolt of lightning at a single enemy. No cooldown but expends a large amount of mana.

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Michael can't help but chuckle to himself as he reads through the list, instantly putting a point into Fiery Soul. All of her abilities were powerful, but the reason that Fiery Soul wasn't completely busted in the game was because Lina's spells cost a lot of mana to cast and had a long cooldown... This made it difficult for her to stack her passive quickly, resulting in her character doing damage in bursts instead of over time as her passive would imply.

Of course, this didn't really matter to Michael, as he could just spam his lowest cost spell Carnival Tricks or something similar to quickly stack up Fiery Soul. The ability seemed to be better than its in-game counterpart as well, dealing damage once enough stacks had been gathered.

Something else he hadn't been anticipating was the new 'Convection' skill, that'd allow him to float around places instead of walking like a regular person. He could see some uses for it aside from being a lazy sod though, the first obviously being traversing over difficult or dangerous terrain that he'd rather not walk over. While in most cases he could just teleport over them, this gave him another option.

The second idea he had was to see if he could use it to prevent fall damage. He'd need to test it of course, preferably in Riki's world, but if it worked he'd never have to fear heights again! Let's see that blue squirrel kick him off of a roof now!

...

Anyway, the last thing he took notice of was Light Strike Array's bonus damage against vampires... Which made sense when you thought about it. There wasn't any mention of this in the game, but, was there even any vampires in Dota 2 in the first place? Aside from Nightstalker, which was more like a Xenomorph combined with a blue gargoyle, combined with Arnold Schwarzenegger... Because yeah, from what he remembered that thing was ripped as fuck.

All in all, choosing Lina was a good choice. He couldn't help but look forward to using his new abilities...

Shaking the thoughts of pyromania out of his mind, for now, he focuses on the page where Lina's depiction was located. Ye'ep, she was hot... She was shown lying next to a small oasis in the middle of a massive desert, in her hand, she seemed to be playing with a ball of fire while watching the water.

Strangely, her skin was a rather pale white, not something you'd think of when you thought of deserts. Michael could only blame it on her fire magic providing her resistance to tanning though, as her sister, Crystal Maiden had a similar complexion. Her hair was bright orange like fire itself and flared out as it reached her shoulders. Her face was womanly and mature, having not a hint of childishness despite her seemingly lackadaisical actions, and had strange white tattoos on her cheeks, chin, and forehead. Her eyes were brown, and one might even say unremarkable compared to the rest of her.

Her clothes seemed to be a mix between a short dress and eastern robes. They were coloured red and yellow with gold accents in places, a red cloth neckbrace that a gold gem hung from which laid in between her rather sizable cleavage... Not that Michael was looking of course.... The last thing of noticed was her lack of shoes, only having a strip of leather that seemingly kept a leg guard in place... Of course she didn't have shoes, she floated everywhere!

It was kind of difficult for the hormone-addled mine of Michael to pull his gaze away from, fortunately, he had assistance. "What are you looking at?" Tiffania's voice asks from behind him, causing him to frantically shut the book. "I-... Was reading! Simply reading!"

Tiffania slowly nods with an innocent expression, "Oh, what about? Your book was blank to me so, it must be like my Prayerbook." she questions, unaware she'd allowed Michael to breathe a sigh of relief.

Quickly recollecting himself, he smiles at her, "I'm learning some fire magic, cool right?"

She nods, "Cool? Shouldn't it be hot?" she asks while stifling her giggle, she knew what cool meant by now, so she was just taking the piss.

Michae barks a short laugh at this, but shakes his head at her question, "Nothing big right now, but soon I'll show you some hot-cool stuff!