The Golden Experience Point

Chapter 79: "Daywalker"

"Anyway, what shall we do?"

Carmine always lashed out in anger to any hint of the butler, but Azalea could at least stay relatively calm about it. Blanc didn't know how Magenta felt exactly, but at least whenever they all sulked in her bed, she just copied what the other two did.

"Right, so it's gonna be morning soon. I don't think we'll be able to do the same thing we did before..."

"What if you use the XP we earned from wiping out the last town to strengthen yourself, Master? If you can obtain some kind of resistance or countermeasure against sunlight, then a city like that should not be any threat."

"Oh, good idea, Magenta. I'll do just that!"

Blanc told the spartoi to keep an eye on the city from a distance, then opened up her skill window. Since she didn't know what exactly gave resistance to sunlight, she would look for that later and find ways to improve her force's performance while exposed to the sun for now. In any case, since Blanc mostly fired magic from far away, strengthening the close-combat spartoi made more strategic sense.

"All that in mind, maybe a buff with a wide area of effect? Is there something like that?"

"In that case, I believe you want to improve your [Vampiric Magic] skills. [Mist] is quite useful, is it not?"

"Ooh. It's got a huge range, and it gives a bonus to undead. Right, since we only have undead on our side, that might be amazing."

She went into the tree to take a look and saw that she could learn [Magic Mist] and [Mistform]. [Magic Mist] modified [Mist] by increasing the damage of offensive magic cast into the mist. It was basically the attack spell version of [Death Mist]. [Mistform] would let Blanc turn her body into mist once per day. It went on cooldown as soon as it was cast, and it required twenty-four hours in-game before it could be used again. While it was in effect, her physical body would completely turn into mist, and she would be immune to all physical damage. However, the downsides were that this form took significant extra damage from fire and lightning elemental attacks, and it couldn't resist any wind-type effects that interfered with movement. The effect lasted until it was canceled, but she couldn't perform physical attacks or cast offensive magic while transformed, so she needed to have a firm grasp on the state of battle to determine when to keep it active or when to cancel it.

"Isn't this super great as, like, an emergency way to avoid getting hit? Unless the attack they're using is something like a Lightning Slash or something, then I'd just get instakilled."

But since Blanc mainly had magical attacks, [Magic Mist] was perfect for her. She decided to learn both skills.

"Hmm, nothing new is showing up..."

"Maybe different skills had something useful show up, or maybe if you learn other skills then more will be unlocked here."

"Oh right... Hm... Ah, I have a new one called [Dark Magic]!"

Blanc had focused almost entirely on earning XP and strengthening her followers, so she had barely checked her own skill window. She had no idea when this might have been added to her available list.

"There must have been some kind of trigger, right? Ah, whatever. I bet this would probably have [Light Resistance] in it."

The different magic elements had various resistance skills for other elements in their skill trees. For instance, [Fire Magic] contained the [Ice Resistance] skill. The rest of the elements were as follows:

[Earth Magic] had [Lightning Resistance]

[Water Magic] had [Fire Resistance]

[Ice Magic] had [Earth Resistance]