Awakening Chronicles

Chapter 15.3

  Helios crossed the distance in a flash and didn't even get me a chance to dodge before his fist smashed into my face in a spark of lightning. I felt my heart lurched in my chest as my body shot back through the sky and over the gorge. After a moment of being airborne, I smashed into the ground and rolled a few times. I stood up and quickly wiped away the dirt on my body and took a look at my health bar and let out a small sigh of relief as I saw that it only took a small portion of my health away. I let out a tattered breath and stood up and dusted off the light brown dirt from my flesh and gave Helios an evil glare. "Hey, asshole, that hurt."

He chuckled as he landed quietly on the lip of the chasm. He reached up and ripped off his tunic, revealing a muscular chest that caught the sunlight. Small sparks danced across his flesh before solidifying into a shimmering golden shield that hugged his flesh. He folded his wings carefully behind his back and took up a guard position as he observed me. "If you hesitate in a fight, then you die. Keep that in mind."

I nodded my head and grabbed my sword and brought it up carefully, and held it out towards him, earning a condensing smile from him. " You clearly have never used a sword in your life. Sadly, however, Im using a monk class, so blade work is not something that I can assist you with."

I frowned and repositioned my self in a slightly more comfortable position and asked, "What kind of companion lacks the knowledge to help its Administrator?"

Helios chuckled and cracked his knuckles once and bounced from toe to toe as he replied, "I chose a class that pairs well with my attributes and ultimately synergizes well with yours, at the cost of knowledge over certain areas, however, we can rectify that through your paths of power, and other means."

I nodded my head and felt somewhat relieved. At least I could learn something from this fight, and not be completely helpless for once. "Guide me with what you can, and I will learn the specifics later."

He nodded his head and brought his hands back up the guard position. "So, the important part of using a class is knowing your skills and the innate cooldown of the skills. Some skills have a cooldown, but can still be used but have a much-reduced effect, while others can not be used. There is no visible timer on the cool down, but over time and constant practice, they become ingrained." He emphasized his words with a straight punch and a small beam of honey-colored light shot out of his fist. A second later, he let out another jab, and the same beam of light shot out of his first slower and was much reduced in size and potency. "The skill remains just as strong, but effects like crowd control or self buffs are removed until the cooldown is over."

I nodded my head brought up my class status screen to read over and to reacquaint my self with my skills.

Class; Dancer of The Echoing Mirror

Level: 1 (0.0 % to the next level)

Known Skills:

Sequence One- Dance Macabre

Half sequence- Dance of the undying

Lunge

Passive Skills:

Echoing Strike- Any swing of the weapons will leave behind a rift that, upon activation, will magnify damage dealt by 5 percent. Damage is increased by class level.

Mirror- Creates ethereal copies of your equipped weapons that deal 25 percent of damage dealt. Mirror clones are hard to control unless used in sequence. Control needed is affected by the Control, and Will. (Current reduction: 10%)