Four symbols floated in front of him. One was way more complex than the other three because it had multiple activation sequences in it.
The symbols automatically took shape and formed once he constructed the processor with Prana. He didn’t even design the symbol or anything. It was an artistic symbolic form of his ability that Prana itself created.
‘The only problem is I have to absorb Prana from the atmosphere since I can’t store any yet.’
‘With the cost of these abilities as it is, I have to constantly absorb Prana to fuel them. That would require a bit of my attention…wait.’
Almond’s eyes glinted. ‘What if I create an ability, a process that constantly absorbs Prana with my body as a medium?’
‘Before I learn how to form and fill my Prana sea, I should use this.’
‘I only have four minutes, but it should be enough. This isn’t complicated.’
‘Logical sequence. I can set my pores as entrance and create a suction force within the body to absorb it and let it be circular or create a suction field in my body specified to absorb Prana from outside. Once Prana is in my body, I can redirect it and even use it to activate the psychophysiology form of my golden haze lighting for movement force-kinetic powered attacks.’
Teleporting wouldn’t gather kinetic energy, but moving fast would increase his power in terms of attacks, and he’d need more power because he wasn’t exactly the strongest here in terms of raw power, unlike on Earth.
‘Wait, wait, no way…’ Almond suddenly felt a flash of lightning. ‘Kinetic force…that’s how Mad Shark accelerated now that I run that image of him doing it, but…how? It wasn’t enhancing his body to increase speed. Instead, he increased his speed by amplifying the kinetic energy on him,’ Almond frowned. ‘He increased the rate of change of his velocity drastically…’
‘Urgh, I don’t have time for that. I first need to create the absorption ability, a passive one, that constantly maintains Prana motes in my body.’
Three minutes later, Almond was done and absorbed Prana.
‘So the limit of my body is 4,000 Prana motes? It’s not a fully physical energy, but it seems to take something as a scale. Interesting. I can’t seem to add even a single mote of Prana more.’
‘But 4,000 Prana is more than enough as long as I maintain that amount in my body by constantly absorbing Prana, though it does feel a bit uncomfortable like I’ve overeaten.’
“Blade King, it’s time.”
Almond turned to the door and nodded at the orc woman. He vanished from his spot and appeared in front of her before saying. “Let’s go.”
“Woah, teleport? That’s awesome,” the orc woman was surprised. “Is it elemental or technical?”
“What do you mean?” Almond blinked. “Technical?”
The orc woman laughed at his question and began walking, “You’re joking, right?”
Almond was at a loss with that response and scratched his head. “Well, I am not joking.”
This time, the orc woman felt at a loss and wryly smiled, “If you have comprehended any theories of teleport and can replicate their components in your sequence to create a catalyst, you can teleport. Or you can make your own logical process of teleport and create a catalyst that can execute it as long as your logic is able to work in targetted space. Why you don’t know such a simple thing? You didn’t study Practicality of Prana?”
Almond wryly smiled, “Well, I kind of just heard about Prana recently and only recently started using it since I just ascended here from the first layer.”
The orc woman paused and turned to him, blinking with surprise. “I didn’t realize you were an ascender, but ascenders are not this weak…how strange.”
“Yeah, I kind of arrived here accidentally.”
“Well, strange happens all the time, it’s natural,” the orc woman laughed and continued walking. “I’ll tell you about it since it’s important you understand it even if it’s basic. So, elements have inherent attributes like their traits and characteristics. You master them, so you can use those elemental attributes and apply them, but catalytic is creating a trait based on the action that you figured out. In short, if you can create a logical sequence of action that can transfer your position from one place to another and teleport, that’s called technical, but if you use space element’s attributes, which you can easily understand and comprehend thanks to your mastery, that’s elemental.”
“Action…” Almond’s eyes shone. ‘That’s what Mad Shark did!’
‘Holy shit, if I can create sequences for actions…that’s it. Mad Shark created a catalytic process that transformed the structure of his tornado into a forceful, speedy movement by increasing its kinetic energy rapidly, and then he rode into it like it was his vehicle so he could move around me rapidly while closing in as something he set automatically while he unleashed attacks on me.’
“Anyway, your next opponent easily outclasses Mad Shark,” the orc woman said as she glanced back at him with a grin. “Mad Shark used assets of elements, and he hadn’t developed that many catalysts, thus, his abilities were limited in number and nature. But your next opponent is very eccentric and powerful, known as Garo the Maestro of Myriad Arts.”
“Oh? Can you tell me more about him?” Almond asked. ‘It’s better to get some information about my opponent.’
“Well, he is a peak mortal who only fights and refuses to break through. He’s been in the Mortal Region for over a decade now and doesn’t move up. He always uses new sets of abilities in every fight, and all of his abilities are top-notch because they are a proper mix of technical and elemental, and…he has never lost even once.”
Almond was startled. “Never lost?”
“Here we are. Good luck and have fun,” the orc woman said with an amused smile on her face.
Almond arrived at the wide entrance into the battleground and gulped. ‘He has never lost? Why the fuck that cat sent me to fight someone like that?’
‘He isn’t here yet,’ Almond didn’t see him on the battleground.
“Here comes the Blade King! Although we all know the result of the battle, this will be yet another exciting fight for us from Master Garo.”
The audience cheered!
‘What?’ Almond stared at the dwarf who just grinned at him and gave him a thumbs up in response to his stare.
‘What the fuck do you mean?!’