Qi Types [C66]
"System! Do you have the registration about when I placed those formation rods?"
[Yes, for what purpose?]
"Good! Show it to me, I require to know accurately why the formation exploded!"
[...The price for showing the registration and revealing the cause for the explosion will be 20 BS points.]
"Tch! Always greedy! Very well, take my BS points!"
[Detracting 20 BS points...]
[Thanks for your patronage!]
[You now have 69 BS points!]
[Close your eyes to view the recording!]
Shutting his eyes, Shu Himo saw again everything that occurred when he made the formation... only to find nothing!
"System, you said you would explain, right?"
[It appears that the User is quick to give up.]
"It was a whole 20 BS points, just tell me!"
[The cause for the explosion is the Myriad of Ways cultivation technique.]
"WHAT!? System, did you advise me a defective technique?"
[The system is always fair and just, the reason the Myriad of Ways cultivation technique meddled with the formation is due to the User inexperience.]
"What do you imply?"
[It appears that the User has unintentionally injected some Qi in the formation rods, while this usually enchants the formation's strength, the Qi has to be of a 'type' that resound with the formation.]
[The Myriad of Ways cultivation technique gives the User the capacity to slightly modify his own Qi changing its proprieties, gaining the possibility to utilize it for various applications. For example, the User just used the Qi type-68437 for activating the formation, which caused the blast. To use a formation, the best Qi types are from 1001 to the 1100.]
Hearing the explanation, Shu Himo is now completely flabbergasted, why was he not notified earlier of something like this? And 68437th type? Just how many types there are?
About to ask these issues he got interrupted since the system resumed talking.
[Is possible to strengthen the formation by using various Qi types from 1001 to 1100:
The Qi type-1001 will enhance the strength of the formation decently, while any closer to Qi type-1100 will increase the effect even further.
Using any other Qi types will cause the formation to malfunction.]
Pondering for a moment, Shu Himo's eyes immediately sparkled, "Does this mean that the Myriad of Ways cultivation technique is actually overpowered?"
[Not really, the User can only use the Qi type-68437.]
"I will learn the others, that's not a problem."
[The User can either learn how to change the Qi type via buying the precise Qi type from the shop or learning slowly by yourself.]
*Sigh*
"I give up, system... you already made me repeat 'stingy' too many times...I will admit defeat, so how much is the price for the Qi type-1001?"
[The price for the Qi type-1001 is 20 BS points. The price for the Qi type-1002 is 200 BS points.]
"Okay, I will take it."
[Detracting 20 BS points...]
[Thanks for your patronage!]
[You now have 49 BS points!]
Feeling able to change his Qi type, Shu Himo felt the price to be somewhat worth it.
Pondering for a few more moments, he then said, "System, I want to rename the Qi type-68437 into Explosive Qi please." Considering that he found out about the existence of different Qi types thanks to an explosion, Shu Himo decided to call this Qi type into Explosion Qi.
[The Qi type-68437 is now renamed to Explosive Qi!]
"Finally something free..." While making a somewhat exasperated smile of relief, Shu Himo chose to rename also the other Qi type, "System, rename the Qi types 1001~1100 to Formation Qi 1~100 please."
[The Qi types 1001~1100 are now renamed to Formation Qi 1~100]
While having a pleasured smile and almost laughing because of receiving something for free, Shu Himo took all the formation rods that flew earlier everywhere.
Discerning that they did not break with the blast, he brought out the Essence Qi Clock and grinned, "Now it's the second round."
Firstly he turned his Qi type from Exploding Qi to Formation Qi-1, afterward, he started searching the flow of Essence Qi, and once discovered it, Shu Himo walked until reaching the ideal point and placed all the five formation rods in the ground.
After controlling again with the Essence Qi Clock, Shu Himo walked far from the formation, even farther than last time, and activated the formation.
Soon the formation started accumulating Essence Qi, activating itself in less than 0.05 seconds once again, but this time the formation worked!
Displaying a radiant smile, Shu Himo looked toward Phylia, and *Plat* high-fived with her, celebrating the victory.
Now coming back triumphant from the practice test, Shu Himo brought back the equipment to the Academy, as it was just loaned.
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Shu Himo then passed the rest of the day skimming through the books regarding the entry part of being a blacksmith.
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The next morning.
Waking up, Shu Himo noticed Phylia as usual, and immediately prepared himself for a special event about to happen: a lesson regarding magic performed for the D class!
Going through, as usual, many portals until getting lost, Shu Himo eventually managed to find the place after traversing over twenty portals.
Entering the grand hall, he noticed more than four thousand students looking toward the stage, where a teacher at the Nascent Soul Realm is about to start the lesson.
Going to find a place to sit, he quickly noticed that both himself and Aura Azusa are avoided as the plague, so no matter where he would sit he would be left alone with Phylia.
He did not mind, actually, he was even happy with that, but scanning the audience something bothered him, where is Aura Azusa? She does not seem to be in the audience, as there would be a large range of chairs empty if she was here.
'Whatever.' Choosing to not bother too much about it, Shu Himo looked again toward the stage.