Mastering the elements

Somewhere in a different galaxy, Crimson was in a monitor room similar to the one Grim has and he was enjoying the show of Lothar fighting and clearing the Slime lake. "That was close, he nearly lost his arm there. Not bad to change form to reattach it, but this boy has a long way to go this is just the tip of the iceberg of the Transformation Skill. Now I know why Grim had so much fun watching him, to come up with this idea in this panicked state of mind is no easy task." He now opened a Rift and headed into it.

Inside Grim's monitor room a Rift opened and Crimson came through it. "Don't you think you're pestering me enough lately?" Grim asked. "Oh, come on, this is more fun to watch together, don't you think?" Crimson answered. They were talking to each other like an old couple that argues with each other over a television season they are watching together. "That was close, the shark nearly got him. When do you think he will notice just how many possibilities lay beyond that class?" Crimson asked.

"I think it will take him quite some time, but he is kind of special, he is different from others in some kind of way. His will power is extraordinary and his mind... I think he is able to split it into at least 10 parts at the same time without giving away any focus on his main thought. Just wait till you see him enter his training mode for real. That inside the lake where he trained his Naga form was nothing." Grim answered in a proud manner.

"Don't worry I will not take him from you, I will just enjoy the show. Do you mind telling me what his elemental attacks are about? I have never seen or heard anything about that kind of skill." Crimson said. "Hmm? To be honest, I don't know how he is doing it. My guess is that he is combining the skills of different classes to create a unique set of attacks that the system is not able to comprehend. I hope he will be able to Lvl them up since they should not appear on his Skill list." Grim was also unable to describe that skill. "Let us see what he will do next."

Back inside the dungeon, Lothar arrived at the Crab pond, surprisingly Rengo's team was nowhere to be seen, but there were traces of battles so they should have left this place. "Maybe they went for the Murlocs. So better for me, there are no disturbances here." Lothar said that and finished off the Crabs that were outside the pond and jumped right into it. Just like before at the Slime respawn point this place was just as big underwater. This time he was wary that there might be a mini Boss he had to look out for. "First things first, let's look for the Boss and finish the Crabs later." He scanned the area and searched for everything that would look suspicious. It did not take him long before he saw a Shark swimming on the ground. "Seems like the shadow is gone since I acquired the Shark form."

"This time, I am going to hunt you." Lothar activated all his body enhancing skills at once. Wind boost, Increase Agility, Earth Shield, Dash, although he was in his Naga form and in stealth mode underwater, he was really fast, like a torpedo he propelled himself forward and swam into the direction of the Shark. The Shark was startled shortly but realized really soon that something was behind it, so it increased its speed and began to flee to make arrangements for counterattacks. It was confident in its speed so it should be able to make an escape, is what the Shark was thinking but as it was fleeing, strong torrents appeared left and right of it pulling everything that was near into it and shredding it to pieces. The strong torrents and the change of the stream made the Shark slow down. It was unable to tell where it should head next, its senses and echolocation was disturbed enormously.

The Crabs that were pulled into the vortexes and slashed into pieces confused its sense of smell and the disturbance in the stream created by all those whirlpools made it impossible to sense its surroundings. As suddenly Lothar descended from above having his sword in front of him. Like a giant spear, he came from above and pierced the head of the Shark, killing it with just this one blow.

---You gained 1000 exp---

---Congratulations your Swordforce reached Lvl 3---

---Congratulations your Elemental Control reached Lvl 3---

---You learned Elemental Fusion Lvl 1---

Skill Description

Swordforce Lvl 3, Passive Skill: Increases Slash attacks by 60%

Elemental Control Lvl 3, Active Skill: User can control the advanced elements

Elemental Fusion Lvl 1, Active Skill: User can merge elements

"Wow, that surprised me. Elemental Fusion? Did it Lvl up because I use these self-invented strikes of mine so often? Well, that is really nice then, now I know I can make them stronger. But what is Elemental Fusion, and what are advanced elements? Hmm, thinking about it, as of now I only used the elements separately at the same time. I was only able to do so because I could split my mind and focus on different things at the same time, but merging them would be something else." He looked around headed to the shark and cut it into pieces, to find the orb that was hidden within. "I will finish the Crabs first than head to the center lake again to try this new Skill of mine."

Meanwhile at the Slime pond. Rengo and his group were observing the area. They were approaching the pond slowly and cautiously. "We will have our revenge against those Slimes." Rengo thought to himself. They Lvled up considerably and all reached Lvl 10, except for Rango he was now on Lvl 12. "Hmm, something is strange. There are no Slimes at all. Dogan, is this the right spot? I swear if you lead us to the wrong location again I will tell father of this." Shelly scolded her brother.

"No this is definitely the right place, look over there you see that sword hilt over there? That is mine." Rango said. They did not know what to do. "Maybe we should go outside and ask the guard about this, there might be special times on which they appear?" Astrid said. They were all just standing there thinking about what to do next. "No, let us go for the Murlocs and gain more exp. We just came here to get revenge on them, since they are gone, let us continue to fight." Rengo said. After all of them agreed, they left for the Murloc pond.

When they arrived there and observed the situation in front of the pond they did not know what to say. "What is this? Was this done by the guild to reduce the thread that comes from the Murlocs? Is it to reduce their numbers? Someone sure is gaining exp continuously from this as long as the meat is not running out." Dogan said. "Should we use this opportunity and finish them off while they are eating?" Rengo asked. "We should use this opportunity, I hope we will not offend the person who did this," Astrid added. So they hid until the next wave arrived and waited for them to dig into the Crabmeat. As the Murlocs were busy eating they sneaked up on them and finished them off while they were distracted.

In the center of the dungeon, Lothar just arrived there as he had finished clearing the Crab pond. He searched for a quiet place where he would not be disturbed. He unleashed the Stealth mode and turned back into a Human and sat down cross-legged to meditate for a while and focus on his new skill, Elemental Fusion. It was different from combining the elements separately as he did when he created the hybrid gemstones. Since he had some experience now in unleashing more than one element at the same time the process of fusing them came to him, naturally. He used water and fire to create steam, fire and earth to create magma, wind and water to create ice, wind and earth to create dust. After creating all the imaginable things through combining the 4 basic elements he began to create more and more variation.

"Is this kid really just a Human? How is he able to control the elements so fluently and just create all the different things separately and at the same time?" Crimson asked Grim. Lothar was sitting there focussing his very being on all the different combinations and creating some new sets of elemental enhancements into his set of skills.

---Congratulations your Elemental Control reached Lvl 4---

---Congratulations your Elemental Fusion reached Lvl 2---

Skill Description

Elemental Control Lvl 4, Active Skill: User can control the high elements

Elemental Fusion Lvl 2, Active Skill: User can merge advanced elements

By now combining the newly created elements that emerged from the 4 basic once he now created another new set of elements, there was simply no end to it. He was probing every combination that could be made with every possible element he created and after creating something new he tried everything he unlocked on that as well.

---Congratulations your Elemental Control reached Lvl 5---

---Congratulations your Elemental Fusion reached Lvl 3---

Skill Description

Elemental Control Lvl 5, Active Skill: User can merge with the high elements

Elemental Fusion Lvl 3, Active Skill: User can merge high elements

This whole process lasted only a few hours and he Lvled his elemental powers and understanding of it into another dimension. He continued this for the whole day and probed everything until his skills did not Lvl up anymore and he could not figure out what else he could create. He settled down the creation process and now meditated to find a way to use the newfound elements to aid him in battle. From an outsider's perspective, he was just sitting there but inside of him, he was testing how his body was reacting to the new variations.

---Congratulations your Elemental Resistance reached Lvl 3---

---Congratulations your Elemental Resistance reached Lvl 4---

Skill Description

Elemental Resistance Lvl 4, Passive Skill: User is immune to high elemental attacks.

"Now this should be interesting, these 2 elements should be enough to make those Naga look like ants in front of me. Now to adapt to them." The 2 new elements he was referring to were, Metal and Lightning. Of all the elements he could choose he decided that these 2 were the most powerful in two aspects, Metal was ultra-hard and good for defense while Lightning was unpredictable fast and holds a lot of explosive raw power. Lothar stood up and was ready to try them out. He focused on creating metal inside of him and making his body as hard as iron. He first covered his whole body in iron. He looked like a statue. "No, this is not it, more compact from within." He let the elemental powers of the metal flow into his body and under his skin.

---Notice, your Skill Earth Shield was replaced with Iron Shield---

"That is what I am talking about. This should make my body nearly invincible." Lothar was really happy about this development. At least the newfound element was acknowledged by the system. There were cases of high Lvl Elementalists that unlocked advanced elements to their Skill base. So they were in the system. The next thing was the Lightning, similar to the process from before he lets the elemental power of the Lightning run through his body and merged himself with it.

"This power is incredible it is like it wants to burst out of me at any minute. I have to lower the power a little bit or the burden on my body would be too severe." He lovered the power and let the lightning merge with his muscles in every corner of his body. As he was still using the Iron Shield skill he noticed that the metal element in his body made the lightning flow naturally into the muscles increasing their speed and strength.

---You learned Lightning Step Lvl 1---

Skill Description

Lightning Step Lvl 1, Active Skill: Increases the user's power by 10%

"Hmm, again it is an increase in power... but why is it called Lightning Step? Maybe I should try out how fast I am now." He activated Wind Boost, Increase Agility, and Lightning Step at the same time and began to run as fast as he could. "Bzzt" "Bzzt" "Flash"

"Hmm, this speed is incredible, this is really a great boost. Next, for my elemental strike attacks, I have to add a few."

In the monitor room of Grim, both of them were watching Lothar, not saying anything just watching as he made one impossible thing after the other. "Oy Grim? Is that the Lightning Step of the Alchemist class?" Crimson asked. Grim did not answer he was just watching Lothar. If those two had a face, only shock would be seen. From their perspective it looked like Lothar was not only moving really fast, they could see a blue lightning strike from one place to another it just looked like lightning descending from the sky. That is why this technique is called Lightning Step it looks like lightning is moving taking one step after the other.

After entering his training mode he was not to be distracted from it, he did not even notice that he was not getting any exp from the Murlocs anymore since Rengo and his team began to kill the Murlocs. He trained like he always did and prepared a new set of attacks and added Lightningstrike and Icestrike to his already existing Firestrike and Waterstrike. And also used a few of his transformations to get used to these new techniques. After everything was done he was now ready to clear the last two remaining ponds and see if he was right about the Boss.