Chapter 126 Just so skillful (1/2)

Two days pa.s.s quickly in our new environment.

So blissful! So peaceful! I haven't had anything threatening happen to me for over forty eight hours! I could go soft at this rate!

What's even more amusing is watching just how bored Tiny is, the big guy is almost catatonic, craving the stimulus of battle like a drug he's withdrawing from. Other than eating he just flops about sleeping or staring at the walls. He is so still that the workers just crawl over him as he lies there.

To be honest I feel a little bad for him. I can sympathise to some extent. Battling with your life on the line is terrifying but at the same time extremely thrilling, and the rewards provided give such immediate gratification that it becomes hard to resist the lure of combat. After spending time in those dangerous places, living on the edge constantly, our relatively peaceful environment here on the surface is a little…. Boring?

It's like our intense days were filled with shockingly vibrant splashes of colour but now our scene is far more muted and tranquil. Just like Tiny I can also feel the itching in my heart for action.

Unlike that dumb ape though, I know how to keep myself busy and getting stronger even without high level monsters to fight! I keep every day full!

Tiny and I spent most of yesterday down in our monster farming zone. I was pleased to see that the veins had rapidly extended and monsters had already been sp.a.w.ning by the time we got back, the familiar scenes of chaos a welcome sight in my eyes. I gave Tiny an order that he probably never wanted to hear and instructed to him to disable the monsters but not kill them.

The horror on this bat face is amusing even now. He couldn't refuse though and reluctantly ran through the small chamber, smas.h.i.+ng legs and crippling the monsters without landing the final blow.

It was a horrifying sight actually, all those monsters on the floor, unable to even crawl or defend themselves.

When that job was done I lay down a food trail for the colony and soon a flood of workers poured into the small chamber, finis.h.i.+ng off the monsters and carrying their precious Bioma.s.s back to the colony.

Tiny and I took a little food to stave off our hunger and then set to digging, expanding the farm a bit further out.

Since Tiny and I are both double evolved monsters and the creatures sp.a.w.ning in our farm are base level, we get a greatly reduced fraction of the Xp and Bioma.s.s when we kill and eat them. It just isn't worth it for us to monopolise these resources, especially considering that we need far more experience and Bioma.s.s in total to advance when compared to the workforce.

To maximise efficiency I've decided to use the farm to power level the colony, I really want more workers to advance and evolve, then they could fight more effectively without me around.

Tiny and I will have to do something soon about our stagnating levels but what exactly I haven't worked out.

Still, after we expanded the farm and I asked the workers to leave so the monsters could build up again I put my mind to practicing my magic skills.

With the low level monsters popping out in the farm I had a few targets for me to practice my spells on! So far the only 'shape' I'd been able to put into action was the Gravity Domain but there are more tucked away in my head and now I have a moment to test them out!

The first spell I tried required me to shape an intricate ball that tapered to a point on one end. I failed quite a few times on this one I'll admit, but with my Gravitational Mana topped off I was in no risk of running out!

Eventually I was able to finish shaping the complex construction and powered it up. Once it was ready I instinctually aimed it and fired!

The ball like spell zipped through the air at blinding speed and impacted against the monster I'd targeted in less than a second! Once it hit the spell expanded out, encompa.s.sing the creature in complex, revolving shapes which collapsed inwards a moment later.

Hoping for something spectacular to happen I was a bit disappointed when the target simply slumped to the ground and lay still. It was still alive since I'd received no notification from he with the fluffy face, so what exactly happened?

After a moment I noticed one of the creature's claws twitching slightly as it struggled to raise it. Then I realised it had been placed under the effect of powerful gravity! So this spell allowed me to fire off a gravity effect to a target further away from me, as opposed to the Domain which only effects those immediately around me!

I called it, Gravity Bolt!

So pleased why I that I spent the next hour zapping creatures with Bolts and watching them collapse on the floor, unable to lift a finger until the effect wore off. I found I could change the duration and strength of the effect depending on exactly how much I powered different parts of the construct, which led to my most impressive discovery!

Since I'd been able to identify the section of the construct that powered the effect…. Would I be able to make some changes to that part of the spell in order to modify the effect produced by the spell?

I mean, I was still using Gravitational energy, so the spell would still have a gravity effect, but what if rather than pulling the monsters down…. It pulled them up?

I mean, its gravity right? The force of gravity is produced by the energy in the spell, not the planet we are on… there isn't any reason it HAS to pull them down, right?