Infinite Paths: The Raging Phoenix
Chapter 1196 - 1196: Copy

Before long, another meeting took place outside the town. All the squads reunited there while their leaders talked about what had happened. In the end, they all learned how difficult it was going to be to defeat the king in the shadows… they would need some very specific strategies to pull that off. Still, with the right people on each team, it was possible to pull that off.

"So, there are rules in this place that we aren't aware of?" Sealyn asked. "Like, we can go up to the fourth challenge and then give up. That will be enough to make us earth five thousand more points than we earned?"

"That is one of them," Rain said.

"But the other challenges are hard enough that you even broke your arm and nose fighting them?" Terra asked.

"No, I fought that guy again to gain some more insights about his techniques," Rain explained. "We can't mess up here. While he can't level up anymore, he can keep getting stronger. Every time he wins, he gets a bit stronger, and that will only make things harder in the future if we fail."

"What else have you learned?" Sealyn asked.

"This place has something that I call the pacts rule," Rain said. "I thought at first that the king had the power to subjugate others and force them to become his minions, but that isn't correct. This is the pact rule power. It is like an advanced effect of the power of the domains. In essence, we all can do pretty much anything here as long as we pay the right price.

Actually, we probably have to pay a higher price since that would make the creators of this place benefit from it."

"Anything like what?" Sealyn asked.

"Anything like this," Rain said.

Rain extended his hand towards one of the swords he had acquired in the previous day. As he held the hilt, a strange and inexplicable phenomenon unfolded before the gathered leaders. In the blink of an eye, an identical copy of the sword materialized in his other hand, leaving those witnessing the event in a state of perplexity.

Frowns creased the brows of the assembled leaders as they struggled to comprehend the inexplicable duplication. The notion that Rain had effortlessly replicated an object without any visible incantations or rituals defied the laws of conventional magic they were accustomed to.

Whispers of disbelief circulated among them, with uncertainty hanging in the air like an unspoken question: how was such a feat possible?

"This probably will cost more than one thousand points, but we can do this," Rain said. "This place has that kind of rule: as long as you have enough points, you can do anything."

"... What are those points exactly?" Seara asked after thinking for a while.

"I believe that there should be a high concentration of magical power," Sakaki explained. "Considering that we were captured alive and our actions have been ignored so far, it is safe to assume that our existence is beneficial to those who created this place.

The most logical assumption would be that even without our wills, we keep generating energy for this place, and that energy eventually becomes the point that keeps this entire place up and running."

Rain wanted to deny that, but he couldn't… the enemies truly wanted to humiliate them nonstop… after thinking for a while. Rain assumed that the prison had access to all the knowledge that the enemies had obtained, and that was why they could do such things that defied logic.

However, that knowledge wasn't easy to obtain, and the more they used it, the more the enemies would benefit from it. It seemed like great news to them, but in fact, it was a massive double-edged sword…

"How can we use this in our favor?" Jori asked.

"Well, even on this new system, we have skills that we like. We can also choose traits and techniques that will help us increase our real strengths," Rain said. "For example, this sword made the Sword Master level go from ten to twenty now, which is the new max level. I don't know the limits of this, and perhaps it is level one hundred as well. Just like previously in the paths system.

Anyway, most people will need to have several copies of the same weapon to improve their strengths to win agaisnt that guy. He is that tough."

While everyone was absorbing those pieces of information, Rain went and did some tests by himself. He tested the Fire Blade spell. It could fire a sword of flames at a target, but it also could enhance a sword with flames for half a minute. At level ten, the sword was burning like the flames of a campfire, but at level thirty, the flames moved violently fast.

When it reached level fifty, the flames turned into orange and people around Rain started to get uncomfortable…

"Orange flames are supposed to be at one thousand degrees Celsius," Sakaki said.

"This is truly impressive," Rain nodded to himself in satisfaction. "The spell also increases my intelligence thanks to the improved class, and so that increases the power of the flames even more. It is escalating pretty well..."

Name: Rainendall

Level: 62 (1300/5200)

Class: Fire Guardian

Health: 3720/3720

Mana: 100/100

Stamina: 100/100

Strength: 255 + 310

Dexterity: 10 + 186

Intelligence: 10 + 496

Vitality: 10 + 372

Wisdom: 10

Endurance: 10

Spells: Mana Bullet Lv Max, Fireball Lv Max, Fire Blade Lv Max, Ice Shield Lv Max

Techniques: Heavy Slash Lv Max, Vital Strike Lv Max, Power Shot Lv Max, Shield Charge Lv Max, Heavy Stance Lv Max, Health Increase Lv Max

Traits: Eagle Eyes Lv Max, Sword Master Lv Max, Assassin Lv Max, Brute Force Lv Max, Iron Skin Lv Max, Bronze Skin Lv Max, Steel Skin Lv Max,

"While improving the skills that you have is good, you still need to complete all of the four weapons for us not to miss a single detail about them," Sakaki said.

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