Infinite Paths: The Raging Phoenix
Chapter 1312 - 1312: Aura

Rain's acknowledgment of the importance of logic over blind intuition stemmed from a desire to avoid unwarranted risks or miscalculations. He was well aware that while gut feelings might guide him in certain situations, they were not foolproof, and a measured approach based on rational analysis was essential for navigating complex scenarios.

In crucial matters, he found peace in the stability provided by logical reasoning, even if it meant challenging his own instincts.

While everyone resumed their training with their doppelgangers, Rain resumed his analysis of the cores. After a long sigh, he decided to start with the giant golden golem core.

"Am I missing something? Why do you look so unmotivated about this?" Sakaki asked.

"It is nothing. Just focus on doing what you have to without hurrying up," Rain said.

"And you told me countless times to hurry up to analyze their system… Do you have a personality disorder?" Sakaki asked.

Rain decided to ignore Sakaki and just focused on reviving a small part of the core. While the lord was made of gold for the most part, he had blood, and some organs as well since those parts were what determined the potential of the user.

In any case, analyzing pride had been harder than expected, even though the desire to understand that one wants more than one needs was quite simple… still, the meaning behind that was complicated. The desire itself was illogical, and trying to understand how that was connected with magic was the hard part. In any case, after half a day, the analysis was complete.

Greedy Golem Path: The Greedy Golem Path is a combat path that intertwines the powers of endurance, vitality, greed, and manipulation of rare metals and resources. Those who follow this path become formidable fighters, drawing strength from their insatiable greed and the unique ability to manipulate precious materials. Wisdom and Intelligence + 50 per level.

Level 1: Metallic Resilience - Enhances the user's endurance by fortifying their body with energy, providing resistance against physical attacks. Nullifies one hundred points of physical damage per level.

Level 5: Avarice Infusion - Channels the user's greed into their strikes, allowing them to deal additional damage proportional to the value of the user's possessions. For each unique item, you will cause one hundred points of true damage per level.

Level 10: Precious Alloys - Manipulates rare metals to create armor that enhances the user's vitality and provides increased protection against various types of damage. Decreases the power of physical and magical attacks by fifty points per level.

"Did you finally understand how the system of the prison works?" Elisabetha asked.

"Give me a couple of hours to compare all the information regarding those paths and how the system works," Sakaki said.

Without Sakaki, Rain couldn't analyze the final core, so he didn't have anything else to do aside from training. He should have leveled up his lightning skills to make him able to do that as well, but he probably will need a long time to pull that off.

"I want to train my secret technique, but I don't want to show it here…" Rain thought. "I don't want to show anything that might give clues to my plans, so I guess I will train lightning magic to kill time."

Rain didn't try anything fancy, he just tried to use his magic as much as possible while controlling the lightning spells as much as possible as well. Thanks to his magic power, it was easy to do that, like firing a lightning bolt and hitting the ground and then writing something with it or creating something like a lightning blade.

The electric mage's path leveled up.

Level 50: Thunderfire Fusion - Fuse lightning and fire to create Thunderfire spells, adding a burning effect to your electrifying attacks. It causes fifty points of extra damage over time multiplied by the level of the skill.

Level 55: Voltage Surge - Trigger a Voltage Surge, causing a surge of electrical energy that disrupts and damages enemies in an area.

Level 60: Electrically Fortified Armor – Summon an Electrically Fortified Armor, providing enhanced protection and resistance to both physical and magical attacks while channeling electrical energy.

"I have some bad news, folks," Sakaki suddenly said. "I can't say if this is how things are for real here, but my guess is almost pretty accurate. Only a few things are necessary to confirm my hypothesis."

"Which is?" Rain asked.

"This prison is also a factory," Sakaki said. "A factory to breed corrupt energy and knowledge."

"That came out of nowhere," Elisabetha said. "What do you mean by that?"

"It is better if you see instead of me explaining it," Sakaki said. "Rain, equip your wrath path and then try to control the shadow around your body like that skill from the Shadow King path."

Level 35: Dark Materialization - Conjures a weapon made of darkness that enhances the shadowy energy of attacks, improving your combat abilities and creating an unsettling spectacle on the battlefield. Higher levels grant more power to the materialized weapons.

"Try to condense it as much as possible until it looks like it has a physical form," Sakaki said. "Now, I am going to shock you for a bit. You will also lose some levels of skill."

"Wait, what?' Rain furrowed his eyebrows.

Before Rain could say anything, Rain felt his veins being electrocuted. It was quite an annoying feeling, but soon, it ended.

The skill Limit Breaker lost a level.

The skill Limit Breaker lost a level.

The skill Limit Breaker lost a level.

…

The pain dissipated, and then Rain felt something on his hands… the dark knife that he had created assumed a physical form, and he could feel the effects of Limit Breaker on it.

(You can now use the technique Aura!)

(Your class is determined by your skills and their levels. Thanks to your current set of skills and their levels, you have become an Aura Knight! You will gain eight points in intelligence, fifteen in strength, and twenty-five in dexterity when leveling up!)

"Hey… what the hell?" Rain furrowed his eyebrows.